YouTube Go beta app

YouTube Go beta app hits the Play store in India

YouTube Go app is designed for users living in areas with poor Wi-Fi connectivity and data coverage.

Google has released the YouTube Go beta app in India. An early version of the app can be downloaded from the Play store. The app is designed to help users save videos to their mobile devices for offline viewing.

Perhaps the highlight of the app is that it allows users to download the video in low-quality mode for offline preview. The apps also displays mobile data that will be consumed while streaming and downloading the video and limits the video quality to 640p.

There are two options available “basic” and “standard”, and neither of which allow users to watch the video in “720p” and “1080p”. This means you have to settle for low video quality. However, you can always switch to the YouTube app.

One of the key features of the YouTube Go app is the data saving video sharing mode. Basically, you can send videos to other YouTube Go users near you over a local ad-hoc Wi-Fi hotspot that won’t consume either person’s data.

Google announced YouTube Go at an event in India last September. The app has been designed keeping the Indian users, given the inconsistent and poor connectivity in remote parts of the country. The app description says “a brand new app to download, enjoy and share videos…bind data udae!”

YouTube Go supports a number of  languages such as English, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Marathi, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, Malayalam and Indonesian.

credits:-http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/social/youtube-go-beta-app-hits-the-play-store-in-india/

The U.S. Postal Service Seeks Bitcoin Experts to Counter Darknet Markets

Feb 8, 2017

It appears the United States Postal Service is determined not to be the courier of choice for drug dealers any longer.

Judging by a recent job listing sent to the information security community, the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) — the law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) — wants to sniff out users of darknet markets that send their packages by mail. Applicants for the job, listed as “Investigative (Internet) Analyst”, are expected to know their way around bitcoin — the currency of choice on the darkweb — a as well as other tools typically used by darknets, like Tor.

Although the job listing doesn’t appear to be published online any more, according to Deep Dot Web the USPIS is specifically looking for applicants able to unmask pseudonymous users of dark net markets:

“Candidates shall be capable of performing a prioritized assessment of the data to identify the most critical and reliable data in order to identify bitcoins, locations, accounts, services, travels, email addresses, IP addresses and other pattern of life data in an effort to determine physical attribution of an Internet identity.”

Credits:-https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/us-postal-service-seeks-bitcoin-experts-counter-darknet-markets/