According to a senior scientist, Robert Wolf, who was working on the project, the process was a complete success. He went onto to say that a system that is as complex as this will require everything to be kept in check. Since they had to check each and everything and make sure that the test would end up being risk free, you can wonder why it took such a painfully long period....
The code-sharing site is partnering with the Long Now Foundation, the Internet Archive, the Software Heritage Foundation, Arctic World Archive, Microsoft Research, the Bodleian Library, and Stanford Libraries to ensure the long-term preservation of the world’s open-source software. “There is a long history of lost technologies from which the world would have benefited, as well as abandoned technologies which found unexpected new uses, from Roman concrete, or the anti-malarial DFDT, to the hunt for mothballed Saturn V blueprints after the Challenger disaster,” according to the GitHub announcement....
CNBC is reporting that “the social media company is engaged in conversations with potential suitors that are said to include Google and Salesforce, among other technology companies”. Telecom giant Verizon and software giant Microsoft may also be interested, according to TechCrunch. As rumoured before, Google, who has the resources to buy the company, is a particularly interesting suitor, as buying Twitter would give it a strong foothold to take on Facebook after the relative failure of Google+....
Android Things, Google’s new operating system to power your toasters, routers, refrigerators and just about everythingAndroid Things: Google Launches A New Operating SystemAndroid Things and IoT security Android Things: Google Launches A New Operating System The tech giant Google announced on Tuesday announced Android Things – its operating system for Internet of Things projects. Android Things OS will power various IoT products like security cameras, connected speakers, routers and everything that is connected to the Internet....
Now, the search giant has launched the developer preview of a new machine learning toolkit designed specifically for smartphones and embedded devices and will be available for both Android and iOS app developers. This platform will allow developers to deploy AI on mobile devices. It enables on-device machine learning inference with low latency and a small binary size. TensorFlow Lite also supports hardware acceleration with the Android Neural Networks API....
However, according to Google support staff, the explanation provided was that the user’s purchases appeared fraudulent, since the user’s address details fluctuated and also the billing information with Google wasn’t current. While the user is not convinced if this is the reason he had been locked out but during his interactions with Google support to find out why, he was told that “It is our policy to not discuss the specific reasons for an account closure....
“LG will build the upcoming Nexus smartphone, but it will be based on an unreleased prototype.” The latest flagship from the company will not be based on the LG G4, adds the report by Android Pit. There were reports that Google is planning to launch two Nexus devices this year: one by LG and one by Huawei. It is no surprise that LG has been chosen to make the next Nexus device considering that the Nexus 5 made by LG was quite popular in comparison to the Nexus 6 made by Motorola....
SLAM algorithms pool data from various sensors (e.g. LIDAR, IMU and cameras) to calculate the position of the sensor and a map of the sensor’s surroundings at the same time. “Our focus is on advancing and democratizing SLAM as a technology,” Googlers Damon Kohler, Wolfgang Hess, and Holger Rapp wrote in a blog post. “Currently, Cartographer is heavily focused on LIDAR SLAM. Through continued development and community contributions, we hope to add both support for more sensors and platforms as well as new features, such as lifelong mapping and localizing in a pre-existing map....
Starting next month, the feature will be made available as an update to Google Fit, the company’s health tracking app, on Pixel phones with plans of making it available to more users by expanding support to non-Pixel phones in the future. “Heart rate and respiratory rate are two vital signs commonly used to assess your health and wellness. Starting next month, Google Fit will allow you to measure your heart rate and respiratory rate using just your phone’s camera....
According to the recently filed documents with the Federal Communications Commission, Google wants to test a radio technology that includes aircraft floating over 25,000 feet in the air and various terrestrial stations situated at Spaceport America, a facility that is financed by the state of New Mexico and is hoping to be the center of the budding space tourism industry. The documents also mention that Google has formally ask the authority to test the technology at an Indian reservation in Pescadero, California, and Warm Springs, Oregon....
The ambitious European train system at 57.5 kilometres (34.5 miles) in length is both the longest and deepest tunnel in the world that runs as much as 1.4 miles below the surface in sections. It will connect the northern and southern Europe by train as well as mark the beginning of a logistical and trade revolution between them. Switzerland says it will transform European freight transport. Swiss Federal President Johann Schneider-Ammann in a speech to guests in Erstfeld, near the northern entrance to the tunnel, said it was a “giant step for Switzerland but equally for our neighbours and the rest of the continent”....
Alonzo Knowles, 24, of Freeport, entered the plea in federal court to criminal copyright infringement and identity theft charges, bringing a speedy conclusion to a case that resulted in his December arrest in Manhattan. Prosecutors say he was peddling personal information from at least 130 celebrities in the entertainment, sports and media industries and claimed he also could sell private sexually explicit photographs and videos. Knowles flew from the Bahamas to New York City to sell 15 scripts and personal information on several celebrities for $80,000 to a law enforcement agent posing as an interested buyer....
Video: Bliane Bublitz, controlling a Parrot AR drone, only by slight head movements
After seeing the his video on the faculty website, the school authorities promptly fired him. Now Bray is fighting back against the school authorities, who he says. denied him severance pay and insinuated that he was partially responsible. Bray told Washington Blade that he was home sick when a school colleague called to tell him about the video posted on his faculty page. “Pretty much immediately after that phone call I went to the bathroom and threw up,” Bray told the Blade....
Hackers can snoop on your computer screen just by listening to your webcam’s microphoneA team of researchers has discovered that hackers can remotely spy on a computer screen by listening in with a microphone. A team of researchers has discovered that hackers can remotely spy on a computer screen by listening in with a microphone. The hacker can listen to acoustic noises coming from within computer screens and can be used to detect the content displayed on the screens....
The flaw allows remote ‘network adjacent attackers’ to hijack and tamper with VPN (Virtual Private Network) connections, and inject malicious data into the TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) stream. “I am reporting a vulnerability that exists on most Linux distros, and other *nix operating systems which allows a network adjacent attacker to determine if another user is connected to a VPN, the virtual IP address they have been assigned by the VPN server, and whether or not there is an active connection to a given website....
Several Government websites of Ukraine was hacked and defaced earlier today with https://www.pir.gov.ua/ and https://www.dabksumy.gov.ua/ still showing the deface page. The exact Numbers of website hacked are still not known but most probably the Numbers are between 7 to 10. Hackers have left a brief message showing their support to Protestors in Ukraine, At the time of the update all the websites were still showing the deface page.
But this has not stopped hackers from taking this up as a challenge who have gone ahead and hacked the mini-console in less than 2 months of its launch. It appears that two hackers were successful in getting new games to run on the console. The Russian Madmonkey dropped a tool that allows you to inject new ROMs and Honeylab from Japan has released a tool for ROM’s as well....
If you have been following the SpyEye trojan indictment report earlier, you would have probably heard of Hamza Bendelladj. You would be wondering why this hacker who has been sentenced to 15 years by a US court is so popular on social media and well on tech forums. You may also be wondering about Hamza Bendelladz’s death or if he is alive if you have come across photographs of a smiling hacker being hanged....
You may have read reports of ads on torrent clients carrying malware. Leave aside malware, such ads a definite eyesore for users. There are several ways on how you can remove ads from Torrent clients ranging from uTorrent to several others without paying anything or upgrading to premium accounts. Here are a few tips that you can use to your advantage. How to remove ads on uTorrent and BitTorrent uTorrent and BitTorrent have more or less the same layout, so the next actions can be applied to both....
