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Snapchat testing Status, Mention, Snap Map features
Photo-messaging app Snapchat is testing new features including a traditional social networking feature offering 'Status' option -- its own version of Instagram-like "@Mention" stickers along with a new user interface (UI) for Snap Map.
Facebook asks email passwords, denies storing
Facebook is asking users to disclose passwords to their personal email accounts in order to access the social networking platform, the media reported.
TECNO launches new triple rear camera phone in India
Hong Kong-based TRANSSION Holdings' subsidiary TECNO Mobile on Wednesday launched CAMON i4, a smartphone with a triple rear camera set up, at a starting price of Rs 9,599.
Did Facebook downplay BJP-linked fake accounts?
Facebook, which has created a mini storm in Indian politics by revealing it removed fake Pages, Groups and accounts linked to the Congress, surreptitiously skipped mentioning the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
100 per cent webcasting of all polling booths in Tripura: CEO
The Election Commission of India has taken initiative for 100 per cent webcasting of all polling booths in Tripura, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Sriram Taranikanti said on Wednesday. "Video viewing and surveillance teams would be deployed across the state, which would monitor all poll activities inside the polling booths on the day of voting. Sufficient CCTV cameras and mobile teams would be deployed to maintain total security. We aim to maintain 100 per cent webcasting on the polling days," he told reporters. The CEO said the concerned district magistrates would monitor everything from their offices, adding presiding officers would provide inputs to corroborate the videos. "The areas, where internet coverage is poor, video recording would be done and the recorded clips would be submitted to the District Election Officers. Tripura is the only state in the country which will implement 100 per cent webcasting of Lok Sabha elections this year," he said. Elections for the ..
Logically launches AI platform to curb fake news
As India prepares for the first phase of voting on April 11 amid fake news concerns, UK-based start-up Logically on Wednesday launched a human-centric Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform to act as a real-time filter for authentic information.
Social network Google+ begins shutting down
Pulling away efforts of competing with social networking majors like Facebook and Twitter, Google has begun the process of shutting down its social networking app Google+.
WhatsApp adds new privacy setting for Groups
To give users more control over who could add them to a Group, Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp announced a new privacy setting and Group invite system on Wednesday.
Dark matter not made up of tiny black holes: Study
Dark matter is not made up of primordial black holes smaller than a tenth of a millimetre, say scientists who have put the theory put forward by the late Stephen Hawking to its most rigorous test to date. About 85 per cent of the matter in the universe is believed to be made up of dark matter. Its gravitational force prevents stars in our Milky Way from flying apart. However, attempts to detect such dark matter particles using underground experiments, or accelerator experiments including the world's largest accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, have failed so far, according to the study published in the journal Nature Astronomy. This has led scientists to consider Hawking's 1974 theory of the existence of primordial black holes, born shortly after the Big Bang, and his speculation that they could make up a large fraction of the elusive dark matter scientists are trying to discover. Researchers led by Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe in Japan used the ..
Microsoft Store shutting down its ebooks category
Seeming to have lost interest in competing with Amazon, Apple Books and Google Play Books, Microsoft is shutting down the ebooks category at the Microsoft Store.
S Korea to launch world's first national 5G networks
South Korea launches the world's first fully-fledged 5G mobile networks Friday, a transformational leap that already has superpowers sparring for control of an innovation that could potentially change the day-to-day lives of billions of people. The superfast communications heralded by fifth-generation wireless technology will ultimately underpin everything from toasters to telephones; from electric cars to power grids. But while the South has won the race to be first to provide the user experience, that is only one part of a wider battle that has pit the United States against China and ensnared giants including Huawei. Hyper-wired South Korea has long had a reputation for technical prowess, and Seoul has made the 5G rollout a priority as it seeks to stimulate stuttering economic growth. The system will bring smartphones near-instantaneous connectivity -- 20 times faster than the existing 4G -- allowing users to download entire movies in less than a second. In the same way that 3G ...
AI to help recognise, assess violinist's gestures
Scientists have developed a novel artificial intelligence (AI) system that provides real-time accurate information about a violinist's movements when playing the instrument. Gestures are extremely important, in part because they are directly related to the sound and the expressiveness of the musicians, said researchers from Pompeu Fabra University in Spain. Technology already exists that can capture the movement and is capable of detecting gestural details very precisely. In a study published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, thE researchers applied AI to the automatic classification of violin bow gestures according to the performer's movement. "We recorded movement and audio data corresponding to seven representative bow techniques performed by a professional violinist," researchers said in a statement. "We obtained information about the inertial motion from the right forearm and we synchronised it with the audio recordings," they said. After extracting the characteristics of .
Cadence Unveils Clarity 3D Solver, Delivering Unprecedented Performance and Capacity for System Analysis and Design
/ -- Announcement marks Cadence's expansion into fast-growing system analysis and design market Highlights: The first product in Cadence's system analysis initiative, the Clarity 3D Solver delivers up to 10X faster performance for electromagnetic simulation with virtually unlimited capacity and gold-standard accuracy New breakthrough architecture can run on hundreds of CPUs optimized for both cloud and on-premises distributed computing True 3D model extraction eliminates risk from manually reducing the size of structures being modeled Easily reads design data from all standard chip and IC package platforms and offers unique integration with Cadence implementation platforms Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today entered the fast-growing system analysis and design market with the announcement of the Cadence Clarity 3D Solver, which delivers gold-standard accuracy with up to 10X faster simulation performance and unbounded capacity compared to legacy field solver technology. ..
Facebook asking users for their email passwords
Facebook is asking users to disclose passwords to their personal email accounts in order to access the social networking platform, the media reported.
Twitter eases account suspension appeal for users
Twitter will now allow users, suspended for violating its guidelines, appeal the decision directly within its platform.
Intel's 2nd-gen Xeon Scalable processors are here
Aiming to empower businesses with deep learning capabilities, Intel on Tuesday launched the second generation of Xeon scalable processors, including the flagship Xeon Platinum 9200 processor with 56 cores, at its "Data-Centric Innovation Day" here.
Congress promises to protect digital rights of citizens
In a first, Congress in its manifesto has assured digital rights of every citizen under the right to privacy. The party says it believes that every Indian shall enjoy digital rights and be able to freely access the digital world.
Google says potentially harmful Android apps on Google Play declined by 31%
Google has released its annual Android Security and Privacy report for 2018 outlining the overall health and risks its popular and most widely ecosystem faced in the year.The report observed that there had been an overall increase in potentially harmful application (PHA) downloads. The percentage of PHAs downloaded from the official Google Play Store increased from 0.02 per cent in 2017 to 0.04 per cent in 2018.However, if the numbers for click fraud are removed from these stats, then the PHAs have actually declined by 31 per cent year-over-year, Engadget reports.Google notes that the overall health of the Android ecosystem has improved. With the use of AI-enabled Google Play Protect, the service is able to scan over 50 billion apps daily.In 2018, 0.45 per cent of Android devices running Google Play Protect had PHAs installed, down from 0.56 per cent in the previous year. The app also prevented 1.6 billion PHA installation attempts from outside of the official Google Play Store.
Wipro engineering arm buys Incite Cam automation biz
Wipro Infrastructure Engineering's industrial arm Win Automation on Tuesday said it had acquired Incite Cam Centre's automation business for an unspecified amount to offer integrated and end-to-end solutions.
Researchers develop new material that changes colours like neon tetra fish
Researchers at the North Carolina State University have developed a new material that is inspired by nature and is capable of changing colour.The colour-changing material is inspired by the flashing colours of the neon tetra fish, 150sec.com reports. The material relies on the use of a magnetic field which changes the orientation of a formation of nanocolumns.The material has four layers incorporating silicon substrate coated with a polymer which had been embedded with iron oxide nanoparticles.It consists of a regular array of micron-wide pedestals that results in the polymer layer resembling a Lego brick.By changing the angle of the columns, the wavelength of light shifts that is most strongly reflected by the material. In practical terms, the material changes colour. The camouflaging technology can have a potential military use case.