Facebook has finally revealed the details of its cryptocurrency Libra. From a blog post: Today we’re sharing plans for Calibra, a newly formed Facebook subsidiary whose goal is to provide financial services that will let people access and participate in the Libra network. The first product Calibra will introduce is a digital wallet for Libra, a new global currency powered by…
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Shazam for Android Now Recognizes Music Playing Through Headphones
Shazam, the Apple-owned app that helps users identify songs playing around them, can now recognize songs you’re listening to through your headphones when using an Android phone or tablet. From a report: Acquired by Apple for $400 million last year, the company introduced a feature called ‘Pop-Up Shazam’ to its Android app recently, which when enabled, works with any other Android…
BlackBerry Messenger Shuts Down For Good Today
Today, Emtek pulls the plug on BlackBerry Messenger. From a report: The company announced last month that it would shut down the consumer service, which has been steadily losing users and failing to attract new ones. As a consolation for diehard fans, BlackBerry opened BBM Enterprise, its enterprise-grade encrypted Messenger (BBMe), for personal use. That’s available on Android, iOS, Windows and…
Stolen comets and free-floating objects
What happens when young stars brush past each other? A lot, according to a new study suggesting our solar system contains comets stolen from another star 4.5 billion years ago. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/stolen-comets-and-free-floating-objects…
Quantum communication: making two from one
In the future, quantum physics could become the guarantor of secure information technology. To achieve this, individual particles of light—photons—are used for secure transmission of data. Findings by physicists from the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research could play a key role. The researchers accidentally came across a light source that generates a photon pair from the energy of an…
‘The Future of Work is Remote’
An anonymous reader shares a report: Facebook’s F8 2019 developer conference dominated last week, with talk of AI and AR/VR and privacy. But the news and reactions were all largely expected, and frankly, I was disappointed there was no detail on end-to-end encryption messaging across Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. No, what really stood out for me this week was last night’s…
Mystery solved: Mercury has a solid heart
Here’s how NASA’s MESSENGER mission – which orbited Mercury from 2011 to 2015 – let scientists finally solve one of Mercury’s biggest mysteries, about whether its innermost core is liquid or solid. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/mystery-solved-mercury-solid-inner-core-messenger…
French Government Releases In-house IM App To Replace WhatsApp and Telegram Use
A year ago, the French government unveiled its plan to build its own encrypted messenger service to ease fears that foreign entities could spy on private conversations between top officials. That app, named Tchap, is now official for Android handsets and the iPhone. From a report: A web dashboard is also in the works. Only official French government employees can sign-up…
BlackBerry Messenger To Shut Down In May
The consumer version of Blackberry Messenger is shutting down May 31. CNET reports: Emtek, the company BlackBerry partnered with in 2016 to run the consumer version of the messaging app, said in a blog post Thursday that the technology industry is “very fluid” and despite “substantial efforts,” users have moved on to other platforms. “We poured our hearts into making this…
7 times the Mueller report caught Sean Spicer and Sarah Sanders lying to press
Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/18/18485512/mueller-report-trump-lies-sarah-sanders…