Facebook's new app curates news stories from old media in 'distraction free' format

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h2> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Facebook's new app curates news stories from old media in 'distraction free' format</span></span></h2> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img alt="Facebook's new app curates news stories from old media in 'distraction free' format" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfUS5Rehmb9HjC7sWNLMLDqv-83PFAVq5froU4Rlm7aIuhuVEXju57uU8xfgkPLPVVC9xCXxTvpjaOKBynVW0DEODSwKs6dAlnU58P46gt3hjSuENM-TEuMDygXZU9wLmhikWoxUv2_kBM/s200/3048412-slide-s-3-facebook-lets-you-curate-your-news-feed-newsfeedpreferencesdiscoverpages.jpg" title="Facebook's new app curates news stories from old media in 'distraction free' format" width="200" /></div> <br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Facebook has announced a new mobile app named Paper that could see the social network control a significant portion of the digital news market.<br /><br />The app will launch on 3 February for the iPhone in the US and promises a “distraction-free layout” by pulling in new stories from various media publications - both the established and the “emerging”.<br /><br />Working with human editors, Paper will curate various sections (including sport, food, science and photography) whilst also allowing users to customize their own feed. Traditional updates and pictures from users’ friends will also be available in the app, but they will be kept separate from the news stories.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Facebook's new app curates news stories from old media in 'distraction free' format" border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6oeg7GcgoOwLil2XazRg-tkY8zf2H0KF8N8OfMGTo33emBcNRavYIRPo3gj5rO1nu6KAAp3y2mekPQs2qVpS8IZK51TmQmAq0_6ktIqtcrT0H_ebNJrGR4c-raW6cGH2PcS3ggXrGnCyv/s640/paper.jpg" title="Facebook's new app curates news stories from old media in 'distraction free' format" width="640" /></span></div> <br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In terms of visual style and navigation, Paper appears very similar to news-curating app Flipboard. Users’ navigate through Paper with a series of swipes; going from left to right to flip through stories, and pulling up or down to expand or shrink content.<br /><br />Users can also tilt their phone to pan through panorama photos whilst small, context-rich ‘cards’ are used to compress stories. This latter concept is becoming increasingly common online, with both Twitter and Google Now using these small packages of information to break up the ‘firehose’ of information online.<span id="goog_1053838170"></span><span id="goog_1053838171"></span><br /><br />Paper is the first major step in Facebook’s ambitions to create “new and engaging types of mobile experience” in 2014,and some commentators believe that the app might even supplant Facebook’s current offering.<br /><br />Paper doesn’t offer quite as many features as the standalone version of Facebook, but plenty of other apps have won over users by offering them a single service as simply as possible. Complex navigation doesn’t always transfer well from PCs to mobile, and Paper looks to offer a stripped down approach to Facebook that could appeal to many.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Source: <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/facebook-launches-new-news-curation-app-named-paper-9096521.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook launch...</a></span></span></span></div>

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Google Launch latest machine learning system TensorFlow - open sourced for everyone

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Google Launch latest machine learning system TensorFlow - open sourced for everyone</span></span></h2> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img alt="Google Launch latest machine learning system TensorFlow - open sourced for everyone" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBKx1rxUb9KU25MjqvcZ9lPZ56n7qsAv75hMXgzU7ep98d1vGVlvF1xbJNn4nHeK7NkZieIhkeeEvM_Wl8aroCdNPP6QRhrTYIps3o1WikURaQhsTICj8JDomvvSNd6DdYK0ykT545Zkpi/s1600/g.jpg" title="Google Launch latest machine learning system TensorFlow - open sourced for everyone" /></div> <br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Deep Learning has had a huge impact on computer science, making it possible to explore new frontiers of research and to develop amazingly useful products that millions of people use every day. Google internal deep learning infrastructure DistBelief, developed in 2011, has allowed Googlers to build ever larger neural networks and scale training to thousands of cores in google datacenters. Google used it to demonstrate that concepts like “cat” can be learned from unlabeled YouTube images, to improve speech recognition in the Google app by 25%, and to build image search in Google Photos. DistBelief also trained the Inception model that won Imagenet’s Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge in 2014, and drove our experiments in automated image captioning as well as DeepDream.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Google Launch latest machine learning system TensorFlow - open sourced for everyone" border="0" height="325" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNg-3IcjFvaNKo8Z6paw4Hfmj_VxbDBpAl9B1-qNXVxZub0R5XDVNApH9NyCtsGvhd2YZcDdm5WujHafg-o1aZWsBq2q_xpQNEOvzWOEpp376-fqD6Vdsg5iIfLQaOO-no42VnVvjTMk93/s400/image00.png" title="Google Launch latest machine learning system TensorFlow - open sourced for everyone" width="400" /></span></div> <span style="font-size: large;"><br />Today google proud to announce the open source release of <a href="http://www.tensorflow.org/" rel="nofollow">TensorFlow</a> -- his second-generation machine learning system, specifically designed to correct these shortcomings. TensorFlow is general, flexible, portable, easy-to-use, and completely open source. Google added all this while improving upon DistBelief’s speed, scalability, and production readiness -- in fact, on some benchmarks, TensorFlow is twice as fast as DistBelief (see the whitepaper for details of TensorFlow’s programming model and implementation).<span id="goog_588788960"></span><span id="goog_588788961"></span></span><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oZikw5k_2FM/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oZikw5k_2FM?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div> <br /></div> <br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">TensorFlow has extensive built-in support for deep learning, but is far more general than that -- any computation that you can express as a computational flow graph, you can compute with TensorFlow (see some examples). Any gradient-based machine learning algorithm will benefit from TensorFlow’s auto-differentiation and suite of first-rate optimizers. And it’s easy to express your new ideas in TensorFlow via the flexible Python interface.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Source: <a href="http://googleresearch.blogspot.in/2015/11/tensorflow-googles-latest-machine_9.html" rel="nofollow">Google Research Blog</a></span></span></span></div>

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Google Start Let Artificial Intelligence Reply to Your Email Soon

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Google Start Let Artificial Intelligence Reply to Your Email Soon</span></span></h2> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img alt="Google Start Let Artificial Intelligence Reply to Your Email Soon" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1IFy9Z1yxdruEdu1n6jmjNoZASV3VoQAf99cdmEn-goh-r1unmz1dH3sUZOlO92h1QizUAhA3BRxfaEuCYIijAjb25pkKKA0xFY81OF3LY94hhBuGhjnVEy1qm5o5B5RO71tQUuM6ggqH/s1600/google-apps-email.png" title="Google Start Let Artificial Intelligence Reply to Your Email Soon" /></div> <br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Google is putting a different twist on the concept of "automated reply" with a new tool that aims to write artificially intelligent responses to your email.<br /> <br /> The technology is part of an update to Google's Inbox app for managing and organising email. The feature announced today</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdxVjvhd0gI-lFXWq08b4qm6_90fBDe1DzbAwsHzCdUzyX86XAUvdQfHUJfWc_5Fzt2v0FkOBq6VBuUHk5fZy0qxubJ5BKwg_CC2kI0pCseC4I483qUaPH8q5IqXm5Dyk8hJfX8ciDalsP/s1600/Google_will_let_Artificial_Intelligence_Reply_to_Your_E-mail_440.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Google Start Let Artificial Intelligence Reply to Your Email Soon" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdxVjvhd0gI-lFXWq08b4qm6_90fBDe1DzbAwsHzCdUzyX86XAUvdQfHUJfWc_5Fzt2v0FkOBq6VBuUHk5fZy0qxubJ5BKwg_CC2kI0pCseC4I483qUaPH8q5IqXm5Dyk8hJfX8ciDalsP/s400/Google_will_let_Artificial_Intelligence_Reply_to_Your_E-mail_440.jpg" title="Google Start Let Artificial Intelligence Reply to Your Email Soon" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">is the latest example of Google's effort to teach machines how to take over some of the tasks typically handled by humans.<br /> <br /> The most conspicuous example so far has been Google's 6-year-old project developing cars that can drive without a human steering the wheel. Google also has been using an artificial intelligence program called "RankBrain" to help determine the pecking order in its influential Internet search results.<br /> <br /> In this instance, Google says it has created a program that identifies which incoming emails merit quick responses and then figures out the appropriate wording. Up to three choices will be offered as a reply before it's sent. The responses that people select are supposed to help Google's computers learn which ones work best.<br /> <br /> Google expects its new "smart reply" option to be particularly popular when people are checking emails on smartphones equipped with smaller, touch-screen keyboards.<br /> <br /> The new feature is available to all consumers who use the free version of Inbox, as well as the more than 2 million businesses who pay for Google's suite of applications designed for work.<br /> <br /> Google unveiled Inbox a year ago as a more sophisticated alternative to its popular Gmail service. The Mountain View, California, company hasn't said how many people have installed Inbox.<br /> <br />Gmail has more than 400 million worldwide users, according to the research firm comScore. Google is part of a recently formed parent company, Alphabet Inc.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Source: <a href="http://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/google-will-let-artificial-intelligence-reply-to-your-email-1239889">Ndtv News</a></span></span></span></div>

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Adobe’s Project Comet Is a Start-to-Finish UX Design App

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Adobe’s Project Comet Is a Start-to-Finish UX Design App</span></span></h2> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img alt="Adobe’s Project Comet Is a Start-to-Finish UX Design App" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisULXc9xaOXerPAU9XxN_d-8oBrXR54XYTSVx7DfALpgBbF8MUzIgjqBDj30Ep-6x_b0wJddWR8JNgRvlCkFxjCfMQWjDilHnvjE6SYXxoSNkpgrMv8z7ImwFNk2Ztie11G_s05JXatWr8/s1600/Adobe_standard_logo_RGB.png" title="Adobe’s Project Comet Is a Start-to-Finish UX Design App" /></div> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Adobe is on a mission to make life easier for designers, and its latest undertaking on that front is something it calls Project Comet. The software-turned-creative-app company debuted it at this week’s annual Adobe MAX Conference, and from what we can tell, it looks like a godsend for UX designers.<br /><br />It’s early days for Project Comet, which will roll out in 2016, but it’s essentially a website- and app-building tool with WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) capabilities, so that designers can glide between wireframing, working on interface design, and prototyping, all in one digital place. Right now, that’s not what they’re doing. </span></span><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img alt="Adobe’s Project Comet Is a Start-to-Finish UX Design App" border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtzizl_WlqT_7fsEd3TkvBjS8IYc0jse_8ueGc7ZGbl8apPM771PNeUq0H77gaHY3itq_ysrIHPyWan7PPS11XeiWQYmFcVRLGEt35M-17os3L5svKgJtMJFYUlvJZMgORvQKsSUjHTyFh/s640/adobe-comet-webredesignidea.blogspot.com.jpg" title="Adobe’s Project Comet Is a Start-to-Finish UX Design App" width="640" /></div> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />If you’ve ever designed an app or a web site, chances are good that you’ve had to make rows and columns of similarly constructed but still varied labels, images, avatars, text fields etc.<br /><br />Historically this is a problem that has been solved—imperfectly—through smart objects or symbols, and also tedious manual spacing and image placement on the part of the designer. Instead of merely following the prior art, the team asked itself if there was a better answer—what if they could make almost everything automatic? What if they could compress what can literally take dozens of steps down to just two or three?<br /> </span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Source: <a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/10/adobes-new-project-comet-start-finish-website-design-app/">Wired</a></span><br /> </span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Adobe’s answer is Repeat Grid, a feature built into Project Comet that lets designers create one set of elements—like a text and image box—and then copy it again and again, as needed. This condenses some of the repetitive and time-consuming work needed to build any basic site or app, freeing designers to experiment more, iterate more, and create more.</span></span></div>

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Facebook Search Expands To Public Posts: Facebook SEO Time?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Facebook Search Expands To Public Posts: Facebook SEO Time? </span></h2> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg50n8UpkeD_1wvR5vxiy6Kx85kZBJmz64zLhVoxcUCUrtUzSdJx4iX1EF3U_fKoUZmqr5MIPPmjXCnGAILfzlR7QQKEcuniYPGlwTjFdXH3jIv-kMKGn4gjRolIvvLc6SfSFCNX6U1lRk/s200/facebook-logo.jpg" width="200" /></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Yesterday Facebook <a href="http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/10/search-fyi-find-what-the-world-is-saying-with-facebook-search/">announced</a> a huge expansion of their Facebook search feature, letting users not just search their news feeds but all public posts and data as well.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><img alt=" Facebook Search Expands To Public Posts: Facebook SEO Time? " border="0" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKqvxkyTK6uqc9q-AC-Xe895OIXp5BdRIpYA6dyGxAWo2XQUyIEeGuIOGQ9pDduTksPujMBZ5Riu5woZhUlalvZF440abGGemvB6Iq2yqCTqEri1WWCachyphenhyphenhBTiaM4DfoTkYBI3QHy2Xs/s640/facebook-search-1445603256.jpg" title=" Facebook Search Expands To Public Posts: Facebook SEO Time? " width="640" /></span></div> <br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://seoacetrick.blogspot.in/search/label/Facebook" target="_blank">Facebook</a> said that you can now search beyond your "friends and family, you can find out what the world is saying about topics that matter to you." Here are the three points in their update: </span><br /> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Better search suggestions: </b>When you tap into the search box and start typing, we’ll now offer timely, personalized search suggestions. As you type, we’ll highlight things that are happening right now so you can follow popular stories as they unfold.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Search results with public posts and posts from friends: </b>When you search, you’ll now see the most recent, relevant public posts along with posts from your friends. Search results are organized to help you cut through the noise and quickly understand what the world is saying about a topic in the moment. You also can pull-to-refresh and see the latest public posts.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Find public conversations with search: </b>When a link gets shared widely on Facebook, it often anchors an interesting public conversation. Now there’s a new way to quickly dive into that discussion. With one tap, you can find public posts about a link, see popular quotes and phrases mentioned in these posts, and check out an aggregate overview of sentiment. This feature is a first step—we look forward to people using it and giving us feedback so we can make it even better.</span></li> </ul> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You can actually play with it at <a href="http://search.fb.com/">http://search.fb.com/</a>.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Of course, when you start getting into public posts, SEOs will start paying attention.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Source: https://www.seroundtable.com/facebook-seo-search-21082.html</span></div>

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WhatsApp For iOS Gets Update With 3D Touch Features

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">WhatsApp For iOS Gets Update With 3D Touch Features</span></h2> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There's a new update to the WhatsApp app for iOS, and it brings to the table some neat features owners of the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus might find pleasing.</span><br /> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><img alt="WhatsApp For iOS Gets Update With 3D Touch Features" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQH3PuVL-Yve2ek4Lbn1uVk86C1zej_G5yZi1QlEsWPWJ7wWK5ndbS25xNFyVlW7Bf9I1jznjVYqsLNznY_LI8OycRVxC6ZGYxDwIKiG7FibKvLU_Y2pXOEw0mf1YDHn-fCH4sRRiBzK8/s320/whatsapp+%25281%2529.jpg" title="WhatsApp For iOS Gets Update With 3D Touch Features" width="320" /></span></div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> <br />The feature in question is no other than 3D Touch, a new user experience that, for the time being, is exclusive to the Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. The feature allows users to interact more deeply with the user interface of iOS, ultimately making the new iPhone devices more usable.</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><img alt="WhatsApp For iOS Gets Update With 3D Touch Features" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHjExABevmgl6ujxspvvsu5gUbubPVxKssbsKudEM6_e58kkZzitOnDUxWSSFqH7xTIv2ROSsqNlWFD1uMJckLV7vZLvZO2W9dz4yYeYOm4Vq7ViOA4IuKjAB5qouhbwSJMYoEFUZHjsE/s1600/whatsapp.jpg" title="WhatsApp For iOS Gets Update With 3D Touch Features" /></span></div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> <br /><br />Users can use 3D Touch to access vital UI elements or to just gain access to key shortcuts for some apps. At the moment, the feature is limited to only a few third-party apps, but the number is rising quickly as app developers are moving fast to add support.<br /><br />The latest addition to this list is WhatsApp with build 2.12.9. What users can do with 3D Touch here is similar to what they can do in other apps.<br /><br />"You can now quickly Peek and Pop pictures, videos, links, contact cards and locations you send and receive in chats," <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whatsapp-messenger/id310633997?mt=8">states</a> the app's iTunes page.<br /><br />The new update came after Dropbox, Facebook and Instagram updated their respective iOS apps to support 3D Touch. Dropbox was the first major third-party developer to support the new iOS feature, and then others slowly began to follow its lead.<br /><br />Users who are making plans to update to the new version of WhatsApp to take advantage of 3D Touch should bear in mind that they must first have the latest version of iOS installed on their iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus handset.</span><br /> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />Other updates that came with build 2.12.9 outside of the new 3D Touch features include a fix for viewing media on older versions of iOS, along with an upgraded user interface that is now optimized for right-to-left languages like Arabic. There are other minor improvements here as well, but the WhatsApp team did not choose to share what they are. </span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sources: <a href="http://www.techtimes.com/articles/96171/20151017/whatsapp-for-ios-gets-update-with-3d-touch-features.htm" rel="nofollow">Tech Times</a></span></div> </div> </div> </div>

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Google Ups APK Limit on Google Play to 100MB

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h2> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Google Play Store Increases Maximum APK Size To 100 MB</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></h2> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Recently we talk about Google New Mobile Payment Platform and now Google </span></span>Developers, Google is increasing the size of APK files that you can upload to Google Play to 100MB. This doubles the previous 50MB limit, giving you the opportunity to speed up the install process for your customers.  </span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Google Ups APK Limit on Google Play to 100MB" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJmAcSbagLoG7wW1H8OS49tNdlKZo9rV3ElcC5XGJz2M3YGSoPtzbX1o_Xzn8dxDz86rixQHm_zvK8sRVBFR-RCuElYUVR8L9zcUar8qxC6yzWcwwgx_6gVcsQQVYrGmkL1mGNAPOtXnyU/s320/SQp-2bOc_400x400.jpeg" title="Google Ups APK Limit on Google Play to 100MB" width="320" /></span></div> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The change is largely a formality since the file size restriction is an artificial cap. The 50 MB limit was left over from the launch of the Android Market (later renamed to the Play Store).<br /><br />Back in 2012, Google added a workaround for developers that still required them to keep their app's apk below 50 MB, but allowed them to include up to two "expansion files" (i.e. obb files) that can be as large as 2 GB each. Executable code was to remain in the apk while the obb files were meant for extremely large resources like maps, audio, video, and whatever else couldn't realistically fit into the core app.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Google Ups APK Limit on Google Play to 100MB" border="0" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh84vkUaf-L7ziGqfJqGjUgpeikkDa3T6_uEHWnNmj-iG_gE781Cj1iYMkp3YfvljCyM4O75t-bwuflE0uPWPgx5cVM2jEkE-99Vskg5JDKkFLNGXtLSHRwhtNZRNG4fuENMsX2489HdBGE/s640/google-playstore.png" title="Google Ups APK Limit on Google Play to 100MB" width="640" /></span></div> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />With the new limit in place, developers can build their apps to the size they need to be, rather than cutting corners on resources or pushing a few megabytes of leftovers into expansion files. Keep in mind that this change won't really make apps any larger, it'll just make it less of a hassle for developers to package them. Google has been sending out apks that exceed the 50 MB limit for quite a while, like certain variants of the Chrome for Android web browser which can weigh in at about 70 MB. </span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span id="more-174914"></span></span></span><br /> <br /> <br /></div>

Google Ups APK Limit on Google Play to 100MB

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How Google plans to speed up the internet

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h2> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">How Google plans to speed up the internet</span></span></h2> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Google has revealed that about half of all requests from Chrome to Google's servers are now served over QUIC, a protocol that speeds up the web. </span></span></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="How Google plans to speed up the internet" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMlmc-HqaETv8hbDZhLEglUOTO-klhQptCYR0DP4fwLuCIYocIau3uOeIZLBr8HgE_epLz21IQWUYpk-A1YUd2x4OlHur6Ea7OKElHP1EQYLQmqLxBPRyFzM4ylRv5NvBOYO1RqMZNv_rd/s320/high-speed-internet.jpg" title="How Google plans to speed up the internet" width="320" /></span></div> <br /> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The name 'QUIC' stands for Quick UDP Internet Connection and refers to Google's experimental, low-latency internet transportation protocol over UDP, a protocol that is often used by gaming, streaming media and VoIP services, reported TechCrunch.</span></span></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="How Google plans to speed up the internet" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_imhY6yV4qVnpXYlM-FbYy6QYKkTarEZD8HO_nmXJwCdfN5hyBJspa9W0sKys62pSlAM3sn_m9HHvddq_0xJTg38nom9A3J67tAnLlq3Mo22eBmKHwUKCHcWLqLdZdmdI-sCVGzg-wSEG/s1600/clip_image0011.png" title="How Google plans to speed up the internet" /></span></div> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />The counterpart of UDP and QUIC in the protocol world is basically TCP, which along with the Internet Protocol (IP) makes up the core communication language of the internet. UDP is significantly more light-weight in than TCP, but in return, it features far fewer error correction services than TCP. </span><br /> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">With QUIC, Google aims to combine some of the best features of both UPD and TCP with modern security tools.</span></span></div> </div>

How Google plans to speed up the internet

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Google officially adds tweets to desktop searches

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h2> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Google officially adds tweets to desktop searches</span></span></h2> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The next time you search via Google on your smartphone or tablet, you may see Twitter content as well as traditional search results.</span></span></span></b></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <br /><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img alt="Google officially adds tweets to desktop searches" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_O5hxUx7lYAkoZq0Qp4SIoUxeKEyKtI6YqwnqYybaqxz4XoUom3R6B1u1gfuZUEUd_tENFirYItnTs6fnGD_diL0yDNh6VIFwPizgRjCf-d8KCwMsOsgdKr6fFxnxmLm5vQEZiZuuZ9I/s320/in7kvs.jpg" title="Google officially adds tweets to desktop searches" width="320" /></div> </span></span></span></b></h3> <h3> <b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> </span></span></span> </b></h3> <h3> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> </h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Recently, Google has been working tweets into search, but only for mobile. Google search results will show real-time results from Twitter, which will be separated from news content using Google’s familiar card-based format.</span></h3> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Google officially adds tweets to desktop searches" border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPPC5ZuHb1eW8iWhsaDWQ3xOk9BUbZE8RHTt0gsNJM8Bzy9yNmOsilwPwLOkpnqKtXpskcjWtgR7NyZPd2wD3KNVvX-st0aCozvfMwEaUesXdf9cUut81scU9vsRP7BH0CkLcTOCPRBXXz/s400/twitter-google.jpg" title="Google officially adds tweets to desktop searches" width="400" /></span></div> <br /> <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It’s been a long time coming, but tweets are finally viewable on Google (again). The company announced a partnership that’ll see real-time shares from Twitter re-embedded within search results, nearly four years after the end of an earlier agreement forced Google to remove them. Tweets are returning to mobile first “any browser on your phone or tablet,” Google says- and desktop in the near future. They’re limited to English, for now.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Google helps you search for things and Twitter/Tweets help you find what people are saying about things. It’s a marriage made in heaven, which is why the rumors have always swirled about the search giant acquiring Twitter.  </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div> </div>

Google officially adds tweets to desktop searches

Google officially adds tweets to desktop searches The next time you search via Google on your smartphone or tablet, you may see Twitter...

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