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Popular social media networking site, Twitter, on Monday suffered a loss in shares after a security firm affirmed that the platform was hacked to enable the hackers steal users’ information. Prior to this episode, the platform had experienced an unusual traffic, causing an emergency investigation suggesting that the occurrence may be resulting from “state-sponsored” hackers. Twitter claims that while investigating a security bug that leaked data and users’ country codes, it also uncovered a malicious traffic to a customer-support forum. Accordingly, the traffic notably came from an IP address in China and Saudi Arabia. China, the prime suspect in this denies any ties with the internet hackers and promises to cooperate in cracking down such malicious behaviour. Twitter said in the blog post: “While we cannot confirm intent or attribution for certain, it is possible that some of these IP addresses may have ties to state-sponsored actor… We continue to err on the side of full transparency

A delivery robot owned by Kiwibot was caught in flames while on duty last Friday. However, its creator has blamed the occurrence on “human error”. Kiwibots have been functional around the University of California, Berkeley campus since 2016, and have not reported a serious complaint as this. Students found the robot in flames and reported the incidence on social media.  Immediately this became news, kiwi halted the activities of the robots, and began delivering foods manually. While the company has announced that it would provide measures to ensure that such incidence never happens again, it’s a known fact that the case with robots almost never ends with an absolute plan, as this will not be the first time that robots have “misbehaved”.  Even though it always ends with a blame on the human behaviour, the total dependence on robots bothers on “human competence”.  That human error will always exist could be a clear pointer that the idea of an absolute reliance on robots is fluid. The com

It’s Time to Change How You Think About Mobile Marketing Marketing has changed significantly over the past few decades. The internet and other advancing tech have really shaken this industry up. While before, your options were basically advertising in the media, sending out fliers, or cold calling clients, our options now are almost too numerous to count. You could certainly use traditional media to advertise, but there are many other options to consider. Chatbots, apps, email marketing, social media marketing, etc., all have to be considered when coming up with a winning strategy. It’s both good and bad—we have several methods at our disposal, but we tend to focus on the latest and greatest option and do away with “old-fashioned” ones. Mobile marketing is considered old fashioned by some. After all, how many people still use SMS campaigns now?  However, what we need to realize is that there’s a lot more to mobile marketing than just sending out the odd SMS. You can, for example, use B

Selling your stuff on eBay is a great way to earn some extra cash. It can also be a great way to earn a regular income if you are willing to put in the work. You can easily make money with ebay by selling things you have around the house that you don’t want anymore. Here, I am going to give you some ideas on how to be successful making a little extra cash, or even starting a small business with ebay. Selling on eBay You can sell just about anything on ebay from clothes to cars, and with millions of viewers already visiting ebay daily, it’s a lot easier to sell things or start a business. If you want to start making some extra cash fast, look for anything around the house that is in good condition that you do not want anymore and put it for sale on ebay. People will buy just about anything that is still in good condition on ebay, because remember, one person’s junk is another person’s treasure. Keep in mind though, some things are a lot easier to sell than others. Getting Started with e

We"re going to announce good news to you, the good news is your best news. Yes, this is true. We"ll go to let you know how much you earn from your Android app. How to upload or list your app and how to earn money, you do not need a particular need to earn. Today we want to explain more about how Admob uses its work and how to use it in various forms to make your Android app more out of it. Admob and how it works AdMob is a Google Share Partnership program. You are running behind various banner ads that you sometimes see. AdMob usually provides streamlined revenue for the channel for worldwide advertising purposes. Make sure that the banner space application will completely fill viewers with full style ads. The use of banner advertising is common, helping to provide free revenue streams for the purpose of the application, to help provide free application without destroying the application experience. Banner ads are arranged to be placed at the top or top of the top and appear

Plans concentrating on Artificial Intelligence (AI) are being used everywhere, with increasing discoveries in AI development . Companies and countries are investing huge sums of money in developing new AI technologies. Though it is not possible to list down all the popular AI trends for 2018, below are the top 7 ones who make the most difference when it comes to AI tech. Deep Learning Theory: Though not much is known about why and how deep neural networks have such great ability to learn and perform. But now, it appears like a new theory may change this fact. It suggests the information bottleneck principle is utilized in deep learning. This happens when a big amount of data is consumed all at once. The little less important data is ignored and compressed initially to process more important data. By better understanding how deep learning functions, researchers will be able to use it in several applications in a better way. Hybrid Learning Models: Such kind of model utilizes the stren

The home office as developed for online remote work is a more recent development, and yet it is rapidly gaining in popularity. About 70 percent of professionals work from home at least one day each week, and that trend is only going to grow as technology allows us to perform more tasks away from the office. Yet that trend does bring with it a few risks, especially for certain types of professionals that might have sensitive data or equipment at home as a result of remote work. This may require that you secure your home office against intrusions both physical and digital. Yet how does one do that? Keep on reading below to find out: How to Protect Your Home Office Online Your virtual workspace is just as, if not more, important than your physical one. This means your home office computer, whether a laptop or a full desk station, needs protection. You will want to do the following: Install Security Software: We sincerely hope that you already have security software on your computer, eith

Tumblr says it is out rightly banning photos and videos that depict nudity and pornography from its sit. The new policy, which will begin December 17 generated a mixed set of reactions online. As some even put it, sexuality is a big thing on Tumblr and by banning it, they stand the risk of alienating some of their biggest communities. That said, others think the decision could actually bring about a new style of engagement and users. Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time. Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and hum

Virtual reality headsets have made a storm over the last couple of years, being adopted by global companies such as Sony to progress and create new business opportunities. Up to now, the features appear limitless and it could very be the future of technology considering the strong interest it’s received from other industries. The largest question revolved around VR is its accessibility, with some questioning that this could make or break the technology. It leaves the question of whether virtual reality is the furthest that technology can go, or if there are other potential technologies that can overtake the phenomenon. It would be worth looking into VR’s possibilities and what could be challenging it. Is VR the future, or simply a trend?   There are arguments to suggest that VR is only starting its journey and there’s more to come from it. At this stage, we’re simply at a “buzz” with the technology, still waiting for it to break through to the masses. According to research company IDC,

Smartphone addiction is a decease everyone is suffering today. We can watch from hundreds of videos and can read about this disaster over the internet as well. It looks like smartphone is connecting us with the people but actually it is cutting us off from the real world. On social media everyone shows only the brighter side of their life which sometimes lead us to depression and we start believing that our life is worst then of others sometimes we become so much addicted that we forget to focus on our work and some of our real-life tasks suffer because of smartphone addiction. At a point of time I myself realized that we should beat the smartphone addiction before it will beat us and because of some simple tips I was able to overcome from the smartphone addiction. Here I am sharing these tips with you. Connect with real people: The first thing you should try to beat the addiction of your smartphone is to connect with the real people we often go to public places such as parks club’s st

Every website owner wants to earn links and relevant traffic. Why? Because the more links and traffic you have, the more readers will view your content and also the more profit you will generate. Trending topics is the sweet spot when it comes to earning links and traffic. Trending topics add a lot of user engagement, and of course you know the higher the engagement the more traffic you get. When you are able to find the trending topics people are talking about and searching for at the moment, you can use it to your advantage to earn links and traffic. In this article, I have listed 5 tips for using trending topics to earn links and relevant traffic. They are outlined below: # Stay ahead of The Trends One of the first steps you need to take to use trending topics to earn links and relevant traffic is to actually stay ahead of the trends. You have to stay ahead of the trends if you want to create content that is bound to go viral. You can’t afford to miss a trending topic once it happen

Google is making it easier for Maps users to communicate with businesses directly within the app. Google Maps for Android and iOS will be updated with new messaging features for businesses is aimed at consumers, while businesses will get a new Google My Business app. The update will add a Message icon and an inbox view for all conversations with businesses, Google explains in a blog post. Also, shops and restaurants that have a Business Profile with Google will see the new Message button appearing on their listing as well, together with call shortcut. “Now you’ll see your messages with the businesses you connect with via Business Profiles within the Google Maps app, where you’re already looking for things to do and places to go or shop,” Google explains in a company blog post . “You’ll find these messages in the side menu of both Google Maps for Android and iOS.”             All messages sent to or received from a business will now show up under a separate tab within the Google Maps in

Smartwatches have been growing in popularity, albeit slowly, for the last couple of years, and so companies are starting to feel the need to cater to users of these mobile devices. Today, Spotify is joining the list of Apple Watch apps by giving users the ability to listen to their favourite music and control playback without reaching for their phone. The music streaming service, which started testing its Apple Watch app earlier this month, has pushed out a first version that offers the ability to play music on the Apple Watch and control how music is played to Spotify Connect-compatible devices. Spotify has also included complications. The new app doesn"t, however, allow you to sync songs for offline playback, and you can’t directly stream songs to the Apple Watch from your phone or LTE on the watch. The app essentially replaces the “Now Playing” screen on the Apple Watch and gives you a refined way to control songs being played on your iPhone or Spotify Connect-compatible device

Gboard is already very familiar with GIFs, stickers, and emoji, since you can search for them from within the keyboard. However, today’s update automatically surfaces relevant GIFs, stickers, and emoji without the need to search for them. According to Google’s blog post. Gboard will automatically use AI to suggest the aforementioned content. For example, when you type out a phrase like “Good morning,” the “G” logo on the top-left corner of the suggestions strip changes to a GIF button. Tapping the GIF button shows you relevant GIFs, stickers, and emoji. Google was spotted testing the new update with a small group of users back in September. It essentially makes it faster and easier to share your feelings in the form of stickers, GIFs, and emojis. The latest Gboard update also includes more than 40 new language varieties. It comes days after a beta version of Gboard for Android was spotted with a floating keyboard feature. That feature is designed to let users move the virtual keyboard

Samsung at last unveiled its much talked about foldable smartphone finish with a 7.3-inch Infinity Flex Display. The device can rapidly change to end up a smaller than normal tablet, offering more screen space while still equipped for fitting in a pocket. At the time, we didn"t know much about when it would be released but now we know the launch date will be in March 2019 and that it will be called the Galaxy F. Samsung additionally reports that the Galaxy S10 is set to be announced in February and will be 5G compliant. The new Galaxy F won’t be cheap should you decide that you want one of the foldable phones when it launches next March. The phone comes in at 2 million Won/ $1,770/630,000 Naira making it the most expensive smartphone there is even though the iPhone X is currently the most expensive at $1,000 in the market. Samsung will ship somewhere around a million of the Galaxy F next year according to reports, which even at that high value point should offer in view of the cur

A Nigerian internet service provider said Tuesday that a configuration error it made during a network upgrade caused a disruption of key Google services, routing traffic to China and Russia. Even with MainOne"s explanation, there was speculation that Monday"s 74-minute data hijacking might not have been an accident. Google"s search, cloud hosting and corporate-focused G-Suite collaborative tools were among services disrupted. "Everyone is pretty confident that nothing untoward took place," MainOne spokesman Tayo Ashiru said. But Jake Williams, president of Rendition InfoSec and a former U.S. government hacker, said a skeptic should not rule out meddling by a nation-state with something to gain. The level of corruption in a country like Nigeria is well known, he said. The type of traffic misdirection involved can knock essential services offline and facilitate espionage and financial theft. It can also be used to block access to information by sending data reque

Get the smallest image file size without compromising quality or changing your workflow. You can upload Hi-Res photos faster, save tons of hard drive space, and experience a nicely high-quality images displaying without sacrificing load time can be a constant dilemma. Now, an experimental web app from Google called “Squoosh” offers a quick and easy way to get the best of both worlds. Showcased at the Chrome Dev Summit, Squoosh is a new online image conversion app. An open source tool which is  essentially a simple browser-based image editor, and the focus is very much on speed. Not limited to only working only in Chrome — other browsers are also supported. While the conversion options are useful to many people, Squoosh is really an opportunity for Google to show off new web technologies. How it works It’s reasonably easy to use: you can drag and drop a picture of your selecting into the software, at which level, you can decide from compression requirements together with MozJPEG, OptiPN

With Android Go, smartphone makers have the ability to launch devices that hit extremely low prices thanks to lower requirements. Today, Samsung is launching its second Android Go device with the Galaxy J4 Core, and it gives users a slight spec upgrade compared to other Android Go devices. Back in August, Samsung’s Galaxy J2 Core was its first Android Go device. Predictably, it was a very low-specced device in every way. It had just 1GB of RAM, 8GB of storage, a low-end Exynos 7570 processor, 2,600 mAh battery, and worst of all, a mere 5-inch 960x540 display. However, at under $100, it’s honestly not the worst device out there. At first glance, one of the most noticeable improvements with the Galaxy J4 Core compared to the J2 Core is the display. The bezels have been shrunk down considerably and the screen itself is a lot larger at 6-inches instead of 5. The resolution has also been increased from 540 x 960 up to 720 x 1480. Now, though, the Galaxy J4 Core has debuted (via WinFuture) a