The newly formed group of companies that make Google now are doing relatively very well. On Friday morning, the Google powerhouse traded with an equity value above $500 million, which is less than 10 percent of its Silicon Valley rival Apple’s value. However, things are not looking good on Apple’s front, whose earnings mainly depend on the sales in the ever saturating smartphone market. According to the consulting firm IDC, global smartphone sales growth slowed to 10 percent last year....

Speaking as part of a new show hosted by MSNBC’s Ari Melber and Recode’s Kara Swisher, Pichai, 45, said that AI is ‘one of the most important things that humanity is working on. It’s more profound that, I don’t know, electricity or fire.’ “Fire’s pretty good,” Swisher said. However, Pichai drew equals to electricity and fire, and said that AI is basically both useful and dangerous at the same time....

Hackers are using the Google Drive to steal your login credentials and crucial data, suggests a new research.Modus Operandi of the Phishing campaign:Free Google Domain Phishing Campaign On Monday, Security researchers have revealed that a new Gmail phishing campaign has been launched, most probably by a hacking team based in the Middle East. The team targets users of Gmail with fake SSL(Secure Sockets Layer) encryption which successfully tricks users into surrendering the login credentials of their Google accounts to these scammers....

Follow the below steps to access the feature: Quite simple! So what’s the fissure between the idea and the reality? This is the first time that such feature would appear on mobile devices and hence created a huge buzz. However based on Engadget report, it seems just a mere talk as this feature is not working as anticipated. The current version still has a lot of bugs that had lowered down customer’s experience....

Made by an Israeli Company Researchers on the security front at Google and Lookout have come across the spyware that has the ability to spy on users by hacking their smartphones’ camera and microphone, as well as track calls, messages, internet history and more – christened Chrysaor. The spyware appears to have some link to Pegasus – a program that was known to be targeting iPhone users back in 2016....

Julian Assange says that Google working closely with Hillary Clinton presidential campaignWhy this is important? Speaking about ongoing presidential campaign, Assange said: “Google is directly engaged with Hillary Clinton’s campaign” and claimed the technology giant used the US State Department on a “a quid pro quo” basis. “Of course when she is in power… she is a problem for freedom of speech. We know what she is going to do. And she made the chart for the destruction of Libya, she was involved in the process of taking the Libyan armoury and sending it to Syria....

To start enjoying Google’s new feature type “Fun facts” or “I’m feeling curious.” Google will pop up a random fact from the Internet. Examples produced during testing included “Do your eyes ever grow?”, “Is there any sugar in Tic Tacs?” and “Why do they add iodine to salt?” Google will keep on popping trivia if you keep hitting the button labelled “ask another question” to generate seemingly endless random facts....

Redux, a UK based start-up, claims to have 178 granted patents as per its LinkedIn page for its work on sound and touch technology. A UK regulatory filing showed that Google’s subsidiary Google Ireland Holdings Unlimited Company, acquired all the shares of NVF Tech, the parent company of Redux Laboratories on December 13, 2017. However, Crunchbase, a website which tracks acquisition and funding rounds, said the deal happened in August last year....

Alphabet’s new code of conduct reads: “Employees of Alphabet and its subsidiaries and controlled affiliates should do the right thing — follow the law, act honorably, and treat each other with respect.” The code goes on to say that if someone accuses you (or someone else) of wrong or dishonorable behavior, you must still follow the code of conduct: “Never retaliate against anyone who reports or participates in an investigation of a possible violation of the Code....

The unpublished paper “Generating Sentences from a Continuous Space” was presented at the International Conference on Learning Representations on May 3, which shows the work done by researchers with Google Brain. It shows how the team of linguists and computer scientists fed a total of 11,000 unpublished books to the neural network, and then tested whether it could take a couple sentences from the book and create its own corresponding phrases....

Isitdownrightnow.com also appeared to confirm the issue: Lots of people are reporting on Twitter that they are experiencing issues with Google services. — JoAnna Ver Meer (@JoAnnaVerMeer) March 12, 2015 — Malik Chabou (@malikchabou) March 12, 2015 — Buzzoole (@Buzzoole) March 12, 2015 The glitch occurred due to a ‘routing leak’ as per Doug Madory of Dyn Research. He states in a blog post that the routing leak occurred from an Indian broadband Internet provider which caused Google services to go down....

The search giant is looking to replace its current denounced feature ‘Android Beam’ for Android with a file-sharing app called “Fast Share”, which was discovered by 9to5Google and XDA-Developers. The new tool, which is part of Google Play Services, should work similarly to AirDrop on the Mac and iOS. For those unaware, Google had announced back in May that it would be deprecating the Android Beam – a simple way to share files on Android – with Android Q, as it had lost its usefulness....

The study published in May 18 issue of Science Advances, talks about the wonder material ‘Graphene’, a semi-metal composed of single layer of carbon atoms, which is known to be extremely sensitive to light (1,000 times greater than conventional digital cameras and smartphones) and can convert it into electricity. Hence, the researchers decided to examine whether the electricity generated out of graphene had the capability to stimulate human cells. After experimenting with different light intensities, Alex Savchenko and his team discovered that cells could actually be stimulated via optical graphene stimulation....

Late last year, security researcher Sathya Prakash discovered a number of critical vulnerabilities in the mobile banking application of an undisclosed bank that allowed him to steal money from any or all bank customers with the help of just a few lines of code. However, Prakash immediately reached out to the bank in question and alerted about the severe flaws in its mobile banking app. He also helped them fix the flaws instead of taking advantage of the security holes to steal money from the bank that has about $25 Billion in deposits....

Security researchers discover novel methods of stealing secret data from computer by hacking modern devicesNew methods have been discovered by security researchers wherein they just need to infect devices such as printers, airconditioners or washing machine and turn it into a radio!Converting modern device into a radio to broadcast the data: Just imagine, this novel method would enable hackers to steal crucial data even from military bases or nuclear facilities or from computers which are not connected to Internet!...

The 41 year old is now taking legal action on Super.ru for making the video public. The video has gone viral and is presently being shared on file sharing networks and torrents. Mirror reported that the video contains Natasha Koroleva performing a number of sex acts with her husband, a former male stripper whose stage name is Tarzan, and a toy. Meanwhile the matters have quickly escalated as Koroleva has been honored by prestigious Artist of Russia by President Putin....

“We recently became aware that some user data was compromised due to unauthorized access to our systems by a malicious third party,” Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo said in a security update blog post. “We have engaged leading digital forensic and security experts and launched an investigation, which is ongoing. We have notified law enforcement officials. We are notifying affected Quora users. We have already taken steps to ensure the situation is contained, and we are working to prevent this type of event from happening in the future....