Is Google searching for cancer cure? Find out Here

Google is searching for a cancer cure.

The company announced Tuesday that it is experimenting with designing nanoparticles that would detect cancer and other diseases before their onset.

Andrew Conrad, head of Google (GOOG) Life Sciences division, said it would be to the body what an oil change is to a car.

"Can you imagine changing your oil when the engine is broken?" said Conrad, who made the announcement at the Wall Street Journal Digital conference.

Conrad said it's time for healthcare to become more proactive than reactive.

Google is working on a wearable device that would detect changes by monitoring nanoparticles in a person's body. That way, they could detect minor swings in tumor cells and other diseases before it becomes a problem, Conrad said.

This would not be Google's first foray into healthcare.

Google has partnered with Alcon and Novartis (NVS) to make a smart contact lens that measures the glucose levels in diabetics' tears.

The company's research lab is already in the midst of a study involving 10,000 people for its nanoparticle platform, but is looking for partners to help scale it.

Google's announcement was certainly opposite of Apple's.

On Monday, Apple (AAPL, Tech30) CEO Tim Cook told the same audience: "I don't see Apple getting into cancer research ...That's well beyond our expertise." 
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Facebook to bring back anonymous chatroom

ROOMS  

October 27, 2014 08:50 Am

Facebook tries to bring back the 90s with anonymous chatroom app ‘Rooms’

By Administrator  Global News

  WATCH: Facebook is trying to bring back the ’90s with a new chat room app called “Rooms”.

TORONTO – Facebook has launched a new anonymous chat room app in what seems like an attempt to bring back the old school Internet.

The app, dubbed “Rooms,” allows users to create a “room” on any topic where users with like interests can share pictures, videos and multimedia posts to create a tailored Facebook feed.

But unlike Facebook Pages, Rooms allows users to post under an alias name.

“One of the things our team loves most about the Internet is its potential to let us be whoever we want to be,” read a blog post announcing the service.

“That’s why in Rooms you can be ‘Wonder Woman’ – or whatever name makes you feel most comfortable and proud. You can even create different identities for different contexts.”

The ability to post anonymously in Rooms seems to stand in stark contrast to the rest of Facebook.

Facebook has long required its users to go by their “real names” on the site for security purposes, to stand out from other social networks and so it can better target advertising to people.

Facebook recently came under fire for deleting accounts belonging to drag queens that used drag names such as “Lil Hot Mess” rather than legal names like Bob Smith.

Since its real name policy stirred controversy within the transgendered community, Facebook said the spirit of its policy doesn’t mean a person’s legal name but “the authentic name they use in real life.”

READ MORE: Facebook apologizes to drag queens for ‘real names’ policy

The company appears to be pushing the Rooms app as an ode to the chatrooms of the 90s, where users freely posted using anonymous screen names.

“One of the magical things about the early days of the web was connecting to people who you would never encounter otherwise in your daily life,” wrote Facebook’s Josh Miller, leader of the team that created the app, in a blog post.

“Today, as we spend more time on our phones, primarily to communicate with friends and family, the role of the Internet as a ‘third place’ has begun to fade.”

The app has already been criticized by some users who say the anonymous feature is outweighed by the fact Rooms can only be shared with their Facebook friends.

“One of the most obvious problems is that the only way to expand your group is to market it to people you know. In all honesty, what’s the point in the anonymous capability if everyone in my ‘room’ are all of the people I personally invite,” read one review on Apple’s app store.

“I would love to see a search feature where random people can join groups of interest. That would make me intrigued.”

Currently Rooms can only be shared through invitations that look like QR codes.

But theoretically, invite codes could be posted anywhere online to invite new users to join. Additionally, the app does not require users to have a Facebook account, which means they could create “public” Rooms and invite anyone they wish.

Rooms is being rolled out to U.S. users starting Friday – however there is no Canadian launch date yet.

Hundreds of Alleged Dropbox Passwords Leaked,have you Changed Yours ?

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An anonymous hacker is claiming to have leaked a few hundred usernames and passwords for Dropbox accounts. It's unclear where they actually came from (and if they really are Dropbox credentials), but either way: it's time to change your passwords.

The leak, which contains hundreds of accounts with email addresses starting with the letter "b", come from an anonymous user taking Bitcoin donations for the full leak, which they claim consists of millions of accounts, according to The Next Web. We're not sure how old these credentials are or which third party apps they came from, but no matter what, it's time to do the same old song and dance we're pretty used to by now.

So, if you use Dropbox, be sure to change your password now (and make it strong), as well as your password on any other site that used the same credentials. While you're at it, you should definitely enable two-factor authentication to keep ne'er-do-wells out of your account (even if your password is leaked).

If your account was one of the "B" accounts already leaked, you should get a notification from Dropbox to reset your account. But in the meantime, we recommend everyone change their passwords. Hit the link to read more.

Update: Dropbox released a statement on their blog saying that they were not hacked, and that the leaked credentials likely came from third-party services (as suspected):

Recent news articles claiming that Dropbox was hacked aren't true. Your stuff is safe. The usernames and passwords referenced in these articles were stolen from unrelated services, not Dropbox. Attackers then used these stolen credentials to try to log in to sites across the internet, including Dropbox. We have measures in place to detect suspicious login activity and we automatically reset passwords when it happens.

They claim the passwords have expired, but no matter what, you should change your password. We still don't know enough about the hack to recommend otherwise.

here is the link to the leaked credentials  http://pastebin.com/aRgTJzzg

Is Your WhatsApp Account Safe ?? Read what they posted on their website

Setting the record straight

on  April 22, 2014
 Since announcing our upcoming partnership with Facebook, we’ve been truly humbled by how much attention our story has received. As a company, we’re excited to continue focusing on offering as many people as possible the chance to stay connected with friends and loved ones, no matter who they are or where they live.
Unfortunately, there has also been a lot of inaccurate and careless information circulating about what our future partnership would mean for WhatsApp users’ data and privacy.
I’d like to set the record straight.
Above all else, I want to make sure you understand how deeply I value the principle of private communication. For me, this is very personal. I was born in Ukraine, and grew up in the USSR during the 1980s. One of my strongest memories from that time is a phrase I’d frequently hear when my mother was talking on the phone: “This is not a phone conversation; I’ll tell you in person.” The fact that we couldn’t speak freely without the fear that our communications would be monitored by KGB is in part why we moved to the United States when I was a teenager.
Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA, and we built WhatsApp around the goal of knowing as little about you as possible: You don't have to give us your name and we don't ask for your email address. We don’t know your birthday. We don’t know your home address. We don’t know where you work. We don’t know your likes, what you search for on the internet or collect your GPS location. None of that data has ever been collected and stored by WhatsApp, and we really have no plans to change that.

If partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we wouldn’t have done it. Instead, we are forming a partnership that would allow us to continue operating independently and autonomously. Our fundamental values and beliefs will not change. Our principles will not change. Everything that has made WhatsApp the leader in personal messaging will still be in place. Speculation to the contrary isn’t just baseless and unfounded, it’s irresponsible. It has the effect of scaring people into thinking we’re suddenly collecting all kinds of new data. That’s just not true, and it’s important to us that you know that.
Make no mistake: our future partnership with Facebook will not compromise the vision that brought us to this point. Our focus remains on delivering the promise of WhatsApp far and wide, so that people around the world have the freedom to speak their mind without fear.

 On Reaching 500,000,000.

 Users Thanks to all of you, half a billion people around the world are now regular, active WhatsApp users. In the last few months, we've grown fastest in countries like Brazil, India, Mexico, and Russia, and our users are also sharing more than 700 million photos and 100 million videos every single day. We could go on, but for now, it’s more important that we get back to work – because here at WhatsApp, we’re just getting started.