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“Starting today, the majority of people on Facebook will have access to the new desktop design,” a spokesperson for the company told TechCrunch. This new Facebook redesign interface is now available to a majority of the users and offers changes and features such as dark mode, tabbed home screen, a cleaner profile, centralised tabs for Facebook Watch, Marketplace, Groups and Gaming as well as larger fonts. Further, there are additional shortcuts in a sidebar on the left....

Debian is known for its stability and hi-grade performance. The latest version of Debian includes a number of updates which will give best experience to users. Debian 8 “Jessie” includes improved support for UEFI which will mean that users will find it easier to load Debian 8 onto PCs with Windows 8 or later easily. Other updates include newer builds of LibreOffice, GIMP, the Iceweasel web browser, and the GNOME, KDE, and Xfce desktop environments, among other things....

A viral clip of the 2018 Netflix South Korean TV Series ‘My Secret, Terius’ is freaking out users on the internet, as the clip shows an uncanny resemblance to the present global COVID-19 crisis happening around the world. The synopsis of the South Korean TV show on Netflix reads, “A secret agent who detaches himself from the world after a failed operation tries to unravel the mystery behind a neighbour’s death....

The searches were carried out under sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) at Vivo India’s offices located in several states including Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Meghalaya Maharashtra, and others after a First Information Report (FIR) was registered by the economic offences wing of the Delhi Police. “Recently we filed a money laundering case after taking cognisance of a Delhi Police (economic offences wing) FIR against a distributor of the agency based in Jammu and Kashmir where it was alleged that a few Chinese shareholders in that company forged their identity documents,” said an ED official....

For those unaware, Discord is a real-time chat platform that was founded in 2015 as a group-chatting platform to make it easier for gamers to communicate. However, over a couple of years, it has outgrown its origin story and become increasingly popular among YouTubers, podcasters, hackers, and more with an audience to connect with their community. According to a report in Venture Beat, the 6-year-old company is in discussion with “multiple parties” who are interested in purchasing the platform....

Look around you. It’s no longer an esoteric or ethereal concept – it’s real. The Internet of things is pervasive and it impacts the way we do business, the way we communicate, and the way we protect personal information. As we barrel ahead towards a cashless society, disruptive technology is affecting payments processing in ways we never dreamed possible. Cloud computing technology, social media, big data and mobile communications dominate the financial arena....

First of all, not all students are offered such awesome salary package. Those actually offered such $300,000 per year package are the cream of the crop and are in the top 100 students from IIT from a total 30,000 odd who pass out every year. For the rest of the IIT grads, the average on-campus job placement offer is much less. Neha Singh who has passed out of IIT, Roorkee says on Quora that the median salary offered by the tech companies is anywhere between Rs....

Need for a degree A college degree will certainly help if you wish to pursue a career in software development. When recruiters compare resumes for potential candidates, a CS degree will certainly set you apart. Although, there’s a lot more that a recruiter will see than just your qualification. The country where you went to the college and the reputation of the college itself will be scrutinized. While considering degrees, there also comes the question of the level of your degree ( graduate or masters) as well as certifications that you’ve achieved....

Here’s how to get the new Facebook reactions if you don’t see them yetDesktopOn Facebook App in your smartphones However, many Facebook users reported to us that they still can’t see the new Facebook reactions in their News Feed yet. For those people, we bring a small tutorial on how you can enable Facebook’s new reactions of your timeline : Desktop In the desktop version of Facebook, go to the post you want to react on and simply just hover over the Like button....

Readers should understand the seriousness of the the vulnerability as almost all of banks, financial institutions and other websites which gather personal identifiable information (PII) use HTTPS for secure communication between the user and the web server. The attack exploiting this, dubbed DROWN(Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption), is estimated to be able to kill off at least one-third of all HTTPS servers. The researchers who discovered the flaw stated that as many as 11....

The GPU can also be overclocked from the BIOS, which is a feature that you normally do not find in gaming notebooks. Coming to the hardware, EVGA SC17 sports an Intel Core i7-6820HK running at a speed between 2.70 and 3.60GHz. As you can tell, the letter ‘K’ at the end of processor’s model name states that you can increase the processor’s clock speed by increasing the core multiplier from the motherboard’s BIOS....

Khanna’s application, called Marauder’s Map, a Chrome extension was released in May that used Facebook Messenger data to indicate where your friends were when they sent messages. The app also showed precise locations of strangers involved in a group chat who were within three feet of the app. This meant that Khanna and the strangers could ideally see the locations from where they are messaging each other. The location of the users was automatically shared by the Facebook Messenger app with anyone whom the user messaged....

Considering the curious tendency of international companies giving room once again to the local businesses, the small business owners are now considering their options. Their marketing budget is often tiny, so the big question is – which platform sells better at a cheaper price. Google manifests that it gives its customers a return of at least $2 for every dollar spent. FB vs. Google Facebook offers their ads at the cheapest rates in the history of advertising....

Facebook said in a statement that from April, “UK sales made directly by our UK team will be booked in the UK not Ireland. Facebook U.K. will then record the revenue from these sales.” It said the change would “provide transparency to Facebook’s operations in the UK.” Income from some of its largest advertisers will now be taxed in the UK after the company announced stopping routing profits through Ireland....

This has propped up after the transatlantic privacy agreement between Europe and the USA, which has flamed uncertainties of social media giant’s future in the region. It has come up after Europe’s Court of Justice struck down Safe Harbor and Privacy Shield agreement earlier, which paved the way for data exchange conflicts. Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, have categorically denied any such claims of pulling out in their blog post: In a detailed post, Meta talked about “identifying business risks involved” in the international exchange of data transfers and the risk involved through such agreements....

At the time of changing the password or while logging many users were able to similar messages, and were asked to answer few security questions and finally to change their password.‘We actively look for situations where the accounts of people who use Facebook could be at risk—even if the threat is external to our service,’ said Nancarrow, ‘When we find these situations, we present messages like the one in the screenshot to help affected people secure their accounts....

Dawn Lawson’s Merc, which she had bought on her 50th birthday, was stolen right from her driveway. Inconsolable and devastated Lawson made a post of the theft on her Facebook page and within 15 minutes it was shared and re-shared by her friendly Facebook community. Her Facebook friend, Chris Parker took it upon himself to track down Lawsons Mercedes and he successfully tracked it down and reunited it with Dawson Lawson who is a salon owner from Gateacre, was out shopping when her car keys were stolen from her house....

The world’s biggest social networking giant yesterday has made changes which decreases dependency on “referral” traffic — or the sharing of news articles or other content. “The goal of News Feed is to show you the content that matters to you,” said a blog post by Facebook’s Max Eulenstein and Lauren Scissors. One of the important changes aims “to ensure that content posted directly by the friends you care about, such as photos, videos, status updates or links, will be higher up in News Feed so you are less likely to miss it,” the blog said....

Chris Cox, Facebook’s chief product officer, was speaking at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and said that this could one day work as a more expressive version of the Like button. Cox said users could make use of their smartphones to take a selfie as an alternative to pressing Like button. Instead just send that and the function could read the user’s Facebook expression and change it into a suitable smiley/sad/frowning/indifferent face....