The social media giant uses a mix of complex science and mathematics to narrow down on your friend’s list Have you ever thought how Facebook exactly predicts your friends, sometimes even those whom you have long forgotten. Last week, a Redditor named easyjet posted a thread on Reddit. He mentioned that he signed up with an email address he never, ever used. He even lied about all of his personal information....
Similar to other FPS games, having higher frames is the bare minimum for playing the shooter game properly. And when you don’t own a gaming PC and struggle with the frames, the gaming experience takes a hit. Are you struggling with low FPS in Valorant? but upgrading the computer is out of the equation. Valorant is one the most optimized modern game of current times, and having low frames in that can be a software-level fault in most cases....
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There are seven ways to discover opportunities, get in touch with companies and make yourself noticeable to recruitersCarry out an auditKnow your privacy settingsKeep it professionalFind job leadsFill out your profileNetworkLeverage social media A billion people logged into Facebook on a single day last week, making it the first time that so many members used the world’s largest online social network in a 24-hour period. The reason for this outburst was that job recruiters are using this network to share job leads and discover candidates....
According to the space agency, Curiosity recorded the black-and-white photos using its Navigational Cameras (NavCams), which are designed to take a wide-angle view of the Martian terrain. However, these engineering cameras are not capable of shooting images in color as the spacecraft’s 34 millimeter and 100 millimeter Mast Cameras can. According to a video on YouTube channel ArtAlienTV, a picture that appears to show a giant mouse scurrying across the surface of Mars was taken by the rover’s right-hand mast-cam at 04:46 on November 1, last year, close to the ridge of the 154-kilometer-wide (96 miles) Gale Crater....
“It’s a relationship that bears watching,” Anne Weismann, the head of the Campaign for Accountability told the Intercept. Numbers crunched by the Campaign for Accountability and the Intercept show that in all 169 Google employees have met with 182 government officials in the White House. It was no surprise that Johanna Shelton, Google’s head of public policy, had the most White House meetings of any Google employee with 128. The data used spans from the start of Obama’s first term in office in 2009 until October 2015, Google officials met in the White House with Obama administration officials once a week on an average for a total of 427 visits....
This vulnerable firmware update driver has been released on hundreds of millions of Dell Windows PCs around the world since 2009. The multiple local privilege-escalation (LPE) bugs exist in Dell’s dbutil_2_3.sys driver, which comes pre-installed on most Dell machines running Windows. The firmware update driver component is responsible for Dell Firmware Updates via the Dell Bios Utility. The five high severity vulnerabilities in Dell software could allow attackers to escalate privileges from a non-administrator user to kernel mode privileges....
According to the patent titled “Copyright Infringement Prevention,” main goal is to ‘restrict’ the functionality of printers, so they only process jobs when the person who’s printing them has permission to do so. The technology works by parsing content for potential copyrighted material. It will not allow the printer to copy or print the job, if such material is found. “The computer, in response to identifying any text, images, or formatting indicative of potential copyrighted material, identifies potential copyrighted material within the file....
Morgan, staring Kate Mara and Paul Giamatti, is a sci-fi thriller about scientists who have developed a synthetic humanoid whose potential has grown dangerously beyond their control. To prepare the machine for the task at hand, the IBM Research system analysed hundreds of horror/thriller movie trailers. In order to get an idea of the dynamics of a trailer, the computer then performed a series of visual, sound and composition studies....
Gupta, who spent nearly a decade at Intel as its Product Marketing Engineer, left the company on January 17, 2020, and joined Microsoft four days later as a Principal of Strategic Planning in Microsoft’s Cloud and Artificial Intelligence department. According to the lawsuit filed by Intel, Gupta took the company’s highly confidential, proprietary and trade secret information in violation of his contractual obligations and federal and state law; leveraged that information in negotiations against Intel while at his new employer; and lied to Intel in the course of the firm’s attempts to locate, recover, and protect its confidential information and trade secrets....
Grumpy Cat shot to international stardom when her photo was posted on Reddit on September 22, 2012. The reddit posts made her celebrity, though there were some who accused Grumpy of being a photoshop. To dispel suspicions that the image had been Photoshopped, she posted two videos to YouTube. The videos went viral, making her the darling of meme-loving macro-makers everywhere. How does it feel to be a legend at Tussauds Apparently, Grumpy Cat is not happy....
4K Video Downloader is a worthy representative of the latter – it’s a multifunctional cross platform application, favored by more than a million users worldwide. Such support was well-deserved by its safety, stability, fast downloading speed, and of course a variety of useful features. Clean, intuitive interface Even though the functionality of the application is quite advanced, working with it is easy for user of any level. Copy the link to a song or a video from a popular service from the browser and click the Paste Link button within 4K Video Downloader....
But before it closed down, the administrators of the 123movies website encouraged their millions of users to migrate to a paid streaming site called WatchAsap.com. However, this website is now suddenly displaying a familiar seizure banner, which says that the domain name was seized by the feds as part of an ongoing criminal case, reports TorrentFreak. Apparently, 123movies, the popular and largest movie pirating website that received millions of visitors per day, prompted the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to label it “the most popular illegal site in the world....
A Japanese Satellite called Hitomi has been officially termed as lost after it disintegrated in orbit, which was a result of being torn apart when spinning out of control. The reason behind this is still under investigation but the individuals carrying out their own research have claimed that bad data in a software package resulted in a loss of $286 million US dollars, not to mention possible 10 years’ worth of research lost....
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia is bringing his social action-oriented mobile service to the U.S. As a part of his newest venture, Jimmy Wales has announced the U.S. launch of The People’s Operator. This venture is both a mobile phone service and an attempt at a new kind of social network placed around community service and donations. 20 percent of company profits and 10 percent of customers’ monthly bills are donated to charities at no cost to customers....
For those unaware, Kali Linux is one of the best Linux distros for hackers, pen-tester, and security researchers due to the fact that most of the hacking tools that are available online are built-in this Linux Distro. According to Offensive Security, the latest build of Kali Linux takes advantage of everything the Pi 4 has to offer. Kali Linux for Raspberry Pi 4 will benefit from Kali Linux support complete with on-board Wi-Fi monitor mode and frame injection support....
Recently, the Trump led government issued a formal federal ban on use of Kaspersky’s anti-virus software by both civilian and military agencies following a warning to U.S. federal agencies earlier this year to not use the company’s software on their computers. However, the security firm has repeatedly denied any potential links with Russia and said it would not help a government with cyber espionage. The company had even offered to submit the source code of its software and future updates for inspection by independent parties....
Out of those thousands, few hundreds who wanted to try out the all new XBoxes and PlayStations that they received as Christmas gifts, were for in for a rude shock as they unboxed their new gaming consoles only to be unable to connect to the gaming networks. For around 24 hours, both, XBox live and PlayStation networks were intermittently offline and sometimes totally unreachable after the Lizard Squad’s DDoS attacks....
The breach was discovered by the founder of Have I Been Pwned, Troy Hunt. Hunt said that he was informed about the data breach by somebody who is involved in the trading of such information and the person then provided him with a download link for the data. Hunt verified the data by using the password reset function of the affected website. Whilst talking to the BBC, Troy explained that the forum was exploited by an SQL injection vulnerability, as the site was using an outdated piece of software....
