Alex Stamos ditches Yahoo to join Facebook as CSO

He will replace Joe Sullivan who left Facebook in the month of April to join Uber Technologies Inc. Its vague what his departure means for those efforts. Stamos exit comes along with the other major management departures at Yahoo. Facebook and Yahoo could not be reached for comment outside regular business hours. source: www.techworm.net

June 25, 2015 · 1 min · 54 words · Brittany Wallace

Facebook can now detect your face online even if its hidden

We humans can already recognize people with these cues quite well. For instance, you might recognize Mark Zuckerberg very easily, as he always wears a gray T-shirt. Later tests showed the algorithm to be 83% accurate. Facebook is doubling down on its facial-recognition tech. But there have been some hiccups. The new Facebook algorithm on the other hand also has a disadvantage when dealing with the privacy. Using the technology, anybody can access to other users account with a hidden face....

June 25, 2015 · 1 min · 106 words · Adam Bates

Google Hired 18-year-old Who Serves 1000 Businesses and Just Got a Cool $15 Million

Very few people get the opportunity to work at Google at such a small age before entering college. When Gadea was 8 years old he started doing programming and he used to love computers a lot. He was already writing games in high school. He developed plug-in for Google Desktop Search that put him on Googles radar. It made the search feature very useful and immediately it became super popular....

June 25, 2015 · 2 min · 254 words · Lori Butler

Google removes an extension of Chromium over spying concerns after huge public outcry

The problem was first reported in late May when a bug was placed in the Debian bug tracker. Howard is not included in the list of extensions seen at chrome://extensions/. The extension is assumed to locally find out the OK Google phrase by transmitting only search phrases to Google. However, there is no simple way to ascertain this, as no source code is available. Google gave justifications for the behavior regarding a bug placed in the Chromium bug tracker....

June 25, 2015 · 2 min · 223 words · Alexandra Gray

Lenovo K3 Note Launched in India with 5.5-inch 1080p Display For Rs. 9999

Table Of Contents Lenovo K3 Note Launched on Flipkart with 5.5-inch 1080p Display for Rs. 9999; Registrations Start Today Lenovo has launchedK3 Notein India today. The K3 Note sports a 13MP primary camera with dual-LED flash and 5MP secondary camera for the selfies. It is a dual-SIM smartphone with support for Indias4G LTEbands. It is also powered by a 3000 mAh battery in a design very similar to the Lenovo A7000....

June 25, 2015 · 2 min · 259 words · Stephanie Smith

Lexus unveils the prototype of ‘Lexus Hoverboard’ called ‘Slide

Basically, Lexus aspires to display its commitment towards pursuing a modern approach in advanced design and technology. The marketing gimmicks of the company focuses on theart-meets-technologysort of a campaign through itspromotional video. Lexus and experts from the super-conductive technology have together worked to bring the worlds most advanced Hyperboard into existence. The site further also mentions that SLIDE hoverboard has been created bycombining liquid nitrogen cooled superconductorsandpermanent magnets. Lexus seems to have used the fundamentals of physics in the form ofQuantum LevitationandMagnetic levitationto create its uniqueSlidehoverboard....

June 25, 2015 · 1 min · 130 words · Thomas Mclaughlin

Marty Cooper the inventor of cell phone predicts ‘skull phone’ ; thinks Apps Sucks!

He also thinks apps are terrible. What Cooper did was invent the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. From that point forward, the world was never the same ever before. Cooper has discussed how AT&T originally came up with cellular telephony and threatened Motorolas two-way transceiver business. Thus, the first personal portable telephone took birth. He takes his personal cell phone and calls AT&Ts Bill Engel, whom Cooper calls his nemesis. He probably was gritting his teeth, Cooper says of his rival....

June 25, 2015 · 1 min · 137 words · James Murray

NASA seals a deal with NNSA to use Nukes to destroy Comets and Asteroids posing threat to Earth

It seems NASA has something similar in mind. It was just a couple of years back, in 2013, when a 60-foot wideChelyabinsk meteorexploded over Russia. The alarming fact is that none of the space agency could see this meteor coming towards Earth. Space scientists believe that there could be millions of asteroids that are moving near Earth. For now scientists have been able to detect only a few of them....

June 25, 2015 · 1 min · 140 words · Sharon Smith

Netflix set to launch in India by 2016

Its similar to Starbucks entering India. Everybody knew about it but cafe brands were late to react and Starbucks came and stole the show. We dont want to be caught on the wrong foot, a Tata Sky spokesperson told TOI. We have said we plan to be nearly global by the end of 2016. We have nothing else to share at this point, a Netflix spokesperson said. source: www.techworm.net

June 25, 2015 · 1 min · 69 words · Matthew James

Samsung disables Windows Update leaving laptops vulnerable to hackers

He made the startling discovery after trying to help a user troubleshoot issues with his Samsung machine. Windows Update seemed like getting disabled randomly until Microsofts Auditpol utility directed it to Samsungs SW Update software. More precisely, Samsungs update tool had managed to download and run a file named Disable_Windowsupdate.exe. The SW Update program helps you install and tune up your software and driver easily. According to data from Gartner, these four held together only 12% of the market....

June 25, 2015 · 1 min · 109 words · Destiny White

Send messages with Facebook Messenger without creating a Facebook profile

You know, if youre not too busy or anything. Note: an older version of Facebook Messenger could handle standard SMS messages. source: www.techworm.net

June 25, 2015 · 1 min · 23 words · Stephanie Wade

Speed of 1 Terabits per second no longer science fiction says Huawei

Sending 33 HD films in a sec! This speed has a close similarity with the process of sending 33 HD films in a single second. A new round of digital movement has already begun and the future of the world will be super-connected. This strategy increases the capacity on a fiber cable by squeezing the gaps between transmission channels. What is particularly remarkable was that the test was performed with the Huawei 1Tbps OTN line card....

June 25, 2015 · 1 min · 99 words · Cynthia Sanchez

T-Mobile iPhone Users experience ‘Blue Screen Of Death’ Issues

T-Mobile’s Wi-Fi Calling feature gives the impression of causing some iPhones to kernel panic with a blue screen. Karen???????????? Anyone know what’s going on? Did@TMobilerelease a bad carrier update? Most of the people were able to lessen the issue by performing a hard reset on their unit. This is not the first instance that iPhones have been affected by the blue screen of death. Multitasking between apps back then had also caused the blue screen problem....

June 25, 2015 · 1 min · 93 words · Andrew Maddox