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Tech news website, TechCrunch on Thursday had reported that messages sent by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and other senior executives on Messenger were retracted from recipients’ inboxes without a trace while their replies remained intact. This facility is not available for regular Facebook users. The sudden disappearance of messages did not go well with its users, with some considering it as a breach of trust, while some even questioning if Zuckerberg had something to hide....

However, it can also pose serious risk to one’s mental and physical health, including teenagers. Taking a note of this, Facebook is now planning to introduce a new feature that will help improve the mental health of young people, specifically teenagers. Called as “Take a Break”, this new feature to be introduced on Instagram will encourage teenagers to just simply take a break from its photo sharing app, and keep them away from watching harmful content over and over in a particular time period that may not be conducive to their wellbeing....

With the increasing number of people buying firearms, number of handgun safes being sold is also increasing. These safes provide a sense of security by limiting the reach of the gun to authorised person only. These also prevent guns from being accidentally used by curious children or some unauthorised person. HandgunSafeResearch is a website that reviews some of these handgun safes and tries to hack them in one way or another....

Authentication Flaw in PayPal mobile APIWhat is the flaw?What is wrong with that?Video demonstration of the flaw : What is the flaw? When a user enters the wrong username and password pair several times, access to the account is restricted on a computer until the answer to a set security question is provided by the PayPal user. However, switching to a mobile device eliminates the security question problem and the account can be accessed with the right credentials....

This is according to an email where Epic will be randomly selecting some Fortnite players in order to invite them to take part in a private testing session. According to email Epic is saying “Are you interested in joining Epic Games for an exclusive Fortnite private testing session in Los Angeles, California? If selected, you’ll be playing custom matches to help us test unreleased spectating features and tools that will be used in future events....

An aviation expert has claimed that the shocking Germanwings Airbus A320 crash in the Alps may have been caused by hackers. In a letter to the Financial Times Matt Andersson warned of the complexities of aircraft accidents and highlighted the possibilities of secondary contributing factors – including external electronic hacking. Germanwings Flight 9525 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Barcelona–El Prat Airport in Spain to Düsseldorf Airport in Germany, operated by Germanwings, subsidiary of Lufthansa....

Google today announced a new initiative to make an attempt and keep patents out of the hands of patent trolls, entities whose only business is gathering intellectual property and filing legal cases. This new effort is called the Patent Purchase Promotion by Google. The plot is simple: make it simple to sell your patents to Google rather than the wrong people. “Patent owners sell patents for numerous reasons (such as the need to raise money or changes in a company’s business direction),” wrote Allen Lo, Google’s deputy general counsel for patents....

For the first time, scientists have observed polar bears devouring white-beaked dolphins in the Arctic due to global warming.Frozen dolphin carcass could provide a large source of food for the polar bears as climate change impacts their habitat Dolphins do not typically go that far up in the Arctic Ocean as they normally prefer to stay in the subarctic region with less ice and more open water.The researchers said in a commentary published online on June 1st in the journal Polar Research that in April 2014, a male polar bear with a full belly was seen near a recently devoured white-beaked dolphin, which could have weighed 120 to 680 lbs (54 to 308 kilograms) and measured 5 to 9 feet long (1....

CodePlex was originally launched in 2006, as there were very few open source project hosting sites for developers to share software, collaborate on code and host open source projects before GitHub came into prominence a few years later. Undoubtedly, over the years, GitHub has become the de facto place for open source sharing and most open source projects have migrated there. Even Microsoft is currently using GitHub and many of its key open source projects are now on GitHub (Visual Studio Code, TypeScript, ....

Google in partnership with Udacity are now offering 75,000 Android and Web Development scholarships for aspiring developers and data scientists looking to follow careers in the digital field. Over the past two years, Google and Udacity have been able to roll out 1,000 and 10,000 scholarships for coders in 2015 and 2016, respectively. This year, German media company Bertelsmann too will be involved in their latest initiative. “We were humbled by the overwhelming demand for these courses, so I’m happy to announce that together with Bertelsmann & Udacity we’ll be offering 75,000 more people the opportunity to benefit from free developer courses,” said Google’s EMEA President Matt Brittin....

Alphabet now owns the unabridged abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com, a domain that was created in 1999, according to domain-registration directory Whois. Alphabet confirmed the domain purchase. Google had announced in August 2015 that it was reorganising into a new holding company called Alphabet. At that time it had unveiled its flagship domain called abc.xyz. However, Microsoft had sensed an opportunity to troll Google and bought the domain abc.wtf which lead the readers to its own Bing search engine(abc....

“In order to push Android forward, you always need to be looking ahead. That’s why Google got into the hardware business with the Nexus lineup, and why it’s looking into offering wireless service, “Sundar Pichai said. While Pichai said that Google is working with “existing partners” to create its wireless service, he did not confirm that Sprint and T-Mobile are the partners, he is talking about. Earlier the rumor mills had indicated that Google is working on with Sprint and T-Mobile to provide wireless service and mobile phone plans to consumers....

According to the company, this will allow sufficient time for the general public, regulators, publishers, and the advertising industry to migrate their services and prepare for the change. Google’s Privacy Sandbox initiative (originally announced in 2019), along with its Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) technology, aims to create web technologies that both improve privacy and gives companies and developers a tool they need for viable advertising business models. For those unaware, in January 2020, Google announced a plan to stop support for third-party cookies in Chrome “within two years” as part of its Privacy Sandbox initiative....

According to Tech Crunch, the search giant’s chairman Eric Schmidt said that Google believes machine learning is “what’s next.” With this new cloud service, Google will make it easier for developers to employ some of the machine learning tech, the company already uses to power features like Smart Reply in Inbox. “Major Google applications use Cloud Machine Learning, including Photos (image search), the Google app (voice search), Translate and Inbox (Smart Reply),” the company says....

This how the researchers worked on the videos, which was no small feat, as mentioned by the researchers in a research paper on the topic. They sorted some 86 million photos by geographic location, then used an automated process to find photos that rallied around the same landmark. Once those images were listed, the photos were then arranged in a chronological order of date and later twisted to create the same perspective to show the changes over time....

According to the ETtech report, four industry executives have said that California-based Alphabet, the parent company of Google, will launch a mid-range smartphone, premium laptop Pixel book, smart speakers, and other intelligent home automation products especially for markets such as India. Besides these, the company also has plans of expanding their distribution in the to general trade by spending big on marketing and advertising, something that Apple and Samsung have been doing for years, according to a senior industry executive....

For those unaware, in March this year, Google had announced its new cloud-based gaming platform ‘Stadia’ at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2019 keynote presentation in San Francisco. Back then, the search giant had demonstrated titles from the Doom and Assassin’s Creed franchises but no price or exact release date was revealed at the event. The whole idea behind introducing Stadia is to allow consumers to play online console-level games without the need to own expensive gaming PCs or console video game systems....

According to a report from by Israeli cyber intelligence company Hudson Rock, the stolen data is claimed to include information regarding high-profile users such as Google CEO Sundar Pichai, the World Health Organisation (WHO), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Bollywood actor Salman Khan, among others. Hudson Rock shared images of the Twitter post in which the hacker disclosed the data leak....

Ben, who goes by the Twitter handle name @imbusho, was able to successfully install Windows 10 IoT Core on HP’s Prime Graphing Calculator and not on a basic or scientific calculator with plus, times and division that we normally use. Ben, tweeted a picture of Windows 10 IoT (Internet of Things) edition running on his HP Prime Graphing Calculator that comes with a touch screen interface, and good industrial design....

Artificial Intelligence and Big data power everything that the business does. According to Greg Chambers, the global director of digital innovation – “AI is the foundation for everything we do. We create intelligent experiences and AI is the kernel that powers that experience.” To stay on top of the game, Coca Cola is known to have plowed extensive research and development resources into AI in order to squeeze every drop of insight from the data it collects....