Windows 7 is the most used Windows OS in the world. But now its time for you to say goodbye to Windows 7. If you are still using Windows 7 as your primary OS soon you will be receiving push notifications about its end of support. Microsoft has planned to stop supporting Windows 7 on January 14 2020. Microsoft will start the push notification beginning next month onward. Not only that, this means, Microsoft Office 2010 also will stop receiving security updates. According to Microsoft, their main intention is to convince the consumers to upgrade to Windows 10 OS and Office 365.
During the Windows 10 upgrade period, the notification which pops to the user was very irritating to certain people. Learning from their mistake, Microsoft has added an option to select “do not remind me again” on the notification. By selecting the option, you won’t be shown the notification. Automatically, the notifications will stop once the Windows 7 supports ends on next year.
The current Windows 10 is running on more than 800 million devices. Microsoft is expected to reach its goal of 1 billion devices soon by next year. If you still using the Windows 7, now its time for you to make to switch for Windows 10.
Last week Google celebrates International Women Day by adding famous quotes into the Google Doodle. Today Google is marking the 30th anniversary of the creation of the World Wide Web which known as www. Do you know the founder of the www?
Thanks to Tim Berners-Lee now we are using the world wide web to do all our search online. He first proposed this idea on March 11, 1989. The internet was mainly created those days for the US military ARPANET which was created in the ’60s. Whereas, the web was created as the way for the public to access to the network.
Tim Berners-Lee was 33 years old when he submitted his proposal to develop the world wide web. His boss allowed him to completely develop the world wide web and then in 1991, the external web servers were up and running. Today, there are almost 2 billion websites online under the world wide web. We mostly use the web for watching videos, reading news and also playing games online. Without him, this wouldn’t have been possible.
PokemonGo fans, there is a news for you. After creating a huge game record by the Niantic Labs, now they are working on a new augmented reality game “Harry Potter: Wizards Unite”. Harry Potter saga has a huge amount of fans worldwide where some of them literally go crazy when the movie or game is released.
If you have played the PokemonGO (known as, “PoGo”) then you sure will love playing this game. Niantic Labs has invited few journalist to try their new game before it is launch on end of 2019. According to the developes, this game will be harder than the current PokemonGO. This is because, if you know about Harry Potter you should know the magical story behind it.
Difference between PoGo and Wizards Unite
During the launch of PokemonGo, it is basically a very simple game. Your objective is go around try to find the creatures and then capture them. This concept is pretty simple. But with the Wizards Unite, you have a lot of task to complete. You will only understand the fundamental of this game if you are an hardcore Harry Potter fan. You have to travel between different universe to collect mix artifacts. If any of the series character is stuck in a bad situation, you have to play a tracing mini-game to remove the spells from the character. You have to collect the items and free you friend. Based on that, you will earn your experience points and you can level up your character.
Niantic Labs on creating a RPG
Previously, Niantic has always implemented their game with a very simple concept. The Ingress was all about exploring real-world maps and the PokemonGo was all about capturing pokemon using the smartphone camera lens. According to them, the Wizards Unite is going to be a full-fledged RPG game. Players can play this game as their new hobby by doing many things inside the game. Not only collect artifacts and visit inn, but you can also play more advanced activities. Some of the features are leveling up your character, learning new abilities daily and then teaming up with your friends to compete together.
Going into JK Rowlings fantasy world
Imagine you will have the chance to see JK Rowling’s world comes to life on your smartphone. Thanks to Augmented Reality (AR), Wizards Unite gives you the same magical universe to you. While you are walking down the street and suddenly you might saw the Portley portals. This portals will let you jump into a large blue swirl of energy and then into the new magical world of Harry Potter. All of this are fully explorable with your smartphone’s camera.
As for now, Niantic Labs has not let know on the official release date. But this game could be a treat for all the Harry Potter and PokemonGo fans all around the world. We sure this game would be a double success than the PokemonGo. Till then watch the sneak peek of the Wizard Unite from Niantic Labs.
If you have been waiting for the 2019 first Apple event then we got an announcement for you. Apple has officially send its media invitation for its next event on March 25. Apple is always famous for having hidden meaning on their invitation. This time, they have teased the media invitation with the tagline “It’s show time.” Note the space between the word “show” and “time”.
During the year of 2006, when Apple sends out the media invitation they used the tagline “It’s showtime”. That moment they launched the Apple TV. What we can expect for the upcoming event is media related launch. New Apple TV probably or new Apple own streaming service like the Netflix.
As expected, Apple event will take place in the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California. If you might be thinking where is this place, actually if you remember Apple’s current headquarters the Apple Park. The spaceship-like place. That’s the place the event will take place.
Apple has included a gif in their invitation. Basically, it’s an classic countdown “4 3 2 1” and the “It’s show time”. Very like Apple is working on its own streaming service.
GIF from the media invitation
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Two years back, you might have seen most of your friends in Facebook were playing quiz on Facebook. Those days, you would not know the effects of playing such games on Facebook. Today, Facebook sued two Ukrainian developers who creates these quiz app on Facebook.
The Facebook user’s private data was collected using the quiz app created by the developers. After collecting the users private data, they inject advertisements into the users News Feed. Both the developers known as Gleb Sluchevsky and Andrey Gorbachov were accused by Facebook of performing hacking activities on the users.
These developers have attracted the users to install some malicious browser plugins. Some of you might play the game “character and popularity” tests where you have to answer a few questions at the end it will tell about your character. You might be thinking this is a fun game, but this is the quiz game which has infected 63,000 Facebook users browsers. The developer’s main target was Russian and Ukranian users.
How the hackers gather your private information?
So how do they really get the users private details? At first, the user will log in into the web app using their Facebook login using the Facebook login feature. Once u click the button, they will show a message where the developer promised to collect only limited information. After that, they will direct the user to install the malicious plugin into your web browser as an extension. If you were unlucky and you installed the extension, you have already given access to the hackers to access to your Facebook private data. A note to that, not only Facebook was compromised other social networkwere infected too.
According to Facebook, the scheme would not have worked if they had not approved the hackers as developers. On 2016 and 2018, the hackers have registered under the name of “Elena Stelmah” and “Amanda Pitt”. Facebook has discovered this scheme “through an investigation of malicious extensions”. Knowing it, they have suspended both these accounts and contacted the browser makers to make sure the hackers application were completely removed.
Last week, Facebook has also sued four Chinese companies who sold fake Facebook accounts. These cases has gave Facebook a chance to defend themselves against charges with lack of privacy and security. Next time, as a user you should think twice before playing those games on Facebook. You can be the next victim.
A few years back when Apple reveals the Touch ID technology, the whole smartphone industry shook off. Now the bank of Natwest, which is situated at Britain is launching the worlds first ever fingerprint scanner debit card.
Image from Natwest
The Natwest bank is planning to start its trial on mid of April. At this moment, they will offer only 200 customers to use this feature. This will allow the selected users to make NFC payments without the need of entering their PIN number or their signature. Over in UK, if you want to use the contactless payments method, you will be charged 30 pounds for each transaction. However, using this fingerprint scanner debit card, you don’t have to worry about the additional 30 pounds being charged to your card.
This card is a very special one because you do not have to worry about security. Your fingerprint data is locally stored on the card. Hackers would not be able to steal your account information from the bank’s database. However, there is a risk where the thief can steal and duplicate your fingerprint. Even though, there is a method to get your fingerprint, this method is more safer than entering the PIN.
Trial run conducted over the past two years
Over these days, biometrics authentication is being used everywhere we go. From unlocking your mobile phones to paying using your ApplePay all we use is biometrics. In 2017, the company Gemalto did a trial run at South Africa. Gemalto has also conducted another pilot test at Italy in 2018 by having the fingerprint on the credit card. Anyhow, their cards had required the users to visit the bank to register before using the feature.
Even Natwest also having the same registration difficulty. Each of the participants has to go to the bank to register their fingerprint. Gemalto hopes in the future cards can be registered online using the user’s smartphone. You might be thinking you can directly use the Apple Pay to do NFC payments what is the need of the fingerprint scanner debit card. They believe that this scheme has the potential to be made available to people who can’t afford a smartphone.
It’s totally once in a blue moon Apple does its giveaway program. As we are expecting an Apple event soon, Apple does a giveaway program by providing the users some extra cash.
According to MacRumors, Apple will be giving away extra cash when the user transfers money into their Apple ID account. This can be done via debit or credit card only. As for now, this program is only available until March 14. Once you transfer a certain amount of cash into your account, you might get 10 percent of your transferred amount.
So how to get this? Its very simple. You just have to reach your iPhone setting and then tap on the iTunes & App Store button. Then enter your Apple ID which will show you the View Apple ID button. From there onwards, you can directly click on the Add Funds button to view the bonus amount which will be transferred. If you add $10 to your account you should be able to receive $1. If you add $100 then you are eligible to receive $10.
However, when Apple gives extra cash there is a downside too. You can only do this once only. You can add money to your account as usual, but you won’t be getting the bonus amount after you received it once.
It is the most common thing to see phone companies such as Apple and Samsung are always releasing their smartphone with the larger screen display. Previously, Apple had released a feature called Reachability. This feature allows the iPhone users to use their devices using one hand. This round, Samsung has released an application called One Hand Operation +. This application allows the user to use single hand to perform various actions.
With the recent launch of the Samsung Galaxy S10 which has a larger display of 6 inches above, it causes user hard to perform actions such as pulling down the notification bar. Samsung has enabled the one-handed mode on all its smartphone. But what it does was similar to the Apple Reachability feature.
The One Hand Operation + app allows the user to customized their actions for the different type of actions. Since this is customizable, you can even swipe your thumb diagonally to open the notification bar. Samsung allows up to 6 actions to be customizable. If you have used the Galaxy S7 Edge then you might be familiar with the Edge Panel. The same area the setting appears. You can even turn off your screen with just a simple swipe. Isn’t it great!
Samsung users, can start to download this app from the Google Play store. Note that as for now it only supports Samsung smartphones only. You can expect this application might roll out for other Android smartphones too.
YouTube is the most used platform to view videos around the world. Every country uses YouTube to watch videos. This causes a lot of fake videos published by unknown users. Some of us might trust by watching the video. Example, there was a video which was published on YouTube with the title of “Joker Official Movie Trailer”. Most of us would have clicked the video and think that it is the real trailer. But after analyzing it you might found out that it is fake news.
Image from YouTube
Nowadays, YouTube is prone of having a lot of fake videos. To fix this issue, YouTube is currently working on a way to show if the user is watching a fake video. According to YouTube, they have started to inform their viewers if the videos they searched are hoax or truth. This information is only displayed in the search result page as for now. We can expect if in the future, YouTube might include this feature for individual videos too.
YouTube has mentioned that the topics will be checked by The Quint who are verified fact-checking service. Based on their checking the information will be updated in the information panel. All the fake topics will be automatically removed by YouTube.
YouTube has roll out the feature only India to a small group of users. YouTube also stated that they do have plans to roll the feature worldwide. However, they did not mention on the exact timeline this feature will be revealed.
PlayStation has updated both the PS4 Remote Play application and the console which allows the users to stream their games to their iOS devices. This was confirmed from the official PlayStation Twitter account.
Starting today, you can stream your favorite PS4 games to your iOS devices with the PS4 6.50 update! Download the PS4 Remote Play app from the App Store to get started. https://t.co/65I0fNupP5pic.twitter.com/VHeOYAV1Uz
According to them, the console has to be updated to version 6.50 in order to stream the games into the iOS devices. Users, would not need to pay to download the app since it is free to download from the App Store.
Previously, only Sony smartphones such as the Sony Xperia Z3 supports this feature. Now, it is coming to iPhones and iPads. This will allow more users to stream their game to their iOS devices. At the same time, iOS users could get the chance to play their PS4 games in their iPhones and iPads.
As you know, Microsoft is already building its own Netflix-like game streaming service. Now PlayStation is taking one step further by providing the remote play feature to its users. According to Phil Spencer, the head of gaming told that this feature will provide “console quality gaming on any device”. This can be a way to reach to a wider range of audiences.
