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and fight atred online assivity on the internet is said over, Hollande. Teacher training will be reinforced, headteachers will be encouraged to report incidents

and pupils will be taken to visit memorial sites. There will also be tougher penalties for crimes deemed to have been fuelled by racism and antisemitism.

the site of a brutal antisemitic attack last year in which a young Jewish couple were held hostage in their home,

but also used anonymised data from third party navigation apps, including smartphone maps. e have agreements with a number of smartphone manufacturers,

so they provide us with real time GPS feeds wherever their smartphones are, says Nick Cohn, senior traffic expert at Tomtom.

When a driver hits a patch of congestion a red zone of a smartphone or satnav map it may be because of data that was collected,

whether it through satnav or simply the smartphones in our pockets better data in means we get better data out on the road.

but when merged together in the internet of thingscloud processing platform, we can make sense of them

They have smartphones, so there otential to do something with that, said Tomtom Cohn. think it be great as a pedestrian and a cyclist if

The internet? A Canadian startup wants to make the answer an Instagram for doctors. Figure 1 is an app that allows iphone

and Android-owning doctors to share images of diseases, injuries and everything in between. Launched in 2013,

Over 10,000 texts, Whatsapps and emails with images of curious and classic cases are being sent in the US each day

or phones, says Landy. ow we want to help people share images, enabling more eyes on more cases,

nurses or other medically trained personnel can become erified In the same way Twitter blue tick verifies that a user is who they say they are,

and forms part of their adoption of social media and the new smartphone and tablet tools that are increasingly being used in hospitals,

#Google is now Alphabet (well, sort of: the internet reacts Google reign of terror is over! Well, not quite:

the preeminent search engine isn going to go the way of Askjeeves and Altavista, the company is simply rebranding itself with a new holding company called Alphabet,

Google. Desperately googling Alphabet? No need. Let Larry page and Sergey Brin, Google cofounders, explain: e liked Alphabet because it means a collection of letters that represent language, one of humanity most important inventions,

and is the core of how we index with Google search. s well as being ne ofhumanity most important inventions,

Alphabet is also a really great name for a sinister uber-corporation in a dystopian sci-fi novel,

an internet domain registry company that owns a range of suffices including. college. His latest client?

The new parent company of Google, which can be found at abc. xyz. Daniel reacted with the appropriate gravitas:

To give Google credit where credit is did due, they at least manage to mock the megalomaniacal nature of their own announcement,

throwing in a link to Hooli. xyz, clearly a reference to the Google-esque Hooli from HBO Silicon valley.

though, spare a thought for the owner of twitter. com/alphabet, who must have been having an interesting 24 hours.

The internet has been reacting with confusion, horror and mockery to the announcement, as you would expect.

One user managed to explain the complex ownership structure of the Alphabet/Google nexus in Simpsonian terms:

Finally, it worth mentioning that Google have announced also a radical shake-up to their corporate management structure,

#Ashley Madison CEO Noel Biderman resigns after third leak of emails The chief executive of extramarital affairs website Ashley Madison has left the company after a third leak of emails

said an unattributed statement on the Ashley Madison website. ntil the appointment of a new CEO,

In July details of more than 37m accounts were stolen from the website whose tagline is: ife is short.

and dedicated employeesand that it remained teadfast in our commitment to our customer base That customer base personal information was spread far and wide across the internet earlier this month,

a Twitter user (or, as Krebs speculates, users) called Thadeus Zu posted a link to the hack before anyone else

The third and latest data dump, posted at the site that first released the user database,

appears to be a download of emails from Biderman personal Gmail account. The second torrent released by an entity calling itself the Impact Team contained emails that seemed to be from Biderman work account

and its release had done already damage to his personal reputation: the executive told the New york daily news in 2014 that he had cheated never on his wife,

burglar alarms upgraded for the smartphone age As history has it, the young Isaac newton found inspiration for the theory of gravity by watching apples fall to the ground.

the home alarm seemed ripe for an overhaul for the internet age. e were surprised...that the technology had moved not really on since the 80s,

he said. assumed that there would be loads of easy smartphone connected alarm systems and there were not. e found that a lot of people who own an alarm don bother to set it either

Using smartphones to identify the various residents of the house or flat, the device learns their movements

The five cofounders of Cocoon have used smartphones and machine learning to filter out this noise and isolate the waves

Through an app on the phones of the residents, the device understands their movements and then builds up a model or rainaccording to the company of what happens

It knows when people are outside of the home as the phones will not be present.

The alert of an intruder can be sent to the smartphone of the residents and a camera on the device

There are potential problems. f you have no smartphone, the product is not for you. We think that the vast majority of the population do,

What if someone forgets their phone? f that happens then the system will not be armed. It will think that they are at home in the same way

The company argues that many children who do not have smartphones may be with their parents anyway. ou can really buy a phone that is not a smartphone any more.

It is only if you have not had a new phone for five years that it is not Android or ios,

and according to the researchers, the optical transistors have a tunable dielectric permittivity compatible with all telecoms infrared (IR) standards. e are pretty far away from building anything resembling an processor.

#HTC One Max stored fingerprints where any app could see them HTC failed to lock down fingerprints captured by one of its phones,

a nearly two-year-old phone with a fingerprint reader, kept the fingerprints that it scanned in an unencrypted, world-readable file;

Fireeye's report suggests that other phones with fingerprint readers may have similar problems, though it only names the One Max.

The report also notes that certain phones failed to fully secure their fingerprint sensor, potentially allowing apps to step in

The One Max was never a particularly popular or successful phone, and it isn't known

#Google is reorganizing and Sundar Pichai will become new CEO In a blog post today,

Google cofounder Larry page announced a massive restructuring of the company, instituting Sundar Pichai as CEO and shifting himself and cofounder Sergey Brin to a larger holding company called Alphabet.

As CEO and President of Alphabet, Page and Brin will oversee Google as well as affiliated companies like the life extension project Calico and a drone delivery venture called Wing.

Alphabet will also direct Google's early-stage funding operations, dubbed Capital and Ventures. Under the new organization, each of those operations will have its own CEO and leadership

while Pichai and Google retain control of search, ads, maps, the Google Play Store, Youtube, and Android.

The reorganization also involves significant financial restructuring, as detailed in an associated SEC filing. All Google shares will now be traded as shares of the larger Alphabet holding company, news that drove the company's share price up more than four percentage points in the wake of the announcement."

"Wee long believed that over time companies tend to get comfortable doing the same thing,

the former CHROME OS and Android chief who has played an increasingly central role in Google's day-to-day operations."

and our board that it is time for Sundar to be CEO of Google, "Page said in the post."

"I feel very fortunate to have talented someone as as he is to run the slightly slimmed down Google

it's an extension of a shift that's been ongoing within Google for some time, with Brin and Page increasingly interested in ambitious projects launched through Google X or outside funding.

Alphabet formalizes that division, separating Google's traditional products from the more ambitious ventures that critics have accused of distracting from the company's core strengths.

It remains to be seen how the new divisions will play out in practice, but the intention seems to be renewed a focus on both Google's current products

and the moonshots that aim to replace those products as Alphabet's focus in the decades to come."

In addition to the streams, Apple says the album also sold half a million downloads through itunes a solid performance that was not quite enough to push it to number one in the US charts.

hip-hop's current kings are already old hands at disseminating their music to a huge and internet-literate fanbase.

Both artists used Twitter, Instagram, and other social networks to build suspense for their newest records,

and released them on multiple streaming services, securing more listeners than Compton could with its Apple-first approach a

#Google has a new logo Google is introducing a new logo today. Just a month after unveiling a major restructuring of the company,

Google is updating its image, too. The new Google logo is still a wordmark, but it's now using a sans-serif typeface,

making it look a lot more modern and playful. The colors are also softer than they used to be.

The logo bears a bit more resemblance to the logo of Google's new parent company, Alphabet, as well.

As Google's video introducing the new logo notes the wordmark has been evolving ever since it was created in 1998.

when Google first cleaned up the lettering and settled on its four colors. Since then, the logo has just been flattened out more and more,

Google is also changing the tiny"g"logo that you see on browser tabs. It's now going to be an uppercase"G"that's striped in all four of Google's colors.

Google says that the new design will be rolling out across all of its products soon in fact

it's already on Google's homepage, with a cute animation that wipes away the old logo and draws in the new one.

So why did Google decide to make the change? In a blog post, Google discusses how much technology has changed how we interact with its products and with the internet at large.

It doesn't really settle on a specific reason that a redesign was needed, but it says that this logo should better reflect the reality that Google is no longer a site you visit on a desktop computer it's a huge collection of sites, apps,

and services that you visit on PCS, Chromebooks, smartphones, and anywhere you can find a web browser.

Google writes that its new logo is meant to reflect"this reality and show you when the Google magic is working for you,

even on the tiniest screens.""Making the logo look good on small screens seems to have been a major consideration.

The new, simpler lettering is supposed to scale better to smaller sizes, making the wordmark more distinct and easier to read.

It's also supposed to be easier for Google to display on low-bandwidth connections:

Google says that it's made a version of its logo that's"only 305 bytes,

compared to our existing logo at 14,000 bytes.""Given that one of new Google CEO Sundar Pichai's big goals is to bring the internet and Google,

of course to areas of the globe that don't already have it, that small difference is definitely going to be an important one r

#Qualcomm's new Quick Charge will take batteries from 0 to 80 percent in 35 minutes Fast charging is an increasingly widespread and popular addition to modern smartphones.

Almost every new Android handset features some sort of solution for giving it a rapid injection of energy,

this will mean that the typical smartphone can be recharged from a flat battery all the way to 80 percent in 35 minutes.

who chose the occasion to launch a new web destination called Makerbase. Dash described it as cross between Wikipedia and Internet Movie Database,

but for the app economy. Innovators can add themselves to Makerbase or others can add them to the current database of projects.

#How do you laugh on Facebook? LOS ANGELES-How do you express laughter in a Facebook post?

By saying LOL, Haha or Hehe? The folks at Facebook recently crunched the numbers of the billions of daily posts to see how its members expressed their humor,

and they found that 15%use laughter of some kind in a post. At one point, the acronym surely would have been LOL,

Facebook looked at posts in May to come up with these conclusions and also researched specific cities,

A quick note that the desktop version of Facebook doesn offer many opportunities to attach digital laughs,

you need to go to the Facebook Messenger mobile app, where not only are there tons of way more emoji syymbols available for your posts,

Google shares jump off Alphabet announcement Here's a surprise that shareholders seemed to like: Google shocked Wall street Monday afternoon after suddenly announcing the creation of Alphabet, its new publicly traded parent company.

Shares of Google were up more than 6%during Tuesday morning trading. Let's take a look at the tech stocks to watch Tuesday:

Google (GOOG: Google's new overlord will contain its zany experimental ventures, such as its driverless cars,

and 3g-beaming balloons, while Google (now a subsidiary of Alphabet) will"slim down "and exclude companies that are not a part of its core internet business.

Sundar Pichai will be the new CEO of Google, while Google cofounders Larry page and Sergey Brin will head Alphabet.

Twitter (TWTR: Twitter's stock was back down to red Tuesday morning after bouncing back Monday.

Interim CEO Jack Dorsey showed a bid of confidence in the lagging company Monday, buying more than 31,000 shares of Twitter for about $875, 000.

Following Dorsey's purchase, shares jumped 9%to close at $29. 50 on Monday. The company also pleased investors after announcing an expanded deal with the NFL,

which will streamline more of the leagues content on the platform. Company shares were down more than 1%Tuesday morning.

Symantec (SYMC: Symantec announced plans to sell its data storage business, Veritas, for $8 billion cash.

According to Reuters, the company will sell Veritas to a group including Carlyle Group and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC.

Company shares were down more than 1%during Tuesday morning trading. Apple (AAPL: Apple shares have been quite volatile lately.

Shares were down more than 2%Tuesday morning after climbing up to more than 2%during Monday trading.

#Tinder goes on Twitter rant over'Vanity fair'article Popular dating app Tinder erupted into a storm of angry,

#Twitter drops character limit for direct messages witter users will no longer be confined to 140 characters

The social network says it has removed limits on the length of a direct message, allowing users to send tweets at whatever length they choose.

However, Twitter says the standard public tweet will remain 140 characters.""Today change is another big step towards making the private side of Twitter even more powerful and fun,

says Twitter product manager Sachin Agarwal in a blog post detailing the changes. The change rolls out starting today across Twitter's mobile apps, desktop and web clients and Tweetdeck,

and continue rolling out globally over the next few weeks s

#Virtual reality comes into the store VENICE BEACH, Calif. elcome to this reality-a store where you can buy shoes, eyewear and coffee,

and also take a 360 degree immersive video trip to Peru. Shoppers at Toms flagship store here can don Samsung's Gear VR virtual reality goggles,

Facebook bought tech start-up Oculus, which works with Samsung on the Gear VR system, for $2 billion in 2014.

and when they take the headset off, your whole world is now upside down. he cost for the project wasn cheap.

and cites a comment from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that VR will potentially be as disruptive as the smartphone.

Facebook bought tech start-up Oculus which works with Samsung on the Gear VR system, for $2 billion in 2014.

and when they take the headset off, your whole world is now upside down. he cost for the project wasn cheap.

and cites a comment from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that VR will potentially be as disruptive as the smartphone.

Facebook and Google operate overseas. The European Court of Justice examined the case of an Austrian citizen who claimed that his data,

wasn't being protected adequately by Facebook. No appeal is possible as the European Court of Justice is the equivalent of the U s. Supreme court. The ruling comes as European leaders

when users post on social media, search the web, buy items online and other activities. Companies use this information to direct ads

and promote products. Without the Safe harbor rules, in place since 2000, each country in the European union could potentially set is own privacy rules

That could change because of the lawsuit brought last year against Facebook by Austrian law student and privacy advocate Max Schrems.

Schrems filed the case in Ireland, Facebook European headquarters. The irish court rejected the suit and Schrems appealed to the European high court."

"Schrems said in a statement posted on his Twitter account after Tuesday's ruling. In a statement, Facebook said Europe's Advocate General had been very clear the issue was not Facebook per se,

but the mechanisms that European law provides to enable essential transatlantic data flows. The company said it was imperative that the EU

driven by an increasingly powerful mobile technology that is making portable VR a near-term possibility.

I donned an Oculus headset and grabbed two joysticks that, when held, became my hands.

In the Oculus setup, a small black box from Sixense was attached to the top of the headset.

including Oculusparent Facebook, in envisioning VR for shopping. That vision is still fluid for vretail,

Venturebeat is studying email marketing tools. Chime in, and wel share the data with you. Physical stores have become the most exciting new dimension for digital marketing.

and data collection that optimizes customer flow in the store in a way similar to how Google analytics helps optimize visitor flow on a website.

ou could don a VR headset and youe in the Andes setting up camp. Cooking a meal/dining with Jefferson While such experiences would create new meanings for rying it on it remains to be seen

Sixense Rubin told me. very high-end smartphone sold from now on is a VR smartphone, he said, because of their very high resolution and processing power.

especially since Rubin expects that wireless companies like AT&T could start offering free or inexpensive goggles as incentives for longer contracts.

In fact, Rubin said he expects there could be tens of millions of smartphone-equipped VR headsets out there in the U s. within the next few years.

#Why Google Project Fi could be the beginning of the end for Verizon and AT&T Google made an exciting announcement Wednesday,

confirming plans to launch its own wireless service, Project Fi. The service will leverage existing Wi-fi networks

and switch to carrier networks (T-Mobile and Sprint) only when Wi-fi isn available. This approach to mobile communications is

Google announcement is a great thing for the wireless industry the Wi-fi First industry and ultimately, a great thing for consumers.

and according to a 2013 study by Validas, smartphone users typically waste $28 each month on unused data.

But smartphone service doesn have to be so costly. According to Cisco, about half (46 percent) of total mobile data traffic was offloaded through Wi-fi in 2014,

Here where that hurts the AT&T and Verizons of the world: When implemented properly, a Wi-fi First model can relegate cellular networks to simply filling the gaps between hotspots.

and Google is the company to pave the way (and do so quickly). Given its size and influence in the device space,

Google Project Fi could help accelerate the adoption of Wi-fi First through a couple of key moves.

This would ensure that all phones use Wi-fi as the main communication method and only rely on cell service when absolutely necessary.

Google has the opportunity to speed up this adoption by creating standards and device requirements that would make Wi-fi connections more mainstream,

At the same time Google ushers in Wi-fi First to the masses, its wireless vision could fundamentally transform the role major carriers play in the market.

Let use Verizon as an example of a carrier that will be impacted. When you buy a phone through Google,

Google will manage the relationship with Verizon instead of you. When Wi-fi isn available, your device will automatically select which network it should connect to based on availability,

but similar to making calls while roaming, the device decides for you based on the network with the most availability that the least expensive.

Youe buying the phone from Google, youe paying Google, and youe calling Google support if you experience any issues.

If Google move means consumers now have billing relationships with only Google, Verizon brand (which the company spends more than a billion dollars promoting each year) is diminished.

This model commoditizes the wireless carriers while simultaneously putting downward pressure on their margins. As such, the Wi-fi First business model eliminates erizonfrom consumersvernacular,

the company influence over the subscriber is removed all but, and the $77 billion in gross profit it made in 2014 will also be a thing of the past.

Based on Google track record, if there is any player that can take down Verizon and AT&T, who have been upselling consumers on wireless service that isn efficient

or cost-effective for decades, it Google. And it only a matter of time before carriersrelevance to smartphone subscribers everywhere is diminished.

The end is near d

#Microsoft granted patent for glasses that detect wearer's emotions Put this one in the WTF file.

The United states Patent and Trademark Office granted Microsoft a patent today for a pair of glasses that can detect a wearer emotional response to what theye looking at.

Stratos will also have to contend with digital wallets like Google Wallet Apple Passbook, and Paypal,

tap your Stratos card to your mobile phone screen twice to see options appear while your phone is locked still.

The idea is connected that one credit card is easier to manage and safer than a wallet full of credit cards.

#Google Alphabet: Where the brand vision? This week, Google grew up. Taking many in the business world by surprise,

the tech giant restructured itself under a new holding company, Alphabet. The shake-up means many of the oonshotprojects Google picked up over the years have been spun off into separate and independent companies,

while Google retains the most profitable side: search and advertising. To many, Alphabet will make a lot of sense.

Google had started to seem like a mega-conglomerate that was too powerful for its own good

and this will help change that. But there is a problem. Google is an exciting and innovative brand.

The company has spawned belief statements learned by heart by brand strategists and copied by businesses across the world.

more accountable and more management scalemakes Google sound more like a financial services firm than the innovative tech company we know and love.

Finally, Google vision, or the way it sees its position in the world, has always been core to its brand,

and increased Google market cap by $20 billion overnight, but how will Google employees, some of the brightest,

most creative people in the world, react to this new, corporate focus? After all, these are the same software engineers who are encouraged to design their own desks

People work for Google because it exciting, but the messaging wee heard this week has been anything but.

and could be a brilliant way of bringing order to Google complexity, the language surrounding the announcement also hints at new limitations,

Alphabet must still include the spirit of Google brand values within the new company and concede less to the financial markets

#Hackers dump data from cheating website Ashley Madison online: reports (Reuters) Hackers have followed through on a threat to release online a huge cache of data,

that was stolen a month ago from cheating spouses website Ashleymadison. com, several tech websites reported on Tuesday.

Reuters was not immediately able to confirm the authenticity of the posting. The data was posted onto the dark web,

meaning it is only accessible using a specialized browser, although lists of email addresses have sprouted

since up on other sites. A group calling itself Impact Team had leaked snippets of the compromised data in July

and threatened to publish names and salacious details about clients unless Ashley Madison and Establishedmen. com,

another site owned by Toronto-based parent company Avid Life Media, were taken down. Tech website Wired said 9. 7 gigabytes of data was posted,

and appeared to include member account and credit card details. vid Life Media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and Established Men,

have did an affair not immediately respond to emails and phone calls seeking comment s

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