Today, the company made its open sourced code Infer freely available to any independent developer or any company looking to debug their apps in new ways. Peter O’Hearn, Infer’s co-creator said “It looks at the program and makes guesses or hypotheses about the program, the way a human might.” However, in contrast to a human, it can read thousands of lines of code in just minutes to locate potential bugs....
It is still not known that when this feature will be available Globally, for the rest of the Facebook users Stickers are available only in the Facebook messenger or chat. Last week Facebook rolled out an update for its windows phone messenger app which allows user to share Emoticons and Voice Messages which can be accessed via a dedicated button on the navigation bar in the Messenger app. Update: The Feature looks to be working for most of the users in Australia....
Social networking giant Facebook has alleged that someone at the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) office has blocked emails from its websites through which people shared their views on differential pricing for data services, a key issue of net neutrality. In a startling series of e-mail exchanges made public on January 19, the regulatory body delivered a scathing indictment of Facebook’s lobbying practices, accusing the company of converting the regulator’s consultation process into a “crudely majoritarian and orchestrated opinion poll” and wilfully disregarding its request to better inform Facebook’s users....
The private photos of Paige started circulating on social media early on Friday which later started trending on twitter. It was soon discovered that Paige’s nude photos and an alleged sex tape of her was doing its round on notorious website Celeb Jihad. Just two days ago nude images of Emma Watson, Mischa Barton, Amanda Seyfried and other celebrities were leaked. It is still unclear if these hacks or leaks are in anyway associated to that of iCloud leaks (Fappening) of 2014....
Another celebrity’s personal account has been hacked leading to some personal photos including nudes being leaked online. The celebrity victim is Samara Weaving and the notorious website Celeb Jihad has been the one to release the photos. Samara’s father has spoken out against the hack, though the actress herself has not yet made a statement. Her Father’s statement Samara’s father Simon has released a statement against the alleged hacks & consequent release of the photos....
Say hello to the FBI’s facial recognition systemNot only criminals, but also Civilian images with non criminal records, The Next Generation Identification (NGI) is a new system developed by FBI, which features the facial recognition system, will help the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in investigations in criminal cases. The NGI entails complete build up of the FACIAL features a person which will then make the task of hunting them down easy for the enforcement agencies....
Microsoft itself was criticized a lot for the way it took on to investigate into the leak. In order to find out the culprit behind leaking of the code, Microsoft allegedly tapped into the blogger’s Hotmail account without his consent. Later on due to the furore raised by the online community against illegal snooping, the company has since changed its policy. As per the new Microsoft ToS, if such circumstances occur in the future, the company will call in law enforcement agencies to look into the matter, rather than investigating the matter themselves....
During a show called “Varney & Company” on Fox Business Network, host, Stuart Varney asked the guest on the show John McAfee to tell the views how the hackers were able to break into the Sony’s computer systems. Varney got a hack lesson of his life! The McAfee Inc. owner decided to give Varney first hand knowledge of hacking. From a remote location, McAfee hacked into Varney’s phone via its voicemail, accessed the contacts and then faked a call from one of those contacts....
As per NetMarketShare which is an Internet analytic firm the Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox contributes to a total of 40% of the world wide browser market. With this decision from the giant browser sites it could disturb users who access wide ranges of the Chinese websites. From 1st April users who are using the Firefox browser or Chrome browser would receive a pop up message as soon as they enter any ‘....
Stadia is being promoted as the central community for gamers, creators, and developers that aims to take on Microsoft’s Xbox One, Sony’s PlayStation 4, Nintendo’s Switch, as well as upcoming streaming services like Microsoft’s xCloud and Nvidia’s GeForce Now. Stadia is not a piece of hardware or a dedicated console but a streaming platform meant to free the player of hardware limitations of PCs and gaming consoles. All games will run on Google’s global network of data centers, and a video feed of the game will be accessible by the user on desktops, laptops, tablets, phones, and TVs connected to Chromecast streaming media sticks to start with....
Alphabet now owns the unabridged abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com, a domain that was created in 1999, according to domain-registration directory Whois. Alphabet confirmed the domain purchase. Google had announced in August 2015 that it was reorganising into a new holding company called Alphabet. At that time it had unveiled its flagship domain called abc.xyz. However, Microsoft had sensed an opportunity to troll Google and bought the domain abc.wtf which lead the readers to its own Bing search engine(abc....
These warning banners, which are already available in Gmail and Google Drive, would warn users against potential phishing and malware messages coming from users with personal Google Accounts. “In Gmail, warning banners are displayed when responding to emails sent from outside of your organisation. Now, Android warning banners are also displayed as you add new external recipients. Admins can turn these specific warning labels on or off for their organisation,” Google announced in a blog post on Thursday....
In September last year, the FAS found Google guilty in breach of a law on “protecting competition” after Russia’s largest search engine, Yandex NV filed a complaint against the search giant. It asked anti-trust authorities to stop Android handsets from being automatically pre-loaded with Google’s own apps and services. Google also didn’t allow third-party services, such as Yandex’s search, to be preinstalled. Google has two months to pay the fine, said the FAS....
Deep learning is a machine learning technique that has become the foundation of the several services that Google already provides (this would include everything from speech recognition to automatically sorting your photo collection). The course is available to see on educational site Udacity, and could actually take longer than three months, depending on how quick you are to learn it. The course details state that if a student or any interested other person is able to invest 6 hours a week into the course, then they will be able to complete it in a period of months....
“For the past year, select Google advertisers have had access to a potent new tool to track whether the ads they ran online led to a sale at a physical store in the U.S. That insight came thanks in part to a stockpile of Mastercard transactions that Google paid for. “But most of the two billion Mastercard holders aren’t aware of this behind-the-scenes tracking. That’s because the companies never told the public about the arrangement,” Bloomberg mentions in its report....
For those unaware, VRP was launched in January 2010 to reward the contributions of security researchers who invest their time and effort in finding and reporting bugs to Google to help keep the Internet safe and secure. Over the past 10 years, 11,055 bugs have been reported in the company’s various platforms and resolved via VRP. Further, a total number of 2,022 researchers from 84 different countries worldwide have been rewarded to the tune of $29,357,516 among them....
E-mail, instant messaging, social networks. Advancements in these fields’ technology and services have made the world a global village, it is very easy to share things like web pages to someone half way around the world. But for sharing the same things with people in the same room or at a hand distance, things seem to be very complicated. That is the real motive, or the justification, behind Google’s new Chrome extension simply named as ‘Tone’....
The new preview includes a number of new features, such as adding support for USB Audio to the Hardware Abstraction Layer for the Intel Edison and Raspberry Pi 3. There is also support for the Intel Joule platform in this new preview, which according to Google, offers the most computing power in its IoT line-up to date. It has also hardened the Bluetooth stack as well as improved the process of taking real work inputs and outputs and abstracting those into Android intents to function within the software....
The Google’s news trust based system or ‘Trust API’ is a part of larger ‘Project Abacus’ which Google engineers have been working on and was recently unveiled at I/O 2016. Google is said to be tying up with large banks to test out the Trust API. The system is designed to be used on smartphones, and works by constantly checking for a number of personal indicators which can grant access to accounts or the phone itself....
However, if you don’t have a built-in call recorder on your Android smartphone, you can easily download one of the thousand call recorders available on the Google PlayStore. Sadly the aforementioned solution will no longer work starting 11th May 2022. Let’s get into details. To further enhance users’ safety and privacy, Google is implementing new Play Store policies to prevent third-party apps from using the Accessibility API. This API makes the process of remote call audio recording work properly....
