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Google Hired 18-year-old: Kid Now Serves 1000 Businesses and Just Got $15 Million  his is a story of one such kid who got a job offer from Google before entering the college at the age of 18. Larry Gadea built a plug-in for Google Desktop Search which would allow the users to find and index files in their computers that Google Desktop Search couldn’t. Larry’s plug-in made the search feature a lot more useful, and it became popular within no time. As Google did not allowed plug-ins at that time, Larry had to hack into their system. Google immediately scouted for young Larry and offered him a job. After doing internship at Google’s Moutain View Office for three months, he then worked part time through his four years of college in Google Canada. After college Larry wanted to try something new. He worked with Twitter for three years as a back end engineer. At that time Twitter used to crash a lot, so he created a data center optimization technique and named it “Murder”

How to Download and Install Android M on Your Nexus Device   What's This? From the stage of Google I/O 2015, the technology company announced the latest version of world’s most popular mobile operating system i.e. Android M . While the final release date of Android M is miles away, Google has released the developer preview of Android M. If you own a Google Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Nexus 9 or Nexus Player, you can download the preview today and install the build on your device. Note: This is a raw build of Android M and it’s bound to have some bugs that will be addressed by Google later as the testing phase proceeds. So fossBytes advises you to install the Android M Developer Preview on a device which isn’t of your daily use. Make sure to make a complete a backup of your devices. Recommended:  Biggest Improvements and New Features in Android M How to download and install Android M? Download and install the latest Android Studio Preview on your Windows machine

Microsoft Joins the Linux Foundation’s R Consortium Along With Others  oday the Linux Foundation announced a new initiative called R Consortium-  a group to unite the users of the open-source R programming language. Microsoft announced that it is joining it along with Google and more as a founding member. A part from Microsoft and Google, the other founding members are Oracle, HP, Tibcom, RStudio and Alteryx to sponsor the new industry consortium. Linux Foundation’s R Consortium is a separate nonprofit that is dedicated to maintain R. R programming language is open-source and is widely used among statisticians and data scientists. R Consortium website writes: “The R language is an open source environment for statistical computing and graphics, and runs on a wide variety of computing platforms. The R language has enjoyed significant growth, and now supports over 2 million users. A broad range of industries have adopted the R language, including biotech, finance,

How To Access Computer’s Hard Drive With Smartphone   The good thing with this tutorial is that you can copy and paste big files, software, and other things easily to your phone at high speed. Let’s take a look at how this works: To make this trick work, you should be connected to same network (Wi-Fi). Step 1:  Right click on the drive you want to share.  Use the below-mentioned path to share this folder. You will see an icon appeared which mean the drive is shared. Properties> Sharing> Advance sharing>share this folder. Step 2:  In order to access files from hard drive with smartphone open ES file explorer .  Now click on the three line hamburger symbol then click on LAN Step 3:  Now perform a scan and you will see  your PC if it’s connected to the same network. Now enter the username and password of your PC.  There you will see the shared folder.   Step 4:  Here you will all the items in your computer’s drive. You can tap and hold to

IBM unveils Brain-Like chip : TrueNorth chip    IBM’s chip simulates brain-like functions of neurons, synapses and much more. Each chip contains 1 million neurons and 256 millions synapses. The chip is capable of making super complex calculations like a super-computer and also shows off decision making and learning abilities of a human brain. It is a product of neuromorphic engineering which is a way to imitate the working of biological brain. The chip is a result of 10 years of research, $3 billion investment and 200 people’s efforts. It works on just 70mW energy, equivalent to a hearing aid. TrueNorth Chip (Courtesy: http://www.research.ibm.com) “It’s a supercomputer the size of postage stamp, the weight of a feather and runs on the power of a hearing-aid, It’s a genuinely radical innovation.” said Dharmendra Modha, chief scientist for intelligence computing at IBM Research. “Designing this chip was no cakewalk, many thought it was impossible. The i

Top 10 Tips and Tricks of WhatsApp which all the users of this addictive app should know   WhatsApp has almost half billion users across the world. Its the most commonly used app however wonder how many users would claim to know the app thoroughly in the sense there are minute details which most of the users are not aware of like how to lock the app or say how to avoid downloading unwanted media files or simple methods to send the important data across to some friend. In this article we will try to go through certain tips and tricks useful in day to day activities of the users while using the WhatsApp : Get connected to WhatsApp without any phone number : User needs to get connected to Internet via Wi-Fi or modem and get WhatsApp installed in the smartphone. For installation user needs to  visit the official site of WhatsApp and click the application to get it downloaded. Once the app gets downloaded it gives the welcome screen, just click the “Agree to the terms” a

Xiaomi Mi 5 specifications leaked, to come with Fingerprint scanner and launched in November     A new report has emerged claiming that Xiaomi’s next Mi 5 flagship will indeed be officially announced in November and it will be a massive upgrade. The report also hints at built-in fingerprint scanner alongside alleged complete specifications list. Xiaomi Mi 5 , codenamed Libra , is said to carry premium specs inviting competition from every other smartphone. According to the latest report, the Xiaomi Mi 5 will sport a fingerprint scanner . However, no details as to how would the fingerprint scanner technology has been disclosed in the new report. This confirms the previous report that had mentioned that Xiaomi had filed a patent and detailed the fingerprint recognition method via the handset’s buttons. Going by the new purported specs leaked by Mobipicker, which according to Phone Arena are legal, the Xiaomi Mi 5 smartphone will feature an upgraded display, faster pro

The Top Six dumbest Hacks of All Time Alan Wlasuk, believes that not all hackers are geniuses and most of them are average folks who are either smart or may be even dumb just like a normal human being! With advanced technology, high speed internet and availability of much more technologically advanced gadgets it has helped hackers to get easy access to our personal and confidential credentials be it bank accounts or access to social networking sites. Normally, people are scared of the cyber crooks and hackers as these people are believed to be extraordinarily smart and genius who can get access to our data be it on smaller scale or even huge organisational level. However, CEO of 403 Web Security, Alan Wlasuk, has given us examples which indicate that to consider all hackers as genius is a myth. In fact, Alan believes that most of the hackers are as smart as or as dumb as any normal person. In this article we have compiled Top 6 examples which indicates that hacker

Students from Wroclaw Establish 250km Long WiFi Connection Record   Long-range WiFi is something that is used to reduce the cost and establish distant point-to-point connections in place of other fixed wireless, cellular and satellite networks. Working on the same, in order to set a new record, students from Wroclaw have established a 250km long WiFi connection. T he students from Wroclaw have set Polish record with the help of a 250km long  WiFi connection. This is the second longest in Europe and the third longest in the world. These students belong to the science group “Wireless Group of the Technical University of Wroclaw.” This weekend on Saturday, these students established this 250km long WiFi connection between the mountain Beskid Żywiecki at an elevation of 1725m and Wielka Sowa at 1015m. They posted the following message on the social media: A success! We established today the Polish record for the length of the Wi-Fi connection at 5 GHz,

USA Challenges Japan To A Duel Between Giant Rob Every one of us once in our life has fantasized of owning a giant robot and leading it to a fight to win and bringing an end to the evil bot. Not the actual dream but the plot where two monster robots fight could soon come to reality. Except that there is no evil bot. U nited States’ Megabot Inc. has created a fully functional 12,000 lbs, 15-foot giant bot that has the capacity to seat two pilots. For the artillery, the company has added really big guns that can blast ammunition at the speeds of 100 miles an hour. Wait, before you create any evil plot of your own, this isn’t a government military project, the ammunition is paintball, and it is a fun and creative tech machine that packs a punch. The makers of Megabot have challenged their much more famous contemporary KURATAS , developed by Suidobashi Heavy Industries, Japan. It is going to be a real life “REAL STEEL” when United States’ Megabot goes to a sho

PhoneGap  In software development , PhoneGap is a mobile development framework created by Nitobi. Adobe Systems purchased Nitobi in 2011. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It enables software programmers to build applications for mobile devices using JavaScript , HTML5 , and CSS3 , instead of relying on platform-specific APIs like those in iOS , Windows Phone , or Android . [ 5 ] It enables wrapping up of HTML, CSS and Javascript code depending upon the platform of the device. It extends the features of HTML and Javascript to work with the device. The resulting applications are hybrid , meaning that they are neither truly native mobile application (because all layout rendering is done via web views instead of the platform's native UI framework) nor purely web-based (because they are not just web apps, but are packaged as apps for distribution and have access to native device APIs ). Mixing native and hybrid code snippets has been possible since version 1.9.  

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