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Theory and suspicion keeps on developing among fans over the world with respect to who should get onto the plane to Russia.  Like clockwork, the World Cup goes along and sprinkles happiness, exhibition and show all over the globe in the midst of the fight for the Jules Rimet Trophy.  With the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia practically around the bend, the 32 contending teamshave to name their last 23-man squads by June 4. See every one of the squads here as they are named and trimmed down. Regardless of whether it be the sweet stable of Pavarotti from Italia 90', the grainy and contorted pictures of the immense Brazilian side of 1970, or Diana Ross in the opening function for the 1994 World Cup in the U.S., the declaration of the official World Cup squads speaks to the principal energizing snapshot of an up and coming World Cup.  Going back to a 17-year-old Pele's consideration in 1958, to Theo Walcott's stun choice for England in 2016, squad declarations ar...

SOUNDCAM is a new camera that lets you take pictures of  sound . It’s the first handheld camera that brings sound imaging to a size and cost that’s more accessible than industrial solutions that cost upwards of $100,000. “The system is intuitive and as easy to use as a smartphone,” the company says. “What makes it so special is its high speed and accuracy.” The camera works by combining 64 separate microphones, a traditional optical camera, and an integrated data analysis system. Using data from the mics, the system figures out exactly where in the frame the sounds are originating from and then overlays the high-resolution results in real time on the live view from the optical camera. “Sound propagates as a wave at a certain speed, which means that sound needs a certain amount of time to propagate from a noise source to each microphone of the array,” the company writes. “Depending on each microphone’s position, the sound wave will need varying travel times. The algor...

Facebook must face a class action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology, a California judge has ruled. The lawsuit alleges that Facebook gathered biometric information without users' explicit consent. It involves the "tag suggestions" technology, which spots users' friends in uploaded photos; the lawsuit says this breaches Illinois state law. Facebook said the case had no merit and it would fight it vigorously. On Monday, US District Judge James Donato ruled to certify a class of Facebook users - a key legal hurdle for a class action suit. The class of people in question is Facebook users "in Illinois for whom Facebook created and stored a face template after June 7, 2011", according to the court order. In a successful class action suit, any person in that group could be entitled to compensation. In his order, Judge Donato wrote: "Facebook seems to believe... statutory damages could amount to billions of dollars." ...

If you’re an Android TV user, you have to ask yourself one question: how much time do you really spend on the home screen? The odds are you launch the same app every time to turn it on, and now there’s a new app that lets you do that automatically. For the sake of simplicity, let’s say you only watch Netflix on your Android TV. The last thing you want is a step between a binge session of Orange is the New Black, so there’s really no good reason to go to the home screen. Instead, why not just fire up Netflix as soon as your turn on the Android TV? To do this, we’re going to use an app called Launch on Boot. Basically, this tells Android TV to launch a specific app on both boot and wake up (if you choose—if can do just one or the other). It’s very simple, very intuitive, and it just works. So, if you haven’t already, go ahead and download it onto your Android TV. As soon as you boot the app, a short tutorial will appear. Feel free to read through it, or just hit the back button...

With Microsoft’s new Fluent Design, announced alongside the Fall Creators Update, Windows 10 is gaining more and more transparency—or, technically, translucency. If you don’t like this effect, you can flip a switch to disable transparency in all parts of Windows 10, from the taskbar and Start menu to apps like Calculator and People. To find this option, open the Settings app from your Start menu. Click or tap the “Personalization” icon in the Settings window. Select “Colors” at the left side of the Settings window and scroll down to the More options section. Set the “Transparency effects” slider to “Off”. At the moment, this option is all or nothing. There’s just a single switch that controls all the transparency effects across the entire operating system. If you want the transparency effect in the Start menu and taskbar, you’ll have to allow it in apps. Microsoft may or may not allow more fine-grained control in the future. Source:  howtogeek

We have shown you a lot of tips and tricks over the years that involve modifying Local Group Policy. If you would ever like to see all the Group Policy settings in effect on your PC, here’s how to do it. In the Windows world, Group Policy provides a way for network administrators to assign specific settings to groups of users or computers. Those settings then get applied whenever a user in the group logs in to a networked PC or whenever a PC in the group is started. Local Group Policy is a slightly more limited version that applies settings only to a local computer or users—or even a group of local users. We’ve featured a number of tricks here in the past that use Local Group Policy to change settings that you can’t change anywhere else—except by editing the Windows Registry. If you’re in the habit of changing Local Group Policy settings, you might find it useful to see all the changes you’ve made in one place, rather than digging through the Local Group Policy Editor. View App...

Wi-Fi is obviously more convenient than wired Ethernet cables, but Ethernet still offers significant advantages. Join us as we take a look at the pros and cons of wired and wireless connections. You probably won’t be connecting an Ethernet cable to your smartphone any time soon. But it’s usually worth running Ethernet cables to the devices that matter, if you can—gaming and media PCs (or consoles), backup devices, and set-top boxes being just a few examples. To help you make the decision, we’re going to take a look at the three main advantages of using Ethernet over Wi-Fi—faster speeds, lower latency, and reliable connections. How Much Faster Is Ethernet? Ethernet is just plain faster than Wi-Fi—there’s no getting around that fact. But the real-world differences are smaller than you might think. Wi-Fi has gotten significantly faster over the last few years, thanks to new standards like 802.11ac and 802.11n, which offer maximum speeds of 866.7 Mb/s and 150 Mb/s, respectively. ...