“We just launched Internet.org in Malawi, giving people on the TNM and Airtel Malawi networks access to free basic internet services. With this launch, Internet.org is now available to more than 1 billion people around the world! Giving people free access is the right thing to do. We will keep connecting more people and more countries, and we won’t stop until every person in the world can connect to the internet,” says Zuckerberg’s post which accompanied the infographic image....

During early access, players can subscribe to the new Luna+ game channel, which will offer action games like Resident Evil 7, Control, and Panzer Dragoon; adventure games like A Plague Tale: Innocence and The Surge 2; platformers like Yooka-Laylee and The Impossible Lair and Iconoclasts; and fan favorites like GRID, ABZU and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. The Luna+ service will be available for an “introductory price” of $5....

Through malware, phishing sites, and data information hacks and leaks, malicious companies are exposing more information than ever, going on to use this for identity theft or extortion. At the more drastic end of the effects, malware that takes control of your computer can even completely take your computer ransom. Often, malicious companies then request a large sum payment to unlock the device, with this sort of cyber breach costing a total of $11....

Joshi had no clue who Mark Zuckerberg was, as Facebook was not the behemoth that it is today. While he does not remember when he received the call, he does remember that Zuckerberg had flown down to Pantnagar, which is about 65 km from Nainital. He then drove to the ashram of Neeb Karori (mostly called Neem Karoli) Baba, who died in 1973 but still continues to charm many of the high-profile Americans....

Accounting standards such as the ASC 842 and IFRS 16 involve elaborate functions and crucial calculations that can eat up your employees’ productivity if you use manual methods. Instead, you should use reliable lease accounting software. It instantly and efficiently offers the needed functionalities and calculations to follow the financial reporting standards for your lease contracts. One robust lease accounting software and must-have tool to streamline your business operations is Trullion....

For those unaware, when Microsoft’s Windows 10X was announced last year, the Redmond giant back then had said that the operating system would be available for dual-screen devices only such as Surface Neo that was supposed to launch this fall. However, this has now changed with the recent announcement. Panos Panay, Microsoft’s Chief Product Officer for Windows and Devices in an official blog post updated the status of Windows 10X....

Several users took to Reddit to complain regarding the matter, which has been noticed in the new Microsoft’s new Edge browser that has been installed via Windows Update. To be clear, in the background information from Microsoft, Edge does ask users to import data from other browsers at the time of installation; but this act is done by the browser in the background even before users have permitted it. However, if a user denies Edge the permission to import any data, that information is quickly deleted from the browser....

This newly released SDK doesn’t add anything in the way of features, as the company had last week only added MSIX Support, which came with build 17682. MSIX is an app packaging format that combines MSI and APPX. While developers can use the MakeAppx tool to package their application with MSIX, they should also note that MSIX support is currently unsupported by the App Certification Kit or the Microsoft Store....

Microsoft engineers have worked pretty hard to make Cortana as personal as possible. However there is a line a user cannot cross. For instance, you can’t sexually harass her. It turns out users feel very comfortable talking freely with text and voice assistants. Humanizing the bots with names, faked emotions, personalities and genders (mostly female) helps build trust with users. It is a known fact that users often ask their personal digital assistants like Cortana, Siri or Google Now about their sex or their dress when they first access them....

New Operating System for Windows : Microsoft’s officially launches Windows 10 Build 10051 comes with Spartan browser and a lot of Apps for Windows Phones.How to set up Windows 10 build on your Lumia and other Windows Phones This now supports almost all Lumia phones. Do browse through the list of the phones supported here. However, it doesn’t support the Lumia Icon, 930 and even the 640XL due to scaling problem....

Announced in March, ‘Mesh for Microsoft Teams’ allows Teams users to appear as their own customized 3D virtual avatars in meetings. It allows knowledge workers to build and use self-expressive avatars and experience immersive spaces. The feature combines the mixed-reality capabilities of Microsoft Mesh, which allows people in different physical locations to join collaborative and shared holographic experiences, with the productivity tools of Microsoft Teams, where people can join virtual meetings, send chats, collaborate on shared documents, and more....

MIT Media Lab already demonstrated DuoSkin’s capability in three different ways that functions as inputs, outputs and communication devices. The input devices can be used as a trackpad, a button or a slider to control mobile devices and computers or adjust the volume of a music system. Output devices display data such as changing colors based on your body temperature or what emotions you are feeling. Finally, the communication devices can keep data in your tattoo that phones and other NFC-enabled devices can read....

You already know NASA, the space exploration arm of United States. From time to time NASA engineers write their own program for air and spacecraft design, business optimization, systems interaction and biomedical applications. Most of these programs are open source and have been made available to general public for free use. NASA rolled out the third installment of the software. The newly released NASA 2017-2018 software catalog comes both in hard copy and offline format....

First four astronauts for NASA’s commercial spaceflight with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Boeing selectedRobert Behnken, Eric Boe, Douglas Hurley and Sunita Williams are the four astronauts chosen by NASA which says “are blazing a new trail, a trail that will one day land them in the history books” Astronauts Bob Behnken, Eric Boe, Doug Hurley and Sunita Williams aka “Suni” are the chosen ones who have previously flown on the Space Shuttle to the International Space Station (ISS) and thus have enough space flight experience....

The primary website of Nato https://www.nato.int/, the website of its cyber defence center https://www.ccdcoe.org/ and the website of NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly https://www.nato-pa.int/ were the premier NATO websites that were brought down with a concerted Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack . Nato.int and cccoe.org are still down at the writing of this article. A Ukrainian Hacker group going under the handle of “Cyber Berkut” claimed responsibility of the attack. A statement issued by them on their website read, NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu confirmed on Twitter that the NATO websites were indeed down for several hours from what’s known as distributed denial-of-service attacks....

According to the police, Earl Valentine is on the run after shooting his ex-wife and son and posting a video of the same. The police said that Valentine kicked in the back door of his ex-wife’s house and shot her, then his son in the chest. The 15-year-old boy, who called 911, died while talking to the operator. Keisha Valentine, his ex-wife, is in critical, but stable condition. “I’ve been in law enforcement 20 years and I’ve never seen anything like this, this guy is bragging about it on social media....

Anywhere where there is movement on Earth, friction is present, and this can affect objects in a lot of ways. It causes heat, that is why when people rub their hands together they warm up. Friction can also down object, for example, car brakes use friction to reduce speed. This leads to general wear and tear, which is why drivers have to replace their tires and brake pad very often....

Fruitfly According to reports, Apple has released a patch for the malware termed Fruitfly. However, newer variants of the malware have already emerged. In an analysis by Patrick Wardle, chief security of Synack and former NSA hacker, Fruitfly was found to be in development for years, yet it works well on newer versions of MacOS and it also deploys a Command & Control server that directs the malware on what should be done on the affected machine....

While Boston Dynamics calls this the “next generation” of ATLAS, it seems to be a huge technological leap forward that it’s more like a completely different species. According to Boston Dynamics, the new Atlas is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated. The company says the new robot uses sensors in its body and legs to balance and has other sensors in its head to avoid obstacles and navigate. Atlas is 5’9” (175 cms) tall and weighs 180 lbs (81 kg)....