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In Securities and Exchange Commission document filed on Thursday, Sandberg, 46, donated 290,000 shares of Facebook stock at “a market value of roughly USD 31 million” to various charities. The shares are now in the Sheryl Sandberg Philanthropy Fund, a donor-advised fund. Much of the money will go to causes that Sandberg has supported in the past. She has also given to women’s empowerment groups, such as Lean In,to help support women in the workplace, SiliconValley....

Along with Altoona, Prineville, Forest City and Lulea data centers, Fort Worth will be one of the cornerstones of the global infrastructure that brings Facebook apps and services to you every day and is serving billions of more people online through Internet.org. It is very strange as the weather of Texas is hot and intense cooling is required by the data center, but Facebook says they don’t have any problem....

SHA-2 is going to succeed SHA-1, however, it is not going to be supported on older web browsers. This should be more alarming to you than it actually sounds because when SHA-1 goes out of commission, there will be a time when users will be unable to update their web browsers to newer versions because their desktop, laptop or mobile machines will not be able to support the latest software....

The announcement made by the social media giant is in contrast to what it had said in February this year. Back then, Facebook had said that it had expanded the list of “false claims” to include “additional debunked” statements about COVID-19, including that the virus is “man-made or manufactured.” Since the pandemic began, Facebook has been regularly making changes to its policies around misleading COVID-19 information following consultations with leading health organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO)....

FamishedChef had other backers on this Reddit thread with similar problems. Another gamer reported that he had faced shaken screen problem when he tried to teleport in the game. While Bethesda Game Studios, the game’s developer has not issued any warning about this particular glitch nor has come out with a statement, another Reddit user offered an explanation for the glitch. Many of these effects involve processing the current frame in some way (blurring it, altering colors, etc) and then multiplying or adding the result to the current frame after the initial render....

Andrew Otto Boggs, alias “INCURSIO,” 22, of North Wilkesboro, N.C., and Justin Gray Liverman, alias “D3F4ULT,” 24, of Morehead City, N.C. – who were accused of working with a high prolific hacking group called “Crackas with Attitude” (CWA) were arrested on Thursday morning on charges related to their alleged roles in the computer hacking and will be extradited to Alexandria next week, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia....

FBI ends legal battle with Apple, as it accesses San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone without Apple’s helpAnd Apple still doesnt know how FBI did it The move comes a week after Justice Department officials put a sudden hold on their demands that Apple assist the FBI with an announcement that an outside group had offered a way to hack into the iPhone. Aided by the unnamed group, FBI technology experts had been at work since, testing the method to confirm it could open the iPhone without jeopardizing its contents....

Former American Major League Baseball right-handed Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling who is a World Series MVP proved that he can be handful to the Twitter trolls who used his proud fatherly tweet to troll his 17 year old daughter with explicit and voilent tweets. It all started with a simple tweet from Curt congratulating his daughter Gabriella Schilling aka Gabby on her acceptance to Rhode Island college Salve Regina University, where she’ll play softball....

Now, according to South Korean site The Investor, Samsung Electronics has decided not to include fingerprint sensors under the screen of the S9 line of smartphones. We had recently reported how Samsung was finding it difficult to implement the in-display fingerprint scanner in its premium smartphones due to technical complications. Like the previous models, the sensor will be placed on the back of both the Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy S9+ smartphones....

Genesis was developed by the Site Reliability Engineering and Datacenter teams at Tumblr and now Genesis is an open-sourced under the Apache License and is available on Github. The tool includes a stripped down Linux image suitable to boot by PXE and a Ruby-based domain-specific language (DSL) for describing tasks to be executed on the host Genesis DSL creates the task based on which packages are installed and commands are executed easily....

When did it start? According to Google, they first started investigating the issue in the early morning at 1:2 AM ET. Their current statement on the issue: When did it start?Downdetector showing spikes Downdetector showing spikes According to the real-time outage and monitoring service Downdetector, Google products such as Gmail, Drive first started showing disruption at around 11:57 PM of the last night. Some YouTubers are experiencing issues in uploading their videos to the channels as well....

The newly formed group of companies that make Google now are doing relatively very well. On Friday morning, the Google powerhouse traded with an equity value above $500 million, which is less than 10 percent of its Silicon Valley rival Apple’s value. However, things are not looking good on Apple’s front, whose earnings mainly depend on the sales in the ever saturating smartphone market. According to the consulting firm IDC, global smartphone sales growth slowed to 10 percent last year....

Speaking as part of a new show hosted by MSNBC’s Ari Melber and Recode’s Kara Swisher, Pichai, 45, said that AI is ‘one of the most important things that humanity is working on. It’s more profound that, I don’t know, electricity or fire.’ “Fire’s pretty good,” Swisher said. However, Pichai drew equals to electricity and fire, and said that AI is basically both useful and dangerous at the same time....

Hackers are using the Google Drive to steal your login credentials and crucial data, suggests a new research.Modus Operandi of the Phishing campaign:Free Google Domain Phishing Campaign On Monday, Security researchers have revealed that a new Gmail phishing campaign has been launched, most probably by a hacking team based in the Middle East. The team targets users of Gmail with fake SSL(Secure Sockets Layer) encryption which successfully tricks users into surrendering the login credentials of their Google accounts to these scammers....

Follow the below steps to access the feature: Quite simple! So what’s the fissure between the idea and the reality? This is the first time that such feature would appear on mobile devices and hence created a huge buzz. However based on Engadget report, it seems just a mere talk as this feature is not working as anticipated. The current version still has a lot of bugs that had lowered down customer’s experience....

Made by an Israeli Company Researchers on the security front at Google and Lookout have come across the spyware that has the ability to spy on users by hacking their smartphones’ camera and microphone, as well as track calls, messages, internet history and more – christened Chrysaor. The spyware appears to have some link to Pegasus – a program that was known to be targeting iPhone users back in 2016....

Julian Assange says that Google working closely with Hillary Clinton presidential campaignWhy this is important? Speaking about ongoing presidential campaign, Assange said: “Google is directly engaged with Hillary Clinton’s campaign” and claimed the technology giant used the US State Department on a “a quid pro quo” basis. “Of course when she is in power… she is a problem for freedom of speech. We know what she is going to do. And she made the chart for the destruction of Libya, she was involved in the process of taking the Libyan armoury and sending it to Syria....

To start enjoying Google’s new feature type “Fun facts” or “I’m feeling curious.” Google will pop up a random fact from the Internet. Examples produced during testing included “Do your eyes ever grow?”, “Is there any sugar in Tic Tacs?” and “Why do they add iodine to salt?” Google will keep on popping trivia if you keep hitting the button labelled “ask another question” to generate seemingly endless random facts....