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17 Hidden Android Features You Might Have Missed

 Hidden Android Features You Might Have Missed Android is hands-down the most popular and flexible mobile operating systems around due to its power packed features. And the best thing about it is, it lets you customize the device as per your choice. So a seemingly simple phone can become a melting pot of technology and creativity with the addition of the right apps. Reduce Eye Strain. From built-in PDF converter to blue-light filter, Android covers most of the aspects that tempt you to skip third-party app installations. So the next time you are in an experimental mood, give a shot to the built-in grayscale mode. Once enabled, it wipes out the bright colors and replaces it with a monochromatic hue. Quick Notification Access Starting with the most used feature in the new age Android phones — the quick settings menu. What do you do when you need it real quick? Normally, a downward swipe brings down first the notification drawer and then the settings menu. Display Touch Points To enab...

Data Now can be saved on a Drop of DNA of your body

In the new study, researchers from Columbia University and the New York Genome Center ( NYGC ) demonstrated that the algorithm for streaming video on the smartphone can be almost fully unlock the potential of DNA storage and compression of additional information in the four nucleotide bases.   The idea and the general considerations of the recording, storage and retrieval of information in DNA molecules belong to Michael Neumann - Soviet scientist and physicist. In 1964, the magazine "Radio" published an article, which describes the technology of the process and data storage device - Neumann oligonucleotides (MNeimON).  In 2012, geneticists at Harvard University was able to encode a draft of a book of 53,400 words, 11 images and one program. They found that in each cubic millimeter of DNA can be stored 5.5 petabytes of data. A year later, the researchers of the European Bioinformatics Institute managed to save, and then completely remove and play about 0.6 megabytes o...

Data transfer rate record of 186 Gbps.This broke the earlier record.

Researchers have set a new 2-way network data transfer rate record of 186 Gbps in order to help work through tons of information spewing out of the Large Hadron Collider. The researchers at Caltech, University of Michigan, and others have recently cooperated to push the limits of the amount of data that could be transferred in a wide area network. Today the computer experts acknowledge that very large quantities of data are able to be crammed down optical fibres and sent throughout the globe from continent to continent. The speeds in question are apparently equivalent to moving 2,000,000 Gb per day. Now they expect that new networks could be constructed in order to use the technology in the next few years, most likely within the range of 40 to 100 Gbps. The 2-way connection, both ways reaching 88 Gbps to make up for a combined 186 Gpbs, sent information from ten Dell servers from British Columbia and Seattle through an optical network. This broke the earlier record, set by the same tea...

7 year old Linux Kernel Vulnerability get patched

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures ,CVE-2017-2636 gets patch.   W ay back at 2009  a large number of Linux distros, including Red Hat, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and Ubuntu has been affected with  condition issue in the N_HLDC Linux kernel driver – which is responsible for dealing with High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) data – that leads to double-free vulnerability. Double Free ” is one of the most common memory corruption bug that occurs when the application releases same memory location twice by calling the free() function on the same allocated memory. An unauthenticated attacker may leverage this vulnerability to inject and execute arbitrary code in the security context of currently logged in user. Positive Technologies researcher A lexander Popov discovered a race condition issue in the N_HLDC Linux kernel driver – which is responsible for dealing with High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) data – that leads to double-free vulnerability. Since the flaw dates back ...

Don?t Leave It,You?ll never again leave home without your wallet, keys or umbrella.

You?ll never again leave home without your wallet, keys or umbrella, using this location-based memory aid that assumes you?ll remember to take your iPhone or iPad. It?s very easy to use. Before you leave the house, tap one of 80 preset items, which bizarrely include Dog, Liquor and Clothes as well as more common forgettables, then set an Alert Distance (the default is 60 steps ).  This creates a virtual geographical boundary ? a geofence ? that triggers an alert when you cross it. It may sound sinister but it?s really just a step-counting app with notifications built in. It?s free to use, but there?s an in-app purchase of 99p to remove ads. www.dontleaveitapp.com

Run a live word count in Google Docs

Google Docs (drive.google.com) is handy for writing letters, reports and other types of documents. If you need to know how many words or characters you?ve written, go to the Tools menu and select ?Word count?. Better still, you can press Shift+Ctrl+C. If you select some text and press Shift+Ctrl+C, Google Docs shows the number of words in the selection. If you want a continuous update of See how many words and characters there are in a Google Docs document the number of words and characters in a document, go to Add-ons, ?Get add-ons?. Find an add-on called Better Word Count and click the ?+ Free? GENERAL PC Search the Control Panel There must be over a hundred settings in the Windows Control Panel, which can make it hard to find the one you want. Thankfully, Control Panel?s search tool makes this much easier. If you want to change a mouse setting, for example, open Control Panel, click the search box in the top-right corner and type ?mouse?. If you want to change something to do with t...

Sick of smartphone frailty and poor battery life? Nokia 3310 relaunched-reviews

What Changed? 2017 model features   2-megapixel rear snapper, plonked just above the Nokia logo on the back. It also has a 2.4in colour display and  boasts 22 hours of talk time and one month of standby time on a single charge. The Nokia 3310 will cost around 4000/-Rs in india Available in four colours ? Warm Red and Yellow, both with a gloss finish; and Dark Blue and Grey, both with  matte finish. How will if affect you?  There?s no 3G or 4G,  The camera is poor and  It runs Nokia?s proprietary Series What do we think?  With its limited features, we don?t see many Android and iPhone users switching to this handset ? not even hipsters! Nostalgia aside, the Nokia 3310 is only likely to appeal to complete technophobes on an extremely low budget who baulk at managing the bells and whistles that clutter modern phones. Still, it would make an ideal spare handset.