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According to Ford, isolated engine manufacturing issues have resulted in 2.5L HEV/PHEV engine failures involving engine block or oil pan breach. “Ford is issuing a safety recall for certain vehicles with 2.5-liter HEV/PHEV engine because in the event of an engine failure, significant quantities of engine oil and/or fuel vapor may be released into the under hood environment and may migrate to and/or accumulate near ignition sources resulting in potential under hood fire, localized melting of components, or smoke,” Ford Media told UPI in a statement....

Le Monde reports that according to an internal document being circulated among the power corridors in France, the two proposed changes to be brought before France’s parliament. The first addresses the use of “shared or open” Wi-Fi networks during a state of emergency: according to the police, suspects can use public Wi-Fi networks to communicate without being tracked down, so the legislation would shut down public Wi-Fi hotspots during a state of emergency....

For those unaware, Share-Online.biz was a popular file hosting platform with an average of 10 million monthly users that had hosted millions of files on several hundred servers. It allowed unregistered users to upload video and music content up to 1GB, while premium account users were allowed to upload up to 2GB for each file. On October 16, numerous commercial and residential properties in the Netherlands, in France and in Germany were searched and “extensive evidence” was secured....

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Now, when you compose a Gmail message you’ll have an even larger array of whimsical and descriptive emoji to accent your text-based missive. Google has recently added new hundreds of themes and some new emoji to the service for users to pick from. This move will enable you to customize the look and feel of the Gmail web interface to a great extent. Now Gmail will become more personal mail and much more fun to use....

For those unaware, Tenor is a San Francisco-based animated online GIF search engine with a keyboard app that can pull up GIFs while you type on desktop and mobile. It also has an API that allows other companies including Facebook (who uses it in Messenger), Twitter, Apple’s iMessage, WhatsApp, and new owner Google through its Gboard app to use its platform to easily search and share animated GIFs. “Most people use Google Images to find more information about a topic and to help them communicate and express themselves-case in point, we see millions of searches for GIFs every day,” Cathy Edwards, Director of Engineering, Google Images, wrote in a blog post on Tuesday....

Reuters who was the first to report the news via unnamed sources said the move by Google would mean that Huawei’s future devices would lose access to future OS updates and technical support along with access to Play Store, Google Play Service, Gmail, YouTube, and Maps. However, Huawei can still use the version of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) through an open source license. Google has confirmed in a statement said it was “complying with the order and reviewing the implications”....

For those unaware, Rich Communication Services (RCS) is a new online protocol between mobile-telephone carriers and between phone and carrier that aims to replace current texting standard SMS (Short Message Service) messages with a text-message system that is richer and can transmit in-call multimedia. In November 2019, Google rolled out support for RCS as Android’s primary texting platform for anyone who uses the Android Messages app in the U.S. and few countries of Europe....

The feat recalled IBM supercomputer Deep Blue’s 1997 match victory over chess world champion Garry Kasparov. But Go, a strategy board game most popular in places like China, South Korea and Japan, is vastly more complicated than chess. “Go is considered to be the pinnacle of game AI research,” said artificial intelligence researcher Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, the British company that developed the AlphaGo program. “It’s been the grand challenge, or holy grail if you like, of AI since Deep Blue beat Kasparov at chess....

Dart is a creation by members of Chrome’s V8 Javascript engine team. The idea of Dart was developed after these members were frustrated with some aspects of the 20-year-old language they had to deal on a day-to-day basis. The Dart on Android project was recently displayed by the group at a Dart Developer Summit. Dart on Android isn’t called something obvious like “Dart on Android,”—it’s going by the name of “Sky....

The lawsuit, which was filed on Thursday in Midland County District Court, accuses Google of indiscriminate collection of millions of Texans’ biometric data, including voice prints and records of face geometry through their home products like Google Photos, Google Nest, and Google Assistant. It says that Google has violated the state’s biometric privacy act (aka the Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act) introduced in 2009 that regulates “biometric identifiers,” which is defined as a “retina or iris scan, fingerprint, voiceprint, or record of hand or face geometry....

The new, long-term strategic partnership announced at Google’s Cloud Next conference aims to better serve the growing Web3 ecosystem and its developers. “We want to make building in Web3 faster and easier, and this partnership with Coinbase helps developers get one step closer to that goal,” said Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud. “We’re proud Coinbase has chosen Google Cloud as its strategic cloud partner, and we’re ready to serve the thriving global Web3 customer and partner ecosystem....

Google has already entered into the field of providing high speed broadband with Google Fiber so it makes a lot of sense to get into the accessories business. OnHub Wi-Fi router is a part of that mega plan of the Google world. Working in collaboration with networking manufacturer, TP-Link, Google today unveiled OnHub a cylinder shaped Wi-Fi router and smart home hub. OnHub contains 13 WiFi antennas and runs on a a 1....

However, Google has found a way to ease that problem. For the last few months, Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) division, DeepMind, has been using machine-learning algorithm at its two datacentres, which has helped the search giant reduce the energy used for data center cooling by 40% and overall energy usage by 15% in power usage efficiency (PUE). “We accomplished this by taking the historical data that had already been collected by thousands of sensors within the data center – data such as temperatures, power, pump speeds, setpoints, etc....

Google has placed an ad looking for “vehicle safety specialists” to be contracted for one to two years of autonomous driving field work. The job will pay chosen ones a pretty decent $20 an hour and you will be expected to work six- to eight-hour work days with potential for road trips as long as a month at a time. The job opening is in Arizona, not California where Google is reportedly testing its self-driving cars....

The Guild War developers, ArenaNet decided to to something unusual to punish a player found to be cheating and hacking his way to victory in the MMO’s player versus player (PVP) mode. User DarkSide had been accused of using multiple hacked accounts in Guild War 2, that allowed him to teleport around the game’s world, dish out huge damage to other players and then escape unhurt. This was near about impossible to achieve in normal gameplay of the Guild War 2, without an hack....

The hacker ‘teapotuberhacker’ who claims to be responsible for the leak on the GTAForums is said to have stolen “GTA 5 and 6 source code and assets, GTA 6 testing build.” The hacker also shared a link to a RAR archive containing 90 stolen videos downloaded directly from Rockstar’s internal Slack groups. They even claim to be the one responsible for the recent attack on Uber. “Here are 90 footage/ clips from GTA 6,” TeapotUberHacker announced on GTAForums....

Clement Lefebvre, leader of the Linux Mint project, informed users of the popular, Ubuntu-based distribution that the servers where the Linux Mint website is hosted have been hacked to point the download links to specially crafted ISOs. Lefebvre stated that the specially crafted Linux Mint ISO includes a backdoor and the users visiting the website were tricked into downloading the malicious ISO image. In a statement issued following the hack attack, Lefebvre said, “I’m sorry I have to come with bad news....

Kali NetHunter 3.0 boasts of a completely redesigned user interface which has been application centric. Offensive Security said that the new appliation will support for new and complex attacks while providing support for managing your Kali chroot independently, including the ability to delete and rebuild the chroot, along with support for selecting individual metapackages in the respective chroot. Offensive Security’s presser on the release says, “NetHunter has been actively developed for over a year now, and has undergone nothing short of a complete transformation since its last release....

Hackers can take over your iPhone/Android smartphone by using radio waves to control Siri/Google NowHow does the hack work :Mitigation : The researchers were able to hack and access/control Apple’s Siri and Android’s Google Now from a distance of 16 feet. How does the hack work : The hack is accomplished by using a radio transmitter to tap into a pair of headphones with integrated microphone plugged into the mobile device, using the headphone cable as an antenna....