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Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Splits With Wife & 23andMe Co-Founder Anne Wojcicki

News - Sergey Brin Reportedly Splits from wife Anne Wojcicki Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki Have Split According to the reports coming from Silicon Valley, Google co-founder Sergey Brin is not living with her wife Anne Wojcicki for over several months. Anne Wojcicki is a biotech entrepreneur and a co-founder and CEO of 23andMe. Brin and his wife, Anne Wojcicki, both 40, were married in 2007. They had been in marriage for around six years and have two children. They were one of the most high-profile couples of Silicon Valley. Reports say that while they are living separately, they are not yet legally separated. The break-up news was first reported by technology blog AllThingsD on Wednesday, August 28, 2013. The couple have been involved in many charitable organizations and are one of the biggest donnor in USA to charity organizations. Together, they have started a charitable foundation named Brin Wojcicki Foundation and are a part of new organization the Breakthrough Prize Foun

Want to Delete or Erase Your Online Presence Completely?

Single Source to Remove Online Accounts or Social Profiles Are you fed up with your online presence? Is your online social profiles creating havoc to your personal or official life? Do you want to live your social life as before the age of Facebook, Twitter etc.? Your crave to meet personally your friends and family members is increasing. You do not want to sustain the fake personas you had created virtually over the Internet. If your answer is Yes, then here is a solution for you. Do delete your online information you have to use an online platform - JustDelete.me . It is not just a simple link but a platform that gives you the options to delete most of your popular online accounts you dreamed of. JustDelete.me has divided online identity deletion in three categories-Easy, Medium, Hard and Impossible. These categories are based on the simplicity and ease with which you can delete or erase your online account information. Some of the Top Online Accounts based on the popular

With Facebook Embedded Posts Everyone Can Embed Facebook Posts on Any Blog or Website

Facebook Rolls Out Embedded Posts for All Online Users Facebook has now roll-out Embedded Posts for everyone. "Embedded Posts" was first announced in July 31, 2013. You will be eager to know what is Facebook's Embedded Posts . According to Facebook, Embedded Posts, is a social plugin that lets users to easily add public posts from Facebook to a blog or web site, other than Facebook. The embedded post will show any media attached to it, as well as the number of likes, shares, and comments that the post has. How to Embed a Facebook Post? This feature is only available for posts from Facebook Pages and profiles that are set to public. If the post is set as public, then only look for an arrow icon that appears in the top right corner of the post and click to get the code needed to embed a post or video. When you click the Embed Post from drop down menu, a dialog will pops up. From the pop-up simply copy and paste the code provided on your own web page:

Khalil Shreateh, Security Researcher Breaks Into Zuckerberg's Wall To Report Bug

Khalil Shreateh Report Facebook Exploit on Mark Zuckerberg's Wall Khalil Shreateh, Palestinian security researcher with a B.A degree in Information Systems, discovered a big Facebook security vulnerability. As an ethical hackers he want this bug to be resolved as soon as possible. So, he sent mail twice to Facebook Security team through whitehat , but Facebook ignored his mail. During his first two mail he informed the security team that he had posted on Sarah Goodin's profile even though is not in her friend list and is not allowed to post on her wall. Sarah Goodin was the student of Harvard students and was first woman to have created the Facebook profile. Even then they ignored the warning. Khalil Shreateh Hijacked Sarah Goodin's Timeline Finally, he decided to proof himself. So, he thought the best way to get attention is to directly post on the Mark Zuckerberg's Wall. Security expert Khalil Shreateh then used this Facebook glitch to post to Mark Zuck

Yahoo! New Logo Announced after "30 Days of Change" New Yahoo! Logos Daily for 30 Days till Sep 5 2013

Finally, Yahoo New Logo Unveiled Yahoo! New Logo Announced On 5th September, 2013 Compare the New Yahoo! Logo with the Old Yahoo! Logo Yahoo Logo Before the Launch of "30 Days of Change" Yahoo! Launching New Logo on September 5th, 2013 Yahoo has announced that they are going to unveil a new Yahoo! logo on September 5th, 2013. For this Yahoo! has introduced '30 days of change' where they will be displaying a variation of 30 new Yahoo! logos on their homepage and throughout their network in the U.S. for the next month. Enjoy 30 new Yahoo! logos in 30 days! Track the daily changes in Yahoo! Logos Here are the first 6 Days of Changes of Yahoo! Logo: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6

Now You Can Try Facebook Graph Search In India

What is Facebook Graph Search: According to Wikipedia Article, "Facebook Graph Search is a semantic search engine that was introduced by Facebook in March 2013. It is designed to give answers to user natural language queries rather than a list of links. The Graph Search feature combines the big data acquired from its over one billion users and external data into a search engine providing user-specific search results. In a presentation headed by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, it was announced that the Graph Search algorithm finds information from within a user's network of friends." Facebook Graph Search Rolled Internationally for US English Users : Facebook rolled out the Graph Search feature two days ago for all US English users. Want to try out new Facebook Graph Search? Here is the link to test whether the new search feature introduced by Facebook is available to your account or not. Mark Zuckerberg Announcing Graph Search My Stint with Facebook Grap

WhatsApp Now with a Voice Messages Feature

WhatsApp Launched One-press Voice Texting Whatsapp Adds Voice Messages To Chat App Instant messaging service application WhatsApp announced that they have hit the 300 million monthly active users mark. On this occasion Whatsapp has presented Voice Messages for its users across multiple mobile platforms. "Today, we're proud to announce that WhatsApp has surpassed 300 million monthly active users worldwide, a milestone on the road to WhatsApp becoming the communication network of the 21st century," a company spokesperson told CNET. According to AllThingsD, WhatsApp users send around 11 billion messages and receive 20 billion messages per day. It will allow WhatsApp users to send recorded voice texts to their contacts by just pressing one button. The voice messaging features is rolled out for its apps on iOS, BlackBerry, Android, Windows and Nokia platforms. This feature does not require the to upgrade application, it will automatically show up on the device o

Amazon's Jeff Bezos to buy Washington Post for $250 million

Washington Post to be Acquired by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Jeff Bezos to buy The Washington Post Image Credit The founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos, one of the digital billionaire has decided to buy Washington Post for $250 million in cash. This is an individual deal between Jeff Bezos and Washington Post. According to the Amazon company statement, Amazon.com is not a part of this deal and has nothing to do with the self interest of its CEO.  The Washington Post was founded over 125 years ago and with the purchase of Washington Post, will the saga of 125 years old journalistic will come to an end or not can only be confirmed what Jeff Bezos and Washington Post's current team think of. Will the current editors, general manager or CEO continue to work under the flagship of Jeff or will they go to some other top US or international newspaper agency on time will tell?

Facebook Paid International Bug Hunters $1 million, India Second in Bug Bounty Program

India Second in Recipient of Facebook's "Bug Bounty" Program Facebook's "Bug Bounty" Program Image Credit Facebook said that it paid more than US$1 million to scientists who reported bugs on its social networking site, with India stacked up second regarding the amount of bug abundance beneficiaries. "The countries with the fastest growing number of recipients are, in order, the U.S., India, Turkey, Israel, Canada, Germany, Pakistan, Egypt, Brazil, Sweden, and Russia," Collin Greene, security engineer at Facebook, said in the statement. In an statement on its website, Facebook said that India was second on the list of nations with the increasing number of beneficiaries of Facebook's Bug Bounty program. Facebook had begun the project around 2 years ago to remunerate security specialists who report issues and urge individuals to help keep the site safe and secure. "Our Bug Bounty program allows us to harness the talent and perspe

Researchers Develop Ghost Free 3D TV Display for Viewers without 3D-Glasses

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), have developed a new kind of 3D TV display for 3D+2D television that allows viewers with 3D glasses to see 3D images, while viewers can see a normal two-dimensional image without wearing the glasses. Blurry 3D TV image for viewers without stereo glasses due to Ghosting (Image Credit: J. Davis) With 3D+2D TV there is no Ghosting for both viewers. (Image Credit : J. Davis) Associate Professor James Davis, along with graduates Steven Scher, Jing Liu, Rajan Vaish, and Prabath Gunawardane of computer science in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz developed this new technique. For more read Detailed Research

Google Glass Explorer Invites A Friend Now Open

Google Opens Glass Users Invite Friends to Explorer Program Google now offers Glass Explorers by letting current users the ability to invite a friend(s) to buy Google Glass. This is similar to what Google did for Gmail in its early days. The condition sets for invite is that the person must be a U.S. resident, 18 years or older, and be able to pick up Glass in person in either San Francisco (SF), New York (NY) or Los Angeles (LA). Here is the Screen Shots of Invitations ( Google+ ) from Google Glass Explorer Invite a Friend to buy Google Glass:  Google Glass Explorer Invites