Facebook is known for its in-house hacks. The healthy hacking culture of Facebook has produced ideas such as like button, tagging, rainbow over the profile picture, Facebook Messanger etc. Here are the 7 most famous in-house hacks of Facebook in 2015. React+Oculus: Real-time coding for virtual reality This is one of the most interesting hacks, it enables a developer to code in real time while wearing the Oculus headset. React+Oculus was developed by two Facebook engineers during an infrastructure hackathon. According to the product manager Chris Marra, the [.....]
We might have started dreaming of turning Mars into a living habitat just like it was done in Martian movie and the same dream NASA is harbouring for years. But, we still do not know how we are going to survive the journey and how we are going to pitch the first peg of our tent. The space vehicle which drives the astronauts into space is not larger than a pickup truck and it takes at least six months to reach the Mars. Also, astronauts should need their own [.....]
As reported by Adrian Ludwig, Android’s lead security engineer, Google has taken the recent Linux zero-day issue seriously. However, according to Perception Point, the company which reported the problem, this current vulnerability has an effect over around 66 percent of all the Android devices including phones and tablets. Though the Perception point was aware of the problem, it was not reported to the Google by them. But according to Google, fortunately, because of the upstream work of the Linux team, Google was ready with a patch. Ludwig writes: “We [.....]
Faceook has surpassed the oil company Exxon Mobil to become the fourth most valuable company in the world by market capitalization. According to recent market trends, there are two reasons which have been attributed to this rise: Surge in the market value of the world’s largest social networking company due to increasing income as more and more Facebook users are joining this social networking site and, Declining in the market price of the oil and layoffs in the oil giant Exxon The four tech giants which top the list [.....]
