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In this article, we have shared a unique method that can help you download Facebook videos without using any third-party service. In recent years the amount of video-based content on Facebook has increased drastically. However, unlike other mainstream video-streaming services like YouTube, Facebook doesn’t allow users to directly download videos. A majority of users rely on third-party websites like FB video downloader, FB down, and getfvid to download videos from Facebook....

The National Higher Education Entrance Exam, commonly known as ‘gaokao’ or ‘the big test’, is held annually to decide which student qualifies for a place in university. Almost nine million Chinese students appear for gaokao every year. Some students try to cheat or practice unfair means in the exam to improve their chances in the exam ‘gaokao’ – by taking covert photos of the exam questions using special pens equipped with hidden cameras, and send it instantly to someone outside who are waiting to gives the correct answers back through a hidden earpiece....

Danish researchers at the Aarhus University, conducted a new study to understand what would the world look like in absence of Homo sapiens or human species! The study was not conducted from the perspective of climatic changes; rather it was aimed at “studying the extent to which humans have reshaped the Earth’s biodiversity”. It appears European continent has suffered a lot of devastation, all thanks to the inhuman activity by the Homo sapiens, due to which many of the native mammals have historically reached a level of extinction over the last thousand years....

“We are strengthening our commitment to the Indian market by pioneering the first live 5G demonstration in the country. The 5G technology showcase has been organised in the direction of creating a robust 5G eco system in the country even as the Government plans to have 5G network roll outs by 2020. 5G research and development is natural for Ericsson thanks to our innovation, R&D focus, technology leadership and thought leadership,” said Nunzio Mirtillo, Head of Market Area – SE Asia, Oceania and India, Ericsson....

Thanks to the rapid developments in technology, Cloud Computing has now become a household name. While using traditional cloud computing/storage services all of your data resides in one large data center, however if anything goes wrong at the data center due to an outage the entire service goes offline. Furthermore, most mainstream cloud computing services don’t offer proper encryption and almost none of them offer confidentiality at an affordable price....

The App has quickly become popular and has clocked 500,000 downloads so far. According to Guardian, the app’s servers have processed more than 3 million requests in that time as FindFace matches users using Vkontakte’s database, a very popular social network in Russia and the Eastern European countries. Trinity Digital, the App developer says that it is building its database so that in future users can instantly know who anyone on the street is and what their interests are....

“Both comparisons between users and nonusers and between low users and high users suggest that social media use is predictive of lower mortality. Happily, for almost all Facebook users, what we found is balanced use and a lower risk of mortality,” said James Fowler, Professor at the University of California-San Diego. “The association between longevity and social networks was identified in 1979 and has been replicated hundreds of times since....

“Social media website Facebook, which currently has 1.5 billion users worldwide, will turn into the world’s biggest virtual graveyard by 2098,” said Hachem Sadikki, a PhD student from University of Massachusetts. This will happen because the website refuses to remove the accounts of deceased users. Instead, it turns the page into a “Memorialized” version of the page. “Facebook’s refusal to automatically delete dead users and the plateauing membership of the site means that the living will be outnumbered sooner than you might think,” the report said....

A security researcher, Inti De Ceukelaire has published a detailed post how Facebook developers can spy on private links in Facebook Messenger. De Ceukelaire found that through the right API call he could summon links shared by specific FB users in private messages. The links were collected by the Facebook crawler, where De Ceukelaire discovered they were easily accessible to anyone running a Facebook app. De Ceukelaire found that the developers could access any link that could be popular news story or a link to some private website meant only for the reader....

Dawn Lawson’s Merc, which she had bought on her 50th birthday, was stolen right from her driveway. Inconsolable and devastated Lawson made a post of the theft on her Facebook page and within 15 minutes it was shared and re-shared by her friendly Facebook community. Her Facebook friend, Chris Parker took it upon himself to track down Lawsons Mercedes and he successfully tracked it down and reunited it with Dawson Lawson who is a salon owner from Gateacre, was out shopping when her car keys were stolen from her house....

The tagline has been changed from “It’s free and always will be” to “It’s quick and easy.” According to Business Insider, who traced the switch using internet archive Wayback Machine, said that the change has happened sometime between August 6 and 7. Due to its free-to-use, advertising-funded business model, Facebook does not charge its users for joining the service. However, the data collected from the users are sold to companies to help direct marketing and products to certain audiences....

Ime Archibong, Facebook’s Vice President of Product Partnerships, in a company post on Monday said: “We have large teams of internal and external experts working hard to investigate these apps as quickly as possible. To date thousands of apps have been investigated and around 200 have been suspended – pending a thorough investigation into whether they did in fact misuse any data. Where we find evidence that these or other apps did misuse data, we will ban them and notify people via this website....

While there are many cases where the upgrade to Windows 10 has begun all of a sudden and disturbed users in the middle of their work, but nothing equals to what happened in the Central African bush recently. According to a member of the Chinko Project, an effort in the Central African Republic (CAR) that is supposed to protect wildlife in the region and provide rangers support in their fight against poachers, disclosed that the Windows 10 upgrade began on one of their computers and consumed all the bandwidth....

Fortnite made disaster in the smartphone gaming industry when it was first launched on iOS. But now it even did more to Android users. As we all know that this game was exclusively launched for only Samsung devices before. But that exclusivity lasted no longer. Also Read- Fortnite for Android | How to Download and Install it After a few days, an Apk file was available in the market targeting non-Samsung devices too....

However, the game was inspired by the graphic novel in which Superman kills The Joker for destroying the city of Metropolis and forcing him to murder the love of his life, Lois Lane and their unborn child. The game allows the player to take up the role of several characters from the DC comic book universe in a 1-on-1 fighting experience. However, it does seem strange that Samsung would be announcing the Injustice Gods Among Us version, especially when the game was announced a long time back....

The German court has allowed the social networking giant to prevent its users from using fake names. Readers will remember that in July, 2015, Hamburg data protection authority ordered Facebook to allow users to use pseudonyms on its website. The authority had ruled that Facebook’s “real name” policy violates the right to privacy. The Hamburg administrative court on Thursday overturned the Hamburg data protection authority’s decision and said Facebook did not have to implement the order for the time being since its headquarters are in Ireland and it only has to abide by the Irish law....

Performance and accessibility are two terms gamers should be familiar with. Being able to react appropriately and swiftly to changes in a game while having the right tools to play is massively important. It can improve your online experience and help you easily outsmart and defeat others in multiplayer games. In this article, we will be taking a look at what you can do to attain that greater speed and smoothness in your games....

The Google Brazil was hacked by a hacker going by the online handle of “Kuroi’SH.” Kuroi’SH defaced the official Google Brazil domain earlier Tuesday afternoon and left a message on the hacked website for Google. Google Brazil immediately tried to restore the hacked website but seemed unable to gain control as the domain, Google.com.br is still unavailable to visitors. According to reports in Brazil media, the Google Brazil users were getting the defaced message from Kuroi’SH for a whole 30 minutes before Google took the website offline....

Blake Lemoine, 41, who works in Google’s Responsible AI organization, told The Washington Post on Saturday, that in Fall 2021 he was tasked to assist in a specific AI Ethics effort within the company. That’s when he began testing Google’s AI tool, LaMDA (short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications) for discriminatory or hate speech as part of his job. For those unversed, Google had unveiled LaMDA last year as its “breakthrough conversation technology” that is capable of engaging in a free-flowing way about a seemingly endless number of topics....

In a memo circulated by top Google officials, the employees were given time until December 3rd to declare their vaccination status and upload documentation showing proof, or to apply for a medical or religious exemption. After December 3rd, the company said that it would start contacting employees whose status wasn’t uploaded or were unvaccinated, and also those employees whose exemption requests weren’t approved. As per the documents, employees who do not comply with the vaccination rules by January 18th will be placed on “paid administrative leave” for 30 days, followed by “unpaid personal leave” for up to six months, and then termination....