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“Many apps and websites are free because they’re supported by online advertising. And to reach people who are more likely to care about what they are selling, businesses often share data about people’s interactions on their websites with ad platforms and other services,” Facebook’s Erin Egan, Chief Privacy Officer, Policy, and David Baser, Director of Product Management said in a blog post. “This is how much of the internet works, but given that the average person with a smartphone has more than 80 apps and uses about 40 of them every month, it can be really difficult for people to keep track of who has information about them and what it’s used for....

“Our Ministry enquired into how prepared they (Ringing Bells) are, whether they can provide a phone for Rs 251 or not. Whether they have the BIS certificate or not, we have spoken to them,” Prasad told the media. “This was done to ensure that there are no discrepancies later. If there are any, we will take action as per the law. Our department is keeping a watch”, he said. Last week, Ringing Bells, a new player in the prosperous Indian mobile handset market disclosed what is being considered as the world’s cheapest 3G smartphone, Freedom 251....

That is not all that the program is capable of. FinFisher is also capable of intercepting your Skype calls and log keystrokes, and that is just tip of the iceberg. The program was developed by FinFisher Gamma Group, which is currently located in Munich and the primary aim of the software was to identify threats in the form of serious criminals and help law enforcement agencies and governments to locate and catch them....

The Indian retailer has created a product listing for the much-hyped smartphone just few days before Asus officially launches the ZenFone 2. A curtain raiser timer on the product page shows that the ZenFone 2 will hit the market on April 23 i.e. Thursday. Customers can sign up with their email address in order to receive notification about the availability of the handset. The Asus Zenfone 2 ZE550ML comes with a Corning gorilla glass 3 protection alongwith a 5....

While smartphone users world over are awaiting deployment of 5G tech by their respective mobile service providers, researchers from Japan have stolen the march over 5G by developing a new terahertz transmitter which can transmit data at an unbelievable speed of more than 100Gbs and above. While the fifth generation of mobile network, 5G is hardly three years away from its launch in 2020, this new tech could totally change the face of how we transmit data wirelessly....

3,000 Trx/Sec matching 14 regions In comparison, mainstream blockchain technologies need minutes, with the Bitcoin Blockchain and the Ethereum network typically processing seven and 20 transactions per second respectively. The experiment emphasizes the newly launched Blockchain’s scalability while retaining fast transaction speeds makes it ideal for the processing of financial transactions and microgrids that use peer-to-peer trading to transform the energy sector. Fork-free, no double spending In addition to high throughput, Red Belly differs from existing solutions with a number of advantages....

The Game begins with players jumping from a plane using a parachute on an island and search for weapons, utility items, Medical equipment, and other equipment in order to kill each other. The warzone keeps shrinking forcing players to strict to a smaller area and to face more encounters. The last player or the team that survives wins the game and is rewarded with lots of experience and items. The game can be played in both first and third-person perspectives....

How to get the best Broadband deal from your Internet Service ProviderBroadband connections in GeneralADSL and ADSL2+Naked DSLCableWirelessMobile BroadbandSatelliteWhich Broadband Deal should I Choose?Standalone or bundled packageStandard or superfast speedsCapped or unlimited Broadband connections in General Before we discuss the bundles, let us take a look at the different broadband connections available today. As you already know, broadband is high-speed Internet that is always on. It is several times faster than the traditional dial-up Internet....

Generally, when you increase the screen’s brightness, it affects the battery life of the device. Also, the color displayed affects the power consumption of the display. The Dark Mode basically reverses the color theme of an operating system (OS) or applications by replacing the white background with black. The Dark Mode for long has been associated with better battery life on devices, especially mobile devices. According to Business Insider, Dark Mode draws 43% lesser power at full brightness compared to “normal mode” in the YouTube app, which normally uses a lot of white....

Google and the Android engineers have finally come up with a simpler way of snapping a screenshot of your Android phone — at least if you’re lucky enough to be running Marshmallow. As noted by Droid Life, the company has updated Android 6.0’s Now on Tap feature with a new icon that will take a screenshot instantaneously. Also the screenshot can now be shared instantly. The small but clever addition should prove particularly useful for owners of the new Nexus 6P and other smartphones which are going to get Marshmallow soon....

In April 2020, Google Meet was made available to all users in lieu of Enterprise or Education customers to help users working/studying from home due to COVID-19 and compete with rivals like Zoom and Skype who were offering many benefits to users. The video calling service had also lifted the 60-minute time limit on calls and made it limitless for any number of participants. Back then, Google said that it wouldn’t enforce a 60-minute time limit on calls and the calls could run all day long until September 30th....

“Today, we’re making it easier for you to make decisions about your data directly within the Google products you use every day, starting with Search. Without ever leaving Search, you can now review and delete your recent Search activity, get quick access to the most relevant privacy controls in your Google Account, and learn more about how Search works with your data,” said Google’s Eric Miraglia, Director of Product Management, Privacy and Data Protection Office in a blog post....

Google has decided not to release the product itself, but it may work with partners to bring Project Ara’s technology to market, possibly through licensing agreements, according to Reuters. The company regularly partners with device makers to build its Nexus smartphones and tablets, so this wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for Google. “Most people do not upgrade their phone to get the next processor — they do not even know what that is — but they do it to get the next best camera, or fingerprint sensor, or better speaker, all in one device,” Rafa Camargo, Google’s engineering lead, demonstrated a functional developer version of an Ara phone told Digital Trends in an interview this year....

Recently, the Google Brain’s team decided to throw a challenge to the AI AutoML of creating a ‘child’ that outdid all of its human-made counterparts by using an approach called reinforcement learning. AutoML acts as a controller neural network that can create a “child” network to execute a specific task. Called as NASNet, the child AI was given the task to recognize objects in a real-time video feed, like people, cars, traffic lights, handbags, or backpacks....

On the other hand, Movidius’s new chips do not need a lot of power to run. Without help from servers, they can do complex computations right on the device they are in, which may be able to bring AI to smartphones and tablets, and even robots and drones one day. In a video released by the two companies, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Google’s machine intelligence research head, said “Instead of us adapting to computers and having to learn their language, computers are becoming more and more intelligent in the sense that they adapt to us....

“We found that there had been an attempt to steal data from Tokopedia users. However, Tokopedia ensures that crucial information such as passwords remains successfully protected behind encryption,” a spokesman for the company said in a statement late Saturday. “At this moment, we continue to investigate further into this matter and there is no additional information that we can share,” the statement added. Under the Breach, a data breach monitoring and cybersecurity intelligence firm was the first to tweet about the Tokopedia user data leakage....

After two years, the long hands of law have finally reached the Fappening hackers. Illinois man Edward Majerczyk is pleading guilty to the crime of illegally accessing the iCloud and Gmail accounts of more than 300 people using an e-mail phishing scam, sending e-mails that appeared to be from the security accounts of Internet service providers, like “[email protected]” and “[email protected]” that directed targeted individuals to a website and prompted them to give up their personal information....

This latest technique of attack is known as DiskFiltration. The research from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev shows how data could be stolen from “air-gapped” computers, which are not connected to the Internet and any local networks and how they are not safe from hackers. “An air-gap isolation is considered to be a hermetic security measure which can prevent data leakage,” Mordechai Guri, a security researcher from Ben-Gurion University, told Ars Technica....

The same thing was repeated with Tewksbury, Massachusetts Police department database. The hackers used modus operandi similar to the Midlothian PD hack and encrypted all the police database with Cryptowall ransomware. The infiltration left the files, including backup copies, locked up and useless. “It basically rendered us in-operational, with respect to the software we use to run the police department,” Tewksbury Police Chief Timothy Sheehan told the Tewksbury Town Crier....

A team of researchers from the University of North Carolina at the Usenix security conference in Austin earlier this month showed an especially exasperating new technique for taking a face: one that depends on 3-D rendering and some light internet stalking. They presented a system that created 3-D facial models which were successful in fooling four out of five facial recognition systems. The digital 3-D facial models were based on publicly available photos and displayed with mobile virtual reality technology to defeat facial recognition systems....