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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....

In a statement, Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager said that “I am concerned that the company has given an unfair advantage to its own comparison shopping service, in breach of EU antitrust rules,” she said. “If the investigation confirmed our concerns, Google would have to face the legal consequences and change the way it does business in Europe”. Google Inc. has been sent a chargesheet by the EU to which it can respond....

As The Next Web reports: Google’s Android operating system currently supports Java as its first-class language, and sources say Swift is not meant to replace Java, at least initially. While the ongoing litigation with Oracle is likely cause for concern, sources say Google considers Swift to have a broader “upside” than Java. As noted by The Next Web, switching over to Swift would be a long process for Google that could span multiple months or years....

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has discovered publicly available court documents that revealed the government has asked Google’s assistance to help the federal authorities hack into at least nine locked Android smartphones citing the 1789 law called the All Writs Act. The devices include phones from Alcatel, Kyocera, and Samsung, many of which shipped without the default device encryption that blocked the use of traditional forensic tools in the San Bernardino case....

Now another explosive video substantiating Assange’s claim as surfaced giving some voice to the anti-Hillary chorus. On Thursday, creators of the video on the YouTube channel SourceFed released an explosive video that alleged Google is actively altering search recommendations in favour of the presumptive Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFxFRqNmXKg However, the search giant defended itself against charges of political bias in its search algorithm In the video, it shows that if someone types “Hillary Clinton cri,” Google’s search suggests phrases like “Hillary Clinton crime reform” and “Hillary Clinton crisis”, said Matt Lieberman, host and writer for SourceFed....

According to Tomi Tuominen and Timo Hirvonen, security consultants for Finnish data security company F-Secure said that they discovered a vulnerability in the software of the electronic hotel room keys of VingCard Elsafe (a brand under Assa Abloy), a global provider of hotel locking systems. The vulnerable software in question is called ‘Vision’ and it could affect millions of rooms as they are available in 166 countries and in over 40,000 buildings, F-Secure researchers estimate....

It also changed the display banner and profile images to show a black and white image with the words ” Mujahid CyberCaliphate,” “Ad-Virtuali” and “I love you isis,” as well as the ISIS flag and a man’s face concealed by a head scarf. The FBI has been notified of the incident and is currently investigating the hack attack. A ABQ Journal web staff member Nancy Tipton said that the publication is not currently commenting in detail on the alleged cyber attack....

A team of researchers from the University of North Carolina at the Usenix security conference in Austin earlier this month showed an especially exasperating new technique for taking a face: one that depends on 3-D rendering and some light internet stalking. They presented a system that created 3-D facial models which were successful in fooling four out of five facial recognition systems. The digital 3-D facial models were based on publicly available photos and displayed with mobile virtual reality technology to defeat facial recognition systems....

We give you some interesting titbits about what Commander Kelly will do/will have done during his year in space. Commander Kelly has already completed 6 months aboard ISS and he has sent very rivetting pictures of Earth. We are reproducing a few of those for our readers. Photos courtesy NASA

How to guide for playing DVDs and Blu-Ray discs on Windows 10 for freeOption 1: Getting Windows 10 DVD Player for FreeOption 2: Opt For Third-Party AppsDVD DiscsBlu-ray Discs However, for those who do not wish to spend money on the DVD player, can now play DVDs for free in Windows 10 either by downloading a free version of the official Windows DVD Player application, or install a free third-party program....

In April, Samy Kamkar, a hacker and engineer and the inventor of the handmade device disclosed the technique of cracking Master locks by taking care of the hitches in the dial’s spin, which indicate at the actual combination and restrict it to eight options. The things that your hands can do, a machine can often do it more quicker. Hence, Kamkar made a lock-cracking machine from off-the-shelf parts that converts the whole process into an automatic operation....

Ryan made headlines for his hacking skills in early 2015, when he was arrested on charges of hacking into the calendar system of rival school University of Georgia ahead of a big football game. The UGA master calendar was unsecured, and with a simple POST command, he was able to add an event that read “Get Ass Kicked By GT” at the time of the rivalry football game. After it was discovered that Ryan was the culprit, he was indicted by a grand jury on a count of computer trespass....

Software developers are the most precious commodity in the tech world. These days you need them to develop your website, your iOS and Android Apps. The better the software developer the better your website and App and the more the visitors to it. It is important to find a good developer so that you can put your ideas into a code. However, the most important question is how much do they charge you for doing so....

With sixteen different agents (along with the recently added Neon), the game offers a dynamic experience, with each one having an individual ultimate ability(ULT), along with three powers. While Valorant is free to play game. You can always spend money on in-game purchases. There are a total of 17 weapons to use in-game. It includes rifles, SMGs, machine guns, and knives. The default skins look pretty underwhelming and bland, to put it politely....

We get a lot of queries on how to hack a Facebook page or how to hack my girlfriends Facebook account? Another one is my boyfriend is cheating on me, how do I hack his Facebook account? We always tell these guys that we dont indulge in black hat hacking. However, a new tool available online claims to do all this in a few key strokes. And users, like the ones listed above are falling prey to it....

It’s long past time that students only had access to the family PC for lessons. Today, 70% of e-learners use their smartphones. And, as we’ll see, progressive design adapts content to suit the device, which is crucial for those who learn on their phones or tablets. HTML5 is the golden ticket that allows e-learning developers to create online solutions that can automatically morph content to suit varying screen sizes. The crucial part here is to not only adapt the size of content but also make it easily digestible....

In the last article, we had reported how Iranian hackers were able to glean information from Google about the dams in US cities in order to infiltrate and flood the cities. The hackers used a method known as Google Dorking which has been used ever since Google was launched. It is well known that the Internet is a reservoir of vast information but it is out there in split format....

Because of technological advancements of distributed systems, several complications have occurred that have made log data management more difficult to oversee. Devices and systems today will generate a massive amount of communications, which makes monitoring and managing logs more challenging to accomplish without log management and performance software that allows information technology (IT) techs to monitor, support and troubleshoot an IT infrastructure. The introduction of containers and microservices have also been problematic when it comes to the best way to manage logs files from multiple applications....

Thanks to a less familiar feature of Gmail, by which Android users can get back their contacts. Chat contacts from 24 hours and contacts from 30 days can be recovered. To recover the missing details you’ll need to log on to the web version of Gmail, then in the top left hand corner where you see the word Gmail. A drop down menu will appear, from which you should select Contacts....

Thanks to advancing computer technologies, you can now perform a reverse video search to find the video that you are looking for. On a consumer level, this technology is still relatively in its early stages of development, so you may not find it as finessed as other technologies like reverse image search. Nonetheless, it has come a far way since its early days and can be extremely beneficial when used correctly....