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05/09/2019

USB4 Launched: How Fast It'll Be

The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) published the official USB4 specifications and it the same as Intel’s Thunderbolt 3.

USB4 will keep the Type-C connector and handle charging based on Power Delivery requirements. However, it will double two-lane data throughput to 40Gbps on certified cables, allow for multiple display link-ups — up to two simultaneous 4K 60fps feeds — and PCIe support for external GPUs.

It will remain backwards-compatible with USB 3.2 (including USB 3.1 Gen 1, USB 3.1 Gen 2, USB 3.1, and USB 3.0) and USB 2.0 products as well as being essentially cross-compatible with Thunderbolt 3 devices.

06/12/2018

Google is shutting down Allo

After "pausing investment" in its smart messaging app Allo back in April, Google has now announced that it will stop supporting Allo altogether. Instead, Google will shift its focus to Android Messages, and bringing new features to the app, to make the SMS experience more efficient. The company says that it will keep Allo working till March 2019, after which it will no longer be available. Allo users are advised to export their chat history, and look for an alternative app for everyday instant messaging.

18/09/2018

Twitter is Giving You Your Timeline Back

Twitter today announced that it will soon let you catch up on the best Tweets from people you follow. The next time when you uncheck the “Show the best tweets first” setting, Twitter will display the Tweets in reverse chronological order; non-algorithmic timeline.

To check this new feature functioning, head over to timeline section of your settings and choose ‘Show me the best Tweets first’. Twitter wants to acknowledge that it is letting its users have more control over their timeline. The company says that its goal with the timeline is to balance between most recent Tweets and best Tweets you’re likely to care about.

Never miss important Tweets from people you follow

03/04/2018

Cloudflare touts privacy-friendly 1.1.1.1 public DNS service

What is 1.1.1.1?
1.1.1.1 is a fast and private way to browse the Internet. It is a public DNS resolver, but unlike most DNS resolvers, 1.1.1.1 is not selling user data to advertisers. The implementation of 1.1.1.1 makes it the fastest resolver out there.

What makes 1.1.1.1 the fastest recursive DNS service?
The power of the Cloudflare network makes gives 1.1.1.1 a natural advantage in terms of delivering speedy DNS queries. Since it has been deployed on Cloudflare’s 1000+ servers worldwide, users anywhere in the world will get a quick response from 1.1.1.1; in addition to this, these servers have access to the over 7 million domains on the Cloudflare platform, making queries for those domains lightning-fast.

09/11/2017

Twitter Expands Character Limit from 140 to 280

Now on Twitter, you can write up to 280 characters against limit of 140 earlier.

"We're expanding the character limit! We want it to be easier and faster for everyone to express themselves," tweeted the site.

Twitter has been testing increase character limit in most languages since September this year.

Incidentally, this is the first time that Twitter has increased the charachter limit since it came into existence 11 years back.

Twitter has for long contemplated increasing word limit as it is struggling against other social networks especially Facebook.

20/07/2017

Avast Anti-Virus Acquires CCleaner Maker Piriform

Avast, popular for its security products has announced that it has acquired Piriform, creator of CCleaner popular system cleaning utility used by 130 million people, including 15 million Android users. Avast said that it will maintain and support CCleaner separately from its current optimization portfolio, and Piriform customers will continue to get the attention and service they are used to.

What does the acquisition mean for Piriform products?

Avast pledges to continue development alongside their own CleanUp and AVG’s Tune Up optimization software. The team at Piriform will be a part of the Avast consumer business unit and report directly to the Avast CTO Ondrej Vlcek. The acquisition puts Avast in a dominant position in the security and optimization software scene. With three independent, stand-alone popular software optimization software in the market, Avast’s share is quite substantial.

What is uncertain is how much cross-technology will there be as time goes on. The underlying technology of Piriform’s products is actually not the main goal of the acquisition. The complete terms of the acquisition is not available to the public at this time. Overall, it gives Avast a solid foot-hold on the London market, a major technology hub for Europe. When Avast originally acquired AVG, they said in a statement that it is to take advantage of emerging growth opportunities in Internet Security. The AVG acquisition specifically to gained Avast scale, technological depth and geographical breath to pursue these opportunities. Much is probably the same this time with the Piriform acquisition, albeit at a smaller scale.

11/04/2017

Flipkart acquires eBay India: Largest Indian e-commerce deal

Flipkart just announced that it has acquired eBay’s India business, after a report last week. It acquired Myntra back in 2014 in India’s biggest e-commerce deal and acquired Jabong, PhonePe UPI-based app last year.

Flipkart has also received $1.4 billion funding from China’s Tencent, eBay and Microsoft in the latest funding round and will be valued at of $11.6 billion after transaction, higher than the rumored funding and valuation amount last month. “This is the biggest investment in Flipkart’s 10-year history,” said the company.

“In exchange for an equity stake in Flipkart, eBay is making $500 million cash investment in and selling its eBay.in business to Flipkart,” said the company. However, eBay.in will continue to operate as an independent entity as a part of Flipkart.

Upon the close of the transaction, which is expected later this year, Flipkart will acquire eBay’s buyers in India. eBay will remove the number of active buyers in India from its reporting during the quarter in which the transaction closes.

21/02/2017

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16/02/2017

7-Year-Old Asked The "Google Boss" For A Job & Got This Response

A lot of us have asked little children about what they want to become when they grow up, only to listen to them keenly listing the job prospects they are considering. From doctors and teachers to scientists and astronauts — they come up with interesting answers. But it seems one little girl has her heart set at joining the world’s biggest search engine — Google, and she got a response from Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, no less!

In an adorable letter that seven-year-old Chloe Bridgewater from Hereford, UK wrote to the “Google Boss”, she has set her priorities straight. From working with Google to also working in a chocolate factory and swimming in the Olympics games, she seems to have big plans etched out for herself. Also, it seems Chloe’s interest piqued after her father said she could “sit on bean bags and go down slides and ride go karts in a job in Google”. If you think what we infer to be her ‘resumé letter’ is adorable, then wait till you see what Pichai had to say to her.

According to a Daily Mail report, Bridgewater said that after receiving the letter from Pichai, his daughter is now even more eager to do well at school and chase her dreams.