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Project Composer was first spotted on Product Hunt which is an online bulletin board for tech products. Users familiar with it said that it is a online notepad pretty much similar to Google Docs and lets users create and edit documents. Like Google Docs, Project Composer also allows group editing but the only difference is that it allows users calendar information and Dropbox files while making notes. For unknown reasons, Dropbox has now disabled access to Project Composer....

On today’s subject, we have elementary OS 0.4 ‘Loki’, and while we know that it is in fact coming to the public, the founder and other individuals have not given exact details regarding the date. However, they have made the revelation that it will promise big and new features, although at this point, we do not know what those are either. The team has stated that it was previously known as the ‘most beautiful Linux distro’ and there will be better HiDPI support and, of course, the integration of the Birdie Twitter client....

The statement was made by Haahr at SMX West, a search marketing conference that was scheduled in San Jose, California between March 1 and 3. — Jonah Stein (@Jonahstein) March 3, 2016 Haahr was responding to queries about Google’s search products in general during the event’s keynote, when someone questioned him about the company’s latest addition, the RankBrain AI. The engineer’s answer, as Barry Schwartz, SERoundtable reporter, and many other conference attendants confirmed on Twitter, was that many of Google’s own engineers don’t quite fully understand how the new RankBrain algorithm works....

He finds that the planets in the heavens move in exquisite orbital patterns, dancing to the great music of the cosmos. Arrington has based his findings on mathematics and geometry. “There is more mathematical and geometric harmony than we realize,” he says. The idea for this article is from a book Larry Pesavento shared with me. The book, ‘A Little Book of Coincidence’ by John Martineau, illustrates the orbital patterns and several of their geometrical relationships,” he adds....

Epic Games, Inc., also known as Epic and formerly Epic MegaGames, is an American video game development company based in Cary, North Carolina and has now been bought by Chinese tech giant, Tencent Holdings. They are well known for their Unreal Engine technology, which has powered their popular in-house Unreal series of first-person shooters, and the Gears of War series for the Xbox 360. But if you visit the forum of Epic Games right now, this is what you’ll see…...

The group notes that it “foresees great societal benefits and opportunities ahead, but we also understand that as with every new technology there will be concerns and confusion associated with new applications and competencies, and we look forward to working together on these important issues. “We intend to come together to address these important issues, including ethics, safety, transparency, privacy, biases, and fairness.” In a press release on Wednesday, the group stated: “The objective of the partnership on AI is to address opportunities and challenges with AI technologies to benefit people and society....

Meet Portal and Portal+, Facebook’s smart video calling devices for MessengerSpecifications and Features: Specifications and Features: Display Facebook Portal features a 10-inch touch-sensitive display at a 1280 x 800 resolution, while the Portal+ has a larger high-definition 15-inch screen with a 1920 x 1080 resolution. Portal’s display is fixed in landscape mode, but Portal+’s screen can pivot between portrait and landscape modes. Camera Smart Camera and Smart Sound use AI (artificial intelligence) technology for added security and runs locally on Portal, not on Facebook servers....

Called “Lasso”, the music app is directed at teens which allows users to create short music videos similar to TikTok, the short 15-second video app that had recently merged with Musical.ly. Lasso is available on both, iOS and Android. Currently, the app is available only for users in the U.S. Apparently, almost half of teenagers in the U.S. say they use Facebook, which is a decrease of 20 percent from 2015, according to Pew....

The father, who has remained anonymous, had sued Facebook for failing to enforce its age restriction policy. His 11-year-old daughter from Northern Ireland, who is only referred to as GS in legal documents, used the social network site to create multiple Facebook accounts and uploaded sexual photos of herself and communicated with the men on the website. Facebook should have done more to enforce its age restrictions policies and is liable for the sexual predators his daughter was exposed to on the site, said the father....

According to a report by The Verge, the new smartwatch will feature a stainless steel frame and have a display with two cameras that are detachable. This will allow the wearer of the watch to take photos and videos and quickly share them on social media platforms like Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Further, the device is reported to have a front-facing camera for video calling along with a 1080p camera with auto-focus on the back for capturing footage when detached from the frame on the wrist....

FBI Offering $1 Million Reward for Two Romanian Cyber CriminalsThe Charges The two Romanian nationals, Nicolae Popescu and Dumitru Daniel Bosogioiu have made it to the FBI’s Most Wanted Cyber Fugitive List after participating in a long-term cyber-fraud conspiracy that inflicted losses of over $3 million on US businesses. “As alleged, while hiding behind international borders, Popescu and Bosogioiu engaged in a systematic cyber fraud scheme targeting primarily American consumers through U....

First Look Of The Mixcder Basso Wireless Sports EarbudsIn the boxDesign and ComfortFunctionalityAudio Quality and Battery LifePricing and Conclusion Mixcder, an audio-first company has created, what could possibly be the best wireless earphones for sports. The earbuds dubbed ‘Basso’ is what we will be taking a look at today. Mixcder Basso is a self-powered, rechargeable Bluetooth iem (BT iem) that supports BT 4.0 and aptX codec for enhanced audio quality. It is compatible with many Android, iOS and other devices that have BT 4....

Indian smartphone maker Ringing Bells shook the entire tech world in February this year by announcing the world’s cheapest phone, Freedom 251 exclusively at a price of Rs. 251 (which is less than $4). They invited everyone to make registrations for grabbing the smartphone at an inexpensive price. However, their online payment model didn’t work as expected and there were many bugs in their website. Also, Ringing Bells’ claim to be a part of Indian Government’s ‘Make In India’ program was found to be false....

This was recently discovered by French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, who noticed that the 15-year-old operating system was running Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft simulator when he encountered a simulated spaceflight alarm. The video posted on Twitter shows the spacecraft beeping like crazy, which is an indication that something wrong with it. Even Pesquet acknowledges that “when your spacecraft does this, you know it’s not a good day.” — Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) February 2, 2016 Later on, Pesquet notices that the wallpaper on the computer screen inside the Soyuz mockup is the signature look for Windows XP, which is the first sign that the simulator was working an operating system that was 15 years old....

With the release of latest Android 5.1, the official code forum filled up with users complaining about downfall in performance after they updated to the latest version. The forum users stated that the reason the slowdown in performance was due to a old Memory leak bug which havent been patched yet. Following the comments from Android users, finally, Google has acknowledge the bug and said that they have internally resolved the same....

Google Adsense Ads redirecting users to scam websites impersonating reputable magazines and blogs that sell shady health productsTop websites cloned Denis Sinegubko of Sucuri stated that at least two AdWords campaigns have been hijacked by scammers who modified legitimate ads to automatically redirect visitors to scam sites once they get displayed (no clicks required). The malicious redirect worked even in the Ad Review Center of the Google AdSense dashboard on google....

According to Falkvinge, the first evidence that Google might have downloaded an audio software to secretly listen into users’ private conversations came from a bug report pointing out that when one starts Chrome, “it downloads something,” followed by a status report that says “Microphone: Yes” and “Audio Capture Allowed: Yes.” Falvinge affirms the proof that Google without permission is downloading a “black box” of code into Chrome users’ computers through its open-source Chromium....

Paoli-based DuckDuckGo is a search engine that doesn’t track its users the way Google does. Its niche is private, anonymous internet search and it has plenty of users who like its philosophy. DuckDuckGo just announced that it will be giving away $25,000 to support each of nine open source projects, or $225,000 total. Last year, it gave away $125,000. One of the projects DuckDuckGo donated $25,000 is for The Tor Project’s services focused on protecting user privacy....

Google has just launched a new Android ‘Tips and Tricks’ mini site that will essentially browse you through some of Android’s features and answer all your questions. In other words, this site contains the tips and tricks on all the basic and most critical functionalities of Android Operating System. The Android-specific tips appear to have been drawn from the larger Google products tips page. For instance, there are tips on how to customize/personalize your smartphone, how to use voice commands to control your device, and how to locate your lost smartphone....