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YouTube launches new features video sharing and massaging to users in app worldwide.

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YouTube today is launching a new sharing feature in its mobile app, previously in testing with users in select markets.  The feature allows YouTube users to send their friends videos and chat from within a new tab in the mobile app – effectively turning YouTube into a mobile messenger of sorts. The feature has been in testing since the middle of last year, and, at the beginning of 2017, rolled out to users in Canada as something of a “soft launch.” It later expanded to parts of Latin America, the company tells us. Following the feedback gained from these long-term initial tests, YouTube felt it was ready to debut the sharing feature to a global audience. That roll out begins today, but won’t reach all YouTube users worldwide for a few days. In other words, if you don’t see the sharing option yet – just wait, you will soon. Since its debut in tests, YouTube says it has made some slight changes to the user interface for sharing, including the way the chat interface
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ZUCKERBERG AND MUSK WANT TO READ YOUR MIND.

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Two giants of the tech world, Facebook and Elon Musk’s latest venture Neuralink, have both announced that they are working on brain-to-computer interfaces. At Facebook’s recent F8 developers’ conference, Regina Dugan from Facebook’s R&D division Building 8 showed a video of a woman using such an interface to type eight words per minute, and spoke of the company’s ambitions to develop a similar system capable of typing hundreds of words per minute within a few years. Dugan has experience in this area: the technology in the Stanford University video was similar to systems developed at DARPA, the US military research agency, while Dugan was director there. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg later enthused about the technology in a Facebook post, saying: “ We’re working on a system that will let you type straight from your brain about five times faster than you can type on your phone today. Eventually, we want to turn it into a wearable technology that can be manufactured at sc
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Google finally stops scanning your emails.

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What happened? Google will stop reading your messages in Gmail to personalise its advertising, the company has confirmed.  Previously, Google analysed the content of emails sent and received for behavioural advertising purposes – which is why a message about a holiday or wedding can suddenly spark a slew of very specific ads.  This change in policy is believed to be an attempt to appease corporate customers. Gmail is free for individuals, but companies pay for the webmail service as part of Google’s cloud-based collection of productivity tools, G Suite.  Messages sent in corporate Gmail aren’t scanned for advertising, but some companies believed differently and weren’t happy about it. To avoid such confusion, Google has dropped email scanning for everyone. How will it affect you? If you’re a Gmail user, Google will not look at the content of your emails – you may be alarmed to learn that it had that power previously. However, that doesn’t mean behavioura
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5 best things you must do on the web.

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1. Explore the marvels of Malta bit.ly/malta427 The tiny Mediterranean island of Malta is steeped in thousands of years of history and attracts two million visitors every year. If you’ve never been, you can now see what all the fuss is about by taking a virtual tour of its narrow, winding streets using Google Street View. Soak up the delights of the capital Valletta, admire the hilltop town of Mellieha and roam the beautiful, fortified city of Medina. As well as taking your own tour, you can wander across neighbouring Gozo’s Ggantija Temples, learn about the Great Siege and take in 360-degree views of catacombs, ancient houses, museums and tourist resorts via a new Google Arts & Culture project. There are lots of online exhibits to enjoy along with artworks, historic collections and details of prehistoric gems. 2. Send GIFs in WhatsApp WhatsApp now lets you send and receive GIFs, and search the world’s biggest library, Giphy ( giphy.com ). If you’r
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Share Google photos more easily.

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Google has added two useful features to Photos that make it much easier for you to share your snaps. Rolled out for Android, iOS and the web, the new additions rely on automation, using machine learning to identify the people in your photos, the location of the shot and your sharing habits. This information helps Google recommend images for you to share and people to share them with. You’ll see these in a new Suggestions section when you tap the Sharing tab. You’ll also be able to see photos that others share with you, even if they don’t use Google Photos.  The second feature is Share Your Library, which you’ll find in the top left-hand menu. Select this and enter the email address of someone you want to share your images with. From this point on, every time you take a photo, they’ll be sent a notification prompting them to have a look. You can also specify a date in the past to let them view historical images, and they’ll be able to choose which of y
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Google brings reCAPTCHA API to Android

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Ten years after beginning to offer protection to Web users, Google has now taken a step towards protecting mobile devices and brought its renowned reCAPTCHA API to Android. The move is to protect Android users from spam and abuse, as well as countermoves by its competitors in the smartphone space, which include Apple and Microsoft. “With this API, reCAPTCHA can better tell human and bots apart to provide a streamlined user experience on the mobile,” said Wei Liu, product manager for reCAPTCHA, Google, in a blog post. Available as a part of Google Play Services, the reCAPTCHA Android API comes along with Google SafetyNet that provides services such as device attestation and safe browsing to protect mobile apps. The combination enables developers to perform both the device and user attestations using the same API. Carnegie Mellon alumni Luis von Ahn, Ben Maurer, Colin McMillen, David Abraham and Manuel Blum built reCAPTCH as a CAPTCHA-like system back in
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7 Ways Your Smartphone being hacked.

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How safe is your smartphone? Are you a victim of smartphone espionage? It is a fact that governments, the NSA, private organizations and individuals hack smartphones using malicious backdoors, phone apps, ATM skimming type software and wireless radio wave technology to gain illegal access to the unsuspecting smartphone user. 1. Hackers can take over your smart phone by sending a text message with a photo or video attached. In 2015, over a billion Android phones were affected by this security flaw known as “Stagefright.” According to arstechnica.com a disparaging Qualcomm security-bug, leaves many phones open to attack.  The fix is unavailable for most users, and many will probably never get it. “The flaw, which is most severe in Android versions 4.3 and earlier, allows low-privileged apps to access sensitive data that’s supposed to be off-limits, according to a blog published by security firm, Fire Eye, but instead, the data is available by invoking permissions th
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Now you reset forgotten password directly from the lock screen in Windows 10

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Microsoft is making every effort to make its Windows 10 Fall Creators Update bigger  than ever before by beefing up its security practices and hardening it against hackers and cyber attacks in its next release. Microsoft is finally adding one of the much-requested features to Windows 10: Pin and Password recovery option directly from the lock screen. Yes, the next big update of Windows 10, among other features, will allow you to recover your forgotten pin and password, allowing you to reset your Windows password directly from the lock screen. In Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, you will see "Reset password" or "I forgot my PIN" options on the login screen along with the sign-in box, mspoweruser confirmed. Once you click on the option, Windows 10 will take you to the OOBE where Cortana will help you reset your password, after you successfully verify your identity using either your secondary email, your phone number, or Microsoft Authenticator.
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Mesothelioma prognosis 

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The general prognosis for someone diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma is often unfavorable.  However, making informed decisions about treatment, lifestyle changes and overall health can improve survival and quality of life. Prognosis and diagnosis often are confused. A prognosis is the likely outcome of a disease, like a forecast of how the disease will affect a person.  A diagnosis is the medical classification of which disease a person has. A pleural mesothelioma prognosis usually is not favorable, but may vary depending on the stage of the cancer. Diagnosing the cancer in the early stages offers a more hopeful outlook because doctors can still perform curative surgery to remove tumors. People diagnosed with this type of asbestos-related cancer can improve their chances of survival. Many have lived well past their life expectancy by electing treatment and improving their overall health. That could include lifestyle changes, and following the advice of know
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Types of Lung Cancer Mesothelioma

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Types of M esothelioma The type of mesothelioma means the type of cell the cancer started in. Knowing this helps your doctor to decide which treatment you need. There are 2 main types of mesothelioma.  These are mesothelioma in the: 1. Covering of the lung (Pleural mesothelioma) 2. Lining of the tummy (Peritoneal mesothelioma) ​Pleural mesothelioma starts in the sheets of tissue that cover the lungs. These are called the pleura. Peritoneal mesothelioma grows in the tissue lining the inside of the tummy (abdomen). This is called the peritoneum. Pleural mesothelioma is much more common than peritoneal mesothelioma. Mesothelioma by cell type Mesothelioma is also grouped according to how the cells look under a microscope. There are 3 types: Epithelioid – the most common types Arcomatoid or fibrousmixed type (also called biphasic type) These types of mesothelioma cells can be further divided into other types. These are: a. Clear cell
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