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Chromebook runs on Google’s web-based Chrome OS and it is designed to be used with an Internet connection. Google by default provides 100 GB of cloud storage for every Chromebook because documents and apps are automatically saved in the cloud. All these products are in the low-cost range. Here is a brief introduction to all these new members of Chrome OS: ASUS Chromebit: This Chromebit is actually a smaller Chromebook, it resembles a stick in which all the major components of a Google’s browser-based laptop has been packed including a 2GB RAM, Rockchip’s 3288 processor and 16GB of storage and it is a dongle which when attached to a TV or any display can convert the same into a Chrome OS computer....

Moving further in this direction, Google who recently announced Android’s new operating system, Android 9.0 Pie has also released an SDK that is more Kotlin-friendly. For those unaware, developed by JetBrains for JVM (Java Virtual Machine), Android, JS browser and native applications, Kotlin can be compiled to Java source code and can be used alongside Java to build apps. Like Java, Kotlin as a language is object-oriented and statically typed and fully interoperable with Java code....

The search giant has changed the version numbering of Android Studio to more closely align with IntelliJ IDEA, the IDE upon which Android Studio is built. With this change, the latest Android Studio version is now called Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1) Canary 1 or just, Arctic Fox. Under the previous naming scheme, it would have been called Android Studio 4.3. Going forward, here is how the Android Studio version number scheme will work: ....

Google bans ‘explicit’ images and videos from BloggerGoogle starts penalizing blogger blogs which contain NSFW images and videos Blogger is free blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google servers at a subdomain of blogspot.com. A user can have up to 100 blogs per account. Earlier Google used to allow “images or videos that contain NSFW content” as long as the blogger warned its visitors it was hosting above 18+ content and the blog reader was above 18 year of age....

For those unaware, Logo is the world’s first programming language for kids, which was designed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon in 1967. Logo is widely known for its use of turtle graphics, in which commands for movement and drawing produced line graphics either on screen or with a small robot called a turtle. — Google Doodles (@GoogleDoodles) December 4, 2017 The never-seen-before interactive is a collaboration between three teams: Google Doodle, Google Blocky and MIT Scratch, a program run through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology teaching kids how to code....

Google Indonesia was Hacked earlier today and left defaced for hours.What is DNS Poisoning?How long the Website was left defaced? MaDLeeTs are known for attacks like these targeting the search giant Google, only last year in October they had hijacked Google Malaysia using a similar same method. What is DNS Poisoning? DNS spoofing (or DNS cache poisoning) is a hacking attack, whereby data is introduced into a Domain Name System (DNS) name server’s cache database, causing the name server to return an incorrect IP address, diverting traffic to another website....

We all have goals. It could be learn a new language, spend more time with family or exercise more. This new “Google Goals” allows you to enter your goal and how often you want to do it. It will find the time for you to work towards your biggest goals. Google goals will integrate these into the app that runs your life – your calendar. However, the tool relies on you entering almost every meeting and scheduled activity onto the platform in advance to work efficiently....

Now, according to a new report from Android Police based on the screenshots sent by an anonymous user, the search giant has been testing the new app subscription bundle that promises “all play, no interruptions”. Google Play Pass costs $4.99 per month, and promises access to “hundreds of premium apps and games without ads, download fees or in-app purchases.” The screenshots show a number of premium apps including “Marvel Pinball,” “Stardew Valley,” “Monument Valley,” “Threes,” “Star Wars: Kotor” and “Ticket to Ride,” as well as games for kids like “Elmo Loves 123s....

The search giant has launched the first developer preview of Android P with updated SDK with system images Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, and Pixel 2 XL phones, and the official Android Emulator along with support for new features and APIs. While there are lots of new features, one of the most notable is the built-in support for display cutouts (read: notches) for all the new phones that decided to emulate the notch....

Watch the leaked video Of Pixel 3XL specifications: The video reveals that the Pixel 3XL will have a massive 6.7-inch screen. This is 0.7-inches bigger than the Pixel 2XL and 0.3-inches bigger than the newly launched Galaxy Note 9. The Pixel 3XL is the largest mass-market smartphone ever made. Other specs reveal that the phone will have a 2960×1440 display and 494ppi. It will come with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of non-expandable onboard storage....

The reason behind the shutdown in Google Pixel smartphones is supposedly the Android 7.0 Nougat update. It is causing the smartphones to shut down even when the battery is still at 30% percent capacity level. According to a post on Reddit, some Pixel owners are finding themselves faced with a similar problem in which their phones are shutting off despite having enough battery. In a post by vrski_15, “My Google Pixel (32 GB), less than a month old is facing worrisome battery issues....

Socratic was initially released for Android in 2017, which was later acquired by Google in 2018 as a part of its ‘For Education’ program. However, the search giant removed it from the Play Store after purchasing Socratic and introduced its revamped version for iOS devices with ‘Google AI’ in August last year. Finally, Google has launched the same application for Android devices. The fresh release of the Socratic app for Android devices was announced on the official Google for Education Twitter account on February 13, 2020....

Researchers have found six more apps on the Google Play Store that reportedly steam login credentials and have been successfully removed from the platform. The irony here is that these apps are ‘anti-virus’ programs. Six anti-virus programs were removed from the Play Store According to the researchers at CheckPoint, researchers have found 6 apps on the Google Play Store were downloaded over 15,000 times before the search engine giant removed them....

Earlier this year, the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) group that sponsors the Pwn2Own event was sold to Trend Micro by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), which resulted in the event going through a bit of a changeover. The browser edition of the Pwn2Own event that was held in March was jointly sponsored by HPE and Trend Micro. It will be the first time a Pwn2Own event (mobile Pwn2Own 2016 contest) that is being scheduled to be held next month would not benefit from HPE sponsorship....

A conviction and sentence from a Southern District of Texas judge this month resulted in six months in prison and a $10,600 fine after his guilty plea to a misdemeanor count of computer fraud and abuse. However, before he took his plea his alleged ties to the hacktivist group Anonymous surfaced and he instead faced 44 felony hacking and cyberstalking charges, all of which were eventually dismissed. With the case over, Fidel Salinas claims that, months after his arrest, he was called by the FBI and told to come to the local field office to retrieve his confiscated computers....

Speaking to Motherboard in an email, Philippines-based freelance penetration test and bug bounty hunter Allan Jay Dumanhug said, “I tried to think of different possibilities or testing cases on how can I delete a story of any user. And fortunately, I found a severe bug.” In a blog post published at the end of last month, Dumanhug explained the trick that centres around Medium’s “Publications” feature. Users can make their own publications such as a page devoted to infosec news, for example and then request to add other users’ posts to it....

The hacker ‘teapotuberhacker’ who claims to be responsible for the leak on the GTAForums is said to have stolen “GTA 5 and 6 source code and assets, GTA 6 testing build.” The hacker also shared a link to a RAR archive containing 90 stolen videos downloaded directly from Rockstar’s internal Slack groups. They even claim to be the one responsible for the recent attack on Uber. “Here are 90 footage/ clips from GTA 6,” TeapotUberHacker announced on GTAForums....

“It’s online right now, if you want to go and watch it, but they might remove it soon. Someone probably messed up by putting it there,” wrote a Reddit user while commenting on the GoT S06 E05 leak. The leak was first reported by Torrentfreak, and has since been confirmed by HBO. It wrote that “It’s rather ironic that HBO itself appears to be the source for this leak. The company decided to stop releasing promotional screeners this year, fearing that outsiders would leak them....

The attack works by bypassing the HTTPS encryption which is supposed to prevent this happening. HTTPS would normally prevent the operator seeing the URLs visited by users, but a new technique abuses Web Proxy Autodiscovery and exposes browser requests to any code the network owner wants plug in. The bypass attack is specifically dangerous for those Windows, Linux and Mac users who use public Wi-Fi and public hotspots. The HTTPS bypass can also be used by your ISP provider to snoop directly on you without your knowledge....

It seems that identities of almost all Serbians are at the risk of their personal information being leaked or used for malicious intent as a result of a hack on Serbian State’s network. Five hackers have claimed that they hacked in the internet backbone of the Serbian Identity system and stolen ID numbers of almost all citizens of Serbia. Though the has not been confirmed by the Serbian authorities, the hackers have leaked a screenshot of what seems to be details of Serbian citizens....