This is How Spamming on WhatsApp Could Threaten Your Privacy!

Receiving unsolicited messages from unknown number has become a kind of pain on WhatsApp. And when these unknown numbers market a product/service, it just adds to the pain. Users abusing a feature of a platform in nothing new. We know how Twitter users abused its direct messaging by using scripts. Today nobody opens his Twitter …

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Google: Facial Recognition in Chromebooks That Captures Thefties

James and Steve are colleague and their job responsibility demands them to switch their workstations more often. Every time Steve has to use James’ laptop, he has to log-in to authenticate himself.  Same goes for James. Moreover, whenever Steve returns to his workstation after having a cup of coffee, a discussion or the like, he …

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Offline Payment in Google Wallet Can Make Mobile Payments Go Mainstream

Just in 2010, Juniper Research, a company that provides analysis of the mobile and wireless sector, predicted that half of the mobile phone users worldwide would be making mobile payment by 2014. In March this year, Consumer Research section of Federal Reserve published their report revealing that only 22% of all smartphone users have used …

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Samsung’s Iris Scanner Unlocks Smartphone With Your Eyes

By just long-pressing a button to passwords and then the bio-metric authentication – fingerprint scanning – smartphones continuously are ameliorating security and privacy of user data. And now after fingerprint scanning, which of late we have seen in many smartphones, Samsung is all set to make our gadgets a little more secure. Samsung has stepped …

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YouTube Will Use Machine Learning Algorithm to Deliver Better Search Results

A patent filed by Google discloses use of machine learning to deliver better search results to the YouTube users. “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend”, says the protagonist to the girl. Unfortunately, this is the only information I have of the video I watched at my friend’s place yesterday. And …

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