In order to recognise more than 236 million connections, more than 150,000 users of WiGLE submitted information on the location of Wi-Fi networks around the world to aid the US-based wireless-mapping site. With more than 50 million Wi-Fi networks identified, the US dominates the data, which is significantly more than the next highest country, Germany that has almost 9 million networks. At over 6 million, California has the most wireless networks in the US, followed by Texas....

The city described the incident as a “triple threat” that affected everything except for Lake City’s police and fire departments, as they were on a separate server. “As a result, all Emergency services remain intact,” the city said when it revealed about the attack. The incident took place on June 10 when an employee clicked on a malicious email that infected the city’s computer system with the Emotet trojan, which subsequently downloaded the TrickBot trojan, and then, the Ryuk ransomware....

@ Ivoidwarrantie defaced the electronic parking sign so that instead of the usual information about the number of free spaces in the city’s public car parks, the sign contained the words “bite” (dk), “couille” (ball, or tele), chatte (py), and cul (ae). The Register has reported that he hacked the parking sign after a French court found that Strauss-Kahn, as head of the International Monetary Fund, neither instigated nor presided over the group-sex sessions he attended with friends....

Optane is based on 3D Xpoint rather than NAND based flash storage, and according to both Intel and Micron, who jointly developed this, it is 10 times denser than DRAM, and 1,000 times faster and more durable than flash storage. Additionally, the upcoming 3D Xpoint SSDs will be compatible with NVMe, a protocol that is already being used in Apple’s MacBooks. Not only with this compatibility improve speeds across the board, but will also improve durability....

The browser-based prototype version of AR called ‘Article’ is a 3D model viewer, which not only runs on Chrome, but also works with all other web browsers. “In the next few months, there will be hundreds of millions of Android and iOS devices that are able to provide augmented reality experiences – meaning you’ll be able to look at the world through your phone, and place digital objects wherever you look,” Google’s Reza Ali and Josh Carpenter wrote in a blog post....

If using AIs techniques become more practical, they could increase the speed at which new AIs can be made and implemented across the economy. Currently, companies are paying a premium to hire machine-learning experts, who are in short in supply. In recent months, several other groups have also reported progress on getting learning software to make learning software. They include researchers at the non-profit research institute OpenAI (which was cofounded by Elon Musk), MIT, the University of California, Berkeley, and Google’s other artificial intelligence research group, DeepMind....

Stafford Marquardt, the Google product manager for Google Earth Pro in a blog said that “ anyone who wants to use the software will have to request a free key to download and install the software on their computers“. Earlier the software cost a staggering $399 to use every year. Since most people use the software mainly for their of virtual travel, the Pro version is targeted toward engineers, architects, scientists, pilots, other professionals, and businesses who have used the advanced tools in Google Earth Pro for a variety of purposes, such as measuring 3D buildings, printing high-resolution images, and recording high-definition movies of one’s virtual travels....

We had reported last October that a person named Sanmay Ved managed to own the world’s best known and popular website, Google.com for a brief one minute. But at that time we do not know how Google managed to get its domain back. The story has been finally revealed! Ved had purchased the website out of curiosity and had no intentions of actually keeping the domain name, but Google decided to offer a financial reward anyway....

Recently, Google Maps found a car inside a retention pond with a body of a man who went missing in 1997. The missing person in question was 40-year-old William Earl Moldt, who lived in Florida, U.S. and had disappeared since November 8, 1997. The submerged car was found by a man who was looking at his old neighborhood on Google Earth in what appeared to be a vehicle in the pond behind a residence....

“We believe this revenue is charged ratably based on the number of searches that users on Apple’s platform originate from Siri or within the Safari browser. We believe Apple is one of the biggest channels of traffic acquisition for Google,” Hall was quoted as saying by Business Insider. However, this number could increase to $12 billion in 2019, according to the Goldman analyst. The payment of $9 billion is a huge figure considering that Google paid Apple around $1 billion in 2013 and 2014....

The Pirate Bay is down, Here Are The Best 3 Alternatives In order to discourage pirate sites, even Google, the popular search giant, has been asked time and again to remove links from its search results that lead to the pirate sites. While Google has processed a huge number of takedown requests received for removal of pirate sites, this time around the search giant has categorically refused to remove TPB’s homepage from its search results, as it is not infringing....

SLAM algorithms pool data from various sensors (e.g. LIDAR, IMU and cameras) to calculate the position of the sensor and a map of the sensor’s surroundings at the same time. “Our focus is on advancing and democratizing SLAM as a technology,” Googlers Damon Kohler, Wolfgang Hess, and Holger Rapp wrote in a blog post. “Currently, Cartographer is heavily focused on LIDAR SLAM. Through continued development and community contributions, we hope to add both support for more sensors and platforms as well as new features, such as lifelong mapping and localizing in a pre-existing map....

According to the researchers, Android phone models, running Android 8.x and later (unless specified otherwise), are believed to be affected by this vulnerability, which includes: Pixel 2 with Android 9 and Android 10 preview Huawei P20 Xiaomi Redmi 5A Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Xiaomi A1 Oppo A3 Moto Z3 Oreo LG phones Samsung Galaxy S7 Samsung Galaxy S8 Samsung Galaxy S9 However, the good news is that the exploit doesn’t work on Pixel 3, 3 XL, and 3a smartphones....

Yesterday, yet another video has surfaced online from a Russian electronics store that shows the detailed unboxing of Pixel 3 XL. Check out the video below. The high-quality video shows off the Pixel 3 XL’s top notch and other features. According to the video, the Pixel 3 XL will include a set of USB Type-C headphones, USB Type-C to Type-C cable, USB Type-A to Type-C adapter, and a 3.5mm headphone adapter....

In other words, the search engine will display a warning for those searched topics that don’t have sufficient amount of verified information available. To help with this, Google Search has now trained its systems to detect when a topic is rapidly evolving and a range of sources hasn’t yet weighed in. It will show a notice indicating that it may be best to check back later when more information from a wider range of sources might be available....

In order to celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month (October), Google has once again emphasised the need for two-factor authentication to make sign-in safer and more convenient. The company already provides existing security measures such as Google Password Manager, built directly into Chrome, Android, and the Google App to keep passwords safe across all the sites and apps. For iOS devices, users can select Chrome to autofill saved passwords in other apps, and very soon users will be able to take advantage of Chrome’s strong password generation feature for any iOS app....

But not for Przemek Jaroszewski. Jaroszewski, head of Poland’s Computer Emergency Response Team and a frequent flyer with gold status uses a custom Android app that gives a boarding pass-tricking QR code, which allows him access to the first class lounge. So, how did he do it? It all started when he was not able to gain access at Warsaw’s airport due to an error with an automated boarding pass reader....

The hacked website was left defaced with Pictures of Al-Qaeda Leaders and short message in support of them stating,

As we said HBO is having a bad 2017. It all started with a hacking group hacking HBO servers and stealing 1.35 TB data including scripts of Game of Thrones Season 7 and other HBO blockbuster TV series. Then some employees of Star India leaked the GoT Season 7 Episode 4 “Spoils of War.” Matters got worse as HBO Spain mistakenly aired the Game of Thrones Episode 6 “Beyond the Wall” a full six days before it is to be aired internationally today....

In an interview with TVN 24 television, Kubicki described the incident as the “first attack of its kind.” The system was hacked into at about 4 pm local time (3pm GMT) and it took around five hours for the specialists to find a solution to the problem. The attack is now being investigated by the airline authorities. LOT provided seats for some passengers on other flights, while services were getting back to normal on Sunday evening....