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The online Facebook brawl between two groups of friends spilled out into the streets with a fistfight and later ended in gunfire that killed a 14-year-old girl and wounded two others in Alabama on Friday, authorities said. The fistfight between the girls was to be recorded for posting online according to th police. Birmingham police said 14-year Kierra’onna Rice was shot and killed at around 5 p.m. in Birmingham after two males opened fire after Rice and several other girls met at a park to fight....

Telephone numbers came into existence in 1879 when a local doctor thought of them for the first time. The use of telephone numbers instead of subscriber names to indicate to the telephone operator what destination line a caller wished to be connected to was developed and first used in the autumn of 1879 in Lowell, Massachusetts during a measles epidemic. Moses Greeley Parker, a local doctor, realized that if all four of the city’s operators were incapacitated by the epidemic, their replacements would have great trouble quickly learning which of the switchboard’s 200 jacks were assigned to which subscribers....

A former employee told Gizmodo that when he or she would log on, they noticed popular conservative topics were left off the homepage list. The employee, a conservative, guessed that the person running the list “didn’t recognize the news topic” or was biased against a conservative figure involved. Last week, Gizmodo published a story explaining the conditions behind the trending team, which is required to write headlines and summaries for dozens of news stories to be included on the website’s ticker....

Inspite of having numerous advantages, there are many serious problems like social media anxiety, gaming addiction, cyberbullying, and many others associated with giving access to smartphones to kids. Well, if you are a parent or a guardian and are looking for a reliable parental control solution, then FamiSafe is bound to impress you. In this article, we have shared some of the noteworthy features of FamiSafe application and explained how this app could fulfill your remote parental control needs....

The fifth episode of the immensely popular fantasy show Game of Thrones season has been made widely available on torrents and streaming sites, courtesy of the most unexpected entity to do so, HBO Nordic. According to viewers, HBO Nordic, which has made a large number of strides protecting its content from piracy was the sole reason behind this leak, and we have to say that it has made a large number of viewers extremely happy, naturally at the expense of the company....

The world’s largest nuclear fusion machines have been just fired for the first time announced the physicists in Germany. The machine was successfully able to contain ‘plasma’, which are nothing but super-hot blobs of helium gas. A type of nuclear fusion device called a stellarator, the 16-metre-wide machine is the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X). Stellarators are extremely difficult to construct. It took scientists about 19 years of to construct W7-X. This is the first time a team has demonstrated that it can produce and control plasma just as well as other fusion reactor designs....

Google in partnership with Udacity are now offering 75,000 Android and Web Development scholarships for aspiring developers and data scientists looking to follow careers in the digital field. Over the past two years, Google and Udacity have been able to roll out 1,000 and 10,000 scholarships for coders in 2015 and 2016, respectively. This year, German media company Bertelsmann too will be involved in their latest initiative. “We were humbled by the overwhelming demand for these courses, so I’m happy to announce that together with Bertelsmann & Udacity we’ll be offering 75,000 more people the opportunity to benefit from free developer courses,” said Google’s EMEA President Matt Brittin....

In a detailed study post, Google has explained how some hackers cleverly managed to put Triada, a malware designed to install spam apps on a device that displays ads, on Android devices by tampering the pre-installed software. The creators of Triada collected revenue from the ads displayed by the spam apps. “Triada infects device system images through a third-party during the production process. Sometimes OEMs want to include features that aren’t part of the Android Open Source Project, such as face unlock....

The pop-up appears when Inbox users login and states “Thanks for trying Inbox! To make it easier we’ve updated Gmail to redirect you here”. Even the old familiar inbox.google.com url has disappeared and now Inbox instead resides at gmail.com. Inbox by Gmail, which Forbes reports offers more tech-savvy features like smart recognition of photos and documents, Google is now giving them the option to opt out. Some Gmail users are reportedly signing in and being redirected to inbox....

Unlike its predecessor that was wired earbuds, Google’s new Pixel Buds are truly wireless headphones that will compete directly with Apple’s Airpods. Pixel Buds feature an in-ear design so that each earbud sits securely in your ear. With custom-designed 12 mm dynamic speaker drivers, Google Pixel Buds deliver high-quality audio. It also features built-in sensors that automatically detect when you are talking. The circular wireless earbuds come with Adaptive Sound technology that automatically adjusts the volume depending upon the environment around users, such as from a quiet room to a noisy subway station....

Customers who have Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, or Education Standard are eligible to apply for the beta until January 20th, 2023, which should include the email address, Project ID, and test group domain. However, the feature is not yet available to users with personal Google accounts or Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Education Fundamentals, Frontline, and Nonprofits, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers....

Google has patented “smart wearable gadget” for emitting fragrance and at the same time detecting foul odour in London. The fragrance emitting device will ward of bad odour and also detect foul odour. This technological innovation includes a gear which the user needs to wear close to their body (off course, underneath their clothes). The gadget has something called as “activity sensors” incorporated which detects the physical activity of the user constantly....

For those unfamiliar, Project Zero (Google), is a team of security analysts employed by Google to find zero-day exploits in the hope that they can find them before they are exploited by malicious people. Google gives company 90 days after disclosure of vulnerabilities to fix the issue. However, if the time period elapses without a patch that is made available to the public, the vulnerability is then disclosed to the public so that users can protect themselves by taking necessary steps....

The new IDE contains a number of new features, such as Instant Run, which allows the developer to see changes to their app in real-time, similar to Apple’s Playground. There’s also a new Android Emulator that promises to be three times faster than the old one. Android Studio 2.0 includes the following new features that Android developer can use in their workflow : Instant Run – For every developer who loves faster build speeds....

While the company pulled the plug on Android Auto for Phone Screens on devices running Android 12, it did not specify when the app would actually stop working on older releases. Now, according to a new report from 9to5Google, Google has finally shut down the mobile version of the Android Auto app for users on Android 11 and prior. This feature was available for both car displays and phone screens....

We are confident that in the near future, companies like Microsoft, Mozilla and Yahoo will also be contributing in putting the activities of ISIS to a halt since these companies also feature their very own web browsers. ISIS, which is also known as Daesh, or ISIL has accumulated several talented personnel, which is why they have been able to increase their online presence. Cohen believes that while tech companies can definitely put a huge dent in their progress, he does admit that there is a very slim chance of Google and others driving terrorist organizations offline completely....

California based Gurkirat Singh discovered a way to gain access to anyone’s Facebook profile using a security flaw in the social networking giant’s password reset mechanism. The social networking giant uses an algorithm that generates a random 6-digit passcode ? that’s 10? = 1,000,000 possible combinations. According to him, Facebook needs to store duplicate codes for multiple users if more than 1,000,000 users request a password reset. This means that more than two people have the same passcode....

Ben, who goes by the Twitter handle name @imbusho, was able to successfully install Windows 10 IoT Core on HP’s Prime Graphing Calculator and not on a basic or scientific calculator with plus, times and division that we normally use. Ben, tweeted a picture of Windows 10 IoT (Internet of Things) edition running on his HP Prime Graphing Calculator that comes with a touch screen interface, and good industrial design....

For those unaware, Electronic Arts develops and publishes games of established franchises, including Battlefield, Need for Speed, The Sims, Medal of Honor series, Titanfall, as well as the EA Sports titles FIFA, Madden NFL, and NBA Live. The incident which was first reported by Vice, claims that the hackers have stolen 780GB of data from EA servers, which includes the source code of the popular soccer game “FIFA 21” as well as code for its matchmaking server....

During this process, the name of your device, the manufacturer and model, serial number, firmware information, file system and electronic chip ID could all be shared with the computer. According to Kaspersky, this is sufficient enough for a hackers to attack your phone and gain access to a ton of information. Kaspersky explains that if a smartphone needs to be charged, then it should be done using a public power station, and that a connection should not be made from the USB port of the computer....