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Kaspersky Lab, a company based in Moscow, is best known for its antivirus products. In recent years it has been having to fight assertions that the company has links to Russian intelligence agencies. Kaspersky has denied the claims many times but the U.S. government maintains that its software might actually help the Russian’s spying operations. In a bid to earn trust amid all this, Kaspersky has announced that it’s moving some of its core infrastructure out of Russia.

Despite its repeated assurances that it doesn’t have links to Russia’s intelligence agencies, the U.S. government has already banned the company’s products from being used on its networks. Kaspersky has even offered to show its code to independent experts to dispel the notion that it aids Russian spying but to no avail.

Kaspersky has now announced that it’s moving some of its core infrastructure processes to Zurich, Switzerland. The company adds that it will have a Switzerland-based third party that’s capable of conducting technical software reviews independently supervise the entire move.

Kaspersky will also be relocating its software build conveyer to Zurich which is the set of programming tools it uses to assemble ready to use software out of source code. Its products and antivirus databases will start to be assembled and signed with a digital signature in Switzerland before the end of this year.

The company will have an established data center in Zurich by the end of next year and this facility will then be used to store and process all information for users in North America, Europe, Australia, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea. More countries will follow later.

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Kids and teens can often have a pretty rough time on social media networks as issues such as bullying are still prevalent. Countless studies have also shown that unchecked exposure to social media at an early age can even deepen young users’ feelings of inferiority. Facebook wants to be a part of the solution which is why it has now launched a new Youth Portal to provide tips to teens.

Youth Portal has been described by Facebook as a central place for teens through which they can get information on how to get the most out of Pages, Groups, Profile, and Events. They will also get tips on how to stay safe on Facebook and details on the type of data Facebook collects and what it does with it.

They can also access first person accounts from teens across the globe and learn how other people their age are using the technology in new and creative ways. The Youth Portal will provide tips on reporting content, security, and deciding who can see the content they share as well.

Last but not the least, they can even look to the portal for advice on what to do if they feel like they need a break from social media and general guidelines on how to make the most of their time on the internet.

Facebook’s Youth Portal is live now and available in 60 languages at facebook.com/safety/youth.

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If you’ve ever been hiking or skiing, gone to a music festival or state fair, you know how easy it is to lose track of your friends, and the usually ridiculous exchange of “I’m by the big thing”-type messages. Lynq is a gadget that fixes this problem with an ultra-simple premise: it simply tells you how far and in what direction your friends are, no data connection required.

Apart from a couple extra little features, that’s really all it does, and I love it. I got a chance to play with a prototype at CES and it worked like a charm.

The peanut-shaped devices use a combination of GPS and kinetic positioning to tell where you are and where any linked Lynqs are, and on the screen all you see is: Ben, 240 feet that way.

Or Ellie.

No pins on a map, no coordinates, no turn-by-turn directions. Just a vector accurate to within a couple feet that works anywhere outdoors. The little blob that points in their direction moves around as quick as a compass, and gets smaller as they get farther away, broadening out to a full circle as you get within a few feet.

Up to 12 can pair up, and they should work up to 3 miles from each other (more under some circumstances). The single button switches between people you’re tracking and activates the device’s few features. You can create a “home” location that linked devices can point towards, and also set a safe zone (a radius from your device) that warns you if the other one leaves it. And you can send basic preset messages like “meet up” or “help.”

It’s great for outdoors activities with friends, but think about how helpful it could be for tracking kids or pets, for rescue workers, for making sure dementia sufferers don’t wander too far.

The military seems to have liked it as well; U.S. Pacific Command did some testing with the Thai Ministry of Defence and found that it helped soldiers find each other much faster while radio silent, and also helped them get into formation for a search mission quicker. All the officers involved were impressed.

Having played with one for half an hour or so, I can say with confidence that it’s a dandy little device, super intuitive to operate, and was totally accurate and responsive. It’s clear the team put a lot of effort into making it simple but effective — there’s been a lot of work behind the scenes.

Since the devices send their GPS coordinates directly to each other, the team created a special compression algorithm just for that data — because if you want fine GPS, that’s actually quite a few digits that need to be sent along. But after compression it’s just a couple bytes, making it possible to send it more frequently and reliably than if you’d just blasted out the original data.

The display turns off automatically when you let it go to hang by its little clip, saving battery, but it’s always receiving the data, so there’s no lag when you flip it up — the screen comes on and boom, there’s Betty, 450 feet thataway.

The only real issue I had is that the single-button interface, while great for normal usage, is pretty annoying for stuff like entering names and navigating menus. I understand why they kept it simple, and usually it won’t be a problem, but there you go.

Lynq is doing a pre-order campaign on Indiegogo, which I tend to avoid, but I can tell you for sure that this is a real, working thing that anyone who spends much time with friends outdoors will find extremely useful. They’re selling for $154 per pair, which is pretty reasonable, and since that price will probably jump significantly later, I’d say go for it now.

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