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Nick Clegg, Meta’s President of Global Affairs and a former UK deputy prime minister, in a statement posted to Twitter, said the company has acted after receiving requests from several governments from outside of the EU to block Russian state media. He added Facebook would continue to work closely with governments on the issue. — Google Europe (@googleeurope) March 1, 2022 The company has already started demoting content from Facebook pages and Instagram accounts from Russian state-controlled media outlets, which will make it difficult for users to locate these pages and their content across its platforms....

Speaking on the cryptocurrency, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that he wants to make sending money as easy as sending a photo: digital, immediate, free and secure. Libra is a cryptocurrency that is built on the technology upon which cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are developed. It is intended to buy things or transfer money instantly to others with almost no fees, anywhere in the world with ease. With the Libra project, Facebook aims to help the 1....

The new OS will be built from scratch and Mark Lucovsky, a Microsoft veteran who co-authored the Windows NT operating system, will lead the project. While the report does not provide more information on how the new OS could be used, it notes that Facebook’s Oculus Quest, the standalone virtual reality (VR) headset and Portal, Facebook’s video-call display could benefit from the new software. Both these hardware are currently running on a modified version of Android....

That was one of the key messages that came from a question and answer session with the Facebook co-founder and CEO held on his company’s website on Tuesday. Zuckerberg said the principle of Net Neutrality, which requires that all Internet traffic should be treated equally no matter where it’s headed to or from where it is coming from, making sure Internet service providers like Verizon and AT&T are unable to “discriminate and limit the access to services people want to use....

The fake and malicious version of WhatsApp Business posing as “Update WhatsApp Messenger” is still available to download on Google Play Store with the developer title “WhatsApp Inc*”. The developer has now changed its name to “Update WhatsApp”. While there are several fake versions, one version has been downloaded up to 5,000 times, there is another version under the same name which has a million downloads. The malicious software was first discovered by Twitter user @MujtabaMHaq and later reported by the popular WhatsApp change tracking website, WABetaInfo....

What Makes FilmoraPro an Excellent Choice for Up and Coming Filmmakers? The process of making a short film, an online video ad or a social media video takes place in several stages, and during each stage, you must use the equipment that enables you to materialize your idea perfectly. In order to go through the post-production stage smoothly, you need to have access to a video editing app that allows you to use all the tools that are necessary to produce a professional looking video....

The Game begins with players jumping from a plane using a parachute on an island and search for weapons, utility items, Medical equipment, and other equipment in order to kill each other. The warzone keeps shrinking forcing players to strict to a smaller area and to face more encounters. The last player or the team that survives wins the game and is rewarded with lots of experience and items. The game can be played in both first and third-person perspectives....

NetSpot has been hailed by Mac users as one of the best Apps there is for Wi-Fi mapping and troubleshooting. NetSpot can be used for review Wi-Fi networks, finding spots of poor reception, and troubleshooting. The App is available here and is very light at 4.1MB download. Best of all, it’s still completely free. Like the Mac version, NetSpot for Windows lets you see all SSID in your vicinity, their operating channels, which ones are interfering with one another, and more....

The statement reads: “First, in addition to natively supporting cross-platform play between Xbox One and Windows 10 games that use Xbox Live, we’re enabling developers to support cross-network play as well. This means players on Xbox One and Windows 10 using Xbox Live will be able to play with players on different online multiplayer networks – including other console and PC networks.” In other words, the Xbox brand will not only allow Xbox One and Windows 10 players to play together via Xbox Live but also with those on different console and PC networks....

German Supreme Court Block extradition of World’s No.2 most wanted hacker to United States.The Charges against Ercan Ercan Findikoglu, 33, had been arrested by the German Police on a international warrant at Frankfurt Airport in December 2013. In a extradition case spanning 6 months, the lower court decided to permit the police to extradite Ercan to United States. Extradition to United States would have meant that Ercan would have had to spend 250 years behind bars if proven guilty, so he appealed to the Bundesverfassungsgericht, the German supreme federal court....

Though there are many kinds of hugely promising battery innovations around that involves things like hydrogen, aluminum, and solar power sources, they are not of much use for the users with devices that run on current-generation lithium-ion batteries. So, what can be done to get that little extra juice out of your smartphone? Is there any tool? Yes, there is. A new tool for the Android users have been developed by the researchers at Purdue University in the U....

GitHub site, which is in its 10th year, was launched in April 2008 by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett. Speaking at the company’s annual GitHub Universe user conference this Wednesday, Chris Wanstrath, co-founder and outgoing CEO, in his final keynote said, “We think the future of coding is no coding at all.” In the month of August, Wanstrath had announced that he would be stepping down as the company’s CEO as soon as he would find a suitable replacement....

The online hub yesterday announced a new feature for its Atom text editor known as ‘Teletype for Atom’ that makes it easier for fellow developers on a project to work with one another on shared code. Teletype allows developers to share their workspace with team members, write or edit code together simultaneously, and collaborate on code in real time, thereby sharing valuable knowledge and producing quality software. Developers can create a Teletype session from Atom and share this with online collaborators....

Adblock Plus blocks annoying ads on the web which includes blocking the “tracking” as well. Hence, with a count of monthly 50 million active users across the world its one of the most popular browser extensions. Adblock Plus itself has no functionality, in the sense that it does not block anything until it is “told” what to do by its filter lists. Adblock Plus is an open source project created by Wladimir Palant in 2006....

The company will start charging once free storage of 15GB on the account has been used. Further, those who wish to add photos beyond the 15GB limit will be required to buy a Google One plan to continue using the Google services. Google has now announced a significant price cut on higher storage plans of Google One considering more people are likely to purchase cloud storage soon. “For members that need more space, we’re cutting the price of our 10TB, 20TB, and 30TB plans by 50%....

The Google Brazil was hacked by a hacker going by the online handle of “Kuroi’SH.” Kuroi’SH defaced the official Google Brazil domain earlier Tuesday afternoon and left a message on the hacked website for Google. Google Brazil immediately tried to restore the hacked website but seemed unable to gain control as the domain, Google.com.br is still unavailable to visitors. According to reports in Brazil media, the Google Brazil users were getting the defaced message from Kuroi’SH for a whole 30 minutes before Google took the website offline....

However, recently leaked pressed renders and a 360-degree render video by Android Authority and @OnLeaks have given a sneak peak of Pixel or Nexus Sailfish from all angles. The new renders confirm that the Sailfish will sport a USB-C port rather than one of the microUSB variant, which is currently being phased out. Also, it is expected to have dual stereo speakers, which are both placed behind two rectangular holes flanking the USB-C port on the bottom of the handset....

The Google Play Pass subscription service, which is somewhat similar to Microsoft’s Xbox Games Pass or Apple’s Arcade subscription, was originally launched in September 2019 and made available to U.S. consumers. The search giant later expanded the service and is now available in 90 countries, including Germany, Australia, Canada, and Europe, making it available now in India too. The Play Pass subscription service will offer a high-quality and curated collection of over 1,000 titles across 41 categories from developers across 59 countries, including local Indian app developers....

Google has now officially launched the Fuchsia OS developer website, fuchsia.dev, which was first spotted by Android Police. The website notes that Fuchsia OS is an “open source operating system”. However, it also clarifies that “Fuchsia is not Linux” in the System Documentation section of the site. “[It is] a modular, capability-based operating system.” Fuchsia is powered by a microkernel called “Zircon,” which is written mostly in C++ and also provides core drivers and Fuchsia’s lib implementation....