“Currents is a G Suite app that enables people to have meaningful discussions and interactions across your organization, helping keep everyone in the know and giving leaders the opportunity to connect with their employees,” the G Suite team said. Starting July 6, 2020, Google Currents is available widely, complete with a new logo, design makeover, and a bunch of new features for both users and administrators. The Currents app itself is very similar to the Google+ app it substitutes....

Motorists take a double turn The Stanislaus County message sign was set up on Carpenter Road with the intention of informing passing drivers that there was construction work going on further down the road. Kelly Glenn, who lives near the sign reported that the sign had been changed to display “Trump is a b****”. “Oh man, I thought it was pretty crazy,” Glenn said. Stanislaus County Public Works Director Matt Machado said that in the decade that he has been on the job, this was the first time he had witnessed anything like this....

Starting January 28, 2019, Roku has begun a phased rollout of Premium Subscriptions within The Roku Channel on select Roku devices. The Roku Channel has a library of more than 10,000+ free ad-supported movies, TV shows, news, sports, and entertainment. “We’re making subscription streaming easy and putting you in control. With Premium Subscriptions on The Roku Channel you have the ability to browse all available content before signing-up, you get free trials for all subscriptions,” said Rob Holmes, Roku’s vice president of Programming, in a company blog post....

Roskomnadzor, the country’s telecom regulator, cited that since October 2020, Facebook has recorded 26 cases of “discrimination” against Russian media and information resources. In recent days, the social media giant has also restricted access to accounts such as the Zvezda TV channel, the RIA Novosti news agency, Sputnik, Russia Today, the Lenta.ru and Gazeta.ru information resources. In response to the Russian ban of Facebook, Nick Clegg, President of Global Affairs for Facebook’s parent company, Meta, in a statement on Twitter said,...

“Today we’re sharing that the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center has recently tracked significant cyberattacks originating from a group we call Strontium, also known as Fancy Bear/APT28, targeting anti-doping authorities and sporting organizations around the world. As the world looks forward with anticipation to the Tokyo Summer Games in 2020, we thought it important to share information about this new round of activity,” Tom Burt, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for Customer Security & Trust said in a blog post....

Under the terms of the agreement, Slack shareholders will receive $26.79 in cash and 0.0776 shares of Salesforce common stock for each Slack share. According to Salesforce, the combination of Slack with Salesforce Customer 360 will be transformative for customers and the industry. It will create the operating system for the new way to work, uniquely enabling companies to grow and succeed in the all-digital world. Slack will become the new interface for Salesforce Customer 360 and will be “deeply integrated” into every Salesforce Cloud, Salesforce announced....

Samsung in all has launched a total of 3 4-G Smartphones namely Galaxy Grand Prime 4G, the Galaxy Core Prime 4G & galaxy J1 4G. The company also launched its slimmest Galaxy handset — the Galaxy A7 starting at Rs 30,499. The Galaxy J1 4G sports has a 4.3 inch display with 5MP rear camera and 2 MP front-facing camera. The camera has innovative selfie features which give more options and flexibility to capture favourite moments....

While Apple launched its premium flagship smartphone, iPhone X in November 2017, everyone was eagerly waiting for Samsung to launch its high-end smartphones, Galaxy S9 and S9+, which it did recently. So, who is the winner??? Although, Galaxy S9+ that is powered by Snapdragon 845 SoC is certainly faster than any Android phone but it cannot outperform the A11 bionic-powered iPhone from Apple, the iPhone X. However, in a speed test video put together by YouTube channel EverythingApplePro, the iPhone X has lost out to Galaxy S9+ purely in terms of performance....

SanDisk and Toshiba announced today that they are manufacturing 256Gbit (32GB), 3-bit-per-cell (X3) 48-layer 3D NAND flash chips that offer twice the capacity of the next densest memory. These chips are currently being manufactured in their new Yokkaichi, Japan fabrication plant and will be available for customers by next year. 3D NAND flash chip opens opportunity for bigger capacity solid state drives aboard PCs and other equipments. As of now Flash is used as a storage option in light laptops, fastest data centres, and nearly every smartphone and tablet because of its lesser weight and size compared to conventional hard disks....

Much more like a mafia organisation in the physical world which has to pay off several authorities to avoid raids, seizures and detection, Silk Road which was operating outside of law had to depend on payoffs to survive, it seems. The Silk Road marketplace founders found themselves paying thousands of dollars to cyber extortionists who threatened to expose serious site vulnerabilities or hit it with denial of service attacks in 2012 and 2013 , according to evidence presented in a Manhattan federal court on Wednesday....

Siri Summons Police if you say “Charge my phone to 100%”Charge my phone to 100 % Siri was the first widely-deployed speech recognition system that worked indefinitely; she talks back to you in serene tones with a well fine-tuned accent; she’s (seemingly) calm and collected; and you can simply call her by name, as you might ask a friend to for her assistance. While smooth talking can get only so far, Siri has had along the way her fair share of security disagreement, privacy concerns, and even a little conspiracy theory....

Sony has been tasked with making impressively designed smartphones, TVs and of course, its popular next-gen gaming console, PlayStation 4. However, company also has a division called Future Lab, which is basically just a fancy name for an R&D section designed to bring in products of the future. Looks like the company is at least ten steps ahead of the competition, because Future Lab has just introduced its next-generation projector that has the capability to turn any screen into a touchscreen....

Videos of the Tesla Model 3 bursting into flames and later exploding were captured by incoming drivers who shared it on the social media. — Paul Smith (@GreatPaulSmith) August 10, 2019 Alexey Tretiyakov, a 41-year-old financial market expert and the head of Arikapital investment company, was driving the Tesla Model 3 and his two children were seated at the back of the car, Russian broadcaster Zvezda reported on Sunday. According to reports, the car was on Autopilot....

The driver, Garrett Wilhelm, 22, was allegedly using Apple’s FaceTime video calling App when his car hit the rear of James and Bethany Modisette’s car at 65mph. Moriah Modisette, who was sitting in the backseat of her parents’ car later died of her injuries, while her parents and sister, Isabella, eight, were hurt. Right before the crash, the traffic had slowed down and it’s presumed that the offending driver wasn’t paying attention, which caused him to collide with the Modisette’s vehicle....

Finally, after 2 years, the United States Department of Justice has managed to identify the man behind the mega banking hack. A Maryland man accused of participating in a yearslong scheme described by the Justice Department as “securities fraud on cyber steroids” was arrested in Russia on immigration charges several months ago following a lengthy manhunt, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Joshua Aaron, 32, was arrested in May after police showed up at his apartment near downtown Moscow and found he had violated the terms of his visa....

So we should assume that the secluded and godforsaken communist holdout, North Korea may have a decent number of websites operating through its top-level country domain .kp. We were wrong, North Korea has only 28 websites operating using its top-level country domain, .kp. The usually hidden data came to light when by mistake, North Korea misconfigured its nameserver, leaking the list that holds information on all of the domains that exist for ....

Thankfully, coding bootcamps are stepping in to help educate a new generation of coding professionals. However, with so many different types of coding bootcamps emerging, it can be challenging to know how to choose the right one. While there are a variety of variables that will help you make the right choice, one of the most important factors to consider is the languages the bootcamp offers to teach you. Since bootcamps are designed to help you get your first job in tech, you’ll want to make sure they include the languages that are most in demand today....

The deface page was also showing a message to The Government of South Africa,

This super-censorship comes on the back of a decision by an Australian Federal Court order earlier today in the piracy related case. The Judge ordered all Australian ISPs to immediately start blocking 5 torrent websites, namely, The Pirate Bay, Torrentz, TorrentHound, ISOHunt, and SolarMovie. The court has given Australian ISPs 15 days to comply with its order. The judge ruled in favor of copyright holders Foxtel and Village Roadshow, who had filed a lawsuit in February 2016, calling for an Australia-wide ban on the four torrent websites and one movie streaming website on the grounds that they were infringing their copyright by illegally distributing pirated versions of their content....