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By the time I am writing this post Instagram server is down and users around the world couldn't able to see their feeds. This is the second time it's happening within this month. Problems with Instagram began shortly before 10pm Indian time on Tuesday, June 12, affecting the photo feed and leaving comments on people’s pages – at least according to user reports. The issues appear to be ongoing well into the evening, and there’s still no word from Instagram on what’s causing the issue. This latest outage comes just days after Instagram went down globally for a large number of users around the world. Note: On June 6, an Instagram bug caused the app to crash for some users.Instagram eventually admitted that there was an issue with the Android version of the app.

2018 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Updates Below are the overall important updates from Apple WWDC 2018. Stay tuned for the detailed updates. Stocks App 1) Now you can read the Apple News(Business News) in Stocks application Apple Books 1) Apple has revamped its book reading application and named it as Apple Books with more similar features like Google Play Book Car Play 1) Apple Auto Play now supports third party navigation application, yes now you can Google Maps in it. iPhone & iPad - iOS 12 1) Apple announces iOS 12 for iPhones and iPads, 2) Added do not disturb mode with auto turn off, 3) Group Notifications, 4) Now you can control your children Apple device with your parent device using this you can block the unwanted sites too, 5) Added tongue detection in Animoji now your can do all the funny reaction and share it, 6) Now you can add you own custom Animoji in Messages. You can add your face and modify the dress, accessories and color in it, 7...

There was a rumor that Microsoft is buying Github for few days but none of them officially announced it. But today morning the tech giant Microsoft officially announced that its acquiring Github for $7.5 billion. Its is the second largest acquisition after Satya Nadella become Microsoft CEO. The first one is Linkedin for $26.2 billion. GitHub is a large code repository that has become very popular with developers and companies hosting entire projects, documentation, and code. Apple, Amazon, Google, and many other big tech companies use GitHub. There are 85 million repositories hosted on GitHub, and 28 million developers contribute to them. GitHub will now be led by CEO Nat Friedman, the founder of Xamarin, who will report to Microsoft’s Cloud and AI chief Scott Guthrie. GitHub CEO and co-founder Chris Wanstrath will now become a technical fellow at Microsoft, also reporting into Guthrie. Now the biggest question and fear among the developer is, this acquisition will put a major...

On May 1 Google announced .app , the newest top-level domain (TLD) from Google Registry . It's now open for general registration so you can register your desired .app name right now . Check out what some of our early adopters are already doing on .app around the globe. Google begin its journey with sitata.app , which provides real-time travel information about events like protests or transit strikes. After the successful launch of  sitata.app  they also launched it in various countries like Caribbean and Netherlands. Finally Google decided to introduce its .app top-level domain (TLD) in India too. Myra.app  is the first app to use .app in India. Its an medicine order application where you can buy Medicine, hygiene and baby products. Visit get.app to choose a registrar partner to register your domain.

Samsung has updated its AR Emoji for S9 and S9+ mobiles. Now you can have 18 new animated stickers whenever you create an AR Emoji. To get this AR Emoji update in your mobile, go to "My Apps" section in Galaxy app store and update the Camera application. Samsung also plans to add 18 more expressions in the coming months, which will bring the feature’s total number of emotion-capturing sticker options to 54. Once users have downloaded the update, they’ll be able to access and share the new AR Emoji stickers directly from the keyboard, or copy and paste them from the Gallery app into their favorite messaging platform. Get a sense of what the new AR Emoji stickers look like in the sample conversation below.

Facebook announced yesterday that it’s removing its often controversial “Trending” section from its site next week, in order to make way for “future news experiences,” and its getting only 1.5% of clicks to news publishers on average,  it says.  Quite after they announced it the news about "Trending" was Trending in Facebook yesterday. 

iOS 11.4 makes it easy to control music playing in every room, on HomePod, Apple TV or any iOS device. HomePod, the breakthrough wireless speaker from Apple, now delivers an even more immersive listening experience throughout the home with support for HomePod stereo pairs and a new multi-room audio system in iOS 11.4. This free software update introduces the most advanced, easy to use, wireless multi-room audio system using AirPlay 2 to play music in any room from any room, move music from one room to another or play the same song everywhere using an iOS device, HomePod, Apple TV or by asking Siri. HomePod is available in the US, UK and Australia and arrives in Canada, France and Germany starting June 18 2018. HomePod combines Apple-engineered audio technology and advanced software to set a new audio quality standard for a small speaker, delivering high-fidelity sound and a wide soundstage. Featuring a large, Apple-designed woofer for deep, clean bass, a custom array of seven b...

The Russian government issued a warning to Apple to take down the Telegram application from its App Store and to stop the app from using its push service to deliver messages to Russian users. Russia had previously issued an order to the country’s ISPs to block Telegram, taking down millions of IP addresses as a consequence. Russia Blocks Telegram  Russia had previously asked Telegram to give its intelligence agencies the encryption keys that would have decrypted all of Telegram users’ communications in real-time. Telegram rejected this request, which prompted "Roskomnadzor,” Russia’s media regulator, to ask a court to issue an order to ISPs to block Telegram’s traffic within the country. The blockade ended up doing significant collateral damage because it blocked 18 million IP addresses from Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. Telegram was using these companies’ cloud infrastructure to evade the Russian government’s censorship by routing its traffic through them. Soon afterw...

On May 17, 2018 Instagram introduced a new way to easily share feed posts to your story. When you come across something in feed(Someone Post) that inspires you — like a post from a friend raising money for a cause or a photo of a new design from your favorite brand — you can now quickly share that post as a sticker to your story for your friends and followers to see. To share a feed post to your story, just tap the paper airplane button below the post, just as you would to send it via Direct. At the top, you’ll now see the option to create a story. Tap it to see the feed post as a sticker with a customized background ready to share to your story. You can rotate, scale and move the sticker — and tap it to explore other styles. Note:  All posts shared to stories display the original poster’s username. When you see a post in someone’s story, you can tap it to check out the original post and see more from the person who created it. You can only share posts from public acc...

What is Adobe XD? Adobe Systems' XD, a relatively new tool for designing the look and structure of apps and websites. There are already some famous UI UX tools available out there for eg: Sketch  but its not free and its available only in Mac OS. On May 15, 2018 Adobe announced the XD CC Starter plan , a free offering of the all-in-one UX/UI design platform. The XD CC Starter plan includes Adobe XD for Mac and Windows, mobile apps for iOS and Android , and services to empower users to design, prototype and share user experiences with colleagues. Does it free completely? No! Adobe XD starter Kit has some limitations like you can have only one Active shared prototypes and design specs at a time with limited cloud storage 2GB. To Know more about the plans Click here To download Adobe XD for free Click here

Aluminium is a key material in many of Apple’s most popular products. And the manufacturers are still following the same old way to extract the Aluminium since 130 years. Aluminium giants Alcoa Corporation and Rio Tinto Aluminium today announced a joint venture to commercialise patented technology that eliminates direct greenhouse gas emissions from the traditional smelting process, a key step in aluminium production. This is a revolutionary advancement in the manufacturing of one of the world’s most widely used metals. Now Apple has partnered with these two giants and the Governments of Canada and Quebec to to reducing the environmental impact of its products through innovation, the company helped accelerate the development of this technology. And Apple collectively investing a combined $144 million to future research and development. Tim Cook, Apple CEO said “Apple is committed to advancing technologies that are good for the planet and help protect it for generations...

Google Firebase provides a realtime database and backend as a service. The service provides application developers an API that allows application data to be synchronized across clients and stored on Firebase's cloud. Two days back in Google I/O they introduced ML Kit to integrate Machine Learning in Mobile apps(Both Android & iOS). So what is ML Kit and why? ML Kit lets you bring powerful machine learning features to your app whether it's for Android or iOS, and whether you're an experienced machine learning developer or you're just getting started. Getting started with machine learning can be difficult for many developers. Typically, new ML developers spend countless hours learning the intricacies of implementing low-level models, using frameworks, and more. Even for the seasoned expert, adapting and optimizing models to run on mobile devices can be a huge undertaking. Beyond the machine learning complexities, sourcing training data can be an expensive ...

Three months ago, Google launched ARCore, Google’s platform for building augmented reality (AR) experiences. ARCore supports following platform. Android - Java Unity Unreal iOS Your browser does not support the video tag. There are already hundreds of apps on the Google Play Store that are built on ARCore and help you see the world in a whole new way. Some of them are, Human Anatomy Atlas 2018: Complete 3D Human Body Magicplan Jenga AR Yesterday in Google I/O (9th May 2018) the team ARCore introduced many new features in their SDK to build more stunning AR apps. And the announcements are, 1) AR all around you: ARCore now features Vertical Plane Detection which means you can place AR objects on more surfaces, like textured walls. This opens up new experiences like viewing artwork above your mantlepiece before buying it. And thanks to a capability called Augmented Images, you’ll be able to bring images to life just by pointing your phone at them—l...

What is Google I/O? Google I/O (simply I/O) is an annual developer conference held by Google in Mountain View, California. I/O showcases technical in-depth sessions focused on building web, mobile, and enterprise applications with Google and open sources such as Android, Chrome and Chrome OS, APIs, Google Web Toolkit, App Engine, and more.  I/O was inaugurated in 2008, and is organized by the executive team. "I/O" stands for input/output, as well as the slogan "Innovation in the Open". The event's format is similar to Google Developer Day. Important Updates From Day 1 in Google I/O Android P 1) Adaptive Brightness:   Google partnered with Deep Mind to create a new feature called Adaptive Battery, using on-device machine learning to study your usage habits and only draw battery power to applications Android P knows you're using – not once that are needlessly running in the background. Additionally, background processes are also moved to low...

Google is one of the most powerful search engines. It made our search easier since sep-4-1998. And now Google has made our search even easier. Yes, you can search Google even if you don’t have a pc, internet or a smart phone. All you need is a mobile with SMS facility. Let me tell you how to make a SMS search in Google. To make a search, just text message your search query to (For India: 9773300000) (For USA: 466453) *Currently this feature available for India and USA users only. To search Movies: e.g.  Movies Chennai To get sport news: e.g. Cricket Score To get News: e.g. News big b To get train schedule: e.g. Train time 2926 To get Stock news: e.g. Reliance Stock   *Note: This service is free from Google, but message and data rates may apply.

My new Timeline Facebook profile: Follow below steps to get this new look: 1. Search for "developers" in Facebook search bar.  2. Click allow to allow the developer apps to connect with your profile.  3. Click "+ Create New App".   4. Give App display name as Test & App namespace like you wish. (Like below image).  5. Then a security check is required. Enter the captcha in the space provide and click submit. 6. After you get into the main page like below. Click open graph in left side. 7. Now create a test action for your app. Here we are creating Watch a Movie. After entering the action click on get started button.   8. Now you are in the settings page of the newly creation action. Change some of the default settings according to your wish and click save changes and next. Again click save changes and next button and on the final page click save and finish button. 9. Wait for 4-5 Minutes and visit your home scre...

  STEP 1: What Kind of a Hacker Should you Be? - White hat, Black Hat, or Grey Hat? Many people want to be hackers. But what type of hacker do you want to be? This article will help you choose! What kind of hacker are you right now? Here are the MAIN types of hackers hidden in the world today....   ☠ Black Hat Hackers ☠   A Black Hat Hacker (also known as a cracker) is someone who hacks without authorazation or permission. Black Hat Hackers are usually solitary, even though some work in groups. As a team, they can be deadly. Black Hat Hackers usually D-DOS websites in groups. There methods can include Vandalism, Identity Theft, Site Defacing, and other Illegal Techniques. Names for Black Hat Hackers include things like"Cyber-Demons." ~~ White Hat Hackers ~~ White Hat Hackers are the "Angels" of hacking. They are mainly know as "Ethical Hackers." Ethical Hacking is an actual career in the world today. To be a White Hat Hacker you must be certified. The...

Remember   Orkut ? Well, Google certainly does, and it looks like the social blast from the internet’s past is here to stay for the time being. According to a faceless Google rep, the company has no plans at the moment to either retire Orkut   or   to roll its functionality into   Google+   (despite the immediate success of the younger project). Nobody would blame you if you don’t remember Orkut. While it’s been around for over   seven years , it never really took off to the extent that contemporaries like MySpace and Facebook did. At least, not in English-speaking countries, anyway. While the web-savvy social generation of Westerners has all but shunned Orkut as a social network, people in countries like India and Estonia have flocked to it year after year, bringing its home page to an Alexa rank of 102 (an extremely big ranking for something people tend to forget ever existed). Meanwhile, feedback to Google’s Vic Gundotra Google+ post today   detaile...