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PUBG Mobile Is The Most Popular Game On Google Play Store

While Fortnite is not going to fall behind, as every year Google Play Store is publishing the list of its selection of the best Android applications, movies, TV series, and books, the users have chosen PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG Mobile) as the best game of 2018.

PUBG Mobile Is The Most Popular Game On Google Play Store

The list of best apps has been organized in seven categories, among which stands out the recently released “Fan Favorites,” in which users are the ones who vote for their most preferred option. In this new category, PUBG Mobile has managed to be the most favorite game by the users.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds was the first Battle Royale game, but, soon after, Fortnite has become the most popular title of the genre. Since then, Bluehole and PUBG Corp have been trying to get their video game back into the spotlight. As Google Play Store named PUBG Mobile as the most popular title of 2018, the game developed by Tencent is finally beating the Epic Games’ title, Fortnite, at least on Android.

YouTube Is The Most Appreciated Application On Android Operating System

PUBG can be played on Xbox One, PC, Android and, PlayStation 4, more recently. Officially nothing is known, but there is information that points out to a PUBG release on PS4. A month ago, PSNProfiles, said that PUBG was already in the database of the Sony store, but for the moment, we got nothing from the Japanese company.

The award for best app of the year, according to Google Play Store, has been for Drops, an application that allows the learning of a total of 31 different languages. Other recognized apps have been Vimage, Slowly, Mimo, and Buzzfeed’s Tasty as the best app “for day to day.” As for the users’ favorite application, they voted for YouTube.

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Best iOS Apps Of The Year On iPhone and iPad Devices

Just a few hours after Google released the top of the best applications and video games of the year under its personal criteria, Apple has done the same and published the list of the most successful applications of the last twelve months.

As Google revealed the most appreciated apps, games, movies, and book, Apple has done the same thing recently, explaining which of its apps have been top-of-the-range in 2018. The Cupertino-based tech giant showed the most downloaded apps, games, movies, and books on its App Store.

Apple Revealed The Best App Store Application for iOS

Accordingly, here are the best App Store applications for iOS. But not only that, as on this occasion, the Cupertino-based company also wanted to reveal the best movies of the year, TV shows, podcasts, and books.

First, the company has revealed the best apps and games from the different platforms integrated under the iOS operating system, from iPhone to iPad to other company products such as Mac or Apple TV.

Best iOS Apps Of The Yeat On iPhone and iPad Devices

In the case of the iPhone, Apple has considered that the best app has been Procreate Pocket, while the most prominent game for this platform would be Donut County. As for the music, Apple recognizes Drake as the artist of the year. Meanwhile, the company directed by Tim Cook has considered Juice WRLD as the revelation artist.

Regarding movies, the Cupertino-based tech giant, led by Tim Cook, highlights titles such as “Incredibles 2,” “Coconut,” “Champions,” “Avengers: Infinity War,” “Blade Runner 2049,” “The shape of water,” “Call me by your name,” “Lady Bird,” “The best summer of my life,” and “Isle of dogs.”

Finally, regarding the App Store books, Apple considers Joel Dicker’s “The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer” as the book of the year.

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Nvidia Made Its PhysX Code as Open Source On GitHub

Describing Nvidia as the most open-source-friendly company would be wrong. However, yesterday Nvidia has announced the release of the PhysX code as an open source. For newbies, PhysX is a physics engine that Nvidia acquired when it bought Ageia, which worked in Physics Processing Units. Since then, this technology has been closely tied to GPUs and green giant technologies, including the well-known CUDA.

PhysX is used in multiple fields within computing for physics simulations, including Artificial Intelligence, robotics and computer vision, self-driven vehicles, and high-performance computing.

Published under the 3-clause BSD license (BSD 3), this distribution modality has reached iOS, macOS, Android ARM (version 2.2 for the SDK and 2.3 for code snippets), Linux (testing on Ubuntu) and Windows XP and higher, but the EULA remains unchanged for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. On the other hand, its SDK is currently integrated into the Unreal Engine 3 and four engines and in Unity3D to be used by all developers who want to use it in their projects.

nvidia Made Its PhysX Code as Open Source On GitHub

However, it seems that at least at the moment the execution of PhysX in AMD GPU is an impossibility, so this advance will only serve for those who use NVIDIA GPU because this change has not come to the implementation of this technology for video game consoles.

Another detail to emphasize is that this could be more oriented to corporate solutions and the areas mentioned above than to the end users. Until now, PhysX has not been lavished much in products oriented to the end user compatible with GNU/Linux, besides that the users of the Open Source system expect other movements on the part of the multinational of Santa Clara.

The PhysX code has been published under BSD 3 and can be obtained from GitHub.

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Top Five Tips that will Improve your WhatsApp Experience

With more than 1.5 billion users WhatsApp is one of the most popular communication apps in the world. The popularity of the app increased considerably after it was acquired by Facebook as the yearly subscription tax was eliminated.

Below you will find five tips that will help you get the most out of the app.

  1. How to read deleted messages

Usually when one of the users deletes a message it will be replaced by a ‘’This message was deleted’’ when one of the users tries to view it in the chat. If you want to read deleted messages you can use third-party apps like WhatsRemoved and Notification History. Both apps can be easily found and downloaded by using the Google Play app.

  1. Send your real-time location

If you are planning a family reunion or a big group meeting sharing your location may come in as a handy feature in order to let others know where you are. The function can easily following these steps:

Go to the conversation

Tap on the attachment icon.

Tap on the Share live location option and select the desired interval.

  1. Easily manage WhatsApp groups

As a group admin you are able to restrict the messaging options of normal group members. You are also able to personalize the group at any time by changing the group name, icon and description. These options can be changed by going to Group Info and taping on the Groups Settings option. Admins are also able to dismiss other admins but the group founders cannot be dismissed.

  1. Obtain a detailed report about your account

Users can obtain a detailed report that mentions the type of data collected by WhatsApp from their device and other useful information. The feature can be accessed by going to Settings/Account/Request Account Info.

  1. Change the language used by the app

In order to change the current language used by the app you can go to Settings/Chats/App Language. Tap on the desired option and you are good to go.

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Xiaomi Mi 8 SE with Android Q Spotted in GeekBench

Back in the day, it took months or even years for an Android update to reach all devices. However, things are becoming to change and new Android versions become available faster. The current Android version is Android 9 Pie and most new mobile phones have it pre-installed.

We already know that Google Pixel is the first smartphone that gets the updates, but we did not know which smartphones were next. Thanks to GeekBench we discovered that Xiaomi will be the next manufacturer that will offer Android Q. Recent leaks revealed that the Xiaomi Mi 8 SE had tests based on the Android Q system. It was tested back on November 25.

Xiaomi Mi 8 SE

According to the leaked information, Xiaomi Mi 8 SE tested 1830 on the single-core score and 5819 on the multi-core score. The device has the Snapdragon 710 processor. The device comes with a 5.88-inch Samsung AMOLED notch display and it has the classical 5.2-inch dimensions, but with a larger display. The smartphone also comes with 6 GB RAM, a front 20 MP camera, a rear 12MP + 5MP AI dual-camera. By all means, this phone is considered a “small screen flagship”.

Android Q

It is hard to believe that Android Q will be released next spring, since Android 9 Pie has been released for three months. At the moment 0.1% of Android users have this Android version, which means that even more will have outdated versions once Android Q is released.

Each Android version uses the name of a sweet treat. For Android 9 we had Pie, for Android 8 we had Oreo, and so on. When it comes to the letter “Q” there aren’t many options available. Users did manage to find a couple such as queen of puddings, quaker oats, or quiche.

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