In 7 years and a bit, the membership grew to 600+ million users. At this moment Facebook rightly holds the second place of the most visited websites in the world. How many users will we see after 10 years? An amazing moment in the evolution of the company was when the giant, Google, felt Facebook’s breath on its neck. This happened in a week of March 2010 (HitWise Data), when Facebook surpassed the mammoth corporation and became the most visited website in USA....
The roll out is said to extend over the initial months of the new year and any user who has been a part of the rollout will be able to use the Live Photos on the Facebook apps in both iPhone and iPad. At the core of the Live Photos lie a 12-Megapixel still image which has been stitched with two other videos taken at a time frame of 1....
Facebook Look Back contains a compilation of around twenty of the most liked photos, statuses, and life events set to a catchy tune. These personalized videos are of course automated, but takes you down the memory lane. Facebook has knowingly or unknowingly become a part of our lives, and this video portrays just that for each of us. It must have taken immense work and resources for folks at Facebook to craft and render millions of HD videos and send them out to users....
The Nokia Media Streamer likely runs on Android TV 9, Google’s offering for smart televisions and media streaming devices. It offers a Full HD resolution (1920 x 1080) along with support for Dolby Vision. The device provides built-in Chromecast support to allow users to cast their device’s screen on the television. At its core, there is an unnamed quad-core SoC powering the box, with likely a Mali 450 GPU. Assisting the processor is 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage....
Also, the 7th in “See you on the 7th” can be a subtle way for Apple to hint at how the event will unfurl. The presentation will go live on next Wednesday, Sept.7 at Pacific time 1.p.m. The event will be held at Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco and will be live streamed as has been the case in recent times. Here is how you can watch the same...
So on Friendship Day, here are ten facts that you might not know about perhaps tech’s most famous friendship: 1. When Steve met Jony…and planned to sack him! Jony Ive met Steve Jobs for the first time in 1997. And no, it was not ‘love at first sight’. Jobs had come back to the company which he had co-founded and then been sacked from, and it was widely assumed that he would clear out a lot of the staff to make way for his own preferred people....
Our unit has the IGZO panel, and it comes with the 11th Gen Intel i5-1135G7 processor along with 8GB of DDR4 RAM and 512GB of PCIe Gen3 SSD. It is one of the lightest laptops we have ever used, as it just weighs less than a kilogram. We have been using it for more than two weeks as our main laptop and will share all the details regarding the laptop in this article....
With their aggressive pricing strategy coupled with VoLTE powered networks, Reliance Jio indeed aims to revolutionize the Indian telecom market. Well, it isn’t just about the data, rather the best part about Jio is that one doesn’t need to pay for making voice calls on their network, as they are completely based on 4G. This is in contrary to the 2G networks that are being used by other telecom operators in India....
Externally, the Gionee M2017 succeeds to stand out from the crowd thanks to its metal unibody construction and dual edged display. Furthermore, the back of the smartphone is clad in a premium leather finish. Apart from that, the Gionee M2017 misses out on the headphone jack, thereby falling in line with the current trend of the smartphone industry. Up front, the latest smartphone from Gionee’s battery centric ‘M’ series sports a 5....
The inline installation API will be removed from the browser with the release of Chrome 71. This change is expected to take place by December this year. Needless to say, this move will affect Chrome users across Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS. Lately, Google has been going down heavily on illegitimate apps. Some extensions stealthily used cloud mining services to run background processes on the users’ systems. Google has already banned cryptocurrency mining extensions and even Apple did the same just a couple of days back....
With the increasing popularity of 4K content on the web especially in streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, HBO and even the company’s own YouTube, Google decided to roll out a slight modified version the Chromecast. Essentially this looks nearly similar to its predecessor except for some subtle changes here and there. The Google Chromecast Ultra comes in a flat round shape with the prominent G logo facing upwards. The company has also included an Ethernet port in the power cable of the Chromecast this time around....
The web app itself is pretty straightforward – you begin by loading up this site, and subsequently, it will ask a bunch of questions for evaluating a range of setups according to your needs. These queries include choosing from a couple of options such as whether you like monochromatic or multicolor, vibrant or muted environments, dark or light, warm or cool, geometric or organic, patterned or random, you get the idea....
What exactly is Honor Vision? Well, it’s basically a smart TV with some cool AI features and dedicated chipsets for display and network. It’s a 55-inch 4K UHD HDR panel with almost no bezels and 400-nits brightness. Honor claims a screen-to-body ratio of up to 94% and 87% NTSC color gamut. Apart from the superior looks, the Honor Vision boasts of a flagship-level trio of chipsets dedicated for display, camera, and Wi-Fi performance....
With this new update, users can now download and watch most of their favourite Shows and Movies offline, which is a good move from the company. However, a thing to note here is that not all of the premium content can be downloaded at the moment. As of now, Hotstar only allows a handful of Shows and Movies to be downloaded and watched offline. But the list is expected to grow more overtime, with more premium Shows and Movies available for download....
After all, taking pictures of the moon used to be a totally camera thing. You needed a big zoom, a tripod for stability, a lot of twiddling with settings before you could even think of pointing a camera at earth’s natural satellite. So how did we take the picture of the moon with the P30 Pro? Well, here is a step by step guide. Tripods? Settings? Duh, this is ONLY a phone camera, remember?...
1. Brave Brave is a free and open-source internet browser based on Chromium, and slowly, it is gaining popularity for its speed and privacy. Compared to Google Chrome, which is also based on Chromium, Brave offers less a cluttered experience with enhanced privacy-focused features and less power resource consumption. The browser is available across all major computer platforms: Linux, Mac, and Windows. On Linux From your desktop, right-click on the Brave shortcut and click Properties....
Today, users have a number of web browsers that they can use to access the Internet. The most used web browsers today are Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer and Apple’s Safari, and although each of them are pretty good, some users prefer to have more than one web browser, which gives rise to the question, how to change the default browser? We’ve been getting more and more emails for simple queries like this (simple for geeks or tech-savvy persons) and we hope this will help some of you non-geeks solve this tiny, but sometime annoying issue....
But like all good things, lithium-ion batteries have their downsides. Lithium-ion batteries lose their charge capacity when they are repeatedly recharged. Apart from losing their charge, a weakened battery will also lead to poor power output or dangerous situations such as bloated/swollen batteries, especially when used in a device such as your smartphone or laptop, both of which generate heat and lack proper battery cooling solutions normally found in EV battery packs....
More often than not, after windows start-up, my PC was getting too slow and unresponsive. When i saw the task manager, I noticed that there were quite a few instances of svchost.exe process and CPU usage was nearly 100% due to them. Svchost.exe is actually a system process belonging to the Microsoft Windows Operating System. It handles processes executed from DLLs. Off late, Microsoft started moving all of the functionality from internal Windows services into ....
Generating Google Maps Plus Codes The Plus Codes kind of work akin to the location sharing feature. Before this, the Google Maps allowed users to share locations by transmitting the GPS coordinates. In a bid to simplify and make this more efficient, Google now offers the Plus Codes. The feature is available for both Android and iOS. The best part of the Plus Codes is that you don’t need to remember the entire address or even the coordinates, instead, all one needs to do is jot down (or rather paste it on a notepad) the Plus Code....
