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15 Secret Gestures Hidden Inside Your Favorite Android Apps

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Fifteen cool finger-friendly tricks inside Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and more. Android is a super cool mobile ecosystem  packed with useful little tricks. I've attempted in the past to highlight the features that come  with each new sugary incarnation. But these  endeavors, however noble, usually prove  fruitless. You see, Android is—for lack of a  better term— a friggin' mess . Android is less of a leading global platform ( nearly 88 percent of mobile devices are  powered by it) than it is a giant stew being  prepared by thousands of chefs, each of whom  is working on a totally different dish (for  clientele in completely different restaurants).  The end result is a user experience that varies  greatly between device manufacturers, carriers,  and even software generations. *. 13 Secret Codes That Unlock Hidden  Features on Your Phone This disorder muddies an otherwise dynamite  mobile OS. Try as Google ...

Study: Weak Signals Crush Intel iPhones

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iPhone 7 units with Intel modems don't do nearly as well as their Qualcomm brethren in weak signal conditions. 0 shares If you want the best iPhone 7, you need to get  the one with a Qualcomm modem. According to a new study by Cellular Insights ,  the Qualcomm iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus units—that's the Verizon, Sprint and factory- unlocked models—have more than 30 percent  better performance in weak signal conditions  than the AT&T and T-Mobile models, which  have Intel modems. Cellular Insights bought several iPhones at  retail, and hooked them up to a box that  simulates cellular networks to eliminate  variables. We don't have that expensive  equipment here. They tested the iPhones on  LTE band 4—which is used by AT&T, T-Mobile,  and Verizon—as well as band 12, which is used  by AT&T and T-Mobile. Both models of iPhone work equally well in  strong signal conditions. We couldn't tell the  difference...

3 Thrones Concert is happening today! Lagos are you ready!

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Lagos are you ready! 3 Thrones Concert is happening today! The Coronation is finally here! The day we all have waited for. Lagos is about to be lit and only a selected few will witness this epic night of nothing like you've ever seen. Three kings, three thrones, the best of music, drama, dance. 3thrones is much more than a concert. It is that long awaited movie Lagos has waited for. Come witness history. Watch the King of the East, Phyno. The money King, Davido and the Queen Tiwa Savage ascend their thrones in this night that promises intrigue. That's not all, the trumpeters, Denrele and Miss P await you in all your glory at the red carpets, the 'Oracle' to the throne, Timaya will reveal a story never told before. The 'Guardians' of the throne DJ Jimmy Jatt and DJ Neptune will lead you through a journey of amazing sounds and the 'Messengers' to the throne Seyi Law, Funny Bone, Yaw and Kenny BlaQ will crack your ribs with comedy unleashed. The T...

Why Driverless Cars Could Become a Target for Road Bullies

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Autonomous vehicles will have to learn the written and unwritten rules of the road to integrate with human drivers. It's a jungle out there on US roads. There's a  near-constant jockeying for position as  everyone attempts to get where they're going  as fast as they can via overcrowded highways  and streets. In reality, drivers all exist  somewhere along a spectrum,  with the unnecessarily  aggressive on one end, the  overly cautious on the other, and the rest falling  somewhere in between. Drivers are constantly  processing information and anticipating what their fellow motorists may do based on a variety of  factors, often without consciously thinking about  it. Whether we want to admit it or not, most of us  size up other drivers based on their age, sex, race,  and the vehicle they're driving. For example, if you  spot a young person driving an expensive sports  car, you may deduce—based on yo...

Airbus to Build a Personal Airplane by 2020

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The aerospace giant's Silicon Valley outpost is looking beyond Ubers and self-driving cars. There are self-driving cars, there are drones,  and then there is the Vahana project, an Airbus- funded venture that hopes to build the first  certified passenger aircraft that doesn't require  a pilot. The idea is reminiscent of flying car designs from the 1950s: as urban areas grow ever more  congested, their denizens need easy-to- operate, inexpensive craft that can take off and  land vertically, delivering them safely to their  destination and avoiding the traffic chaos  below. The Vahana engineers are working at A3,  Airbus's Silicon Valley incubator, and they  believe that there's no better time like the  present to implement that decades-old dream.  According to a Medium post last month, they  hope to have a full-size prototype before the  end of 2017, and a marketable design by 2020. The battery-powered planes would essen...

Apple in Trouble!!! iPhone 7 goes up in flames.

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problems  have come for Apple o as an Australian man has claimes that his iPhone 7 caught fire while he left it inside his car as he went surfing. The Australian man, Mat Jones who is an Australian surfing instructor bought his iPhone 7 just a week before and he said he left it under a pair of pants in his car when he went for surfing lesson, only for him to come back and discover a burnt iPhone 7 and a scorched car interior. According to reports, the iPhone caught fire just in the same manner as the Galaxy Note 7.Mat Jones came back from surfing lesson to find his car windows blackened and upon opening the door, the interior was on fire. In a correspondence with 7 news, a local news station, Jones said he had no doubt that the iPhone 7 was the source of the fire. According to him, he found ash fallling out as he unwrapped the pants, finding the iPhone 7 just melting inside of it. However, Apple is conducting an investigation about the incident. It is not certain that the iPhone ...
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China has overtaken the U.S. to become the largest market in the world for iOS App Store revenue, earning over $1.7 billion in Q3 2016 versus just under $1.5 billion. This is according to a report by app intelligence company App Annie, which notes that Chinese consumers are spending more than 5 times the amount they were spending just two years prior. Now leading the United States by over 15%, China’s growth in iOS revenue is projected to climb further by 2020. The country has become an increasingly important market for Apple in a relatively short time in terms of hardware sales so iOS revenue is just the result of that. Gaming is largely responsible for the lion’s share of that growth, while Entertainment, Social Networking, Books and Photo & Video applications were also among the top-grossing categories in China. In fact, games drive 75 percent of all App Store revenue across all countries, even though non-game apps make up 75 percent of the store. Looking at specific apps, Ap...