4 things you probably don’t know about Armenia as a tech center

Despite its small size, nowadays approximately 200 tech startups operate in the country. The startup boom mostly attracts the youth, for whom founding a startup is stylish and trendy. There are more than 10 success stories at the moment. (Photo by One Armenia) Those startups have passed the borders of Armenia, attracting millions of users and attracting foreign investments. Here are a few of them. PicsArtmobile app has more than 250 mln downloads and 65 mln active users monthly....

June 18, 2016 · 2 min · 234 words · Chelsea Miller

Apple and Microsoft reportedly removed a rifle emoji

The decision was led and championed by one of techs biggest companies: Apple. Apple also mentioned that it would not support the icon on its phones and tablets. Millions of people use emojis on Apples software platforms. Earlier this year, the company announced it delivers as many as 200,000 messages per second across iMessage. Unicode members are reluctant to talk about the rifle although it was a unanimous decision. Many of these other items have been approved and added to the most recent version of the Unicode standard....

June 18, 2016 · 1 min · 117 words · Andrea Callahan

Chicago man shot dead while livestreaming on Facebook

The video featured Perkins drinking out of a bottle and laughing at a joke someone told. Six minutes into the video, there are gunshots, and screaming can be heard. Perkins falls on the grass after two shots. Other voices shout: Call the police! Man somebody call an ambulance, kindly! You good, Tony! You good, Tony! Another adds: He [is] bleeding out his mouth and his nose right now. Baby, wake up!...

June 18, 2016 · 2 min · 233 words · Victoria Wade

Facebook users can share ‘telepathic thoughts’ in the future say Mark Zuckerberg

He claimed that telepathic sharing could be the next thing for the social media company. Facebooks founder said the feature originated with internal Q&As he had held with colleagues for years. source: www.techworm.net

June 18, 2016 · 1 min · 33 words · Jennifer Hale

Firefox Container Tabs Allows Users To Login With Multiple IDs on the Same Site

This experimental feature allows Firefox users to log into the same website using multiple accounts. The companys engineers define the Container Tabs as a feature that splits the users browsing sessions into different containers. These separate containers will allow the user to log into a website using different identities. We all portray different characteristics of ourselves in different situations, says Mozilla security engineerTanvi Vyas. The way I speak with my son is much different than the way I communicate with my co-workers....

June 18, 2016 · 2 min · 232 words · Tina Stanley

Is Google a Balloon Thief?

Well, the balloons used by Google in this project are stolen according to Space Data Corporation. The company says that Google has stolen their balloon based technology. Google says it is using own manufacturing facility and automated systems to deliver a balloons in the air. However, Space Data Corporation alleged that is false and the balloon technology belongs to them. The two systems use weather balloons to carry radio transceivers 60,000 and 100,000 feet in the air....

June 18, 2016 · 1 min · 115 words · William Gordon

Meet the 9 year-old coder who is better at programming than many adults

Her first app is calledSmartkins Animalswhich teaches young children about animals. Her app had already been downloaded a few hundred times ahead of her interview. She says she learnt coding with the help of YouTube and instructional videos posted online. She created her first App to help her sister identify animals. Anvitha used Xcode to create her app and not Swift which is Apples new programming language. Anvitha says that her new project is a new iOS app for students....

June 18, 2016 · 1 min · 144 words · Julie Lynch

Physicists develop computer algorithm to predict next ISIS terror attack

However, now science is looking to fill the void and predict next ISIS terror attacks. They use Facebook, Twitter, Telegram etc. to communicate with their cadres and also propagate their organisation. This is the void that Johnson and his colleagues seek to fill. Though the new software would have more thrust on group attacks. speaking with the New York Times. But to jump ahead to the utility of it, I think, takes more work....

June 18, 2016 · 1 min · 76 words · Sarah Brown

Anonymous bombards ISIS Twitter accounts with Rainbows after Orlando Killings

Another#DaeshBagin#Jordan.@hddgfgds1. The taking of innocent lives will not be tolerated. source: www.techworm.net

June 17, 2016 · 1 min · 12 words · Adam Kramer

Apple stole ‘My Breathe’ App says developer

One of the new features it revealed at WWDC is the new utility called Breath. We wanted a mindfulness experience that was felt throughout the day in smaller bits, Erez toldBGR. His App was released on April 2015 and has already clocked 6500 downloads, he says. Apple is not new to ripoff accusations. Apple has refused to comment on Erezs claims or give him compensation for ripping of his concept....

June 17, 2016 · 1 min · 72 words · Jessica Collins

Intel x86 CPUs comes with another CPU that is apparently a backdoor

More worrying is that you cant either disable or even touch this hidden CPU according to a security researcher. It is an extra general purpose computer. However, Zammit has pointed out some issues in ablogpost. Firstly, no one has ever seen the source code of the ME platform outside the Intels headquarters. And lastly, there is no way to audit the health of the ME firmware. Except the Intel engineers, nobody has access to this CPU-in-CPU says Zammit....

June 17, 2016 · 1 min · 96 words · Michael Kirk

Microsoft open-sources “Checked C,” A more reliable version of C programming language

Pointers are used by programmers to define memory addresses where their code will operate. Existing system software can be modified incrementally in a backwards-compatible fashion to have this checking. The Checked C project is available onGitHub. For more information, you’ve got the option to also visit Microsoft Research pagehere. source: www.techworm.net

June 17, 2016 · 1 min · 51 words · Steve Thomas

The Pirate Bay Co-Founder Slapped $395,000 Fine By Finnish Court

Bullying is the new black. However, the judge still holds him responsible. The record companies know that I have not had any part of TPB for ages, still suing. Sunde also must pay roughly $62,000 to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). None of those penalties have been satisfied and its likely that this one will go unpaid as well. Sunde called it another frivolous court case and is thinking of starting crowdfunding to finance his legal fees....

June 17, 2016 · 1 min · 117 words · Shannon Andrews