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- The Pixel Slate Is A High-End Hybrid Of A Tablet And A Chromebook
- This is what We Know About The President Of Interpol's Mysterious Disappearance
- Facebook Will Set Up An Election Task Force In India Ahead Of Major Elections
| The Pixel Slate Is A High-End Hybrid Of A Tablet And A Chromebook Posted: 09 Oct 2018 09:32 AM PDT  The Chrome OS-controlled tablet has a unique finger impression sensor and Google Assistant implicit.Today, Google is presenting a tablet called Pixel Slate that, with the guide of a console cover, transforms into a PC. Be that as it may, don't consider it a Pixelbook, the tablet-workstation mixture Google reported a year ago. The Pixel Slate, which begins at $599, is slimmer and feels less weighty than a year ago's Pixelbook. It's more tablet than workstation, while the Pixelbook, which will in any case be sold after the Pixel Slate ships, is more PC than tablet. The new Chrome OS-controlled gadget has a high goals 3000-by-2000 pixel, 12.3-inch show, and it has two USB-C charging ports that can likewise interface the Pixel Slate to a showcase. It's accessible in only one shading: midnight blue. Nicole Nguyen/BuzzFeed News The Pixel Slate console cover, an extra $199, naturally transforms the gadget into work area mode, with a full QWERTY "quiet" console (named so in light of the fact that it composes discreetly) with illuminated keys and trackpad. The console, which utilizes solid magnets to connect to the gadget, has limitless survey edge customizability. The tablet likewise works with a year ago's Pixelbook Pen ($99, sold independently) for the individuals who draw or would preferably scribble down notes than compose them. The entire unit — tablet and console included — weighs around two pounds. Nicole Nguyen/BuzzFeed News Like the new Pixel 3 telephone, the Pixel Slate includes a tight incorporation with Google's computerized reasoning abilities. Utilizing "alright Google," you can open an archive and start directing content with your voice. In any case, there are pleasant equipment contacts too, including a unique finger impression sensor installed in the power catch for quick sign in and a front camera with low light improvements for video conferencing. Google asserts its battery keeps going up to 12 hours. Quick charging implies that 15 minutes connected to will allow both of you long stretches of charge. The charger additionally works for Google Pixel telephones. Nicole Nguyen/BuzzFeed News The top of the line gadget, which is gone for in a hurry experts, is accessible in five distinct models, running from a lightweight $599 form with 32GB of capacity and 4GB of memory to a $1,599 variant with 256 GB of capacity, an i7 processor, and 16GB of RAM. On the lower end, the Pixel Slate costs about the equivalent as the Samsung Chromebook Pro and Plus declared in organization with Google a year ago, and on the higher end, about the equivalent as a year ago's Pixelbook. It's expected to be an "excellent" adaptation of a Chromebook, which essentially runs online Google applications (like Docs and Chrome). Individuals like Chromebooks in light of the fact that they're less expensive than Macs or Windows contributions, extending between $300-$500 on the low end. In case you're pondering whether a Chromebook is appropriate for you (it's not for everybody), read the primary area of this audit. Nicole Nguyen/BuzzFeed News Here are the valuing subtle elements: *$599 (4GB RAM, 32GB SSD, eighth Gen Intel® Celeron processor) *$699 (8GB RAM, 64GB SSD, eighth Gen Intel® Celeron processor) *$799 (8GB RAM, 64GB SSD, eighth Gen Intel® CoreTM m3 processor) *$999 (8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, eighth Gen Intel® CoreTM i5 processor) *$1599 (16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, eighth Gen Intel® CoreTM i7 processor)  |
| This is what We Know About The President Of Interpol's Mysterious Disappearance Posted: 09 Oct 2018 09:10 AM PDT You've probably heard of Interpol, the international police organization that brings together 192 countries to fight crime. Andrew Matthews / PA Wire/PA Images Well, on Sept. 25, Interpol's president, Meng Hongwei, went missing. At first, nobody knew what happened. Andrew Matthews / PA Wire/PA Images Interpol is based in Lyon, France, and Meng, who is Chinese, lives there with his family. His wife, Grace Meng, told police her husband was traveling in China when she abruptly stopped hearing from him. French police said Friday that they had opened an investigation. Interpol said Friday it was aware of the "alleged disappearance" of its top leader, but officials refused to comment further.
"This is a matter for the relevant authorities in both France and China," the Interpol statement said. Meng was elected Interpol president in 2016. Since he's also vice minister of public security in China, he has traveled frequently between there and France. Andrew Matthews / PA Wire/PA Images As president, Meng's role is largely ceremonial: He is responsible for keeping Interpol in line with the priorities of its member countries, while other people handle the day-to-day administration of the agency. His term expires in 2020. Then on Saturday, Interpol's secretary general, Jürgen Stock, said he'd asked authorities in China to explain what was going on. Laurent Cipriani / AP "Interpol has requested through official law enforcement channels clarification from China's authorities on the status of INTERPOL President Meng Hongwei," Stock said in a statement. "INTERPOL's General Secretariat looks forward to an official response from China's authorities to address concerns over the President's well-being." In recent years, China's President Xi Jinping has imprisoned a staggering number of Communist Party officials as part of what the government characterized as a crackdown on corruption. Some suspected Meng Hongwei may have been detained by the government as part of these efforts. Andy Wong / AP Xi has said he's dedicated to fighting corruption, and the crackdown continues to expand. According to the South China Morning Post, at one point, so many former Communist Party officials were imprisoned that the elite prison where they are housed in Beijing ran out of space. Critics have accused Xi of using the anti-corruption campaign to target his opponents and consolidate his own power. On Sunday, Grace Meng made an emotional plea to reporters for her husband's safe return and fair treatment from Chinese authorities. John Leicester / AP She asked that her face not be shown because she feared for her and her children's safety. "From now on, I have gone from sorrow and fear to the pursuit of truth, justice and responsibility toward history," she said, the Associated Press reported. "For the husband whom I deeply love, for my young children, for the people of my motherland, for all the wives and children, so that their husbands and fathers will no longer disappear." She told the AP she couldn't believe her husband had done anything wrong, saying that he had devoted his life to the rule of law in China. Grace Meng believes her husband was targeted for political reasons, and she thinks he's in danger because of the last message he sent her. John Leicester / AP Grace Meng told reporters that just after midnight on Sept. 26, Meng Hongwei sent her a text: "Wait for my call." Four minutes later, he sent a knife emoji. "I think he means he is in danger," she said. He never called, and she hasn't heard from him since. Now, the Community Party of China has said that Meng Hongwei is "suspected of breaking the law." CPC / Via fanfu.people.com.cn The announcement, posted to the party's website early Monday, offered no other details, other than to say Meng Hongwei was under investigation by the National Supervisory Commission, the party's anti-graft agency. Then Interpol announced it had received Meng's resignation as president. Valeriy Melnikov / Sputnik via AP Interpol offered no explanation, but in a statement, the organization said that Meng's resignation was immediate, and that a replacement would be elected at the organization's upcoming general assembly in November. "The INTERPOL General Secretariat, under the leadership of Secretary General Jürgen Stock, and its National Central Bureaus around the world remain focused on their mission: to help law enforcement officers across the world secure their borders, protect their citizens, prevent and investigate crime, and enhance global police cooperation," Interpol said. By buzzfeednews  |
| Facebook Will Set Up An Election Task Force In India Ahead Of Major Elections Posted: 09 Oct 2018 09:03 AM PDT  The US tech company has promised action after experts criticized it for not doing enough to prevent abuse on its platform in key growth markets.Facebook is reportedly setting up a task force to prevent bad actors from using its platform to influence major national elections in India in 2019. More than 240 million Indians use Facebook, making it one of the company's largest markets in the world. "The team will have security specialists and content specialists, among others, who will try to understand all the possible forms of election-related abuse in India," Richard Allan, Facebook's vice president of global policy solutions, told reporters at a convention organized by an Indian media house on Saturday, according to a report by the Indian newswire service IANS. Allan said that the task force will also work with India's political parties and will try to understand all the ways bad actors can manipulate the platform in India. Members of the task force will be based in India, but it is unclear at this point how many there will be. Facebook did not respond to BuzzFeed News' request for more details about the task force. ADVERTISEMENT "The challenge for the task force in India would be to distinguish between real political news and political propaganda," Allan said, and added that Facebook "wants to help countries around the world, including India, to conduct free and fair elections." Facebook will also let Indians look at who paid-for political ads on the platform, something it already lets users in the United States and Brazil do. The moves are significant. Experts have criticized US technology companies for not doing enough in India, which most count as a key growth market, ahead of its 2019 elections, which will determine whether the country's nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a polarizing figure, gets a second term in office or not. Earlier this year, Facebook partnered with Boom, an independent fact-checking organization in India, in a pilot project to fact-check English-language news stories ahead of key state elections. In a 3,300-word blog post published last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company was late in discovering that Russian actors had influenced the 2016 US elections through the social network, and said that Facebook would be hiring more than 10,000 people this year to "work on safety and security" of the platform to protect elections around the world. Facebook also has been blamed for not doing enough to prevent the spread of misinformation and rumors in India through WhatsApp, an instant messaging service it owns that is used by more than 200 million Indians. WhatsApp has been under intense scrutiny in India after angry mobs high on rumors that spread through the app killed at least 29 people in multiple lynching incidents across the country since May.  |
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