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It’s not just the satisfaction of working with the under-privileged that keeps Ujjivan’s employees motivated. The company has just gone public with a very successful initial public offering (IPO) and stock options have made its people rich. “Financial performance is just one of the measures of our success,” said founder Samit Ghosh, who started Ujjivan in 2005 to serve the economically active poor who are not sufficiently served by financial institutions, according to its website....

Allo has now-standard messaging features like stickers, changing font sizes, emojis, smart reply and marked-up photos. Google has customized Allo for Indian users by enabling smart replies in ‘Hinglish.’ It is also rolling out over 200 stickers relevant to Indian users that have been created by popular independent artists. “Sometimes a “Badhai Ho” or “Party to banti hai” say a lot more,” said the company in a statement. Amit Fulay, Group Product Manager, Google said on the launch, “Whether it’s planning a night out or just catching up, we rely on messaging to stay in touch with friends and family every day....

“We believe this revenue is charged ratably based on the number of searches that users on Apple’s platform originate from Siri or within the Safari browser. We believe Apple is one of the biggest channels of traffic acquisition for Google,” Hall was quoted as saying by Business Insider. However, this number could increase to $12 billion in 2019, according to the Goldman analyst. The payment of $9 billion is a huge figure considering that Google paid Apple around $1 billion in 2013 and 2014....

The Pirate Bay is down, Here Are The Best 3 Alternatives In order to discourage pirate sites, even Google, the popular search giant, has been asked time and again to remove links from its search results that lead to the pirate sites. While Google has processed a huge number of takedown requests received for removal of pirate sites, this time around the search giant has categorically refused to remove TPB’s homepage from its search results, as it is not infringing....

For those unaware, under the revised disclosure policy, GPZ needs to wait for at least 90 days before publicly revealing the details of a security bug, even if the bug is fixed ahead of that deadline. Also, vendors can request an additional 14-day grace period from Google if they believe they won’t be able to fix the reported vulnerability within 90 days. The Adreno GPU driver associates a private device structure (“process_priv”) with each KGSL file descriptor, which holds the page tables that are used for GPU context switching....

Clicking on this link on Chrome desktop version makes Chrome open up multiple tabs and hang while opening it opening it on Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox make them try to open Chrome tabs while these also browsers hang. The Firefox browser pops up LOLOLOLOL message before hanging up. The link also causes multiple instances of File Picker UI Host to run in Windows 10. According to reports, the link has been circulating on Twitter and clicking it on your smartphones causes the Twitter App/browser to crash while the link makes incessant calls to 911....

Many users today claimed that they had already received the Heists add-on. And added to that, the update is a massive 4.8GB download when it is officially released. A user with a Twitter handle of VNX3 even posted a image of the update window yesterday. https://twitter.com/S7_V7X3/status/574402172449914880 Rockstar Games, the publisher of GTA had earlier said that the free update would be of 4.2GB in size and would include five GTA online heist missions to play with friends and a mind blowing arsenal of new weapons and cars....

The hacked website was left defaced with Pictures of Al-Qaeda Leaders and short message in support of them stating,

Imagine your every move being spied upon by prying cyber criminals using just your telephone number. Is this possible? Yes, say German security experts! German security experts from Berlin based Research Labs say it is very easy to spy on anybody by hacking into their smartphone using just their number. To demonstrate their findings, a team of experts spied on a phone used by US Congressman Ted Lieu from California, a member of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Information Technology, who agreed to use an off-the-shelf iPhone....

If you have taken a walk around the block, have you noticed some of the biggest brands have some letters missing in their signs and logos? Most of these big signages miss three letters, A,B, and O. Most people who noticed the same, thought that it could be some malfunction but the real reason for the missing A, B, and O’s is something more serious and amazing. NHS Blood and Transplant organization, along with PR agency Engine Group has launched the ‘Missing Type’ campaign....

Here is how to stop Windows 7/8.1 PC/laptops from automatically updating to Windows 10Never10“Get Windows 10” Removal ToolGWX StopperGWX Control Panel The Windows 10 updates are being pushed automatically on Windows 7/8.1 PC/laptops whether you want it or not. Thankfully, there are couple of tools which let you be on your favourites OS and say no to sly upgrades from Microsoft. Never10 As the name suggests, Never1o allows you to thwart Microsoft’s Windows 10 upgrade with an easy interface....

The world of the Internet of Things (IoT) is no different as far as overpromising and underdelivering is concerned. From thermostats to vehicle sensors, the number of deployed IoT devices is set to mushroom. Now the challenge is to harness the data these devices generate to make our cities and lives smarter. Managing the data and interactions of millions of devices simultaneously should be a perfect fit for a blockchain solution....

“Given the widespread global usage of mobile communications among users of all ages, even a very small increase in the incidence of disease resulting from exposure to radiofrequency radiation could have broad implications for public health,” said the authors of the study in a report. The two-year trial involved more than 2,500 rats and each received carefully controlled doses of radiation for nine hours a day, every day for two years....

However, the shutdown did not stop other developers from forking the application over and over. While many of these forks were shut down, there were still some which continued to operate. Popcorn-Time.to, originally operating from Popcorn-Time.se, is one of the longest standing forks that is operational since 2014 until today. For those unaware, Popcorn Time software is in itself legal, but if the app is used to share copyrighted content that they don’t own rights to, it becomes illegal....

According to a recent U.S. Air Force press release, “192nd Fighter Wing Aircraft Maintainers were bemused when they found a swarm of honey bees hanging from the exhaust nozzle of an F-22 Raptor engine following flight operations at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia.” Everyone was shocked to see the swarm of tens of thousands of honeybees blocked the jet’s exhaust at one air base in Virginia probably left their overcrowded hive in search of a new niche....

Well, thanks to this neat little video from YouTube user “EverythingApplePro,” we now precisely know how many iPhones it would take to stop a round from an AK-74, the AK-47’s 70’s-born, higher version cousin. So, there you have it people. It takes 4-5 iPhones to stop a bullet. Do keep this thing in mind the next time you are designing a new set of body-armor, supposing that you surely have several thousand dollars to blow....

The security researchers from Israel’s Ben Gurion University, Benyamin Farshteindiker, Nir Hasidim, Asaf Grosz and Yossi Oren from the Faculty of Engineering Sciences, have authored a research paper detailing such a gadget. In a paper released today, the security researchers noted a novel, silent and cheap method for transmitting data, such as sound recordings or location data of a target, to a spy’s server, and proof that gyroscopes remain a nice target for advanced hackers....

How to guide for accessing GodMode hidden Windows system tweaks in Windows 10Now you can easily access the far flung features and customization options of Windows with its secret GodMode feature, which works in its latest version as well.What is GodMode:Follow the below steps to enter GodMode:Explore GodMode: Rename GodMode folder: Well, GodMode is not a new thing to the IT professionals and they often prefer to create the GodMode folder whenever they want an easy access to the far flung tweaks and customization options of Windows on their desktop....

You can increase your internet speed by changing your Default DNS to Google DNSWhy is your ISP’s DNS slow compared to Google DNSHow to change your default DNS to Google DNSSteps To Manually Setup Google DNS In Windows PCNote : For Windows 10, the steps are more or less same.Steps To Automatically Configure Google DNS In Windows PC Using DNS JumperHow to Test Google DNS Servers Why is your ISP’s DNS slow compared to Google DNS Your ISP is into the business of providing you with Internet is basically to make money....