Day: August 3, 2018

Facebook Dating may let you keep secrets from friends and family – CNET

Your annoying aunt doesn’t have to know about your dating life after all. …read more Source:: CNet


Cameroon Innovator Beats Internet Shutdown With SMS App

An anonymous reader shares a report: Hampered by an internet shutdown in Cameroon’s troubled English-speaking regions in January 2017, Zuo Bruno, a young ethical hacker, was inspired to develop a car-tracking application using SMS. The application named Zoomed, whose adoption has been fast in Cameroon, is now on the verge of spreading across the continent….


Google Is in China Cloud Talks With Tencent, Others, Report Says

Google wants to get back into China, and is laying the groundwork for a key part of the initiative: bringing its cloud business to the world’s second-largest economy. Bloomberg: The internet giant is in talks with Tencent Holdings, Inspur Group and other Chinese companies to offer Google cloud services in the mainland, according to people…


Fortnite for Android: Epic tells us why it won’t be on Google’s Play Store – CNET

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney explains to CNET how he’s trying to minimize the security risk. …read more Source:: CNet


Sorry flat-earthers, Google Maps now zooms out to a globe – CNET

You can even spin it. …read more Source:: CNet


Totvs strikes back with cloud sales surge

The Brazilian ERP vendor posts its best quarterly results since 2015. …read more Source:: ZDNet


FCC Sides With Google Fiber Over Comcast With New Pro-Competition Rule

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission today approved new rules that could let Google Fiber and other new [ISPs] gain faster access to utility poles. The FCC’s One Touch Make Ready (OTMR) rules will let companies attach wires to utility poles without waiting for the other users of…


Voltage Monitor Relay is More than Meets the Eye

Automotive components that have a hidden secondary function are usually limited to cartoons and Michael Bay movies, but this project that [Jesus Echavarria] created for a client is a perhaps as close as we’re likely to get in the near future. The final product certainly looks like a standard automotive relay, but a peek inside…


Game over: Fortnite snubs Google, keeps its 30%, freaks out security bods

Android version of super-game will come direct from Epic The maker of video-game super-success Fortnite has snubbed Google by deciding to release the Android version of the game through its own website rather than the Google Play app store.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Consumer DNA Testing Takes a Step Towards Privacy, Transparency

Ancestry, MyHeritage and others have committed to a policy framework for the collection, protection, sharing and use of consumer genetic data. …read more Source:: Threatpost