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Mozilla faces blueback after sleeping Mr robot plugin into Firefox

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Yesterday, Firefox users noticed a strange new plug-in popping up in their browsers. A new plug-in called Looking Glass found its way into each instance of the new Firefox Quantum browser. It was disabled by default, but users were still alarmed to see a plugin they hadn’t installed. When they checked to see what Looking Glass did, they found a vague and ominous description — “MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS” — which did little to quiet suspicions. “I did not remember installing this add-on, [and] I would not knowingly install it,” one user wrote in the support forum. “Any explanations welcome because I can't find any reference online.” As it turned out, Looking Glass was part of  Mr. Robot ’s long-running alternative reality game, a trail of clues left by writers for fans to discover. According to Mozilla’s documentation, the plug-in was designed as a “shared experience to further your immersion into the  Mr Robot  univers...
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Bill Gates tells me how he hacked his school's computer to meet girls

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B ill Gates needs no introduction whatsoever. After all, he co-found Microsoft and is currently the richest person in the world. In 2000, he also launched the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that has donated more than $34 billion to the projects aimed at social welfare.  Gates used his first computer at a private school in Seattle. There, he wrote his first computer program aged just 13. It was the same Lakeside School where Gates met Paul Allen and became friends over a shared love of computers. Apart from being enthusiastic about computers, they used to hack into computers from time to time. You must have heard the famous story that tells how Gates hacked into his school computer to meet girls. In a recent interview with BBC, Bill Gates sheds more light over this story and tells how he enrolled himself into the classes where he was the only boy. He and fellow Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen hacked and make changes into school’s scheduling software to up Gates’ ch...
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Facebook to roll out click to WhatsApp Messenger button

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It seems that Facebook is bringing a new ad unit that will let businesses connect with over one billion WhatsApp users. According to Techcrunch, Facebook has launched a new click-to-WhatsApp messaging button for pushing out ads from the biggest social media platform to WhatsApp so that people can call or message via Whatsapp with the click of a button. The report suggests that this new feature is quite similar to the click-to-Messenger ads that was previously rolled out by Facebook. However, apart from advertisers, it is not clear that whether Facebook plans to add Click-to-Whatsapp service to regular consumers. According to the same report, over a million Facebook pages already had included WhatsApp numbers in their posts and that many businesses are relying on both the social media platforms more informally to connect with customers directly. "Many people already use WhatsApp to communicate with small businesses. It's a fast, convenient way to stay in touch,"...
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