While my laptop charger has never bugged me, but I always felt strange at times to see a bump in my laptop charger right after it connects to the laptop. I always use to wonder why the charger has a bump and what purpose does it serve? You normally see these “bumps” on the mouse, keyboard and monitor cables in a typical computer system found in a home or office....
Business growth is directly proportional to profits recorded. Traditional marketing approaches are fading away. However, you can now count on current digital marketing methods for your business to gain traction. To get the best from digital advertising services, you need to turn to professional firms or agencies. Such agencies specialize in marketing brands and products digitally. Clients always expect results when they invest in a service. Professional marketers understand this need....
elementary OS Freya is the third stable version of elementary OS, Isis, which was proposed in August 2013 by Daniel Foré, the project leader. It was later changed to Freya to avoid association with the terrorist group ISIS. The first beta of Freya was released on 11 August 2014. The second beta of Freya was released on 8 February 2015. The final version was released on 11 April 2015, and now the team has come out with the next stable version of the OS....
Valued at about $67 billion when it was first announced almost a year ago, the transaction to combine Dell, a major manufacturer of PCs and servers and EMC, which makes data-storage and data centre products, on September 7, 2016, makes them the world’s largest privately held technology company. “This is an historic moment for both Dell and EMC. Combined, we will be exceptionally well-positioned for growth in the most strategic areas of next generation IT including digital transformation, software-defined data center, converged infrastructure, hybrid cloud, mobile and security,” said Michael Dell, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Technologies, in a statement....
Dubbed as “Spectrum”, this tool is a cross-platform image transcoding library that can easily be integrated into an Android or iOS project to efficiently perform common image operations. It aims to improve the reliability and quality of image uploads while reducing image uploading time and mobile data consumption. “As modern smartphones capture high-resolution images, the large file size makes uploads unreliable on some mobile networks. Sending it at full resolution is often wasteful, as the content delivery network (CDN) will resize the image for the recipient anyway,” said Facebook mobile software engineer Daniel Hugenroth....
Timothy J. Aveni, a junior software engineer on Facebook’s team dedicated to fighting misinformation, announced on LinkedIn and Facebook that he was leaving the company in protest, saying that the company is “on the wrong side of history.” Hundreds of Facebook employees staged a “virtual walkout” on June 1 by walking away from their work-from-home desks complaining that the company should have acted against Trump’s posts containing the phrase “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”....
Facebook will now start be using your Web-browsing data to target you with advertising. All this will be done thanks to Like and Share buttons placed on websites and apps that collect data about things you’re reading, watching, and interested in. The company announced it would use this data collected off Facebook in personalized ads last year, and on Tuesday, said it is beginning to use it more broadly. However Facebook has also given a way for users to opt out of this targeted advertisements....
Fake mails claiming to be from Viber used to infect malwarePCMobileAndroidiOSPrecautions PC If you click on this link using a PC, the link redirects you to download a backdoor malware app detected as BKDR_KULUOZ.VLU. Once this app has been downloaded onto the system, the system can be remotely accessed anytime by the attacker using this backdoor. This leaves your entire machine vulnerable at any time. Mobile The users who click on the link from the mobile devices are redirected to different URLs based on the platform....
“We’ve designed a 3-D, thin-walled structure that can be used to make foldable and reprogrammable objects of arbitrary architecture, whose shape, volume, and stiffness can be dramatically altered and continuously tuned and controlled,” said Johannes TB Overvelde, a graduate student in Bertoldi’s lab and first author of the paper. In a way similar to origami, the cube can be easily folded along its edges for shape alteration. The researchers fixed pneumatic actuators in the structure, which can be set to deform particular hinges, altering the shape and size of the cube, and won’t need external input....
According to G DATA, the app will be initially available for Android and is designed to your messages private from any outsiders who might try to gain access to them using end-to-end encryption. It protects privacy of the users against data leeches and cyber eavesdropping. It can also be used to share files safely through the use of the Axolotl protocol. SECURE CHAT helps secure all file exchanges, including photos, videos and other media....
Here is how you can get Samsung’s ‘Always On Display’ on any Android smartphone/tabletAMOLED vs. LCD DisplaysStep 1: Install Glance PlusStep 2: Enable Glance PlusStep 4: Alter Power-Saving OptionsStep 5: Alter Appearance OptionsStep 6: Enjoy Your Always-On Display This new feature has been integrated in its latest devices to keep the user constantly updated. For instance, the date and time can be checked with ease without waking up the phone and it is quicker to keep track of new calls and messages....
The initial courses offered by GitHub’s Learning Lab included “Introduction to GitHub”, “Communicating using Markdown”, “Managing Merge Conflicts”, “GitHub Pages”, and “Moving Your Project to GitHub”. With a significant increase in terms of contents and number of users, it’s Learning Lab has seen more than 3,700 students successfully completed the course. Now, in a recent blog post, the company has released four free new courses on Learning Lab for learners of all skill levels....
According to a report by The Information, Google is developing another operating system (OS), which will be specifically for low-power “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices. The OS is code named “Brillo,” and the publication claims Google “is likely to release the software under the Android brand, as the group developing the software is linked to the company’s Android unit.” We’re going to take that to mean “it’s based on Android....
So here’s everything you need to know about Google Input Tools and the major benefits of using this chrome extension. ALSO READ: Bitcoin price falls below $4,000, as cryptocurrency market continues to plummet Google Input Tools For Windows 10 Google Input Tools is actually an extension that’s designed for the Google Chrome browser. This extension allows users to type characters in different languages. Google Input Tools eliminates the need for installing additional language settings on Windows 10 OS....
According to Android Police, the search giant has updated Hangouts app to version 36.0.340725045 killing the group video calling feature on both Android and iOS as well as the web version. When users open this version, they will be greeted with a warning message at the top of the app’s homepage stating “Video calls in Hangouts now use Google Meet. That gives you live captions, screen sharing, and more.” followed by a link to a Google support page....
When used, it’ll provide information on nearby lodging, transportation, medical facilities, and more in what appears to be a compact way that doesn’t consume a lot of the device’s battery life. Google has developed the Crisis Info Hub in collaboration with International Rescue Committee and Mercy Corps. As of now the Crisis Info Hub is live in Lesvos, Greece where thousands of refugees are pouring in. Google has said that it will be expanded to more locations in Europe soon....
Apparently, Trump Tower in New York City was briefly renamed to “Dump Tower” on Google Maps by some hackers. However, the original name was restored on the mapping service by early Sunday morning. The tower serves as President-elect Donald Trump’s home in Manhattan. Its central location on Fifth Avenue has posed security challenges for the Secret Service and local law enforcement. Also, the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Columbus Circle had been renamed to “Dump International Hotel and Tower” on Saturday, reports the CNN....
Now, Google has open-sourced a lump of code named DeepLab-v3+, its “latest and best performing semantic image segmentation model”, and implemented in TensorFlow. While this is not the same tech that produces the Portrait mode on Pixel 2 handsets, it however can produce results similar to those of the Pixel 2, Google clarified. DeepLab-v3+ is built using convolutional neural networks or CNNs – a machine learning method that’s mainly good at analyzing visual data – so that the outlines of the foreground objects are marked out accurately....
While the company did not divulge many details about the devices, an alleged prototype of the upcoming Pixel 7 smartphone has now been spotted on the e-commerce platform, eBay. The listing of the Pixel 7 prototype was spotted by a Reddit user named u/lucklouie on eBay, who shared it on the Google Pixel subreddit (via Android Police). He also clarified that he wasn’t the person selling the device. Apparently, the eBay seller who put up the listing of Pixel 7 for sale is supposedly based out of Texas and goes by the name of meetveeru....
The reason behind the shutdown in Google Pixel smartphones is supposedly the Android 7.0 Nougat update. It is causing the smartphones to shut down even when the battery is still at 30% percent capacity level. According to a post on Reddit, some Pixel owners are finding themselves faced with a similar problem in which their phones are shutting off despite having enough battery. In a post by vrski_15, “My Google Pixel (32 GB), less than a month old is facing worrisome battery issues....
