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Facebook, Google And WhatsApp To Fortify User Data Security

October 24, 2018 by raju-larazon Leave a Comment

Recently tech giant Apple battle with the US government over encryption to open an iPhone utilized by an assailant as a part of a mass shooting in San Bernadino a year ago, beat US organizations Google, Facebook and Snapchat are extending encryption of user information in their services, media reported.

Facebook, Google And WhatsApp To Fortify User Data Security

As per The Guardian, while Whatsapp is set to take off encryption for its voice calls notwithstanding its current private features, Google is researching “extra uses” for encryption in secure email. Social network monster Facebook too is dealing with to better ensure it’s Messenger services. The popular messanger services Snapchat is likewise considering a more secure messaging system.

Apple, which is relied upon to show up in a government court in California on March 22 to fight the order, has blamed the US Department of Justice (DoJ) of attempting to “smear” the organization with “frantic” and “unsubstained” cases.

It took after the Justice Department’s latest court documenting over it’s request that Apple create software open an iPhone utilized by an aggressor as a part of a mass shooting a year ago, BBC reported.

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The office said that Apple’s position was “destructive” of organizations attempting to ensure “freedom and rights”.It additionally asserts Apple helped the Chinese government with iPhone security. It additionally asserts Apple helped the Chinese government with iPhone security. Apple’s general insight Bruce Sewell said: “The tone of the brief peruses like a prosecution.”

He said: “Everyone should to be careful in light of the fact that it appears like contradicting the Department of Justice means you should be evil and hostile to American, nothing could be further from reality.”

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Prosecutors claim Apple’s own particular information demonstrates that China requested data from Apple in regards to more than 4,000 iPhones in the principal portion of 2015, and Apple created information 74 percent of the time.

In any case, Mr. Sewell said the new documenting depends on meagerly sourced reports to mistakenly recommend that Apple had conspired with the Chinese government to undermine iPhone buyers’ security.

The US government has been battling Apple over access to data on the iPhone utilized by one of the San Bernardino executioners, Rizwan Farook, in December. Apple says the requests abuse the organization’s rights.

The Department of Justice asserted in it’s court recording that Apple had assaulted the FBI investigation as “terrible”, and attempted to depict itself as a “guardian of Americans’ privacy”.

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This “rhetoric, as well as destructive of the very foundations that are best ready to safe guard our freedom and our rights: The courts, the Fourth Amendment, a longstanding point of reference and revered laws, and the justly chose branches of government,” the DoJ said.

In February, the FBI acquired a court request to drive Apple to compose new software that would permit the legislature to break into the phone. The FBI needs the product to sidestep auto-erase fuctions on the phone. Apple has contended that the government is requesting a “back door” that could be misused by the government and criminals.

Google Now Future Version Will Soon Work Offline

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Google Now, Google’s own collaborator like Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana, might soon work offline and ability to work seven times faster than present systems, an exploration paper put together by Alphabet recommends. The paper talks for the most part in a hypothetical connection, however, says the new system has as of now been tried on a Nexus 5.

Google Now Future Version Will Soon Work Offline

At present, Google Now has exceptionally restricted offline from the net capacity where best in class orders should be sent and handled by a server. This causes delays and regularly neglects to finish or appreciate orders because of problematic systems.

To conquer this test, scientists at Google have thought of various complex computational and pressure models with a local voice system that keeps running, all things considered, seven times speedier than the real time speech recognition on a Nexus 5 and takes up only 20.3 MB of storage. To accomplish this, the scientists utilized around 2,000 hours of anonymised Google voice seek action, totaling more than 100 million expressions, while including clamor from YouTube to imitate real life speaking conditions.

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The outcomes, as indicated by the paper, depend on two particular domains, dictations and voice commands. So as to keep the disk space low the company has tried different things with language model introduction systems that empower sharing of a single model across both domains. The research paper will be introduced by the company at the 41st International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, starting on 20 March.

According to the TOI The Paper Stated, “We employ a quantized Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) acoustic model trained with connectionist temporal classification (CTC) to directly predict phoneme targets, and further reduce it’s memory footprint using an SVD-based compression scheme.

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Additionally, we minimize our memory footprint by using a single language model for both dictation and voice command domains, constructed using Bayesian interpolation. Finally, in order to properly handle device-specific information, such as proper names and other context-dependent information, we inject vocabulary items into the decoder graph and bias the language model on-the-fly.”

Google is hitting the road literally for user feedback

October 24, 2018 by raju-larazon Leave a Comment

Google is going to set out on an old-school search, swapping it’s Internet calculation for a custom-assembled van that will voyage over the US to discover how people utilize its online services and respond to new features.

Google is hitting the road literally for user feedback

The white van embellished with Google’s colorful logo and a welcome to “shape the future” of the world’s most capable Internet company is booked to haul out Monday on a six-week street trip.

Google is utilizing the van to offer it some help with breaking out of it’s Silicon Valley bubble. The van will make multiday stops in seven states, halting close universities, libraries, parks and some of Google’s own provincial workplaces with expectations of discovering how normal Americans are utilizing the company’s large number of advanced offerings.

Around 500 strolls up volunteers will be welcome to venture inside the van intended to serve as a smaller than expected rendition of Google’s Silicon Valley research facilities, where the greater part of the company’s users studies are directed.

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Once inside, researchers will watch, question and record how the volunteers use applications and different services on their smartphones in sessions that will last 15 to an hour and a half. They will get receive cards and Google shirts consequently for their time.

A couple might even get a look at thoughts that Google’s architects are as yet refining before the organization chooses whether to discharge them as items to the overall population.

The plan to build a research lab on wheels became out of Google’s recognition that the vast majority don’t live and think the same path as the populace living in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the organization does a large portion of its user research. In this nerdy and rich range, the day’s greatest stress once in a while comes down to what extent it will take to summon a Uber ride to a fancy restaurant.

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“We are trying to understand the entire end-to-end experience, which is the reason we are attempting to get out to more locations and see more people so we can accumulate more connection,” says Laura Granka, a lead Google search focusing on the Internet search and maps.

Windows 10 Update: Preview With Improved Cortana And Three More Languages

October 24, 2018 by raju-larazon 1 Comment

Windows 10 Update: Preview With Improved Cortana And Three More Languages

Microsoft has launched a latest Windows 10 Preview called Build 14279 to Windows 10 which has seed to Insiders in the Fast ring. The company’s digital personal associate now bolsters three more languages, making it useful in 14 languages altogether.

Windows 10 Update: Preview With Improved Cortana And Three More Languages

The Redmond, Washington-based organization a week ago released Windows 10 manufacture 14279 which, in addition to other things, includes support for Spanish (Mexico), Portuguese (Brazil), and French (Canada) languages to Cortana. Another feature acquainted with it permits Cortana to recall bits of data regardless of the possibility that you haven’t given it a due date. The component, for example, permits you to utilize Cortana to set an update about a movie, without determining the date on which you need to be reminded.

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Cortana is presently accessible in three more languages to be specific Spanish (Mexico), Portuguese (Brazil), and French (Canada) languages.

“For each new market and language, the Cortana Team attempts to add to a custom ordeal that is pertinent in every individual business sector and language. For Instance, in Brazil – Cortana is fond of pastels which are commonly found in many regions crosswise over Brazil,” declared Gabe Aul, Corporate Vice President, Engineering Systems Team through the blog post.

Notwithstanding it, Cortana will have the capacity to automatically set detail updates for you and can later recover those updates also at the important time. Microsoft says that in future, Cortana will have the able to recover these updates upon request, much the same as a human personal assistant.

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The new build also brings single foundation for both the Lock screen and the login screen, much the same as Windows 10 versatile. In the event that one has a custom lock screen foundation, then now it will be used for login screen too.

The typing experience is required to get smoother in the new form with an enhanced execution of IME and broadened prediction content. The new Xbox redesign will bring along some new features including a Gamerscore Leaderboard. Check below what kind of issues Microsoft fixed which are mentioned in their official blog post.

Here’s what’s fixed for PC in this new build include:

crashing of Edge and Cortana for users with roaming profiles
completed reminders being shown by Cortana
copied items on the desktop not showing until choosing Refresh or using F5
bluescreen problem while downloading certain drivers from Windows Update

The knows issues for the PC as per Microsoft include:

Surface Pro 3, Surface Pro 4, and Surface Book devices experiencing a freeze or hang and all input such as keyboard/trackpad and touch do not work. The workaround is to hold down the power button to force the device to hard-reboot.
Freezing PCs or bluescreen while resuming from hibernation. Disabling hibernation is a workaround in some cases until this is fixed.
Connectivity to older Wi-Fi networks using the WEP encryption security method may be broken. A workaround would be to configure your wireless routers to use WPA or WPA2 or wait for the next Insider flight when this is fixed.
Turning on the “always show all icons in the notification area” setting disrupts the layout of the notification area (“systray”) causing it to go out of alignment.
If you have Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Internet Security, or the Kaspersky Total Security Suite installed on your PC there is a known driver bug that prevents these programs from working as expected in builds from the Development Branch. There are no known workarounds yet and until the issue is present, Microsoft recommends using Windows Defender or another third party anti-virus product of your choice to remain protected.
OS reliability issue causing crashes with apps such as QQ. The bug is also impacting older apps such as Windows Live Mail and Expression Encoder 4.

WhatsApp For Android And IOS Get Document Sharing, Ignored Windows

October 24, 2018 by raju-larazon Leave a Comment

WhatsApp has finally revealed the ability to share documents, both on the Android and iOS version of the application.

We had detected the ‘Shared Document’ feature in our iOS application yesterday, however, we were not able to share any report as different users did not seem to have the upheld version. Today anyway, we could send reports from iOS to Android and Android to Android, and so on. The document sharing option is availible for the group on WhatsApp too.

WhatsApp For Android And IOS Get Document Sharing, Ignored Windows

With a specific end goal to share a document, simply tap on the share document option in iOS or Android and one of the tabs ought to reflect Share Documents. In iOS, you’ll have the capacity to share documents from iCloud, Google Drive, OneDrive, in the event that they are introduced on your smartphone. In Android, WhatsApp gives you a chance to share documents from the File Folder itself.

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That fits in with WhatsApp’s bigger plan, revealed this year, which sees the company increasing its attention to its business customers. CEO Jan Koum said in January that WhatsApp would start testing more commercial services, including those that would permit shoppers to speak with organizations. Document sharing makes well in this bigger setting of business-friendly features.

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Obviously, the feature will have direct user advantages too for things such as sharing flyers, e-tickets, checks, and different PDFs of a more personal information. The feature is arriving now on both iOS and Android, not released yet for Windows.

Uber Launches Its Bike Service UberMoto In Bangalore

October 24, 2018 by raju-larazon Leave a Comment

Uber is now stepping into its bike service named UberMoto in Bangalore today. It seems that the company is looking to set up an extra revenue stream by offering minimal effort bike rides, and further tackle Ola’s just launched Micro and other comparative ease driving services.

Uber Launches Its Bike Service UberMoto In Bangalore

UberMoto was propelled in Bangkok and Bangalore will be the second city in the world to get this service. Tolls from the ride will begin from as low as 3 per kilometer.

Apparently, Uber is beginning this services as Bangalore is experiencing the comparable issue of activity blockage like Bangkok. While the service is being propelled in Bangalore on a pilot premise, the organization has plans to grow it to different cities of India also, if the pilot in Bangalore works out well.

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UberMOTO ride comes with all safety features, including live GPS following, two-way feedback, and the capacity to share trip details to family and companions.

The company will be charging a 20% commission on every ride and will give the traveler a choice to pay with either money or credit and give an electronic receipt.

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Prior, Uber had launched its carpooling administration in Delhi and Bangalore, only a couple of weeks before the odd-even analysis. It had additionally propelled a comparative examination in India for car services – Ubercar in April 2015. However, it close down the services soon after 8 months.

Asus Smartphones Will Get Android 6.0 Marshmallow Update include Zenfone

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Asus is drowsy with regards to taking off Android 6.0 Marshmallow update, and it appears like the status won’t enhance for an additional couple of months. The organization reported a rundown of gadgets that will get the Marshmallow overhaul, the post specifies the course of events to be Q2 (April-June). The list includes expected Zenfone 2015 cell phones alongside PadFone S transformer.

Asus Details Which Smartphones Will Get Android 6.0 Marshmallow Update

Here’s the full complete list of devices with their respective model numbers:

ZenFone 2 (ZE550ML, ZE551ML)
ZenFone 2 Deluxe (ZE551ML)
ZenFone 2 Deluxe Special Edition (ZE551ML)
ZenFone 2 Laser (ZE500KG, ZE500KL, ZE550KL, ZE551KL, ZE600KL, ZE601KL)
ZenFone Selfie (ZD551KL)
ZenFone Max (ZC550KL)
ZenFone Zoom (ZX551ML)
PadFone S (PF500KL)

Google released Android 6.0 Marshmallow for OEMs and select Nexus gadgets including Nexus 6P and Nexus 5 a year ago. Not at all like Android 5.0 Lollipop, which conveyed along another outline dialect to the versatile working framework, the Android Marshmallow was to a great extent went for execution improvements and security with some feature components, for example, Now on Tap.

The good news is that now we at long last have an (unpleasant) timeline to talk about. Asus will convey Marshmallow redesigns amid the second quarter of this current year, so from April to June. The company has updated its rundown of gadgets getting the Marshmallow treat, including three cell phones that weren’t in the beginning list.

IBM, Oracle keen to work with AP to promote startup

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One of the Top software companies in the world IBM and Oracle, and in addition University of California, Berkeley (UCB) have indicated interest for working with the Andhra Pradesh government to advance startup biological community furthermore in setting up their development centers in the state.

IBM, Oracle keen to work with AP to promote startup

Amid a visit to the United States, the state government’s IT counselor JA Chowdary met the officials of UCB and Stanford University and the two colleges consented to work in joint development and brooding exercises to advance startup biological system in AP, a state government release said.

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Chowdary met senior officials at Oracle Corporation and the two sides investigated the likelihood for setting up Oracle Operations and Oracle Partners biological community in AP, it said.

He also met IBM executives and talked about the likelihood of setting up off-shore development facilities in AP.

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In a meeting with senior officials of the SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International), he pondered on the potential outcomes for joint collobration program in AP to set up electronic manufacturing operations in the state, it included.

IPhone 5S gets much cheaper than Android

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According to several resources, the Apple IPhone SE is going to launch this MARCH (rumor). There are two designs, both looks like an iPhone but quite different.

It is similar to the iPhone 5s, while On Leaks’ schematic pictures a device with curved edges, leading to a look that’s a hybrid of an iPhone 6 and an iPhone 5s.

IPhone 5S gets much cheaper than Android :

There are several sites that you can buy an iPhone 5s for just 250$ and even it might get lower once the iPhone SE gets launched.

Though the iPhone SE is rumored to resemble the iPhone 5s on the exterior, its internals are stated to be on par with Apple’s modern-day gadgets. It will incorporate an A9 processor, the identical used within the iPhone 6s, together with the aforementioned upgraded camera and an NFC chip to support Apple Pay.

Expected Features and launching:

They might offer a touch id sensor and NFC for Apple Pay, along with an eight-megapixel or 12-megapixel rear digicam and A9 Processor.
Apple is allegedly set to unveil the brand new cellphone at an occasion on March 21, the place we may additionally see a 9.7-inch iPad pro and new Apple Watch bands unveiled.

IPhone 5S gets much cheaper than Android

According to 9to5MAC, the new device is internally code named “N69,” but the launch name will likely be the “iPhone 5se.” The “se” suffix has been described in two ways by Apple employees: as a “special edition” variation of the vintage 4-inch iPhone screen size and as an “enhanced” version of the iPhone 5s.

Sources have offered the next list of “iPhone 5se” improvements over the 5s:

The chambered, brilliant edges were changed with curved glass like on the iPhone 6 and 6s strains.
The same eight megapixel rear digicam and 1.2 megapixel entrance digicam programs from the iPhone 6.
Aid for better panoramas and autofocus for video recording
Barometer for monitoring elevation within the well being app
An NFC chip for Apple Pay.
The A8 and M8 chips from the iPhone 6 (update: A9/M9 extra likely)Bluetooth four.2, Volt E, and 802.11ac WiFi chips from the iPhone 6s .
live photographs from the iPhone 6s equal Silver, space grey, Gold, & Rose Gold colour options because the 6s line.

We hope the best feature for iPhone this March…

Google Cardboard VR Viewer at 15 dollars on Google Store – Buy Now

October 24, 2018 by raju-larazon Leave a Comment

Google Cardboard VR Viewer at 15 dollars on Google Store

VR viewers has become more popular with the gadget world now a days and if you are yet to buy one, you should consider buying Google Cardboard VR Viewer at 15 dollars on Google Store directly online.

Google is offering the cardboard unit for $ 15 for one piece or at $25 for two as a back. It appears to be the same Cardboard unit that Google introduced during May last year and it is expected that Google’s Carboard VR Viewer is compatible with most phones under 6 inches of size with no exclusion of Iphone. Buy Google Cardboard VR Viewer at $15 on Google Store.

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The listing by the Search Engine master is a part of the latest Virtual Reality Section in their store, Google Store also have Mattel’s new View-Master VR starter pack for $29.99. Where Mattel’s unit has plastic as the lead material and more robust lenses. Another VR Viewer option in the Google store is the Goggle Tech C1 Glass at $14.99 which is a fold able plastic VR Viewer built with the Cardboard Specifications. You should notice that the third and last item is not by Google but its by Goggle.

The Famous Search Engine is hosting its big developer conference in May 2016 and it’s very likey that VR will play some big role in the event.

Verdict: You can check all the key specifications and buy VR Viewer at the Google Store online but Google’s Cardboard caught our eye than the other two options available.