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The social media giant Facebook unveiled on Friday plans to transform the campus of its Silicon Valley, Calif., Headquarters into a “mixed-use town,” housing and retail businesses. Housing, grocery stores, a hotel and more are part of what is planned for this new project that will be based at the corporate campus Menlo Park, California, where Facebook plans to build this new “village.” The drive for the Willow Campus comes from the current existence of inappropriate housing and public transportation, making it difficult for workers in the technology giant created by Mark Zuckerberg to live where the main social network is based, according to its vice president of global facilities and real estate, John Tenanes....

For unlike its predecessors (the Yureka, the Yureka Plus, the Yuphoria and the Yunique), the Yutopia is looking to carve a niche for itself not just in the mid-segment smartphone market – the most expensive YU device in the market before the Yutopia cost under Rs 10,000 – but also taking on the more traditional flagships. And well, it certainly comes with the design and specs to slug it out with them....

Galaxy S8 owners in the United States are reporting an update prompt for the “Enhanced Features” app on their phone constantly showing up tapping which ultimately leads to an error message being displayed. This is an endless cycle and happens every time one opens any of Samsung’s stock app on the phone. Opening any of the stock system apps like Phone/Contacts, Messages etc on a carrier-branded Galaxy S8 or S8+ in the US leads to an “Update Enhanced Features?...

The company sold a whopping 10 million units of the Redmi Note 4 in its life cycle and once that milestone was set, its successors, the Redmi Note 5 and Note 5 Pro combined sold almost 5 million units. Trying to not just match those two but also set a new benchmark is the new Redmi Note in the family, the Redmi Note 6 Pro. Time to break away from the Note stereotype?...

Those online purchases will only become more prevalent as we inch closer to the holiday season. Luckily, shopping online isn’t a chore, and it’s fun to get packages of new tech toys and gadgets delivered to our doorsteps. Plus, you can save money by shopping online if you’re using a price comparison tool, which makes it even more appealing. While most of those new gadgets and gizmos will be safe to use out of the box, it’s just a fact of life that some products will eventually be recalled over safety concerns....

Today, at an event in New York and London, HTC unveiled its flagship handset for the first half of 2014 — the HTC One (M8). With the One revealed, the stage is all set for another battle between Samsung and HTC to win over the heart of consumers and make them vote by their wallets for their latest and greatest flagships. Last year, even though the HTC One (M7) did not exactly set the sales chart on fire, it did receive a lot of critical appreciation....

To be exact, Miller added code that would delete the file system of any computer with a Russian or Belorussian IP address. Then, its maintainer added the module as a dependency to the extremely popular node-ipc mode. Node-ipc, in turn, is a popular dependency that many JavaScript programmers use. And it went from annoying to a system destroyer. The code has undergone several changes since it first appeared, but it must be regarded as highly dangerous....

If you’ve learned what it takes to start and grow a successful business, it’s time to build a professional website. Fortunately, you don’t have to spend a fortune on web developer fees or learn how to make one on your own. You can create a fantastic website using Simbla’s simple drag-and-drop builder, and five-year subscriptions are on sale for $49. You can choose from a variety of responsive websites that are well-designed and tailored for all kinds of businesses....

To better differentiate between CyanogenMod and Cyanogen OS, the CM team bundles a few exclusive apps with the latter. While CyanogenMod is an open-source custom ROM, the latter is a closed source ROM that is pre-installed on phones like the OnePlus One, ZUK Z1, YU Yureka, and other devices. Starting from today though, the CM team is making all the apps found in Cyanogen OS available for CM12.1 users. Dubbed Cyanogen Apps Package or C-Apps, the package includes the following apps:...

The HS720 will be a go-to staple with up to 52 minutes of flight time with two intelligent batteries, meaning you take to the skies for longer periods of time. It offers a simple operation, using one key start/stop, emergency stop, altitude hold, and electric fence to make it easy to use. While you’ll obviously stay grounded, the drone can reach 3,000 feet high with the 2.4GHz transmitter. With the GPS Assisted Intelligent Flight, you will never lose the drone....

Emojis are tried and true but there’s not much in the way of individuality. You can make your own avatars to share with friends, family and even your coworkers. Tap or click here to check out four free avatar apps. Your phone comes with a host of ringtones that sound the same as everyones. Tired of Pachelbel’s Canon? You can create your own custom ringtones without too much difficulty, though it’s a bit more work to get them onto your phone....

The bit about the attractive discounts does seem to be right. We scanned the store very casually and came across classics like Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan for Rs 49, Arundhati Roy’s award-winning The God of Small Things for Rs 99 and Ramachandra Guha’s Gandhi Before India for Rs 240, all of which are a fraction of their paperback, and even their general Kindle prices. A statement from Niti Kumar, SVP, marketing, digital and communications, Penguin Random House India, hinted that the decision to open an exclusive ebook store was influenced by the COVID-19 crisis....

Before we delve straight into Codecs, here are a few things you need to know beforehand— Sampling rate – measured in hertz (Hz), it is defined as the number of samples (per second) taken from a continuous signal to form a digital signal. The more the number of samples, the more accurate the digital representation is. In layman terms, these samples are screenshots of an audio or video signal at very short intervals, usually tens/thousands of times per second....

Extratorrent is also one of the famous names which have been banned. Extratorrent managed to survive for a while, but it went down at the end of 2017. For all those who don’t know about Extratorrent, it used to be one of the largest torrent aggregators on the web. It was in May 2017 when the site joined the likes of KickAss Torrents and Torrentz and went down. But, the site name is still searched today, and people are still looking for Extratorrent alternatives....

The PoGo was a programmer response, which actually was able to bring the Pokémon Go game to the mobile operating system from Microsoft, and this application has now been updated with many new features. This is not the official application of Pokemon Go, but it was the way that users of Windows 10 Mobile found to get access to the game that everyone wants to play. After they launched its first version, its creator had some problems with the Niantic but was apparently resolved and, for now, the application continues to run....

Recently, Mozilla released the new version of its browser “Firefox 52” which is even faster, robust and secure. The latest version of Firefox includes a number of interesting new features, including support for the new WebAssembly standard, which lets you run web apps that closely match native apps, as well as alert users when a page with a form has no HTTPs. This release also brings support for multiprocessing architectures on PCs with touchscreen displays....

Any IoT device you use, you will be interacting with firmware, and this is because firmware can be thought of as the actual code that runs on an IoT or embedded device. For this post, we will start by looking at various ways to extract file system from firmware, and then move into going deeper into analysing binaries for vulnerabilities. The most common architectures for IoT devices are ARM and MIPS, which is also something we will cover later in this series....

Rovio’s new online combat game Battle Bay is also worth a look, along with premium shooter Neon Chrome, while video-driven recipe app nna might help you whip up some tasty dishes NASA’s Visualization Explorer offers up interesting research-driven stories. Read on for more, then hit the ay Store to try something new this weekend. Battle Bay Everyone knows Rovio for its increasingly exhausted Angry Birds series, but the studio is trying something new with Battle Bay....

Framework is, as the youth like to say, built different. It’s one of the few companies that I’ve seen actually go beyond the fully-recycled boxes and charger-less packaging and create a product that’s practical, purposeful, and ethical. In full support of the Right to Repair movement, Framework’s computers are modular, meaning you can swap out parts, components, batteries, and more at any given time. You can find all the customizable parts, assembly tools, and instruction manuals on the official website, with transparency front-and-center for the business operation....

Tall, heavy and handsome There is a design pattern book in town and all brands seem to be taking pages off it lately for their smartphones. Samsung is no different. Much like many recent Samsung A and M series devices, the Galaxy A70 also comes with a glass-like polycarbonate back which is reflective and creates different patterns when light falls on it. This one, in particular, has a very prism-like effect and reflects a rainbow pattern when put in light – shades of the A50....