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“We’re already a cyborg,” said Musk. “You have a digital version of yourself, a partial version of yourself online in the form of your emails, your social media, and all the things that you do.” We already have “super powers,” contends Musk, quoting the world’s access to personal computers and smartphones. “You have more power than the president of the United States had 20 years ago. You can answer any question, you can video conference with anyone, anywhere....

Built by a company called Avenir, the new range of Android-powered smartphones will debut with four new phone lines, namely the Power Max, Ultimate, Energy, and Hardcase. While the Energy and Hardcase lines are basic feature phones that will cover a major portion of the 26 devices, the Power Max options include handsets with a whopping 18,000 mAh and 16,000 mAh batteries inside. However, what is interesting is the Energizer “Ultimate” series that contains five different versions....

As a result, ETTV had to switch to a new domain name a few days ago. For those unaware, when the popular torrent site ExtraTorrent pulled down the curtains on its website in 2017, several prominent uploaders and groups like ETTV, ETHD, and DTOne were left in the lurch. That’s when ETTV, ETHD, and DTOne decided to collaborate and launch their own torrent website called ETTV.tv. Over the years, the site’s traffic has grown gradually making it a medium-sized torrent site with a dedicated and vetted group of regular uploaders....

EVGA X99 FTW K will provide support for Intel’s Broadwell-E lineup of processors, out of which Intel Core i7-6950X will be a part of. The aforementioned chip is going to be the first ever CPU developed by Intel for consumers to feature 10 cores. The great thing about these motherboards is that you will not have to go through the messy process of updating your motherboard’s BIOS because these boards will already provide support for these chips....

Back then, Zuckerberg explained this move by commenting, “We didn’t want to just build a Dislike button because we don’t want to turn Facebook into a forum where people are voting up or down on people’s posts. That doesn’t seem like the kind of community we want to create.” However, the social media networking giant has now revealed that it is testing a Reddit-like “downvote” button that will allow users to flag and hide comments in the News Feed....

Facebook vulnerability allows hackers to take admin control of the business pages on FacebookPage Takeover :Removing VictimProof of concept video : Detailing his findings on his blog, Laxman has stated that if the vulnerability is exploited, the hacker can take over admin privileges of a Facebook page and remove the victim. By default Facebook application interface do not allow third party applications to add or modify page admin roles (page roles like manager, editor, analyst etc....

Facebook says the new feature will help Group Admins, who invest their time and energy to maintain their groups, and also help them earn money at the same time. In an announcement made in a blog post, Alex Deve, Facebook’s Product Director of Groups said that, “We hear from group admins that they’re looking for ways to help them earn money to deepen engagement with their members and continue to support their communities....

Facebook is trying to dispel some of the stigma and pop-culture myths that surround AI with a series of six instructional videos that try to explain this complicated field of computer science. The timing of the AI campaign comes after critics have slammed Facebook for its role in distributing false information during the 2016 presidential campaign. “I think the more open we can be about it and the more we can demystify and explain how it actually works, the more quickly we can address concerns,” said Candela....

While companies around the world are still trying to recuperate from ‘WannaCry ransomware’ attack, a newly installed Chinese malware is now targeting browsers and then turning them into zombies. The malware dubbed ‘Firewall’ has affected more than 250 million computers around the world. Check Point, a data security firm, who was the first one to discover the new threat, said that the malevolent software is designed to hijack browsers to change the default search engine and home pages and track their web traffic on behalf of Beijing-based digital marketing firm called Rafotech and boost the ad network for them, reported WIRED on Friday....

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The app known as “FlixGrab” has a totally new, easy to use and user-friendly interface. Considered as a massive leap forward in technology, FlixGrab allows you to choose the original quality video from Low Quality (240p) up to High Definition (HD – 1080p or 720p). It supports downloading Dolby Digital Surround Audio 5.1. FlixGrab also supports multi-stream downloading, which allows you to download multiple videos simultaneously. It allows automatic selection of the optimal voice quality, language and the bitrate....

A small group of University of Michigan engineering researchers have pulled off what with what they call ForcePhone. ForcePhone is an experimental piece of software that doesn’t need any special screen or built-in sensors to enable 3D Touch. In short, any smartphone in the world that features a microphone and speaker will be able to run this software, which pretty much means every single smartphone in the world released so far....

The swath of these intercepted communications, were sometimes simple mass-PR emails sent to dozens of journalists but also included correspondence between reporters and editors discussing stories. These transmissions were retained by GCHQ and were available to all cleared staff on the agency intranet. It is not known if any journalists were intentionally targeted. New evidence revealed by Snowden, from the UK intelligence documents, shows that a GCHQ information security assessment listed “investigative journalists” as a threat in a hierarchy alongside terrorists or hackers....

Well, George Clooney and his spouse were not taking any chances with their wedding photos or images in private moments leaked either through accident or by a guest present at wedding. Particularly when he and Amal Alamuddin had reportedly sold the rights to wedding photographs to American Vogue, in return for the fashion magazine making a contribution to a charity of his choice. In order to avoid any pilferage, Clooney gave each one of his guest a “burner phone”, the Sunday Telegraph reported....

In September last year, the FAS found Google guilty in breach of a law on “protecting competition” after Russia’s largest search engine, Yandex NV filed a complaint against the search giant. It asked anti-trust authorities to stop Android handsets from being automatically pre-loaded with Google’s own apps and services. Google also didn’t allow third-party services, such as Yandex’s search, to be preinstalled. Google has two months to pay the fine, said the FAS....

Google is reportedly developing a subscription-based games streaming service that could work either on its Chromecast or possibly a brand new Google-made console, according to a report from The Information. The project, dubbed “Yeti,” would apparently allow users to stream and play video games in real time, which is actually running on Google’s remote cloud servers somewhere else in the world. The video game is communicated to the user’s device over the internet, while the control codes from a game controller are sent in the other direction....

The last place on earth you would expect to see Edward Snowden is smack dab in the middle of the White House – yet, thanks to a Google Maps hack, that’s exactly where he appears to be at least on the Internet. Google Maps is currently listing a fake business, using the guise of a snowboard shop, called “Edwards Snow Den.” But the location was cleverly marked as 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, District of Columbia 20500, known to the world as the resident of worlds most powerful man, the White House....

Speaking at an event in Pittsburgh, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai said that the company will be spending $1 billion over the next five years through its charitable arm, Google.org to help non-profit organizations raise education level around the world. The new initiative and online resource known as “Grow with Google” will help Americans learn and teach new technology skills needed for a job or to grow their business. The program also aims to empower people with computer and entrepreneurial skills....

The highlight of Android Studio 3.0 is that it will support the new programming language, Kotlin, which is bundled inside the IDE. “This release of Android Studio is packed with many new updates, but there are three major feature areas you do not want to miss, including: a new suite of app profiling tools to quickly diagnose performance issues, support for the Kotlin programming language, and a new set of tools and wizards to accelerate your development on the latest Android Oreo APIs,” said Android product manager, Jamal Eason....

It hopes that the visuals will aide the monster hunters in their adventures to finding Loch Ness monster. Upon visiting the Google Maps Loch Ness page the users will find panoramic view of the Urquhart Castle from the Loch Ness Lake. When searching the loch, users of the site will find Google’s yellow Pegman icon changes to a Nessie “peg-monster”. The Loch Ness monster is monster that reputedly inhabits the Loch Ness lake in the Scottish Highlands....