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The slider is used by the company in its Office productivity suite to allow users to zoom in or out of documents. However, the same has also been applied in a wide variety of Microsoft and non-Microsoft products. Then, the consequences of using a patent without authorization. Microsoft recently sued Corel for, among other things, infringing its patent on a slider, D554,140, claiming that Corel Home Office has infringed Microsoft’s design without authorization....

Endless Mobile, Inc., which develops the Linux-based operating system, Endless OS and reference platform hardware for it, has recently announced Endless OS 3.4, which is the company’s latest major release. According to Endless OS’ community manager Michael Hall, Endless OS 3.4 is a “huge step forward in our journey to help you take advantage of an internet connection when you have it, and be respectful of your limited data plan if that’s what you are using to connect....

Some businesses have already incorporated them in their operations. However, it is important to establish whether mobile cobots are appropriate for your business. Investing in a mobile cobot without a clear strategy on how it will enhance your processes is not a good idea. Below is how to determine whether your business needs them. A primary mobile cobot comes with a collaborative robot manipulator fixed at the mobile autonomous base....

When we published the report about the ExtraTorrent outage on 14th May 2016, we had a nagging doubt that there was more to the outage than just hosting related issues. SAM, the ExtraTorrent owner confirmed our worst fears on 17th May by putting up a message on ExtraTorrent that they are shutting it down permanently. This news left the torrent community in utter shock. Their shock was further amplified by the news that The Pirate Bay and KickAss Torrents were facing blocks in certain countries like Australia....

According to Wired, the Chief Product Officer at Facebook, Chris Cox has asked a large number of Facebook employees to ditch their iPhones in favor of Android. Cox informed a large gathering of reporters at the Facebook Headquarters at Menlo Park and several others hooked in via video conference that this move isn’t an indicator of Facebook’s newfound love for Android or vendetta against Apple. When asked why, Facebook wanted its employees to use Android smartphones, Cox said it a ‘practical decision’ because he wants Facebook employees to use their service on the platform that’s being used by majority of people around the world....

Leading up to the Independence Day (4th of July), the Liberty County Vindicator, a local newspaper, in Liberty, Texas had been posting daily bits of the Declaration of Independence in 12 excerpts – one posted each morning from June 24 to July 4. However, the 10th excerpt, containing paragraphs 27-31, was blocked after Facebook determined it “goes against our standards on hate speech,” according to The Vindicator. Apparently, the excerpt, from paragraphs 27 to 31 of the Declaration was a list of the people’s grievances against the king....

Exactly six years ago, in October 2009, Arkansas native Schuler Benson switched his flip phone on to find it was logged in to a female stranger’s Facebook account from Colorado. The woman, Celeste Zendler, had no mutual friends and he had never seen or even heard of her before. Similarly, Benson was puzzled as to why he was on the social media page of someone who lives 1,000 miles away from him in Colorado and with whom he has no mutual friends....

Earlier this year, the social networking giant had debuted this tool for Pages, and now it’s testing it with average users across Facebook. Facebook announced that its own developers have built a multilingual composer. You will be able to write a post in your preferred language and then select other languages from a drop-down menu, and Facebook will translate the original post into different languages. People can edit Facebook’s auto-composed translation or leave it as it is....

Now, Facebook has decided to delete any photos that were previously in a Synced folder unless users download and log into Moments to transfer them before July 7. Users who don’t want to use Moments but want to save their photos can download the files right now on their computer. Facebook launched Moments standalone App for FB users in June 2015 to help users performs a similar auto-syncing function. The app also scans your your mobile photos to identify faces and match them to your Facebook friends....

However what makes this clone different is it installs a malware on your smartphone and starts stealing images that you may have saved. Infact the researchers state that this very well could be the same ring of hackers who gathered naked pictures of more than 100 celebrities and leaked them online, the same came under the popular news “iCloud hack” which was reported on TechWorm and also in the media....

While selfies can be fun, it can put one in dangerous situation too. Besides, being responsible for many selfie related deaths, did you know that your selfie could put you up for identity theft too, albeit a certain pose? According to a security researcher from Japan, a particular picture pose that is very popular among Asians, can set you up for a disaster. The pose in question is the flashing of the peace (V or victory) sign in a selfie....

According to a senior scientist, Robert Wolf, who was working on the project, the process was a complete success. He went onto to say that a system that is as complex as this will require everything to be kept in check. Since they had to check each and everything and make sure that the test would end up being risk free, you can wonder why it took such a painfully long period....

The code-sharing site is partnering with the Long Now Foundation, the Internet Archive, the Software Heritage Foundation, Arctic World Archive, Microsoft Research, the Bodleian Library, and Stanford Libraries to ensure the long-term preservation of the world’s open-source software. “There is a long history of lost technologies from which the world would have benefited, as well as abandoned technologies which found unexpected new uses, from Roman concrete, or the anti-malarial DFDT, to the hunt for mothballed Saturn V blueprints after the Challenger disaster,” according to the GitHub announcement....

CNBC is reporting that “the social media company is engaged in conversations with potential suitors that are said to include Google and Salesforce, among other technology companies”. Telecom giant Verizon and software giant Microsoft may also be interested, according to TechCrunch. As rumoured before, Google, who has the resources to buy the company, is a particularly interesting suitor, as buying Twitter would give it a strong foothold to take on Facebook after the relative failure of Google+....

Android Things, Google’s new operating system to power your toasters, routers, refrigerators and just about everythingAndroid Things: Google Launches A New Operating SystemAndroid Things and IoT security Android Things: Google Launches A New Operating System The tech giant Google announced on Tuesday announced Android Things – its operating system for Internet of Things projects. Android Things OS will power various IoT products like security cameras, connected speakers, routers and everything that is connected to the Internet....

Now, the search giant has launched the developer preview of a new machine learning toolkit designed specifically for smartphones and embedded devices and will be available for both Android and iOS app developers. This platform will allow developers to deploy AI on mobile devices. It enables on-device machine learning inference with low latency and a small binary size. TensorFlow Lite also supports hardware acceleration with the Android Neural Networks API....

However, according to Google support staff, the explanation provided was that the user’s purchases appeared fraudulent, since the user’s address details fluctuated and also the billing information with Google wasn’t current. While the user is not convinced if this is the reason he had been locked out but during his interactions with Google support to find out why, he was told that “It is our policy to not discuss the specific reasons for an account closure....

“LG will build the upcoming Nexus smartphone, but it will be based on an unreleased prototype.” The latest flagship from the company will not be based on the LG G4, adds the report by Android Pit. There were reports that Google is planning to launch two Nexus devices this year: one by LG and one by Huawei. It is no surprise that LG has been chosen to make the next Nexus device considering that the Nexus 5 made by LG was quite popular in comparison to the Nexus 6 made by Motorola....

SLAM algorithms pool data from various sensors (e.g. LIDAR, IMU and cameras) to calculate the position of the sensor and a map of the sensor’s surroundings at the same time. “Our focus is on advancing and democratizing SLAM as a technology,” Googlers Damon Kohler, Wolfgang Hess, and Holger Rapp wrote in a blog post. “Currently, Cartographer is heavily focused on LIDAR SLAM. Through continued development and community contributions, we hope to add both support for more sensors and platforms as well as new features, such as lifelong mapping and localizing in a pre-existing map....

Starting next month, the feature will be made available as an update to Google Fit, the company’s health tracking app, on Pixel phones with plans of making it available to more users by expanding support to non-Pixel phones in the future. “Heart rate and respiratory rate are two vital signs commonly used to assess your health and wellness. Starting next month, Google Fit will allow you to measure your heart rate and respiratory rate using just your phone’s camera....