Just take a brief look at the Google Play Store; you will find apps and games of different types over there. Unfortunately, few users even want to run their favorite Android apps on their PC. However, there’s no direct option to run mobile apps on a PC. If you want to run your favorite apps on PC, you need to use Android emulators. On Techviral, we have already shared a list of the best Android emulators for PC....
End-to-end testing with AngularJS: Tips and Tricks Fortunately, those problems can be solved. Today, we wanna tell you about a couple of simple techniques you can use to manage you the aspects stated above. Initially, those scenarios were written for Protractor, but they perfectly match any other testing framework you’d like to work with. See a plain example of markup featuring related specifications below. Now, let’s try to upgrade those....
But, what if anyone as that only Windows Defender is good? A former Mozilla engineer says yes! Robert O’Callahan, a former employee of Mozilla, recently wrote an article which states that users must disable all antivirus solutions except Windows Defender. For O’Callahan, antivirus brands are “terrible,” so users should not buy any solutions and even remove the solutions they have installed on their systems. So, what are the reasons? For the former Mozilla employee, the criticisms are based on his Mozilla experience, where many times anti-virus blocked browser (important) updates....
This last closing represents the fall of one of the few successors worthy of Kickass Torrents that still remained in the network after the closing of giants like What.CD or Torrentz.eu, and giants of the stature EliteTorrent.net. The closing of ExtraTorrent has been known overnight, and the authors of the extra.to the page have simply decided to remove all of their content to display a short message confirming that the page has closed forever....
That is why when we register for a service or platform, it is essential to use secure passwords, and at the same time, if they allow it, use an additional security system, as in many cases with the well-known two-factor authentication. This is something that we can already carry out in what many consider to be the social network par excellence, Facebook, however, as it has been admitted by the social platform owned by Zuckerberg, this security system is giving problems to some users....
No doubt, we have seen how the application has matured in an impressive way since its inception, but at the moment, it lacks much to improve, as it consumes a lot of RAM and therefore, the performance of our mobile phone drastically decreases; something unacceptable today. Now, the social network giant Facebook is developing a new feature that will bring all its users back to status updates. The social network giant Facebook wants to make the news feed a little more interesting....
The reason why we are talking about Facebook is that recently the social media giant has introduced a series of changes in its network which aims to protect the profile picture of Facebook users. The latest feature which is known as ‘Profile Picture Guard’ will restrict other users from downloading and sharing the profile image. This is a great move from Facebook to reduce the misuse of images. The new tools had been developed in partnership with safe organizations, including Centre for Social Research and Learning Links Foundation in New Delhi....
According to Pew Research Center, the recent studies suggests that almost half of adult Americans depend on Facebook as a source of news. So, we could assume that Fake news on Facebook might lead-up to Donald Trump’s victory in the recent election. Even, Barack Obama called Facebook a “Dust cloud of nonsense” for spreading fake news and false information during the time of an election. However, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg had defended all the criticism and said that since fake news is such a small percentage of the stuff share on Facebook, it could not have any impact....
We all think that Social network distracts us from just about every other educational opportunity that comes our way. However, you should at least learn a bit now. According to Facebook’s recent blog post, Artificial intelligence “Remains Mysterious” for most people even as they use it every day. “AI is going to bring major shifts in society through developments in self-driving cars, medical image analysis, better medical diagnosis, and personalized medicine....
While the Google Allo instant messaging application has come to stay, it’s still light years away from competition like WhatsApp, and Google’s engineers are working hard to go with a number of new features to try to get their take-off. If it has recently added several new features to the program, now Google’s instant messaging application is about to release the desired desktop version. This has been advanced by Amit Fulay, product manager of Google Allo and Duo, who quotes only “a couple of weeks” to know the desktop version of Google Allo, and it seems will be much more complete than that of its main competitors....
With the massification of Android smartphones with an infinite screen, the tech giant Google may also be preparing an identical form of navigation to be implemented in Android P. With the massification of smartphones with an infinite screen, the physical navigation buttons tend to disappear, being replaced by virtual buttons. However, although these buttons do have their functionality, they do not convince all users and occupy a part of the screen, reducing the usable area....
We must admit, that nowadays, most of our online activities rely on Google services, even our most important data are stored on Google servers. The reason why we are talking about Google is that the search giant has just decided to do away with its Instant Search completely. In the year 2010, Google’s them-VP of Search Products Marissa Mayer launched Google Instant. Merissa Mayer called this change a ‘fundamental shift in search’....
The search engine has rolled out a new “Multi-search” option, which allows you to combine the images and text to search anything. With this feature, you can search for a similar product in the photo, and also, you can type text. At present, the feature is available in beta in English in the US. The multi-search feature was previewed in September and is now available within Google Lens as a part of Google’s mobile app....
Now Google’s Android operating system is used on more than 1.4 billion devices globally and the company also made the partnership with many different smartphone makers which include LG, Huawei, and HTC who manufacture Google’s nexus range of smartphones. As we all know, Nexus has typically been a mid-range smartphone. While Google’s Android operating system dominates the market, they aren’t especially present in the hardware, and Apple’s iPhone absolutely dominates the lucrative high-end device market....
Today, the tech giant Google announced a new algorithm that reduces the size of JPEG images by 35% guaranteeing the best quality of them. In 2014 the tech giant Google presented the WebP format that can reduce the size of the images by 10%. For some years the company has been developing a new algorithm called Guetzli that can reduce the size of JPEG images by 35%. According to the tech giant Google itself, this new method is similar to the Zopfli algorithm that actually is used to reduce the size of PNG files....
Those added channels will be similar to the normal TV, which are shown with commercial breaks in between. Google might announce the plans in early 2022. Google TV to Soon Offer Free TV Channels on Chromecast According to the reports on Protocol, the Chromecast users will be able to watch all Live TV channels. Those channels will be available in a dedicated menu that is similar to YouTube TV. The company is expected to launch the free streaming channels on Google TV in the coming months....
— Chris Lattner (@clattner_llvm) November 15, 2017 According to him, the tech giant Google has created its own working version of the code. For the sake of transparency, it was published on Github. The changes to the code will eventually flow into the official Swift repository. One of the first changes has already made it into the official Swift channel: Swift support for Google’s Fuchsia. Google developer Zac Bowling, who helped to port Objective-C to Android a few years back, confirmed this development in response to Lattner’s tweet:-...
Previously, Google has been reported to remove over 900,000 inactive apps from Play Store that haven’t been updated for 2 years. The reason for removal is not using the latest privacy and security for users. Google is getting interested in showing users full details about what app can run on your device or, if not, what is required to run and can it run on your other active devices....
Hence, the British division of Google has started using hundreds of hours of TV content from the BBC network simply to teach the software DeepMind to read lips. The team trained the artificial intelligence with more than 5,000 hours of video that included 110,000 different phrases and 17,500 different words. The aim was to improve the understanding of human language with or without sound. The results gave an accuracy of 46....
The tech giant Google is releasing an Invisible reCaptcha system, which does not request any “challenge” and does not appear on the forms. For obvious reasons, the company does not detail the workings of the technology, but says the differentiation between humans and robots happens through “a combination of machine learning and advanced risk analysis that adapts to new and emerging threats.” ReCaptcha will continue on the pages but in a hidden way....
