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For those unfamiliar, the main reason for the shutdown was the lack of business for the OS. Firstly, it was reported that 20 percent of its employees were fired in July 2016 after running into financial trouble. Other than support from one or two smartphone companies, there weren’t enough mobile manufacturers convinced that Cyanogen should be the de facto Android. However, a couple of weeks ago, a team of developers who worked on the CyanogenMod decided to come together and form the next open-source project, Lineage OS in order to carry forward CyanogenMod development in the new model....

Gest comes fitted with 15 sensors that allow the user to interact with a mobile device or computer without the need of a keyboard and mouse. The company behind Gest is seeking $100,000 in crowdfunding on Kickstarter. The company is also offering the digital toolkit to developers and early adopters until the Kickstarter campaign ends. Gest has one palm strap, plus four finger connectors, each one linked to the strap by wires....

The report adds that after the business plan is drafted by employees, teams will be able to work within the incubator full-time. After some months, they get the option to pitch for additional funding and create a whole new company (which Google will invest in). The name “Area 120” is a reference to Google’s famous “20% time”. Here’s a description of 20% time that Larry Page and Sergey Brin included in their 2004 IPO letter: “We encourage our employees, in addition to their regular projects, to spend 20% of their time working on what they think will most benefit Google,” they wrote....

“This month’s update represents the largest gain in Chrome performance in years, thanks to many under-the-hood improvements,” Google said. Coming to the biggest performance improvements, Google claims to have reduced the CPU usage by up to 5x while extending battery life up to 1.25 hours at the same time as per internal benchmarks. This has been possible by prioritizing active Chrome tabs over background content, which Google calls Tab Throttling and Occlusion Tracking....

The biggest highlight of this browser is that Chrome will now automatically warn you if your password has been compromised in a data breach. The new feature was also tweeted by Google CEO Sundar Pichai. With the latest release of Chrome, anyone whose login credentials has been leaked in a data breach previously will get a notification when logging into a site. How does the new password feature work? Google always stores a hashed and encrypted copy of the username and password exposed by another company’s data breach on its servers....

If using AIs techniques become more practical, they could increase the speed at which new AIs can be made and implemented across the economy. Currently, companies are paying a premium to hire machine-learning experts, who are in short in supply. In recent months, several other groups have also reported progress on getting learning software to make learning software. They include researchers at the non-profit research institute OpenAI (which was cofounded by Elon Musk), MIT, the University of California, Berkeley, and Google’s other artificial intelligence research group, DeepMind....

The search giant has developed a new deep-learning machine called PlaNet that is able to tell the location by just analysing the pixels of the photo. The Google team led by Tobias Weyland, a computer vision scientist at Google, have created a neural network that has been fed with over 91 million geo-tagged images from across the planet to make it capable enough that it can spot patterns and tell the exact location where the image was taken....

Nexus 5X Nexus 6 Nexus 6P Nexus 9 (Wi-Fi only and LTE models) Nexus Player Pixel C General Mobile 4G (Android One) According to Google, the DP3 should be stable enough to use as a daily driver. Major additions not only include VR Mode’, ‘Sustained Performance’, and ‘Keyboard Shortcuts’, among other development-centric things, smaller changes across the board, but also squashes several bugs and adds many new features for developers and users alike....

Google is reportedly developing a subscription-based games streaming service that could work either on its Chromecast or possibly a brand new Google-made console, according to a report from The Information. The project, dubbed “Yeti,” would apparently allow users to stream and play video games in real time, which is actually running on Google’s remote cloud servers somewhere else in the world. The video game is communicated to the user’s device over the internet, while the control codes from a game controller are sent in the other direction....

Remove China App, an app developed by an Indian app development lab, OneTouchAppLabs, garnered over 5 million downloads with #1 rank on Top-free Apps on the Google Play Store. Before it was removed by Google from their app store, citing their deceptive behavior rules. The developers of the departed app have defended their creation on Twitter, where they said, “our app does not promote or force people to uninstall any of the application(s)” and is developed only “for educational purposes only....

Now, Google has introduced a new tool called the #myAndroid Taste Test that aims to help you customize your Android device. Basically, during the test post, you will be asked 22 questions, each with between two and four answers to select from and cool graphics to help you make your decision. These questions include basics such as “Monochromatic or Multicolor?” and “Patterned or Random?” or “Vibrant or muted” and “Maximalism or minimalism” that it expects you to answer quickly....

According to Android Police, who managed to obtain some information from a test preview version of Allo said that the app will have an Incognito chat mode, which is essentially a more privacy-focused aspect of the app. The chats can have an expiry within Incognito mode. They will have different icons in the conversation list and previews of sent/received messages won’t be displayed for privacy reasons. Users can also select how long they want their chats to last before being deleted....

Google is always looking to better its services and make it more user-friendly. And one such service is its ‘Search’ feature. Apparently, Google is testing a new feature that will help users learn how to pronounce words in different accents and speeds, reports Android Police. The new “Learn to Pronounce” feature will help users to correctly pronounce a word, which will be played in both American and British accents. Also, it allows managing the speed of pronunciation for a word for those users who have trouble in understanding the accent....

The DDoS attack made headlines because the census website stores every detail of Australian citizen and a data breach would have been disastrous. But the Australian government apparently wasted $10 million because two first year university students just took 54 days and about $500 to build a similar more hack proof Census website. Daily Mail Australia reports that Austin Wilshire, 18, and Bernd Hartzer, 24, created the entire census site during the Queensland University of Technology’s Code Network Winter hack-a-thon at the weekend....

The new jailbreak ‘unc0ver 5.0.0’, released by the unc0ver team, works on all Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices running iOS 11 – iOS/iPad OS 13.5 (excluding 12.3 to 12.3.2 and 12.4.2 to 12.4.5). Pwn20wnd, an iOS security researcher and one of unc0ver’s team members, who discovered the jailbreak took advantage of an unspecified zero-day kernel exploit in iOS that Apple is not aware of. According to Pwn20wnd, this is a big milestone for jailbreaking, as it the first zero-day jailbreak released since iOS 8....

The letter, which will be presented at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in Buenos Aires, Argentina tomorrow was signed by Tesla’s Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Google DeepMind chief executive Demis Hassabis, Noam Chomsky and Professor Stephen Hawking along with dozens of other AI and robotics researchers. The letter states: “AI technology has reached a point where the deployment of [autonomous weapons] is – practically if not legally – feasible within years, not decades, and the stakes are high: autonomous weapons have been described as the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms....

Starting today, the existing HBO app on Fire devices will automatically update to HBO Max, and customers can log in using their existing HBO credentials. Or else, users can download the HBO Max app and sign up for the streaming service from there. Customers who are already using HBO Max on another platform will be able to access HBO Max on Fire TV using their existing provider login. 

Hive-CM8 had leaked high quality DVD screener of The Hateful Eight on Christmas eve to the delight of torrent lovers. In an unprecedented announcement Hive-CM8 say they never intended to hurt anyone and now believe that the leak has resulted in free “media hype” on a scale bigger than Star Wars. “We feel sorry for the trouble we caused by releasing that great movie before cinedate even has begun. We never intended to hurt anyone by doing that[;] we didn’t know it would get that popular that quickly,” said Hive-CM8 in its apology statement....

The retailer did not say the exact number of customers affected, but investigators suggest that the breach could be biggest in history of any retail chain data breach and could possibly cross over with 60 Million customers payment card data being compromised which also crosses the last years Target Data breach that affected 40 million cardholders. The possible Home Depot data breach was first reported by Cyber security Researcher Brian Krebs, it took more than a week for the Home Depot to confirm the same....