Funny Encyclopedia - The Funniest Encyclopedia of India

Facebook  Inc said on Thursday it had completed a successful test flight of a solar-powered drone that it hopes will help it extend internet connectivity to every corner of the planet.  Aquila, Facebook's lightweight, high-altitude aircraft, flew at a few thousand feet for 96 minutes in Yuma, Arizona, Chief Executive  Mark Zuckerberg  wrote in a post on his Facebook page. The company ultimately hopes to have a fleet of Aquilas that can fly for at least three months at a time at 60,000 feet (18,290 meters) and communicate with each other to deliver internet access.  Google parent Alphabet Inc has also poured money into delivering internet access to underserved areas through Project Loon, which aims to use a network of high-altitude balloons to made the internet available to remote parts of the world.  Yael Maguire, Facebook's engineering director and head of its Connectivity Lab, said in an interview that the company initially hoped Aquila would fly for 30 minutes.  "We

Facebook won an appeal in a Brussels court Wednesday in a case that pitted it against the Belgian Privacy Commission. An earlier ruling had ordered Facebook to stop using cookies, which are small bits of software that track website activity, to collect data on non-members. The win means Facebook can resume the practice. In the meantime, Facebook had blocked non registered members from the site's public pages. The Belgian privacy watchdog group, which originally brought the case in June 2015, said it will appeal that decision. That marks a victory for the U.S. company, which staunchly maintained that only the  Irish Data Protection Commissioner  has jurisdiction over how it uses Europeans' data. The court ruled in favour of the regulator and ordered  Facebook  to stop tracking non-Facebook users when they visited a Facebook page or face a 250,000 euros ($277,000) daily fine. Facebook  appealed the ruling. In the meantime it said it would comply and stop using the s

Facebook today introduced tools and educational resources to support Indians struggling with  self-injury  or suicidal tendencies.  Developed in collaboration with mental health organizations and with input from people who have personal experience with self-injury and suicidal tendencies,  Facebook  has rolled it out in India in collaboration with local partners (AASRA and The Live Love Laugh Foundation) in English and Hindi.  In case someone posts something on Facebook that makes you concerned about their well-being, you can reach out to them directly — and you also can also report the post to  Facebook  directly. The company now has teams working around the world, 24/7, who review reports that come in. They prioritize the most serious reports like self-injury and send help and resources to those in distress.  The company is also introducing a  Help A Friend in Need guide  in India. This guide was originally created in partnership with The Jed Foundation and The Clinton Foundatio

Have you ever screwed up at work so badly you accidentally declared a country was at war? Someone at Facebook has. On June 12, the social networking giant displayed a banner to its users in the Philippines, wishing them a happy Independence Day. "Here's to all of the Philippines' health, happiness and prosperity," the message read, beneath a stylized woman carrying the country's flag. As The Philippine Star reported, there was just one problem: The flag indicated the Philippines is at war. Normally, the Philippines flag is blue on top and red below (along with a yellow sun and three stars in a white triangle). But unlike most flags, it can also be flipped upside-down - so red is on top, and blue is below - when the country is at war. It's this second "war flag" that Facebook displayed. "The flag, if flown from a flagpole, shall have its blue field on top in time of peace and the red field on top in time of war," reads

Lesley Miller was in Weight Watchers at age seven and underwent weight-loss surgery at age 11. She spent years using a number on a scale to determine her self worth.  Now she's proudly posing in her very first bikini for the entire world to see.  Last week, Miller shared her moving story with the Facebook page  Love What Matters . In the post, she details her lifelong weight loss struggle and her constant feelings of shame because her body never looked the way it was "supposed to." Then, at age 21, she decided she was fed up. She bought a bikini for the first time in her life, put it on, and captured this photo:   Here's the text that accompanied the snapshot: "I've spent the past 18 years of my life waiting.  I kept my body covered up and hidden away. I told myself that one day I would finally let myself be seen; I would finally do all of the things I dreamed of when I was enough. Thin enough, happy enough, confident enough. When my body

Veteran Bollywood actor, Om Puri has said that he will prefer Aam Aadmi Party over the BJP adding that the former was doing a great job in Delhi. Speaking to ABP News’ Press Conference, Puri said that he hoped the Arvind Kejriwal government didn’t run away like the way it did during its 49-day rule. When asked who he would choose between AAP and the BJP, Puri said, “Good luck to you (AAP). You’ve done a great job and I hope you keep doing it and don’t run away the last time. Remember!” Han ye kaha unhone! #OmOnABP  on  @ABPnewsTV  Sunday 10 AM & 10 PM #RT   https://t.co/P1vm7MVLUc — Dibang (@dibang)  June 11, 2016 On the raging controversy over Anurag Kashyap’s Udta Punjab, the veteran actor said that the CBFC chief Pahlaj Nihalani was acting like a dictator. He said, “He (Nihalani) is curbing people’s voice. This is just the film. They are not causing a revolution. They are standing with arms in their hands. Pahlaj Nahlani has made only commercial films, his

Love taken Life of 5 young aged boys Life. \ Here is a very deadly incidence happened in Odisha. In Bari,Jajpur district of Odisha . A very sad full story will make you cry for it. As per information 5 boys were loved to a girl, These 5 boys are very much Best friends & their love for that girl was also so madly. On a certain event they came to know that everyone of them are loved to a same girl. When they came to know about it, they selected their friendship first. Then they decided to do this serious self destructive method. That they selected to do suicide & also wrote a suicide note on that matter . Their condition was that, who will alive after the suicide, he will propose to that girl.  Next they ate poison & informed someone of their friend that they are going to die. When the friend tried to rescue no one got alive . Our team meet to that girl & taken her statement: Due to privacy reason we are not placing her photo     She said that she h

Facebook and Microsoft team up to lay a massive internet cable across the Atlantic!! A 4,100-mile cable capable of 160 terabits per second.     T he companies deal with a tremendous amount of data every day, whether it's showing photos to Facebook's 1.6 billion users, or loading documents stored in Microsoft's cloud services. Instead of solely relying on telecom companies for bandwidth, they're taking matters into their own hands. Called MAREA, Spanish for "tide," the cable will offer speeds of up to 160 terabytes per second, making it the highest capacity cable running this route, according to the companies. It's not the first time consumer tech companies have branched out into infrastructure.  Google  has been busy building its Google Fiber business to bring broadband connections to U.S. cities.  Facebook    and Google are working on experimental tools like giant balloons and laser-equipped drones to bring internet to underserved locations.

WhatsApp Finally Launches Desktop Apps For Windows And Mac!! A demo WhatsApp Preview. It is also downloadable from respective stores or from internet directly for PCs. Download Page of WhatsApp Though it’s the biggest messaging application in the world with more than 1 billion active users, WhatsApp has for years lived primarily on mobile phones. That could change significantly from Wednesday, when WhatsApp launched its first desktop apps for Windows 8 and Mac OS 10.9 and up. The apps sync with a WhatsApp user’s account on their mobile device, once they’ve downloaded them and scanned a QR code from inside Settings > WhatsApp Web on the mobile app. WhatsApp has made itself available on desktop before, through a web client called WhatsApp Web. The company launched that service in January 2015, initially for Android and Windows Phone users, before adding support for iOS users as well. But its new desktop apps offer more native support, the ability to use keyboard

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