Twitter in a post has said that “it is not necessary to follow each other with whom you intend to have a conversation”. In just a few clicks, anyone can create a group and receive timely popup notifications. With this workout, Twitter seems to be following the success of mobile messaging apps like WhatsApp which has made group messaging a fun experience. Another new feature is a native mobile video sharing experience where a user can shoot, edit and share 30-second videos directly from the Twitter app using the camera button....

Top 3 KickassTorrents Alternatives:- The Pirate Bay leads Now the media anti-piracy groups have turned their eyes on these top torrent websites. Last week, authorities in France shut down two obscure KickAssTorrents alternatives DL-Protect and Zone-Telechargement. Though not big as TPB and ExtraTorrents, both DL-Protect and Zone-Telechargement were the most visited torrents websites in France. Now with the close down of these two major torrent sites in France, it is rumored that a number of other sites may also face piracy crackdown soon....

Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical’s CEO and Ubuntu’s founder, said, “Most public cloud instances — Azure, AWS, Oracle, and so on — are Ubuntu. To better support Ubuntu, 18.04 features improvements in network and storage and improved boot time optimization so that Ubuntu instances can ramp up faster with demand. In addition, Canonical has been working with NVIDIA to improve its public cloud General Purpose GPU (GPGPU) support.” He further added, “Multi-cloud operations are the new normal....

United States States Department hacked, security officials take it offlineClassified systems not affected by the hack The cyber security team of the State Department then took the unprecedented step of shutting down its entire unclassified email system as technicians repair possible damage from a suspected cyber attack. A senior department official on conditions of anonymity said Sunday that “activity of concern” was detected in the system around the same time as a previously reported incident that targeted the White House computer network....

He used Facebook’s live streaming video feature, which is similar to the Periscope and Meerkat apps, but is currently restricted to celebrities and others with verified profiles. Earlier this year, Facebook shifted to the Frank Gehry-designed office space in California. Called MPK20, the new 40,000-square-metre space is reportedly the world’s largest open floor plan, with room for 2800 employees. On the roof of the building is a 3.6-hectare park with walking trails and outdoor space....

“If you meet Swedish engineers, they’re pretty genuine,” said Lex Kerssemakers, CEO of Volvo Cars North America. “They don’t say things when they don’t believe in it.” According to ExtremeTech, Volvo would be depending on several new technological advances that would ensure zero injuries or deaths on its vehicles by 2020. The Swedish company maintains that the solution to a crash-free world lies in self-driving cars, but a host of high-tech safety features are making drivers safer – and better – in the meantime....

The California resident sentenced to 6 months hard labour in North KoreaDeliberate attempt to get as famous as Edward Snowden?Reasons for 6 years hard labourMiller and aliases As luck would have it, the commies saw through the game and arrested him. He was then sentenced to six years hard labor by a North Korean court for pretending to have secret U.S. information. The North Korean state media said Miller got himself deliberately arrested in a bid to become famous and meet U....

Now, security researchers used the Ubuntu, a popular Linux distro to hack a surgical robot using ROS. “In the future, your surgeon could be a machine. Teleoperated surgical robots can be controlled from a distance to operate on patients in hard-to-reach places. But as information travels between a human on one side of the world and a robot on the other, it’s vulnerable to attack,” reads the description of the video....

In a recent breach of data security, a threat actor has put up approximately 500 million phone numbers of active WhatsApp users for sale on a well-known hacking community forum. The database apparently contains data from WhatsApp users belonging to 84 countries. Meta-owned WhatsApp is one of the biggest messaging platforms with around 2 billion users across the globe, which means the database allegedly contains the phone numbers of one-quarter of WhatsApp users....

Marketplace It is a backbone of any sharing economy business model. A marketplace attracts entrepreneurs because it assists with client search, leads processing, loyalty systems, legal issues and payment options. A marketplace is a complex e-commerce platform embedding the following modules: Omni-channel commerce Banking, payments, refunds User’s agreements and legislation issues Executor’s portal Educational materials Editors, Communication, and Support portals Technical features of web services and apps are important, but a software application development company and investors should also pay a lot of attention to market requirements and choose an appropriate business model....

Smartphone-PC convergence. Microsoft recently announced that the Windows 10 phones will be so designed that it can also be used as PC if it is connected to external monitor. On the other hand, Ubuntu open source system with Linux as its OS was the first one to put forth the idea of Smartphone-PC convergence way back in 2013. Ubuntu’s crowdfunding campaign for its Ubuntu Edge was a failure in 2013 however Canonical is bent upon transforming Ubuntu into an OS that can be used along all the platforms with a feature of adapting to all the interfaces as per requirement....

In the past, one couldn’t launch Windows applications from a Linux terminal. But now you can easily access all the files in your Linux distros from Windows. All you need to do is open your favorite distro, and type in explorer.exe. This will open a File Explorer window, located inside of your Linux distro. “From here you can access whatever Linux files you would like, just like you would any other file through File Explorer....

The recently released Windows 11 Patch Tuesday KB5015814 update included improvements that were a part of update KB5014668, the new Search Highlights feature, addressed an issue that redirected the PowerShell command output, as well as patched security vulnerabilities. However, this update appears to have created problems for those who have downloaded and installed it on their systems, especially the Start Menu. Users are complaining that the Start Menu is being erratically interrupted by an app opening and closing....

Coming to the specifications of Anker PowerHouse, the powerbank has been listed as a 434Wh battery and according to Extreme Tech, some websites have listed the product as having a capacity of 120,600mAh, which is anything that we have seen until now. If you thought that Anker PowerHouse is limited to smartphones and tablets, then you will be sadly mistaken in a positive manner because the company has stated that not only can you charge your notebooks, but your fridge and lights as well....

The Reddit user (u/ntelas46) has discovered a flaw in the hidden system settings of the Xiaomi Mi 9T that allows you to view what the micro-camera of the optical fingerprint scanner captures. Xiaomi uses in-display fingerprint scanners in many of its mid-range and high-end smartphones. To support his claim, the user posted a video demonstrating this “feature” on the Reddit forum. As seen in the video, the Reddit user can be seen accessing the imaging feed from the Goodix-made optical in-display fingerprint scanner of his Xiaomi Mi 9T user after installing the Activity Launcher app, as per a report by Android Authority....

As said above the Mi 4i is a very powerful smartphone and features a 5 inch HD 1080p display which will give pixel density up to 441ppi. Xiaomi claims that the smartphone has a higher color saturation than iPhone 6. It is a fully laminated OGS. In other features, the Mi 4i comes with Sunlight Display, a technology which allows the phone to do dynamic tone mapping, which in turn, keeps the image quality balanced in bright sunlight....

WhatsApp will be temporarily banning accounts of those users who are using an unsupported version of WhatsApp instead of the official WhatsApp app. If a user’s account is blocked, they are required to download the official version of WhatsApp to resume working of the app. Before they download the official WhatsApp app, users are suggested to save their chat history. This is applicable in case users are using an app other than WhatsApp Plus or GB WhatsApp....

For those unaware, the CZI is a philanthropic organization was founded by Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan in 2015 with a purpose to “advance human potential and promote equality in areas such as health, education, scientific research and energy.” The open letter addressed to Zuckerberg and signed by more than 140 scientists from institutions including Stanford, UCSF, University of Cambridge, and UCLA calls the spread of “deliberate misinformation and divisive language” on the platform, which is in contrast to the researchers’ goals of using technology “to prevent and eradicate disease, improve childhood education and reform the criminal justice system....

JIDE, a company founded by them has launched a mini PC “Remix ” in the market that is meant to provide users basic functionalities of a PC at an affordable cost. The Remix Mini which fits in palm of hand is being billed as the first truly Android PC ever. “The idea is that we want to make sure it’s affordable and accessible,” David Ko, one of Jide’s co-founders and an ex-Googler, told CNBC by phone....

The data collection called “BlueLeaks” – nearly 269 gigabytes in total – were published by Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), a hacktivist group that describes itself as a “collective for transparency” and is often described as an alternative to WikiLeaks. The group also credited the infamous hacker collective Anonymous with finding the data. DDoSecrets in a post on Twitter said the BlueLeaks archive indexes “ten years of data from over 200 police departments, fusion centers, and other law enforcement training and support resources,” and that “among the hundreds of thousands of documents are police and FBI reports, bulletins, guides and more....