Google Introduces Pixel – A Smartphone Made By Google

Google Introduces Pixel – A Smartphone Made By Google

TECHNOLOGY Zohaib   16:38:00

Last night, Google unveiled its first ever Smartphone, the Google Pixel. Ditching the Nexus name, this time around Google has worked on both the software and hardware of the phone itself. Previously Google would partner with other smartphone manufacturers to release a flagship set.

A powerful phone with a complete package

According to Google, the Pixel holds the highest rated camera ever on a Smartphone, a battery that lasts longer than most phones and unlimited free storage for all the photos and videos you capture through it. Moreover, it is the first Smartphone to come preinstalled with Google Assistant, a voice activated assistant.

Introducing Pixel, Phone by Google

Pixel is preinstalled with Google Assistant, the only phone of its kind

The Google assistant is a new voice activated assistant just like Siri and Cortana on iPhone and Windows.

The assistant will help you:

Get answers – You can find out the local places near you or ask the assistant if it is going to rain in the upcoming days or ever ask it see if your favorite sports team won their match last night.

Manage tasks – it will allow you to set reminders, make dinner reservations or text valuable information to your friends without typing.

Entertainment – Google Assistant will help you play music of your favorite artist and then find out if they will be near your town for a tour.

Quickly find photos – Ask the assistant to quickly find photos on your phone by simply recalling the memory or day they were taken.

Keep travel records – If you travel a lot, Google Assistant can help you manage your flight schedule or help you find addresses to local hotels and other places to visit.

Pixel Features A Powerful Camera

Google has produced one of the highest rated cameras on a smartphone. The Pixel camera scored 89 DxOMark score, a way to judge the performance of a camera. This is the highest rating a smartphone camera has ever reached.

Technical specs of the camera are as follows:

• 12.3 MP for sharp and crisp images
• Large 1.55um pixels for excellent shots in any kind of light
• f/2.0 Aperture for brighter photos

Unlimited storage for all the photos and videos you capture

Google has promised that with Pixel, you will never have to face the ‘storage if almost full’ warning message. They have included free unlimited storage for all your photos and videos over the cloud.

Facetime like application that works cross platform

A new application called the Google Duo will come preinstalled in Pixel. It is a facetime like application that will connect two phones via video chat. The app will also be available on iPhones.

Design of the Google Pixel

The Pixel is exclusively made by Google. It has both software and hardware that was worked on by Google engineers.

The design features

• A seamless glass-aluminium body carrying smooth surfaces and curved edges for easy grip
• On the back of the phone Google has installed Pixel Imprint, a fingerprint detector that will allow you to quickly unlock your phone by swiping on it or access your notifications easily.
• Pixel features a very sharp and brilliant AMOLED display that has true blacks and a 16.77 million colors profile.
• Pixel also features a rapid charging battery that gives you 7 hours of battery life in just 15 minutes of charge.
• Pixel will run on Android 7.1 Nougat

Switching from other phones will no longer require a PC

In order to help you move from your previous Android powered device or an iPhone, Google is packing a Quick Switch Adapter with the Pixel.

The quick switch adapter allows you to connect the Pixel with any other phone and transfer all your data via the data cable. No PC is necessary for this process.

Pixel is available in 3 colors with several custom made cases by Google

The Pixel will launch in 3 colors:

• Quite Black
• Very Silver
• Really Blue (US only)

Apart from the basic colors, Google has also introduced Pixel cases with varying designs that offer protection and style for your phone.

Google Pixel features DayDream VR – A direct competitor to Samsung Gear VR

Partnered with Google Pixel, the company also launched a new VR headset ‘DayDream View’. This new headset will only work with phones that support DayDream View.

The VR headset is aimed at casual VR users allowing them to watch immersive 3D content and play video games. The headset will also feature a remote control and will be separately sold for $79

source : Trending

Microsoft scam man is sentenced in 'landmark' case

Microsoft scam man is sentenced in 'landmark' case

TECHNOLOGY Zohaib   02:12:00

A man who ran a Microsoft computer scam tricking people into paying for free anti-virus software has received a suspended four-month jail sentence.

Mohammed Khalid Jamil, 34, from Luton, hired people at an Indian call centre to falsely tell victims their computers had a serious problem.

The targets would be charged between £35 and £150 for software Microsoft made available for free.

As well as the suspended sentence, Jamil was ordered to pay a £5,000 fine.

He must also pay £5,665 compensation and £13,929 in prosecution costs.

The decision has been hailed as a "landmark" case by Trading Standards.

"We believe it may be the first ever successful prosecution of someone involved in the Microsoft scam in the UK," said Lord Harris, chairman of the National Trading Standards Board, which oversees the work of the National Trading Standards e-crime team.

"It's an important turning point for UK consumers who have been plagued by this scam, or variants of it, for several years.

"Many have succumbed to it, parting with significant sums of money, their computers have been compromised and their personal details have been put at risk.

"Now that one of the many individuals who've been operating this scam has been brought to justice, it's a stark warning to anyone else still doing it that they can be caught and will be prosecuted."

Remote access

Jamil had set up Luton-based company Smart Support Guys, which employed people based in India to cold-call Britons and claim to be working for Microsoft.

The victims, unaware of the scam, would offer remote access to the fraudsters - meaning their computers could be controlled from a different location.

Once given this access, targets' computers would be made less secure, at which point the scammers would offer, in return for a fee, to install software to fix the problem.

The software installed was available for free on Microsoft's website.

In court, Jamil admitted to unfair trading by allowing his staff to make false claims regarding computer support services.

He claimed he had tried but failed to control call centre staff and not adequately supervised them.

His jail term is suspended for 12 months.

source: BBC NEWS

HTC LAUNCHING A VIRTUAL REALITY ACCELERATOR

HTC LAUNCHING A VIRTUAL REALITY ACCELERATOR

VR Unknown   18:03:00

THEY WANT TO SCOOP UP ALL THE VR TALENT BEFORE THE COMPETITION DOES

HTC announced today that it's taking applications for an accelerator program focused on virtual reality innovation.

Accelerators like HTC's Vive X offer monetary and non-monetary assistance to startups to incubate their ideas. Competitive programs like Y Combinator take the best seed ideas and fund them toward success, in exchange for a share of equity. Think Shark Tank with tech ideas. HTC's Vive X works the same way, but focuses on developing VR ideas, apps, and games.

HTC released its $800 Vive VR headset earlier this month. The company is now hoping to bring together talent in the field with accelerator offices in Taipei, Beijing, and San Francisco.

Vive X is open to all applicants who have a passion and an idea in mind to help HTC take the lead in the virtual reality market.

source : Popsci

After IPhone HTC MIGHT BE NEXT TO DROP HEADPHONE JACKS.

After IPhone HTC MIGHT BE NEXT TO DROP HEADPHONE JACKS.

TECHNOLOGY Unknown   17:52:00

LOOKS LIKE AN HTC 10 MISSING ONE LITTLE THING...

And so the dominos begin to fall on the life of the headphone jack. The upcoming HTC Bolt is rumored to be announced later this year, and in the meantime it looks a lot like the current HTC 10 device, without one major development: a jack.

If you're reading this you're probably aware that Apple made a lot of customers frustrated this year by eliminating the headphone jack from the iPhone 7 (to be fair, a Moto phone was released without a headphone jack even before that). HTC jumping on board would pose a new set of problems. First, they'd be tipping the boat seriously enough that all devices might drop it in the near future, effectively rendering most people's headphones useless no matter what device they select.

But second, HTC doesn't have a lightning port--and the USB jack both HTC and many other phone brands tend to pick for changing doesn't have a lot of headphones on the market.

That would change, obviously, if headphone makers suddenly needed to change, but right now most people haven't had to consider that as an option.

source : www.popsci.com

Google is Offering Business Internship 2017

Google is Offering Business Internship 2017

work Unknown   01:38:00

Google is offering several business internships opportunities

Google is offering several business internships opportunities at its offices across the world. Interns at Google bring questions and build answers.  Interns at Google bring questions and build answers. Google offer a range of internships across EMEA and durations and start dates vary according to a project and location. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and our recruitment team will determine where you fit best based on your resume.

Business Internships are offered in the following areas:

• SMB Sales and Operations
• Large Customer Sales
• Google for Work
• People Operations
• Marketing
• Trust and Safety
• Google Technical Services
• YouTube Partner Product Solutions

Eligibility:

Minimum qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree program and maintaining student status throughout the internship. Priority given to students graduating end of 2017 or in 2018.
• Returning to education on a full-time basis upon completing the internship.
• Ability to commit to a minimum of 10 weeks and up to 6 months at Google.

Preferred qualifications:

• Previous internship experience in Sales, Advertising, Consulting, Analysis, Customer Service, Marketing, Finance or related fields.

Submit your application here.

Note: By applying to this position your application is automatically submitted to the following locations: Amsterdam, Netherlands; Copenhagen, Denmark; Bratislava, Slovakia; Prague, Czech Republic; Nairobi, Kenya; Athens, Greece; Warsaw, Poland; Johannesburg, South Africa; Kiev, Kyiv city, Ukraine; Oslo, Norway; Brussels, Belgium; Helsinki, Finland; Vienna, Austria; Stockholm, Sweden; Dubai – United Arab Emirates; Munich, Germany; Bucharest, Romania; Milan, Italy; Hamburg, Germany; Zagreb, Croatia; Paris, France; Zürich, Switzerland; Moscow, Russia; Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel; Lagos, Nigeria; Madrid, Spain; Lisbon, Portugal; Istanbul/İstanbul, Turkey; Budapest, Hungary; Wrocław, Poland.

source : Youthop

Recruiter explains how you can pass an interview at Google or Facebook

Recruiter explains how you can pass an interview at Google or Facebook

TECHNOLOGY Siddiqui   22:44:00

How To Pass An Interview At Facebook Or Google

Interview! The final obstacle between a software engineer and the dream job+mega bucks that will follow. Most of you have passed out of an engineering college or have done a software certification course vie for a job at either Google or Facebook.

Most of the engineers and programmers will naturally think about taking a job in the top tech companies. Out of 100 software engineers who pass out, less than 1 percent go on to open a startup, while 99 percent of them go on to join some tech firm. After they have decided to take up a job in a tech company like Facebook or Google, the only obstacle between them and a lucrative career is the interview.

We have already given you the 20 difficult questions that Google and the 10 questions Facebook ask at job interviews. Now we help you out in cracking these interviews.

John L. Miller, Ph.D, who has worked and recruited at Microsoft and Oracle and also worked at Amazon and Google, has answered this million dollar question on Quora. He has given a full-fledged tutorial to help candidates pass the interviews at Google and Facebook.

He rightly says that you may have built up your skill set for a hundred years and it won’t matter for getting hired at Facebook or Google if they don’t interview you. Passing an interview is one thing, Miller says it is tough even to get an interview in this two tech giants.

He explains how prospective job seekers could get an interview at Facebook or Google :

Having said that, there are two high-success ways to get an interview.

• Know someone at the company (e.g. a colleague or friend) and have them recommend you and pass on your CV. If you can’t do this,
• Attend a university the company you like recruits from and go through campus recruiting there, which typically guarantees you an on-campus interview.If you haven’t attended university, get a bachelor’s in computer science from such a school. If you have attended university but your school didn’t have campus recruiting from the companies you care about, get a master’s degree from such a school. For the bachelor’s, get an internship as early as possible, and interview heavily in your final year. For the master’s, go through campus recruiting as early as possible.

How do you pass the interview?

• Know lots about computer science and programming. There’s a great book, Introduction to Algorithms. Understand as much as you can of the chapters on Mathematical Foundations, Sorting, Data Structures, and Graph Algorithms.
• Become a great programmer in at least one language, such as Java or C++. Python is a good second language. Make your own programs for fun. Google interview programming problems for your company of choice and write solutions for them. Do a bunch of the exercises from the Algorithms book. Make implementations of the core algorithms and data structures, both with and without the supplementary helper classes available in the language. Test everything thoroughly.
• Learn about the company. Understand what their business is based upon, and know which part of the company you want to work in. Have a good reason to work at the company. “Because it’s the best company in the world” and “because I want to be rich” are both lousy answers from the interviewer’s perspective.

Miller’s advice is to pursue your passions and not merely a company. This will help you in passing the toughest interview both Google and Facebook have to offer.

There are two approaches to the interview :

• The “cover as much ground as possible” approach. The interviewer will ask you 5-10 different questions spread out across your areas of expertise.  This approach is valid for people who are applying for sysadmin or systems engineering jobs. For example, a question about networking, a question about Unix, one small coding problem, something about security and something about the web.
• The “one hard problem” approach. This is for software engineers, where the interviewer may ask you to write code. You want to be paid to write code, so you better know how. The warmup question might be something like “reverse a string in place” or “implement atoi” or something like that. The next part is the hard question. Examples might include:
  • remove duplicates from a list of strings which is larger than the available memory (i.e. with reloads from disk)
  • count the number of disjoint objects in a bitmap
  • implement a program which plays tic-tac-toe

These are all pretty hard to do in 35 minutes so you have to concentrate. Here are a few tips to help you crack such interviews :

• This is probably the most important tip, When the interviewer asks you to write a program, DO NOT start writing code immediately. Think the problem through first, and SAY OUT LOUD what you are about to do, then do it. If you are going completely in the wrong direction, the interviewer will tell you, and you won’t waste 20 minutes going there.
• The recruiters are complete idiots and will likely forget you somewhere in the middle of the process. Do not be shy to call your recruiter if you don’t hear from them in (say) a week.
• Ask questions if something is not clear during an interview. If you are not sure what a question is about, or what the interviewer meant, ask immediately – you are playing against the clock. Yes, the recruiters time how long you take for an answer.
• Make your CV short and sweet. Most interviewers do look at them, but only if they are short. Unless you are a professor at MIT,two pages. Not three. Two. That includes everything.
• Put your skills on your CV. The company is sure to ask you what you are best at. If you list what you are best at, the interviewer will ask you about that. If your CV says “master of algorithms”, expect algorithms questions. If it’s not obvious from your CV what you are good at, they will ask random questions which are difficult.
• Do not put your high school, marching band, or girl scout experience on your CV. Nobody gives a fuck and it will not help you. It is more likely to harm you because it will distract from the parts that matter.
• When you are asked a coding question, don’t be a pretentious prick and start writing down header includes, blather about “invariants” or “good programming practices” if you don’t know how to solve the problem. It’s perfectly fine to be a pretentious prick if you can solve the problem with ease, but not if you can’t.

These are some of the pointers to help you crack the interview at Google or Facebook, for that matter any tech company. Hope you crack one of those.. Thank me later.

Source: Techworm