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Friday, July 5, 2019

This Google shortcut will save lots of users time, here's how to use it

Using this shortcut, users no longer need to head to Google Drive and create a new file, and hence, it saves lots of users time. https://ift.tt/2XRUwxf

How researchers combined AI and manual counting techniques to estimate the size of the crowd at Hong Kong's annual pro-democracy protest on July 1 (New York Times)

New York Times:
How researchers combined AI and manual counting techniques to estimate the size of the crowd at Hong Kong's annual pro-democracy protest on July 1 — Crowd estimates for Hong Kong's large pro-democracy protests have been a point of contention for years. The organizers and the police often release vastly divergent estimates.

Amazon founder Bezos' divorce final with $38 billion settlement: Report

Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos' divorce from his wife of 25 years, MacKenzie Bezos, was finalised by a Seattle-area judge on Friday, paving the way for her to receive $38.3 billion worth of Amazon stock, Bloomberg reported. In April, Amazon, the world's biggest online retailer, said in a filing that 4% of its outstanding stock or 19.7 million shares would be registered in MacKenzie Bezos' name after court approval of the divorce https://ift.tt/2RYfl4C

Facebook Says Private Groups Are Its Future, Some Are Hubs for Hate

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has long touted membership in private, "meaningful" communities as central to the future of the social network. https://ift.tt/2Jpgizf

Airtel Africa's Delayed $4.4 Billion Nigeria listing to Go Ahead on July 8

Airtel Africa aims to list on the Nigerian bourse on Monday, one of the financial advisors arranging the issue said, after the exchange postponed the listing which had been scheduled for Friday. https://ift.tt/2JqMjHf

Amazon CEO Bezos Reportedly Finalises Divorce With $38 Billion Settlement

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos finalised their divorce Friday to the tune of a $38-billion settlement, Bloomberg News reported. https://ift.tt/2RWfcPo

Budget 2019: India Takes Big Step to Boost Digital Payments

In budget 2019, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the proposal to levy two percent TDS was aimed at discouraging the practice of making business payments in cash. https://ift.tt/2NA6V4W

School Education Dept, Karnataka Primary Teacher Recruitment 2019 – Apply Online for 22150 Posts

School Education Department, Karnataka recruits 22150 Primary Teacher Posts. Candidates with B.El.Ed, D.El.Ed can Apply online 30-08-2019.

Karnataka Govt Jobs 2019 – Apply Online for 22150 Primary Teacher Posts

School Education Department, Karnataka recruits 22150 Primary Teacher Posts. Candidates with B.El.Ed, D.El.Ed can Apply online 30-08-2019.

Budget will boost innovation in digital economy: Flipkart

Lauding the government's commitment to digital India, Krishnamurthy said the impetus to start-ups, micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) and Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) would form the backbone of the economy. https://ift.tt/2FQNqyX

Inside Facebook's elite "info ops" team, created in 2017 to respond to worst co-ordinated disinformation campaigns that state actors like Russian IRA can launch (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Inside Facebook's elite “info ops” team, created in 2017 to respond to worst co-ordinated disinformation campaigns that state actors like Russian IRA can launch — Among the thousands of staff at Facebook, there is one group that talks about the company not as a social network, but as a battlefield.

Google Pixel 4 could sport 16-megapixel telephoto lens: Report

In yet another investigation-led speculation article about the upcoming Google Pixel 4, XDADevelopers writes that the default Google Camera app from the to-be-released Android Q Beta 5 reveals some interesting clues about the upcoming Pixel device's camera. An update in the source code of Google Camera 6.3 suggests that the Pixel 4's square camera setup on the back panel could include a telephoto lens, whose resolution could be 16 megapixels.

The team at XDADevelopers writes that it found some important changes in the “Sabre” section of the source code, which is an internal name for Super Res Zoom. A line that did not exist in the previous betas suddenly appears now, reading “SABRE_UNZOOMED_TELEPHOTO”. The team also found a list of sensor IDs in the source code, something that did not exist in the previous versions of the default camera app either. The list includes: “front IR” sensor, a “front regular” sensor, a “front wide” sensor, a “rear regular” sensor, and a “rear telephoto” sensor.

If what we gather from the source code hints is right, the upcoming Pixel device may come with not just a telephoto lens on the back but also an IR sensor on the front, which we can surmise is for face recognition. 9to5Google's report goes deeper into the source code of the camera app. A line in the source code that reads, “Telephoto image has dimensions ( ), but should have dimensions 4656×3496, 4656×3492 or 2328×1748,” suggests that the telephoto lens' resolution could in fact be 16 megapixels.

In June, when leaks and rumours about the upcoming Pixel device were threatening to pour out of every crevice on the internet—which is the case with most unreleased Pixel devices anyway—Google boldly tweeted an image of the Pixel 4's rear camera setup. The image revealed a square camera module with multiple sensors inside. “Wait 'til you see what it can do,” added Google in its tweet. Since then, we have seen quite a number of leaks and speculations about the upcoming device but this development here is quite significant because this will be the first time we see a Pixel device with a telephoto camera unit. Let's wait and see what happens.

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