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Google Lens and Google Translate are two extremely useful tools that the company offers to its users. Google is replacing the camera mode on the Translate app with Google Lens , according to a report by 9to5Google. The report says that on Android phones, this will be a “system-level capability” whereas the iOS app has built-in lens. The change has already been rolled out to users. We did check it on the iOS app for Google Translate and can confirm that Google Lens does indeed show up in the camera mode of the Translate app. The idea seems to make the translation better as prior to the change, users had no option but to use the simple translate feature. Google Lens brings other features. How it works On the iPhone, one can open the Google Translate app and then tap on the Camera icon. Once there, users will instantly see the Google Lens. Users have the option to change languages and can do this on any image already stored or click a new photo to … [Read more...] about google: Google brings Lens into its Translate app on Android and iOS

Paytm , PhonePe and Google Pay are currently at odds on the implementation of Unified Payments Interface ( UPI ) market share cap. While Paytm wants the “market capping should be implemented as per the timeline (December 2022),” market leaders PhonePe and Google Pay are reportedly seeking an extension of at least three years. In the latest development, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is reported to be in talks with the officials of the Reserve Bank of India ( RBI ) to implement the market cap deadline of 30%. The government has cleared that it will not interfere in the issue as the matter lies with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) that facilitates services like UPI Payment . As per a report by The Economic Times, the NPCI is evaluating all possibilities and no final decision has been taken on extending the deadline of December 31. It is also reported that a decision could be made by the end of November. What is UPI … [Read more...] about upi: Paytm, PhonePe, Google Pay divided on UPI market share cap: NPCI in talks with RBI on extension

Audio player loading… The Rust programming language is the key to making the Android operating system safer, Google’s engineers have claimed. In a blog post (opens in new tab) published by Android security engineer Jeffrey Vander Stoep, the Googler says the number of severe memory vulnerabilities has significantly dropped in the last three years and suggests it’s all thanks to the OS moving away from memory-unsafe programming languages, C and C++. Three years ago, the majority (65%)of Android bugs were either high-severity or critical-severity memory safety bugs (think out-of-bounds read and write flaws, for example). Since then, Google has been steadily writing new Rust code and adding it to Android (as opposed to simply improving existing code). Now, the number of these flaws has dropped significantly, and they’re no longer the biggest issue plaguing the mobile OS. Less severe vulnerabilities in a constant "From 2019 to 2022 the annual number of memory … [Read more...] about Google says Rust is the key to cutting Android vulnerabilities

Audio player loading… After months of speculation, Chrome 108 looks to be rolling out an updating passwords interface for Android users. According to 9To5Google (opens in new tab) , Google is replacing the Android browser ’s native credentials list with its multi-platform Google Password Manager. Some Chrome 107 users are also seeing the rollout, which sees the company's own password manager take over responsibility for saved details from the browser itself. Google Password Manager for Android Checking up on saved passwords is about to become a lot easier, too, with the new menu found inside the Settings menu of Chrome, rather than in Google > Manage your Google Account > Security > Password Manager , inside the Settings app. This will give the platform an upper-hand over Apple, with passwords accessed via a number of sub-menus within the Settings app. In an effort to simplify password management and make it easier to highlight … [Read more...] about Google Password Manager is taking over this key Chrome security function

Le langage de programmation Rust est la clé pour rendre le système d'exploitation Android plus sûr, selon les ingénieurs de Google. Dans un billet de blog (s'ouvre dans un nouvel onglet) publié par Jeffrey Vander Stoep, ingénieur en sécurité d'Android, le Googler affirme que le nombre de vulnérabilités graves liées à la mémoire a considérablement diminué au cours des trois dernières années et suggère que c'est grâce à l'abandon par le système d'exploitation des langages de programmation moins bien sécurisés, C et C++. Il y a trois ans, la majorité (65 %) des bugs Android était liée à des problèmes de sécurité mémoire de haute gravité ou gravité critique (pensez aux failles de lecture et d'écriture hors limites, par exemple). Depuis lors, Google n'a cessé d'écrire du nouveau code Rust et de l'ajouter à Android (au lieu de simplement améliorer le code existant). Aujourd'hui, le nombre de ces failles a considérablement diminué et elles ne constituent plus le principal problème … [Read more...] about Google affirme que Rust est la clé pour réduire les vulnérabilités d’Android

Chromebooks are affordable and functional laptops that are most suitable for day-to-day usage like browsing, word processing, watching shows, movies, etc. These laptops are powered by Google ’s ChromeOS operating system and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s Indian Computer Emergency Response Team ( CERT-IN ) has issued a warning for select ChromeOS operating system. Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) recently issued a warning for Google ChromeOS users. The government body has classified the risk as ‘‘high severity’ and noted multiple vulnerabilities in Google ChromeOS which could make it an easy target for hackers. Who all are affected Chromebook users running versions prior to 108.0.5359.71 are currently affected. What the government has said CERT noted, “Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Google Chrome OS which could be exploited by a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, execute … [Read more...] about Chromebook users, here’s why government wants you to apply the latest security update

There's a new AI bot in town: ChatGPT . And you'd better take notice. The tool, from a power player in artificial intelligence, lets you type questions using natural language that the chatbot answers in conversational, if somewhat stilted, language. The bot remembers the thread of your dialog, using previous questions and answers to inform its next responses. It's a big deal. The tool seems pretty knowledgeable if not omniscient -- it can be creative and its answers can sound downright authoritative. A few days after its launch, more than a million people are trying out ChatGPT . But its creator, the for-profit research lab called OpenAI, warns that ChatGPT "may occasionally generate incorrect or misleading information," so be careful. Here's a look at why this ChatGPT is important and what's going on with it. What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is an AI chatbot system that OpenAI released in November to show off and test what a very large, powerful AI system can accomplish. You … [Read more...] about Why Everyone’s Talking About ChatGPT, a Mindblowing AI Chatbot

Meta-owned social media platform Facebook is known to threaten to ban news content. It did so in Australia and in Canada and now it is doing the same in the US — which is one of the key markets for the company. Facebook is at loggerheads with the US Congress over a journalism bill — The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act . In a tweet, Andy Stone, head of communications, Meta said that Facebook will be “forced to consider” removing all news from its platform “if Congress passes an ill-considered journalism bill as part of national security legislation.” Meta says that Facebook will not be willing to submit to government-mandated negotiations that “unfairly disregard any value we provide to news outlets through increased traffic and subscriptions.” What is Facebook’s problem with the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act? In the tweet, Meta says that the Act completely fails to “recognise the key fact: publishers and broadcasters put … [Read more...] about Why Facebook is threatening to ban all news in the US

The next blue moon will occur on the last night of August. Although it will appear no bluer than on any other night, it will nonetheless fit the modern definition of the term by being the second full moon in a calendar month. But this technical meaning of "blue moon" arose fairly recently. The phrase has undergone a strange evolution over the past 500 years. The notion of a blue moon first appeared in writing in the 16th century, according to folklorist Phillip Hiscock, a professor at Memorial University in Newfoundland who has traced the meaning of the phrase through the centuries. "In the English language, the first use that we have is by Cardinal Wolsey" — Henry VIII's notorious advisor, Hiscock said. "Cardinal Wolsey writes about his intellectual enemies who 'would have you believe the moon is blue.'" Aside from the occasional blue-tinged moon that can peak through a volcanic ash cloud, moons almost always hover between white and yellow, and so to call the moon blue was to … [Read more...] about Blue Moon: The Strange Evolution of a Phrase

Audio player loading… Half a dozen Android apps, pretending to be utility services, have been scamming users and earning the developers advertising revenue, cybersecurity researchers have claimed. The apps have managed to fool quite a number of people, having apparently been downloaded more than two million times. Google has since removed all of them from the Play Store, but users are still being warned to be on their guard. Malicious Android apps The Dr. Web antivirus team discovered a total of five apps whose only goal is to trick people into downloading them and then serve them ads for as long as possible. The biggest one, with more than a million downloads, is TubeBox. TubeBox promises users a cut of the advertising revenue if they sit and watch ads in the app. However, the whole thing is a trick, as when the user tries to redeem the rewards, they’ll conveniently run into different bugs and errors. Even those who somehow manage to work around all … [Read more...] about Watch out – this Android malware has been installed millions of times already