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Facebook awards Manipuri engineer for detecting WhatsApp bug

An engineer from Manipur was awarded USD 5000 by Facebook for detecting a WhatsApp bug that violated the privacy of the users.Speaking to ANI, Zonel Sougaijam said he apprised Facebook of the bug, and the social media giant fixed the same within 15-20 days."I came across this bug during a voice call with my friend. The bug used to allow the caller to upgrade it to a video call without the knowledge of the receiver," the 22-year-old engineer said."I reported the matter in March to the Bug Bounty Program of Facebook, which deals with the violation of privacy matters. The report was acknowledged by the Facebook Security team the next day and its technical department fixed the bug within 15-20 days," he added.The social media giant named the engineer on a list where it has thanked those who make "a responsible disclosure". The list for 2019 contains 96 names so far where Zonel is at the 16th spot.Facebook, owned by Mark Zuckerberg, had purchased WhatsApp for USD 19 billion in February ...

Facebook awards Manipuri engineer for WhatsApp detecting bug

An engineer from Manipur was awarded USD 5000 by Facebook for detecting a WhatsApp bug that violated the privacy of the users.Speaking to ANI, Zonel Sougaijam said he apprised Facebook of the bug, and the social media giant fixed the same within 15-20 days."I came across this bug during a voice call with my friend. The bug used to allow the caller to upgrade it to a video call without the knowledge of the receiver," the 22-year-old engineer said."I reported the matter in March to the Bug Bounty Program of Facebook, which deals with the violation of privacy matters. The report was acknowledged by the Facebook Security team the next day and its technical department fixed the bug within 15-20 days," he added.The social media giant named the engineer on a list where it has thanked those who make "a responsible disclosure". The list for 2019 contains 96 names so far where Zonel is at the 16th spot.Facebook, owned by Mark Zuckerberg, had purchased WhatsApp for USD 19 billion in February ...

Canon Augments its Flagship PIXMA G-Series Portfolio With its Latest High-speed Ink Tank Printers

/ -- Introduces its first ever monochrome Ink Tank printer With this launch, Canon India aims to secure 25% market share in the Ink Tank category The printers are equipped with duplex printing and AI support for compatibility with smart speakers The new PIXMA G6070, PIXMA G5070 and PIXMA GM2070 are competitively priced at INR 21,499/-, INR 17,399/- and INR 14,299/- respectively Reinforcing its leadership position in the Ink Tank category, Canon India, one of the leading Digital Imaging Company, today expanded its iconic PIXMA G-Series line-up with the new category launch of Monochrome Ink Tank Printer PIXMA GM2070 and launch of two variants in the colour Ink Tank printers - PIXMA G6070, PIXMA G5070. The PIXMA G6070 is a multi-function printer allowing users to use it as a copier and scanner, while PIXMA G5070 and PIXMA GM2070 are single function printers. The new line-up features the popular integrated Ink Tank design, automatic two-sided printing, large paper feeding capacity, ...

India-EU ICT Standardisation Cooperation Project Supports Centre of Excellence (CoE) on IoT for Smart Cities at IIIT-Hyderabad

/ -- European Union through its India-EU ICT Standardisation Cooperation Project is supporting the creation of a Centre of Excellence (CoE) on Internet of Things (IoT) for Smart Cities at IIIT-Hyderabad. As part of the CoE, the EU India project will not only help to design relevant courses on IoT, but will also facilitate capacity building by supporting research collaborations and exchange of experts between India and EU. (Logo: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/600789/IIIT_Hyderabad_Logo.jpg) With an aim to build a deeper understanding of the standards driven approach for smart cities, and facilitate collaboration between various smart city stakeholders across India and EU, the project will also organize outreach activities such as hackathons, workshops and conferences. These activities would be organized on varied components of IoT including the use of standards such as oneM2M for interoperability for the benefit of public at large. The CoE brings together faculty from several ...

TCS expands its training program Grow@TCS pan-Europe

After the successful start of Grow@TCS in Germany in 20L7, the program was introduced in the Netherlands and Hungary in 20L8, and is now expanding Europe-wide. The training program is designed to help trainees gain insights into IT consultancy career paths.

WhatsApp's term violations to bring legal troubles

To improve the health of its platform, Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp has decided to take legal actions against those who are exploiting the platform by ways of unauthorised usage of the app, that has over 1.5 billion users.

Facebook upgrading Watch with new sections, languages

Intending to make connections with other people over videos, social networking giant Facebook is testing new sections in its video-on-demand service Watch.

Localyze, an Alchemy Group Venture Now Solves for the Billion Dollar Regional Localization Need Gap

/ -- Localyze (www.localyze.co ), a multilingual digital marketing agency part of Alchemy Group (www.thealchemygroup.co) today announced the launch of its business that caters to the next wave of Indian users coming online, offering end-to-end localization solutions across 8+ languages like Hindi, Tamil, Telegu, Bengali and many more. The driving objective is to empower brands that wish to communicate with their audiences without being restricted by their location or the language they speak. (Logo: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/901602/Localyze_Logo.jpg) Localyze will focus on delivering a seamless and turnkey solution spanning across all digital channels within the Indian regional language ecosystem. The business has been built for national brands who want to take their marketing communication to regional markets by accounting for the intent, style, tone and context to evoke the same emotions and the same implications in the target language as it does in the source language. The ..

Facebook says CEO did not ignore personal data issues

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did not knowingly violate an agreement with the regulator supervising the company's management of users' personal data, the social media giant said Wednesday as it addressed an issue that has been under federal investigation for the past year. Facebook was required to provide the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with emails, some from 2012, suggesting that Zuckerberg was personally aware of but neglected to address the fact that external applications had access to massive amounts of personal data without Facebook users' knowledge, the Wall Street Journal reported. The newspaper added that it did not have access to the documents but that anonymous sources had described their contents. "We have fully cooperated with the FTC's investigation to date and provided tens of thousands of documents, emails and files," said a Facebook spokesperson. "At no point did Mark or any other Facebook employee knowingly violate the company's obligations under the FTC consent ...

US Energy Dept blocks participation in China's 'Thousand Talents' programme

The US Department of Energy has moved to block its scientists from participating in China's controversial "Thousand Talents" programme in order to protect US competitive strengths and national security. An order issued quietly last week said department staff and contractors would be barred from involvement in a foreign government's talent recruitment programme that involves unauthorised transfer of scientific and technical information. The order, obtained by AFP on Wednesday, did not mention any specific country. But officials pointed to Beijing's "Thousand Talents" programme, which offers rewards and high pay to lure ethnic Chinese working overseas and non-Chinese to deliver top-level technology to China. US security officials say the Energy Department, which conducts advanced research in everything from particle accelerators to supercomputers to nuclear weapons, has been a particular target of the programme, which aims to help China catch up to more technologically advanced ...

Facebook Watch video-on-demand service reaches 720 million viewers monthly

Facebook Watch, the video-on-demand service operated by the social networking giant, reportedly reaches more than 720 million people monthly and 140 million people daily who consume content for at least a minute.In an official blog, Facebook highlighted that the growth of its Watch service has been recorded in less than a year of launch.On average, daily visitors spend more than 26 minutes in Watch every day.Facebook announced the addition of new shows including Tastemade's Sundays at Nonna's, Studio71's Fetch Me A Date, Whistle's Globetrotter Gauntlet with the Harlem Globetrotters, in the coming months and MTV's The Real World that premiers this week.

TV is not enough, 88% of people use smartphone or tablet while watching shows: Mary Meeker

Thanks to the reduced attention span, even television is not enough as roughly 88 per cent of Americans uses a second device, such as a phone or tablet, while watching TV, according to the annual internet trends report by venture capitalist Mary Meeker.As Fast Company reports, most TV watchers are doing what is called as 'research' on these secondary devices, with 71 per cent of people looking up content related to the program they are watching on TV, and 41 per cent are messaging friends or family related to the show on TV.The report highlights that Americans spend an average of 3.6 hours on their phones or tablets every day, up from 3.3 hours last year. Owing to the faster internet speeds, users are increasingly watching videos on mobile devices instead of the larger screens.The amount of time spent on phones has also surpassed the amount of time spent watching TV.

Dharmendra Pradhan congratulates DRDO on HSTDV launch

Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday congratulated the team of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for successfully launching Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV)."I congratulate team @DRDO_India for positioning India amongst a select few countries with the successful test fire of Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV) off Odisha's coast. It can be used to launch satellites at low cost & will strengthen our defence capabilities," he tweeted.India successfully launched a Technology Demonstrator missile vehicle off the coast of Odisha on Wednesday. This missile vehicle is expected to help the DRDO prove and develop a number of technologies for futuristic missions.The test was conducted by the premier defence research agency in presence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Secretary (Defence Production) Ajay Kumar at the test firing range in Balasore."Various sensors have been placed on the missile, .

India successfully tests scramjet demonstrator aircraft

India successfully launched the indigenously-developed Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV) in its maiden test from a base off the Odisha coast on Wednesday. The HSTDV was successfully test-fired by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) from Launch Complex-4 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) on Dr Abdul Kalam Island in Bay of Bengal at 11.27 am, DRDO sources said. A Defence Ministry statement said the DRDO launched the technology demonstrator vehicle to prove a number of critical technologies for futuristic missions. "The missile was successfully launched. Various radars, telemetry stations and electro-optical tracking sensors tracked the vehicle through its course. The data has been collected and will be analysed to validate the critical technologies," it added. The HSTDV is an unmanned scramjet demonstration aircraft for hypersonic speed flight, it can cruise at a speed of mach 6 and move up to an altitude of 32.5 km (20 miles) in 20 seconds, the ...

Instagram to let Zuckerberg's tampered video stay on app

Facebook-owned photo-messaging app Instagram is investigating a tampered viral video of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, but has decided to let the video stay on the platform regardless.

Google Pixel 4, Pixel 4XL leaked online

Search-engine giant Google is expected to refresh its Pixel series with two new offerings -- Pixel 4 and 4 XL -- later in October, details of which have been leaked online.

Vivo's Z series to be Flipkart-exclusive in India

To launch its first Z series device in India, Chinese smartphone manufacturer Vivo on Wednesday announced exclusive partnership with online marketplace Flipkart.

FB will pay to track phone usage pattern in India, US

After facing flak for using unethical and discreet ways of collecting user-information, Facebook has decided to pay Android users in India and the US just to monitor how they use their phones.

India has made significant strides in satellite & launcher

India has made significant strides in satellite and launcher technology with its space industry growing in value chain, Advisor Department of Space/ISRO Dr K Radhakrishnan said on Wednesday. The hallmark of Indian space programme is to help humankind through earth-oriented satellites for communication, remote sensing and navigation along with an effective institutional tie up with all stakeholders, he said. "Self-reliance has been our obsession, not just an objective and capacity building in academia has been a priority to foster front-line research", the former ISRO chairman said in his address at the 21st convocation of Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. Chandrayaan-1 and Mangalyaan were India's inflection points on convergence of space science, technology, engineering and mathematics for precise navigation for deep space missions while Lunar lander of Chandrayaan-2 will be a landmark soon and Gaganyaan, commencing human spaceflight to the earth's orbit, would .

School, college dropouts to be equipped with computer skills

A centre to impart training in computer hardware for school and college dropouts here was inaugurated here Wednesday by Puducherry chief minister V Narayanasamy. The centre 'Dell Kaushak Kendra' (a skill India lab) was set up by Dell Technologies, in partnership with Swami Vivekananda Rural Community College (SVRCC). During the inauguration, the chief minister said the union territory was according importance to skill-training and lauded Dell Technologies for opening its state-of-the-art computer hardware lab. Dell Technologies said the kendra would impart vocational trainingto the underprivileged school and college dropouts, a press release from the company said. The training would equip the youth with skills to get gainful employment. The one-year-long diploma course would comprise classroom training for nine months and three months training in the lab. President and managing director of Dell Technologies India Alok Ohrie said in the release that the company believed .