Facebook Ads Promoted Apps With Hiddenads Malware Affects 1M Users

The infected apps hide and promote themselves aggressively on Facebook showing continuous advertisements to victims in a variety of ways. When this malware is installed on the victim’s device, they run malicious services automatically upon installation even without needing any user interaction to open the apps. To promote these apps to new users, the malware authors created advertising pages on Facebook, as it is the link to Google Play distributed through legitimate social media, leaving little margin for doubt for the users....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 337 words · Oren Robinson

Facebook Hack How To To Use Two Profile Pictures At The Same Time Techworm

This is how to use two separate display profile pictures in FacebookRemember this hack works only for profile pictures. Make sure you have at least 2 or more pictures in your “profile pictures” album.Steps to enable different pictures for thumbnail and display picture This Facebook hack basically allows you to change display picture in your Facebook profile while keeping the post thumbnail or the original one as it is. Once you have enabled this hack you will have a different pic for your thumbnail and a different pic for display....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 357 words · Willie Copeland

Facebook Introduces Soundmojis On Messenger

“Every day, people send more than 2.4 billion messages with emojis on Messenger. Emojis add color and vibrancy to Messenger chats all over the world, and we rely on them to say what words can’t,” wrote Loredana Crisan, Vice President of Messaging Group, Messenger in a blog post about the new feature. “Now imagine if your emojis could talk — what sound would they make? Introducing Messenger’s latest feature: Soundmojis....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 235 words · Peter Tavares

Facebook Launches Standalone Messenger For Web Browsers

Facebook engineers have made the Messenger.com a full fledged websites and it resides outside of Facebook. One of the main reasons for the launch of standalone messaging App is that FB users sometimes need to chat with their friends and acquaintances without the distractions, popups and intimidations Facebook provides. When a user is logged into Facebook there are constant updates in the news feeds and the friends user profiles. The messaging website gives a way to FB users to just concentrate on messaging....

December 25, 2022 · 1 min · 212 words · Rudolph Tomassi

Facebook S New Phone Calling App Hello Comes With Dialler And Caller Id

“Hello” for Android is the brainchild of Facebook Creative Labs, the company’s arm tasked with creating new applications outside of Facebook. Unlike WhatsApp voice calling where the user just sees the user’s profile on the smartphone screen, Hello is a full fledged dialler with caller id facility. Because it’s connected to Facebook, Hello users can see information about their callers’ identity even if the caller is not in their friends list....

December 25, 2022 · 1 min · 106 words · Andrea Sterling

Facebook Secretly Adds A New Dark Mode Theme To Its Messenger App

Now, the much-awaited feature has been rolled on Android and iOS devices that can be enabled with a little trick. According to a Reddit thread, Facebook has added a “hidden” setting in the Messenger app that allows you to turn on or off the dark mode feature. Here’s how you can activate Messenger’s secret, hidden dark-mode theme on your devices without waiting for Facebook to officially announce the feature. Note, if you have tried sending the crescent moon emoji and still don’t have the dark mode in Settings, then turn off the Messenger app completely and relaunch it before tapping on the moon emoji....

December 25, 2022 · 1 min · 156 words · Michael Putt

Facebook Trying Out New Reaction Button For Mother S Day Techworm

Earlier Facebook reminded you to call your mother, now the social networking behemoth is trying something different this Mother’s Day. It will be adding a new flower reaction to the already existing six reactions that it had enabled in Feb, 2016. The new reaction button which could be temporary and just for the upcoming Mother’s Day, was first spotted by a Twitter user Sreedev Sharma. — Sreedev Sharma (@sreedevsharma) May 5, 2016

December 25, 2022 · 1 min · 72 words · Elena Obrien

Flaw In Lenovo Solution Centre Allows Hackers To Take Over You Pc Laptop Techworm

LSC comes preloaded on nearly all Lenovo business and consumer desktops and laptop PCs. The software acts as a dashboard monitoring system health and security from battery life, driver updates and firewall status. A fix for the vulnerability was released by Lenovo and can be downloaded by visiting the software’s page on their website. This is the second time the computer maker has had to patch LSC – the first being December 2015....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 257 words · Ronald Walles

For The First Time A Computer Beats Human In Iq Test As Machines Start To Understand Words And Sentences

The deep learning computer built by researchers outperformed humans on IQ testFor the first time ever a computer programmed to understand multiple meaning of words and sentences has beaten humans in the Intelligence Quotient test. According to a recently released study, researchers from Microsoft and the University of Science and Technology of China programmed a computer to understand multiple meaning of words and sentences. By building this deep learning machine they compared the IQ of Artificial Intelligence with that of humans and surprisingly the results showed that the machines outperformed an average human on the types of problems that have always been the toughest for computers to solve....

December 25, 2022 · 3 min · 553 words · Ann Miner

Forget 4K 8K Laptops And Pcs To Become A Reality By 2016

The new eDP 1.4a standard will replace the 1.4 standard that was released in early 2013. eDP 1.4a enables a “higher video data transfer rate for increased panel resolution, greater color depth and higher refresh rates.” The new technology is well equipped with 8K feature which one day or other will be pushed into the world of laptops, all-in-one PCs and even in mobile devices. 8K displays will support a resolution of 7680 X 4320 pixels....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 339 words · Crystal Howe

Forget Fingerprints And Retina Scan We Will Soon Have Ear Based Login Techworm

Over the years, fingerprints and retina scans have been found to be easily hackable but researchers say it is impossible to fake or recreate an user’s internal ear canal which the basic requirement of ear-based login. The ear-based login system has been developed by researchers from NEC and it works by sending sound into someone’s ear and then measuring the echoes they receive. The echo is based on sound reflected from someone’s external ear canal, the tympanic membrane, and by sound that goes beyond the tympanic membrane and is reflected within the inner parts of the ear....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 284 words · Jesus Cash

German Government To Pay Over 800 000 For Windows 7 Extended Security Updates

The end of support means the company would now no longer be offering public security updates or fixes, software updates or technical support for Windows 7. However, businesses that haven’t migrated to Windows 10 in time can pay for Extended Security Updates (ESU). According to a local German newspaper, Handelsblatt, the German government which still has more than 33,000 computers running on Windows 7 has decided to pay €800,000 ($887,000) to Microsoft this year for ESU in order to keep their PCs updated and patched....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 257 words · Christie Austin

Get Free Internet Connect To Password Protected Wi Fi Hotspots For Free With Instabridge App Techworm

Connect to password protected Wi-Fi hotspots for free with Instabridge App for Android smartphones, iOS devices, Windows and Mac PCs/laptopsSetting up Instabridge on your Android smartphone/iPhone/Windows PC/Mac PC Luckily, for you there is a way through which you can get free Internet connection. An app called “Instabridge” offers you free Wi-Fi connection. Instabridge works through crowdsourcing and lists of user-submitted WiFi connections to let others access them for free. So far, thousands of network credentials have been added to the database so it is very likely that you could find a network near to you and join it for free....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 334 words · Scott Burns

Ghostshell Hacker Leaks 36 Million User Records To Protest Against Security Techworm

The hacker announced the data leak on Twitter and posted a link to a PasteBin URL where he wrote that the leak was aimed at raising awareness “about what happens when you decide not to even add a username and password as root or check for open ports.” The users also can find a statement regarding his reasons behind the hack, screenshots from all the hacked servers, and several links from where users can download the data....

December 25, 2022 · 3 min · 450 words · Woodrow Marvin

Google Chrome Gives You A Laughing Smiley When You Open The 100Th Tab On Smartphones And Tablets

Not many will have the courage to open so many tabs on their smartphones but one Redditor, Hamsna, tried just that and guess what Google Chrome threw up when he opened the 100th tab. It threw up a laughing smiley Hamsna made his finding public on Reddit much to the amusement of other reddittors. This is a novel Chrome Easter Egg built in by the engineers. Perhaps this is Google’s way of saying you are doing way too much experimenting....

December 25, 2022 · 1 min · 106 words · Serena Mclaughlin

Google For Jobs Adds New Features To Its Job Listings Search Tool Techworm

The internet giant on Wednesday announced in a blog post that it has updated its Google for Jobs platform, which is integrated into Google’s search engine. The new function will now let users add salary-related information, location settings and job application choices based on which the details about open position will display in the Search results. “Now, based on feedback from job seekers, we’re introducing some new features to help make the process more efficient....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 358 words · Ebony Hicks

Google Hired 18 Year Old Who Serves 1000 Businesses And Just Got A Cool 15 Million

Google hired “Larry Gadea” a ‘brilliant’ Silicon Valley kid at the age of 18- now his setup serves more than 1,000 businesses and just scored $15 millionA successful entrepreneur built software called “Envoy” which announced a $15 million Series AINVESTMENT. When Gadea was 8 years old he started doing programming and he used to love computers a lot. He was already writing games in high school. He developed plug-in for Google Desktop Search that put him on Google’s radar....

December 25, 2022 · 4 min · 712 words · Barbara Smith

Google Ordered To Assist Marvel In Finding Josh Gazelle The Leaker Of Avengers Age Of Ultron Teaser Trailer

Google ordered to assist Marvel in finding Josh Gazelle, the leaker of Avengers: Age of Ultron Teaser TrailerThe Ruling A certain user ‘Josh Gazelle’ has been identified as the leaker of the trailer. Marvel has cited that this leak caused significant damage to Marvel and its Avenger’s movie in terms of money and publicity. The Ruling The court has accepted Marvel Comics plea and ordered Google to to help Marvel search for the individual ‘Josh Gazelle’ who has been attributed to the leaking of the new Avengers: Age of Ultron movie trailer, according to a subpoena issued by the US District Court for the Northern District of California....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 276 words · David Nguyen

Google Pays More Than 1M Fine For Street View Violation In Italy Techworm

December 25, 2022 · 0 min · 0 words · Frank Clark

Google S Area 120 Launches A Pinterest Like App Called Keen

The new experiment ‘Keen’ has been developed as part of Area 120, Google`s workshop for experimental projects, in close collaboration with a team at Google called People and AI Research (PAIR), which is dedicated to human-centered machine learning systems. Keen, which is a web and Android app, lets the users create their own version of Pinterest’s board. “On Keen, you say what you want to spend more time on, and then curate content from the web and people you trust to help make that happen,” wrote CJ Adams, Co-founder of Keen in a blog post....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 391 words · Robert Tijerina