Category: Google

Google search may soon be unblocked in Mainland China

Seven years after Google pulled its search engine out of mainland China over a disagreement on censorship directives, the information giant is negotiating with Beijing to make its comeback to the world’s biggest internet market. Google is currently not available in the country, which boasts 721 million web users, and locals can only access to the service by using VPNs.

WikiLeaks ready to offer Central Intelligence Agency hacking tools to tech companies

In other words, spying; Wikileaks founder Julia Assange has not released all the details about the CIA’s hacking software, but said he would release them to major tech companies, which tech expert Broc Wurzbacher says is a good thing. The hacking tools have targeted iPhones, Android systems such as the personal phone reportedly used by President Donald Trump , popular Microsoft software, and Samsung smart TVs, the documents indicated.

Alibaba Is a Great Long-Term Pick

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. ‘s downturn started after reaching its all-time highs in late 2014. The e-commerce company, however, managed to regain its lost upward momentum in 2016 as the stock was up nearly 15%.

Apple, Samsung, Microsoft express concern about Central Intelligence…

“It lools like not only is [the Central Intelligence Agency arsenal] being spread around contractors and former American computer hackers for hire, but now maybe around the black market or being used by these American hackers who sometimes, you know cross both sides of the fence-they’re called grey hats-for attacking others”, Assange said . To Snowden, the biggest story about ” Vault 7 ” is that US intelligence services have purchased software vulnerabilities so it could use them to spy on people, when, in the interests of public safety, it should have turned over the information to the makers of the software.

Descartes Labs imagery search engine

We have looked at a number of image recognition based search engines before, such as Google faces tracker , which we saw in 2013, which was designed for finding faces in Google Earth imagery, or Terrapattern a more recent and more general search engine. We have also had a look at DigitalGlobe’s use of artificial intelligence to analyse imagery.

Google Invites Open Source Devs to Give E2EMail Encryption a Go

Google last week released its E2EMail encryption code to open source as a way of pushing development of the technology. “Google has been criticized over the amount of time and seeming lack of progress it has made in E2EMail encryption, so open sourcing the code could help the project proceed more quickly,” said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT .

Tourism gets a virtual lift from new app

A new virtual reality app is allowing people across the world to “visit” landmarks like the Falkirk Wheel and New Lanark world heritage site. These attractions are among an elite band of 26 sites to feature in special apps launched by tourism body VisitScotland, ScotlandVR is billed as a ground-breaking virtual travel experience that allows people, wherever they are in the world, to be immersed in Scotland’s remarkable attractions.

Chrome for MacOS to block rogue ad injections and settings changes

Google has expanded its Safe Browsing service, allowing Google Chrome on macOS to better protect users from programs that locally inject ads into web pages or that change the browser’s home page and search settings. The Safe Browsing service is used by Google’s search engine, as well as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, to block users from accessing websites that host malicious code or malicious software.

Visitors can fully immerse in Scotland through their mobile devices

Edinburgh, Feb 28 People across the world can now instantly walk through the prehistoric village of Skara Brae in Orkney, soar over Edinburgh Castle like a bird, journey into the depths of The Hollow Mountain of Ben Cruachan and experience the Northern Lights – all from the comfort of their own home, with the release of a new virtual reality app from VisitScotland. ScotlandVR is a virtual travel experience, and the tourist boards first step with interactive virtual map technology, that allows people wherever they are in the world, to be fully immersed in this soulful destination.

You could virtually be in Dark Sky Park with new app

The launch of a new virtual reality app from VisitScotland means that people across the globe can now experience the dark skies at Galloway Forest Park. The launch of a new virtual reality app from VisitScotland means that people across the globe can now experience the dark skies at Galloway Forest Park.

MediaTek wants to put its new 10-core chip in $300 VR smartphones

MediaTek’s new 10-core Helio X30 chip will be available for smartphones and phablets priced between $300 and $500 The smartphone world will be rocked with MediaTek’s new 10-core Helio X30 chip, which will bring premium features like Google’s DayDream virtual reality platform to Android handsets with prices starting at US$300. The Helio X30 has the most cores of all smartphone chips, and that makes it blazing fast.

Amazon said to be developing its own suite of office productivity apps

For the longest time, there have been two titan when it comes to office productivity software: the ever enduring Microsoft Office suite, and the more recent web-based Google Docs. But there soon could be a new challenger in the form of Amazon , as sources have indicated the company is planning to beef up its Amazon Web Services platform with a productivity suite that will attempt to lure enterprise customers away from Microsoft and Google.

Verizon Droid Turbo 2 Nougat Update Released

Droid Turbo 2 owners on Verizon should clear up some time this weekend because their handset is receiving an update which brings the latest iteration of Google ‘s mobile platform. The Verizon Droid Turbo 2 Nougat update release is finally taking place.

Wireless Charging Tech in iPhone 8?

Conventional wisdom indicates that Apple will be launching the iPhone 8 later this year, which marks the 10th anniversary of the iconic smartphone, and that the new model will likely feature some form of wireless charging technology. But beyond that, opinions are divided as to what exactly users can expect from the tech giant.

BlackBerry KEYone price and release date

The camera sensor will be an IMX378 12MP sensor which is the same one found in the Google Pixel, also as previously rumored, and there’s an 8MP front facing sensor . It comes with a 4-row QWERTY keyboard and is manufactured by the Chinese company, TCL.

Google Responds to Reports of Unexpected Account Sign-Outs

Google has responded to multiple reports of users being unexpectedly logged out of their Google accounts, in order to assuage fears that the logouts were security related. The unexpected sign-outs began on Thursday night and continued through Friday, affecting multiple services including Gmail, Chromecast, YouTube, and Google Play.

cliquery 1.8.10

An interactive prompt allows users to easily make successive queries and enter program flags dynamically; simply typing help will list all possible flags to enter. Opening a link will invoke a browser supplied by the user or detected automatically across Windows, OSX, and Linux platforms.

cliquery 1.8.10

An interactive prompt allows users to easily make successive queries and enter program flags dynamically; simply typing help will list all possible flags to enter. Opening a link will invoke a browser supplied by the user or detected automatically across Windows, OSX, and Linux platforms.

Aurora fourth-grader is “Doodle 4 Google” finalist, so…

Aurora fourth-grader Madison J. Lee has some big news that she’s looking forward to sharing with her pet fish. The Black Forest Hills Elementary School student has been named one of 53 U.S. state and territories finalists for the annual “Doodle 4 Google” competition, meaning her work could be featured on the global search engine’s website and seen by hundreds of millions of people.

Aurora fourth-grader is “Doodle 4 Google” finalist, so…

Aurora fourth-grader Madison J. Lee has some big news that she’s looking forward to sharing with her pet fish. The Black Forest Hills Elementary School student has been named one of 53 U.S. state and territories finalists for the annual “Doodle 4 Google” competition, meaning her work could be featured on the global search engine’s website and seen by hundreds of millions of people.

Help a Guam 5th grader become the next Google doodle

One Upi Elementary School 5th grade student needs your help to win the national Doodle 4 Google competition , which could in turn get her artwork featured on the Google homepage for millions of viewers to see as well as tens of thousands of dollars for her classmates here at home. Since Google founders put the very first burning man themed doodle on the Google frontpage, it’s become an integral part of the company’s public image.

The SHA1 hash function is now completely unsafe

Security researchers have achieved the first real-world collision attack against the SHA-1 hash function, producing two different PDF files with the same SHA-1 signature. This shows that the algorithm’s use for security-sensitive functions should be discontinued as soon as possible.

Google-bred company accuses Uber of self-driving car theft

A self-driving car company founded by Google is colliding with ride-haling service Uber in a court battle revolving around allegations of betrayal, high-tech espionage and greed. The brewing showdown emerged late Thursday in a lawsuit filed in a San Francisco federal court by Waymo, a once-secretive self-driving company hatched by Google eight years ago.

Public trust in Google COLLAPSING as millions of natural health…

Google’s insidious censorship of the entire NaturalNews.com website has set off a firestorm of outrage across the independent media, with a wave of readers expressing astonishment and disgust at Google’s indiscriminate banning of the entire NaturalNews.com website for no justifiable reason. NEW: Sign this White House petition to halt Google’s outrageous censorship of Natural News, InfoWars and other independent media publishers.

Android VPN apps fail privacy tests

In a coup d’ironie par excellence , it turns out that VPN apps available on the Google Play store may be putting Android smartphone and tablet users at an increased risk of data leakage instead of actually protecting them. Mobility is here to stay as part of enterprise digital transformation.

Google and Microsoft will demote piracy links in UK search results

Both Microsoft and Google have agreed to demote piracy links in search results in the UK, it has been announced, in their latest efforts to help crack down on Internet piracy. This move, if it proceeds, will be a first of its kind, and will result in Google Search and Bing demoting websites in search results that give access to copyrighted content without the authority to do so.

Google & Microsoft To Demote Piracy Sites In UK Search Results

In a world first, Google and Microsoft have finally agreed to crackdown on piracy sites in the UK. On Monday, it was announced that the search engine giants had both signed up to a voluntary code of practice which will see them commit to demote websites that have been repeatedly served with copyright infringement notices, thereby making it much harder for UK internet users to download and stream films, TV, music and sport illegally.

Google & Bing To Step Up Demoting Piracy From UK Search Results

News is out that Google and Bing have made a deal with the Intellectual Property Office and British Phonographic Industry and Motion Picture Association organizations for both search engines to do better removing or demoting pirated content in the UK search results. Both search engines, according to the report, have promised to reduce pirated content in their search results by June 1, 2017.

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A seven-year-old girl who loves robots and computers got something of a shock when Google chief Sundar Pichai responded personally to her job application. Chloe Bridgewater, from Hereford, sent the letter to the technology giant’s head offices in Silicon Valley in the US last Monday, saying: “My dad said I can sit on bean bags and go down slides and ride go karts in a job in .”

Can internet-beaming balloons outmaneuver shifting winds?

In doing so, the 4-year-old “Project Loon” says it will be able to bring remote parts of the world online more quickly with a smaller fleet of the balloons than it previously thought. Engineers involved in the eccentric project, a part of the X Lab owned by Google’s corporate parent Alphabet Inc., say they have come up with algorithms that enable the high-flying balloons to do a better job anticipating shifting wind conditions so they hover above masses of land for several months instead of orbiting the earth.

Girl, 7, ‘over the moon’ as Google chief replies to job application

A seven-year-old girl who loves robots and computers got something of a shock when Google chief Sundar Pichai responded personally to her job application. Chloe Bridgewater, from Hereford, sent the letter to the technology giant’s head offices in Silicon Valley in the US last Monday, saying: “My dad said I can sit on bean bags and go down slides and ride go karts in a job in .”