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Thousands of hackers are gathering in the east German city of Leipzig on Wednesday for their annual convention.
Under the motto “Do Something,” the four-day event run by the Chaos Computer Club is expected to deal with hot topics such as security vulnerabilities, hacker attacks, data protection and artificial intelligence.
In addition to dealing with aspects of IT security, political and social debates play an ever increasing role at the annual convention.
The 34th Chaos Communication Congress (34c3) continues to grow and is sold out this year.
Once your new post get publish follow all the above tips, you’ll start to see more traffic from Google search.
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AdSense is a platform made by Google that enables websites owners or bloggers to make money with their site or blog while they implement and display google Ads on their blog. In Nigeria, as a Nigerian blogger, you cannot easily get an approved Nigeria Google AdSense. Now the only two alternatives is you signing up for either USA or UK AdSense Account in Nigeria.
Are you a blogger or webmaster looking for way to get AdSense Approved fast and start earning, the trick here is that you will apply for USA or UK Adsense account because their approval rules and policies are not strict like that of Nigeria but you will only need a little set up to get your adsense approved without delay.
Step 2 : Log in the Gmail Account you want to use to register for AdSense Account
Step 3 : In the next page, insert your website URL and select content language which is to be English.
Step 4 : Then, under Country/territory: Select UNITED STATES or UNITED KINGDOM. Here, enter your Name, Address, City, State and Postal Code. If you don't have neither a USA or UK Address and postal code, there is a way you could get it. You can make use of Shoptomydoor
Note : You can make use of Nigeria number to open USA AdSense.
Step 5 : Finally, tap on SUBMIT APPLICATION.
Now you have applied / register a UK And USA Adsense Account. Now, you will be enabled to log in to your account. Not to start earning but to connect your site with AdSense.
Therefore, you will be given an html ad code. Parse and paste the generated verification HTML code in your website under the tag as explained in this post
Note : Any Blogger From any country can sign up for both UK or USA Adsense Account.
Within the next million years or so, between 19 and 24 ‘death stars’ will come within 3.26 light years of the sun.
This is close enough to deflect comets away from their original paths and towards Earth - increasing the chance that one will wipe out life on our planet.
This is according to a new paper that has looked at how often stars stray into the Oort cloud - a spherical shell of billions of icy objects that exist in the outer reaches of our solar system.
A particularly close encounter of one star, dubbed Gliese 710, in 1.3 million years’ time, stands out.
It is predicted to pass within just 2.3 trillion km or about 16,000 Earth-sun distances, well within the Oort Cloud.
‘Certainly anything coming within that distance you should worry about,’ said Coryn Bailer-Jones, of the Max Planck Institute for in Heidelberg and the paper’s author told the Guardian.
If this occurs, the strong gravitational force of the star, which has a mass 60 per cent that of our sun, could cause a shower of comets to switch course and target our planet.
Although some will drift into space and others will be absorbed by the sun and other planets, astronomers have warned a significant impact with Earth is entirely possible.
A further 490 to 600 stars will pass the sun within a distance of 16.3 light years within the next million years, the paper claims.
The latest calculations of ‘death stars’ comes from movements of more than 300,000 stars surveyed by ESA’s Gaia satellite.
As the solar system moves through the Galaxy, and as other stars move on their own paths, close encounters are inevitable - though ‘close’ still means many trillions of miles.
A star, depending on its mass and speed, would need to get within about 37 trillion miles (60 trillion kilometres) before it starts to have an effect on the solar system’s distant reservoir of comets, the Oort Cloud, which is thought to extend out to 15 trillion kilometres from the sun, 100,000 times the sun-Earth distance.
For comparison, the outermost planet Neptune orbits at an average distance of about 2.7 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometres), or 30 sun-Earth distances.
Understanding the past and future motions of stars is a key goal of Gaia as it collects precise data on stellar positions and motions over its five-year mission.
After 14 months, the first catalogue of more than a billion stars was recently released, which included the distances and the motions across the sky for more than two million stars.
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Did you know that a lot of problems with your mobile phone can be easily solved? In this article, you will read about useful information that answers this question. So learn how to format android phone!
Format Android phone using computer
When your Android smartphone starts to perform slowly, switch off and on on its own, or give you some issues, the fastest and most convenient solution for many problems is to format the android.
You probably know that you can format android through the main menu of your phone and recovery mode. But if none of these methods has helped, you need to format the android through the computer.
Android Developer's software (SDK) includes useful tools that will allow you to format android phone using laptop.
The first step – you have to download and install the Android SDK. We will try to explain to you how to do it.
You need to download the Android SDK from the Google Developers site. Scroll down and find the section labeled "SDK Tools Only". Save the file in a convenient place on the computer - for example, on the desktop. The next step is to extract from the archive to the following address:
- Windows: Extract to system disk C.
- OS X: Extract to the home folder.
- Linux: Extract to the home folder.
Rename the extracted folder to "Android". At some point, we will refer to a folder called Android.
To work with the Android SDK, you need to install a working version of Sun Java. To do this, go to the official Oracle website and download the appropriate version for your computer (32-bit or 64-bit version). Please note that without Sun Java, you will not be able to install the Android SDK.
For users of computers running the Linux operating system, you also need to install Sun Java. You can download the x86 and x64 versions on the Oracle website.
For Mac computers, this is easier, because the manufacturer has already taken care of installing Sun Java.
Now, you need to set path (PATH) to Android SDK. The PATH variable in the operating system of your computer shows where to look for the executable file when you want to run the command from a command line or a terminal. For example, to start the ADB command you need to set the full path - i.e. ADB folder is inside the SDK folder - or specify the location set in the PATH variable itself.
Maybe it sounds difficult and confusing but it is much easier to do than explain. For users of computers with the Windows operating system you should do these to configure the path to the Android SDK:
- Click the Start button on the keyboard;
- Start typing "Environment Variables";
- As you enter, you will see the line "Edit the system environment variables". Select it;
- In the "Environment Variables" window, select PATH in the "System Variables" section. Then click the "Edit" button.
- Add the full path to the Android SDK and Android SDK Platform-tools, separated by a semicolon. It should look like this:
You may set the PATH on a computer running OS X on your Bash profile. It's very simple, and everything is done in one file. Find the file called .bash_profile. in the home folder. Open it with any text editor.
This file can be empty or filled with some information. Add the following pair of lines to the top of the file:
Please note that the Android SDK must be in your home folder. Then save the file and restart the computer. Install the PATH on a Linux computer similar to Mac computers - you need to edit the file. Use some text editor and open the ~ / .bashrc file. If such a file does not exist on your computer, you can create a new file and save it as ~ / .bashrc. At the end of the file, add the following lines:
After doing this, let’s continue to format our Android phone.
After installing Android SDK click the Windows + R button on the keyboard to open the Run application. After that, you need to type cmd to go to the command line.
The next step is to specify the path to the folder that contains Android Debug Bridge or ADB. You can do this using the “CD” command.
If you installed the SDK using our instructions, then the folder containing the ADB system is located at the following address: C: \ Android \ Android-SDK \ Platform-Tools.
Remember that your path to the ADB system may be different, so you need to check if the Adb.exe file exists in the folder of your SDK. Then connect your Android smartphone to your computer through the USB cable. During the formatting of the android phone, it is recommended to disconnect all USB devices that are connected to the computer, except for the Android smartphone itself.
And the last step is to enter the following command:
-Adb shell recovery -wipe_data
After that, your Android smartphone will be formatted. This will return the phone to factory settings. As you see it is not so hard to format your phone if you follow the instructions. We hope this guide has helped you a lot!
If you are an Android user and you don’t take cellular data usage for granted, here are the tips ypu can follow to reduce the data consumption of your mobile device.
1. Turn on data compression on Chrome!
Most of you are probably Android supporters. And hence, you are also likely Chrome users. Did you know Google’s popular browser has a feature that can reduce data consumption significantly? Google states this option should save you about 50% in data. All without you even feeling a difference. In fact, you may feel some changes – browsing will get faster!
What Chrome’s data compression option does is route all your web browsing through Google’s servers. The Search Giant then takes the website’s data, compresses it, optimizes it for the smaller screen and sends it back to your device.
All you have to do is open Chrome, tap on the 3-dot menu button and select Settings. Click onData Saver and then toggle the option in the top-right corner. You are done!
2. Restrict background data
Some apps just spend too much data, even when the smartphone is not in use. It’s actually one of the greatest features on Android, as background data allows you to keep everything updated and monitored while you are off doing other things. The deal here is that not every app needs to stay active at all times.
Go into Settings > Data Usage and select the app you want to restrict data for. In the stats you will see two types of data: foreground and background. If you find background data is too high and you don’t need the app to stay active, simple toggle the switch that is labeled as “Restrict app background data”.
3. Update apps only via WiFi
This one is a bit of an obvious one for many of us, but plenty of users out there continue updating their applications over cellular connections. This is OK if you choose to do it, but how many times have you noticed all your apps were auto-updated without your consent, spending all them precious GBs? Hopefully not too often, but if this is an issue, we can show you how to stop it from happening again. Just open the Google Play Store and tap on the hamburger menu button (three horizontal lines parallel to each other). Hit the Settings option and then select the “Auto-update apps” button. Hit “Auto-update apps over WiFi only”.
4. Keep an eye on your account syncing settings
We love our active syncing and push notifications, but having these also means the phone has to keep checking servers for any new content. You must also realize many apps and services are set to keep sync by default, and often we don’t even use them!
This is why you should keep an eye on your account syncing options. Just go to Settings > Accounts. For the sake of showcasing useless services, let’s just jump into your Google accounts and select your most used one. In my case, all toggles are turned on, so I am syncing app data, Calendar, Chrome, Contacts, Docs, Drive, Gmail, Google Fit, Opinion Rewards, Photos, Play Music, Google+, Keep, Slides and many others. Now, I know for a fact I don’t use about 20% of these, so I can turn them off and save myself some precious data! Do the same for other accounts, as well.
6. Avoid streaming content
As much as we hate it, it is the awesome stuff that uses up the most data. This includes streaming videos and music, as well as looking through high quality images or GIF files. Try to avoid these at all costs if you really want to take care of your internet usage.
Now, we know a smartphone is worthless without your media, but there are ways to stay entertained responsibly. Users can opt for storing music and videos locally. If you absolutely must stream, make sure you jump into the settings and set quality at lower rates. Likewise, you can decrease resolution in YouTube and other video streaming apps.
7. Cache everything, Whenever you can!
Certain apps allow for storing data locally. These include popular ones like Google Maps and Google Play Music. Make sure you cache as much content as you can while you are on a WiFi network. Then you can go out and enjoy your content without spending any of your precious data.
Every year begins with a crazed anticipation of the flagship phones that Apple and Samsung are planning to announce. Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S8 came out after the Note 7 debacle, but it became quite a hit. In all this time, the Apple fans have waited anxiously for the 10th-anniversary phone to come out. There have been a gazillion rumors, many of which are true, that the iPhone 8 will possibly be named as iPhone X. However, this long wait is maddening for those people who are desperate to upgrade to the latest gadgets.
Source: Macrumors
Mac4Ever first reported that the iPhone 8 would finally be revealed on 12th September. Knowing that the actual anniversary of the first iPhone has already passed, it was expected to come out in the mid of September anyway. Apple launches its products on Friday, so the date does not sound very logical. Wall Street Journal has confirmed that the product launch event will be held on the 12th of September.
iPhone 8 design leak via iDrop News
Along with the flagship phone, iPhone 7 S and iPhone 7S Plus will also be revealed. The anniversary phone, however, is expected to have a 5.8 inches bezel-less OLED display with no physical home button. The headphone jack flew away with the iPhone 7, but the USB-C port remains. We sure do hope that this port remains in the iPhones after iPhone 8.
The upcoming iPhone will have a significant camera upgrade that means a better object and facial recognition for improved security features.
Are you waiting for the iPhone 8 to come out so as you may explore its newest features? So are we!
Amazon Alexa and Microsoft Cortana are playing nice. Here's what it means.
Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos play tennis back in 2001. (Getty Images)
On Wednesday, Microsoft and Amazon made a surprise announcement: Cortana and Alexa, their respective AI-based voice assistants, will work together.
Or, as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos succinctly put it in a tweet: "Alexa has made a new friend."
For anyone following the rise of artificial intelligence and the spread of virtual assistants into our everyday lives, this feels like a big moment.
Your home could soon be inhabited by multiple virtual beings — each already capable of talking to you — now also communicating with each other.
It sounds like science fiction. And there's no question that this will bring about some cool new experiences and functionality when it takes effect at the end of 2017.
In real life, though, it's going to be a lot longer, if ever, before this AI friendship really pays off for you, the customer. Here's why.
The big idea
The idea, say the two companies, is to play to each virtual assistant's strengths.
Let the two AIs play together, and you get some nice benefits.
You'll be able to use your Amazon Echo (or other Alexa device) to talk to Cortana, for example. And you can use your Windows 10 PC (or your phone's Cortana app) to talk to Alexa.
Just say "Alexa, open Cortana," or "Cortana, open Alexa," and your device will hand over control to the appropriate virtual assistant.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discusses the Cortana app for Android. (REUTERS/Jim Young)
But there are some significant limitations, as the New York Times reports. The assistants will be walled off from each other, almost entirely. So if you're using Microsoft's Cortana on your Amazon Echo Dot, and you want to play music from your Amazon Prime account, you'll have to switch back to Alexa.
This makes strategic sense — Amazon probably doesn't want Microsoft to see its customers' shopping behavior. And Microsoft has its own data that it doesn't want Alexa accessing directly. But from a user experience perspective, it stinks. Imagine needing to ask one specific member of your household every time you want to turn on the TV, and somebody else to dim the lights.
I can't imagine that a lot of people out there will actually remember to switch between their assistants. Research released earlier in 2017 shows that while people will try lots of Alexa "skills," or apps, they don't really stick with them. And as it stands in this first version, Cortana is essentially just another Alexa skill.
Eventually, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told the New York Times, the goal is for Alexa (or Cortana) to automatically route the right question to the right assistant, without your needing to think about it. The idea is that one assistant might be for your personal life, and one for your professional life.
This is when things will really get interesting.
The long road ahead
AI interoperability is a grand idea, and something that Amazon and Microsoft will probably brag about a lot in the months and years to come.
LG announces its new Amazon Alexa-powered smart fridge at CES 2017 (David Becker/Getty Images)
And it's easy to understand why they're so excited.
Amazon and Microsoft both missed out on the smartphone boom, relegating them to providing apps and services for other companies' platforms. The rise of the voice assistant represents a whole new platform; a change in the status quo that both Microsoft and Amazon are hoping to exploit.
With their powers combined, it gives both assistants footholds into new markets — a vital hedge as Apple and Google go on the offensive with their own Siri and Google Assistant heading into the holiday shopping season.
Despite the shortcomings of the current Alexa-Cortana partnership, Microsoft and Amazon could be on track to solve a huge existential threat to the future of technology. The explosion of virtual assistants has set loose a slew of technologies including Alexa, Cortana, Siri, Google Assistant, Samsung Bixby, and maybe even Facebook's M, that are spreading through your home — first, with speakers, then, with voice-controlled tablets, and next, home appliances.
Amazon Echo (AP/Jeff Chiu)
It means that there's going to be a war for your home: Your toaster may use a different voice assistant than your fridge, which may be incompatible with all the home entertainment system in your living room. When you say "hello" to your home, it may answer back in a veritable chorus of different voices.
That's the kind of chaotic scenario that nobody wants.
One obvious solution is to buy gadgets that support only one company's particular assistant, similar to today's iPhone or Windows ecosystems. But with the overall virtual assistant market still very much in flux, it may be a while before things settle down to the point where there are any real "safe," future-proofed options.
That makes the automatic voice assistant aggregation envisioned by Bezos the sanest way to deal with the explosion of intelligence in the living room and office. But this system will only live up to its true potential and catch on with consumers if the gang of virtual assistants are able talk to each other on their own, without too many constraints. And for now, that's still science fiction.
You can get more out of your smart phone camera with these awesome photo apps that help enhance and give improvements to your simple everyday camera shots.
Naijaloaded, Nigeria’s No.1 Music & Entertainment Website, shares 4 great apps for taking pictures.
1. VSCO Cam
This is a great app for photography and image editing. It helps you capture images, tweak and tune them to your preferences, then sync the images across devices and share them with as many people as you want.
It even has a Grid feature that helps you discover the best original photography from other VSCO users.
2. Snapseed
This photo app is owned by Google and is one of the most accessible photo editing apps for Android users.
It has a wide range of features for experienced users and newcomers, and at it’s most basic level, gives users the option to scroll through image enhancement options and control the intensity of effects used.
It has a diverse range of features from basic automatic colour and contrast enhancement to cropping and sharpening. It also gives the option of selectively adjusting colour properties within a particular radius, and has varieties of filters and frames to choose from.
3. Pics Art Photo Studio and Collage
This app includes a robust photo editor with photo editing tools that allow you adjust white balance, tone, crop etc.
However, Pics Art goes a step further by letting you purchase sticker packs on the app to use to adorn your photos; you can also add adjustable lens flares to your images, access varieties of filters and even apply Prisma-like features to transform your photos.
In addition, Pics Art has its own tiny social media network that lets you share your photos on the app and make it free to edit, so others can edit or tweak your photos into something new and different.
4. Camera+
This app offers the ability to manually control both the exposure and focus of your images, which gives you total control of elements like brightness.
It also has a ‘stabilizer-like’ feature that helps you avoid blurry pictures, and a one-touch ‘clarity’ button that instantly improves the results of a photograph.
Basically, it gives instant improvements to your everyday shot, however, it is an iOS only option for now.
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Here's a quick rundown of what I've seen thus far:
The V30 is effectively an enhanced version of the LG G6, the flagship phone the company launched earlier this year. Like that device, the V30 is made from a mix of glass and aluminum, which helps it feel smooth, cool, and solid all at once. There are few unnecessary design flourishes — just a simple rectangle with nicely rounded corners. You could call it pleasant or boring; I lean toward the former.
The first thing you'll notice is those tiny borders around its display. The bezels here are a bit slimmer than those of the G6, which has allowed LG to squeeze a big 6-inch display in a phone that's slightly more compact than Apple's iPhone 7 Plus, which has a 5.5-inch screen. This is the hot new thing for lots of smartphones in 2017, but nice is nice.
Despite the giant screen, the V30 doesn't feel particularly unwieldy. Those with small hands will have to be a little more careful, but it's not out of the question for others to get around the phone with one hand. The whole thing is lighter than it looks, too, at 158 grams. The high-end materials don't make it feel like a brick.
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I have long-standing issues with phones with glass backs: They're more susceptible to cracking, they're fingerprint magnets, and they tend to slide around if they're not on a flat surface. The V30's rear is coated in Gorilla Glass 5, but it hasn't felt as slippery or offensive as it could be. Still, you will see some smudges in the right light.
If you've never used an LG phone, you'll probably need a few moments to get used to the placement of the power button. It's about three-fourths of the way up the back of the phone. It also doubles as a fingerprint sensor, which has worked fast enough in my testing. This is much more logical and comfortable approach than what Samsung has done with the Galaxy S8, which, inanely, has it next to the camera module.
There's a headphone jack! What's more, LG has equipped the device with a stronger-than-usual audio chip, which should let those with higher-end headphones hear a little more detail. That won't matter for most people, but the fewer dongles, the better. And it's not as if you'll be forbidden from using Bluetooth headphones.
The 6-inch display is excellent. It's an OLED panel, which means its black tones are especially deep and dark. Colors are nice and vivid as a result, and everything can get sufficiently bright. It has the standard 1440p resolution, too, so it's plenty sharp.
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It could stand to be a little more visible in direct sunlight. In general, I'd say the world-beating panel on the Galaxy S8 makes things pop a little bit more, but we're talking fine margins for most people here — the screen will undeniably be one of the bigger selling points.
Like recent Samsung phones, the V30's screen has an 18:9 aspect ratio, which means it's taller than usual. Since this kind of design is still new, not every app takes advantage of it (YouTube probably being the biggest). But it's great for web browsing, and I'd expect people to adapt fairly soon.
The V30 will come with a top-end Snapdragon 835 chip and 4 GB of RAM, and my demo unit felt plenty fast as a result. Performance is unlikely to be an issue here.
There's 64 GB of storage by default and the option to add more space through a microSD card. All good there.
The speaker at the bottom of the phone is loud enough, but nothing stellar.
The phone is water-resistant and supports wireless charging.
There's a 3,300-mAh battery, which could be bigger but will probably last the requisite full day with normal use. My demo unit did as much. But again, I can't say for sure just yet whether the finished phone will have anything more or less than average battery life.
It's too soon to say if the V30's camera is anything special. LG is certainly touting a few new features. There are dual rear lenses — one is 16 megapixels, the other is a 13-megapixel wide-angle lens — and one of those has a superwide f/1.6 aperture that will ostensibly help take better photos in darker settings. There are also several effects filters that you can apply over a video before recording. So far, most of what I've shot falls in that "good but not the best" category, but it's pointless to make any judgments before the phone ships with finished image-processing software.
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The V30 will not ship with the newest Android 8.0 Oreo, which is mildly disappointing. Instead, it'll come with Android 7.1.2 Nougat. That, per usual, comes overlaid with LG's own software skin, which takes some liberties with the look of the operating system but generally behaves close enough to typical Android.
There's a handful of extra features you'll most likely ignore, you have to go into settings to put in an app drawer, and I'm not much of a fan of whole skin's aesthetic. If history is any indication, LG will take its time updating the software, too. But it's not the worst thing ever. Thankfully, there's no needless "second screen" like there was on the LG V20.
LG isn't saying how much the V30 will cost or when exactly it's coming out in North America. But assuming the price isn't unusually high, the V30 seems likely to be a solid high-end Android phone. It has the right specs, the tiny bezels everyone is going crazy for these days, and a headphone jack.
Even if isn't the kind of giant leap LG probably needs to beat Samsung's marketing machine, the V30 is shaping up to be a perfectly fine alternative to the Galaxy S8, the Galaxy Note 8, and the inevitable Google Pixel 2. If the camera holds up, that'll be hard to complain about.
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