All Things Technology

General Motors CEO Mary Barra told us in September last year that the largest US automaker will roll out a  self-driving model 2017 CTS sedan with super cruise technology that takes control of steering, acceleration and braking at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour. I like the idea, but before GM kickstart this project, I would like to  make a prediction: When GM's 2017 cadillac model hit the market, the US automaker will be the first to recall a self-driving car. Mark my words.

As we await the launch of the consumer version of Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, the company that acquired it for $2 billion, Facebook, has reportedly confirmed that it has begun developing  apps for Oculus, that's according to the company's Chief Product Officer Cris Cox, who revealed this to Code/Media conference. What this means is that it might allow you and I to share our photos, videos in virtual reality. that would be a whole new kind of experience on social media.

Weeks after search giant Google revealed it would stop selling its Glasss smart eyewear,and going back to the drawing board for a new device,Japanese firm Sony  has made its alternative to Google Glass, the SmartEyeGlasses Developer Edition  SED-E1, available for pre-order to interested explorers, sorry developers, in the UK and Germany for $840(or £620), starting next month.

Maybe or maybe not.

News broke out last week that Cupertino, Calif-based firm  has hundreds of employees who are secretly developing Apple electric icar code-named the ''Titan.'' A mini-van very similar to Tesla model. Is it True? Well, we are not so sure about that, but that's what people in the know are saying.

It is every human dream to step their feet on the red planet Mars. And it looks like this beautiful kid might be the first person to explore  the red planet, at least in 15 years time.

It appears that Lady Gaga is not the only musician who wants to take a trip to the International Space Station and perform live in from there, other candidates are also gearing up to achieve the dream of singing from space. Among such group of singers is  , The British Opera singer.

NASA's new Technology design spacesuit

Have you guys seen the new NASA spacesuit design?. No? Have a look at the US space agency new space suit design dubbed ''technology.'' You know, last year the US space agency NASA asked Americans to vote on three of its proposed designs--Biomimicry, Trends In Society and the winner Technology--  for the next generation spacesuit. The ''Technology'' spacesuit was picked. See all three spacesuit designs below.

The Samsung GearVR headset is incredible. Not only does it offer a wide range of contents in 3D with vivid Super AMOLED display, it also allows you to enjoy incredible 360-degree viewing experience. You have to pair it to the Galaxy Note 4 phablet in order for you to experience immersive virtual reality.

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Hey! welcome to the age of skim. Where you scan only the main information and click the tweet button right away. Personally, as a Blogger, if I say I read the content from start to finish before I click the tweet button, then  am lying through my teeth.

Above is Google's kaola-faced fully functional self-driving car. It has brakes and a steering wheel, and can travel at  a top speed of 25 miles per hour.

The first thing you would say when you see this car is, ''what the hell is this?'' It's a self-driving car! So now I believe you understand when we say self-driving cars are robotic vehicles. You will recall that in December, last year, I told you guys that UK plans to trial self-driving cars on public roads in four cities: Brsitol. Greewich, Conventry and Milton Keynes. Well, here's the  prototype of UK's autonomous car to be trialed on Britain's roads in Milton Keynes later this year. Hmm, this car look funny to me.

See UK to test self-driving car in four cities

Well I said it a while ago that the Galaxy S6 smartphone might have curve display on both sides, and it looks like Samsung's flagship phone will indeed have three-sided display that curve down on both ends, that's according to Blommberg which cited ''unnamed people with direct knowledge of the matter.'' Three-sided here means it will have a screen that covers the front and both the left and right sides.

    Forget and all  her ''didn't you notice me?'' naked body and pause  a moment for this new Google Android commercial, which features all manner of animals bonding together. Did you see the cat and dolphin swimming in the sea? Cute!
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If you own a Samsung smart TV and enable voice recognition, you will know that you can tell the TV what to do with voice command instead of using the remote control. Good, that makes life easy. But what you don't know is that Samsung voice recognition tech in its smartTV lets other people eavesdropping on your private conversations by recording and sending out everything you say. Shock? I guess you should be.

Forget the iPhone 6 and iPhone Plus smartphones for a moment,and brace yourself for the unseen but eagerly awaited iPhone 7 handset. Here's the iPhone 7 concept by Dani Yako of Behance. This iPhone 7 has a sleek, slim design and is running iOS 9, a 5.4-inch sapphire display with 2880 by 1880 pixel resolution and powered by Apple's A9 processor with 4GB of RAM.

Do you get it now? So evil, but funny as well.

Still wondering why such a great product like Google Glass never caught much attention as it should? You are not alone. But, come to think of it, among the sea of technology bloggers who prophesied all manner of good things about the smart eyewear, when it debuted in 2012, only one man stood out . Though he is not a tech blogger neither a prophet, he foresaw the future of Google Glass.  And I think he was righ to some extent.

Tim Cook, CEO Apple inc; Luca Maestri,  Senior Vice President and Chief finacial officer; Jeff Williams, Senior Vice President of Operations; Bruce Sewell, Senior Vice President and General Council; Jonathan Ive, Senior Vice President Industrial Design; Eddy Cue, Senior Vice President Internet Sofware and Services;Craig Federighi, Senior Vice President Software Engineering; Dan Riccio, Senior Vice President Hardware Engineering;Philip W. Schiller, Senior Vice President WorldWide Marketing and Angela Ahrendts, Senior Vice President Retail and Online sales.
  
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She is pretty, isn't she? Yes! But she is not human; she is a robot---actroids so to speak. She can communicate well in English and other languages. She and her friends will welcome you, serve you meals, clean the room and even take your luggage to your room when you check in to Japans Henn-na-hotel starting July.

Well, that is according to the tipster.

Samsung will still make use of Qualcomm's all powerful Snapdragon 810 chip in its new Windows-powered Galaxy smartphone. The unnamed Windows Galaxy phone with Qualcomm  Snapdragon 810 processor would have a 3GB RAM.That will put it in direct competition with Microsoft lumia phone. This could also mean that Samsung might released its Windows-powered Galaxy smartphone after launching its flagship Galaxy S6 phone.

If you are already getting tired of pulling that old Galaxy S5 smartphone out of your pocket, Samsung next big thing, The Galaxy S6, is on its way. The South Korean technology juggernaut yesterday sent out invitations to its ''Unpacked Event'' at next month's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The media is expecting Samsung to officially remove the wraps off its next flagship smartphone
there.

Didn't you notice something different when you logged in to your Facebook account from your laptop or desktop computer? Of course you do. There is a new Facebook chat sidebar for smaller screens. It contains a list of your frequently messaged friends or the ones you interact with most. Point your mouse on the picture of your friend in the sidebar chat  and you will see their names in full. To chat with any friend in the new sidebar, click on their name and the chat window opens up.

Uber!

When Google leads,others follow. Uber, the car riding or taxi company, is in business today because of the money Google pours into it, but the app-based transportation firm wants to take on one of its biggest  investors by developing its own self-driving cars. But Google is also rumoured to enter the ''taxi business'' with its own ''autonomous'' cars just as Uber.

Yes let's put all of our lives into self driving cars. Let's entrust our safety to computers. Let's stop thinking for ourselves and allow machines to that for us.Computers will not omit words and miss things like humans do all the time. I bet the autonomous car will not blow through stop signs or red lights and will have a safer driving record than any human.
 

I have a very interesting piece that I will like to share with you today. I have seen so many wonderful blogs, businesses and goals go down the drain simply because their owners were frustrated or couldn't continue with their dreams anymore. I weep whenever I see these things.

Imagine 10 years from now when wearables become mainstream and we’re over-accessorized with wearables from head to toe. Suited for almost any application or lifestyle, HIRIS is looking to turn the single-functioning wearable on its head. 

Am confuse here.

Counterpoint data shows that Apple sold more handsets(74 million) than Samsung in the fourth quarter of 2014; thus took the position of the South Korean tech giant. Strategy Analytics says the two phone makers were neck and neck in the same period with the two companies shipping same number of handsets and held 19% market share. International Data Corporation(IDC), on the other hand, says it was a near tie. But noted that Samsung still remains world's biggest smartphone vendor

According to an email I received from someone who prefers to remain anonymous, notorious black hat
hacking group Lizard Squard is planning to take down the following websites: TheGuardian.co.uk, Telegraph.co.uk and the NewYorkTimes.com. The he/she says the hacking group also has plans to hack six other websites. ''This is not a threat;it's a decision'' wrote the tipster. But strongly advise them to keep a close watch on their ''in-house'' journalists.

So what does this M9 features that makes it better than the current M8?
 The colours shown here are the same one you can get in the current M8: Slate Grey, White/Silver, Gold, Red, Blue, Pink. You like a different colour? Why not ask me any colour you like and I will design it!
-Newer, more slimmer design. (my first attempt on a HTC ONE M9 was a bit too unrealistic, this design is more similar to the current M8)

No public company in the world has ever recorded such a profit in three months. Apple  made history when it revealed on Tuesday that it sold a staggering 74.4 million iPhone 6 smartphones in the last quarter of 2014, and raking in $18 billion in net profit and $74.6 billion in revenue.

Well, it was earlier thought to ship in the United States of America in March, but we just heard from the horse mouth that Apple's will release its Apple Watch in April. Gay CEO of the company Timothy Cook made the announcement during the company's first quarter earnings call this morning.

Samsung and HTC are not the only companies to show off new smartphones at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain come March 2. Chinese smartphone maker, Huawei Technologies. has revealed that it will unveil the Successor to the Ascend P7, the P8, and the Ascend Mate 7 Mini, called the  Huawei Mate7 Compact. It looks like Huawei will let go of the Ascend branding on its next flagship handset this time around.

I believe by now you are aware that Twitter has enabled tweet translation across its Microblogging platform. This lets  translate tweets written in other languages into your language for better understanding. The feature is only accessible to Android, iOS and desktop users---via your preferred browser. But not everyone knows how to enable this feature, so I will show just how to do it.

Well,it looks like Windows 10 operating system is a subscription service to me. Microsoft revealed,while unveiling the newest Windows operating system on Tuesday, that  the Windows 10 will come as a free upgrade to those whose computers are running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1(that's include Windows Phone owners).

Just a day after announcing that it is banning anyone who downloads and installs the unauthorized WhatsApp Plus application,  the company has made the instant messaging app available to desktop users. Now you can free yourself from all those 'back doors'' installation of WhatsApp on your computers. All you have to do is pair your  Android,Windows or BlackBerry smartphone with WhatsApp installed to your computer. And you can start sending messages to your friends and love ones as you would on your smartphone.

Your favourite instant messaging application WhatsApp is reportedly banning its users who download and install the Android app,WhatsApp Plus, a third party app that allows users to modify chat screens and other features not supported in official WhatsApp. The ban lasts for 24 hours.

I have said it so many a time that Samsung is way ahead of Apple, but you guys find it so hard to agree with me. Apple's visual control technology patent is somewhat similar to the smart scroll feature on the Galaxy S4. Yes, the S4 for that matter. The Smart Scroll feature uses the front camera to sense when you are looking at your device, and it scrolls through content such as lists, webpages, and messages based on the angle you hold the device. Still in doubt? To activate Smart Scroll, from the Home screen, touch Menu > Settings > My device > Smart screen > Smart scroll. Touch the slider to turn Smart Scroll on .  Apple is just a copycat!

Yes, that's according to the New York Times and Der Spiegel.
The newspapers cited US officials and leaked documents from the National Security Agency.
The New York Times said hidden software had alerted US intelligence services to North Korean hacking activity.

News coming from Blommberg has it that Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC will launch a new smartphone called the One M9 with a 20-MP rear camera, an Ultrapixel(4MP or below) front camera and audio features, and also a fitness-focused smartwatch at Mobile World Congress in March.

Hey guys, sorry for not keeping  you guys up-to-date on the latest technology news. l was attending to some 'serious' issues. Anyway am back and ready to roll.

Yes, I just found out that Google will stop selling the current version of its $1500 internet-connected eyewear called Glass to interested buyers as from tomorrow. This is to make room for a more improved model of the wearable device(which is expected to sell later this year under CEO of Nest Labs Tony Fadell. It has recently announced that it will shut down the Google Glass Explorer program.

Before I proceed, let me ask you a question: How much time do you spend on Facebook? Personally, I don't even know how much time I spend on the online social networking service. But, if I should make a guess I think nowadays,due to the nature of my job, I spend 3 hours on Facebook. Oh,I was wrong! from what this app stats shows---6 hours. That's so bad of me.