Google and Lenovo simply declared they're cooperating up to manufacture an Android-fueled, sub-$500 cell phone controlled by Google's to a great degree clever Project Tango innovation.
Venture Tango, initially declared in 2014, is a task started from Google ATAP, one of the inquiry titan's coolest and most cryptic exploration labs.
The fundamental thought behind Project Tango is to give cell phones and tablets an arrangement of "eyes" that can comprehend profundity observation, much the same as people can.
To date, Project Tango has just been accessible as a marginally unattractive, expensive tablet, intended for designers to experience the stage. With this declaration, Lenovo has affirmed that it will be the first to convey Project Tango to customer cell phones later in 2016.
"We don't trust this innovation is one that has a short lifespan," said Lenovo tablet supervisor Jeff Meredith. "A few advancements most recent 6 months and fall by the wayside."
I got a little hands-on time with these Project Tango applications, and it works extremely well. This could be huge — and might end up being the most sultry declaration out of CES 2016.
How about we Tango
To exhibit why this will be so cool, Google Project Tango lead Johnny Lee flaunted a group of genuine, helpful applications running on the Project Tango stage — however since Lenovo's as yet chipping away at the configuration of its Tango-fueled telephone, he needed to demonstrat to it off by means of the current designer tablet.
"There's a great deal more data in the spaces around us than we can see with or eyes," Lee said.
For one thing, he flaunted how Project Tango can really take the estimations of stuff such as furniture. Line up the camera's viewfinder with one edge of the love seat, and afterward again on the space you need to quantify, and it gives back an absolutely precise estimation
You can do it for surface region, as well, as in case you're going to paint a divider. You can likewise quantify floor to roof. A Google representative portrays it as "like the Calculator application," seeing that it will accompany Project Tango-proficient telephones and be something that individuals utilize a great deal.
Lee likewise flaunted its space-detecting capacities. It can identify that a level surface high off the ground is most likely a table, and extend pictures onto them, or that a story is a story. It can even form an aggregate 3D model of the room, beginning starting with no outside help.
In one sample, he played Jenga with a representative, inclining in, tapping on the screen, and afterward inclining out to haul out a square. A more helpful sample came through an application controlled by home change chain Lowe's, so you can extend a picture of another refrigerator, for instance, and perceive the amount of space it'll really take up in your room.
A major a portion of why Lenovo and Google are meaning to discharge a customer gadget, the organizations say, is that it's the ideal opportunity for designers to truly get their hands on it and fabricate more stuff that takes new and novel utilization of the Project Tango sensor framework.
Other potential uses incorporate indoor mapping frameworks that can offer you some assistance with finding your way inside structures, or that guide out where your companions are in swarmed spaces.
"We're going to take this item and dispatch it to the domain where designers can feel good dealing with their applications," Meredith says
$5,000 Malware Allows Anyone To Empty ATMs - But It Isn't Worth The Trouble
Today saw the capture of eight people in Moldova and Romania as a major aspect of an examination concerning overall ATM hacking. They purportedly utilized a malware named Tyupkin to taint money machines and in this way exhaust them. The pack was accepted to have made millions by contaminating ATMs crosswise over Europe and past. Europol, which facilitated the operation, didn't give names of those captured, and it's vague if the driving forces of the operation were brought down.
Be that as it may, whoever they are, there's little uncertainty the Tyupkin inventors took in substantial income with apparently little hazard. By gathering adverts, they were taking a critical lump of the money gathered by purported "cash donkeys", who brought significantly more risks with their flexibility.
One arrangement offered by somebody controlling a variation of Tyupkin indicated how the donkeys were so altogether cheated, even as they cheated the banks. By digital insight organization Group-IB, a developer on a Russian discussion, posting in March this year, looked for donkeys to transfer his Tyupkin variant in ATMs over the world. He or she requested $5,000. In kind, the donkey would get the malware and assault code that must be stacked onto a card. That card would in the long run actuate the malware at the ATM so it would begin heaving money.
Before that, the purchaser would then need to destroy the money machine and transfer the malware by means of the USB port. The donkey was then encouraged to hold up until the money machine was re-supplied and afterward take the majority of the assets they could, said Dmitriy Volkov, from Group-IB. Yet, 40 for every penny of the aggregate must be come back to the developer.
When one considers ATMs are said to contain not exactly $10,000 at any one time, this appears like a poor arrangement for the donkey. Say a crisp scavenger figures out how to hack into a money machine with $10,000 and takes it all, they need to give away $4,000. They've officially given over $5,000. So they begin off only $1,000 up to the $9,000 of a coder taking cover behind a screen.
Facebook Messenger Reaches 800 Million Users, Plans For Boost In Chats With Businesses
Facebook's well known Messenger application has hit 800 million month to month dynamic clients, up from 700 million six months prior, the online networking titan said on Thursday.
The informing application was the quickest developing application in the U.S. a year ago, as per Nielsen. Also, Messenger is currently the second most well known iOS application ever, behind Facebook, App Annie says. Facebook-claimed Instagram has additionally seen fast development. The photograph and-video sharing application's month to month dynamic clients developed by 100 million in under a year, from 300 million toward the end of 2014 to 400 million in September a year ago. By complexity, it took Twitter TWTR - 2.07% a year to support its month to month dynamic clients by around 30 million. Twitter now has around 320 million month to month dynamic clients, as of the second from last quarter of 2015, up from around 290 million in the second from last quarter in 2014.
The online networking goliath's VP of informing items, David Marcus, composed a Facebook note about huge picture correspondence patterns he hopes to see this year, and in addition some of Facebook's more extensive arrangements for 2016. Marcus said the flexibility of informing instruments that permit clients to communicate in a scope of courses in one spot, whether through stickers, photographs, recordings, voice cuts, GIFs, or through video and voice calls will bring about a decrease in SMS and instant messages. Marcus likewise said informing applications will begin to supplant confined applications, saying that clients will want to deal with undertakings, for example, conversing with client benefit, or purchasing carrier tickets, rides or blooms through the same application as opposed to swinging to Web destinations or individual applications.
Facebook's constrained rollout of its new computerized collaborator instrument "M" a year ago, which can finish errands, for example, reserving supper spot or requesting a stroller, and Messenger's late combination with Uber, which permits clients to call a ride without leaving Facebook, make it clear Facebook arrangements to continue extending the usefulness of the application.
"The Messenger group's central goal is to make Messenger the best place to speak with every one of the general population and organizations on the planet," Marcus said. "We trust we have a lot more open door in front of us, and these are still the beginning of Messenger."
A standout amongst the most solid arrangements Marcus portrayed was a purpose to support correspondence on Facebook in the middle of organizations and clients. The quantity of messages sent to organizations on Facebook multiplied over the previous year, the organization said.
WORDPRESS BLOCKED IN PAKISTAN: A BAN ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH !
Is Pakistan trying to ban freedom of speech by blocking wordpress ? Is the government trying to out-date Pakistani's and take them in Stone age? Answers are yet complex and complicated.
Note: wordpress.com is yet not accessible in Pakistan. While Self Hosted WordPress is accessible.
Facebook Launches Free Friend-to-friend Payments Through Messenger
The long-awaited moment has finally arrived. After replacing different services used for texting, photo sharing, and video calling, Facebook is ready to challenge PayPal and other money transferring services with its Facebook Messenger.
Now your favorite Facebook Messenger won’t be just used for sending texts and cute smileys. Facebook is now going to provide you a way to settle the friendly debts right from the chat-box.
Today Facebook announced a new payments feature for Facebook Messenger. This service will let you connect your Facebook Messenger with your Mastercard or Visa debit card. By clicking on a simple “$” button, now you can send money to your Facebook friends on the desktop, Android and, iOS. This service won’t cost you extra money transferring charges.
The rival friendly payment app Venmo, owned by eBay’s PayPal unit, charges 3% extra commission fee on each transfer. Facebook will do the same for free.
Facebook said in a news release:
“Today we’re adding a new feature in Messenger that gives people a more convenient and secure way to send or receive money between friends. This feature will be rolling out over the coming months in the US.”
This service will be first rolled out in US in upcoming months and then to the rest of the world. Right now, users can add their card info. The money is transferred instantly. Depending upon your banks and other transfer services, it may take on to three business days to make the money available.
To send money to a friend:
Start messaging a friend. Tap the $ button and type the required amount. Tap the Pay and add the debit card details to complete the transaction.
To receive the money from a friend:
Open the message with payment and click Add Cart on the message. Add your own debit card info to accept the money.
Facebook is expecting this service to become a huge success because of its vast user-base of 500 million active Facebook Messenger users.
Police Hate New Apple And Google Smartphones
Police Hate New Apple And Google Smartphones
James Comey, a senior FBI official dislike Apple and Google’s latest smartphones because of their high-end encryption.The latest devices and operating systems (iOS8 and Android Lollipop) have encryption turned on by default, implying that no master key is available with Apple or Google to be passed on to investigators.
“Encryption threatens to lead all of us to a very dark place. Justice may be denied because of a locked phone or an encrypted hard drive,” said James Comey, FBI Director, in a speech last month.
“Unlike our competitors, Apple cannot bypass your passcode and therefore cannot access this data. So it’s not technically feasible for us to respond to government warrants”,Apple confirms on its website.
Encrypted data guarantees transfer of data secured through a digital lock that cannot be easily picked. Encryption is widely used in most of the web-mail services and net based transfer of data. However, in iOS8 and Android Lollipop, the encryption key is stored on the device itself instead of appearing on multiple servers. The key is generated and stored on device and even the manufacturers cannot seek the key to decrypt the device.
This is vexing the investigating officials who want the Apple and Google to relax their robustness. On the other hand, users are quite relaxed that their data cannot be sucked out of their phone or computers.
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