For many years, NPAPI plugins helped browsers add functionality such as gaming, rich interactive maps, and video support. But plugins also came with problems such as security vulnerabilities, stability issues, and performance drawbacks. The Web standards community overcame these problems by creating native functionality, such as HTML5 video, in order to do away with plugins. When Google announced its decision, speed, stability, and security were cited as reasons for ditching plugins....

It is believed that the weapon will be imported to European criminals within days, as officials fight to control the borders amid terror fears following a series of terrorist attacks in Europe in recent months. Made by the Minnesota-based manufacturer, Ideal Conceal, the 9mm double-barrel pistol known as the “iPhone Gun” has been pre-ordered 12,000 times. The company behind the legal gun said: “In today’s day and age, carrying a concealed pistol has become a necessity....

NBC news has reported that the college police department found the Kappa Delta Rho was allegedly running a secret members only Facebook page and allegedly posted explicit images of female students in unconscious state. The college police department filed a search warrant on 30th Jan, 2015 after being tipped by a former fraternity member. NBC affiliate WJAC reported on Monday that the private groups were accessible to around 144 people who were current members as well as the alumni....

The company does not sufficiently inform its users of the conditions in which their personal data are processed, nor of the purposes of this processing. They may therefore neither understand the purposes for which their data are collected, which are not specific as the law requires, nor the ambit of the data collected through the different services concerned. Consequently, they are not able to exercise their rights, in particular their right of access, objection or deletion....

According to a new report by 9to5Google, the Human Presence Sensor will be utilized to activate a so-called “snooping protection” feature on future Chromebooks. This feature will determine whether or not someone is visible to the users’ Chromebook’s camera and potentially looking at their screen. The outlet added that Google will soon be making an addition in the chrome://flags called “Enable snooping detection”, which will allow users to enable or disable the feature on supported devices....

Thanks to the combined efforts of Microsoft, Google, Apple and Mozilla. They have amalgamated to develop a new binary format code called WebAssembly (WASM) that aims at increasing the speed and efficiency with which browsers compile, parse, and render Web applications and WebPages as compared to text-based JavaScript and asm.js. Engineers from the companies have formed the informal W3C community group, Web Assembly CG, to further development. WebAssembly will be executed inside the JavaScript engine and can be decoded much faster....

For those unaware, Google Assistant is an official Google app available on smartphones, tablets, and Google Home speakers, which allows its users to turn their devices into a virtual digital assistant. In an announcement on a blog post, Google’s Vice-President of Product Nick Fox said: “Similar to Android, where we’ve partnered closely with mobile carriers and device makers to build great products for people everywhere, we’re taking an ecosystem approach to the Assistant on mobile”....

Kickass visitors on Chrome are notified that “Attackers on kat.cr might attempt to trick you into installing programs that harm your browsing experience (for example, by changing your homepage or showing extra ads on sites you visit).” while the Firefox users are told that “This web page at kat.cr has been reported to contain unwanted software and has been blocked based on your security preferences.” Chrome users can get around this message by clicking Details and then “visit this site” while Firefox users can click “Ignore this warning....

Google has been using the Tensor Processing Units (TPU) custom-built chips to power its data centers according to Google’s senior VP for its technical infrastructure Urs Holzle. Now it wants TPU to power its machine learning algorithms. Google says it’s getting “an order of magnitude better-optimized performance per watt for machine learning” and argues that this is “roughly equivalent to fast-forwarding technology about seven years into the future.” Google said that it has managed to speed up the machine learning algorithms with the TPUs because it doesn’t need the high-precision of standard CPUs and GPUs....

For those unfamiliar, RAISR is a new method for image processing that takes a low-res upload of a photo and uses machine learning technology to fill in the gaps between the pixels, so that the end-user gets the full resolution of the photo while using a fraction of the bandwidth and download time. According to Google, this new technology is now ready for mobile use also: “RAISR produces results that are comparable to or better than the currently available super-resolution methods, and does so roughly 10 to 100 times faster, allowing it to be run on a typical mobile device in real-time....

One such Google Nexus 6 user had a harrowing time with her smartphone. She says that the Nexus 6 was lying unused and not charged and still it just swelled up and exploded. She took to Twitter to post her experience and share the images of exploded Nexus 6. — Monica Jasuja (@jasuja) May 1, 2015 The Nexus 6 battery in the case of this particular user not only swelled but actually exploded....

The European Internet users have made this request after the EU court granted them the ‘right to be forgotten’ last May. Under this ruling, Google has been lawfully made responsible for removing the links of users from its database when the citizens demand. According to the data, Google has received 348,085 requests and evaluated more than 1.2 million links for removal. Of those, it has removed 441,032 URLs. Google opted not to remove 608,169 more URLs; the rest are pending review or require additional information....

The biggest searchers of those wanting advice on how to get to Canada was revealed with the top five states: Massachusetts, Washington, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia. It’s interesting to note that four of those five states were where Trump won a majority vote. It’s unclear whether the results were triggered by Donald Trump taking seven states or Hillary Clinton also winning seven. Of course, it’s also a possibility a percentage of those searching are charmed by Canada’s new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau....

The service is currently available in all twenty-two countries where Stadia is offered. According to the Korean company, native support of Stadia gameplay on LG Smart TVs helps deliver instant access to high-end games with support for exceptional graphics and frame rates on cutting-edge displays. The Stadia store features over 200 popular games such as Cyberpunk 2077, Resident Evil Village, Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, Hitman 3, Baldur’s Gate 3 as well as access to a growing list of free games and demos, which are all playable with just a compatible controller, no downloading required....

Based on examples from a training set of dialogue, the researchers at the company designed an advanced type of “chatbot” that learns how to reply in conversations. The bot not only does responds by ejecting out prerecorded answers in reply to certain words; but it also can make up new answers from new questions. In other words, it meant that the Google researchers could get a little creative with it, which is what they did....

Chromebooks are laptops which run on Chrome and use apps running in the cloud, meaning they require Internet connectivity for most of their functions. Google’s philanthropy is well known. Earlier it had pledged to match $5.5 million in donations to help with the refugee crisis that has been unfolding. When the refugee crisis was in full motion, Google announced a new open-source project called the Crisis Info Hub that helps refugees access key information on their journey to safer countries, such as lodging, transportation, and more....

Apple has stated that the government’s continued persistence to hack the company’s iPhone is ridiculous so it detailed out on how the government would be able to achieve this goal without working at cross purposes. It stated that the authorities would have to create a custom operating system, or GovtOS, in order to help the FBI break into the iPhone 5c that belonged suspected San Bernarndino shooter Syed Farook. There are several reasons why Apple is suggesting this....

The United States Attorney’s official release stated that Barnhouse hacked into the Verizon FiOS router of his neighbor and using it he emailed a bomb threat to the Willow Grove Park Mall.. The email message is given below : Taking the threat seriously Mall owners paid for increased security and FBI was called in to look into the matter, The FBI tracked the email coming from the accused’s neighbor’s router and executed a search warrant on the neighbor’s house....

For those unaware, REvil, also known as Sodinokibi, targeted Grubman, Shire, Meiselas and Sacks and stole 756GB of data from the law firm. This New York-based law firm represents clients across the entertainment industry including Lady Gaga, Drake, Elton John, Madonna, Robert De Niro, LeBron James, The Weeknd, and Priyanka Chopra. The hacking group claims to have stolen contracts, nondisclosure agreements, phone numbers, email addresses, and private correspondence. They have also deleted or encrypted the firm’s backups, which means the only method they can be decrypted is to pay ransom to get the key....

Around 12:15 p.m. Wednesday, an Indiana-based radio station WZZY, 98.3, was releasing emergency bulletins relating to a health emergency surrounding a disease outbreak, diseased bodies, and zombies, according to the Randolph County Sheriff’s Department. The radio station was apparently hacked by some unknown hackers who went on to run the Zombie Apocalypse tapes. The matter was immediately reported to the local Sherriff. “It was confirmed that the radio station firewall was breached and a hack of the stations broadcasting system occurred,” the sheriff’s department said in a prepared statement, adding that WZZY’s sister station was also issuing similar alerts....