Google has finally confirmed that Android 9.0 ‘P’ will be called Pie, couple of week before the rumored date. It has also released final stable update for Pixel smartphones that can be downloaded from Android developer website here and also started rolling out OTA update (OTA images) for those who have signed up for beta program. It is also pushing sources to Android Open Source Project (AOSP).
The Android 9.0 update also includes Android security patch for August, 2018
Google has also released August security update for Pixel C, Nexus 5X and 6P which is still based on Android 8.1 Oreo.
> Pixel C (OPM4.171019.021.Y1)
>Nexus 5X / 6P (OPM6.171019.030.H1)
Android P includes Adaptive Battery that uses machine learning to prioritize system resources for the apps, App Actions that helps you raise the visibility of your app and help drive engagement using machine learning, and Slices are a new way to surface rich, templated content in places like Google Search and Assistant.
Apple has succeeded in becoming the first public company to hit a trillion dollars … almost. Due to a recent change in the count of total available shares, Yahoo is reporting that Apple has already hit the $1tn mark.
Google Finance reports Apple is at about a $950 billion market cap right now — although that isn’t completely accurate either. With the updated share count, Apple stock has to cross the $207.05 level to officially reach the milestone, as explained by CNBC yesterday.
Apple uses Yahoo Finance data for its own Stocks app, which is also what Siri uses for its data. So if you ask Siri for Apple’s market cap right now, it will proudly state AAPL is at $1 trillion.
Market cap is the number of shares multiplied by the current stock price. Due to Apple’s share buyback program, the exact market cap calculation is difficult to know exactly. Apart from Yahoo Finance, most people currently agree that Apple stock is just 2% shy of the magic line.
Google Finance reports Apple market cap at $945 billion, which seems to account for the last bout of share buybacks, with a current share price of $203.64. An increase of just 1.7% would seal the deal, and AAPL would truly be considered a trillion dollar company by all outlets.
At the end of the day, market cap and stock price are financial matters that have very little influence on Apple’s actual product operations. It’s just a fun milestone … as investors look on to Apple’s next lineup of flagship iPhone models.
For some reason, it seems like every single social media service wants to add stories to their platform. Snapchat really kicked the concept off, Instagram decided to copy it, and then Zuckerberg and friends decided to put it in Facebook too. Now, YouTube is joining in on the fun as well.
We first noticed Stories of this variety when we posted about the dark theme rolling out to some a few days ago, but neglected to mention them. The Stories themselves look extremely similar to Instagram's; you'd think that Google would at least be able to switch the UI up a bit, but apparently not. There'll be a red ring around new Stories, which you can see in that dark theme post.
This still looks to be in limited rollout. Rita can see the Stories, but she's an exception to the rule. If you're seeing them, you, too, have been blessed with the almighty Google's server-side wand.
YouTube has been rolling out a handful of features lately but as most of the times, some of them are available to just select number of users in a soak test before being introduced to the wider public. The latest update brings support for swiping to skip to the next or go back to the previus video but it's still not available to everyone.
The gestures are pretty intuitive and replaces the forward and back buttons that appear on the video when you tap on it. It's a tad faster and more convenient this way. The transition animations shown in the video below remind us of Android P's recent apps switcher. Take a look at the videos below, the first one recorded with the new gestures enabled while the second one shows the current state of YouTube's Android app.
Bloomberg reports that Adobe is currently developing a cross-platform Photoshop app for iOS, described as a ‘full version’ of the popular desktop image editing suite. Adobe’s Creative Cloud product officer confirmed the plans and wants to get them ‘on the market as soon as possible.’ Bloomberg’s sources indicate the new app will be demoed in October, targeting a 2019 debut.
Adobe currently has several mobile ‘Photoshop’ apps on the App Store, but they constitute small slices of the full desktop app feature-set. The new app will compete against upcoming platform rich photo-editor apps like Affinity Photo. Photoshop for iPad would be included as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, which starts at $9.99 per month.
As part of the platform rewrite, the Adobe apps would share more code and enable greatly improved cross-device cloud sync and collaboration than what is possible today.
Bloomberg says that Adobe has plans to rollout its other creative apps with the new architecture in the future, but the timeline is much less certain. The report says a version of Illustrator is in development but ‘a longer way off from being released’.
Apple has been touting the iPad Pro as a PC rival for some time, with its latest A10 CPUs literally touted as ‘desktop class’ performance. It would certainly be a big win for Apple to get a full version of Photoshop on iOS. Right now, Photoshop proper is only available on Windows tablets like Microsoft Surface, which can run the Windows app in a ‘tablet-optimized’ mode.
Introducing Side View! Side View is a Firefox extension that allows you to view two different browser tabs simultaneously in the same tab, within the same browser window.
Firefox Extensions are add-ons that unleash new capabilities within the Firefox browser, and our users LOVE them. So anytime we can introduce a new extension, we get very excited, too.
A Better, More Efficient Way to Multi-Task
Side View makes comparison shopping easier, because you can look at two products without having to switch back and forth between two separate web pages.
With Side View, you can compare news stories and informational material against one another. You can also read an article on one side, and compare quoted source material to the original on the other side.
And this is a really great use of Side View: Comparing revisions of documents and images to note changes and see if the new version looks and reads better than the old version. Version control—all in the same window!
You can also set Side View to keep track of recent comparisons, so you can bring two pages back up for side-by-side review without having to find the two source web pages again.
Side-By-Side In a Real Way
No matter how much we all use automated tools like “track changes.” document histories, or even the old command+tab hotkey to switch views back and forth, the best way to do an accurate side-by-side comparison is to make it truly side-by-side. That’s what Side View is all about!
So try Side View by Firefox today, Put it in your sidebar menu as your newest favorite Firefox extension. Your eyes, mind, and accuracy will all thank you for adding this Firefox innovation.
Google has used machine learning to solve a lot of problems like beating humans at Goand spotting exoplanets. Those are noble endeavors, but now Google Research has turned its attention to a problem that has a real impact on individual people. The company is working with doctors to develop a neural network that can identify cancer cells using an Augmented Reality Microscope (ARM).
Many aspects of modern medical testing have been automated, but cancer diagnosis is still a time-consuming process. After taking a biopsy of a suspected cancerous mass, a pathologist has to examine the cells under a microscope. Google has shown in the past that a neural network can accelerate diagnosis of cancer in digital images, but most pathologists are using compound light microscopes to examine slides. The solution was the Augmented Reality Microscope. With this system, Google’s AI sees an image in the microscope in real time along with the doctor. Then, it overlays analysis on top of that image.
The first piece of the puzzle was getting a neural network trained on what is and is not cancer. This is another convolutional neural network like the one used to isolate voicesand spot planets. Working with pathologists, Google Research accumulated thousands of histological images. The result was a pair of cancer detection algorithms: one detects breast cancer metastases in lymph nodes, and the other spots prostate cancer. They work at magnifications between 4x and 40x.
The goal is not to replace the pathologist — you probably don’t want to trust your entire cancer screening to a machine just yet. That’s why the neural network is tied to the ARM system. It’s like an instant second opinion. The neural network gets a feed from the eyepiece of the microscope via a camera capturing 10 frames per second. The output of the ARM is then projected back through the eyepiece above the camera. So, the pathologist isn’t looking directly at the sample, but rather at the output of the AI. The areas that look like cancer to the AI are highlighted so the doctor can pay special attention.
Rigging up a microscope with a camera and tiny AR display might sound like a hassle, but it’s actually the most effective way to bring this technology to the masses. You can outfit a standard microscope with ARM, and it doesn’t require any external hardware imaging like monitors. Cancer diagnosis might be only the beginning. Google Research things this technology could be helpful in the diagnosis of other diseases in the future.
Intel today introduced the first ever Intel Core i9 processor for laptops at its global Beijing event. “The 8th Gen Intel Core i9-8950HK processor is the highest-performance laptop processor Intel has ever built to deliver the best gaming and content creation experience on the go,” said that company.
Intel also announced a new Intel Core platform extension that brings together the benefits of 8th Gen Intel Core processors with Intel Optane memory, rounded out its family of high-performance desktop CPUs and chipsets that deliver modern standby and ambient computing capabilities, and shared new details on the 8th Gen Intel Core vPro platform.
The vPro platform allows business owners to remotely manage large deployments of PCs used by employees. It also includes hardware-based biometric authentication and encryption, secure booting with malware protection and BIOS integrity verification, and identity theft mitigation. Thin-and-light laptops with 8th Gen processors and vPro will be available first, followed by mainstream laptops, desktops, and workstations.
The new 8th Gen Intel Core i9, i7 and i5 processors for laptops are based on the Coffee Lake platform and leverage the 14nm++ process technology enabling them to deliver up to 41% more frames per second in gameplay or edit 4K video up to 59 percent faster than the previous generation with same discrete graphics.
Samsung has announced 860 PRO and 860 EVO Solid State Drives successors of 850 PRO and 850 EVO that were introduced back in 2015. Both these come in up to 4TB capacities to hold up to 114 hours and 30 minutes of 4K Ultra HD video.
hese combine 512Gb and 256Gb 64-layer V-NAND, up to 4GB LPDDR4 mobile DRAM and MJX controller that also enables faster communication with the host system. The Samsung 860 PRO and 860 EVO support up to 560 / 550 MB/s read and 530 / 520 MB/s write speeds and come with five-year limited warranty, or up to 4,800 terabytes written (TBW) for the 860 PRO and up to 2,400 TBW for the 860 EVO.
The 860 PRO comes in 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, 2TB and 4TB capacities and is available in 2.5-inch form factor for PCs, laptops, workstations and NAS.
The 860 EVO comes in 250GB, 500GB, 1TB, 2TB and 4TB capacities in a 2.5-inch for PCs and laptops, as well as mSATA and M.2 form factors for ultra-slim computing applications. Samsung said that the 860 EVO has up to six times longer sustained performance than its predecessor due to enhanced Intelligent TurboWrite technology.
The 860 PRO and 860 EVO SSDs are priced starting at MSRPs of $139.99 (Rs. 8900 approx.) and $94.99 (Rs. 6040 approx.), respectively and will roll out from this month.
Getting a document legally notarized while on the go is now said to be easier than ever thanks to a new application called Notarize which has been around for a while but has just now finally launched on Android devices. In fact, all that’s needed is an Android smartphone or tablet running Android 4.4 KitKat or newer, proof of identification, a solid Internet connection, and a digital representation of documents that need to be notarized. According to the company behind the self-titled app, users won’t need to worry about whether that notarized signature is legitimate either. The premise is based on two separate Virginia Bills that were passed back in 2011, allowing for remote electronic notarization, and a clause of the Constitution that requires states to accept out-of-state notarizations.
Besides providing access to relatively straightforward Notary services 24 hours per day, seven days per week from any place with a solid data or WiFi connection, the Notarize application has a few distinct features that also seek to set it apart from other apps. For starters, it has features that allow for document importing and preparation, as well as easy-to-use tools for document signing and annotating from directly within the app. Meanwhile, one’s identity is verified by using the app to scan a legally recognized form of identification – such as a driver’s license or state-issued ID card. A video conference is used to verify that it is actually the user in question who is signing the documents – preventing just anybody from picking up the app and using it to notarize things in someone else’s name. The Notarize app also has chat support for users who might need a bit more help in getting the process moving forward if doing so seems too complicated. Finally, not only can an individual or business get a document notarized through the application for themselves, but they can also send a document to others to be notarized through the app.
Notarize is completely free to download but not free to use. The cost of using the service is set at a rate of $25 per notarization, which is toward the upper end of typical fees for the service but it would be really difficult to quantify the savings in terms of convenience. Notary services are generally considered to be rather inconvenient and sometimes time-consuming to obtain even before factoring in the costs, which can go well above $20. That means this could be the perfect tool for Android users who need official notarization services but simply don’t have the time to drive to a courthouse, bank, or another location that has a notary public on staff. It may even be worth keeping on hand just in case. In the meantime, anybody interested should go ahead and hit the Google Play Store button below to get started.
Huawei’s Honor brand last week confirmed that it will launch the Honor 9 Lite smartphone, successor of Honor 8 Lite at an event on January 17th that will start at 12:30PM IST. You can watch the live stream on Honor’s YouTube channel or on its Facebook Page.
Honor 9 Lite specifications
5.65-inch (2160 x 1080 pixels) Full HD+ 18:9 2.5D curved glass display
Octa-Core Kirin 659 processor (4 xA53 at 2.36GHz + 4 x A53 at 1.7GHz) with MaliT830-MP2 GPU
3GB RAM with 32GB storage, 4GB RAM with 32GB / 64GB storage, expandable memory up to 256GB with microSD
Android 8.0 (Oreo) with EMUI 8.0
Hybrid Dual SIM (nano+nano/microSD)
13MP rear camera with f/2.0 aperture, LED flash, secondary 2MP camera, PDAF
13MP front-facing camera, secondary 2MP camera
Fingerprint sensor
Dimensions: 151× 71.9 × 7.6mm; Weight: 149g
4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS / GLONASS
3000mAh battery (typical)
The Honor 9 Lite comes in Black, Blue, Grey and Black colors and will be available exclusively from Flipkart. We should know the price of the phone later today.
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