The mastermind of this invention is Radislav Potyrailo, who is the main scientist handling this project at GE. In comparison to the traditional detectors used at the airports, seaports or the rail centres this detector is unique and one of its kind. Generally a metal detector which is operated manually, the one you may have seen at most of the ports. Some permanent detectors are also used however these are very huge in their size....

GoDaddy is the world’s largest domain name registrar that manages 77 million domains and provides services to roughly 19 million customers around the world. The data breach confirmation notice was filed with the State of California Department of Justice and sent out to customers on May 4 via an email, which was signed by Demetrius Comes, CISO & VP of Engineering at GoDaddy. According to Comes, an unauthorised individual had gained access to login information that its customers used to connect to SSH on their hosting accounts....

CodePlex was originally launched in 2006, as there were very few open source project hosting sites for developers to share software, collaborate on code and host open source projects before GitHub came into prominence a few years later. Undoubtedly, over the years, GitHub has become the de facto place for open source sharing and most open source projects have migrated there. Even Microsoft is currently using GitHub and many of its key open source projects are now on GitHub (Visual Studio Code, TypeScript, ....

Now, the search giant has officially admitted in a letter to US lawmakers that it allows third-party apps to access and share data from Gmail accounts, even though Google itself has stopped the practice for the purpose of ad targeting last year. “Developers may share data with third parties so long as they are transparent with the users about how they are using the data,” wrote Susan Molinari, Vice President of Public Policy and Government Affairs for the Americas at Google in the letter sent to the US Senators in July, which was made public on Tuesday....

Chromebook runs on Google’s web-based Chrome OS and it is designed to be used with an Internet connection. Google by default provides 100 GB of cloud storage for every Chromebook because documents and apps are automatically saved in the cloud. All these products are in the low-cost range. Here is a brief introduction to all these new members of Chrome OS: ASUS Chromebit: This Chromebit is actually a smaller Chromebook, it resembles a stick in which all the major components of a Google’s browser-based laptop has been packed including a 2GB RAM, Rockchip’s 3288 processor and 16GB of storage and it is a dongle which when attached to a TV or any display can convert the same into a Chrome OS computer....

Though this seems to be a very harmless patent as of now however, this patent has great potentiality and can be really used for a variety of tasks. The patent basically designs methods for connecting the robots over a Cloud and cab be managed by smartphone to complete any given task. Google’s Operating system for the smartphone is known as Android which means a “clone” and in this patent the smartphone will be handling a clone of robots!...

Now, almost two months later, Google has brought the free Machine Learning Crash Course (MLCC) Study Jam series to India. According to Google, AI has helped farmers detect the onset of crop infections, enables doctors to identify the occurrence of diabetic blindness among millions and many more. Through this course, the company aims to enhance developers’ technical proficiency in ML, enabling them to apply cutting-edge methods to help take on a range of practical challenges....

Karen Davis, from Port Pirie, Australia, flashed bared her breasts over one of the camera cars as it passed her home. When the camera car neared her, the 38-year-old mum is seen waving her arms in the air with her T-shirt resting on top of her massive breasts. However as soon as her image come online, she has been a target of abuse with many Google Street View users branding her a ‘bad mother’....

— Tavis Ormandy (@taviso) May 23, 2017 Fuzz Testing Fuzz testing or fuzzing is a software testing approach wherein invalid or unexpected data is fed to a computer program that is then monitored for unexpected behavior such as crashes or memory leaks. The technique that Ormandy has worked on is in the domain of vulnerability scanning by injecting data directly into a DLL file ( a Windows file format )....

A British campaign group “Google You Owe Us” launched the representative action, the UK’s equivalent of a class action lawsuit, against Google on Thursday, after formally notifying the search giant of the claim in July, BBC News reports. The claim by the group is being made “on behalf of all qualifying iPhone users” based in England and Wales who were affected by the “Safari Workaround.” The lawsuit could cost Google as much as US $3....

Search for ‘a long time ago in a galaxy far far away’, and the phrase displays as rolling yellow-on-black text in deep space, mimicking the classic intro to every Star Wars movie. The search results even have a background score. Hit the sound button you can listen to the John Williams’ original score. The Easter Egg results are little hard to click on but the fun is in seeing the search results slide away on the PC screen....

The Nik Collection is a suite of seven desktop plug-ins for photography and is popular among professional photographers. The Nik Collection which used to cost $149 for download has been made free by Google starting today. The Nik Collection was developed by a German developer also named Nik and retailed for $499.95. Google had acquired Nik’s tools for its mobile editing app Snapseed and reduced the price from $499.95 to $149 then....

The hacked domains are owned by Google and belongs to Kenya and Burundi, domains which are hacked are: Google Kenya: https://www.google.co.ke Google Brundi:

The company, Billy L Nabors Demolition, had obtained a demolition permit for a duplex in Rowlett, Texas. As WFAA-TV reports, the company was sent to demolish 7601 and 7603 Cousteau Drive, a tornado-damaged duplex in Rowlett, Texas. Somehow, 7601 and 7603 Calypso Drive, another tornado-damaged duplex a block away, was torn down, which is one street away. After being informed by a neighbour, the owner of one half of the duplex, Lindsay Diaz, told WFAA that she drove up to the property, only to find that it was gone....

The extension then starts to place parentheses around the said name on any website the user visits. The use of triple parentheses dates back at least a year. Anti-Semites and white supremacists have been using it as a symbol of their movement online. Taking a note of wrong standing racism issues with the Coincidence Detector extension, Google has finally removed the same from its Chrome store at 9:30 p.m. ET Thursday....

The firm’s DeepMind division says that the repurposed AI played 100 games against the world champion chess program, Stockfish 8, and won 28 of them and drew the remaining, according to a non-peer-reviewed research paper published with Cornell University Library’s arXiv. Released in 2008, Stockfish 8 has previously won 2016’s Top Chess Engine Championship. In fact, Stockfish 8 has already been defeated in chess by another program, Komodo, in two major challenges this year....

For those unaware, Google had temporarily suspended paid extensions earlier this year, as a measure to pause a tide of fraudulent transactions involving the extension marketplace aiming to exploit users. “The web has come a long way in the 11 years since we launched the Chrome Web Store. Back then, we wanted to provide a way for developers to monetize their Web Store items. But in the years since, the ecosystem has grown and developers now have many payment-handling options available to them,” Google said in the announcement blog....

According to the complaint filed in the Federal court of San Jose, California, Google gathers data through its products such as Google Chrome, Google Analytics, Ad Manager, and their smartphone OS (Android), apps to track user activity. Now, in a significant ruling on Friday, District Judge Lucy Koh in the state of California has directed Google to face a class-action lawsuit seeking $5 billion and denied the search giant’s request to throw out the case....

We cannot emphasize more on the need of having a website that really serves the purpose of its being; maximum uptime/availability to visitors from around the globe, seamless navigation, an appearance that drives traffic, and speed. Without a doubt, a website’s speed or its loading time does affect the business’ conversions. As per a statistical report, 40% of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load....

Starbug has revealed that he can now decode anyone’s smartphone PIN code from any selfie “image”. of the owner. Starbug and his colleagues have extracted the reflection of smartphone screens in the eye whites of “selfie” subjects, then they used an ultra-high resolution image techniques to extract the user’s PIN code. Starbug presented his discovery at the Biometrics 2015 conference in London. His team also revealed a method to take hi-res images of iris using a high-resolution camera and recreating them using a simple laser printer....