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Why would anyone want to resurrect a slow, resource-consuming code with proprietary code, and which also has numerous security issues? Adobe announced a few days ago that Adobe Flash would disappear in 2020, and the news was applauded worldwide. Even Adobe acknowledged in the press release that its modern alternatives, such as HTML 5, WebGL and WebAssembly, are safer and more efficient today. In the news of the farewell we recognized the merits of Adobe Flash, the programming library that universalized the animations, video and programs within the pages Adobe Flash marked an epoch: in 2005 it was installed on 98% of computers connected to the Internet. But in recent years it had become a drag. Slow, cornered by the security problems and with the handicap of being a commercial code that nobody but Adobe could modify (which made Apple refuse to use it in the iPhone and the iPad), Adobe Flash had stopped being used by the creators of websites. With the official announcement of his death in 2020 it seemed like it was the end of Adobe Flash. But now a group of developers have launched a request for Adobe to release the Adobe Flash code and become an open source standard. Why resuscitate slow software with security problems? These developers argue that there are millions of old webpages that use Flash and will not be converted to new formats. When Flash disappears they will stop working, being lost forever. Its idea is that Adobe will convert Flash into open source and so it will be possible to create an emulator or a Flash converter that allows those old webs to continue working. The problem is that if you release the Adobe Flash code it will also become an instruction manual for cybercriminals. They will use it to find out exactly where the holes in Adobe Flash are, and with this information they can perform attacks and infections on those millions of websites that will not update their code with Flash.

Last February Bloomberg reported that throughout this year would introduce a new Apple TV without excessive news but offering 4K and HDR, a sufficient addition for lovers of good movies and series. While the announcement of the new Apple TV was expected throughout the spring, even at this time we do not know if it will be a product that will be marketed throughout this year. Now from the forums of MacRumors appears information that seems to indicate that soon we will have the announcement of a new Apple TV with 4K and HDR. However, a British user of that page has shared a capture of his purchase receipt of the movie Passengers (2016) that comes accompanied by the 4K and HDR viewing label, but when it does not appear any of these options. Another user, but this time in the United States, has acquired the same film but only appearing HD viewing tag, and not 4K and HDR as its UK partner. This seems to indicate that Apple would be updating its different regional iTunes with these labels for an imminent exit of the new Apple TV. And it is a commercial movement that experts and users have been waiting a long time. However from Google Play is already allowed to buy content in 4K and with HDR in view of it is a very growing market. It is expected that the arrival of the 4K to iTunes and later output of the new Apple TV is only a matter of time.

Jules Parent, a 69-year-old man, appeared Friday at the lottery's offices to collect a check for $ 1,222,069 after winning the jackpot prize of $ 3.20. Loto-Quebec estimates that the odds of winning the bet are one in 23 million. The luckiest man in Canada won twice the jackpot of the lottery, the first time, he won 1 million in 2008 and now he repeats his fortunate story. There are lucky men in the world, and then there's Jules Parent. On Thursday he said that betting on the lottery is one of his favorite pastimes besides walking, hunting and fishing, and intends to continue playing. He also plans to build a new house. He said that "it will not be a castle, but it will be modern style".

According to a statement released on Sunday by the US Air Force, two B-1B bombers carried out the aforementioned flight on Saturday in direct response to the recent missile test and also the launch of the Hwansong-14 rocket on July 4 by Pyongyang. The bombers left the US air base of Guam and were accompanied during exercises by Japanese and South Korean fighter jets. General Terrence O'Shaughnessy, commander of the Pacific Air Force, said in the official message that "North Korea remains the most urgent threat to regional stability." O'Shaughnessy adds that the US Air Force "Is ready to respond with rapid force, lethal" and overwhelming to any provocation of North Korea. At the same time Pyongyang exposes that due to "provocations" of Seoul and Washington North Korea has had to carry out a series of nuclear and ballistic tests in the last years. Meanwhile, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida has informed the press that the joint aviation exercises of the US and Tokyo are related to the recent launching of a missile by North Korea. In the exercise, two Japanese F-2 fighter jets flew from the west of Kyushu Island to the airspace near the Korean peninsula within Japan's air defense zone. The US aircraft continued their flight, to which South Korean airplanes joined.

The Japanese company Epson Corporation modernizes its line of devices of projectors Power Lite with the model 2045 having as main characteristic the visual capacity of 2,200 lumens to color and of white light, which facilitates the idea of being able to project visual materials in the home and power Have your home cinema Home Cinema, as it was called this innovation, within its functions is also distinguished by developing Full HD content and 3D formats responding to the demand of the contents at present, the images projected by the team can reach a dimension of more than 100 inches providing the opportunity for users to be able to live a cinematic experience from the comfort of their home. The 3LCD technology, original development of Epson, can give the user a visual sensation very similar to the real one, since it exalts colors three times brighter than the common projectors used in schools and offices, without attacking the visual health by its balance between light White and color, does not saturate the image and gives more natural tones thus making the most eye-catching contents Apart from video players, the computer can directly play a television signal or adapt to video game consoles, it also fits to the connectivity with smartphones or tablets and has ports Hdmi, USB, PC, A / V, among others. The video projector is integrated with Epson Miracast-IntelWiDi technology to facilitate wireless connections, making the user experience easier. The Home Cinema 2045 is available through wholesalersCT International, CVA, Daisytek, DC Wholesaler, Exel, Loma Group, Ingram, Intcomex, PCH, SASA, TechData and Tonivisa.

There are many more large and potentially dangerous kites that approach Earth through space than scientists had thought, a new study suggests. The research was led by James Bauer, a professor at the University of Maryland, And has been published in The Astronomical Journal. Bauer analyzed data compiled by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft. "Comets travel much faster than asteroids. Some of them are very large, "explains study co-author Amy Mainzer of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. According to her, investigations of this type will help to define what kind of danger can comets present in the long term. The stars of this type are divided into two groups: those of long period and those of the Jupiter family. Comets of the first category are believed to arise in the distant Oort Cloud, a sphere of icy bodies lying at a distance of 300,000 million kilometers from the Sun. These comets would have been plucked towards the Sun by gravitational interactions with others Inhabitants of Oort Cloud millions of years ago. However, the comets of the Jupiter family are very different. They are relatively close to the Sun, completing a lap around the star in less than 20 years. They are so named because the powerful gravity of Jupiter has shaped their orbits. WISE data reveal an unexpected abundance of long period comets. For example, for eight months, three times as many of these objects as the scientists had predicted passed by the Sun. The study team also determined that long-period comets are up to twice as large as those of the Jupiter family.

Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov denounced Friday that the United States is using the sanctions policy to "intimidate the world" and warned that Moscow does not exclude any measures to "bring to the attention the unruly Russophobes who mark the Guideline on the Capitol ". "Russia will never bow to such maneuvers," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Said told the Russian press on the number of foreigners commenting yesterday's approval by the US Senate of a bill that tightens sanctions on Russia and cuts the president's ability to USA, Donald Trump, to lift them. He added that the bill is a "tool to intimidate the whole world with consequences in case of disobedience and not following the wake of foreign policy and Washington's political will." Riabkov stressed that the decision announced today by Moscow to reduce from September 1 to 455 people the diplomatic and technical staff of the US embassy and consulates in Russia restores the balance of representations of both countries. "What has been done (for Moscow) is a response to the illegal actions of the United States and, above all, a response to the anti-Russian bacchanal in the US Congress," he said. Riabkov made it clear that if the United States again tries to pressure Russia, it will "follow response measures, both identical and asymmetric." "We do not rule out any kind of measures, so to speak, to bring the Russophobes who set the pattern on the Capitol to a close," he added, adding that the instruments available to Moscow are not limited to US diplomatic representations in Russia.

For all those who want to learn programming, a Rasperry Pi or Arduino can be perfect options. If you already master several programming languages and want to try new things, too. In these two mini PCs you have plenty of options to program actions and features, although so far only in physical form. Thanks to Microsoft Azure, the platform for developers, you can emulate a Raspberry Pi and simulate actions virtually. It's totally free if you have Azure account and it has a tremendously intuitive interface. There are more and more users who choose to buy a Raspberry Pi, and there are many tricks to take advantage of this computer the size of a card. If you are a programmer, more so, although most people use them as a multimedia center for the home. In the Microsoft Azure emulator you can enter code to cause several reactions in the virtual computer. It is divided into three parts: one for the code, another for executing it, deleting it or expanding it and another for graphing the result. Both Raspberry Pi and Arduino can be added peripherals as LED lights or various adapters, increasing their performance. They can practically be used for anything if you have the sufficient contents for it, although at the risk of ending up destroying them in the attempt. For that is the emulator, so you can safely practice what you want to do with your board. Forget about failing USB or HDMI connections trying new things, but if you go to the simple, you'll be looking for a Linux distribution to install on your computer.

Sure you have not noticed, but Google has eliminated one of the most important functions of your browser. At least it was imperative when it was launched in 2010 and was called to be the "fundamental change in search". But it has changed so much the way in which we make searches in the navigator that its existence has stopped making sense. So much so that Google has made the decision to remove Google Instant Search, or what is the same, instant searches. Google Instant Search was a feature that showed real-time search results as we were typing the search terms without pressing the Enter key, saving time, especially for users less familiar with this tool. It was one of the most important ones that were implemented during the time that Marissa Mayer was in charge of the company occupying the position of vice-president of products of search of Google. His arrival greatly accelerated the relationship between text and search results, we will not detract from it. However, 7 years later, the way we do Google searches is different, so Google Instant Search no longer makes sense. Today, mobile searches in Google's browser outperform those we make from the desktop browser, a trend that is expected to continue in the coming years. At the time this function was given an opportunity in smartphones, since it would save us about 3.500 million seconds a day. But Google Instant Search has not finished working on mobile phones, so the company has made the decision to end its existence, and focus on a single version of the searches for mobile platforms and desktop along with the bet of the reproduction Automatic search in videos. "We launched Google Instant in 2010 with the aim of providing users with information as soon as possible." Since then, many of our searches have been made on mobile phones, with different entries but with interaction and screen restrictions. We have decided to remove Google Instant, so we can focus on how we search faster and more seamlessly across all devices, "a company spokesperson told Search Engine Land. From now on, as we write the terms in the search bar we will only see search suggestions, from which we can click on them to see the results. If you have not noticed the removal of Google Instant Search is because the searches are done by pressing the Enter key or the Search button. Still, we asked for a minute of silence for Google Instant Search.

Local media reports that up to now some 12,000 people have already been evacuated. The flames have devoured more than 7,000 hectares. At least 800 firefighters and 210 patrols have been flown to the scene to face the fire. A dangerous fire in the province of Var, in the south of France, put the country on the highest alert for the "exceptional risk of forest fires". Some 12,000 people have already been evacuated in southeastern France. The flames have devoured more than 7,000 hectares and put on a state of maximum alert to the authorities, criticized by the lack of means available to fight against the burning fire. The largest of the fires currently affects the municipality of Bormes-les-Mimosas, in the southern department of Var. A fire that has already burned about 1,300 hectares and has forced to evacuate more than 10,000 people, among them 3,000 campers. Authorities in the area have banned access to nine national parks by winds that could reach 90 km / h, which could fuel the blaze. "The danger level of forest fires is very high in two of the six climatic zones," local authorities said. At least 800 firefighters and 210 patrols have been flown to the scene to face the fire. According to the latest situation report offered by the prefecture of Var at 17:45 local time, along with the Bormes-les-Mimosas - which is still out of control - there are two other large fires in La Croix Valmer, where the flames have reappeared And have burned about 500 hectares, while in Artigues, since Monday have burned 1,700 hectares of low mountain. "No measures have been taken," regional president Provence Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Renaud Muselier, of the conservative party, the Republicans, told local media. France has had to ask for help from other European countries to reinforce its air fleet with two Canadair aircraft, prompting Interior Minister Gerard Collomb to announce that next year six of these aircraft will be bought. Prime Minister Édouard Philippe is expected to travel to Bormes-les-Mimosas tonight, where he will make a reconnaissance flight on the burned surface and will later meet with both the extinction and rescue teams and people who have had to be Relocated after their evacuation.

Alphabet has announced that the new model of Google Glass is now available. The revamped version is now called Glass Enterprise Edition and, as its name implies, it is a model especially aimed at companies rather than the end consumer. In mid-2012, the Mountain View company introduced Google Glass, and from that moment on everyone started talking about them. They ran rivers of ink explaining their possible uses or the privacy problems they could cause, some clones were born and we all imagined what the world would be like when the use of smart glasses spread in the streets. However, although they were expected to hit the market in 2015, they never made it to the prototype stage: in 2014 some units were sold at a price of $ 1,500 in the United States, until finally Google shelved the project in early 2015. At the end of 2015 it was rumored that Project Aura, the division of the company dedicated to the augmented reality glasses project, was working on numerous iterations, one of them a version specially conceived for business. A year later, in August 2016, a new patent appeared to show smart glasses redesigned and optimized by various improvements. But then we have not heard anything more from them ... Until today. Currently, Glass Enterprise relies on the team responsible for Nest devices, and it seems companies such as Boeing have been testing them for months. The new glasses have undergone some changes and improvements, among them a more functional functional design that allows to bend the pins as in the normal glasses or the glass prism where the image that the larger user sees is projected. The hardware has been upgraded and now equip an Intel Atom processor accompanied by 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal storage. The display has a resolution of 720p and the battery capacity is 780 mAh. Therefore, the new model can boast of offering greater power as well as greater autonomy. The Spanish company Streye is one of two European companies with distribution license. The price of the Google Glass Enterprise is 1,550 euros and can be purchased on the official website of the distributor.

Argentine Foreign Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Raimondi announced at a press conference held at the Mercosur semi-annual summit in Mendoza on the next communiqué that the Mercosur (Common Market of the South) Foreign Ministers will hold this Friday On the current situation in Venezuela, after addressing the issue of the "social, political and humanitarian crisis" in the country. This pronouncement would be issued by the southern member countries of the organization, as are Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. In addition, the Argentine deputy foreign minister added that they could take future sanctions on Venezuela, which are established in the Protocol of Ushuaia, created by Mercosur in 1998, which states that "in case of a breakdown of the democratic order," member countries "will promote The relevant consultations with each other and with the affected state ". Among the main points, he said that in the Mercosur presidential event, "acts of violence will be condemned, resorting to the restoration of democratic institutions, respect for civil and political liberties and human rights." In that statement, the chancellors will call on President Nicolás Maduro to cancel the call for elections to the National Constituent Assembly, which will be held on July 30 of this year. Raimondi clarified that the application of the Protocol of Ushuaia would not be properly sanctions. "What is involved here is to implement measures that tend to return to the path of respect for democratic order. Any measure taken should not affect the Venezuelan po[CENSORED]tion, "he said. According to the protocol, these measures "will range from the suspension of the right to participate in the different bodies of the respective integration processes, to the suspension of rights and obligations arising from those processes." Venezuela was suspended from the coalition of South American countries in December 2016, for failure to comply with the deadlines set in the protocol of full adhesion to the bloc for incorporation of the rules of the union to Venezuelan laws. The Argentine deputy foreign minister explained that Mercosur is "considering now is the possibility of applying more measures in the political for this reason that we interpret that there is a rupture of the institutional order." However, he clarified that these sanctions will not be applied in the commercial field, since it does not consider the extreme expulsion of the South American block, but to a suspension for political reasons. "You will tell me that Venezuela is already suspended for a legal reason. Does not matter. It is a political issue in this case and it is very relevant in our opinion that a regional entity can reach a consensus and pronounce as a group on this situation, "he concluded.

Google has announced the arrival of its new free antivirus for Android Google Play Protect. This is a new security system integrated in Android smartphones and whose main function will be to verify possible malicious apps. In this way, Google Play Protect will deal with possible malicious apps that may adversely affect our terminal. Not only that. This new service will also be responsible for checking the security of the web pages we access, recovering our stolen mobile phone, blocking it and deleting all our data from it, as announced during the last Google I / O 2017. Some Android users are already enjoying this new Google Play Protect service since early this week, and it is expected that over the coming days will reach the rest of smartphones that have this operating system installed. This new security system for Android promises to offer us peace of mind at our fingertips and be a less concern for more than one billion users. Google Play Protect works continuously to protect the security of our mobile terminal, the data we have stored in it and the applications downloaded and that we want to install avoiding malware attacks. This new Google antivirus is responsible for analyzing our device throughout the day to provide the latest security features. This covers both the applications we have already installed on our mobile phone and those that we want to download from the official store. Overall, Google Play Protect scans 50 billion apps daily. From Android, they claim that all their apps pass rigorous security tests before appearing on the Google Play Store, with developers being subjected to a thorough review and, if policies are violated, being suspended. They want to prevent them from becoming infected and infecting millions of mobiles. Another feature of Google Play Protect is called "Find my device." It allows us to locate our phone in case of loss or theft. To find it, it will be necessary to log in to our Google account, from where we can block the terminal remotely and a message appears on the screen with specific instructions on how you can contact us the person who finds it ... and have Intention to return it. In case it does not appear, with Google Play Protect you can erase all your data from your mobile phone, and thus not worry about the fraudulent use that can do with this information. Also this new security system offers a Safe Navigation protection of Chrome, which allows us to navigate with total confidence by any web page. If you try to access an unsafe website, we will receive a warning before continuing. But how do I know if the security of my device is up to date? To check the latest update of our Android mobile, we have to follow these steps: 1. Access Settings. 2. At the bottom select Phone Information or Tablet Information. Next we go to Android Security Patch Level. 3. The date that appears tells us when the last security update of our Android terminal was published.

Since Atari revealed that it was working on a new product called Ataribox, all eyes were on the possible return of the mythical Atari 2600. As it was thought, Atari has decided to jump into the retro car that now companies like Nintendo - with its new SNES Classic Mini- are pulling harder than ever, and to clear some unknowns the American company has just shown the first images of its new console. On the one hand, with these images Atari has confirmed that he is working on a new retro console, something that until now was not entirely clear from the moment the company simply said that it was preparing the launch of a mysterious product called Ataribox . But in addition to this confirmation, the images also reveal the design that will have this new console, leaving to light a very finished of the decade of the seventies. A wooden front, accompanied by the front of a black plastic housing, will be the hallmarks of the new Atari console. Although Atari still has not wanted to advance the definitive details of the features of the Ataribox console, in an email sent by surprise to all fans of the company has shown the first details 100 per cent officers of its next release. We can see that there will be two different finishes for the console: one with a wooden front (very in the line of the Atari 2600) and another with the black front in glass, both with a black plastic body. It seems that there will also be different colors for the backlight of the Atari logo, which will be located on the front. And what's in the back? What we find behind is a huge range of physical connectivity: in the images you can see four USB ports, a slot for microSD cards and an HDMI port, in addition to other connectivities among which at first sight we can assume that it will also include an output 3.5 mm minijack, an Ethernet port and some other connectivity yet to be confirmed. But beyond the images of the Ataribox, what most catches the attention in the email that have received the followers of Atari is the mention to the fact that this console will also have access to the latest contents of the company. "At the same time we will provide classic game content," says the e-mail in a reference to all the physical connectivity of the console, "we will also bring modern game content." Therefore, it does not appear that the console will necessarily be limited to the older Atari games.

Through a novel information portal, it seeks to educate about this disease and raise awareness of the importance of early diagnosis and timely treatment The Anticancer Society of Venezuela, launches its new website www.cancervenezuela.org, to make available to the community in general updated statistics of incidence and risk of cancer in the country, information on prevention, activities of its main prevention programs , Videos with recommendations of medical specialists, telephones and contact addresses of the organization. With this new tool, it seeks to use the digital resources and benefits offered by a space in the network, to present relevant scientific, educational and preventive content on cancer, reaching more people, not only in Venezuela but throughout the world. The portal is based on a virtual platform that has as main objectives to send prevention messages to promote a healthy lifestyle in the general public and to reduce the risk factors of this pathology, as well as to inform about the available studies to prevent the Main types of cancer in our country and promote diagnostic programs to increase the number of patients with the possibility of a cure on time. In this space, the public can access material of primordial interest in the oncology field such as: scientific articles, videos of the main congresses on the subject; With interviews to their lecturers regarding the cases and clinical advances presented, and publications of new scientific research around the world, with the presentation of oncological topics of interest by specialists. With the page, www.cancervenezuela.org, the Venezuelan Anticancer Society is established as a pioneering organization in raising awareness about the importance of education and prevention as well as the timely diagnosis of this disease in order to raise awareness To the Venezuelans and motivate them to be an active part of this battle for health.

The excessive use of force by security agents and police in the province of Buenos Aires ended with the lives of 110 people during 2016, the provincial Commission for Memory (CPM) reported on Wednesday. "Last year there were 110 deaths," said in his study this public human rights agency that operates independently of the provincial government. According to the investigation in 64 percent of the cases intervened the Buenos Aires Police, while the Federal Police was responsible for another 15 percent of the deaths, the local Police of 11 percent and the Metropolitan of the remaining 3 percent. The CPM indicated that in 61 percent of the cases, the agents involved were not on duty at the time of the deaths, although they did carry their regulatory weapon. "These were mainly situations in which individual members of the same agents were allegedly at risk," the Commission explained. Another interesting piece of information provided by the agency was that 70 percent of the victims were under 30 years of age, as was the case of a 14-year-old teenager who was killed last Sunday in the municipality of San Martin after receiving 14 shots. "Of the 53 cases in which it was possible to specify the age of those killed, 8 percent were under 16 and 11 percent were between 16 and 17," the report said. The CPM determined that the number of deaths due to police action responds "to a criminal policy based on the control and territorial saturation that assumes state violence as a natural response to the problem of crime." The Commission advised the State to incorporate specialized prosecutors to investigate cases of institutional violence, and to create judicial police and autonomy of defense. The CPM, was constituted from a resolution of the provincial Chamber of Deputies, also hopes to be recognized as a mechanism for monitoring and monitoring torture in the province of Buenos Aires.

France's chief of staff General Pierre de Villiers, in disagreement with the planned cuts in defense, resigned Wednesday, triggering a crisis in the presidency of Emmanuel Macron. "In the present circumstances, I consider that I am no longer in a position to ensure the permanence of the army model in which I believe to guarantee the protection of France and the French, today and tomorrow and support the ambitions of our country," wrote the general of Villiers in a statement sent to AFP. "Therefore, I assumed my responsibility by presenting, this day, my resignation to the President of the Republic, who accepted it," he added in the note. The possible resignation of France's chief of staff, General Pierre de Villiers, had been stirring military circles for a few days after the 60-year-old five-star general had a crush on the young centrist 39 years. The source of the conflict is a leaked statement from the general who last week complained to deputies of the National Assembly's Defense Committee in harsh terms of Macron's cut of 850 million euros in the army's budget for 2017, Estimating that "it is not sustainable". Having called on General de Villiers on 14 July before military leaders reminding him that he is the "boss", the French president reproached him, without naming him, for having publicly exposed this controversy in an "unworthy" way. "If anything opposes the army chief of staff and the president, he is changed to the army chief of staff," Macron said in an interview published Sunday in the Journal du Dimanche. The government plans to cut 850 million euros in military spending this year in a general context of budget cuts for 2017. This cut is part of a projected decline of 4.5 billion euros in state spending in 2017 to meet its commitment to Brussels to limit France's deficit to 3% of GDP.