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Larry Page TED talk on the future of Google [video]

In a recent TED ideas conference Google’s CEO Larry Page talks to Charlie Rose on the theme of where’s Google heading next.  Starting with Google’s mission, Larry went on to talk about several things that matter for Google and him at the company. Watch the full video below from the TED conference. Here are the main highlights I have pointed out from the video.  Organising world’s information and making it useful and universally accessible (Google’s Mission). Changing the world with technology. Making Internet accessible to the entire planet with projects like Loon. Concern on security and online privacy of Internet users. Saving lives and making lives better with self-driving cars. Increasing use of bikes and finding innovative ways to use them. Embracing Technology and doing innovative things. What’s your main highlight from the video? Share the video if it inspires you.

Facebook releases Programming Language - HACK

Social media giant Facebook has just released ‘HACK’. Thinking “Wow, Great!”? But don’t get carried away, it has nothing to do with hacking and cracking.  Facebook releases HACK a new open-source programming language, developed for the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM), Facebook’s PHP runtime environment, released in 2012. This new language, released on March 20, 2014, assimilates with the evergreen PHP language and is believed to allow their engineers and other programmers to increase their speed in writing codes as well as evade usual errors in programming. When started ten years ago, Facebook was initially coded in PHP by Mark Zuckerberg and his team. However, as the company grew, with the existing programming platform with PHP, it became difficult to manage and maintain the system free of bugs. As a result, the programming language HACK has been developed and Facebook releases HACK now so as to combine elements of static programming languages such as C and C++, which...

An in-depth analysis of anti-social app Cloak

The world has seen enough of social networking websites and apps like Facebook , Twitter , Google Plus , Instagram, Whatsapp, Foursquare and a lot of others. Basically, all these apps, what they do is connect people living around the globe, forming their virtual network online.  In some ways, these services have been of great help to mankind while in some cases, we wish they’d rather not be present at all . There are many cases in our life when we’re trying get work done, but end up wasting all the valuable time on things like Facebook and Twitter. This is probably the downside of these platforms, about which even the most avid users agree. All the apps we’ve known till now basically promote social interaction. But have there been any service which can be dubbed as ‘anti-social’? Well, it’s just about the case with a new service called ‘Cloak’. It’s a new direction social media is heading to and we bet, we’ll have plenty of such anti-social apps in the future. Being anti-social me...

8 defining moments of Twitter in its 8 year history

Twitter completed eight years of its inception today. Doesn’t it seem like Twitter has been there for ever and ever? But, not quite! It was created on March 21, 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Noah Glass and Biz Stone. Today, it has become eight years old. It’s the world’s second most popular second networking website behind Facebook. How amazing this fact is, when Twitter is much simpler and with far less functionalities than Facebook. It could not have been ever thought of that the world could share so much in 140 or less characters. But it is what has been through all those tweets. According to statisticbrain.com, there are more than 645 million active registered users on Twitter today. The average number of tweets a day amounts to astonishing 58 million. And, there are 190 million unique visits Twitter every month. Twitter has gone through so much in such a small period of time. But in its eight years of inception, what are the moments that top the rest? Which are the most defi...

Top 10 fastest growing Startups of all time

A lot of startups and initiatives come out these days. The advancement in science and technology has transformed the world into a global village. A large population of the world has access to internet at this time, when the World Wide Web has recently turned 25 years old .  The impact of social media is so profound that the rate at which an idea generated around some corner of the world spreads has been like never before. For this reason, it’s easy for us to take notice of a new and promising startup. It’s also easier to start our own too. But the other side of the truth is that the competition we face up from others is fierce. It might be easier to start our own company but it’s not that easy to take it to the heights of success. Some startups expand really quickly and go on to become highly successful on the long run. Meanwhile, many others don’t exactly take off and leave the race rather soon or drag themselves along, without gathering much attention. There are several metrics t...

Top 10 strategies to increase Facebook Page Likes

Facebook page-likes have become highly valuable assets in today’s world where social media has its impact in almost every way conceivable. The number of likes of a Facebook page has a great worth for the brand or the figure associated with it. The higher the number of likes, the more popular and successful the brand is considered. How much of a truth is behind this indicator is however an utterly different matter. Nevertheless, if a Facebook page has more likes, it at least means more people have heard of the party associated with the page and messages can be spread to wider range of people. So the first target of almost every Facebook page is to get as many likes as possible. They employ different strategies for the purpose, which yields to successes on varying scales. Here, we least the ten of the best strategies to have a huge Facebook fanbase, which are reliable, easier and cheaper too. 10. Pick up a unique name and idea Picking up a good and unique name as well as an intriguing id...

What are ransomwares? : An in-depth analysis of ransomwares

It’s quite common that people are held for ransom, especially when their relatives are well off. A person is taken hostage and kidnappers ask their relatives to pay huge sums if they want their beloved ones back and unharmed. Sometimes ransoms are paid and the victim returns back home while on some occasions, authorities intervene in time to save the life of victim as well as his/her kin’s dough. And sadly, on some occasions, people also have to lose their lives. Computers have become so much important for people in today’s world and the data stored in them of much greater worth that nowadays, even computers are held for ransoms. But how? This takes place trough malicious softwares called ransomwares? Below, we make an in-depth analysis of ransomwares, which though being present since a long time ago, have become quite notorious as of lately. What is a ransomware? Ransomware is a type of malicious software which controls the access to the computer which it has infects, and asks for a r...