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Facebook to use your profile photos for new Facial Recognition Technology

Giant Social Networking website, Facebook has planned to use your Facebook profile photos for its facial recognition technology. Facebook will use its user’s profile pics to its facial recognition database to speed up the process of photo tagging. According to Facebook’s Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan “Our goal is to facilitate tagging so that people know when there are photos of them on our service,”.

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When running into EXC_BAD_ACCESS errors during iPhone development, enabling NSZombieEnabled can easily debug access error.

EXC_BAD_ACCESS error is a general error in your iOS application, but is hard to debug and find the route cause for this error in your application. The main reason of EXC_BAD_ACCESS error to happen is that – somewhere in your application code you are trying to send a message to an object that has already been released.

 

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HipHop Virtual Machine by Facebook to speed-up PHP

Most popular Social networking Site Facebook  has moved one step ahead at making the PHP programming language runs more quickly. Facebook has developed a PHP virtual machine, called HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) that can executes the PHP web programming language as much as 9 times as quickly as running PHP on large systems.

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Apple to begin USB adapter takeback program in India

Soon Apple is going to begin a Global USB adapter takeback program in India later this month under which it will offer original Apple USB adapter to its users at 50% discount.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Page Hacked by Bug researcher

In order to prove that the security flaw exist in Social media giant Facebook, a bug or security researcher , Khalil Shreateh proves his point and posted on Zuckerberg’s  Facebook wall about the bug. The Security flaw he reported was that Facebook  allow people to post on someone’s wall without being in their friends’ list !!

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