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Redux, a UK based start-up, claims to have 178 granted patents as per its LinkedIn page for its work on sound and touch technology. A UK regulatory filing showed that Google’s subsidiary Google Ireland Holdings Unlimited Company, acquired all the shares of NVF Tech, the parent company of Redux Laboratories on December 13, 2017. However, Crunchbase, a website which tracks acquisition and funding rounds, said the deal happened in August last year....

Alphabet’s new code of conduct reads: “Employees of Alphabet and its subsidiaries and controlled affiliates should do the right thing — follow the law, act honorably, and treat each other with respect.” The code goes on to say that if someone accuses you (or someone else) of wrong or dishonorable behavior, you must still follow the code of conduct: “Never retaliate against anyone who reports or participates in an investigation of a possible violation of the Code....

The unpublished paper “Generating Sentences from a Continuous Space” was presented at the International Conference on Learning Representations on May 3, which shows the work done by researchers with Google Brain. It shows how the team of linguists and computer scientists fed a total of 11,000 unpublished books to the neural network, and then tested whether it could take a couple sentences from the book and create its own corresponding phrases....

Isitdownrightnow.com also appeared to confirm the issue: Lots of people are reporting on Twitter that they are experiencing issues with Google services. — JoAnna Ver Meer (@JoAnnaVerMeer) March 12, 2015 — Malik Chabou (@malikchabou) March 12, 2015 — Buzzoole (@Buzzoole) March 12, 2015 The glitch occurred due to a ‘routing leak’ as per Doug Madory of Dyn Research. He states in a blog post that the routing leak occurred from an Indian broadband Internet provider which caused Google services to go down....

The search giant is looking to replace its current denounced feature ‘Android Beam’ for Android with a file-sharing app called “Fast Share”, which was discovered by 9to5Google and XDA-Developers. The new tool, which is part of Google Play Services, should work similarly to AirDrop on the Mac and iOS. For those unaware, Google had announced back in May that it would be deprecating the Android Beam – a simple way to share files on Android – with Android Q, as it had lost its usefulness....

The study published in May 18 issue of Science Advances, talks about the wonder material ‘Graphene’, a semi-metal composed of single layer of carbon atoms, which is known to be extremely sensitive to light (1,000 times greater than conventional digital cameras and smartphones) and can convert it into electricity. Hence, the researchers decided to examine whether the electricity generated out of graphene had the capability to stimulate human cells. After experimenting with different light intensities, Alex Savchenko and his team discovered that cells could actually be stimulated via optical graphene stimulation....

Late last year, security researcher Sathya Prakash discovered a number of critical vulnerabilities in the mobile banking application of an undisclosed bank that allowed him to steal money from any or all bank customers with the help of just a few lines of code. However, Prakash immediately reached out to the bank in question and alerted about the severe flaws in its mobile banking app. He also helped them fix the flaws instead of taking advantage of the security holes to steal money from the bank that has about $25 Billion in deposits....

Security researchers discover novel methods of stealing secret data from computer by hacking modern devicesNew methods have been discovered by security researchers wherein they just need to infect devices such as printers, airconditioners or washing machine and turn it into a radio!Converting modern device into a radio to broadcast the data: Just imagine, this novel method would enable hackers to steal crucial data even from military bases or nuclear facilities or from computers which are not connected to Internet!...

The 41 year old is now taking legal action on Super.ru for making the video public. The video has gone viral and is presently being shared on file sharing networks and torrents. Mirror reported that the video contains Natasha Koroleva performing a number of sex acts with her husband, a former male stripper whose stage name is Tarzan, and a toy. Meanwhile the matters have quickly escalated as Koroleva has been honored by prestigious Artist of Russia by President Putin....

“We recently became aware that some user data was compromised due to unauthorized access to our systems by a malicious third party,” Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo said in a security update blog post. “We have engaged leading digital forensic and security experts and launched an investigation, which is ongoing. We have notified law enforcement officials. We are notifying affected Quora users. We have already taken steps to ensure the situation is contained, and we are working to prevent this type of event from happening in the future....

According to FireEye, a hacking group “APT32” also known as “Ocean Lotus” believed to be operating on behalf of the Vietnamese government, was involved in a spear-phishing campaign targeting members of China’s Ministry of Emergency Management and the Wuhan government, epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. “These attacks speak to the virus being an intelligence priority – everyone is throwing everything they’ve got at it, and APT32 is what Vietnam has,” FireEye said in a blog post....

Know How Torrent Downloading Works – BitTorrenting 101How does Torrent clients work in transferring files from one system to another?Difference between seeds, peers, and leechersWhat is a seed?What is a leecher?What is a peer?Is downloading torrents legal? To understand this, you should first need to know what is a “BitTorrent’? BitTorrent (also known as torrents) is a communications protocol of peer-to-peer file sharing (“P2P”)*** which is used to distribute large amounts of data and electronic files over the Internet, such as digital video files containing TV shows or video clips or digital audio files containing songs....

This time around, Oracle is claiming that the search giant now owes it a share of the profits derived from Android, which is a whopping $8.8 billion. However, Google claims that Oracle has exceptionally exaggerated the role of Java in Android’s success. The case previously went to trial in 2012, which resulted in a jury deadlock. Also, last month’s mediation attempts between the two companies’ CEOs were unsuccessful. In the trial starting on Monday, if the new jury rules against Google on fair use, then it will consider damages....

Google coming out with a VPN connectivity App for Android Lollipop users?Google seems to be working on a new VPN service for use on open WiFi networks Freml discovered that upon updating to Android 5.1 which is Lollipop latest update, on his Google Nexus 6 by Motorola, while exploring the installed Apps he found a new and unique app called “Google Connectivity Services.” Freml started investigating into this new service. He found out that it was possible to launch this service as com....

As a result, companies too have been launching powerful gaming laptops periodically keeping the requirement of the gamers in mind. There are several high-end gaming laptops available in the market from companies like HP, Dell, Asus and more. Here are some of the very best ones from the range. Note: Several laptops mentioned below are not explicitly built for gaming purposes. However, they are powerful enough to support some of the most graphic-intensive game titles launched till date....

Well they posted a series of anti-Israeli “joke” and an anti-Obama image from the onion’s the twitter account This was not the end, the onion also cross fired with its own joke story “Syrian Electronic Army Has A Little Fun Before Inevitable Upcoming Death At Hands of Rebels.” Putting all jokes aside the onions technology team posted an article on Wednesday describing how the Syrian Electronic Army hacked their twitter account,

The popular invite-only audio conversation app Clubhouse is now finally available for Android. You can use Clubhouse to interact with like-minded people, join or create audio rooms, and to expand your network. In the past, many high-profile celebrities, politicians, and entrepreneurs have hosted or joined audio discussions on Clubhouse. Earlier, Clubhouse was exclusively available for iOS devices. At the time of writing this article, the beta version of Clubhouse has been rolled out, and we can expect the stable version to launch very soon....

How To Get Windows XP/Windows 7 Look on Your Windows 10 computerClassic ShellUxStyle Luckily for Windows tinkerers, there are many tools that can help you customize Microsoft’s OS to suit your own tastes, on-screen visuals, etc. In this article, we will show how you can skin Windows 10’s taskbar to give it a Windows XP appearance. Classic Shell Let’s first start with ‘Classic Shell’, which lets you skin the taskbar in Windows 10 and change it to Windows XP or Windows 7....