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While the takeover was completed about two months ago, both the companies chose not to officially announce it, reported TechCrunch on Thursday citing an unnamed source familiar with the matter. However, last week, Google confirmed the purchase but declined to comment on the financial terms of the deal. Recently, Jonathan Slimak, Chief Co-Founder and Operating Officer at Alter, too confirmed the development by changing his LinkedIn profile. He took to LinkedIn to share that he was starting a new position at Google by adding the comment, “building Avatars at Google,” to his profile without acknowledging the acquisition....

Looking at the impact of full disk encryption on access for law enforcement, the document points out that phones and tablets running Android software released prior to Android 5.0 are vulnerable to resetting. Even though this doesn’t apply to all Android devices, it still encompasses a large portion – affecting all devices running anything lower than Android 5.0 (roughly 74%). “Forensic examiners are able to bypass passcodes on some of those devices using a variety of forensic techniques....

Chrome, Google’s web browser is said to have problems in incognito mode in its Android version and some of user’s online behavior is stored in history as a consequence. Google’s Chrome web browser,right from its debut has faced criticism because it uses the WebKit Engine which uses lot of RAM and slows down the machine. Now a bug has been reported in Chrome browser in Android version in its Incognito mode....

For those unaware, Logo is the world’s first programming language for kids, which was designed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon in 1967. Logo is widely known for its use of turtle graphics, in which commands for movement and drawing produced line graphics either on screen or with a small robot called a turtle. — Google Doodles (@GoogleDoodles) December 4, 2017 The never-seen-before interactive is a collaboration between three teams: Google Doodle, Google Blocky and MIT Scratch, a program run through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology teaching kids how to code....

Google’s Project Zero team of security researchers disclosed a “high-severity” vulnerability it found in Microsoft’s Edge browser after the company failed to patch it within the allotted time of 90 days. The vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain administrator privileges if exploited. For those unfamiliar, Project Zero is a team of security analysts employed by Google to find zero-day vulnerabilities before they are found and exploited by malicious people....

The App is still in beta and Google is allowing users to download it on invite only basis. The sign in process is simple but one odd thing about Who’s Down is Google also asks for a school name when requesting an invitation. This would suggest that Google has developed the App with college students in mind. It is surprising why Google has built the Who’s Down as a standalone App when the features in this App are more suited to be integrated with Google Maps or Google+....

The project called “Lo-Fi player” is designed by Vibert Thio, a technologist and artist who did the Summer 2020 Magenta intern with the team. It is a 2D pixelated virtual room that allows users to mix low-fi, hip-hop music tracks to create a customized music room in their browser, even if they don’t have a lot of prior knowledge on the subject. For those unaware, Magenta, powered by Google’s open-source TensorFlow system, is a research project exploring the role of machine learning in the process of creating art and music....

A recent study sponsored by a complainant in the EU antitrust trial against Google revealed that the company has been found to be favoring its own content in search results even if it is of lower quality in comparison to the organic search results; thus harming not only the consumers but also its competitors. The study was conducted by Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School and Michael Luca, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School....

During a hearing last week in federal court, an attorney for Oracle said that the payout was part of a revenue-sharing agreement the two companies have that gives Apple a percentage of the revenue Google generates through Apple devices. According to a witness questioned during the court proceedings, “at one point in time” the revenue share between Google and Apple was 34%. It was not immediately clear if the percentage reflects the share Google keeps or pays to Apple....

The scientific paper published by Google’s researchers and seen by the FT before being removed from NASA’s website earlier this week. The researchers in the paper claim that “their processor was able to perform a calculation in three minutes and 20 seconds that would take today’s most advanced classical computer, known as Summit (from IBM), approximately 10,000 years.” The researchers used Google’s Sycamore (53-qubit design) quantum computer for the problem....

The issue was first discovered by film and TV editors across Los Angeles on Monday evening when their Mac Pro computers running older versions of Apple’s operating system as well as Avid’s Media Composer software refused to reboot, reported Variety. “We recently discovered that a Chrome update may have shipped with a bug that damages the file system on macOS machines with System Integrity Protection (SIP) disabled, including machines that do not support SIP....

“We’re aware of the issue and are in contact with Xiaomi to work on a fix,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement. “In the meantime, we’re disabling Xiaomi integrations on our devices.” According to Android Police, the move will affect all Mi Home integrations and commands for the Assistant. The issue came to light after a Reddit user ‘Dio-V’ tried to stream content from his newly purchased Xiaomi Mijia 1080p Smart IP Security Camera to a Google Nest Hub....

Providing wireless seems to natural progression for the search giant as the data caps by AT&T and Verizon on Internet users seem to affect its ad revenues as users view less YouTube videos or websites service Google’s Adsense. Google has stated that it will require only some of the unused spectrum “while still leaving some of it available for companies to use exclusively.” The 3.5GHz band delivers data at faster speed but it doesnt have strong propagation, which means that its signals won’t carry very far....

It seems it has already started doing it through ambush marketing. Though there is nothing in black and white, it seems Google is trying to throttle competition by cutting the Windows Phone developers ad revenues. Windows Phone developers earn money through Google’s AdMob advertising service and many developers attending the BUILD 2015 conference have noted the same as per WMPU. The situation is so bad that according to many developers, their fill rates and ad revenues plunged from 99% to only 7%, and 99% to 50% respectively, in just one day....

For those unaware, Google Nest, previously named Google Home, is a line of smart speakers developed by Google under the Google Nest brand. Nest Audio is the successor to the mid-range Google Home smart speaker that was launched in 2016. The newly introduced Nest Audio focuses on music quality and has “top-of-the-range sound quality”, claims Google. In comparison to the original Google Home, the smart speaker produces 50% more bass and 75% more volume....

GTA 5 has been released hand hackers hack it! It’s just over been 48 hours since Rockstar released their latest magnum opus game Grand Theft Auto V PC and Rockstar’s latest open-world game has already been cracked to allow for modding. Roackstar had tried its best to prevent hacking of PC version of GTA V by building several security measures into it, without its go ahead. According to popular GTA modder ENB, “Rockstar did everything to prevent modding of GTA V,” ENBSeries wrote on modding website ENBdev....

One such website is Google that invites researchers worldwide to find out flaws in its newest or existing applications, extensions, software and operating system that are available at Google Play, Chrome Web Store and/or iTunes and awards prizes to anyone who finds a legitimate bug which could be exploited. The main objective of these programs is to make Google’s applications and systems more secure and protected. Recently, Ahmed Mehtab, a Pakistani student and CEO at Security Fuss, was listed in Google’s Hall of Fame for his contribution in Google’s Vulnerability Reward Program (VRP)....

#Shanesbucketlist The couple, Gassew and Dan Haley from the US city of Philadelphia, had made a “bucket list” for their unborn child after he was diagnosed in utero with the birth defect that would give him only a few hours to live after being born. They also created a Facebook page, Prayers for Shane, earlier this year to store the memories they created for the unborn child as they took him, while still in the womb, to places and events they would have taken him if he had lived: football games, the beach, museums, the country, on a ride on an old train....

It seems Wheeler is suffering from ‘anxiety’ and feels that owning a $500,000 Ferrari may be the only cure for it. However, Wheeler is not exactly that rich, more so, since he is a fugitive from law in Australia. From a different perspective, 20 year-old Wheeler appears to be thumbing his nose at authorities, asking for donors to contribute to a new Ferrari. “I need a Ferrari because of my anxiety, my doctor has said because of the FBI and police raids I am unable to function properly without a Ferrari,” he writes on the crowdfunding page....

The hacker behind the celebgate has met his fate with the law or so it seems. A Pennsylvania based hacker has pleaded guilty on Tuesday, May 24, to illegally hacking into the Apple and Google accounts of several female celebrities and stealing their private photos, videos and information. Ryan Collins, 36, was accused of gaining access to more than 100 online accounts between November 2012 and September 2014. According to the Associated Press, he pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to “gaining unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information....