The agreement came after companies failed to agree on a common solution. The European Commission had pushed for a single mobile charging port more than a decade ago. The new rule of imposing a common charging port is a part of a broader EU effort to make products in the EU more sustainable, reduce electronic waste, and make consumers’ lives easier. By Autumn 2024, all new handheld mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, handheld videogame consoles, headphones, headsets, portable speakers, e-readers, keyboards, mice, portable navigation systems, and earbuds that are rechargeable via a wired cable will have to be equipped with a USB-C charging port, regardless of their manufacturer....

Apparently, for the past couple of days, Facebook’s Android app (com.facebook.katana) has been asking for superuser access to users’ devices. However, if a user tries to deny this request, it still continues asking until the user grants permission. This has led to panic among users who took to various internet forums looking for an explanation for the suspicious pop-ups. “Today I was browsing Facebook when suddenly I got a superuser request popup,” one user wrote on XDA developer forums....

Facebook users over the world are reporting a unique problem with the Facebook App. It is crashing as soon as it is opened. The problem has left many FB users without access to the social media site over the weekend after the Facebook for Android App stopped working. Due to some but, Facebook users were confronted with the error message that “Facebook has stopped” when attempting to open the FB app....

According to Gizmodo, for the March 4 session, the fifth most popular question with 61 votes was; ‘What responsibility does Facebook have to help prevent President Trump in 2017?’ While Facebook employees may want an answer from Mark but Facebook insists that it does not try and influence the way people vote. Gizmodo points out that such questioning shows that Facebook can and will influence the future presidency in United States....

The lawsuit was filed on July 10th in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, Facebook is accused of being a medium for Hamas. The complainants also argue that Facebook should be held liable for the attacks because “Hamas has used and relied on Facebook’s online social network platform and communications services as among its most important tools to facilitate and carry out its terrorist activity....

According to Apple’s tweaked guidelines, cloud-game-based apps aren’t allowed to appear on the platform unless cloud gaming operators submit each streaming game to the App Store as an individual app for review. It requires all games for a streaming service to be added to the App Store, or else it must only exist as a web app. As a result, Facebook on Friday released a PWA (Progressive Web App) that will act as a shortcut to its gaming service on iPhone and iPad devices....

The social media giant announced on Thursday that it would be rolling out TV commercial-style ad breaks in live videos, and would begin testing ad breaks in traditional News Feed videos as well. “Whether on Facebook or off, we’re committed to continuing to work with our partners to develop new monetization products and ad formats for digital video,” Facebook’s vice president of partnerships, Nick Grudin, said in a statement. “It’s early days, but today’s updates are a step towards this goal....

Biometric data is information about your physical characteristics, and it’s mainly used by tech companies as a form of identification. On Thursday, a federal court in San Francisco ruled that Illinois biometric privacy laws trump California laws, even if users have signed a terms of use agreement that states California laws would apply. The ruling may set a precedent that Illinois strict biometric privacy laws could override other state laws, a possibly significant issue as facial recognition becomes more pervasive in its use by Facebook and other tech titans Facebook filed the motion arguing that the users could not file a complaint under Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) as they had agreed in their user agreement that California law would govern their disputes with the company, and that BIPA does not apply to “tag suggestions....

The integration doesn’t allow you to actually play Spotify music inside of Messenger, at least not yet, but it does allow you to share tracks, playlists and artists within message threads. All iOS and Android users will now find a Spotify option inside the Messenger “More” section in chat threads. Once you have selected Spotify, you can search the app as you normally would to find an artists or playlist or song to share back to Messenger....

Talking about the future of Facebook, Zuckerberg said, “You’re going to just be able to capture a thought, what you’re thinking or feeling in kind of its ideal and perfect form in your head, and be able to share that with the world in a format where they can get that. “There’s some pretty crazy brain research going on that suggests we might be able to do this at some point....

— MannahattaMamma (@mannahattamamma) March 27, 2015 https://twitter.com/CandiceSilvas/status/581476091908349954/ — Ben (@benmathmedia) March 27, 2015 — Gaurav Ojha (@juniorojha) March 27, 2015 Even I log in into Facebook via my desktop and was surprised to see the error message which i got some hour back and was actually shocked because my friends confirmed they did not have this issue!!. For affected users Facebook was throwing up an error page which read: “Facebook will be back soon and it is down for required maintenance....

If implemented, the scheme will see the FCC’s Lifeline programme, which gives eligible consumers a US$9.25 monthly subsidy for fixed voice services, extended to include standalone fixed or mobile broadband services and bundles of fixed or mobile voice and data services. The proposal announced by the FCC would involve reorganizing the “Lifeline” plan that is now available for telephone service. Under a proposed update to its existing Lifeline financial assistance program for phone services, the FCC would expand the use of monthly subsidies to include broadband services....

Romaly, a film company in Costa Rica, has created a website that looks similar to the popular torrent portal, KickassTorrents. Known as LegalTorrents.internet, anyone visiting this site would think that this is KickassTorrent’s website. Check out the screenshot above. It contains images and screenshots, IMDB rating as well as download links with a similar logo, color scheme and word cloud on the front page. There’s even a feature for magnet links....

The German researchers team that studied the applications in detail discovered 56 million items of unprotected data, which included social networks, messaging, games, bank transfer and medical apps. Siegfried Rasthofer, who is a part of the team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology and Darmstadt University of Technology said “In almost every category we found an app which has this vulnerability in it.” Eric Bodden, Team leader said the number of records that are affected “will likely be in the billions....

3,000 Trx/Sec matching 14 regions In comparison, mainstream blockchain technologies need minutes, with the Bitcoin Blockchain and the Ethereum network typically processing seven and 20 transactions per second respectively. The experiment emphasizes the newly launched Blockchain’s scalability while retaining fast transaction speeds makes it ideal for the processing of financial transactions and microgrids that use peer-to-peer trading to transform the energy sector. Fork-free, no double spending In addition to high throughput, Red Belly differs from existing solutions with a number of advantages....

The Game begins with players jumping from a plane using a parachute on an island and search for weapons, utility items, Medical equipment, and other equipment in order to kill each other. The warzone keeps shrinking forcing players to strict to a smaller area and to face more encounters. The last player or the team that survives wins the game and is rewarded with lots of experience and items. The game can be played in both first and third-person perspectives....

In this article, we bring you 25 Google Chrome tips and tricks will help you make the most out of your web browser, Search sites that aren’t Google right from the omnibar If you go into Chrome’s settings, you’ll see a “Manage search engines…” button under the “Search” section. Click that, and you’ll see a list of sites you can search directly from the omnibar. Chrome will add most of these naturally....

BloodSec was apparently not happy with internet services provided by Globe Telecom Globe later confirmed that mybusiness.globe.com.ph, payroll.globe-csme.com, duointernational.globe-csme.com, and update.globe-csme.com, were defaced. all hosted by a third party hosting provider. It also added that, all effected websites are only used for promotional and advertising campaigns and is not connected with customers data system, so there is nothing to worry about. “The server where the four websites are hosted are managed by a third party partner and outside of the Globe Corporate and Enterprise Network, where appropriate preventive and detective controls are in place....

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....