Robot Cars is Safer than Us. Is It Even Possible?

Tesla recently announced an autopilot feature which will enable us to have a self driving car. Yes, of course there are some challenges in the technical and logistical and some academics expected that it will take decades for it to learn to navigate the complexities of urban jungle.

By designing self-driving cards, we do hope that it will eliminate some traffic issues that we currently have. After all humans are prone to road rage since we tend to rush headlong into traffic jams, break rules, get distracted and crash into each other.

Tesla is not the only one who developing this technology. Most car manufacturers now offer option in their high-end vehicles to keep them within their lane, adjust speed, warn of pedestrians and stop in the event of impending accident. This system has been tested by Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The company has done the testing on automating braking systems of 24 vehicles and thus gives 21 a ranking of “superior” or “advanced”.

The new Tesla will have improvements on sensors for image recognition, 360-degree sonar system that can analyze the surroundings and long range radar to recognize signs and pedestrians. It is designed to be able to change lanes on its own, obey speed limit signs, and avoid accidents and even park itself. On top of that, it should be able to pick us up at our front door after driving itself out of the garage.

Well, we are looking forward to try this technology!

Robot Cars is Safer than Us. Is It Even Possible?

13 Apps to Transform your Phone to Ultimate Toolkit

A good apps is designed to make the users’ life easier and maybe more enjoyable. In this entry, we are going to recommend a few apps which fulfill this purpose.

1. Dark Sky – $3.99 on iOS

The apps is useful because it will tell you exactly when it is going to rain or snow.  It also gives you minute by minute predictions when to expect rain so that you can be prepared for it.

2. Level Money – Free on iOS and Android

The apps links your smartphone to your bank account to keep track on your spending which means you did not have to manually input your purchases anymore.  it will consider your income, monthly spending habits, how much you are trying to save and if you spend more on a particular day, the apps will adjust and tell you to spend less the following day.

3. FlyCleaners – Free on iOS and Android

This apps is unique in such that it will allow you to choose when you have to pick up your laundry.

4. Sky Guide – $1.99 on iOS and Android

This apps is also unique in such that if you just aim your phone or tablet at the sky the apps will highlight constellations, stars and planets on the sky and even display details about each.

5. Venmo – Free on iOS and Android

The apps allows you pay your friends using your smartphone. It is useful if you need to split a check or you want to pay your debt. It will connect to your bank account and it is using 256-encryption and Verisign certification and thus it is very secure.

6. 1Password and LastPass – $7.99(iOS), Free(Android), $49.99(Windows) (1Password), Free for iOS/Android, Windows Phone (LastPass)

These two apps will remember all your passwords across all your computing devices so you just need to remember one master password and the app will do the rest.

7. Timeful – Free (iOS)

This apps is an intelligent calendar app and a to-do list. This app has a learning capability to learn how you get your stuff done and suggest ways to build new habits and get things done in your own term

8. Yahoo Weather – Free (iOS/Android)

This apps is an award-winning weather app that packed with gestures or displays photos that match your location, time of day and current weather conditions.

9. Square – Free (iOS/Android)

This apps accept credit card payment on the go through your smartphone or tablet. It is an alternative for small businesses that do not want to work directly with credit card companies since the service charges you 2.75% for processing transactions for Visa, American Express, MasterCrd and Discover. The best thing is that you can sign up for free and you will get the credit card readers for free too.

1. Hyperlapse – Free (iOS)    

The apps is develop by instagram. It uses an image-stabilization techniques to even out shaky footage and the quality of the result is awesome.

1. Skype – Free (iOS/Android)

Skype is still the best way to video-message people, voice calls and video call other Skype users. All the services offered are free too! It works on multiple platforms so you do not need to worry what device everyone is using.

12 – Google Chrome – Free (iOS/Android)

This apps is great because it is fast, easy to use and syncs with your laptop’s Chrome web browser. If you open with tabs, it can reduce your data usage by 50%.

13 – Humin – Free (iOS)

This apps will remember the tiny details on how and where you met someone so that you can focus on the moment. All you need is the person’s number and the apps will able to search your contact using familiar phases like “met last week” or “lives in Brooklyn”.

13 Apps to Transform your Phone to Ultimate Toolkit

A Secret US Spy Program revealed: Uses planes to steal data from people’s cell phones

The US Justice Department has been using airplanes to steal data from the mobile phones of thousands of innocent Americans while hunting for criminal suspects, says a report from The Wall Street Journal.

The spy program called ”The US Marshals Service Program” is carried out by the Technical Operations Group of the U.S. Marshals Service and has been operational since 2007. They use Cessna Aircraft to collect data from cellphones. The aircraft carry “dirtboxes” which mimic the cell towers of big telecom companies. These dirtboxes identify themselves as being the strongest and closest cell towers and trick cell phones to switch over to them and report their unique registration and location information. Even phones having encryption such as the iPhone 6 are not spared.

The Cessna surveillance aircraft operate from at least five big metro airports of the US and cover most of the country’s population. This way, the investigators collect sensitive user data from cell phones of a huge number of people while flying overhead, without their knowledge. The dirtbox sifts through all the information gathered, retains the information of suspects and “lets go” of the info of others.

This information about the US spy program has neither been confirmed nor denied by a DOJ official and those in the know about the program have not divulged info about the duration or frequency of such surveillance flights but confirmed that they took place “on a regular basis”. Once the cell phone of a suspect is identified, his location can be pinpointed within 10 feet, down to the room they are present in. Now apart from stealing information, the new technology enables jamming the signals and extracting photos and texts from the suspect’s cell phone.

The process of getting cell tower information from a cellular network company for locating a suspect such as fugitives and drug dealers is slow and not very accurate. So the government has devised this program so that it can directly get this information. A person familiar with this surveillance program said,” What is done on U.S. soil is completely legal, whether it should be done is a separate question.”

 

A Secret US Spy Program revealed: Uses planes to steal data from people’s cell phones

Apple"s New Design Genius And Some New Things He"s Done

Apple recently hired a new designer for its team called Marc Newson. Marc is a friend of Jony Ive, who is the head of Apple’s design team and apparently also a Knight. Anyways, Newson is a prolific designer who is designing Apple products for the future. So we thought we should share some of them with you here on our blog. Here are some things that Newson has on his portfolio.

Newson And Ive Also Worked On This Special-Edition Leica Camera. It Has A Very Minimalistic Design With Very Few Buttons

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This Is An Example Of A Camera He Designed For Pentax Before Joining Apple

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The Carbon-Fiber Bicycle Pictured Below Was Part Of The “Marc Newson: Transport.” Exhibit. Apple Could Make Limited Edition Versions Of Their Products With New Materials

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Here’s A Wearable Jetpack That Newson Designed. It Looks Surprisingly Innocuous For A Jetpack

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This Chair Called The “Lockheed Lounge” Is One Of His Most Famous Designs

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Newson’s “Embryo” Chair Is One Of His Designs From The 1980s. In Apple’s Move Into The Internet of Things, We Might See Some Of These Designs In The Future

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Newson’s Design Of A Luxury Champagne Bottle Case For Dom Perignon May Be A Hint Of How Apple Product Packaging Might Look In The Near Future

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A Ford Concept Car Displayed At The 1999 Tokyo Motor Show And Designed By Newson

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The Sixth Floor Of Hotel Puerta America in Madrid Was Also Designed By Newson

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This Is What His Room Looks Like. The Minimalist Design Reminds Us Of Most Apple Products!

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Apple"s New Design Genius And Some New Things He"s Done

iPad Air 2 with Awesome Functionality

Apple has always surprised us with its innovation. Their entire product range since the first product that they released never failed to awe us.  In this entry, we are going to talk about iPad Air 2 which is awesome too!

When the original iPad was released, it was all good except for the casing. Not only it was terribly designed but the material appallingly rigid therefore, it is more uncomfortable to use it. The latest product in Apple iPad range is the iPad Air 2. The best thing about this device is that it is thin, incredibly thin. The display of iPad Air 2 is less glossy, laminated and comes with 9.7-inch of Retina display. It feels like you are holding a digital magazine for the first time ever. You could comfortably use it on the sofa watching TV, while reading a book in bed, for sending emails while travelling and everywhere else.

Despite of its thin feature, it is much more powerful and capable than any of other iOS device ever released. It is also much faster than an older version of MacBook released from two or three years ago. The Safari tabs do not reload even with 10 of them open. You also can switch apps while doing something else and pick up right where you left off without the OS dumping whatever app was in the background.

However, actually we expected more capability on the software side but I think it will be fulfilled in the next release. When Apple introduces a larger iPad, the multitasking feature whereby more than two screens able to display side by side, we are hoping to see such a feature in the iPad Air range too.

iPad Air 2 with Awesome Functionality

The Future UI of iOS to Adapt Apple Watch Design?

September this year, Apple has released a new user interface design in the form of Apple Watch. The UI design in Apple Watch is entirely a new home screen. It is very much different from the basic concept of the home screen of iPhone OS which was first released in January 2007.

History

When the first generation of iPhone was introduced back in 2007, it has a smaller screen therefore the number of rows is lesser than the current generation of iPhone. However, the look and the feel of it is almost the same. Therefore, there are plenty of arguments to change the home screen design for the next generation of iPhone.

One Fluid System

If the design of Apple Watch home screens to be adapted to the Iphone home screen, it will look like one large fluid grid of apps. The app grid will be looking more modern with its round icons and it will be scaled perfectly to any screen size, from the smallest Apple Watch to the 9.7-inch iPad.

Navigation

In the center of the iPhone’s new home screen is the spotlight, a central search repository for quick access of applications, web searches, music, contacts and more. With the new screen layout, all the apps are always close by therefore you might not need the spotlight anymore. Pinch out to see the bird’s eye view of all your apps and zoom in to make the icons look bigger.

The new Apple iPhone screen design will be more intuitive, flexible and adaptive. Well, we are looking forward to it.

The Future UI of iOS to Adapt Apple Watch Design?

Mind-Blowing Facts About The Massive Apple Co.

In terms of market capitalization (or share value), Apple is the largest company in the United States. You can try to imagine just how massive the company is. Apple’s shares are currently valued at $626 billion. That is absolutely massive, because the runner-up (Microsoft) is valued at almost half of that. But exactly how big is Apple, here are some comparisons to put things into perspective.

Apple’s Last quarter Revenue ($42.1 Billion) Is More Than The Economy Of Turkmenistan

Apple’s Cash Reserve Are $155 billion, Enough To Split Among 316 Million (US population) With Everyone Getting $490

Enough Money To Buy 2,384 Gulfstream G650 Airplanes

Apple Sold Enough Macs In The Last Three Months To Give One To The Entire Population Of Minnesota

Apple Sold Enough iPhones In The Last Three Months To Give One To Every Canadian And Still Have Some Left

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If Apple Were A Country, It Would Be The World’s 27th Largest Economy

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Apple Sold Enough iDevices In The Last 12 Months To Give 10 Devices To Everyone In North Korea

Apple Could Sell 30 million Apple Watches In Two Years According To One Estimate. That Would Generate Enough Revenue To Match Nicaragua’s Current Economy

Thats Enough Money To Buy The Roman Abramovich’s “Eclipse” Yacht 433 times

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Without a doubt, Apple is a huge company with many great products in its portfolio. What new innovations will Apple introduce to the world in the future? Only time will tell.

 

Mind-Blowing Facts About The Massive Apple Co.