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Facebook Fired An Intern After He Exposes How to Track Users' Location

A privacy issue in Facebook messenger; Aran Khanna, a Harvard University student, discovered ‘ A Marauder’s Map ’ that could sense and give the geolocations of your friends on the messenger. Khanna had received an opportunity to work as an intern for Facebook… But destiny had planned something else for him, as after publicly stating the risk associated with the app; Facebook withdrew his candidature as a summer intern. Why Facebook Fired Him? Khanna himself confessed to be an avid user of the Facebook Messenger app, as it is an integral part of his social life. However, one day, while going through his chat history he found that a location is attached to each message he has sent and received from his device. Also, the location is shared with the ‘power of default’ even if you choose to turn the location sharing option off. This made him look for the complete inside story, which brought him to a strange thing while writing the code. “The latitude and longitude coordinates o

Official Name of Android M is 'Marshmallow' [Version 6.0]

"Android M will be Muffin?, or Mango shake?, Milkshake?, Malt ball?, Moon Pie?, Macaroon?, or is it Mars?, Marshmallow?".... this was the guessing game that occupied most of us when Google created a suspense three months ago, at the launch of the Android M Developer Preview at Google I/O in May. Much awaited Android M is named as 'Marshmallow'; it is the thirteenth Google's Android operating system. Google revealed the ' Marshmallow ' by following its ritual of keeping the statue of Android robot with a Marshmallow in his hand. Google has maintained its tradition of naming the dominant mobile Android operating system by the names of sugary delights, starting from: C upcake D onut E clair F royo G ingerbread H oneycomb I ce Cream Sandwich J elly Bean K itKat L ollipop Official Android 6.0 SDK Available for Download After the final Developer Preview, the official Android 6.0 Software Developer Toolkit (SDK) is now available for download f

How to Uninstall Windows 10 and Downgrade to Windows 7 or 8

After the release of Windows 10 , Millions of Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 users have upgraded their systems to Windows 10. Thanks to Microsoft's free system update. Windows 10 inbuilt rollback vs. EaseUS System GoBack Microsoft even offers Windows users with an opportunity to downgrade their computer to their previous version of operating system after an upgrade, but the opportunity lasts for only 30 days. This is really cool, but what if you upgraded your system to Windows 10 , used it for more than a month and then realized that it’s hard for you to adopt? Now, How do you get your favorite Windows version back? You don’t need to go through that lengthy procedure of downloading and installing the old Windows again to downgrade your system to the previous version. I have a better and an easy solution to your problem. You can now quickly go back to your previous Windows Operating System and restore all your old applications & games with just one click. Thanks to a new tool calle

A New Company Called Alphabet Now Owns Google; Sundar Pichai Becomes its New CEO

Well, this was a very unexpected move by Google. Google Co-Founder Larry Page announced a restructuring of the whole company, revealing the creation of the umbrella "Alphabet" corporation. But, don’t worry… Google isn’t dead! Rather, Google will become part of Alphabet. Why Google Rebrands As ‘Alphabet’ Over time, Google, the Mountain View company has become a lot more than just a Search Engine.Google created and acquired a large number of other popular Internet services, including Android, YouTube and Gmail, that makes too much difficult for a single company to manage all of them effectively. According to Google Founders, it’s time, when different projects require different leaders, different company cultures, and different types of resources. "Our model is to have a strong CEO, who runs each business, with Sergey and me in service to them as needed," Page wrote . So the founders decided to create an all new parental brand that will manage both Google as well as