Salman Khan: Bollywood actor cleared in hit-and-run incident

The high court in the Indian city of Mumbai has overturned Bollywood star Salman Khan's conviction for a 2002 hit-and-run case. In May, a lower court convicted him of culpable homicide and sentenced him to five years in jail for driving over and killing a man sleeping on a pavement. But the appeals judge ruled there was not enough evidence. Khan is one of Bollywood's biggest stars, appearing in more than 80 Hindi films, and has a huge fan following. It was only when the judge insisted that Salman Khan must be present before the verdict was read out, that the actor hurried to the court in south Mumbai on Thursday, the BBC's Yogita Limaye reports from Mumbai. "The appeal is allowed and the decision of the trial court is quashed and set aside. Salman Khan is acquitted of all charges," news agency AFP quoted the Bombay high court judge Anil Ramchandra Joshi as saying. The prosecution "failed to establish [the charges] beyond reasonable doubt", the judge added. The actor, surrounded by his family members, broke down after hearing the verdict, the Press Trust of India reported.

YouTube Finally Makes The Trending Video Tab Official

YouTube rolled out a big update earlier this year that focused on tabs across the top of the screen. For most people there were three, but a fourth one showed up sometimes too. Now that fourth "trending" tab is official. In a post on the YouTube blog, we're told that the "new" trending tab will list all the hottest things posted to YouTube on a daily basis. The Android app has the tab of course, but there's a trending section on the web too. They appear to show the same content, but the Android app has quick links at the top for different sections like music and games. You can also check out the YouTube 2015 rewind content, which is a collection of the biggest stuff on the site in the last year. This should be live in everyone's app at this point as it was posted to the global blog.

Facebook Introduces 'Security Checkup' To Its Android App, Including Remote Log Off

If you have more than a dozen friends on Facebook, odds are pretty good that at least one of them has started tagging every person on Earth with suspiciously misspelled advertisements for knockoff Ray-Ban sunglasses. Facebook would really prefer that this not happen, or at least not happen quite so often. To that end the company introduced the Security Checkup feature to the web version of the social network, and now it's available on Android as well. Maybe. Security Checkup does a few things. First, it examines your password and suggests changing it if it's not strong enough. Second, it send you alerts if someone logs in to your Facebook account from an unfamiliar or suspicious location. (Yes, you're much more likely to see this alert when you log in from a hotel "business center" than from an actual attempt at fraud.) Lastly, it allows you to log out of remote browsers and apps from your current web browser or app session, which is handy for when you forget to log out of that aforementioned hotel kiosk. Here's where I'd show you screenshots of Security Checkup running in the Facebook app. I'd like to do that, but at the moment it isn't clear if this update was sent out with the Android app update from December 7th - in which the only changelog entry is "improvements for reliability and speed" - or if it's coming in a future update. I'd like to check out the Facebook settings menu to see if it's in there, but the app crashes on my phone every time I tap the button. Progress! In any case, you may or may not be able to access Security Checkup now (as implied in Facebook's blog post) or you may or may not be able to access it later. We'll see, I suppose.

SwiftKey Launches SwiftKey Symbols, A Keyboard For People With Speaking Disabilities

SwiftKey — the company behind the eponymous keyboard app — has just released SwiftKey Symbols, an app designed to make it easier for non-verbal individuals to communicate. The picture-based keyboard was developed by a small team at SwiftKey that wanted to make it easier for children with autism or other speaking difficulties to express themselves, and is especially geared towards those individuals. The app lets users construct entire sentences by picking an image from several categories, such as people, actions, and colors, or from the smart suggestion bar. By harnessing the prediction engine of the SwiftKey SDK, SwiftKey Symbols can more accurately guess at what words or expressions to suggest next. The more a person uses the keyboard, the better it becomes at predicting what they want to say. unnamed Symbols is even aware of the time of day or day of the week, so it can take advantage of those contexts to make more accurate suggestions. For example, if a child has a gym class on Monday mornings and regularly communicates about that during that time, the app can use that knowledge to suggest symbols that the child is more likely to need. The keyboard also comes with dozens of images baked-in, and users can even add their own custom pictures or photos for special objects or ideas like a favorite toy or place. SwiftKey-Symbols-Wash-Hands-Assistive-App SwiftKey wants to get the keyboard into the hands of everyone who needs it, so the app is completely free — there aren't even any in-app purchases. It works on both phones and tablets, which is also great. If you have someone close to you who might benefit from using SwiftKey Symbols or just want to try it out yourself, go ahead and download it from the Play Store using the widget below.