Shadab Khan Durrani

The FBI is working on a tattoo tracking system that has privacy groups up in arms

The FBI is working on a tattoo tracking system that has privacy groups up in arms

As per examination uncovered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the FBI has cooperated with government researchers to take a shot at an innovation framework intended to track tattoos.

In 2014, the Imaging wing of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) made the Tattoo Recognition Technology with assistance from the FBI. Among the gathering’s soonest assignments was the production of a database accumulating somewhere in the range of 15,000 tattoo pictures trying to create acknowledgment calculations.

The idea was created to track people in view of shared traits, as, as per the NIST, tattoos, “initiate interconnection to posses, ethnic sub group, pious or formal inmate, or civic ideology” alongside “contain[ing] consciousness ; tweet, which means and inspiration.”

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This is, to some degree, what has the EFF so worried, because of stresses over suggestions encompassing “free expression, religious flexibility, and the privilege to involve. ” The consortium other real concern encircle how the statistics was acquired. Among the primary rush of pictures as of now assemble, “innumerable, if not most” have been convene from detainees, as designated by the EFF.

The system’s extension is hoping to grow rapidly, with the NIST hopes to assemble the database of more than 100,000 images.

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How to activate ‘Add to cart’ buttons in WooCommerce archives/shop page?

Hello WordPress developers. This is one of the most common question I have come across the internet while developing an E-commerce website using one of the best plugin ‘WooCommerce – Excelling ecommerce’ by WooCommerce. Unfortunately WooCommerce haven’t provided any visible option to activate this handy feature to show ‘add to cart’ on homepage, shop page or archives whatever you want to call it. This is how it looks without ‘Add to cart’ buttons.

Without Add to cart buttons

 

And this is how it will look after adding ‘add to cart’ buttons. Looks cool ‘eh?

With add to cart buttons

 

Trust me its really easy to do, no rocket science involved. Many professional coders write their own snippets to add this function but guess what, WooCommerce themselves has added this feature but its hidden or not mentioned. Now you must be thinking where it is hidden? Let me show you where it is.

If you go into your WordPress dashboard and then to the Appearance > Editor and select your theme from the option ‘Select theme to edit:’, you have now all core files of your theme with so much code in it. Don’t worry you don’t really need to mess up with much of them but only a single file. If you are using WooCommerce plugin compatible theme then the plugin itself add functions automatically to your theme files to function properly. Like I’m using Divi theme from Elegant themes, its amazing.

1. Find ‘functions.php’ and click on it.

Functions.php

 

2. Press Ctrl + F (Command + F for Mac users) and find this piece of code.

remove_action( ‘woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item’, ‘woocommerce_template_loop_add_to_cart’, 10 );

remove_action

 

3. Simply delete ‘remove_action’ and replace it with ‘add_action’ or you can also just replace by copying the whole code given below.

add_action( ‘woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item’, ‘woocommerce_template_loop_add_to_cart’, 10 );

 

And it should look like this:

add_action

 

It should fix your problem. Happy WordPressing. 😉

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Yoast WordPress Plugin OnPage SEO configuration for Woocommerce

Have you ever worried about building ecommerce website on WordPress Woocommerce but you are not aware how to configure woocommerce site for OnPage SEO optimization. Unlike WordPress blogs, Woocommerce is but tricky to configure for onpage SEO, sometimes people end up doing wrong Yoast configuration and find their website nowhere or they index wrong page structure.

Install WordPress Yoast Plugin

Wordpress Yoast Plugin

Remember to keep it updated every time Yoast Updates their plugin.

 

Homepage SEO configuration

Woocommerce Home Page SEO Configuration

 

Activate XML sitemap and exclude irrelevant pages

 

Wordpress Yoast Plugin 3

You will probably have different boxes , all you need is to check those boxes you want index in Google search.

Noindex and Nofollow pages with duplicate content like TOS, Checkout and “Privacy Policy Pages” pages etc.

Woocommerce Nofollow and noindex

 

Add social profiles

Wordpress Yoast Plugin Add social profiles

Add Robots.txt file

Robots.txt file helps to search engine crawlers to figure out which page to crawl and index, some time search engine crawlers crawl and index the unnecessary pages like from wordpress plugin directory or wordpress code file. So in order to avoid this, use the following robots.txt file.

Woocommerce robots.txt file

User-agent:  *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-content/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /recommended/
Disallow: /comments/feed/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /index.php
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/

User-agent: NinjaBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/

User-agent: Adsbot-Google
Allow: /
 
 
User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
Allow: /

sitemap: http://replaceyourdomainhere.com/product-sitemap.xml
sitemap: http://replaceyourdomainhere.com/post-sitemap.xml

I hope that the next time you’re about to configure Yoast, you will find these tips helpful.

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What should you expect next after Samsung’s Glass and Mirror Displays?

Recently, Samsung announced the phenomenal Mirror and Glass displays. This made me wonder what’s next in the line. Throughout the history, many technologies have been showcased in Hollywood in the movies like Minority Report and Avengers. Some are screens with extraordinary features and others not even screens – they are something beyond screens.

What should you expect next after Samsung’s Glass and Mirror Displays?

After LCDs, LEDs, and 4Ks, Samsung has become the first to introduce the Mirror and Glass displays.

Glass Displays is – as the name suggests – a display on a transparent glass. You can see the display as well as the background of the screen through it.

Mirror display, on the other hand is a display on a mirror surface.

These OLED displays use reflective panels to project the reflections.

What should you expect next after Samsung’s Glass and Mirror Displays?

These additions will definitely revolutionize the way we perceive media, but how are the people going to welcome them that is still to be seen. These OLEDs are available for commercial use, and they aim to provide customers a more realistic presentation of the products. We can soon expect these kind of displays for Home use with more features.

But, what do we have coming our way? Future has even better to offer. In future we can expect a couple of display types.

Holographic displays Microsoft has also taken the world by storm by previewing the Hololens technology. This technology will make things appear real time holo-graphically. This means the wearer of the gadget will be able to see objects in his room, on his table, on the carpet, and he can even produce resizable screens wherever he desires to.

What should you expect next after Samsung’s Glass and Mirror Displays?

Although, the applications of Hololens are endless, still Microsoft seem to focus more on Modeling with their product.

Screen-less Displays Screen-less displays, like Hololens, will not require any screen or a physical surface to reflect the projections. However, screen-less displays will not require one to wear a gadget or glasses. The images will appear in the space – or should I say in the Air.

But one thing is for sure that we are going to enjoy unbelievable technology in the future. Many world changing companies are fighting technology wars, but no matter who loses, we win.

What other technologies do you expect? Let us know in the comments.

What should you expect next after Samsung’s Glass and Mirror Displays?

But one thing is for sure that we are going to enjoy unbelievable technology in the future. Many world changing companies are fighting technology wars, but no matter who loses, we win.

What other technologies do you expect? Let us know in the comments.

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Can Google’s new Smart Lock replace the LastPass?

Can Google’s new Smart Lock replace the LastPassOn the average, a person uses more than 25 websites – let the smartphone applications alone. Remembering all the passwords for these applications is bothering task, but you may wonder why not keep a single password for all of the websites? Yes, you can, but that’s ultra-risky. Many hackers are aware that most of the people are too lazy to change the passwords and keep a single password for all of their sign ups, and they exploit this fact to the max.

There are many ways you can boost up your password strength:

Using Capitals and symbols

Using Capitals and symbols (&^ %$#) can highly strengthen your passwords and make them extremely difficult to hack.

e.g. Password: silverspoon

Strong version: S!lV3rsp00n

Using the site name as a prefix or suffix

You can avoid using the same password for every site by simply using the first three or four letters as a suffix or a prefix with your password.

General Password: S!lV3rsp00n

Yahoo Password:   yahoS!lV3rsp00n (space registers as a character)

These are some basic ways of increasing the difficulty of your password, but if you are too lazy to the above, you will most probably shift to the password manager like most of the people.

Password managers remember your passwords for you; they can generate complex passwords for you; and they can also save the sites you love as bookmarks.

LastPass

LastPass is the leading name in the password managers (Even I use it). It’s a very handy service when it comes to passwords. You don’t have to do anything. It does it all for you. Whenever you sign up for a new site, a prompt will appear asking you to save the site in LastPass, and you have to click on the yes – that’s all.

LastPass has both: the free and the paid version.

Smartlock

SmartLock is a password manager by Google. Google is a very big name in the internet and many people rely on Google applications for their household, business and personal management.

How’s SmartLock different than other passwords managers?

SmartLock helps you manage your online passwords like all the other password managers. But there are some features that make it a little different.

App password management:

Unlike other password managers, SmartLock offer application password management for most of the android applications.

Sign in Bypass:

Another feature that is very appealing is the sign in bypass. It lets you completely skip the Sign in page, and takes you directly to the web or the applications – which we think is very nice.

What Smartlock lacks

No password generation:

Most of the other password managers have built in password creators that create strong passwords. SmartLock doesn’t have any built in feature for password generation.

Chrome only!

Chrome is a very reliable browser, but having this application only available for chrome is a very big negative in our view. We, however, are hopeful that it will be soon made available to other platforms like Google Keep.

SmartLock or LastPass?

At this phase, we think it is far behind the other password managers, because even though it has introduced some features, it hasn’t offered anything game-changing. It also lacks some of the features that are already available in the other password managers.

Despite of all these things, we must not oversee that it is the Google way to start small and develop according to the feedback. Moreover, unlike others SmartLock is completely free – no paid versions. SmartLock appeals with its simplicity and convenience. If you want something simple, you should definitely give it a try.

 

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Social Life: Sony is here to help you manage your social life

Today we can’t live without internet, but one thing that every user dreads is the variety of social networks we must be connected to. Managing all the network has always been a pain; many people have turned towards RSS Feed readers and other social network managers like hoot suite. Many leading names have introduced applications to help us manage social networks. The latest name in these giants is Sony.

Social Life

Sony has introduced the social life management system with the name of Social life. It is not another social network! It helps you get feed from all the social networks you are connected to and any website feed you subscribe to. Sony aims at providing a centralized application where you can manage your digital world in a more organized way with this latest application.

Trends and News:

Sony keeps an eye on the trends and provides you the latest news and feeds that it thinks you might be interested in. The app covers all the categories i.e. sports, food, entertainment etc.

Interface:

One of the biggest reasons to try this Sony app is its interface. It has a very simple and elegant interface that isn’t heavy on your eyes and makes going through the feeds a light experience.

Bookmarking and favorites:

Sony allows the user to bookmark any feed for a later use. It also offers view later option where you can select what is important and can get back to it when you have sufficient time.

Content management:

You can manage news, feeds from the web, and feeds from the social networks via social life news. You can also categorize them into definite categories like food, entertainment, self-development, health etc. Like all other applications, it also has an option that allows to share your favorite content with your friends and family with some decent privacy limitations.

Social Life Content Management

 

Overall, it’s a very nice addition to android applications. If you’re an organized person who wishes to have a leash on everything around in his life, this is a must try for you. Sony will help you have a smooth social life with this application.

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