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Why YouTube’s future depends on original video contentYoola, a top YouTube network, believes that original content is the new frontier for online videos YouTube is a billion dollar industry all on its own, yet video quality has never been a top priority for most creators, who tend to be more concerned with their hit counter. Multi-Channel Networks, who are responsible for hosting and managing most of the creators on YouTube, mostly follow suit, spending time and resources dealing with the content on their channels....

Linux was developed by Linus Torvalds at the University of Helsinki in Finland. It was inspired by Minix, a small Unix System. It is simply an Operating System. It was introduced in October 1991. The first official version was Linux 0.02. In 2001, 2.4 version was released. It is developed under the GNU license, which allows the source code of Linux to be distributed freely. Linux is used for networking, software development, and web hosting....

In a recent blogpost, former EA developer Adam Berg stated that “3 Lines of Code Shouldn’t Take an Entire Day to Write.” Well, Adam joined the FIFA (EA Game Franchise) team as an intern back in 2014. He started by working on the PS Vita, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo Wii ports of the game. According to his blogpost compiling and testing just three lines of codes took an entire day....

Now, popular leaker @OnLeaks has made a 3D video of the upcoming LG flagship in collaboration with @TheMrPhone based on the designs and specifications leaked to @OnLeaks by accessory makers. However, LG G7 is yet to receive an official confirmation. The video below show the device from all possible angles. As you can see from the 360-degree video, the LG G7 sports a similar design to that of LG G6, and will feature a metal and glass design and an edge-to-edge display....

For those unfamiliar, Billy Big Mouth Bass is a singing, robotic fish, that was popular 20 years ago and could be usually seen mounted on the wall of a gas station store or a basement man cave. The fish turned its head towards a person, facing them, and then wiggled its tail on its trophy plaque and sang songs, such as “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” and “Take Me To The River....

Adam Penny, 25, stole the names, addresses and parcel tracking numbers of customers who were waiting for deliveries of gold bullion, before passing the data to three associates who then intercepted the gold deliveries. It emerged that the culprit and his team stole or attempted to steal six packages of gold with an estimated value of more than £88,000, according to a court hearing at Kingston Crown Court on September 12....

The accused, Balaram Mukhi sold his son for Rs 25,000, and out of that sum, he spent Rs 2,000 on the mobile phone, Rs 1,500 on a silver anklet for his seven year-old daughter and bought one saree for his wife, Sukuti Mukhi. The remaining money was used by Balaram to buy alcohol for his session of debauchery. Anup Sahoo, Bhadrak’s Superintendent of Police (SSP) said Mukhi has no regular income....

Todd Michael Gori, a 28-year-old resident of Wenatchee, Washington, had threatened a healthcare software manufacturer company for refusing to hire him. He told Chapel Hill company TSI Healthcare that he would carry out cyber attacks on them along with his unnamed friends if the company did not fire its current female employee and hired him instead. According to the court documents, Gori threatened the firm through an email sent from this Washington State home....

Oukitel K10000 is the first Smartphone in the world with the largest battery at 10,000mAh. With such battery storage, users need not worry as to how many hours it take to fully charge it, because it is said to take only 3.5 hours from 0 to 100. The device also supports reverse charge functionality. This means that the device can serve as a power bank as well. Also, the K10000 may last up to 15 days with normal usage....

However at that time, the Microsoft top honchos did not see any potential profit over hosting such a huge project on the nascent Terraserver system which went on to become a third party hosting platform. According to Motherboard, the Microsoft executives thought that seeing your house from space was not something a normal person would want to do. “[T]he company didn’t care about the information [on Terraserver],” Tom Barclay, the man behind the project, told Motherboard....

Microsoft once again is going beyond virtual world to provide ultimate user experience with the announcement of Windows Holographic and Windows HoloLens. Windows Holographic is, at its core, Microsoft’s take on augmented reality, but it utilizes holograms. The company describes Microsoft HoloLens, that has “the most advanced holographic computer the world has ever seen.” The HoloLens headset is equipped with see-through, holographic lenses HoloLens. It projects holograms that are powered by an unspecified CPU and GPU, alongside a dedicated holographic processor....

The Windows 10 May 2019 Update introduces a Windows Sandbox feature, a new light theme for Windows 10, Kaomoji support, improved Focus Assist, and the separation of Cortana and Windows search. However, the update still has Neowin in total, with three listed as ‘investigating’ and nine listed as ‘mitigated’ and with no issues listed as resolved. Given below are issues that are listed as ‘investigating’: Display brightness may not respond to adjustments Microsoft and Intel have identified a driver compatibility issue on devices configured with certain Intel drivers....

Pinterest is an online pinboard platform with a market cap of $53.96 billion. If the deal would have gone through, this would have been Microsoft’s biggest acquisition to date, points outs FT. For those unaware, Microsoft had also unsuccessfully tried to purchase the U.S. market of popular Chinese video-sharing app ‘TikTok’ last year. In recent years, Microsoft has quietly acquired an impressive portfolio of companies and assets under CEO Satya Nadella, which includes Minecraft maker Mojang, LinkedIn, GitHub, and ZeniMax Media....

Twitter user WalkingCat (@h0x0d) was the first to discover a new dynamic-link library (DLL) called “gamemode.dll” in the latest pre-release Windows 10 build (14997). According to the nomadic feline, Windows 10’s Game Mode “will adjust its resource allocation logic (for CPU/Gfx etc.) to prioritize” the performance of a game over other programs. — WalkingCat (@h0x0d) December 28, 2016 In other words, it appears that Game Mode will optimize the entire OS around the game that you’re playing so that the system’s CPUs and GPUs are unaffected by unnecessary background processes during the games....

The Bulgarian authorities said that they were keeping the hackers name confidential so as to help the investigators gather evidence against him. They have however, given details of a raid on his house that was conducted June 13. In the raid, the Bulgarian police seized computers and data storage containing advanced hacking tools belonging to the hacker. Post the Charlie Hebdo massacre, the world was divided into two groups, one in support of the the murderers and one group opposing the massacre with #JeSuisCharlie handle....

Microsoft says Nov. 18 Azure outage due to misconfigured codeOverruling ProtocolThe Statement Overruling Protocol Microsoft developers it seems, were working to iron out a bug in their software. The solution to the bug solving, apparently caused the massive outage of Azure cloud services. Microsoft said that it had tested the update before rolling it out. But it is not always possible to accurately predict the result of a software update on such a huge platform under a controlled testing environment....

“We’re happy to confirm Android 8.0 Oreo will be joining our fleet of Motorola smartphones, starting this fall,” read the company’s blogpost. Motorola also has an online tool that allows its handset owners to select their carrier and phone to find out if/when it will be updated. The smartphones that are set to be updated to Android 8.0 Oreo are Moto Z2 Force Moto Z2 Play Moto Z Force DROID Moto Z Moto Z Play Moto G5 Moto G5 Plus Moto GS5 Moto GS5 Plus...

After it was confirmed that the first of Nokia Android device, Nokia D1C was, in fact, a 13.8-inch tablet running on Android 7.0 Nougat, Nokia fans were awaiting the release of the tablet and other Nokia Android smartphones during the busy holiday season of 2016. However, new reports indicate that Nokia’s four Android devices (1 Android Tablet and 3 Android smartphones) will be available only in the first half of 2017....