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Telegram Now Supports Multiple Accounts for Android

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I’m guessing something more is coming. The latest version Telegram 4.7 gives you the ability to create multiple accounts on android. It supports up to three accounts with different phone numbers. You can quickly switch between them on the side menu, but you'll get notifications for all of them regardless of which one's active. While the iOS app remains a step behind its Android sibling and still can't support multiple accounts; but don’t too worry, the company has something for Apple users. Telegram is finally giving you a way to change what your app looks like under the new Appearance setting. The iOS version now has several themes to choose from, including two dark "night time" themes and a "day" theme with colors you can tweak. Though it may not be too useful as having support for more than one account but something might be coming for iOS users which we can’t guess at this moment. Finally, Telegram now supports quick replies on b

Google Doodle welcomes new year with penguin pals

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Our feathered friends return to strike an optimistic note about what's in store for us in 2018 Google's penguin pals welcome the promise of a new year. Google The sun has risen on a new year, and  Google  has launched an optimistic Doodle to welcome it. As part of its 2017 holiday celebration, Google has been releasing Doodles showing two penguin siblings visiting some "warm-weather relatives." Monday's Doodle shows our feathered friends watching the sun rise on 2018, seemingly looking forward to what's in store in the new year. Google kicked off the celebration series on Dec. 18 with a Doodle showing us the penguin pals making plans to pay a visit to kin in warmer climes during the holidays. Other Doodles in the series showed our feathered family reuniting for Christmas and ringing in the new year with sparklers and fireworks. Google often reuses its characters to bridge a theme among several Doodles. On New Year's Eve 2016, we watched as animated

New app developed to locate people in areas without a phone signal

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Researchers of the Universidad de Alicante (UA) have developed new technology that makes it possible to locate people who have suffered an accident in remote locations without a phone signal and where a speedy rescue is essential to save lives. The system can also be used in emergency situations that arise as a result of earthquakes, floods or forest fires, where mobile phone infrastructure is often rendered useless. "We have designed an application (app) that can be incorporated to any  smartphone  and that, without a signal, emits a Wi-fi signal which in turn acts as a distress beacon over a distance of several kilometers," explains the creator of the technology and professor at the UA's Department of Physics, Systems Engineering and Theory of the Signal of the Higher Polytechnic School, José Ángel Berná. This signal contains the location (coordinates) of the person who has suffered the accident or disappeared and is using the smartphone emitter, along with a short m

See How hackers could guess your phone PIN using its sensor data.

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Dr Shivam Bhasin holding a laptop and phone with their custom software. According to a new study, Instruments in advanced mobile phones, for example, the accelerometer, spinner and vicinity sensors speak to a potential security powerlessness. Utilizing a blend of data accumulated from six distinct sensors found in advanced cells and cutting-edge machine learning and profound learning calculations, the scientists prevailing with regards to opening Android PDAs with a 99.5 for each penny precision inside just three tries while handling a telephone that had one of the 50 most regular PIN numbers. The past best telephone splitting achievement rate was 74 for each penny for the 50 most basic stick numbers, however, NTU’s method can be utilized to figure every one of the 10,000 conceivable mixes of four-digit PINs. Scientists used sensors in a smartphone to model which number had been pressed by its users, based on how the phone was tilted and how much light is blocked by the thumb or f

Intel Took a Small Step for 5G: One Giant Step for Wireless

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Today denotes a pivotal turning point for the Wireless industry: the conclusion of the  3GPP Non-Standalone (NSA) 5G New Radio ( NR )  Standard. The formalization of the NSA standard stays the coming Standalone ( SA ) form and speaks to an astounding advance forward for the business. With NSA 5G NR , players over the ecosystem community out of the blue have encouraged around a solitary globally perceived determination for 5G radio frameworks. It gives the mechanical establishment to the business to start testing and commercializing the up and coming age of remote administrations and gadgets. RAN Architecture This month, the 5G non-standalone new radio ( NR ) standard is finalized with a goal to accelerate commercial 5G trials and deployments while the final standalone 5G NR standard is being developed. This is a major step for 5G, and the energizing and catalytic effect it will have on an array of technology and services. As engineers reported,  “Many of the early use cases

Intel Unveils Industry’s First FPGA Integrated with High Bandwidth Memory

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The Intel® Stratix® 10 MX FPGA is the industry’s first field programmable gate array (FPGA) with integrated High Bandwidth Memory DRAM (HBM2). By integrating the FPGA and the HBM2, Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGAs offer up to 10 times memory bandwidth compared to standalone DDR memory solutions. (Credit: Intel Corporation) Intel  just launched the  Intel® Stratix® 10 MX FPGA , the industry’s first field programmable gate array (FPGA) with integrated High Bandwidth Memory DRAM (HBM2). By coordinating the FPGA and the HBM2, Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGAs present to 10 times the memory data transfer capacity when contrasted and independent DDR memory solutions1. These transmission capacity abilities make Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGAs the fundamental multi-work quickening agents for superior registering (HPC), server farms, organize capacities virtualization (NFV), and communication applications that require equipment quickening agents to accelerate mass information developments and stream info

You Can Know Charge Smartphone with a Finger Swipe See Here

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In the hustle and bustle of modern life, there are so many important elements like a smartphone. Smartphone plays an important role in our daily life. But, the major problem while using a smartphone is its battery. The battery of the smartphone gets low with time. And suppose, if you are traveling, it become complicated to charge your phone. But thanks to this technology. Scientists from the Michigan State University in the US have developed a technology that allows you to charge your phone through your fingertips. That means now it is possible to charge your phone by just a finger swipe. The technology that they have developed is a film like a device that can harvest energy from human motion. It is thin as a paper sheet and can be adapted to many applications and sizes. Scientists named this device as Nanogenerator. Through this device, scientists successfully operated an LCD touch screen, a bank of 20 LED lights and a flexible keyboard. This all is done by simply touching o

Here's a leaked list of devices sporting the Snapdragon 845 in 2018

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By now it's pretty clear that most of the top of the line Android smartphones of 2018 will have the  Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SoC  at the helm, which was unveiled at the beginning of this month. Thus, the situation next year will pretty much emulate what happened in 2017 with the Snapdragon 835. Today from a source in China comes a list of handsets that will be using the SD845 in 2018 along with their expected announcement timelines. We can't verify the validity of this information, but the presence of these devices in the list is anything but surprising. In February, Samsung will unveil the  Samsung S9 and  S9+ which will feature Qualcomm's chip in some markets. LG will also take the wraps off the G7 during the same month. Then in April the Xiaomi Mi 7 will be outed, followed in May by the HTC U12. June will be the launch month for the OnePlus 6, ZTE nubia Z18, and Sony Xperia XZ Pro-A, while the Samsung Galaxy Note9 arrives in September, alongside the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3

Full Details About Snapdragon 670, 640 and 460 Chipsets Leaked Out Ahead Of Unveiling

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The US chip maker  Qualcomm  intends to expand in 2018 next to the  Snapdragon 845  top SoC also for devices of the premium and "normal" middle class designed lineup on ARM processors vigorously. For the first time in quite some time now, they have been using computing cores, each of which adapts the ARM-specified design to a certain degree.  Also See: Nokia 2 to be updated directly to Android 8.1 Oreo The Chinese micro-blogging network  Weibo  has now released a spreadsheet purporting to provide accurate details about the new Qualcomm SoCs. Specifically, she names the Qualcomm Snapdragon 670, the Snapdragon 640 and the Snapdragon 460, each with a series of upgrades over their predecessor chips to score. The basis is always the new ones ARM Cortex-A55  and  Cortex-A75 architectures  , which Qualcomm optimizes and adapts at its own discretion.  If chips like the Snapdragon 630/635 or the Snapdragon 450 were still used on unchanged cores based on the ARM-supplied architectur

Apple Publishes Letter Of Apology To Their Customers About iPhone Batteries And Performance

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We’ve been hearing feedback from our customers about the way we handle performance for iPhones with older batteries and how we have communicated that process. We know that some of you feel Apple has let you down. We apologize. There’s been a lot of misunderstanding about this issue, so we would like to clarify and let you know about some changes we’re making. First and foremost, we have never — and would never — do anything to intentionally shorten the life of any Apple product, or degrade the user experience to drive customer upgrades. Our goal has always been to create products that our customers love, and making iPhones last as long as possible is an important part of that. How batteries age All rechargeable batteries are consumable components that become less effective as they chemically age and their ability to hold a charge diminishes. Time and the number of times a battery has been charged are not the only factors in this chemical aging process. Device use also affects the p

See Reasons Why Apple depends less on iPhone X

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In years past, demand for Apple Inc’s ( AAPL.O ) latest flagship phone was critical to the company’s results over the holiday shopping quarter. The new iPhone X is pictured at the Apple Store Marche Saint-Germain in Paris, France, November 3, 2017. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/Files That dynamic might be changing, however, as Apple’s widening lineup of devices and services more than makes up for any tepidness in demand this quarter for its lead product, the $999 iPhone X. On Tuesday, Apple’s stock fell 2.5 percent to $170.57 after Taiwan’s Economic Daily and several analysts suggested iPhone X sales in the fiscal first quarter would be 30 million units, 20 million fewer than initially planned by the company. The cut in the forecast was not confirmed, and the stock regained ground on Thursday, hitting $171.82 by midday. The mean revenue estimate for the holiday quarter among 30 analysts remains at $86.2 billion, near the high end of Apple’s forecast of $84 billion to $87 billion. Apple d

NASA discovers a new solar system similar to ours!

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Data from the Kepler Space Telescope has revealed the Kepler-90 system ties with our own for the most number of planets known to orbit a single star. The discovery of an eighth exoplanet, Kepler-90i, revolving around its Sun-like star located 2,545 light years away in the constellation of Draco, was achieved using artificial intelligence software programmed to detect the distinct light signature of planets passing in front of their parent star. According to NASA, the discovery of Kepler-90i was the result of the work by researchers Christopher Shallue and Andrew Vanderburg, who used an artificial "neural network" to examine the 35,000 possible planetary signals returned by the unmanned Kepler spacecraft. Artificial intelligence has been used before to process the Kepler data, but by imitating the way neurons connect in the human brain, Shallue and Vandenberg were able to train the computer to seek out and identify weak transit signals that had previously been missed.

ESET releases 2018 report, predicts trends in Cybersecurity

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According to a report released today by global cybersecurity leader ESET, cybersecurity incidents and risks are predicted to grow even further in 2018. The report titled “Cybersecurity Trends 2018: The Cost of our Connected World” compiled by ESET security experts, presents topics that will be of interest to everyone following an increase in, and sophistication of, cybersecurity incidents in 2017. The report focuses on ransomware, attacks on critical infrastructure, malware and combating criminal activity, as well as the cyber threats posed to electoral campaigns and data privacy. While examining the ransomware revolution and the fact that many companies are still prepared to spend large sums in ransom payment as opposed to investing in their cyber defenses, the report warns that this unsustainable trend is likely to continue in 2018. Stephen Cobb , Senior Security Researcher at ESET, who predicted increased attacks on critical infrastructure as a 2017 trend

9Mobile Acquisition: Airtel, Glo, Smile Close to Acquiring 9Mobile [Must Read]

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9mobile acquisition saga is not over yet even after rebranding and changing name from Etisalat Nigeria to 9Mobile. In fact, the company is up for sale and 16 companies started bidding for it. But the process involves screening so out of the initial 16 bidders that showed interest to acquire 9Mobile, only 5 bidders are left. Also, from this 5 bidders, one company will eventually emerge as the sole bidder who will now take ownership of the network in coming weeks. Also See:  Google Chrome will soon block website redirects against user's will . The top two colleges are in England. Chris Trotman /Getty Images Interestingly, out of the 5 names remaining, 3 are so familiar to us probably because they are also top network providers in the country. Airtel, Globacom and Smile are all among the top contenders. Check the list below: REMAINING 5 BIDDERS OF 9MOBILE 1. Airtel 2. Globacom 3. Smile 4. Helios The top two colleges are in England. Chris Trotman /Getty

Google Chrome will soon block website redirects against user's will

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One of the advantages of the web is that it allows developers to create any type of experience they can imagine, which has led to the rich diversity of content available on the web today. While most content producers are interested in providing excellent experiences for their users, there is a small number that uses the flexibility and power of the web to take advantage of users and redirect them to unintended destinations.  Don't miss Your Search questions about celebrities answered selfie-style on Google . 1 out of every 5 feedback reports from Chrome users on desktop mention encountering some type of unwanted content. Following on from features like Chrome's pop-up blocker and autoplay protections, over the next few releases Google will be rolling out three new protections designed to give users all the web has to offer, but without many of these types of unwanted behaviors. One piece of feedback is that a page will unexpectedly navigate to a new page, for seemingly no

Your Search questions about celebrities answered selfie-style on Google

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Whether you watch them on TV, listen to them on a podcast, or read about them in a magazine, you spend a lot of time wondering about the people who inspire you. Maybe you've always wanted to know if actor Will Ferrell can really play the drums. Now in the U.S., you can find answers to questions about notable people on mobile Search, and they’re coming directly from the source. Don't Miss: Facebook Year in Review 2017 in now live . When you search for your favorite personalities, whether they’re rising stars or well-known celebs, their answers will appear in the form of selfie-style videos with a uniquely personal, authentic and delightful touch. Also See Samsung offering up to Rs 8,000 cashback on Galaxy Note 8, Galaxy S8 and S8+ . This feature is being tested on mobile with answers from Priyanka Chopra, Will Ferrell, Tracee Ellis Ross, Gina Rodriguez, Kenan Thompson, Allison Williams, Nick Jonas, Mark Wahlberg, James Franco, Seth MacFarlane, Jonathan Yeo and D

Google will start serving more answers, as smartphone users don’t want blue links: VP Ben Gomes

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Ben Gomes Google’s VP for Engineering and Search, explains how the depth of universal search and the context from Knowledge Graphs have helped to provide answers to people’s queries. Thanks to Machine Learning (ML), Google search has been getting better and better. If over the past year or so you have seen  Google throwing up results like cricket scores and disease symptoms, that is because the search giant is clearly on a path to provide answers to people’s queries. “When you are on a cellphone, people actually want an answer to your query, not just blue links,” says Ben Gomes Google’s VP for Engineering and Search, explaining how the depth of universal search and the context from Knowledge Graphs were helping Mountain View do this. Working on improving search, Google realised that a proper answer would have to be aided by concepts from the real world. “So we created Knowledge Graphs which contain a billion people, places and things and about 70 billion conne