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Microsoft Teams Together Mode, which displays participants in a common virtual room like a lecture hall, now allows meeting organizers to assign seats to participants. The app also lets users pop out shared meeting content, like a PowerPoint presentation, into a separate window so users can see each other and their content more easily. Also: Four ways to get noticed in the changing world of work There are also updates for live translated captions that are tied to Microsoft’s new Teams Premium accounts....

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) kicked off its own investigation into an April 2022 report by security vendor Recorded Future about a “likely Chinese state-sponsored” threat actor targeting the Indian power sector for the past two years. Recorded Future listed over a dozen network indicators of compromise (IOCs) it had observed between late 2021 and Q1 2022 that were used in 38 intrusions against multiple organisations in India’s energy sector....

Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s claim to value online privacy, this new incident puts a damper on any goodwill the company may have earned in the past year. Here’s what we know about Facebook’s latest data debacle. Plus, we’ll show you how you can optimize your privacy settings so your profile shares as little information as possible. Here we go again… again. According to reports from Business Insider, Facebook revealed it’s making changes to its app privacy policy for groups in light of recent data sharing concerns....

He outlined that AU$15 million of the total will be used to support supply chain monitoring. This would including AU$4.3 million to enhance the CSIRO transport network strategic investment tool to model domestic transport supply chains, AU$10 million for mapping and monitoring critical supply chains to proactively identify vulnerabilities before they arise, while AU$1.3 million would be used to commission the chief scientist to develop a national plan for semiconductors to address current and future supply....

For, the other foldable phones that we have seen thus far have tried to compress a tablet into a phone’s form factor. The idea has been to deliver a bigger display within a normal – or what passes for “normal” these days – smartphone’s frame. Whether it is the much talked of Galaxy Fold or the Huawei Mate X, the core idea has been – a normal smartphone when folded, a tablet when opened....

After DTEK60 and filtering Blackberry Mercury with a physical keyboard, it appears that these would be the latest Blackberry phones before giving up their rights to TCL. Now, seemingly new device has just popped up on the website of Indonesian regulator known as POSTEL. However, the leak does not provide much information regarding the leaked device from BlackBerry, but, the existence of a new Blackberry model is confirmed with the name “BBC100-1”, further nothing is known yet....

In Cambridge Analytica’s case, the large data analytics firm is being accused of having pilfered the data of millions of Facebook users acquired through the third-party app/personality quiz “This is Your Digital Life.” Then, it was used to influence political campaigns and many other things we’re sure. A ton of personal information was harvested that includes your email address, birthdate, gender and public posts and likes and just about anything else in your profile....

Gadget Discovery Club is the number one gadget subscription box in the world. It provides exciting experiences right in your home by delivering the most unique, innovative gadgets to you every three months. Unlike some subscription boxes, Gadget Discovery Club provides free shipping and free returns. So you get to discover all kinds of new gadgets completely risk-free. Every quarter, you’ll receive a mystery box that holds up to four gadgets of the highest quality....

Google has finally started rolling out the Android 5.1 OTA update for the Nexus 4. The update comes a month after Google had initially started rolling out Android 5.1 for the Nexus 6, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 and the Nexus 10 in March. Android 5.1 brings with it a bunch of bug fixes and performance improvements that greatly improve the experience of using Lollipop. You can find a detailed changelog of what’s new in Android 5....

Recently, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shown multiple VR headsets prototypes in Meta’s reality labs, these headsets were meant to be tested, but you will find them very powerful. Meta’s Digital Wallet ‘Novi’ Will Shut Down in September Meta’s Novi is a digital wallet that the company launched in October last year, and it was famous at that time because of Meta’s interest in cryptocurrency and NFTs. As Novi’s website shows, you’ll not be able to access your Novi account after September 1, 2022, and you will be unable to add money to your account from July 21, 2022....

Reality Labs hardware costs are expected to grow in the coming months, Meta said in a statement attributed to CFO David Wehner, “driven by the launch of our next generation of our consumer Quest headset later next year.” The confirmation comes a couple weeks after Meta unveiled the Quest Pro – a version of the headset targeted at business and enterprise users. That device’s capabilities have been tailored for “collaboration and productivity,” with full-color AR to power virtual workspaces, conference rooms and collaborative design projects....

These days, LeCun, who is both a professor at NYU and chief scientist at Meta, is the most excited he’s been in 30 years, he told ZDNet in an interview last week. The reason: New discoveries are rejuvenating a long line of inquiry that could turn out to be as productive in AI as CNNs are. That new frontier that LeCun is exploring is known as energy-based models. Whereas a probability function is “a description of how likely a random variable or set of random variables is to take on each of its possible states” (see Deep Learning, by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio & Aaron Courville, 2019), energy-based models simplify the accordance between two variables....

Micromax Canvas Selfie 2 – Specifications, Release Date & Price Micromax Canvas Selfie 2 Release Date and Price Micromax Canvas Selfie 2 was first announced in 2015, August and it was released on August 2015 it was available in your nearby markets right now. Micromax Canvas Selfie 2 will cost you just Rs 5,999 it will be available to buyers through online commodities and Micromax stores. Micromax Canvas Selfie 2 Look and Design Micromax Canvas Selfie 2 had a nice construction and the synthetics used in the body doesn’t look cheap, there is a soft rubbery type finish in the edge of the phone which gives us a convenient grip....

According to Microsoft, you can point your phone at signs, menus, flyers, or anything else that has text visible get an instant translation. The feature also works with saved images in your phone’s gallery or anywhere else you grab a photo from. Another clever feature is inline translation, which allows you to highlight text from an app, open up the Other Options menu then choose Translator to get the content translated to one of 52 different languages (this feature requires Android Marshmallow)....

One of the worst outbreaks occurred in 2004 when Mydoom malware spread to millions of computers worldwide through email. A rough estimate is that the virus caused $52.2 billion in damages. Your innocent-looking Windows computer could be one of the millions of PCs infected with malware. And you might not know it. Here’s the backstory on malware With the release of Malwarebytes’ annual State of Malware report earlier this week, it might come as a shock just how determined hackers are....

The Moto 360 has been on sale quite a bit recently, dropping down to $165 directly from the Google Store not too long ago. And for anyone that has been holding out to see how low it can go, Woot! is holding a one-day only sale (with around 13 hours to at the time of this publication, or until the units sell out) for Motorola’s Android Wear-based smartwatch, which sees the prices start at $149....

All these details have arrived from a well-known developer Steve Moser, who found some related codes in the Netflix app. Netflix Might Allow You to Setup Your Ad-Experience First, Moser found some text in the app that suggests that this plan users will not be allowed to experience content while offline, which means they can’t download any movies or series for offline viewing. And the actual text was “Downloads available on all plans except Netflix with ads,” and this does not seem like something unexpected move from the company because other service’s ad-supported tier is doing the same....

HTC’s One Mini has quickly become one of the company’s worst kept secrets. We’ve seen photos of it in Bulgaria, in Estonia, in America, and now there’s one in China. Unlike the previous leaks, however, this photo is from China’s government entity that certifies phones for sale on the local market. Think of them like the FCC. Anyway, the photo is useless without a description, so here’s what we know so far about the phone....

Do me a favor. Put on a pair of headphones, hit play on the video below, and close your eyes. Now tell me, don’t you think that music sounds exactly like the music that Samsung used* for the GS4 launch earlier this year? More on point, what you just saw (or didn’t if you followed my instructions) was a teaser video that LG uploaded over the weekend for their G2 product launch....

Meet The World’s First Smartphone With 16 Rear Cameras Smartphone manufacturers continue to do their research simply to hunt down the new and extraordinary features to highlight their upcoming smartphones, such as removing the notch or adding more cameras. It seems that 2019 will be the year of smartphones with triple selfies camera, it is even rumored that the Samsung Galaxy S10 will have 6 cameras. However, now according to the latest reports, something extraordinary and unexpected thing has come to light and it is from none other than the well-known South Korean giant LG who has recently patented a brand new smartphone with 16 rear cameras....