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Google Maps exposes Edward Snowden’s hideout in the White House

Apr14
by on April 14, 2015 at 10:06 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

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In an unlikely turn of events, Google Maps is showing Edward Snowden as residing in the White House, within “Edwards Snow Den.” No, this isn’t a sign that the whistleblower and US administration are in cahoots – it’s the result of someone cleverly changing the location of a business listing after it had gone live on Google Maps. As well as providing laughs, the prank actually exposes a flaw in Google Maps’ managing of local listings. The location, which is seemingly verified by Google and classified as a snowboard shop (open 5am – 11pm daily), has five reviews that declare it as…

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Now you can browse YouTube in 15 new languages

Apr14
by on April 14, 2015 at 9:09 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider, Product Updates

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YouTube has made 15 additional languages available for browsing the video-sharing site, bringing the total to 76. The new languages on offer are: Albanian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Georgian, Kazak, Khmer, Kirghiz, Lao, Macedonian, Mongolian, Myanmar, Nepali, Punjabi, Sinhala and Uzbek. While videos are still only available in the languages they are recorded in, the new browsing languages will make videos more accessible around the globe by translating links, buttons, and text. All of YouTube’s videos also have caption support, which can be used in over 165 languages. ➤ Navigate YouTube in 15 more languages [Engadget]

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Hijackers target Google’s Malaysian home page and disrupt service

Apr14
by on April 14, 2015 at 8:44 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, cybersecurity, Google, hack

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Some users who tried to access Google’s Malaysian site over the past few hours were redirected to a page saying, “Google Malaysia Hacked,” reports The Wall Street Journal. Google Malaysia acknowledged that its service was disrupted owing to DNS redirection in a tweet, and encouraged users to visit its country-neutral page until it resolved the issue. Blink and you'll miss it- @GoogleMsia was reportedly hacked a few minutes ago, but its back to normal now! pic.twitter.com/MLLoi59EOA — Malay Mail Online (@themmailonline) April 14, 2015 A spokeperson told WSJ: “We’re aware that some users are having trouble connecting to google.com.my, or…

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Hijackers target Google’s Malaysian home page and disrupt service

Apr14
by on April 14, 2015 at 8:44 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, cybersecurity, Google, hack

Google Malaysia
Some users who tried to access Google’s Malaysian site over the past few hours were redirected to a page saying, “Google Malaysia Hacked,” reports The Wall Street Journal. Google Malaysia acknowledged that its service was disrupted owing to DNS redirection in a tweet, and encouraged users to visit its country-neutral page until it resolved the issue. Blink and you'll miss it- @GoogleMsia was reportedly hacked a few minutes ago, but its back to normal now! pic.twitter.com/MLLoi59EOA — Malay Mail Online (@themmailonline) April 14, 2015 A spokeperson told WSJ: “We’re aware that some users are having trouble connecting to google.com.my, or…

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How to make software products the smart way

Apr14
by on April 14, 2015 at 8:41 am
Posted In: Around the Web, design, Design & Dev, How-To's, stack userflow

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Poornima Vijayashanker is the founder of Femgineer, helping entrepreneurs and tech professionals (especially women) level up their careers. As technologists, we want to build software that is friendly, fast, beautiful, responsive, reliable, secure, and scalable. And we expect ourselves to deliver it on time and under budget, because our ultimate goal is to have lots of happy customers who can do what they want. But time and energy are finite, and we simply cannot deliver it all at once. We need to choose our priorities, and this choice is one we should make consciously. Evaluating our software development priorities while dealing…

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