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WhatsApp New Delete for Everyone feature

Today WhatsApp is one of the most common mobile application ,this app comes pre installed in alomost all mobiles.As we know by this App we send SMS,messages,images,videos freely on mobile.From its first released WhatsApp has released many updates. 
Recently WhatsApp announces its new update with Delete for everyone features. 

 Now What is delete for evereyone feature ? 

In a very simple words it is an undo function of WhatsApp. Earlier there is no function in WhatsApp by which you can recall or delete message sent accidentally. For E.g. you are sending message to your friend "My wife eats too much " instead of your friend this messages is sent  to your wife, now you delete the message from your phone but it not delete this from your wife's phone.In this situation you should be very smart to handle the situation or you pray to God that your wife's phone would get damaged.But with delete for everyone everyone feature delete the message from your as well as from your wife's mobile. Here is the video demonstrating Delete for everyone features of WhatsApp.




Six Degrees of Separation down to 3.5


If data released by Facebook is to be believed, the famous “Six degrees of Separation" theory is set to change. Facebook has just upended this theory that every person on this planet is connected to everyone else by six other people, meaning that the world is more closely connected than we have ever thought.

After the results of a massive study went public, it has been established that there is actually "three and a half degrees of separation" where each person in the world is connected to every other person by an average of three-and-a-half other people.

Mark Zuckerberg has released this finding after his company concluded a study of 1.59 billion people active on the social networking website.

The stuff can be explained as follows:
Imagine a person with 100 friends. If each of his friends also has 100 friends, then the number of friends-of-friends will be 10,000.

If each of those friends-of-friends also has 100 friends then the number of friends-of-friends-of-friends will be 1,000,000.

Some of those friends may certainly overlap, so to filter down to unique connections, statistical algorithms are used to estimate distances with great accuracy, basically finding the approximate number of people within 1, 2, 3 (and so on) hopping away from a source.


For the theory now stands modified, due credit stands for Hungarian playwright Frigyes Karinthy in 1929 who coined "Six degrees of Separation".
Free Basics..... why not Free Internet :
 




As has always happened, the human society has resisted change. Be it the invention of electricity, or automobile engine.
There have always been faces who have rejected these new ideas. This time its the turn of Free Basics - a philanthropist initiative by Mark Zuckerberg to connect even the remotest part of the world by internet. The naysayer's are also doing their best by citing various facets of this new begining, but what they seem to miss is that they constitute jusy 0.001 % of the highly privileged self sufficient society which sits on 80 % of the world's resources. These people, being the elite segment of the society, are not the direct beneficiaries of the service.
 
The recent publication of an article in Khabar Lahariya - a weekly newspaper run and published by women in multiple languages, has given actual insights into how the rural population views the Free Basics. And, according to them, Free Basics is a harmless but ultimately unimpressive product.
 
The idea of connecting people in the remotest part of the world would not bear any result, if they are not able to use Google and Youtube.The search engine provides information on a plethora of subjects and youtube would help in seeing live demonstrations of those models.
 On social media, Free Basics has been strongly condemned for violating the open nature of the web. Net neutrality activists oppose the platform because it includes only websites and apps approved by Facebook. Several Indian entrepreneurs have also opted out of the platform because they believe that it will curb new innovation. 
“We exist today because when we started, the internet in India was neutral and free. How can we support something that kills the neutrality of the internet now?” Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder and CEO of Paytm—and among the most vocal critics of the service—told Quartz in December.
 
India’s telecom regulatory body has put Free Basics on hold in India since Dec. 23.
 
It is in this scenario that the findings of a lesser known publication, which is entirely run by women, and sold in almost 800 villages acquires significance. Unlike mainstream publications, this newsprint has helped its founding members to educate themselves and acquire college degrees.
 
Tabassum is from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh while Kavita— a founding member of Khabar Lahariya, who likes to go by her first name only—is based in Banda district of Bundelkhand in the same state. Kavita holds a Masters of Arts degree. Lakshmi, who also uses her first name, is currently based in Lucknow, and hails from Sheohar district in Bihar.
 
In the audio clip, Tabassum and Lakshmi accept that the service could be a good start towards bringing rural population online. Both of them have strongly vouched for Free Basics, as it can provide the the very basic and vital information to villagers, like weather updates, cyclone warning to fishermen etc.
 
“At times in villages people don’t have the money to spend on internet, so they don’t use it. But if Facebook is available for free, people will at least use it and experience the internet,” Lakshmi said in Hindi.
 
“And it’s not necessary that if people use (free) internet, they won’t use the (full and paid) internet. I feel that people will get habituated to using the internet because when we see an advertisement of something, we develop the curiosity to know more. So as per me, this is a good idea.”
 
However, the three women question why the government is keeping this service limited to Facebook.
 
The entire concept and idea of helping the most unprivileged would remain a dream until the entire internet and not, only Facebook, is made freely accessible.
 
As the nation rises to the debate of Free Basics, let us now include INTERNET in the picture and work together to make it a reality.
 








































Introduction of Artificial Intelligence in Apple’s
new Smart Phone











Another Breakthrough in Customer Satisfaction using
Artificial Intelligence ( AI )







If recent reports are to be believed, the world's pioneer
company in computing technology, Appple, has entered the space of Artificial
Intelligence, better known as AI.



The company has purchased a San Diego based startup
"Emotient" which uses the Artificial Intelligence to read the
people's emotions by analyzing facial expressions or movements. This would be a
path breaking technology for advertisers, for they could now, gauge the
sentiments of their target segment samples just by observing their reactions.



The acquired start-up's officials also revealed, on the condition of anonymity, that the AI technology was also used by medics in
gauging the signs of pains in patients unable to explain themselves.







No doubt that given the wide scope of AI, many bigwigs of
the Silicone Valley are racing against time to develop new devices which can be
of use in bettering the lives of people.




















































Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) fends off Facebook Free Basics plan :









Bogged by the rising furore over the Net Neutrality issue, TRAI has ordered mobile operator Reliance Communications to stop offering Facebook’s “Free Basics” service to its customers.



Free Basics is a suite of basic internet tools including news, travel, job listings and health services, offered free of cost to people in Asia, Africa and Latin America through partnership with operators.



According to government sources, Reliance, which is  Facebook’s first partner in India,has complied with the directions of TRAI by stopping the said service.





Net neutrality is the cause: the question of whether operators – or, indeed, Facebook – should be allowed to decide which online services can be offered without data charges.





“The question has arisen whether a telecom operator should be allowed to have differential pricing for different kinds of content. Unless that question is answered, it will not be appropriate for us to continue to make that happen.”





Although Facebook’s initiative seems to be social but the financial angle which would favour some specific sites in generating high revenues cannot be neglected, as India is, still an unchartered territory with umpteen possibilities.





PM Modi's Town Hall event at Facebook’s headquarters in the US in September 2015, must not be construed as a go ahead to such plans as India is a much bigger Democracy albeit a Goliath, where even a small initiative affects millions.





“India at this point needs both physical and digital infrastructure,” said Modi at the event, while Zuckerberg revealed that he had changed his profile picture to include an Indian flag “to support Digital India, the Indian government’s effort to connect rural communities to the internet and give people access to more services online”.





Facebook is not the right entity to decide which online services can be offered for free. There are other concerns about Indian internet users’ traffic being routed through Facebook’s servers situated outside India.





Facebook has tried to bring forth only the rosy side of the picture by encouraging Indian users of its service to email the regulator in support of Free Basics.





“Free Basics is in danger in India. A small, vocal group of critics are lobbying to have Free Basics banned on the basis of net neutrality,” claimed a message sent to those users.





“Instead of giving people access to some basic Internet services for free, they demand that people pay equally to access all Internet services, even if that means 1 billion people can’t afford to access any services.”





The issue need to be dealt with at a more deeper level as it has the capability to change the face of Internet in India for once and forever.





































Windows 10 to get Automatically Downloaded on to Windows 7 and Windows 8 PCs :

















Microsoft is growing aggressively desperate to entice users to upgrade to Windows 10.







The mood of the company can be gauged from the announcement that Windows 10 will become a “recommended update” starting next year, which means anyone with Windows 7 or 8 that has automatic updates activated – the default and the best way to keep a computer protected against security bugs – will have Windows 10 automatically downloaded without asking.







What’s more, the installer for Windows 10 will start once it has been downloading, presenting users with a popup. Users will be able to decline the update, once the installer has started, or prevent the update from being downloaded by manually blocking it in Windows update.







But the propensity of users to simply hit “OK” or accept when faced with a prompt in the middle of doing something else, will likely see users just blindly hit OK and unknowingly installing Windows 10, preventing access to the computer while the instalment completes.







Although, after this forceful upgradation, which is being called as "recommendation" by Terry Myerson, EVP Microsoft,the users would have 31 days to roll back to previous Windows version.







Windows 10 automatically downloads on to the computers of those running Windows 7 or Windows 8 who have registered interest in the new version of Windows.



Optional first, recommended later







Windows 10 will imminently be upgraded to an “optional” update, which could also see it downloaded automatically if a user has manually set Windows update to automatically install optional updates as well as recommended updates.







While Windows 10 has seen good reviews and one of the best launches for a Windows version since Windows 98 in terms of compatibility with existing devices and software, automatic downloads may cause issues, particularly for those short of storage space or on metered internet connections.







In case a user is on a metered connection on Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, then has the option of turning off automatic updates, which is strongly discouraged because of the constant risk of internet threats.







The automatic Windows 10 download eats up between 3.5GB and 6GB on a user’s computer. 







The biggeST drawback of this "forced updation" is, should a user decline the installation of Windows 10 after it has been downloaded, the update will not be automatically deleted, meaning it will sit on a user’s computer eating up the storage space.







Windows 10, which is free on upgrading, had been installed on 75 million computers by the end of August, accounting for 4.9% of internet users, while Windows 7 still has a 48.1% share.





































Yahoo joins the list of companies refusing to share details with government agencies.



















With the ever growing resentment against the scrutiny by government's, Yahoo has become the latest technology company to promise to alert its users if it thinks their accounts have been attacked by “state-sponsored actors” – hackers working on behalf of governments.







“Yahoo will now notify you if we strongly suspect that your account may have been targeted by a state-sponsored actor,” said Bob Lord, Yahoo’s chief information security officer, in a blog post announcing the change.







These specific notifications will be sent to the users so that they can take appropriate measures to protect their accounts and devices in light of these sophisticated attacks.







The actions to be taken by the users include turning on two-step verification; changing their password to a stronger one that has never been used before; updating their account recovery information; and checking recent activity on their account.







Yahoo’s move comes two months after Facebook made a similar announcement in October, telling its users that it would notify them if their account is being targeted or compromised by an attacker suspected of working on behalf of a nation-state.







In December, Twitter had issued a similar warning to a number of its users.







Google, meanwhile, made this move in June 2012 for a subset of its users who it believed might be targets for phishing, malware or other attacks from state-sponsored “bad actors”.







By necessity, all of these companies decline to provide detailed information on the potential attackers they have identified.