If you think that good code is a plain, expressionless and elegant string of characters that is, at its best, utterly anonymous, think again. New research suggests that programmers have ways of writing code, which can be used as a digital fingerprints.
Let’s say your friend helps you buy a movie ticket for a show you guys are about to watch. They then send you a copy of the receipt/ticket via email and here you have some options. You can either choose to pay them back for the ticket when you see them, you could do a bank transfer via your bank’s website or an app, but if you’re a Gmail user, you could just send them money via Gmail itself.
This is a feature that has been in the US for quite a while now, but the good news for our readers in the UK is that it looks like the feature will be finally making its way to your fair shores. The feature is pretty simple and straightforward to use. At the end of an email, you will see the “£” symbol. From there users will be able to select the source of their funds, type in their amount, and hit send.
Assuming there is nothing wrong with the source of your funds, the money should have successfully transferred to the other person. If you’re the person receiving the money, Google will give you a couple of options. You can choose to either keep the money in your Google Wallet account for use later, or you can choose to have it transferred to your bank right away.
The feature is live for users at the moment, although Google states that it will be rolled out over the coming weeks, so there is a chance that your Gmail account might not have received it yet, but fret not as it should be arriving soon. In the meantime you can check out how the feature works in the video above.
Send Money In Gmail Feature Now Available To UK Residents , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
As some of you might have heard, Sony has decided to put an end to their Music Unlimited service, instead choosing to partner with Spotify in a launch of a new service called PlayStation Music. The new service has yet to launch but it will be available on Sony’s PlayStation consoles as well as Xperia smartphones and tablets.
Now it looks like Sony will be doing the same to their Video Unlimited service, although in this case Sony will not be shutting the service down, but will instead be rebranding it. Much like how Sony now has PlayStation Music, they will also have PlayStation Video which is basically the rebranded version of Video Unlimited.
For now it looks like apart from the rebranding, nothing about the service is expected to change, but we’ll be keeping our eyes peeled for any changes that might occur in the future. The rebranding will also put the service in the same brand as Sony’s other services, such as the PlayStation Store, PlayStation Now, and the PlayStation Plus.
Sony expects the new branding to begin February where it will be applied to the 11 countries where it is currently offered in, so when next month rolls around and you can’t find Video Unlimited, fret not because it will now be known as PlayStation Video.
Video Unlimited To Be Rebranded As PlayStation Video , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Gamers who love the hack and slash RPG genre of Diablo have most probably heard of the Torchlight franchise which basically offers a similar playstyle albeit in a different setting and universe (obviously). It has been several years since Torchlight 2 was released, but its availability for Mac has yet to come.
In fact last we heard, it was in 2012 where its developers Runic Games promised that the Mac version was only a few months away. Now we’re in 2015 but where is the Mac version? Well gamers will be pleased to finally learn that the Mac version of Torchlight 2 is ready for release. Its developers have announced via YouTube that it will be released come 2nd of February.
If you haven’t already given up on the Mac version, you will be able to get your hands on it next Monday. Runic did state in the past that they ran into some unexpected complexities, although it is safe to say that nobody had anticipated it would take over two years for them to sort it out, but we suppose better late than never, right?
Back then the developers had this to say, “The official word as of right now is that we encountered unexpected complexities in porting Torchlight 2 to the Mac, simultaneous with our scramble to ramp up on our next project and get it moving forward. The Mac platform still poses some challenges for us as a company (as anyone who waited for the Mac port of Torchlight 1 can attest).”
Torchlight 2 To Finally Make Its Way Onto The Mac Next Week , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
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Elon Musk has shared his concerns about artificial intelligence, both publicly and privately, and none of them paint a rosy picture for the future of such technology. Musk has gone so far as to compare efforts with artificial intelligence to “summoning the demon”, and he’s not the only one who is worried about it. Bill Gates took to Reddit today … Continue reading
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Potential 2016 candidates are already jockeying for position, but what matters most might not be positions or policies — it’s the money.
As Jon Stewart pointed out on “The Daily Show” Wednesday night, the billionaire Koch brothers plan to spend $889 million on the 2016 elections.
“Now, you may think to yourself, that’s fucked up because aren’t those guys going to want something in exchange for spending the gross national product of many countries on one election cycle?” Stewart said. “And is the thing that they want control over the levers of our democracy, or would they settle for handjobs?”
But with nearly a billion dollars being put into the effort, why even have a candidate at all? Stewart suggested that maybe the money can run.
“Give it up for the next president of the United States: Johnny Actual Cash,” Stewart said.
Check it out in the clip above.
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