After almost 18 years of Facebook’s existence, a number of groups focused on privacy and anti-monopoly are working hard to bring big changes to the company as an attempt to reduce the “scary amount of power” Facebook and Zuckerberg have. By sending a petition to the US Federal Trade Commission, the groups want to virtually […]The post Facebook Must Break — Privacy Groups Knock FTC’s Door appeared first on Fossbytes.

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Epic Games Unloads Prizes Worth $100 Million For Fortnite eSports Winners
The towering fame of Fortnite received another major boost today when Epic Games announced in a blog post that they would pool massive $100 million for Fortnite Esports tournament prize in the debut year of competitive play. The gigantic amount will be distributed amongst winners in the 2018/19 competitive season. This eye-popping prize money will simply […]The post Epic Games Unloads Prizes Worth $100 Million For Fortnite eSports Winners appeared first on Fossbytes.

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Terragraph Project: Qualcomm And Facebook Partner To Bring High-speed Urban Wi-Fi
Facebook announced in its 2016’s Annual Developer’s Conference that they are planning to bring High-Speed WiFi to densely populated areas. Now, Qualcomm has stepped up as a partner company to bring the project to reality. On Monday, Qualcomm announced that the Chipsets produced henceforth will feature the advanced Terragraph technology. The move aims to invite developers […]The post Terragraph Project: Qualcomm And Facebook Partner To Bring High-speed Urban Wi-Fi appeared first on Fossbytes.

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Google Sued For Secretly Collecting Data Of 4.4 Million iPhone Users
Google has been accused of “clandestine tracking” of 4.4 million iPhone users in the UK and is facing a lawsuit in the high court for as much as £3.2 billion. According to a report by The Guardian, Google usurped data from iPhone users through an exploit in the Safari browser. This loophole was found by a Ph.D. […]The post Google Sued For Secretly Collecting Data Of 4.4 Million iPhone Users appeared first on Fossbytes.

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New Variant Of Spectre And Meltdown CPU Flaw Found; Fix Affects Performance
Now listen to Fossbytes stories! Very often a significant security flaw is followed by new derivatives of the same exploit. Following the widely popular Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution attacks, there were predictions that more flaws of similar nature will hit PC owners pretty soon. Variant 4 is the newest addition to this increasing list […]The post New Variant Of Spectre And Meltdown CPU Flaw Found; Fix Affects Performance appeared first on Fossbytes.

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Cancer Cells Could Be Killed By Graphene “Optical Stimulation”
Researchers at the University of California have stumbled upon something which can open up new avenues to explore in the field of drug screening, painkiller formulation, and cancer treatment. The material involved in the study is Graphene, a semi-metal composed of single layer of carbon atoms. It is one of the strongest material ever tested and an […]The post Cancer Cells Could Be Killed By Graphene “Optical Stimulation” appeared first on Fossbytes.

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Nvidia’s New Research Teaches Robots to Learn From Human
Nvidia has presented a new research work at International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) organized in Brisbane, Australia which involves teaching robots to learn from the tasks performed by Humans. Until now, robots were trained to perform a set of instructions for a fixed number of times in an environment isolated from the very […]The post Nvidia’s New Research Teaches Robots to Learn From Human appeared first on Fossbytes.

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Why Is My Facebook Android App Asking For “Superuser” Permission?
It looks like developers working at Facebook really love to live dangerously. The company knows how to violate the user trust and play loose and fast with data protection and user privacy. The recent Cambridge Analytica scandal is a perfect example of the same. In another shocking development, the company’s Facebook Android app was caught […]The post Why Is My Facebook Android App Asking For “Superuser” Permission? appeared first on Fossbytes.

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Teensafe, A Teen Phone Monitoring App, Leaks Thousands Of Apple ID Passwords
Teensafe is a monitoring app used by parents for keeping a check on the activities of their children. The app allows parents to access their child’s location, call history, messages, browsing history, and apps downloaded by them without their permission. In a recent discovery by a UK based security researcher named Robert Wiggins, the app […]The post Teensafe, A Teen Phone Monitoring App, Leaks Thousands Of Apple ID Passwords appeared first on Fossbytes.

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Tesla Starts Open Sourcing Some Software Code After Facing Criticism
Elon Musk might enjoy the status of most-talked-about celebrity in the technology world, but his company Tesla doesn’t have many admirers when it comes to open source and free software enthusiasts. The company is known to be using many GPL-licensed technologies that need Tesla to share the source code of their software. Contrary to its poor […]The post Tesla Starts Open Sourcing Some Software Code After Facing Criticism appeared first on Fossbytes.

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