Author: Henry R. Lares

Henry Lares is still early into his career as tech reporter but has already had his work published in many major publications including Tech Crunch and the Huffington Post.  In regards to academics, Henry earned an engineering degree from Apex Technical School. Henry has a passion for emerging technology and covers upcoming products and breakthroughs in science and tech.

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Top Java 10 New Features You Need To Learn About

Java 10 is the latest release of Java and it is already available online. While many developers are still using Java 9 and Java 8, it is worth taking a good look at the latest release. If you are waiting for the next LTS release, you might want to get Java 11, which comes out in September. These major releases take place every three years.

However, there are also six-month releases, according to a new schedule. Java 10 was released according to this plan. There are plenty of new features we should talk about, so let’s get it started.

Root Certificates

Developers might be more interested in OpenJDK builds, because a default set of root Certification Authorities will be provided. This also means that Oracle JDK and OpenJDK builds will be more similar from now on.

You should remember the fact that JDK 10 was in fact created by collaboration with OpenJDK, which is one of the reasons why this features makes sense.

Thread-Local Handshakes

The VM performance will be enhanced thanks to this new feature. It could be possible for JVM to stop individual threads. That is because you won’t have to perform a global VM savepoint when making a callback on applications threads.

The Native-Header Generation Tool is removed

Java 10 aims to remove all the things that aren’t needed. For example, the javah tool will be removed from JDK. This tool was used to generate header files when compiling JNI code. There is no need for an individual tool, as programmers can do this through javac.

A single repository

Java 10 came with many changes that are meant to tidy up the place. For example, the JDK forest will be consolidated, as numerous repositories will be combined into a singled repository. This should make things simpler.

Alternative Memory Devices with Heap Allocation

With the help of this new feature, it will be possible to allocate the Java object heap on the alternative memory device chosen by the user. The HotSpot VM will be allowed to do this. Using this feature you could choose where to allocate the higher priority processes, as well as lower priority ones.

Time-Based Release Versioning

After the JDK 10 release, we all know that Java has a brand new release plan. We should expect a new release every six months. This decision has both pros and cons. For example, some people are excited about the new features and enhancements that come every six months, but others believe that it is not enough time to adopt a JDK. Big releases, LTS ones, take place every three years.

You should also know that the Feature element will be incremented one month before the Update element will be incremented as well. This new schedule was called Time-Based Release Versioning and it was announced by Java.

Java-based JIT Compiler

For those who use Graal, the Java-Based JIT compiler, you should know that a new feature allows it to be used on the Linux/x64 as an experimental JIT compiler. We received Graal back in Java 9. If you want to enable it you will need to use these JVM arguments: -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseJVMCICompiler.

Don’t forget that the JIT compiler remains experimental at the moment, which means that you should be careful when you use it.

You can discover the other features of Java 10 by installing it. It can be downloaded from the Oracle official website. You can also find the release notes from this update if you want to learn more about the new features and changes.

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Clash Royale League: Live Competition Is a Better Competition?

We’ve all heard about the previous Clash Royale competitions, but what do we know about the fall season of the Clash Royale League? We know that it’s much more professional and that even the broadcast is different.

There won’t be any individual players who suddenly came into the tops, but there will be teams. The thing is that Supercell even changed how the teams are choosing players.

This has become a tradition in esports – an organization makes their exploration and they look for the best player. There’s nothing changed in the case of the Clash Royale League, maybe except of a process that’s more clear.

An official event happened

March 2018 was the beginning of the Clash Royale League Challenge and it has one pretty defined goal: to find the best players in the world. Few hundreds were invited to a Combine, where an official event happened, just like in the NFL.  Here is where they got the best chance to see players in action. There were six days in which 25 million people entered the challenge. The goal was to get 20 wins before getting three loses. If you did this, you could advance. The catch was that, as you advanced, you had to deal with better players. There were 113 countries, and only 7000 players got to the next stage.

The whole idea of this event was for players to interact with the representatives from the esports teams to show them their unique skills. They wanted to give the teams the opportunity to choose their players from a live competition scene, not just the online one. Can you imagine the pressure from the live competition? It may be harsh, but it’s a good way to make sure they’ll get into the organization.

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Google Play Store Face the “Device not compatible” Error Message Problem

A number of users have reportedly announced that they are getting a “Device not compatible” error message in the Google Play Store whenever they want to upgrade GetUpside or install it. The fact that their device should be compatible with the GetUpside does not solve the problem as the message still shows.

The problem is more complicated than expected

After a series of investigations, we have come up to the conclusion that GetUpside is not the only faulty app and that the error message  “Device not compatible” shows up even when we try to download Clash of Clans (100M+ installs) and Instagram (1B+ installs). The cause of this “Device not compatible” error message in the Google Play Store might be that Google’s Android operating system deals with some problems itself.

Here is a step by step guide on how to fix the  “your device is not compatible with this version” error message problem:

Before going to the Google Play Store, start with clearing the Google Play Store cache

  • After that, you can clean the data as well
  • Now you must restart the Google Play Store
  • It is time to try installing the app you want

To clear your Google Play Store cache and data, you need to pull down the notification bar on your Android device, click on the gear-shaped settings icon or go search for it in the application tray. After getting into settings, you need to scroll to App Manager or Apps and then find the Google Play Store. After that, you only need to tap Clear Cache or Data.

If any corrupt files are causing the problem, they will be erased in this method, and it might work now. Supercell, Clash of Clans’ maker and Instagram have heard from their users that this method should solve the issue.

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Clash of Clans: Users are Experiencing War Match Problems

For the less experienced, Clash of Clans is a mobile strategy game which was released in 2012 on iOS and 2013 on Android by the Finnish game developer Supercell.

What is the game about?

The game makes you the chief of a village which is placed in a fantasy-themed persistent world. You can build your own town by collecting resources from winning competitions and attacking other players within the fighting features of the game. Dark elixir, elixir, and gold are the primary resources. As a player you can conjoin with other an create clans of up to fifty people with whom you can talk, change troops and partake in Clan Wars together.

What kind of problem are the users experiencing?

Regarding the Clan Wars, we were previously talked about, users have been trying to get in one for the last few days, but the feature does not work. Most users have sent emails to Supercell to ask for directions and answers, but each sender received the same email in which the company explains how a Clan War works avoiding the main question. According to the opinions users shared via a forum, they used to wait from 30 to 90 minutes to get into such a war, but at the moment it can even pass the 24 hour time, and they still can’t access a war. As they were previously informed, they can email Supercell for help at any times, but unfortunately, due to the unsatisfactory answers received from the company, the users consider the Help & Support section a waste of time.

One user suggests that the Finnish company has no control over this situation and it is not their fault that this problem keeps spreading upon players of Clash of Clans.

However, other users do not agree with this statement, and they consider that Supercell must do something about this issue as it becomes more frustrating day by day.

According to a more experienced gamer and a “Forum Hero” “SC basically said they are making it harder for engineered bases, you might want to look at your roster and check out TH spread and a number of engineered bases you are taking to war for your answer.”

Unfortunately for the affected players, the only solution would be to change their war settings or wait for the company to find a proper solving.

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Top 3 Best Adobe Flash Player Alternatives For 2018

A significant amount of people have the desire to move on from Flash and Adobe has finally released a new version which will belong to the Flash Player 30 branch. Because Flash scared users in numerous occasions last year, here are the best three options from which they can choose which one to move on to.

HTML5

HTML5 is one of the users’ favorites as it delivers content on the web. Because a number of products can’t work without Flash and a user base does not to give it up, it remains despite HTML5’s dominance.

Google Chrome gave Flash Player up when it released Chrome 56 while thinking for many years to do so.

Even though Apple supports Adobe AIR, it does not want to do anything with Flash Player.

Lightspark

Lightspark is a Flash Player open source, and it was written in C/C++ while running on Linux. If you go on its GitHub page, you can see the code personally. The last version of Lightspark which was released in 2013 is 0.7.2, so it might not work with a lot of the Flash-based content of today as it was released four years ago.

Silverlight

Even though Silverlight is no longer around it will be missed as looked back at with pride because it was able to achieve so much. Its developers aimed to make it write and run rich internet, and NBC even used it as a streamer for their video during their 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics’ coverage and also to cover the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics event. For their streaming services, Netflix and Amazon Video used Silverlight as well. Netflix switched to HTML5 when the end of its life was announced by Microsoft in 2012.

Rest in peace Silverlight.

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