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.

Categories
News Tech

WhatsApp for iPhone: Instagram and Facebook PiP Video Download Available

After Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave details about the new features coming to WhatsApp in the F8 keynote address a week ago, the social chatting application has now released an update for the iOS clients. WhatsApp iOS update number 2.18.51 naturally conveys the capacity to watch Instagram and Facebook videos in-application. The update implies now, alongside YouTube videos, that iPhone clients can see Instagram and Facebook videos ideal inside their WhatsApp chat box too.

When are we getting it?

Earlier, when clients tapped on an Instagram or Facebook video, it would open in their particular applications installed on the gadget. In its most recent update, WhatsApp has said in its changelog that in-application video playback will work for Instagram and Facebook. Notwithstanding, it isn’t working right now. In any case, the update shows that the component ought not to be too far away, and might be enabled in the following couple of weeks.

About PiP

The changelog likewise says that the feature supports PiP (or picture in picture mode) which implies that you can, in any case, explore through WhatsApp, chat with various individuals, and the video will keep on playing in a video bubble over the application. You can move the video bubble all through the screen too, and it accompanies play/pause, close, and fullscreen buttons, only the same as YouTube’s PiP video bubble. The YouTube video playback joining was presented in January this year for all iPhone clients.

At the F8 event, Zuckerberg declared that group video calling would be presented soon, where up to four individuals can join the call without a moment’s delay and see each other in split-screen mode. The application will likewise get support for third-party stickers made by engineers. Zuckerberg also used this to uncover that WhatsApp’s Status feature is utilized by more than 450 million individuals around the world. WhatsApp for Business, the as of late presented benefit focusing on business, has 3 million clients around the world, as the Facebook’s CEO said.

Categories
Games News

Clash Royale Update Download Available with New Features and Changes

Clash Royale has brought along a huge community of fans that love to play the game and experience the adventure to the fullest. Now, the game developers seem to shower fans with one update after the other since the most recent one came just last month and now they are working on one for the month of May as well. Today we will be talking about all the changes and improvements that come with the May update of this popular game.

What is new?

From what we have seen we are expecting to see the game introduce a new feature, namely that of Double Trouble Gum. We are not sure what this will do yet but we have caught a couple of snapshots of the text mentioning this gum during the loading screen of the game. A Reddit user managed to crack the case by coming across a picture of two archers, one of which is blowing bubble gum. Could this mean that we will get to see this duo introduced as new heroes?

Since we are talking about heroes, we are wondering if the May update will mark the moment when the Archer Queen and the Barbarian King will be added to the game. Rumors have been going around for almost a year that they will be added.

You can expect to see a number of tweak for the Clan Wars feature that has recently been added to the game. Developers could add a tie-breaker option for those battles that end up with both players doing the same amount of damage to decide who the winner is really. Until the update is ready for players we encourage you to keep playing the game and fight your way to the top until you know that you are the best player out there.

Categories
News Tech

Best iOS 11 and iOS 11.1.2 Jailbreak Tweaks

When it comes to jailbreak tools available at the moment for Apple devices that run on iOS 11 and 11.1.2, CoolStar’s Electra is by far the best and most reliable option out there. Today we will be talking about the best jailbreak tweaks that have come up for the jailbroken version of iOS 11 and iOS 11.1.2.

BigBoss’ repository

BigBoss’ repository hosts a number of free jailbreak tweaks that you can get for free which we will be talking about now. One of them is called Active Display and it makes it so that the display now includes both battery and time information. ClearFolders is another jailbreak tweak that you can get for free if you so desire which makes it so your folder icons that appear on the Home page have a different design. The small tweak to the design makes it so that they are clearer and cleaner.

Another small tweak is called CustomLoadingText and it gives you the option to customize the spinner texts that appear in apps systemwide. Moreover, we can also find two other free jailbreak tweaks that you can get for free, namely LeaveAppMakeBounce and NowPlayingDisable. LeaveAppMakeBounce is responsible for adding a small bounce animation to the moment when you close your apps in the jailbroken version of your iOS 11 or 11.1.2 and NowPlayingDisable is quite straightforward, meaning that it stops the Now Playing notification that would appear on the Lock screen.

CydiaGeek’s repository

You can find two tweaks on here that you can get for free, the BlackPasscodeVIew one and ShyWeatherChannelButton. BlackPasscodeView is meant to make the passcode that appears on the Lock screen become black whereas before it was transparent. ShyWeatherChannelButton is meant to hide the Weather Channel button that one can find in the Weather app.

These features are all free and we believe that they are some of the best out there which is we decided to talk briefly about what they do.

Categories
News Tech

WhatsApp Update: A Black Dot Could Crash your Phone

Welcome to the most recent series of subtle messages that could crash your telephone. For this situation you have to keep an eye out for a dark dot in the center of a WhatsApp message, however, evidently, the bug message isn’t generally so natural to spot.

According to Reddit threads and YouTube videos, the message arrives in an assortment of structures and works by concealing a pack of characters that at that point get extended when you tap the message. That data over-burden causes the application and maybe even your telephone to crash, regardless of whether you’re utilizing Android or iOS.

In light of reports throughout the end of the week, a few varieties of the message appear to do the rounds, so we can’t let you know precisely what to search for. A standout amongst the most popular variants is the previously mentioned dark dot series, according to IBTimes, yet we haven’t seen it ourselves.

Be careful at the black dot

There are likewise bits of gossip about whether this affects only Android gadgets or can hang iPhones also. WhatsApp itself presently can’t seem to make any remark on the bug or issue a fix to secure against it, so we can’t yet make certain about precisely what’s happening.

The uplifting news is you don’t have a considerable measure to stress over, regardless of whether a friend who loves jokes gets you out with one of these messages, you only need to reset your telephone to bring it back. You won’t lose any information, and there’s no sign that any of these messages can hack into your gadget.

These pernicious strings of content do depend on tap from the client, however, so for a couple of days at any rate, be careful about any messages requesting that you tap on an image or a word to see more: odds are you’re being hoodwinked.

Categories
News Tech

Google I/O vs. Microsoft Build – How Different are Their Plans?

Google and Microsoft show their guides and advances for designers. Try not to be astonished if two tech monsters AI-implanted dreams are the same.

This week, Google I/O and Microsoft Build cover and frame a series of keynotes that will include chats on artificial intelligence, cloud, mobility, and platforms. The most explicit overlap amongst Microsoft and Google rotate around artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Here are some consistent ideas and what’s in store from the two tech giants

Cloud as an AI conveyance system (Google Cloud Platform vs. Microsoft Azure); the capacity to associate specs between applications on their separate platforms; UX by means of Google’s Material Design and Microsoft’s Fluent Design standards; software engineer units for IoT and augmented reality; progressive Web applications with various names; operating systems by means of Microsoft’s Windows as an approach to snare local engineer applications and Google’s Android; Android: Google will layout Android P, and Microsoft will talk a touch of Android and iOS for its Office and items that go crosswise over platforms.

For this project, the Google and Microsoft conference will earn more enthusiasm than Facebook’s F8 a week ago. Why, you ask? Google and Microsoft are both key enterprise vendors. Companies have both G Suite and Office in the house and may even have multicolor systems. Microsoft and Google additionally both have AI and machine learning platforms that will be used by enterprises.

Microsoft promotes Microsoft Graph as an approach to connect its applications and platforms and give developers more choices. You can nearly take the Microsoft Graph and connect it to a Google Graph. Going ahead, developers will perhaps blend and match these two once different worlds that are progressively overlapping.

Exit mobile version