The toughest thing about getting up in the morning (other than getting up in the morning) is realizing all the things you have to do to make yourself decent to society. I’m not talking about just brushing your teeth, shaving, or showering. I’m talking about having to open your eyes and walk around and
At the Code conference this evening, Elon Musk joined Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher onstage to talk about his varied and eclectic pursuits. And when the talk turned to autonomous vehicles, Musk was sure to share his opinions on what he perceives to be Tesla’s biggest competition.
An IT help desk is often the first line of support for many organizations. However, some businesses can’t justify the cost of implementing and managing a dedicated help desk to serve the demands of their end users due to a lack of available IT resources or budgetary constraints. This creates a unique challenge: end users need access to support for productivity, yet a fully staffed help desk is out of the question.
Standing out from a crowd of candidates can take more than brushing up your resume. College student Graham Allgood got the attention of his dream workplace by marketing himself in another way with the help of Snapchat.
Allgood designed a custom geofilter for the New York-based advertising agency where he wanted to work as a summer intern in the hopes of catching a hiring manager's eye.
After a two-week trial, a federal court ruled that Google’s Android operating system doesn’t infringe Oracle’s Java APIs. While Google has saved $9 billion in damages, Oracle is preparing to appeal again in Federal Circuit Appeals Court. For the time being, this win is a great news for open source community and programmers who use free and open programming languages to make innovative products.
A 28-year-old Thai woman has become an Internet sensation overnight after she posted her own version of a high fashion gown that's made from bags of prawn crackers.
Sine Benjaphorn is a plus-size model and owner of a clothing store in Ratchaburi, a province west of Bangkok, Thailand. The gown that she chose to replicate was a peach layered gown that Thai actress, Chompoo Araya wore to a L'Oreal event during the recent Cannes Film Festival.
Facebook and Microsoft on Thursday announced that they are teaming up to build a subsea cable across the Atlantic Ocean.
In a blog post, Microsoft says that the goal of the cable is to “help meet the growing customer demand for high speed, reliable connections for cloud and online services” for Microsoft, Facebook and others.
It was a big deal for the people of Vietnam when the President of the United States visited their country earlier this week. But sadly, posting about the event on Facebook proved rather difficult.
Reuters cites sources from two activist organizations—Access Now and Viet Tan—that both claim Facebook was “restricted and at times blocked” in Vietnam during the presidential visit. Those interventions were apparently in place for the duration Obama’s trip, from Sunday to Wednesday.
Tim Cook is many things: executive businessman, native Alabaman, multi-millionaire. Unfortunately, we can’t all be everything, and Tim recently revealed two things that he is most definitely not: art historian and someone who makes good jokes.
The idea of humans being dicks to the advanced technology we make isn’t exactly new, but it’s a story that at least looks to being used to particularly spooky effect in Morgan, the feature debut from director Luke Scott (son of Ridley Scott).
Salt. It shows up in our idioms about as often as our food. Even the word salary is derived from salarium, the term for a Roman soldier’s earned ration of salt. But one of the most ridiculous lies perpetuated about this humble mineral is that in ye olden days, salt was more valuable than gold due to its function in food preservation. YouTube historian Lindybeige explains how this is all just a big misunderstanding.
With an aim to improve children’s creative and logical thinking, Japan has decided to make programming a compulsory subject in its schools. To start this program from 2020, the Japanese government has constituted panels to decide the programming syllabus and incorporated the matter in its growth strategy agenda.
Starting with the primary schools in 2020, computer programming will be made a compulsory subject in the Japanese primary schools. It will be followed by the implementation in middle schools in 2021 and high schools in 2022.
Whatsapp tips and tricks that you must use to have more enjoyable on Whatsapp, Whatsapp messenger is a popular Online messaging service app available for Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Nokia, Java Mobiles, WhatsApp for PC also available now, that is truly biggest 200 million per month active users which is more substantial than other messenger like Viber.
Whatsapp, among the hottest mobile phone messaging app, experienced intense level of competition from the likes of WeChat and Line but kept its ground using its several features that makes sure users have a secure, reliable and realistic messaging expertise.
The reputation of WhatsApp has developed a lot popular that a lot of WhatsApp tricks and hacks on the online and also many users are looking for these amazing WhatsApp tips and tricks to use in their smartphone and surprise their friends. So many of our audience also requested us to write about best WhatsApp tricks and tips. So, here are a number of tips, tricks and apps to have more from Whatsapp.
A widely followed online hub of furries community called Fur Affinity disappeared from the web. Hackers deleted everything on their website which contains content including art submissions and user profiles from Fur Affinity website, which actually is an online gallery that allows users to upload music, art, and written content. The furries community is a group of people having a keen interest in anthropomorphic animal characters like foxes and wolves.
Taylor Rosenthal, a young innovator from Alabama says that he has turned down a $30 million buyout offer from a large company. He is the founder of a RedMed, a company that makes first aid dispensing vending machines. Rosenthal came up with this innovative idea when he was working on a eighth-grade project.
A 14-year-old boy has come up with the innovative idea of a first aid dispensing vending machine. This genius boy, Taylor Rosenthal, from Alabama, has said that he rejected a $30 million buyout offer from a “large national healthcare company.
An extremely popular flashlight application for Android devices which is available from the official Google Play Store is showing malicious ads that try to fool users into installing potentially harmful applications on their android devices, according to the Trend Micro security researchers. While apps that show ads are very much found in the Google Play Store, this app shows ads with a scareware tendency that tell users that their device is infected.
An African hacker, Eric Donys Simeu, 32, of Cameroon pulled off a massive phishing scam that saw him making off with over $2m (£1.38m) worth airline tickets. According to the US Justice Department, Simeu sent out numerous targeted phishing emails between July 2011 and September 2014 to employees of various air travel firms.
The Ghost Squad hackers recently conducted a powerful Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS) on the Donald Trump Hotel Collection website forcing it to go offline and display the Cloud Flare’s version for the home page. Till yesterday whoever tries to access the website where confirmed with a message saying that the site is offline, but now the services has been restored and the website works normally.
You’re probably used to getting turn-by-turn directions to your next destination with Google Maps, but there’s also a pretty-well-hidden Driving Mode just for... well, driving. It alerts you to traffic problems, directs you to nearby gas pumps and stores, and is useful for those times when you already know your route or don’t even have a destination in mind.
Google launched Driving Mode earlier this year for Android but it’s kind of tricky to find: in Google Maps, choose Start driving from the app menu or make use of the 1x1 widget (under Maps). Your screen fills up with your current position and nearby traffic conditions.
If it’s close to commute time, you’ll see ETAs to your home or work (if you’ve added them to Maps). Driving Mode also shows ETAs to places you’ve recently been to or searched for. If you like the timings, you can hit a place to navigate to it in the normal way.
For example, say you just got out of work and want to quickly know whether it’s worth heading home or going to the gym first. Driving Mode tells you with some driving time estimates and you can make your choice; as you motor around, the ETAs update.
As in the “standard” navigation mode, you can search for nearby gas stations, restaurants, supermarkets, and more through the search button. Again, these results stay on screen until you dismiss them, so if you’re circling around looking for a place to eat then the results keep updating as you move.
For those times when you know where you’re going but still want traffic updates, Driving Mode is helpful; it’s also useful when you’re touring around an area without any particular destination in mind. No word yet if the feature will make its way over to iOS.
India is joining the reusable space race. Its space agency has today launched a 22-foot space shuttle, that will be used test the country’s plans for creating a spacecraft that can be used multiple times.
Despite browsing incognito, blocking advertisements, or hiding your tracks, some websites monitor and track your every move online using a new web-tracking technique called Audio Fingerprinting.
This new fingerprinting technique can be utilized by technology and marketing companies to deliver targeted advertisements as well as by law enforcement to unmask VPN or Anonymous users, without even decrypting the traffic.
Researchers at Princeton University have conducted a massive privacy survey and discovered that Google, through its multiple domains, is tracking users on nearly 80 percent of all Top 1 Million Domains using the variety of tracking and identification techniques.
Out of them, the newest tracking technology unearthed by the researchers is the one based on fingerprinting a machine’s audio stack through the AudioContext API.
All of the top five third-parties, as well as 12 of the top 20, are Google-owned domains," the researchers note. "In fact, Google, Facebook, and Twitter are the only third-party entities present on more than 10 percent of sites.
The AudioContext API is not collecting audio played or recorded on a machine, but rather harvesting the audio signals of the each machine that is then using it to reveal unique browser and device combinations.
The method has nothing to do with the device's microphone, as it relies on the way a signal is processed.
A third-party tracker uses the AudioContext API to send low-frequency sounds to a user's computer and then measures how the computer processes the data, creating a unique fingerprint based on the hardware and software capabilities of the user's computer.
Here's what the researchers explain:
A script from the company Liverail checks for the existence of an AudioContext and OscillatorNode to add a single bit of information to a broader fingerprint. More sophisticated scripts process an audio signal generated with an OscillatorNode to fingerprint the device. This technique appears conceptually similar to that of canvas fingerprinting. Audio signals processed on different machines or browsers may have slight differences due to hardware or software differences between the machines while the same combination of machine and browser will produce the same output.
Check Your Audio Fingerprint
The researchers, Assistant Professor Arvind Narayanan and graduate student Steven Englehardt, have created a live demonstration page of the technique. So, if you want to check your audio fingerprint, you can check on the demo page.
The audio fingerprinting technique is not widely adopted but joins a number of other approaches that could be used in combination for tracking users as they browse the Internet.
To carry out measurements to track the trackers, the researchers said they used a custom piece of an open-source software called OpenWPM, which loads sites in Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer, collecting data on the tracking loaded on each page.
Another widely used method to track online users is fingerprinting technique based on the HTML Canvass API and WebRTC local IP discovery.
From last few years, many websites and third-party trackers are utilizing the fingerprinting power of HTML5 Canvas, which is a HTML element used to dynamically generated an image in your browser’s web page.
For the detailed study, you can read this full PDF full here.
According to the lastest report over 117 million LinkedIn email addresses and passwords have been stolen and been put up for sale on the Dark Web. In 2012 LinkedIn suffered a huge data breach were more than 6 Million users accounts login details, including encrypted passwords were posted online by a Russian hacker.
The hacker, who goes by the name “Peace”, told the Motherboard reports that the data was stolen during the LinkedIn breach of 2012. At the time, only around 6.5 million encrypted passwords were posted online, and LinkedIn never clarified how many users were affected by that breach.
Security experts have recently found that your smartphones are spied even your phone is switched off.Security researchers have unearthed a new Android Malware called PowerOffHijack. PowerOffHijack because the nasty malware has a very unique feature – it hijacks the shutdown process of user’s mobile phone.Next time you turn off your Android phone, you might want take the battery out just to be certain.
After pressing the power button, you will see the real shutdown animation, and the phone appears off. Although the screen is black,your been spied.According to the company, PowerOffHijack malware infects devices running Android versions below 5.0 (Lollipop) and requires root access to perform the tasks.
A simple bug in iPhone founded by Zach Straley on YouTube shows that if you set the time and date to January 1, 1970 will brick your iPhone.
The iOS device will fail to boot, stuck at display of Apple logo.
This glitch got lot of attention on reddit with people experimenting on their iPhone devices to see if it worked. This glitch works on any iOS device that uses a 64-bit processor and is running iOS 8 or newer, including iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches. To avoid this, simply let your iPhone automatically set the time.
Facebook is facing a class-action lawsuit in Northern California over allegations that the company systematically scans its users' private messages on the social network without their consent and makes the profit by sharing the data with advertisers and marketers.
Get Ready for a whole new Artificial Intelligence-based Messaging experience.
At I/O event Wednesday, Google unveiled its new messaging app named Allo: A smart messaging app powered with machine learning programming and the company’s newly announced AI bot Google Assistant.
You just have to sign up with your phone number and link your Google account to Allo, and you are all set to go.
AI Bot and Smart Replies:
With Allo, besides chatting with your friends and family using animated graphics and enlarging or shrinking text, you can also call Google within the app to buy things, plan events, and even think of what to reply, i.e. smart replies.
I found Smart Reply feature a bit fascinating, as it offers you some assumptions that you can reply when someone says something, shares a picture or something else. This feature learns to get more smart and productive over time as you use it.
Smart replies contain stickers and emoticons, as well. It recognizes pictures you or your friend sent by tapping into Google’s powerful image recognition search engine and learns your replies with the help of text.
As I said, Allo uses Google search engine that is powered by Google’s own Knowledge Graph, so you can launch it by typing @google in the chat window while chatting with your friends.
You can also make this AI bot to reserve restaurants and hotels, find sports scores, and everything that Google Search itself can do.
End-to-End Encryption:
Allo also offers end-to-end encryption, but it is not enabled by default. You have to enable "incognito" mode that turns on an end-to-end encryption system called Signal, designed by the privacy-focused non-profit organization Open Whisper Systems.
So you can opt for incognito mode in Allo, which is similar to what you'll already find in Google's Chrome browser if you want your conversations to be private and secure.
Besides end-to-end encryption, Allo’s incognito mode also features private notifications and expiring chats.
However, there is one thing you need to keep in your mind that once you have deleted an incognito conversation on Allo, there is no way to retrieve it; it is gone forever.
Duo: End-to-End Encrypted Video Calling App
Besides Allo, Google also announced its new video calling app called Duo that will use end-to-end encryption, as well.
"One of our favorite features of Duo is Knock Knock, which shows you a live video preview of the caller before you pick up."
Unlike Allo, Duo video calling app is encrypted by default all the time.
Both Allo and Duo will be available this summer for both Android as well as iOS platform, Google says.
Hip-hop star tells Ellen DeGeneres that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn't loan him any money because he asked for it on Twitter.
Kanye West has gone on another epic rant.
But not on social media; this time the hip-hop star waxed poetic on Ellen DeGeneres' talk show.
During an eight-minute-long interview that aired Thursday, West kept it 100, talking about his occasional bizarre antics, including asking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for $1 billion on Twitter in February after saying he was $53 million in debt.
Whether a long missive to a long-lost friend or your bank card details, losing a lot of data you’ve just painstakingly typed is not fun. Fortunately, there are tools that can help provide a safety net, including the impressive Type Machine.
Earlier this year, Bill Gates made headlines for the oddly captivating feat of drinking water that had been raw sewage just five minutes earlier. Poop water, in other words.
This Water Was Human Waste 5 Minutes Earlier- Global Village
But Gates wasn't taking on an unsanitary dare; he was publicly demonstrating the quality of a Gates-funded machine, the Janicki Omni Processor, that turns sewage into electricity, ash, and drinking water. Developed by Janicki Bioenergy, the system can convert 14 tons of sewage into electricity and drinkable water each day.
Now it's being tested in the real world. Eventually the system could help some of the 2 billion people who lack proper sanitation to remove pathogen-ridden sewage from their communities.
