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Avast will acquire the rival AVG for $ 1.3 billion The giant of the security software Avast Software has acquired the company competitor AVG Technologies, paying $ 25 for each of the outstanding ordinary shares of AVG. The overall agreement is about 1.3 billion US dollars. Established in Czechoslovakia in the early 90s under the name of Grisoft, AVG has gradually grown to become one of the leading names in security for desktop and mobile systems, also offering related services such as AVG Cleaner for Android and Mac. The company's headquarters is He was later moved to Amsterdam, where he still resides. Even the Avast origins can be traced back to Czechoslovakia, as the company was founded in the city of Prague in 1988. He has since become one of the leading brands of the computer security industry, and today boasts according to the most recent report about a fifth the entire global antivirus market. Despite being mostly known in this environment, Avast has moved recently t...

Fifa 17 here is how they will change the free kicks Among the areas on which it focuses more with EA Sports Fifa 17 are free kicks, especially in terms of freedom with which the player can deal with them. This new chapter of football known series switches to Frostbite Engine, and the new trailer launches also encouraging signs in this respect, with a graphic that looks very detailed and precise. In FIFA 17 it can freely move the players around the ball. The run of the competitor may be calibrated. After the free, in addition, the camera of the abutment will remain behind the football player who has pulled, to allow to follow the trajectory of the ball. On corners and on free kicks from long range will see a pattern that will show the player where the ball will arrive. With set pieces such as those mentioned it will be possible to control any other player, move regardless of whether he received the passage, which will allow making the most varied patterns of attack when we or...

Facebook Messenger: secret conversations encryption and end-to-end inbound To date, the most effective technology to protect online conversations from prying eyes is the end-to-end encryption. The company Zuckerberg explains it this way: "It means that the messages are intended only for you and the other person and no one else, including us. In a secret conversation, You can also set a timer to control the time during which each message is displayed in the conversation. " Facebook's technology uses the Signal Protocol Open Whisper Systems, the same on which the cryptographic protection system used by WhatsApp, application - remember him - still belongs to Facebook. Unlike the approach used on WhatsApp, not all conversations made using your Facebook Messenger will be protected by encryption, end-to-end. Start a secret conversation with someone will optional, will be the user to set it as "secret." The reason is simple: unlike WhatsApp, which is use...

Google in recent days announced that it has entered an acquisition agreement with Moodstocks, a company that operates in image recognition. It is a French startup founded in 2009 and which introduced a recognition image solution in 2012 enabling the smartphone to recognize anything captured by the camera. Over the past two and a half years, a small group of researchers and engineers has used the techniques and the deep learning technologies to expand recognition algorithms of objects, providing licensed executable code and offering a software development kit OEMs interested in integrating the solution into their products. The Moodstocks API allow integrating a visual search functionality in applications, with the analysis of the images to find correspondences of color, shape or texture. The acquisition will be finalized in the coming weeks, but the economic value of the transaction is confidential information. The group of researchers and engineers Moodstocks will be integrate...