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Moxi says that the bendable smartphones it intends to release initially will only have black-and-white displays. Full color version smartphones are in the pipeline but may take at least 2 years said the company. The bendable smartphone is not cheap. Moxi said that the black-and-white phones are expected to sell for around 5,000 yuan ($760) each in China which is only a tad cheaper than Apple’s iPhone. Moxi, which is based in the city of Chongqing and specializes in graphene, released some regular smartphones last year using the material....

A source working for Huawei’s UK division and familiar with the company’s plans told IBTimes UK, that the company is working closely with Google to manufacture its Next-Gen Nexus Android M powered smartphones. However, the source could only give the confirmation regarding the deal and was not able to provide either further details regarding the specifications of the devices nor the exact launch date and just mentioned that the device would be launched towards the end of this year....

The Chip can be connected to display, keyboard and mouse through a number of ports, as well as connect with its inbuilt WiFi through the wireless internet. The board is Open Hardware and and is capable of running on any Linux-based operating system. It is powered by a 1Ghz A13 processor. It has a 512MB of RAM and a storage capacity of 4GB. It is equivalent to the BeagleBone Black in clock speed, RAM and storage....

Prototype manufacturing has helped many manufacturers to evaluate the viability of their ideas and the end-user experience of a specific solution. What is custom prototyping? Custom prototyping is the on-demand manufacturing of incomplete versions of a proposed solution. The incomplete version may sound bad, but then the main objective of prototype development is to simulate only a few main aspects of the concept. This helps the users to evaluate the viability of potential solution in terms of usually, cost, complexity and value....

There is bad news for users that have devices which run the CyanogenOS and Cyanogen Mods. Cyanogen Inc. on Friday announced that it will be discontinuing all services and Cyanogen-supported nightly builds by December 31st. However, developers who want to build CyanogenMods can continue to build it on their own. “As part of the ongoing consolidation of Cyanogen, all services, and Cyanogen-supported nightly builds will be discontinued no later than 12/31/16....

Similarly, another dataset linked to now-defunct Facebook-integrated app ‘At the Pool’ is said to have stored unprotected plaintext passwords for 22,000 users. While the app was shut down in 2014, UpGuard said it is unclear how long the user details were exposed, as the database became inaccessible while the company was looking into it. “As Facebook faces scrutiny over its data stewardship practices, they have made efforts to reduce third party access....

A blog post on Docker spoke very highly of Ian Murdock as it states the following: At this current point, the cause of his death is uncertain and could come from a number of reasons. However, since he tweeted through his official over a definite intention of committing suicide, it is quite possible that Ian Murdock might have taken his life, but the reasons which would drive him to such a path are currently not known....

The lawsuit is the result of an Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs review of the company’s practices at its Redwood Shores, California, headquarters, according to a release from the Labor Department. “The leading technology company has a systemic practice of paying Caucasian male workers more than their counterparts in the same job title, which led to pay discrimination against female, African American and Asian employees,” the department said in a statement....

Gripsgård has already put a special page UBports.com website where he has codenamed his upcoming venture as “op3.” One Plus has recently released its latest flagship iteration, OnePlus 3 smartphone. OnePlus 3 boasts a pretty decent configuration with 5-inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with Full HD (1080×1920) resolution and a Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 820 chipset. The smartphone is powered by Dual-Core 2.15 GHz Kryo and Dual-Core 1.6 GHz Kryo CPUs, as well as the Adreno 530 GPU....

The role of Artificial Intelligence has increased over the past few years with its application cutting across different sectors from finance to retail and health industries. It is set to increase further with more companies investing in this concept as a way to better their business models, increase efficiency and have a competitive edge in their respective markets. Over the last few years, the terms Machine Learning and Deep Learning have gained popularity where artificial intelligence is discussed....

To mitigate the concerns and questions that Twitter employees may have, the social media giant will host an AMA session(Ask Me Anything) with Elon Musk where the employees can ask Elon questions directly. This information was outed by a spokesperson on Thursday. Elon Musk to hold AMA on Twitter Elon Musk is currently the largest shareholder at Twitter after securing 9.1% of the stake in the social media giant....

Europol and US ICE seize 292 domains selling counterfeit goods.Action The operation which was completed over last weekend was a part of a old operation called’In Our Sites (IOS) Transatlantic V,’ which targets fake goods and counterfeiters websites. The operation was coordinated by Europol for its partners (Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain and the United Kingdom) and the HSI-led National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) in Washington, DC, for the United States....

While the feature is only available in the US currently, it is expected to go live soon. Here are a few steps to show how to send and receive money via Messenger: Step 1) Payments on the app requires a debit card on both ends of the transaction, however, there is no attached cost to use the service. It offers PIN-based protection and what Facebook claims are “industry-leading security” standards....

While testing out the feature, Facebook has stated in the following quote on how it got a sizable amount of positive feedback over the course of several months, which is why the company decided to provide support for Tor browsers. However, the company is yet to tell us why it has not enabled the feature for iOS and Windows Mobile powered devices. May be it had something to do with the dominating operating system market share of the platform....

Besides helping people to stay connected, the hub also aims to offers tips, authoritative information and other resources about the epidemic, as we practice physical distancing. “Being physically separated from the people you care about is hard. This is especially true in uncertain times. Messenger allows people to be with friends and family regardless of where they are or what device they’re using. Around the world, we’ve seen significant increases in people using Messenger for group calls to stay in touch with their loved ones....

“Meta has developed what we believe is the world’s fastest AI supercomputer,” said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a statement. “We’re calling it RSC for AI Research SuperCluster and it’ll be complete later this year.” Currently, AI can perform tasks like translating text between languages and helping identify potentially harmful content, but developing the next generation of AI will require powerful supercomputers capable of quintillions of operations per second. According to Meta, RSC will help its AI researchers build new and better AI models that can learn from trillions of examples; work across hundreds of different languages; seamlessly analyze text, images, and video together; develop new augmented reality tools; and much more....

Facebook says its participation “should not be interpreted as an endorsement of any candidate, issue or political party,” reported Recode. It plans to do the same at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. This comes as a surprise as Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook last month had used the Facebook’s developer conference to indirectly criticize the immigration policies of Republican front-runner Trump. “I hear fearful voices calling for building walls and distancing people they label as ‘others....

For those unaware, last month, Facebook had unveiled its “Messenger Rooms” feature for a small subset of people to compete against Zoom, another video chat product that has surged in popularity due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown. Messenger Rooms app allows users to host video calls of up to 50 people with no time limit from Messenger or directly from Facebook via News Feed, Groups, and Events. Zuckerberg also confirmed the Rooms integration for WhatsApp as well as Instagram....

The father, who has remained anonymous, had sued Facebook for failing to enforce its age restriction policy. His 11-year-old daughter from Northern Ireland, who is only referred to as GS in legal documents, used the social network site to create multiple Facebook accounts and uploaded sexual photos of herself and communicated with the men on the website. Facebook should have done more to enforce its age restrictions policies and is liable for the sexual predators his daughter was exposed to on the site, said the father....