Unbelievable Whatsapp's new update supports video call.

WhatsApp has rolled out an Olympic emoji to honour the upcoming Summer Olympic Games to be held in Rio de Janeiro. The developer team working behind WhatsApp, on of the most popular and widely used messaging app has constantly been improving the app. They have been working on many features but they continue to improve the unreleased features till they are polished and ready for the real-time.

The most imminent feature to come to WhatsApp is the group invites which looks much more refined and gone is the QR code implementation from the main site page. It’s not confirmed that the QR code implementation of inviting people to public WhatsApp group is completely scrapped but the absence could be a part of much need UI uplift. The feature to doodle and draw on the pictures before sending has also received a UI uplift. The in-development feature looks like Snapchat on demand as people may find the similarities between the two.

In addition to all these hidden features that have been unlocked by WABetaInfo, WABetaInfo has released modules that can help unlock the features for jailbroken iPhones. Android and all non-jailbroken iPhones will have to wait for the official rollout to being. This comes right after the rollout of large single emoji to iOS devices including proper management of text messages including selecting multiple chats at once.

Apple IPhone 7 to be released Semptember 12

IPhone 7 realeased date has been rumoured to be released on September 12 2016. This was gotten early this morning on Twitter by an unknown Apple agent.

On-like the iPhone 6s apple's new tech phone has some new specs added to it.
Including beautiful camera design and the
Find my iphone  app has been improved on the new iPhone 7

Blu Energy XL phone promises 3 days of battery life for $299

Miami-based smartphone maker Blu, known — like so many companies these days — for producing cheap phones with solid specs, has a new phone out, and it promises something that all smartphone owners crave: decent battery life.
The Blu Energy XL is a 6-inch Android smartphone with a 5,000mAh battery which, while not unheard of (Acer Liquid Zest Plus has one, for example, and the Oukitel K10000 has an insane 10,000mAh battery), is definitely one of the larger batteries we've seen.

A quick comparison to popular phones of today: The iPhone 6S Plus has a 2,750 mAh battery, the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge has a 3,600mAh battery and Huawei's Mate 8 has a 4,000mAh battery.
But Blu has gone one step beyond even Acer, who promises two days of battery life for the Liquid Zest Plus. The company claims the Blu Energy XL's battery lasts 30 days of stand-by, or up to three days of standard usage.
Three days of usage sounds like a fairy tale in a world where most smartphones don't even last a day. And without testing the Energy XL, we can't really say whether Blu's claims are true or not, but we have an educated guess.
The phone sports a MediaTek MT6753 octa-core chip, which can't compare with top smartphone chips of today but it's not as power-hungry, either. But the phone's screen is a 1,920x1,080 pixel AMOLED — hardly the best option if you want to conserve power. With AMOLED screens, having a dark theme and background conserves energy, so with some optimizations, we can imagine the Blu Energy XL will have a really solid battery life, but three full days still sounds like a stretch.
The rest of the specs are in line with other top smartphones today: 3GB of RAM, 64GB of internal memory, a 13-megapixel rear camera and a 5-megapixel selfie-cam.
Here's the other piece of good news: The phone costs $299, unlocked. Unless you must have the phone with the latest and the fastest processor out there, it's a pretty good deal, even without the outrageous battery life claims.
The Blu Energy XL is available exclusively on Amazon, in silver and gold.

Pokémon Go players are turning up in droves at a sex shop

Everyone is obsessing about Pokémon Go, the interactive game that sees users tracking down Pokémon on their mobiles while hanging around their city. 
The app is available in countries like the U.S. and Australia but hasn't made it over to the UK yet. That has not discouraged British gamers who have found inventive ways to download the game.
In the coastal town of Plymouth, hundreds of users are scouting the city in search of Pidgey or Squirtle. Among the businesses that have been turned into "pokestops" is a local sex shop, the Private Shop. 
A member of staff told The Plymouth Herald that people came into the store asking about Pokémon: 
"I have noticed it," they said. "There were a few people last week who came in and they were talking about it.
"They came in and I didn't know what they were talking about, as I'm not really into games."
They remarked that no Pokémon products were available in the shop.
A Facebook group
for Pokémon trainers already gathered more than 600 members since the game's release and an official meetup has been scheduled for this Saturday.

All about The New Pokemon Go

Augmented reality is all the new rage in the town, and everyone wants it. There has been a staggering surge in how Pokémon GO has captured the public imagination with this package. Niantic tried the same formula with its earlier offering, Ingress where players had to go around looking for treasures and capturing portals to create triangles on the maps to make control fields. Even though the game had a dedicated following and a passionate community driving it, the concept was new.
Niantic made a package that has reintroduced the adventure everyone wanted to go on since childhood, the real world. There was no need for the company to conceptualize a new idea and establish it with the users. Instead, they used an established idea, rather a fantasy of children. This was the first implementation of the technology in a long time which brought AR back on the discussion table after all the VR hype. AR was limited to the brief moments of “how cool that concept looks” keeping in mind how Google Glass was pegged by Google. With time, AR grew to “How cool the technology and experience is” with the execution of the concept by Microsoft with Hololens.

Image Credits: YouTube

Pokémon GO made me give another chance to AR as a technology after all the VR things going around. After using the implementation of both the technologies on my mobile device, I came to the conclusion that AR is here and for the better. There are a lot of reasons for me to call out AR better, and the main thing is affordability. It is AFFORDABLE; you don’t need to break your bank for a good AR experience.

The technology works on existing hardware in addition to previous generation smartphones. You don’t need to spend $600 to $800 to buy an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive in addition to a VR compatible system. Many companies like Asus and Alienware have also come out with VR capable devices that require the user to carry the system in a backpack while costing an easy $1,000 just to experience virtual reality. In the smartphone market, experiencing VR doesn’t sound like an expensive affair but you need to invest in a decent virtual reality headsets which start from Rs 2,500, which again are not impressive. Another factor is the lack of quality of the experience unless your smartphone is equipped with a 2K display. Even with a 2K display, which increases the price of your smartphone,  there is no guarantee  of a complete immersive VR experience.

People around the world waited in line for 13 hours to buy this new phone

It's approaching midnight when the last customer finally scurries out of the door and into the crisp London night. The shop doesn't normally keep such late hours, but tonight is a special occasion.
The customer stands in the dim light outside of the storefront, giddily looking through the contents of his shopping bag, but it doesn't contain a new suit or any other tailored piece of menswear that would typically be sold during the bespoke tailor’s business hours.
It's a smartphone.

Like hundreds of eager Londoners before him, he had to brave a massive crowd that lined several blocks on Brushfield Street since the early hours of the morning in order to get it. Some arrived 13 hours in advance, to be joined later by hundreds of people who anxiously awaited the store opening at 3pm.
Just hours before, the scene looked the same outside of Colette on Rue Saint Honoré in Paris — before that, outside of Firmament on Mitte, Linienstraße in Berlin.
And as the doors of Joshua Kane locked in London, a line started to form outside of Magnum Soho in New York City.
Over the next few days, thousands of fans flocked to the bustling streets of Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore as the anticipation and excitement spilled over to India. Each location had been transformed, for a mere handful of hours, to accommodate the most anticipated smartphone release of the year.
But this phone — the one that compelled fans across the world to travel up to hundreds of miles to eagerly wait for hours on sidewalks — might not be the one you have in mind.

The phone you'll be willing to wait for

On June 14th, OnePlus launched its newest flagship device, the OnePlus 3. The following day, the phone was made available at a series of pop-up stores across the world. Now, for any casual smartphone user, it would be enough to sit back, order the phone online and patiently wait for the new device to arrive at their doorstep days later.
But for the OnePlus community, waiting isn't in the cards.
Eager to scoop up the phone at the first opportunity, rabid technophiles flooded the streets outside each pop-up location in New York, London, Paris and Berlin.
Thousands showed up for the phone's debut, and each store stayed open longer than anticipated in order to meet the demand.
While they were waiting, some OnePlus fans shared why they were so excited for the new phone, and why they keep coming back to the growing tech player.

iphone 7 with a new Ugly Camera>>>See photos

The iPhone 6 and 6S's most hated feature (aside from starting with 16GB of internal storage and the ugly antenna lines) is the protruding camera lens bump.
Fans hoping for Apple to flatten it down so the entire phone is flush on the back again will likely be disappointed when the iPhone 7 launches this year because it's probably not going to happen.

Corroborating previous leaks, the reliable Nowhereelse.fr has obtained an image of what is reportedly the case for the iPhone 7.
The image shows an aluminum body that closely resembles the iPhone 6S, but with re-worked antenna lines and a camera cutout that's significantly larger than the one on the current iPhone 6S.
In other words: OH MY FRICKIN' GOD THAT'S HIDEOUS.
The camera bump, as Apple chief design officer Jony Ive told The New Yorker last year was a "pragmatic optimization." Ive didn't elaborate, but it's clear the image sensor was simply too large to fit into the slim iPhone 6 and 6S's profile.

It's time we get over the camera bump since phone makers are unlikely to make their devices significantly thicker to accommodate better image sensors.

And it looks like the bump will only get bigger for this year's iPhone. A larger camera bump indicates there will be some kind of major camera improvement, which is a great thing. But an improvement doesn't make the bump any prettier. A case, like the many that are available for the iPhone 6 and 6S, will minimize the bump, but from a pure design standpoint, it looks like Apple's going to be making a concession yet again.
Competing devices like Samsung's Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge also have rather large camera bumps to accommodate their larger and faster camera sensors.

The iPhone 7's larger camera bump might not even be the biggest, ugliest one yet. The larger iPhone 7 Plus is rumored to come with two camera lenses on the back, which means it'll have an even larger and wider camera bump. Double yuck!
At this point, maybe it's time we get over the camera bump. It's clearly here to stay until the image sensors get thinner or phone makers build thicker phones. And knowing Apple, devices almost always get thinner, not thicker.

Here’s why India has been shy of 2-in-1 tablets in 2016

2-in-1 tablets or ‘hybrid’ devices have had a slow growth primarily due to clunky design or inferior hardware that didn’t match up to entry-level notebooks. The onset of the Surface Pro was very crucial as Microsoft proved that a convertible tablet can replace a laptop, well almost. Since then various OEMs have created their own ‘Surface’ devices (even Apple and Google for that matter).
The scenario in India, however, is different as the Surface and similar devices fall in the premium price range. This makes them less accessible to the masses. Local OEMs like Micromax and iBall have tried their hands on creating a budget 2-in-1 tablet, but haven’t been able to intrigue their audience as of yet. Another important Indian OEM is Notion Ink. I say important because the company had a global presence when it announced its first product, the Android based tablet Adam, which was the same time when the Apple iPad started taking over the tablet world. Sure it didn’t go very well and the company got into trouble due to its slow supply chain, and it eventually got support from Microsoft to produce Windows based tablets. In my opinion, it is the only Indian manufacturer that has come close to creating a worthy budget 2-in-1 tablet.
Currently, the company sells a few models under the Cain series and recently introduced a new product called the Able, a sturdy Windows based 2-in-1 which has been designed based on consumer feedback. It is a solid value for money product, but yet again it hasn’t been able to create a buzz.
So why are OEMs not able to attract consumers? Agreed that some of them are not well polished, but devices like the Able are well suited for students and professionals who require a machine that is portable and reliable for everyday tasks. One of the reasons for the slow progress of 2-in-1 devices could be the explosive penetration of smartphones. Consumers have started relying on mobile devices more than the PC since they have become the next big tools of productivity, not to mention the growing size or popularly known as phablets. Another possible reason is Microsoft itself. By creating the Surface Pro, the company has not only set a benchmark but has also raised the expectations of consumers with its high-end features. Sadly that kind of technology is going to take years before it reaches devices in the entry-level or affordable range.
While the country is one of the early adopters of the new technology, but 2016 is not the year of 2-in-1 devices for India overall. Having said that, the coming years will be important as there will be a massive shift wherein consumers will move from large desktops to more portable 2-in-1 PCs.

Robberies and injuries rising in Pokémon GO frenzy

New mobile game Pokemon Go has become an overnight sensation with U.S. fans but also played a role in armed robberies in Missouri, the discovery of a body in Wyoming and minor injuries to fans distracted by the app, officials and news media reported on Monday. The “augmented reality” game based on the 1990s Japanese franchise surged to the top of Apple Inc’s app charts over the weekend. Gamers use their mobile devices to find and capture virtual Pokemon characters such as cuddly yellow Pikachu at various real-life locations.
Five days after its release, the game now is on more Android phones than dating app Tinder, and its rate of daily active users was neck and neck with social network Twitter, according to analytics firm SimilarWeb. Highlighting a dark side to its popularity, the game was used by four teens in Missouri to lure nearly a dozen victims into armed robberies, police and media reports said. Police warned players to be vigilant when using smartphones and other mobile devices to search for characters in the game.

“When you’re involved in a game and not paying attention to what’s going on around you, your situational awareness can go down,” Greensboro, North Carolina police officer Ben Wingfield told local television. Developed by Pokemon Company International, Niantic Inc and Nintendo Co Ltd, the game uses the GPS mapping and camera systems on players’ devices. “We encourage all people playing Pokemon Go to be aware of their surroundings and to play with friends when going to new or unfamiliar places,” Pokemon Company International and Niantic said in an emailed statement.
Police in O’Fallon, a suburb of St. Louis, said they arrested the four teens on Sunday after a robbery victim called police from a convenience store. “Using the geolocation feature of the Pokemon Go app, the robbers were able to anticipate the location and level of seclusion of unwitting victims,” O’Fallon police Sergeant Bill Stringer said in a release. Social media buzzed with reports of players who suffered minor injuries from tripping and falling while glued to their cell phones and minor incidents while driving and looking for Pokemon.
“I catch myself almost walking into things, so I’ve kind of started playing a little bit less in the street,” said Henry Mendez, 32, a parking valet from Los Angeles. The game was the most downloaded free app on Apple’s app store while Nintendo’s shares surged nearly 25 percent for their biggest daily gains in history after Pokemon Go’s takeoff. [nL4N19X16B] Shayla Wiggins, 19, was searching for a water-based Pokemon character near Riverton, Wyoming when she discovered a body near a bridge, where a man is thought to have drowned in shallow water, according to media reports. “I probably would have never went down there if it weren’t for this game,” Wiggins told CNN.

Resturant In Singapore selling a Meal for $2million

If you have an extra $2 million in spare change, you might be keen on this meal in Singapore that bills itself as the "world's most expensive dining experience."
Ce La Vi, on the rooftop of the Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore, is teaming up with Russian diamond company World of Diamonds, to offer the exclusive experience that will last an estimated eight hours, they said in a press release Tuesday.

The two-person package will start with a 45-minute helicopter ride over Singapore, and includes some time in a luxury cruise and a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce ride to Ce La Vi, where the diners will be presented with 10,000 roses and an 18-course meal.
The companies promise that the meal (to be eaten with diamond chopsticks with the diners' names engraved on them) includes all sorts of other decadent elements such as Belon oysters, Almas Caviar — supposedly the most expensive variety — and only 44- and 55-year-old vintage wines.
And at the end of the meal, the couple will be presented with a 2.08 carat blue diamond rose-gold ring that World of Diamonds has named after actress Jane Seymour.

According to Luxury Lifestyle, diamonds this blue have been known to be auctioned at over $2 million, and that it's already received interest from a number of parties, including a royal family.
Karan Tilani, head of Asia for World of Diamonds confirmed to Tech Info that the company had already received "substantial interest" on the ring before the Ce La Vi tie-up.
World of Diamonds unveiled the ring together with the actress in Singapore about three months ago.
The companies have not yet said when the meal will commence, but have noted that interested applicants will be screened, and they will select the lucky duo for this luxurious dining experience.
For now, the two will continue fielding requests from interested parties ahead of a press preview slated for August — no doubt intended to drum up more publicity for the event — at which Ce La Vi and World of Diamonds will present items such as a diamond dessert and the diamond-studded chopsticks.

How Iphone Help This Paratriathlete prepare for Olympics

Katie Kelly's life has always revolved around sport, and living with a disability has not slowed her down.
In her twenties, Kelly was diagnosed with Usher syndrome, a degenerative eye sight and hearing condition. Today at 41, she is aiming for a spot on the Australian team for the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio De Janeiro. "I'm a living example that it's never too late to reach your peak," Kelly told Tech Info australia

Working in sports marketing for more than 20 years, she had participated in marathons and Iron Man challenges but remained a "weekend warrior." That changed around 18 months ago when her ophthalmologist confirmed Kelly was now legally blind.

While she had worn a hearing aid since age five, Kelly decided to find out if she could continue to compete in races as a vision-impaired athlete. She was recruited into Australia's elite-para triathlete team and won the 2015 World Triathlon Grand Final in Chicago.
To compete in para triathlons, which include a 750 meter swim, a 20 kilometer ride and a 5 kilometer run, she has been paired with a guide, Michelle Jones, herself an Olympic medalist. The two women are tethered together during the swim, use a tandem bike and then run together.

Next week, Kelly will know if she's been selected for Australia's Paralympic team.

Bringing tech into training

For Kelly, a range of technology has had a significant impact on her training, which takes place two to three times a day in sessions of up to three hours.
Training in Canberra, the iPhone 6+ with its Listen Live function has been a consistent asset. The smartphone feature can be paired via Bluetooth with a hearing aid.
"It's effectively a built-in microphone," Kelly explained. "I've now got a mount on my coach's bike and I put my iPhone on his bike. So if I'm doing sessions where he's guiding me directly in front on the bike and I'm sitting behind him ... it means that when he's talking it goes straight into my hearing aid."
"When I'm just doing sprints around a track, he can actually speak to me through the phone and tell me if I'm meeting the times," she added. Jones can also use Listen Live to communicate with Kelly when they ride together on the tandem bike.

While none of this technology can be used at official races, it acts as an assistant during training for Kelly. She also uses waterproof hearing aids so her coach can speak with her during swim practice. "Again, I can have him talking to me through the phone while I've got my waterproof hearing aids on in the water," she said. "That's even better than a hearing person."
Off the track, she just started using an Apple Watch, which she called a "God send."
"For someone like me, with my sight, it's easy to misplace things," she explained. "Not to have to get my iPhone out, it makes it so much easier to be communicating, talking to Siri and getting messages."
In daily life, other simple smartphone functions are a big help — the iPhone torch, for example. "As soon as it gets dark, I need a torch. Not having to carry a torch and having one through my phone is a big thing," she added.

Improving accessible design

While companies such as Apple work hard at making their technology accessible, Kelly suggested a few tweaks.
When using Listen Live, for example, she suggested it would be useful to have some kind of remote in her hand so she can easily control volume and switch it off or on. "For people with hearing aids, to stop having to take them in and out, that Bluetooth

function is absolutely critical," she said. "To be able to switch from talking to you to hearing what's going on around me, rather than taking my aids in and out all the time."
According to Kelly, it's incumbent on all brands to ask themselves whether a genuine range of people are able to use their products: "This is a product or service we are offering — are we catering for the majority and the minority?" 
"Where we are now with technology, with efficiency, there's no excuse for major brands not be thinking about how everyone can have the opportunity to engage or to use their product," she added.

Making sure everyone can play sport

While training full-time, Kelly has also been working on setting up her own foundation, Sports Access, which aims to remove barriers to sport participation for children with disabilities.
"A lot of progress has be made," she said. "That's not easy, there are a lot of resources involved, but I think increasingly as we've seen more recognition of women in sport, the next stepping stone is more inclusion of people with disabilities."
In her own case, she believes Usher syndrome was ultimately an impetus to success. When she discovered she had the condition and that her eyesight would eventually deteriorate, it gave her immense drive.
"Because of that approach, it's meant that incredible things are happening now in terms of potentially representing Australia in the Paralympics. I could never have imagined that would ever be the case," Kelly added.
"That's the irony of losing my sight, I'm blind enough to compete as a paratriathelete. I think that if you're going to lose it, you might as well use it."

Incredible offer....HTC to discount $100 off on HTC 10 phones in USA..order now here...

In yet another sign of its smartphone struggles, HTC is today initiating a new discount on its flagship HTC 10 handset in the United States. Slashing $100 off the 10’s original $699 price, HTC will also give customers a $100 credit toward acquiring accessories from its htc.com

web store. That makes the HTC 10 a $499 phone, provided you buy it before the end of this month and you really want to have extras like the Ice View case or car adapter. It would be an even better offer if you could put the second $100 toward the purchase of an HTC Vive, but HTC explicitly rules out Vive accessories.
HTC has yet to report its first earnings reflecting the sales impact of the HTC 10, but early indications haven't been encouraging. Pinning its hopes for a turnaround on such an expensive device was always going to be a gamble for HTC, and the company's discount so soon after the 10's release would seem to be an acknowledgement of that fact. HTC is no longer competitive among entry-level and mid-range smartphones, having lost out to Samsung's Galaxy portfolio and the countless Chinese upstarts filling the space, and the company now really needs its flagship phone to be a major success.

A hacker is selling 117 million LinkedIn logins on the Dark Web

It’s no surprise to anyone that emails and social media accounts are hacked every single day. And if you cast your mind back to 2012, you might remember how millions of LinkedIn users were left vulnerable after it emerged that a Russian hacker was offloading over 6 million of their login details online.
Well, he/she is back and this time there are 117 million email and passwords belonging to LinkedIn users up for grabs on an illegal Dark Web marketplace called The Real Deal for 5 bitcoin ($2,200 approximately).
Under the nickname Peace, the hacker has
spoken to Motherboard and confirmed these logins come from the 2012 breach – proving that LinkedIn did not make it known just how widespread the hack was at the time.
The hacker added that while the majority of the passwords are encrypted or hashed with the SHA1 algorithm, over 90 percent have already been cracked. Motherboard also independently verified the email and passwords of some affected users.
While you might not have your bank details saved to your LinkedIn profile, the information that could be pulled from your account is still extremely private and could potentially allow someone to steal your identity. So, it’s probably best to change your password ASAP if you think you may have been affected and if you use the same password for multiple sites, I’d change those too.

IPhone 7 is going to lunch soon...see photos

As rumors of what Apple may do with the iPhone 7 swirl, the latest involve a flat Home button and a new ‘space black’ design. Sounds kinda blah — until you see the renders.
The gallery below come courtesy of Martin Hajek, who creates 3D renders of various products at his whim. We’ll let you ogle before we get back into the details.

The Space Black color is an iteration on Space Grey, and currently available for Apple Watch. The issue there is that the Space Black Apple Watch is steel; an iPhone is not. The aluminum Apple Watch is Space Grey, suggesting there’s a bit of an issue with anodizing aluminum to be Space Black.
The antenna lines are also more subdued. They follow the curvature of the phone rather than streaking along the back.
Around front, the Home button is shown as flat. Recent rumors point to it being Force Touch — technology Apple has worked into its MacBook trackpads and the Apple Watch. On the iPhone, it’s believed that Apple may also work haptic feedback in to mimic a button press so you know when a firm press has been registered.
The Home button still has Touch ID, but it could be entirely new technology — possibly from Sonavation. I’m not sure how well a visible ring on a flat surface would play to the crowd versus a physical button, but it’s one less part to repair for Apple.

Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26b

Microsoft is set to acquire LinkedIn , the social network for professionals, for $26.2 billion in an all-cash transaction.
The company said that LinkedIn will continue to operate as usual. Jeff Weiner will remain CEO of LinkedIn, reporting to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2016.
Microsoft has acquired a number of businesses since Satya Nadella took up the role of CEO at the company, but this is the first major deal he’s signed in this position.
It’s a smart move for the company, as it strives to solidify its place in the market as the go-to vendor for productivity tools and services. In addition to bringing numerous new capabilities to its Office 365 cloud-based software suite, it acquired calendar app
Sunrise and to-do list tool Wunderlist in recent times.
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner said:
Just as we have changed the way the world connects to opportunity, this relationship with Microsoft, and the combination of their cloud and LinkedIn’s network, now gives us a chance to also change the way the world works.
For the last 13 years, we’ve been uniquely positioned to connect professionals to make them more productive and successful, and I’m looking forward to leading our team through the next chapter of our story.
It’ll be be interesting to see if Microsoft begins integrating LinkedIn’s social networking and job listing and search capabilities into its software and online services.
I, for one, am hoping that the first order of business is revamping LinkedIn’s famously horrible site design .

China just finished building the world’s largest telescope to look for aliens

Yesterday, China completed construction of the world’s largest radio telescope in Pingtang County, southwest of China’s Guizhou Province.
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, took roughly five years to complete and cost $180m; initial plans and location reconnaissance began way back in 1994. Its massive reflector, comprised of 4,450 panels covers the same area as 30 football fields.
It will become operational in September and will be used to search for extraterrestrial life, but don’t expect to hear about FAST aiding in major discoveries right away. Over the next two to three years, the telescope will be subject to adjustments and used for early-stage research by scientists in China. It will then become available to researchers across the globe to use.
According to Xinhua News , FAST will aid in detecting pulsars, gravitational waves and eventually amino acids, which would confirm life on other planets.
What makes world's largest ever radio telescope FAST in SW #China 's Guizhou so extraordinary? #XinhuaTVhttps://t.co/fLK9CrBlZC
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) July 2, 2016
The telescope is much bigger than the
Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, which was previously regarded as the world’s largest at around 300m in diameter.
In order to ensure total radio silence within a five-kilometer radius around FAST, more than 9,000 people will be moved out of the area surrounding the telescope and resettled in neighboring counties by September.

Nobody will click your links ever again with this shady URL shortener

There are a lot of reasons to use URL shorteners – not a single one of them is to look like you’re joining ISIS.

It’s not the first way to get the FBI on your heels for your search history, but it’s definitely the most creative. With URLify you can now make sure nobody will ever click your links again, thanks to beautiful word arrangements like
http://6h2.xyz/twink_brck_crippled-children_alzk_white_p0wer_download
and
http://6h2.xyz/necro_jfoqwjefqq_cheap-krokodil_ygszz_isis-dark-net_view
If it’s not the .xyz domain putting people off, then it might very well be phrases like ‘heroin playtime’ or ‘tentacle fun’.
Have fun messing around with your URLs, but when you’re in custody please don’t tell them you heard it from us

Facebook gets in trouble with Brazilian court over WhatsApp controversy

WhatsApp just can’t seem to catch a break in Brazil. The Facebook-owned messaging service made headlines in the country twice already this year.
Now, a new court ruling has ordered that 19.5 million reais ($6.07 million) in Facebook funds be frozen after the social media giant has repeatedly failed to cooperate with Brazilian federal police in a drug-related case, Reuters reports.
The police said the Facebook subsidiary has declined to turn over messages sent and received via WhatsApp by members implicated in an international cocaine smuggling investigation dating back to January.
Without this information, proving the criminal involvement of the individuals captured in recent raids might be difficult or even impossible.
The amount of funds frozen equals the sum of WhatsApp’s accumulated fines for non-compliance in the case.
Since the messaging service has no bank accounts in Brazil, the ruling applies to its parent company, Facebook.
So far Brazilian authorities have not resorted to provisions of the country’s internet law that allows courts to block access to online services in special cases of non-compliance.
Previously WhatsApp was blocked in Brazil on two separate occasions over the last year –
once for 12 hours and on another instance for 24 . Only the latter shutdown was related to the drug investigation in question.
At present, WhatsApp has over 100 million users in Brazil.

How to know that you're addicted to a game

The phantom presence:
You’re probably addicted to your game if you find yourself attempting in some way to engage in it even when you’re not playing. A game’s phantom presence manifests itself in many ways: listening to the OST when you’re driving to work, talking to your clan mates more than you talk to your friends, watching broadcasts and let’s plays in your spare time, daydreaming about a new piece of gear… these are a few of the most common examples. I frequently found that when my wife and I had our down time - enjoying a beer or chatting before bed - I’d have a Destiny wiki pulled up on my phone, checking the most effective areas to farm a certain material or seeing what Xur was selling for the weekend. If your gaming habit has pushed across bridges into parts of your life that should remain separate, you might need to reconsider your priorities and make some adjustments.

GTA V cheat codes for XBOX

EFFECT CODE
Full Health / Armor, $250K
RT, RB, LT, A,
Left, Down, Right, Up,
Left, Down, Right, Up

No Bullet Damage
Down, A, Right, Left, Right
RT, Right, Down, Up, Y

Infinite Ammo
LT, RT, X, RT, Left, RB, RT,
Left, X, Down, LT, LT

Never Wanted
B, Right, B, right, Left, X, Y, Up

Weapon Set 01
(Bat, Pistol, Shotgun, Mini SMG, AK-47, RPG, Molotov,
Spray Can, Brass Knuckles)
RT, RB, LT, RB,
Left, Down, Right, Up,
Left, Down, Right, Up

Weapon Set 02
(Knife, Pistol, Sawed-off Shotgun,
Tec-9, Sniper Rifle, Flamethrower
Grenades, Fire Extinguisher)
RT, RB, LT, RB
Left, Down, Right, Up,
Left, Down, Down, Left

Weapon Set 03
(Chainsaw, Silenced Pistol, M4,
Combat Shotgun, Bazooka, C4)
RT, RB, LT, RB,
Left, Down, Right, Up,
Left, Down, Down, Down

Clear Wanted Level
RT, RT, B, RB
Up, Down, Up, Down, Up, Down

Raise Wanted Level
RT, RT, B, RB
Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right

Full Wanted Level
B, Right, B, Right, Left, X, Down

Death Car
(Invincible, destroys other cars)
LT, LB, LB, Up, Down, Down
Up, RT, RB, RB

Super Punches
Up, Left, A, Y, RT, B, B, B, LB

Pedestrian Riot
Down, Left, Up, A
RB, RT, LB, LT

City in Chaos
(Riots, buildings on fire)
LB, Right, LT, Y, Right, Right
RT, LT, Right, LT, LT, LT

Aggressive Traffic
RB, B, RT, LB, Left
RT, LT, RB, LB

Spawn Tank (Rhino)
B,B, LT, B,B,B
LT, LB, RT, Y, B, Y

Spawn Jetpack
Left, Right, LT, LB, RT, RB,
Up, Down, Left, Right

CJ jumps higher
Up(2), Y(2), Up(2), Left,
Right,X, RB(2)

Commit suicide
Right, LB, Down, RT, Left(2),
RT, LT, LB, LT

Adrenaline effects
A(2), X, RT, LT, A, Down, Left, A

Perfect handling
Y, RT(2), Left, RT, LT, RB, LT

Faster cars
Right, RT, Up, LB(2), Left,
RT, LT, RT(2)

Invisible cars
Y, LT, Y, RB, X, LT(2)

Flying cars
X, Down, LB, Up, LT, B,
Up, A, Left

Cars Fly Away
X, RB, Down, Down, Left, Down, Left, Left, LB, A

Drive on Water
Right, RB, B, RT, LB, X, RT, RB

Destroy all cars
RB, LB, RT, LT, LB, RB,
X, Y, B, Y, LB, LT

Flying boats
RB, B, Up, LT, Right, RT,
Right, Up, X, Y

Massive BMX bunny hops
Y, X, B, B, X, B, B, LT,
LB(2), RT, RB

All cars have nitrous
Left, Y, RT, LT, Up, X, Y,
Down, B, LB, LT(2)

All traffic lights remain green
Right, RT, Up, LB(2), Left,
RT, LT, RT(2)

Bounty on CJ
Down, Up(2), Up, A,
RB, RT, LB(2)

Max respect
LT, RT, Y, Down, RB, A,
LT, Up, LB(2), LT(2)

Hitman level for all weapons
Down, X, A, Left, RT, RB,
Left, Down(2), LT(3)

Maximum vehicle skills
X, LB, A, RT, LB(2), Left,
RT, Right, LT(3)

Maximum sex appeal
B, Y(2), Up, B, RT, LB,
Up, Y, LT(3)

Maximum muscle
Y, Up(2), Left, Right, X, B, Left

Maximum fat
Y, Up(2), Left, Right, X, B, Down

No fat or muscle
Y, Up(2), Left, Right, X, B, Right

Taxi missions completed
Up, Left(2), Down, B, X,
LT(2), LB, RT, RB

Pimping missions completed
Right, LB(2), Down, LB,
Up(2), LB, RB

Pedestrians have weapons
RB, RT, A, Y, A, Y, Up, Down

Gangs only
LB, Up, RT(2), Left, RT(2),
RB, Right, Down

Slow down time
Y, Up, Right, Down, X, RB, RT

Speed up time
B(2), LT, X, LT, X(3), LT, Y, B, Y

Always 21:00
Left(2), LB, RT, Right, X(2),
LT, LB, A

Always 00:00 or 12:00
X, LT, RT, Right, A, Up, LT, Left(2)

Slow motion
Y, Up, Right, Down, X, RB, RT

Fast motion
Y, Up, Right, Down, LB, LT, X

Overcast weather
RB, A, LT(2), LB(3), Y

Foggy weather
RB, A, LT(2), LB(3), A

Stormy weather
RB, A, LT(2), LB(3), B

Sandstorm weather
Up, Down, LT(2), LB(2),
LT, LB, RT, RB

Cloudy weather
LB, Down(2), Left, X, Left,
RB, X, A, RT, LT(2)

Very cloudy weather
RB, A, LT(2), LB(3), X

Sunny weather
RB, A, LT(2), LB(3), Y

Very sunny weather
RB, A, LT(2), LB(3), Down

Spawn Stunt Plane
B, Up, LT, LB, Down,
RT, LT(2), Left(2), A, Y

Spawn Bloodring Banger
Down, RT, B, LB(2), A,
RT, LT, Left(2)

Spawn Caddy
B, LT, Up, RT, LB, A, RT, LT, B, A

Spawn Dozer
RB, LT(2), Right(2), Up(2),
A, LT, Left

Spawn Hotring Racer 1
RT, B, RB, Right, LT, LB,
A(2), X, RT

Spawn Hotring Racer 2
RB, LT, B, Right, LT, RT,
Right, Up, B, RB

Spawn Hunter
B, A, LT, B(2), LT, B,
RT, RB, LB, LT(2)

Spawn Tanker
RT, Up, Left, Right, RB,
Up, Right, X, Right, LB, LT(2)

Spawn Hydra
Y(2), X, B, A, LT(2), Down, Up

Spawn Monster Truck
Right, Up, RT(3), Down,
Y(2), A, B, LT(2)

Spawn Parachute
Left, Right, LT, LB, RT, RB(2),
Up, Down, Right, LT

Spawn Rancher
Up, Right(2), LT, Right, Up, X, LB

Spawn Romero
Down, RB, Down, RT, LB, Left, RT, LT, Left, Right

Spawn Stretch (Limo)
RB, Up, LB, Left(2),
RT, LT, B, Right

Spawn Trashmaster
B, RT, B, RT, Left(2),
RT, LT, B, Right

Spawn Vortex
Y(2), X, B, A, LT, LB, Down(2)

Beach party theme
Up(2), Down(2), X, B,
LT, RT, Y, Down

Carnival theme
Y(2), LT, X(2), B, X, Down, B

Kinky theme
X, Right, X(2), LB, A, Y, A, Y

Rural theme
LT(2), RT(2), LB, LT, RB,
Down, Left, Up

Yakuza theme
A(2), Down, RB, LB, B, RT, B, X

Beater traffic
LB, Right, LT, Up, A,
LT, LB, RB, RT, LT(3)

Black traffic
B, LB, Up, RT, Left, A,
RT, LT, Left, B

Pink traffic
B, LT, Down, LB, Left, A,
RT, LT, Right, B

Sports car traffic
Up, LT, RT, Up, Right, Up,
A, LB, A, LT
Rural traffic
Y, Left, X, RB, Up, LB,
Down, LT, A, LT (x3)

Samurai jack season 5 out

In a behind the scenes video presented at the Toonami panel at Anime Expo, several production members working on
Season 5 revealed new information about Jack's return.
Samurai Jack creator and director Genndy Tartakovsky said that the new season will not have a direct connection between the last episode of the original to the new series. Instead, this new show takes place years after the original, and that's changed Jack.

“I think we're going to see [Jack] in a new light because we'e going to see him from a different standpoint," writer Darrick Bachman said. "In the original series he was very heroic person on a very rigid quest. Now we pick up with him an it's many years after the fact and he's a little bit lost. So it's a story of redemption and him trying to find who he is again."
With the move from Cartoon Network to Adult Swim, the Samurai Jack team has the ability to make the show more adult, but Tartakovsky said that change has been a "big challenge."
"...People watch [Samurai Jack] with their kids. You know, through the generations," Tartakovsky said. "I didn't want to go full on heads getting chopped off and blood spurting everywhere, but at the same time I also wanted it to be newer and exciting and take advantage of some of those things."
Tartakovsky goes on to say that this new Samurai Jack is a darker, more episodic story with action that's "just as badass as it's always going to be. Probably even more.

What to do when you spill water on your laptop

Have you ever had water or any other liquid – soda, water, coffee, tea, wine, milk or juice- accidentally spill on your laptop? It is a terrible feeling, especially if you spent a lot of money purchasing the laptop or you have very important information in it.

Drink spills are a risk to laptops in many environments: at home, coffee shops and bars. It is just something that happens and all you can do is act as fast as you can to control the situation.

If you are reading this article right now, trying to figure out how to save your precious laptop from the liquid you just spilled on it,Jumia Travel, Africa’s No.1 online hotel booking portal has a number of the steps for you to follow while keeping in mind that time is of the essence.

Stop the spill.

The first thing you do when you realize water is getting on your laptop is to stop the spill, that way the amount of water getting in the computer is reduced. You do this either by raising a cup that may have fallen on to it, or by physically removing the laptop such that the spillage stops.  Moving the laptop though is determined by how the gadget reacts to the spillage. If it explodes or sparks, you may want to get some gloves first or just run for help.

Cut off power supply

Water and electricity are a very bad mix. Most laptops run on battery, which are charged with electricity. Next thing you do after you stop the spill is cut out the power supply to the laptop, that way you reduce chances of being electrocuted. Again, this depends on how much water has been spilled and what parts it made contact with. If it just a few droplets, you may not need to go that far. But if the spill is a lot, and your laptop is wet, You should turn it off, unplug the network cable from the wall, disconnect the power cable from the laptop. Do not even bother with shutting it down properly, just go ahead and press that power button until your machine shuts down. Make sure your hands are dry too.

Turn the laptop over and remove the battery.

Once the laptop is disconnected, turn the laptop upside down and remove the battery. Turning the laptop ensures that the liquid will stop seeping deeper into the laptop and it will also help in draining the liquid off of your laptop. Take out the battery too and check to see how much water it has come in contact with.

Clean the spilled liquid

If the spill is small, using a lint-free paper towel or cloth, clean the laptop surface, but if you feel the spill must have seeped into areas beneath the surface, you can dismantle some parts like the keyboard and clean it thoroughly.

Replace the battery and observe

Once you are sure you are done with all the cleaning, and you are sure the laptop is absolutely dry, replace the battery and check to see if it starts up properly. If it works properly, then you are in luck, however, if there are some issues and even the keyboard does not work, try plugging in a USB keyboard, this may allow you to retrieve any data that hasn’t been backed up before you take it in for repairs.