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Today, the European Commission handed down a $5 billion fine to Google for anti-competitive behavior, the single biggest antitrust ruling the company has ever faced. The commission’s central complaint is that by requiring Chrome and Google search as default services on any device using the Google Play Store, Android is engaging in anti-competitive behavior. As part of the ruling, Google must stop forcing Chrome and Google search on manufacturers, and stop any efforts to block forked versions of Android. We still don’t know how Google will respond to the ruling — particularly whether it will end up directly charging phone makers for Android licenses — but it’s clearly a major blow to Google and the strategic value of Android as a platform.

Selena Email Account Hacked A 21-year-old New Jersey woman has been charged with hacking into the email accounts of pop star and actress Selena Gomez, stealing her personal photos, and then leaked them to the Internet. Susan Atrach of Ridgefield Park was charged Thursday with 11 felony counts—five counts of identity theft, five counts of accessing and using computer data to commit fraud or illegally obtain money, property or data, and one count of accessing computer data without permission. According to the prosecutors,

There's terrible news for Apple users in China. Apple's Chinese data center partner has transferred iCloud data, belonging to 130 million China-based users, to a cloud storage service managed by a state-owned mobile telecom provider—raising concerns about privacy. Back in February this year,  Apple moved the encryption keys  and data of its Chinese iCloud users from its US servers to local servers on Chinese soil to comply with the new  regulation of the Chinese government , despite concerns from human rights activists.

Famed astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered the first four moons of Jupiter way back in the early 1600s. More than 400 years later, astronomers are still finding moons orbiting the solar system’s largest planet. We’re not just talking about one or two stragglers, either. Astronomers from the Carnegie Institution for Science have spotted 12 new moons orbiting Jupiter, bringing the total to 79. The Carnegie Institution team, led by Scott Sheppard, didn’t set out to find even a single new Jovian moon. The team’s goal was to scan the sky for evidence of a massive ninth planet in the outer solar system. Many scientists are on the same quest, believing that a ghostly gas giant out past the orbit of Neptune could explain a number of orbital quirks in other objects. Sheppard realized last year that the team’s search zone for a ninth planet overlapped with Jupiter’s orbit. So hey, why not look for some more moons?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) will create as many jobs in the UK as it will displace over the next 20 years, a report has said. The analysis, by accountancy giant PwC, found AI would boost economic growth, creating new roles as others fell away. But it warned there would be "winners and losers" by industry sector, with many jobs likely to change. Opinion is split over AI's potential impact, with some warning it could leave many out of work in future.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is now worth $150bn (£113bn), according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index. Jeff Bezos's net worth has increased by over $60bn in the last 12 months, which makes him the world's richest man. This places his worth higher than that of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who has previously topped the rich lists - even at his peak in 1999. Then Mr Gates was worth $100bn - which would be around $149bn today, when adjusted for inflation. Mr Gates is currently in second place with a worth of $95bn, having given away 700 million Microsoft shares and $2.9bn in cash since 1996. He gave the cash and assets to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bloomberg reports. Amazon websites crash on Prime Day Alexa, are you friends with our kids? Mr Bezos says he is selling about $1bn of Amazon stock every year to fund Blue Origin, the project he has founded to develop commercial space travel. It's not the first time Jeff Bezos has topped the worl...

Google Assistant is rolling out a new visual overview that will offer proactive suggestions and personalised information for your day. The fresh experience, which is designed to serve information in the form of "visual snapshot" - similar to cards on the dated Google Now, was announced at I/O 2018 back in early May. It is heading to Android and iOS devices in all languages supported by the Google Assistant. In other news, Google has announced a new look for its sign-in page that includes tweaks to the Google logo and centre alignment of all items on the screen. The new sign-in page was first announced last month, however, the search giant delayed its arrival due to "unforeseen delays" and is now rolling out its presence with some minor changes from the original overhaul. With the new visual experience, Google Assistant now provides you with information based on contexts such as the time of day, location, and recent interactions directly on your screen in a proacti...

Facing ire over reports that it is protecting far-right activists and under-age accounts,  Facebook  on Wednesday said it takes the mistakes incredibly seriously and is working on to prevent these issues from happening again. Channel 4 Dispatches - a documentary series that sent an undercover reporter to work as a content moderator in a Dublin-based Facebook contractor, showed that moderators at Facebook are preventing Pages from far-right activists from being deleted even after they violate the rules.

Truecaller 😎 on Monday introduced a new call recording feature for its Android users globally. The company says the feature will help users in reporting fraudulent calls and harassment. This is another step towards upgrading Premium offerings aimed at making communication safe and efficient by helping users report harassment related or fraudulent calls, Truecaller said in a statement.

Scientists have just packed 18 qubits — the most basic units of quantum computing — into just six weirdly connected photons. That's an unprecedented three qubits per photon, and a record for the number of qubits linked to one another via quantum entanglement .   So why is this exciting? All the work that goes on in a conventional computer, including whatever device you're using to read this article, relies on calculations using bits, which switch back and forth between two states (usually called "1" and "0").

Unitact The tactile bracelet for deaf and hearing-loss people This is a smart bracelet for the deaf. It is a way to transmit messages to friends or colleagues using 12 different vibrations of a bracelet. It's nice to have basic communication with people who are not good at sign language, and to be able to communicate with your doctor quickly and easily. Product Features Unitact is the first vibrating bracelet for the deaf. In order to simplify everyday life and to provide necessary information by using their own touch sense.

Google is taking a lead in the world of Artificial Intelligece .Google has built up a man-made consciousness calculation that could foresee when you'll pass on with up to 95 percent precision, as indicated by the tech monster's scientists. The exploration, which handles a scope of clinical issues among doctor's facility patients, was as of late distributed in the diary Nature. Google connected man-made reasoning to a tremendous measure of information from in excess of 216,000 grown-up patients hospitalized for no less than 24 hours each in two restorative focuses. The examination took advantage of information from Electronic Health Records.

OnePlus 6 Red Edition price in India, availabilityOnePlus 6 Red Edition will go on sale in India today at 12pm. This is the fourth colour variant in the OnePlus 6 range, which has previously been available in Midnight Black, Mirror Black, and Silk White. A limited edition Marvel Avengers variant was also launched initially, but was discontinued soon after. OnePlus 6 Red Edition features a metallic red shimmer with a similarly coloured rear-mounted fingerprint sensor. This colour variant is visibly different from the OnePlus 5T Lava Red that was announced last year.

Getty image Facebook is continuing to devote more resources to the development of AI-focused chips, bringing aboard a senior director of engineering from Google who worked on chips for Google’s products to lead its efforts,  Bloomberg  reports. We’ve reached out to Google and Facebook for confirmation. Shahriar Rabii spent nearly seven years at Google before joining Facebook this month as its VP and Head of Silicon according to his  LinkedIn profile . Facebook’s work on AI-focused custom silicon has been the topic of rumors and reports over the past several months. It’s undoubtedly a bold direction for the company, though it’s unclear how interested Facebook is in creating custom silicon for consumer devices or if they’re more focused on building for their server business as they also look to accelerate their own research efforts. Rabii’s work at Google seemed to encompass a good deal of work on chips for consumer devices, specifically work on the Pixel...

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Taking Photos just got better with Nvidia AI Taking a photo in poor lighting can often result in something too pixelated and noisy to be useful. Advanced software processing on some phones and cameras can fix moderate noise, but a new project from Nvidia, MIT, and Aalto University uses AI to correct for extreme levels of noise. Even if the “Noise2Noise” system has never seen an image before, it can de-noise it to get something very close to the original. But can it out beat this guy in terms of AI processing ? Noise2Noise is a neural network, which means you need to train it with lots of data. The team used 50,000 images from the ImageNet database, which contains clear, high-resolution images. Of course, the network needs to see noisy images in order to understand how to de-noise them. So, the team artificially added noise to the images and used those to train the algorithm. Nvidia contributed a bank of Tesla P100 GPUs to run the network training with the cuDNN-ac...

This is the cheapest Microsoft surface laptop Microsoft announced its new Surface Go, debuting a new system that should serve as an appropriate follow-up for the Surface 3 and a rare mainstream, affordable win for the space. Ever since ultrabooks debuted, we’ve seen manufacturers lavish all manner of perks and features on the top of the market, while only grudgingly extending those benefits to lower price points. The Surface Go seems to want to bring more premium capabilities and features to a lower-end market. The system is powered by an Intel Pentium Gold Processor 4415Y. It’s a Kaby Lake-era part with two cores, four threads, a flat 1.6GHz clock speed, and an Intel HD Graphics 615 solution. TDP is 6W with a 4.5W scale-down option. That’s a significant shift from the Surface 3, which utilized an Intel Atom x7-Z8700. So how do the two solutions compare? Just for fun, we’ve tossed in the CPU Microsoft shipped in the original, high-end Surface Pro. This is the first time w...

A family in France has become the first in the world to move into a 3D-printed house. The four-bedroom property is a prototype for bigger projects aiming to make housebuilding quicker and cheaper. Could it cause a shift in the building industry? With curved walls designed to reduce the effects of humidity and digital controls for disabled people, this house could be an expensive realisation of an architect's vision. But having taken 54 hours to print - with four more months for contractors to add in things such as windows, doors and the roof - its cost of around £176,000 to build makes it 20% cheaper than an identical construction using more traditional solutions. The team now believe they could print the same house again in only 33 hours. Image caption The outline of the four bedrooms and the big central space is created Image caption The printer is then used to print layers from the floor upwards to form the walls The 95m (1022ft) square house - built for a family of...