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Internet.org is Now Free “Basics by Facebook”, Zuckerberg Launching “Special” Wi-Fi in India

Shivam Patsariya 0 Android, Business, FbTrick, MobilesAndTablets, Security 5:48 AM

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<em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">he social networking website Facebook has struggled to create an environment of consensus among the masses for its free internet initiative </span><span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">. The company has said that it is working on new ways to enhance the internet connectivity in India.</span></em></span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Along the similar lines, the company has renamed its controversial <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span>app as Free Basics. With the help of its app, Facebook aims to provide certain free data services and websites to the mobile users.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A few months ago, amid widespread controversies, Facebook opened up the<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org platform to the developers.</span> Currently, this moonshot project of Zuckerberg includes 60 new services focussed at productivity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The new app Free Basics by Facebook is also equipped with stronger security measures and aims to get more users online all over the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“We’re making this change to better distinguish the <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span> initiative from the programmes and services that Facebook provides, including Free Basics,” says <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span> Vice-President Chris Daniels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He adds, “Anyone currently using the app will be able to continue using the Android app though it will now be called Free Basics by Facebook in Google Play.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The previous <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span> web URL is now redirected to <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Freebasics.com</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In India, the social networking website is also piloting Express WiFi service that will encourage the local entrepreneurs to set up WiFi hotspots in various areas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“We help them in terms of technical solutions, business model and marketing,” said Munish Seth, Country Manager Facebook Connectivity Solutions India. Facebook has already set up such hotspots in partnership with ISPs in parts of Uttarakhand and Bangalore.</span></div>
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Facebook has rebranded its internet.org initiative as Free Basics by Facebook. The company is also rolling out a program called Ex...

World’s First $9 Computer CHIP is Shipping Today

Shivam Patsariya 0 Hack 5:46 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Earlier this year, Next Thing Co. launched a Kickstarted campaign to fund this project, and now its team has announced that the first CHIP computers are shipping to the <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kernel Hacker Backers.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The world’s first $9 computer is an innovative open hardware project, powered by an open source software. The specifications of an entry-level computer and the price tag of $9 makes it one the best platforms for developers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Currently, Next Thing Co. is shipping the Alpha CHIP and it’s shipping without any firmware. However, there are detailed instructions for flashing the software onto the CHIP.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you’ve backed the project earlier at the Kernel Hacker Backer level on Kickstarter, you’ll be getting two CHIP computers. The second batch of CHIP computer will ship by mid-October.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Apart from the earlier mentioned hardware specifications, CHIP features a composite video port, a USB port, a micro USB port and other developer pins for hooking up hardware.</span></div>
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World’s first $9 computer CHIP is shipping from today. The early backers of the project will be getting two CHIP computers- one withi...

Sunder Pichai Welcomes Indian PM Narendra Modi To Google HQ

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<em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Prior to the much-anticipated visit of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Silicon Valley this weekend, Google CEO Sunder Pichai posted a welcome video on YouTube manifesting the importance of this visit. </span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">India has long been a large exporter of the human talent to the tech companies in the world including US, says Sunder Pichai, who<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;"> </span>became Google’s CEO</span> on August 10, 2015. He mentions that as the world is evolving and India is contending to become a hub of technological developments, PM Modi’s Digital India vision is central to this revolution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The major task at hand for all the tech companies including Google is to serve maximum connectivity and bring the next 1 billion people online. Some of the Google’s initiatives that Pichai mentioned are making the products work on low Bandwidth and even offline, and make the web accessible in Indian languages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Google plans to provide low-cost Chromebooks in the schools of developing India and invest in the core infrastructure of the country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Indian PM’s visit is being expected to generate enough interest in the West Coast and the tech companies worldwide so as to mark the emergence of Digital India.</span></div>
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Internet Sensation “Success Kid” Saves His Dad’s Life

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Sammy’s father had been suffering from kidney failure for many years and was on dialysis since 2009. Short on money, they set up a <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">GoFundMe.com</span> page and contacted a few websites that were the fans of “Success Kid” to just mention their cause.</div>
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The Internet response to the story was overwhelming, not to forget, the fundraising was for the famous “Success Kid’s” father. In just 48 hours, the family surpassed their goals and raised more than $100,000 in a week.</div>
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Justin, Sammy’s father thanked the World Wide Web for saving his life The generosity was overwhelming. As he said, “<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was completely overwhelming. We did not expect that kind of a response. It was just so humbling and really just restored my faith in humanity. Ha ha. It was just amazing.”</em></div>
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Sammy Griner was just 11 months old when his mother took the famous photo which would later turn out as one of the most lovable memes on Internet. Right now he is 9 years old and is thankful that his success saved his father’s life.</div>
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Internet Sensation “Success Kid” Saves His Dad’s Life

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Apple Tells the 25 Most Popular XcodeGhost Infected iOS Apps

Shivam Patsariya 0 MobilesAndTablets 5:40 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">J</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">ust after a few years of being a mere startup in 1997, Google literally burst onto the scene. This might be a little exaggeration, but as of today, with Google’s all-inclusive projects (</span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Google Car</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Project Loon <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Project Soli </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">to name some few, not to forget </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Google X</em><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;"> research facility and its numerous investments in different companies), Google has itself become ‘the scene’.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now we know Google was an amazing product by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and today it is one of the biggest brands on earth, but we wonder how big is Google? After several <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">failed business deals</span>, Google created quite an empire in Silicon Valley. Let’s see how Big it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As of now Google is not just a search engine but is working on a range of projects as I mentioned a few of those above. Google has over years build or annexed technologies (companies) to become <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alphabet. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here are a few notable technologies under Google that strive to make the world a simpler place:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">1. Android</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After acquiring Android in 2005 for $50 million, the software can be seen everywhere. It was with the Android, that the world saw a major boom in the smartphone business, especially for producer countries like China. Thanks to its open source nature, over 80% phones in the world run on Android.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">2.  YouTube</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Google is the biggest search engine today, followed by YouTube. YouTube as a search engine is bigger than Bing, Yahoo and Ask combined. YouTube became Google’s subsidiary in 2006.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You would be surprised to know that for one month only, there are 4 billion hours of videos watched worldwide. Do simple maths and it leads to 450,000 years of eye slamming video session.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">3. Boston Dynamics</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Boston Dynamics is the leader in robotic technology bringing revolutionary improvements in the machines. Its acquisition cost by Google is still unknown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Google’s humanoid robot<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Atlas</span> is its champion bot and the company now has now one of the most advanced and sophisticated robot technology in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">4. Deep Mind</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Deep Mind was Google’s first AI company acquisition in January 2014. Deep Mind is a ground-breaking technology on machine learning that uses  system neuroscience to build powerful general-purpose learning algorithms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Deep Mind intends to bring critical thinking into the machines and refining Google’s image search is one of its many prospects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">5. Quantum Computers</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After Google teamed up with NASA to share the world’s first commercial quantum computer made by Canada’s D-Wave, the company announced in 2014 that it will be <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">making its own</span> now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">Quantum computers are the key to some of the unanswered and complex problems and later on in devising real </span><span style="line-height: 28.7999973297119px;">unshakable</span><span style="line-height: 28.7999992370605px;"> computers. Read </span><span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What exactly is Quantum Computing</span><span style="line-height: 28.7999992370605px;"> to know more about this subject.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">6. Google X</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, if all the above facts didn’t blow your mind, then this definitely would. The world came to know about Google’s secret search facility Google X after its series of special project revelations like Google Car, <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Project Loon</span> and <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Project Glass</span>. Overseen by Sergey Brin and scientist Astro Teller, Google X aims to bring science fiction to reality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Google’s semi-secret research lab holds the key to futuristic technologies and directs several robotic and AI companies under it for the purpose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These are some of the top projects and business deals that make Google what it is today- Silicon Valley giant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We might have missed a few (apologies). If you have something to add to this article, tell us in comments below.</span></div>
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