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They are testing traffic lights that are created for pedestrians using mobile phones who are not looking at the road and not traffic. Officially dubbed as, the +Lichtlijn, which is developed by local firm HIG Traffic Systems consists of an LED lighting strip in the pavement, which is linked to existing traffic lights and changes colour simultaneously. ‘Social media, games, WhatsAp and music are major distractions in traffic,’ said town alderman Kees Oskam....

7 things a coder who has just started programming should knowLearn about the underlying systemsKnow command line toolsYour debugger is your friendLearn to write testsPlan on change and learning new systemsPlay well with othersDon’t be afraid to code yourself out of a job Learn about the underlying systems To have knowledge about programming languages is the main part of software development. It is also very important for developers to be aware about what’s going on lower down the stack....

The service called Watch will allow its Facebook users to subscribe to shows inside its apps and desktop site and watch them in a dedicated tab. Based on the user’s preferences, the new video tab will offer a customised variety of shows and what their friends are watching. The first slate of programming is expected to include around 40 shows from different publishing partners and content studios. “Watching video on Facebook has the incredible power to connect people, spark conversation and foster community,” Daniel Danker, Facebook’s Director of Product, announced on Wednesday....

Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook in a post has disclosed that Facebook’s Connectivity Lab is making a laser communications system that can beam data from the sky into communities to provide cheaper and fast Internet. According to Zuckerberg “This will dramatically increase the speed of sending data over long distances.” In his post, Mark points out that “Normally you wouldn’t be able to see the actual beams, but for this demonstration we made them visible....

Facebook is working on a standalone video app that would support 360-degree or “spherical” videos, like the ones that debuted on YouTube not too long ago, claims the report. The format, typically compiled from multiple cameras, allows users to change their viewing perspective in the video simply by panning and tilting their phones, as if they were at the video’s location. As conceived, the app is also said to play nicely with the likes of Apple Inc....

“Facebook’s response comes after video makers and distributors have grown increasingly vocal about pirated videos, which by one estimate accounted for more than 70 percent of Facebook’s most popular videos. In May, Jukin Media, a video licensing agency best known for “Fail” clips, described Facebook’s copyright problems as “massive.” In June, Fullscreen CEO George Strompolos, who runs one of the biggest YouTube video networks,tweeted that he was “getting very tired of seeing our videos ripped there with no way to monitor or monetize,” the news report reads....

Built over a period of 14 months and weighing about 880 pounds (400 kg), the drone is designed to fly over a remote region for up to three months independently, says Yael Maguire, the company’s Engineering Director of Connectivity. The drone is a high-altitude, long-endurance airplane that will provide internet to people from an altitude of 60,000 feet to 90,000 feet (20 and 30 km), above the altitude of commercial airplanes, so that it remains unaffected by changes in weather....

For those unaware, Facebook had first revealed its 3D Photos feature at the 2018 F8 developer conference, which was rolled out a few months later. Until now, this feature depended on the dual-lens “portrait mode” capabilities, which was only available in new, high-end smartphones. The social media giant has now enhanced its 3D Photos feature technology to support images taken from single, rear-facing camera phones. The feature is now available for anyone with an iPhone 7 or higher, or “a recent midrange or better Android device,” says Facebook....

For those unaware, Zoom has seen a huge surge in popularity over the past weeks, as people are forced to work and study from home amidst the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Currently, Zoom allows up to 49 participants in a video call. Due to the increased demand for social video calling, Facebook has decided to release the feature for Messenger Rooms, a group video chat feature on Messenger, earlier than scheduled due to the coronavirus lockdown....

One of the clear signs of integration is the newly added ‘Send’ button in Facebook for Android. This button comes with the familiar WhatsApp icon as a part of the status actions buttons that appear under each status update. The new button appears on the right side (for left-to-right languages) for some users in the most recent version of the Facebook for Android app, the Geek Time reported. This move appears to be the first step towards connecting the two platforms in order to streamline the operations of both Apps which serve similar market and take control of the messaging market together....

It is still not known that when this feature will be available Globally, for the rest of the Facebook users Stickers are available only in the Facebook messenger or chat. Last week Facebook rolled out an update for its windows phone messenger app which allows user to share Emoticons and Voice Messages which can be accessed via a dedicated button on the navigation bar in the Messenger app. Update: The Feature looks to be working for most of the users in Australia....

Pawel Wylecial, a co-founder of Polish security firm REDTEAM.PL, first discovered the bug on April 17 and reported to Apple, which was acknowledged by them on April 21. However, the tech giant continued to delay the issue despite repeated follow-ups by the researcher for status updates. On August 14, Apple finally replied to Wylecial asking him to withhold the details as they plan to address the issue in the Spring 2021 security update....

While in high school, Curtis used to serve up hot drinks to businessmen at the coffee shop. He then started pestering the owner of a new tech company that was across the street for an internship. Addressing a crowd of 3,000 ambitious tech employees at Internapalooza, Curtis said “It’s okay to be shameless sometimes. You just have to go get it.” The owner finally gave in and Curtis gave it a try; however, he also had to play receptionist for the company by answering the phone calls....

Genesis was developed by the Site Reliability Engineering and Datacenter teams at Tumblr and now Genesis is an open-sourced under the Apache License and is available on Github. The tool includes a stripped down Linux image suitable to boot by PXE and a Ruby-based domain-specific language (DSL) for describing tasks to be executed on the host Genesis DSL creates the task based on which packages are installed and commands are executed easily....

DLR researchers have rebooted their efforts of developing hyper-sonic passenger plane that would be boarded on suborbital space planes. German aerospace research center, the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), is planning to revive a decade-old plan which aims at developing hyper-sonic flights by 2030. Referred as SpaceLiner, it would carry 100 passengers and would be used to transport passengers from Europe to Australia in just 90 minutes. Besides the journey between Europe to U....

The recent victim to make this list was CEO of Google, Suchar Pichai. It appears that the Quora account of Google’s CEO has been hacked. The three-man hacker outfit has been posting messages on Quora through Pichai’s account. His Quora account is connected with his Twitter account. As a result, OurMine was able to tweet their hack to all 508,000 of his followers. However, the tweets have been removed now....

Google fixes critical CSRF flaw in the default share buttons on Blogspot domain which would have allowed attackers to hijack blogsDiscoveryTimelineVideo Discovery Below the steps followed by the Mesbah to discover the flaw: I found the vulnerability in Button of Share Articles in blog as shown in the following picture. When I noticed this button I decided to investigate the possible presence of a flaw affecting it. When I click on Blogger Share button I noticed the CSRF token the Request, then I tried to bypass the mechanism of authentication based on it....

The project called “Lo-Fi player” is designed by Vibert Thio, a technologist and artist who did the Summer 2020 Magenta intern with the team. It is a 2D pixelated virtual room that allows users to mix low-fi, hip-hop music tracks to create a customized music room in their browser, even if they don’t have a lot of prior knowledge on the subject. For those unaware, Magenta, powered by Google’s open-source TensorFlow system, is a research project exploring the role of machine learning in the process of creating art and music....

All the above domains were country code top level domains (ccTLD) are parked domains acquired by the tech biggies to protect the domain names from misused by cyber criminals. The Moroccan hackers dook over the over domain.ma, google.co.ma, google.ma, microsoft.ma and Kaspersky.ma domain names and left following message on all four hacked websites publicising their skills. A full preview of the deface page is available below: The Google.ma and Microsoft....