In case you didn't believe that Nokia would re-enter the smartphone business next year, we now have an official confirmation that should end any doubts about this. In a slide from Nokia's Capital Markets Day 2016 - an event held on November 15 for investors - the company states that 2017 will represent "Nokia brand's return to smartphones."

Mind you, Nokia won't make smartphones itself, since it no longer has the required manufacturing facilities. Thus, the handsets will be made in collaboration with Finnish company HMD Global, and Taiwanese giant Foxconn. Led by former Nokia execs, HDM will "develop, market and sell Nokia-branded phones and accessories", while Foxconn is dealing with R&D and manufacturing. Moreover, a renowned advertising agency was contracted to help promote upcoming Nokia smartphones.

The first new smartphones from Nokia are expected to be showcased at the Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona next year. According to rumors, the initial lineup could comprise of two high-end flagship smartphones running on Android Nougat, along with a mid-range smartphone codenamed “D1C”. In addition to smartphones, Nokia is rumored to be working on an Android tablet as well, which could succeed the N1 tablet it released last year.


One of the first Nokia-branded handsets of 2017 could be the D1C, which allegedly runs Android 7 Nougat and offers mid-range specs like a 1080p display, a Snapdragon 430 processor, and 3 GB of RAM.

sources: Nokia, PDF presentation

It's a smart messaging app that incorporates Google's machine learning.

Google’s new Allo and Duo apps coming this summer for Android and iOS

Google took the veil off a new messaging app today and it's called Allo. It's not a Hangouts replacement but rather a standalone app that looks kind of like Facebook Messenger or Whatsapp. The key difference between Allo and Hangouts is that Allo comes with some machine learning built right in, courtesy of Google's newly announced personal assisant As Google engineering director Erik Kay explained on stage during today's I/O keynote Allo is a smart messaging app that "learns over time" to make conversations easier and more productive.

Before we get into the whole smart assistant part of it, let's start with a few basic features. They include something called Expressions, which are essentially amped-up versions of emojis and stickers. For example, Kay demonstrated a gesture called Whisper Shout, wherein sliding your finger down will result in a small-text "whisper" while sliding it up will prompt a large-text "shout." You can also send full-bleed photos plus doodle over them like you can on Snapchat. Interestingly, you sign up for Allo using your phone number, not your Google account. In fact, connecting Allo to your Google account is completely optional.

Google unveiled the Allo and Duo apps at Google I/O 2016.

Allo is an instant messaging app with inbuilt Google Assistant integration.

Duo is a video calling app with end-to-end encryption.

Another feature is something called Smart Reply, which utilizes some of that machine learning mentioned earlier. So if someone says "Dinner later?" it'll automatically suggest options like "I'm in!" or "I'm busy" as it anticipates what you want to say next. The more you use it, Kay says, the better at responding the app will be. Smart Replies can also include emojis and stickers, by the way.

Smart Replies even works in response to photos. Allo builds upon Google's computer vision capabilities to understand the context and content of images. It'll understand that your friend just sent a photo of a dog, for example, and even the breed of it. So an automated Smart Reply would be something like "Cute dog!" If it's a photo of clam linguine, it'd suggest "Yummy" or "I love clams!"

Coming to Duo, Google's new video calling app is here to take on FaceTime, Skype, Viber, and others. It's a fairly simple app, and lets you call all your contacts on your phone (as long as they have the app installed). One of the biggest highlight is possibly Google claiming that it works evens on low networks.

Duo calls are in HD, however if the network is spotty, Google claims that the app adjusts the quality to keep the video call seamless. The app has a feature called Knock Knock which basically shows you a preview video of the caller, before picking it up. So instead of just the name, the video of the caller is also played at the back. Once the user picks up the call, the audio gets turned on, and the two parties can then converse easily.

Allo and Duo will be available for both Android and iOS later this summer.Make sure you check back regularly as we’ll update our release date section with new information as soon as we have it.

What does WhatsApp encryption mean for you?

Everything on WhatsApp is now encrypted, end-to-end, for all operating systems. That means engineers at the Facebook-owned chat app wouldn’t be able to read messages or watch video calls sent by its users even if ordered to do so by a court.

“WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption ensures only you and the person you’re communicating with can read what is sent, and nobody in between, not even WhatsApp,” according to an explanation on the app’s website. Wired was the first to report on the feature.

WhatsApp has a billion users, making it the world’s most popular chat app by some distance. End-to-end encryption is not an entirely new feature on the app: It’s been pushed to hundreds of millions of users on the Android mobile operating system since November 2014. But that rollout didn’t cover all types of messages, like group chats, videos, or photos. It also didn’t cover other operating systems, like Apple’s iOS or Windows Phone, although Android is the world’s most popular mobile OS.

WhatsApp’s latest encryption announcement is therefore just the final piece of a feature that the company has been working at for two years, in a way that renders it nearly invisible to its own users, as one of the cryptographers working on the project, Moxy Marlinspike, told Wired in 2014. “Now every message, photo, video, file, and voice message you send, is end-to-end encrypted by default if you and the people you message use the latest version of our app. Even your group chats and voice calls are encrypted,” WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum said in a Facebook post today (Apr. 5).

There are a handful of visible signs that encryption has kicked in. A text bubble now appears at the top of every new chat confirming that messages and calls are now end-to-end encrypted, if everyone participating in that conversation has the latest version of the app. Users also can manually verify that a chat is encrypted by scanning a unique QR code or comparing a 60-digit string of numbers that is generated for each chat.

It’s not entirely clear when the latest encryption features were introduced, and how much data was originally being encrypted on the various operating systems. The latest version of WhatsApp on iOS was available on April 1, while the latest Android version was available on March 29. We have asked Facebook for clarification.

How does WhatsApp end-to-end encryption work?

WhatsApp encrypting messages ‘end-to-end’ is a big deal because it means that the company itself has decided to run a system in which even it cannot intercept and read messages sent on its own platform. 

When you send a message, it can only be ‘unlocked’ by the intended recipient, thanks to a very complex code that took WhatsApp several years to develop. It’s no mean feat to achieve, particularly given that 1 billion people use the service. 

This differs to many messaging apps, which only encrypt messages between you and them. This means that your messages are stored on the services servers, usually not permanently, so hypothetically could be accessed and read.

Why has WhatsApp introduced end-to-end encryption? 

Now that WhatsApp has end-to-end encryption, it means that they and no party – governments, police, hackers, other users – can intercept and read your messages.

WhatsApp has done this because as a company they believe in your right to have private conversations when you use their service. Also see: How to avoid WhatsApp scams

Why is end-to-end encryption important? 

The reason the decision is getting a lot of attention is because of high profile cases in which communications service providers like Facebook are put upon by authorities to release sensitive personal data.

A high profile case is the FBI asking Apple to unlock an iPhone 5C that was used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, a move which Apple refused, underlining the integral values many large communications companies hold when it comes to personal data, security and encryption.

Does every app have end-to-end encryption?

The short answer is no – but also this is not something to be alarmed about.

WhatsApp’s decision is one of the first of its kind, and is particularly interesting because traditionally smartphone messaging services have played down the importance of security.

Facebook Messenger only encrypts messages between your device and their servers. This means, by law, Facebook could be obliged to divulge private messages. The same applies to Instagram, which Facebook owns, though interestingly, it also owns WhatsApp.

The launch of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive has VR enthusiasts salivating for both headsets and content, but these platforms are anything but inexpensive. The Rift (without motion controllers) is $600, while the Vive (with motion controllers) will sell for $800. The third major VR player, Sony, has announced a $400 standalone VR headset and a $500 kit that includes the motion controller and camera you need to actually use VR. Even that $500 price is considerably below the HTC Vive, but the fact that PlayStation VR is tied to the PS4 is a no-go for many PC gamers. Sony is dropping hints that it might address this problem by bringing its kit to the PC space as well. This would be an unusual move for Sony; Microsoft has typically been more willing to bring its console peripherals to the PC space.

In an interview with Nikkei (as translated by Gamesindustry.biz), Sony Computer Entertainment executive vice president Masayasu Ito suggested that PC compatibility could be added at a later date, even if it wasn’t present on launch day. “Since the PS4’s internal parts are similar to those of a PC, this is a possibility,” Ito said. “Right now we’re focused on games, so we’re not at the point of announcing anything, but there’s a possibility to expand into various field.”

Ito also told the press that the reason Sony shifted its launch for Project Morpheus to the back half of the year had to do with increased demand. Apparently Sony expects to sell 1-2 million PSVR headsets this year, and couldn’t manufacture them quickly enough to supply that many during a spring launch. Delaying the ship date gives the company more time to ramp production.

PSVR, PS4K, and the PC market

We don’t know how the final PSVR hardware / experience will compare with Oculus Rift or the HTC Vive, but a PC-compatible PSVR kit could be an enormous hit if Sony builds in compatibility with either Steam VR or the Oculus Store. Manufacturers that hit the “good enough” sweet spot often sweep the mainstream market, even if more expensive products offer a superior experience.

The rumors of a PlayStation 4K could complicate the VR question, however, especially if that console offers any kind of upgraded graphics hardware. VR needs all the horsepower you can throw at it — a 10-15% performance gain at 1080p might be nice, but not a game changer, while that same performance boost in VR could make the difference between nausea and a steady stomach. Sony isn’t billing the PSVR as a PS4K peripheral, and we don’t have any kind of launch day for the new console iteration, but a $400 PS4 on top of a $400-$500 PSVR kit would put the buy-in price near $1,000. The PS4’s VR might be somewhat weaker than Oculus, but it’s not clear yet if that would translate into running well on lower-end PCs — that’s another system aspect we’d have to evaluate when and if Sony ships a PC-compatible product.

Bringing the PSVR kit to the PC space, meanwhile, could be an extremely smart move. Microsoft has nothing equivalent in the pipeline for the Xbox One; HoloLens is an early product with a four-figure price tag and no serious efforts to bring it to console hardware. A PSVR with broad compatibility across the PC space would give gamers a cheaper way to access VR from their primary gaming platform. Gamers who own both a PS4 and a gaming PC (yes, such people exist) would benefit the most, with the ability to move the same peripheral in-between platforms and titles.

All of this hinges on the PSVR’s ability to compete with the likes of Oculus and HTC, but we’re curious to see how this develops. Anything that pushes the price of decent VR gear lower and makes it more accessible is a good thing for the larger VR market.

On Thursday, Facebook released an update to its iOS Messenger app. Normally such updates are accompanied with a change log that reads to the effect of "various bug fixes." It's never clear what's new -- if anything -- when Facebook updates its apps. The Android app was updated on Wednesday.

Only this time Facebook offered some advice in the change log: "Shoot Some Hoops: Want to see what's hiding behind the basketball emoji in Messenger? Just send one and tap to find out!"

Following the directions will result in Messenger launching an arcade-style basketball game, where you flick a basketball towards a hoop. As you continue to make or miss baskets, fun emojis and Facebook stickers cheer you on.

A month ago internet users found secret chess game in Facebook Messenger app. Now they found amazing hidden secret basketball game in facebook messenger app. You can play this game with your friends and challenge your friend in this game by making a high score.

Read this post and know how can you play this secret basketball game in your Facebook messenger app.

How to play Facebook Messenger’s Secret Basketball Game

1. Open Facebook Messenger app in your android phone.

2. Open any Conversation Chat in Facebook Messenger app and select emoji section.

3. Now find basketball emoji and send this basketball emoji to your friend.

4. Tap on Basketball emoji in conversation chat.

Finally, play this secret basketball game in your Facebook Messenger app.

Secret Basketball Game in Facebook Messenger App

Challenge your friend in this game from making the high score.

WhatsApp is the most widely used online messenger and WhatsApp team is constantly adding new feature to their belly. Recently also, WhatsApp has added as many as five updates within a short span of 24 hours only. According to the Android Police, all these new features will be made available in the latest WhatsApp update with the version number v2.12.194.

What are new the Updates in WhatsApp version v2.12.194:

A large number of additions are made into the WhatsApp over the past few hours. Now, you can mark the conversations as unread. Hence, it will provide you with a visual reminder that you have to respond to the message later on. This can be easily being done by holding down the conservation and selecting ‘Mark As Unread’ option from the popup menu below the archive chat, delete chat, email chat options.

Another update is the Custom Notification feature which will be seen below the media section of the chat settings. Custom Notification option will let you select tones, length of vibrations,light, call ringtone and even the popup notifications.

 WhatsApp has also incorporated some of the new feature on the WhatsApp Calling feature. From now onwards, you will get the Low Data usage option for WhatsApp calling feature for the voice calls on the cellular data networks. Also, you can get the analytics of the amount of data sent and received by WhatsApp if you want to monitor your data usage.

Although WhatsApp have an option of ‘Google Drive backup bytes sent’ and ‘Google Drive backup bytes received’, however, there is yet no available way to start the Google Drive Backup option and it can be an upcoming feature yet to be released. In case you have missed anything about Google Drive Backup,

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Today we are here with the details on All New Features Of Upcoming Android M. Today there are more than billions of people that are using android devices and till today there are different android versions that have been released. And we have now latest android version L and the other latest version Android M is releasing this month. So i will discuss all the new feature that google had announced to be in its latest android version M. As we all know android M will come with all the bug fixes of android L and with the lots of new features for users lets have a overview on all these.

All New Features Of Upcoming Android M

Recently in Google i/o, they had announced some of the features and also the download preview of this latest android version. All new basic changes in android m are listed below. We had discussed about this i/o before checkout :- Android M to be announced at Google I/O 2015

• Finger Print Login System

As android M is now releasing on this summer with a wide range of features to the user and now it has been found that there might be a fingerprint authentication in upcoming Android M. As for this feature there must be a hardware support to scan the fingerprints and unlock the device. Although devices like Apple iPhone 6, Samsung Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 Edge and HTC One M9 etc already have their own fingerprint system but rest of the android is not having this. So they have to work on this to run this feature on them. You can also check :- Android M Might Have Fingerprint Login System.

• Android Pay

This feature is recently announced in google i/o conference and this feature is upcoming with the android M. With the help of this feature users can pay through their credit cards, debit cards and any other payment method. The payment method will be secure through this Pay network and also there will be many apps that will be partner with this app in Android M.

• App Permissions

You might know about app permission, it is type of set controls over the apps, which lets you to edit the permissions to access your android hardware or information details. This feature was available in third party apps till now, but in android M this feature will be inbuilt. And by this user will able to edit all the permissions of apps and secure their privacy.

• Mobile payments

Android Pay is Google's new mobile payments system designed to make the checkout process easier and faster. Google is aiming to provide "simplicity, security, and choice," with Android Pay, allowing you to use your existing credit cards to pay for products in more than 700,000 stores in the US.

• App links

"When a user selects a web link from somewhere, Android doesn't know whether to show it in a web-browser, or some other app that claims support for the link," this was the problem facing the Google developers before Android M.

• Power and charging

Android M makes use of a new function known as Doze to improve device standby time. By using motion detectors, Android will recognize when devices haven’t been interacted with for a while, such as when a person is asleep or a device has been left on a table, to reduce background processes.

Android M release date

The Android M Developer Preview is available now for Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Nexus 9 and Nexus Player, and the final version is due to launch in Q3, 2015.  

Android M Name Rumors: Milkshake, Milky Way, Marshmallow, Muffin, Mars Bar, Milk Duds, Mint Chip And Meringue Pie Speculated

Hello guys today we are here with the great news for all our windows user that Window 7,8,8.1 Receiving Notification To Upgrade To Window 10. Yes you are very close now to experience the most amazing operating system of this decade. The window 10 which is the last version of the windows is having lots of new things and that is why it must be the one of the best of operating system as Microsoft is adding as much as possible in this. So your wait is over for this as there is official alert on every PC containing windows OS to upgrade it to the latest version Windows 10. Just read out the below to proceed.

•  Reserve

Reserve your FREE upgrade to Windows 10 now. It will download once available, and you can cancel your reservation at any time.

•  Install

You’ll get a notification after Windows 10 is downloaded to your device. Install it right away or pick a time that’s good for you.

• Enjoy

After it’s installed, Windows 10 is all yours.

Today when i opened my laptop i receive a notification at the bottom notification are about the Upgrade To Windows 10 in my windows 8.1 pro. when i opened it there i have found the image that i have uploaded below. This is notification from the microsoft to upgrade my windows 10 but before that we have to follow certain steps to reserve our download.

Follow The Steps To Reserve Your Download To Upgrade To Windows 10

1. First at the right bottom corner you will get the windows sign option and when you click on that sign there you will find a popup there and there you will see option Reserve Your Free Upgrade.
   
2. Now click on the button and then it will ask you for the email id to register and to get the notification about the update on your email. enter the email address and proceed.Thats it you are done.

So above is all about the Notification from Microsoft To Upgrade To Windows 10. When you receive this notification just follow up the above steps to reserve your download and as soon as this download is available you can directly upgrade your windows to the latest version that is 10. Hope you like our update and don’t forget to share this cool update with your friends

About three years ago we got our first look at Nvidia's Kepler architecture that powered the GTX 680, a $500 card packing 3.54 billion transistors and 192GB/s bandwidth. It was the end of the line for the GeForce 600 series, but it wasn't the end for the Kepler architecture.

While we eagerly awaited for next-gen GeForce 700 cards, Nvidia dropped the GeForce GTX Titan, wielding 7.08 billion transistors for an unwieldy price of $1,000. The Titan instantly claimed king of the hill, and even though the Radeon R9 290X brought similar performance for half the price six months later, Nvidia refused to budge on the Titan's MSRP.

This was every gamer's dream GPU for half a year, but its fate was sealed when the GTX 780 Tishipped many months later (Nov/13), offering more CUDA cores at a more affordable $700.

Although the GTX Titan was great for gaming, that wasn't the sole purpose of the GPU, which was equipped with 64 double-precision cores for 1.3 teraflops of double-precision performance. Previously only found in Tesla workstations and supercomputers, this feature made the Titan ideal for students, researchers and engineers after consumer-level supercomputing performance.

A year after the original Titan's release, Nvidia followed up with a full 2880-core version known as the Titan Black, which boosted the card's double-precision performance 1.7 teraflops. A month later, the GTX Titan Z put two Titan Blacks on one PCB for 2.7 teraflops of compute power, though this card never made sense at $3,000 -- triple the Titan Black's price.

Since then, the Maxwell-based GeForce 900 series arrived with the GTX 980's unbeatable performance vs. power ratio leading the charge as today's undisputed single-GPU king. Given that the GTX 980 has a modest 2048 cores using 5.2 billion transistors in a small 398mm2 die area, it manages to be 29% smaller with 26% fewer transistors than the flagship Kepler parts.

We knew there would be more ahead for Maxwell and so here it comes. Six months after the GTX 980, Nvidia is back with the GeForce GTX Titan X, a card that's bigger and more complex than any other. However, unlike previous Titan GPUs, the new Titan X is designed exclusively for high-end gaming and as such offers similar compute performance similar to the GTX 980.

Announced at GDC, there's plenty to be psyched about: headline features include 3072 CUDA cores, 12GB of GDDR5 memory running at 7Gbps, and a whopping 8 billion transistors. At its peak, the GTX Titan X will deliver 6600 GFLOPS single precision and 206 GFLOPS double precision processing power.

Nvidia reserved pricing information to the last minute as they delivered the opening keynote at their GPU Technology Conference -- unsurprisingly the Titan X will be $999. But without getting bogged down in how stupid that was -- let's focus on the fact that we get to show you how the GTX Titan X performs and that it's a hard launch with availability expected today.

Titan X's GM200 GPU in Detail

The GeForce Titan X is a processing powerhorse. The GM200 chip carries six graphics processing clusters, 24 streaming multiprocessors with 3072 CUDA cores (single precision).

As noted earlier, the Titan features a core configuration that consists of 3072 SPUs which take care of pixel/vertex/geometry shading duties, while texture filtering is performed by 192 texture units. With a base clock frequency of 1000MHz, texture filtering rate is 192 Gigatexels/sec, which is over 33% higher than the GTX 980. The Titan X also ships with 3MB of L2 cache and 96 ROPs.

The memory subsystem of GTX Titan X consists of six 64-bit memory controllers (384-bit) with 12GB of GDDR5 memory. This means that the 384-bit wide memory interface and 7GHz memory clock deliver a peak memory bandwidth that is 50% higher than GTX 980 at 336.5GB/sec

And with its massive 12GB of GDDR5 memory, gamers can play the latest DX12 games on the Titan X at 4K resolutions without worrying about running short on graphics memory.

Nvidia says that the Titan X is built using the full implementation of GM200. The display/video engines are unchanged from the GM204 GPU used in the GTX 980. Also like the GTX 980, overall double-precision instruction throughput is 1/32 the rate of single-precision instruction throughput.

As mentioned, the base clock speed of the GTX Titan X is 1000MHz, though it does feature a typical Boost Clock speed of 1075MHz. The Boost Clock speed is based on the average Titan X card running a wide variety of games and applications. Note that the actual Boost Clock will vary from game to game depending on actual system conditions.

Setting performance aside for a moment, one of the Titan X's other noteworthy features is its stunning board design. As was the case with previous Titan cards, the Titan X has an aluminum cover. The metal casing gives the board a premium look and feel, while the card's unique black cover sets it apart from predecessors -- this is the Darth Vader of Titans.

A copper vapor chamber is used to cool the Titan X's GM200 GPU. This vapor chamber is combined with a large, dual-slot aluminum heatsink to dissipate heat off the chip. A blower style fan then exhausts this hot air through the back of the graphics card and outside the PC’s chassis. The fan is designed to run very quietly, even while under load when the card is overclocked.

According to StatCounter, Chrome still reigns supreme as the crowd favorite browser of choice, ahead of IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera and other browsers. For the past year, Chrome led steadily at close to half of usage share for browsers on desktop, tablet and consoles despite the common gripe about its tendency to crash and heavy memory usage.

It is far from perfect but have you ever wonder why it is "good enough" for so much of the Web population? This info-graphic by CloudSolutions.co.uk breaks down the many factors that help Chrome make its way up to the top of the bruising Browser War.

Will Microsoft Edge, previously known as Project Spartan be able to dethrone Chrome? We’ll just have to wait and see.

Integration

Chrome has been aggressively expanding its presence across multimedia – from desktop browsers to content streaming hardware – which has caused many new users to flock to its banner.

Most people already use Google to browse the internet, which means that Chrome’s Omnibox feature – a browser address bar that with additional search and power functions – enables casual and power users alike to easily searchthe web.

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 SOURCE

 Top mobile and tablet browsers worldwide (January to February 2015)