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People and Page administrators on Facebook will now be able to broadcast up to four hours of video with Facebook Live — in both fullscreen and video-only mode, a media report said on Thursday.
Broadcasts were limited to two hours when Facebook Live was launched last year.
These options are intended to benefit both the creator and the viewer and are set to be released more broadly in the coming weeks, technology website Venturebeat.com reported.
Users will be able to go live

Mobile phone users would still be able to access their mobile wallets even if their devices are lost with the help of m-commerce player Zeta’s newly launched security feature ‘Trust’.
With the increased use of mobile wallets, users are often vulnerable to loss of their devices leading to difficulties in accessing mobile wallet accounts.
Claiming to put an end to this susceptibility of digital wallets, Zeta said it has launched a security feature as the mobile wallet can only be

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s telecom venture Reliance Jio may commercially launch 4G voice and high-speed data services in the next three months, brokerage CLSA said today.
“Several indicators suggest a strong possibility of commercial launch of Jio’s services within the next three months ahead of festive season in October… Jio may already be handling the second-highest data traffic among all telecom operators and could ramp up close to the highest even before launch,&rdq

While the Pokemon Go mania continues to sweep the world at a mildly terrifying pace, its developer has revealed that his “personal fantasy” is to see “Westeros mapped out on Earth”.
Pokemon Go developer Niantic’s product marketing lead Archit Bhargava told that the company is “really trying to create the genre of real-world gaming,” reports the Independent.
“There could be a board game you could make in the real world where people are capturing loc

Scientists at Disney have found a way to use a single camera to accurately capture facial expressions that would reduce effort required from actors and artists in animated movies and computer games.
By creating a model that takes the underlying facial anatomy and skin thickness into account, the single-camera method is able to capture facial expressions with the robustness of traditional multi-view methods.
The method has demonstrated the unprecedented ability for a single camera to capture extr

The average ransom demanded by hackers jumped to $679 — up from $294 — at the end of 2015, global cyber security leader Symantec said on Thursday.
With 31 per cent of global infections, the US continues to be the most affected country by ransomware and India, with 3 per cent infections, ranks ninth in the top 10 list between January 2015 and April 2016, the report noted.
Realising the potential for higher profits, cybercriminals are increasingly targeting the business space

Glassmaker Corning’s new Gorilla Glass 5 — the chemically strengthened super glass that several consumer electronics makers use in their devices — survives up to 80 per cent of the time when dropped from a height of 1.6 metres.
The new glass is formulated to improve drop performance from gadgets that are dropped on to rough surfaces from certain heights — specifically, waist height to shoulder height, The Verge reported.
The new glass is the successor to Corning Gorilla G

The owner of file-sharing website KAT was indicted in the United States on Wednesday for copyright infringement related to the distribution of more than $1 billion worth of movies, video games, music recordings and other content, U.S. justice officials said.
Artem Vaulin, 30, of Ukraine, was arrested in Poland and U.S. officials want him extradited to face charges that include conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and conspiracy to commit money laundering, according to attorneys f

The G D Goenka University (GDGU) has joined hands with Google to provide world-class Android Developer education to its students. 
 
The partnership, which is part of Google’s ambitious Android Skilling Programme in India, will help the University’s computer science students build apps and acquire skills needed to get entry-level jobs as Android developers. The course will also make the students eligible to appear in Google’s Associate Android Developer Certification