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This 9-year-old Indian origin girl was the youngest developer at Apple’s WWDC 2016 !

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Among the hordes of developers who attended Apple's annual  World Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC  ) this year in  San Francisco  , nine-year old Indian-origin  Anvitha Vijay  held the distinction of being the youngest.  The  Melbourne  resident, who taught herself to code at the age of seven, already has two apps to her credit and intends to develop more.  Vijay spent a year watching free coding tutorials on  YouTube  and the web, and learned how to program. "Coding was so challenging. But I'm so glad I stuck with it," she said.  She attended WWDC after being selected for  Apple's  scholarship program, which gives hundreds of free tickets to developers from around the world who are creating apps for Apple devices.  Vijay had dreamt of meeting Apple's CEO  Tim Cook  and not only was she able to make that a reality at the WWDC but also managed to get a shoutout from Cook himself.  In the first few minutes of the show, an impressed  Tim Cook  pointed t

Brazil is blacking out WhatsApp for 72 hours, thanks to an encryption battle.

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Bad News for Brazil,  A Brazilian judge ordered wireless phone carriers to block access to Facebook Inc's WhatsApp for 72 hours throughout Latin America's largest country starting Monday afternoon, the second such incident against the popular messaging application in five months. Judge Marcel Montalvao issued the order because the app’s parent company, Facebook, refuses to give information to the government regarding a criminal investigation. This is not the first time WhatsApp has been in hot water in Brazil. In December it was ordered to be blocked for two days over another similar case, but access was restored after just 12 hours. At the time, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said it was “a sad day for Brazil.” The free app is very popular in Brazil and is estimated to be installed in over 90 percent of cell phones there. That translates to roughly 100 million phones. According to Bloomberg News , neither Facebook nor WhatsApp has commented on the case. Sources