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140 million people are watching videos on Facebook daily

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140 million people are watching videos on Facebook daily
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Facebook launches a new feature called Facebook Watch a year ago. It is a video platform where its’ users can watch videos from various pages. Now Facebook is announcing a major milestone for the Facebook Watch video platform.

According to Facebook, there are more than 720 million people who watch videos on the Facebook Watch monthly basis. Every day, there are more than 140 million people who are spending at least one minute on Facebook Watch. Facebook says, daily there is an average of 26 minutes its visitors spend their time watching videos on the Facebook Watch.

Other than that, Facebook also introduces groups video watching feature where users can watch videos together with their friends. According to research done by Facebook, it seems friends who watch videos together are 8X more likely to comment on the videos in the Watch Party.

Earning from Ad breaks

Advertisement is the future of earning. Facebook begins advertising a few years ago. Now they introduce Ad break which is available to more than 40 countries including Malaysia and Singapore. Ad break is a short ad which will be played in a video on Facebook. Facebook is bringing its Ad break feature to Canada and in another few weeks, more languages such as Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Swedish and Telugu will be supported too.

Ad breaks help publishers to earn money from their videos. According to Facebook, the number of Pages which earns $1,000 (RM4,170) payouts per months increases more than 8X whereas, the number of Pages which earns over $10,000 (RM41,675) increases up to 3X.

Facebook is also partnering with other partners such as MTV and CNN. By partnering with these channels more original contents will be uploaded to Facebook Watch. At the same time, this will encourage its users to have engagement with content. Watch the video below to have a closer look on Facebook Watch features.

In conclusion, Facebook is planning to make Facebook Watch the same as YouTube, where users from around the world can watch videos together.

SK Telecom reaches 1 million 5G subscribers in 69 days

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SK Telecom reaches 1 million 5G subscribers in 69 days
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Two months ago a day before Verizon rolls out its first commercial 5G service, South Korea launches its own commercial 5G services. That makes South Korea be the world’s first country to roll out 5G services commercially. During the launch itself, many of the users sign up for SK Telecom 5G service. Now in only 69 days, the telco provider reaches 1 million 5G subscribers.

The Ministry of Science and Technology of South Korea says back in 2011 when they launch the 4G LTE service, it took at least 80 days to reach 1 million subscribers. Now it just took 69 days to reach 1 million subscribers. That is 11 days earlier than the previous 4G LTE service. According to SK Telecom, an average of 17,000 users are subscribing to its 5G service daily.

In conclusion, the 5G network is still new in both the United States and South Korea. There are few limitations where only certain areas only the user can get the 5G network. This will improve in the coming years.

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Uber will start its food delivery service in San Diego this summer

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Uber will start its food delivery service in San Diego this summer
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The drone is the future of business and it is also the future of transportation. According to Bloomberg, Uber is gearing up to launch its flying food delivery test service in San Diego. Most likely, Uber will start to test the drone-based food delivery service this summer.

At this moment, the only thing pending is the United States Federal Aviation Administration approval. According to Uber, it is very confident that the approval will be approved soon. Once Uber has the approval, it will be partnering with McDonald’s to deliver fast food. Both Uber and McDonalds also will be collaborating to determine how the food should be delivered to the customer and how to keep the french fries and ice cream hot and cold respectively.

Delivering food via drone is not an easy task. There are a lot of precautions steps has to be taken. At the same time, the weather is the main problem. What if a hacker sabotages the drone and takes over the control? Another issue that Uber needs to solve is the risk of the drone falling out from the sky towards the pedestrian.

One way to mitigate this issue is by designing safe landing zones around the delivery area. This is where food couriers will be waiting to collect the deliveries. Then the remaining journey will be completed either by car or bike. Another interesting idea Uber gives is by landing the drone on the roof of a parked Uber car. Through the QR code, the drone will land and the car will be driven to the doorsteps of customer.

Type of drone to take-off

For now, the information we have on the drone model is the AR200 which is the enterprise-level drone. This drone has six rotors where it is capable to cruise at the speed of 28km/h and the maximum speed of 56km/h. This is just the test drone only. Once the testing is completed, Uber will be designing a new drone design which can withstand any type of weather conditions.

According to Uber, the usual delivery will be taking at least 21 minutes to reach the destination. Now with the launch of an aerial food delivery service, the time can be cut down to 7 minutes.

In conclusion, Uber’s head of policy at the aerial division told Bloomberg that the drone food delivery service will take at least three years to bring it to the consumer market.

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Apple finally integrates iCloud into the Windows environment

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Apple finally integrates iCloud into the Windows environment
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Back in 2011, Apple launches its new storage service called iCloud. iCloud stores all documents and pictures in the cloud storage. Apart from the Mac environment, Apple launches the iCloud software for Windows. During that time, Apple did not integrate it completely with the Windows environment itself. Now, after such a long time, Apple and Microsoft collaborate together to relaunch the iCloud software for Windows 10.

The main changes of the iCloud software with the previous version is the integration. Now, the iCloud folder appears same as the other folders in the Windows Explorer. This means the users can browse through their both Windows and Mac iCloud files in their Windows environment. According to Microsoft, the technology it uses for the iCloud software is the OneDrive’s Files On-Demand feature.

Below is the features which was listed by Microsoft on its Microsoft Store.

  • Access your iCloud Drive files directly from File Explorer without using up space on your PC
  • Choose the files and folders you want to keep on your PC
  • Safely store all your files in iCloud Drive and access them from your iOS device, Mac, and on iCloud.com
  • Share any file right from File Explorer and easily collaborate with others—edits will be synced across your devices

In conclusion, you can visit this link to download the iCloud software for your Windows 10.

Uber chooses Melbourne city for its Uber Air service test flight

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Uber chooses Melbourne city for its Uber Air service test flight
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When drone was launched as a flying remote control device, none of us might have imagine how the future will be changing. A few months back, Uber confirms it will be launching is first flying taxi service in 2025. The latest update we have now is, Uber is choosing Melbourne as the first city outside of the Unites States for its Uber Air service test flight program.

Previously, Uber only plans to start its test flight service in Dallas and Los Angeles only. According to The Guardian, air transport service will be carrying passengers from rooftop to rooftop landing pads which are called as Skyports. This whole transport service is int the price of UberX.

As for now, we can confirm Uber will be launching its first test flights next year in these cities. Uber will be starting to roll out its commercial Uber Air flying taxis on 2023 which two years earlier than its previous comment. The Uber Air service will be using completely electric vertical take off (eVTOL) which shown as in the video below. Uber users can request this service via the normal Uber app.

One of the Uber spokesman told the Guardian that, the usual journey from the CBD to Melbourne airport will take around 25 minutes to 1 hours depending on the traffic. However, by using the Uber Air service, the journey will take roughly around 10 minutes only.

In conclusion, in another four years time, we can start using this flying taxi service in these four cities. In case you travel to these cities in the coming future, you might get the chance to try Uber Air service.

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Get paid for using this new Facebook app

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Get paid for using this new Facebook app
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Wouldn’t it be interesting if you get paid for using your phone? We are not joking, you can get paid from Facebook. Today, Facebook is launching a new app called Study which monitors how you use your phone.

This app mainly monitors the apps installed on your phone. It also checks the you spent you use each apps on your phone. It even track the current country you are in now. According to Facebook, this app will also monitor additional app data which could reveal specific features you are using on your phone. This is the official statement from Facebook on the informations it monitors.

Study from Facebook does not collect user IDs, passwords, or any of the participant’s content, such as photos, videos, or messages. We also don’t sell information from the app to third parties or use it to target ads, and it is not added to a participant’s Facebook account if they have one.

Controversies

According to the TheVerge, before the Study app launches, Facebook launches Facebook Research which is similar to Study. However, Facebook had to shut it down since it violates Apple rules. TechCrunch reported the Facebook Research app is targeted to the teenagers who use iPhone. The app uses a special certificate which allows gaining deeper access to the iPhone. Immediately, Facebook had to shut down this app. Now the Study app will only be available in Android only.

Participant Requirements

Facebook clearly states that the Study app will only be available to users who are 18 years above. According to Facebook, the user’s age will be verified based on the age on their Facebook account. Other than that, the users will need to have a PayPal account to get paid from Facebook. However, Facebook promises that neither of this information will be used to target advertisements to the users.

At this moment, Facebook did not reveal the payment amount. The first country Facebook Study will launch is in the US and India. For now, not many people can gain access to the Study app. Facebook will personally target its users through an advertisement and if the person sees it they can click sign up to join this program.

In conclusion, you have to know that if you sign up to the Study program, you will get paid but all your informations will be given to Facebook. That’s the reason Facebook is paying its participants. Make sure you don’t misuse your phone when you sign up Study app because Facebook will be monitoring your every single app on your phone.

Apple rolls out green screen feature for iMovie iOS app

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Apple rolls out green screen feature for iMovie iOS app
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When it comes to video editing, there are hundreds of video editing app available in the both Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Most of us prefer to use 3rd party apps such as VivaVideo. Many of us have forgotten about the existence of Apple’s own video editor app called . To remember its existence, Apple is rolling the green screen feature to this video editing app.

Image from TheVerge

Other than the green screen feature, Apple also adds 80 new soundtracks and ClassKit support to the iMovie app. There are more video editing apps which support the screen feature. Although, its a bit late for Apple, we feel its something good that Apple is adding into the app. This shows Apple is focussing on the user’s requested features.

What’s the green screen feature?

If you have watched the movie Avengers The End Game, you might have notice there are a lot of graphics especially during the climax scene. All the actions during the climax scene was done using the green screen effects.

Green screen is one of the overlays feature where it makes a color range in the two overlays clips transparent. This means the background of the video can be through. There is no limit of adding number of layers to it. You can take a video of a sky and use the green screen effect to make like a thunder strike from the sky. There are alot of desktop softwares which supports this feature.

Additional features on the iMovie app

Apart from that, Apple also adds features where users can drop in images with transparent backgrounds and use the photo to create effects such as picture-in-picture and split-screen effect. This feature is available in the slideshow app called Magix PhotoStory Deluxe.

Take a look at the other features iMovie for iOS offers below:

•Transform your video with the new green screen effect that lets you instantly remove the background of clips shot in front of a green or blue screen
• Adjust the green screen effect with a 4-point mask and strength slider
• Choose from 80 new soundtracks in genres including pop, chill, and sentimental that automatically adjust to match the length of your movie
•Drop in still images with transparent backgrounds to use as logos or custom graphics on top of your video
• Add photos as overlays to create picture-in-picture and split-screen effects
• Choose to hide the border that surrounds picture-in-picture and split-screen effects
• Instantly return to the edit screen of your project when switching back to iMovie from other applications
• ClassKit support lets students deliver video assignments to teachers using the Schoolwork app
• For users with videos in iMovie Theater, the Theater window is now accessible from the ••• menu at the bottom of the Projects screen
• Sharing to iMovie Theater is no longer supported; save your movies and trailers to iCloud Photos to watch them on other devices including Apple TV
• Resolves an issue that could lead to a black viewer when previewing your video fullscreen on an external display

You can start to use Google Assistant in the Waze app

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You can start to use Google Assistant in the Waze app
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The most used navigation app which most of us used is Google’s Map app and Waze app. Most of the drivers prefer to use the Waze app since it can display the detail information of the road conditions. However, sometimes when we stuck in the traffic we might feel stress by looking at the red taillights. Now, Google is rolling the Google Assistant feature to the Waze on Android phones in English.

At this moment, this feature is only available for users in the US only. Google will roll out this feature globally at a later time. What’s about Google Assistant in Waze? This might be your questions now. Well other than looking into the traffics, you can tell the Google Assistant to play your favorite music while you are driving. You can even send a message to your friends via hands-free. All of these features can be done without leaving the Waze navigation screen.

Other than that, we all know Waze is famous for reporting potholes and reporting police nearby. Now, you can simply say “Hey Google, report traffic” or “Hey Google, avoid tolls” and the rest will be taken care of by the Google Assistant. You can continue focusing your eyes on the road rather than on the screen.

Google Assistant in Waze

In conclusion, by introducing this feature, Google believes the drivers can get less distracted and focus on the road mainly. This will help also to reduce road accidents. In Malaysia, we might get this update later this year probably. Once Google rolls out this update globally, we can give it a try too.

Huawei starts to invite Android developers to upload their apps on the AppGallery

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Huawei starts to invite Android developers to upload their apps on the AppGallery
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It has been one month since the United States government add Huawei into its Entity List. Google is the first tech company to stop providing software and security update. A few days ago, Google starts to argue with the US government stating that banning Huawei might lead to a threat to US national security. According to the XDA Developers, Huawei has started to invite trusted app developers to publish their apps on the Huawei’s AppGallery.

Few of the developers received the email as follow:

Subject: [OFFICIAL] Invitation to join Huawei AppGallery

Cher XXX team,

– In the last 2 years, Huawei shipped over 350M phones, about half of them in western markets.

– All Huawei phones have our official AppStore “AppGallery” preloaded globally, with 270 million monthly active users.

– We realized that your great Android App XXX is not yet published in our AppGallery.

– In order to guarantee a smooth usage of your App for our users, Huawei is committed to provide you with full support, to help you publish your App into AppGallery.

– We would therefore like to invite you to join our 560k developers community for free, in our Huawei Developer portal.

If you notice on the email on the left, Huawei is trying to convince the app developers by saying the AppGallery has 270 million monthly active users. Other than that, Huawei also claims their Developer Portal has 560,000 members. We are not sure whether these pieces of information is actually true.

As we all know Huawei is developing their own operating system called ArkOS. We can expect this operating system by next year. If Huawei’s AppGallery didn’t work well, Huawei has other alternative plans too. According to a report from Bloomberg, Huawei might be in the midst of negotiation with a 3rd party app store called Aptoide.

The only part we are curious of is what about apps made by the US developers? Is Huawei will be including these apps into their alternative app store? The writer of Ars Technica has revealed a small piece of information on his twitter account. He says that only two out of fifteen famous apps on the Google Play Store will be available to the Huawei devices. The remaining thirteen apps are made by the US developers.

In conclusion, if you notice at the image above, the two apps which will make its way to Huawei’s app store will be Spotify and TikTok. Users might not be able to download apps such as Facebook, Twitter or Snapchat. This is going to impact the end-users a lot. Let’s wait and watch how Huawei is going to tackle this issue.

Samsung’s fitness bands are selling for RM139 onwards

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Samsung’s fitness bands are selling for RM139 onwards
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Apart from Apple Watch, Samsung Watch is one of the expensive smartwatch available in the market. Today, Samsung is offering its most affordable fitness band starting from RM139. You can get both the Samsung Galaxy Fit and Galaxy Fit-e in Malaysia. These watches record your heart rate and track your daily activities.

The low-end Galaxy Fit-e

The next generation Galaxy Fitⓔ

The cheaper version of the fitness band is the Samsung Galaxy Fit-e which is priced at RM139 only. The Galaxy Fit-e comes with a smaller display which should be sufficient to display the time and activity data. However, the Galaxy Fit-e lacks the gyroscope sensor.

First of all, the Galaxy Fit-e has a water resistance of 50 meters. It comes with military-level durability standard where you don’t have to worry about dust and rain.

Built tough to keep up

Samsung has also included its Auto Workout Tracking where it is able to detect three types of activities such as walking, running and dynamic workout. Based on these workouts, it is able to send your heart rate to your Samsung Health app on your phone. From this app, you can monitor your heart rate status.

Other than that, Samsung also includes its smart notification feature into the fitness band. Next time when your phone rings, you can know who is calling. However, you might not able to reply to the notifications you receive. Your phone has to be connected to your fitness band in order to use this feature. According to the Samsung Galaxy Fit-e official website, the battery could last up to 7 days.

Keep close while far

The high-end Galaxy Fit

The next generation Galaxy Fit

On the other hand, the higher version of the Galaxy Fit is priced at RM369. The higher the price the better the features. The Galaxy Fit comes with a 0.95″ of full-color AMOLED display which has the resolution of 120×240 pixels. Most of the features such as the activity tracker and the smart notifications are similar. However, the Galaxy Fit able to track up to six activities whereas the Galaxy Fit-e is only able to track three activities.

Moreover, you can use your Galaxy Fit to reply notifications such as messages directly from your wrist. It only supports preset replies.

Beyond fitness tracking

The Galaxy Fit also comes with a larger battery capacity of 1200mAh which can last up to 8 days of normal usage and 11 days of low usage. Apart from that, the Galaxy Fit can support both Android and iOS devices. On the Android devices, it supports Android 5.0 and above. For iOS, it supports iOS 9 and above.

In conclusion, these are the most affordable fitness band with amazing features. You can start to purchase your favorite fitness band today from Samsung Malaysia online store. Check out the Galaxy Fit and Galaxy Fit-e official website for more information. These devices will hit the store on 14th June 2019 onward.

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