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Here's a official news, that Facebook and Microsoft's Big Undersea Cable is finally finished. More than  17,000 feet  below the ocean's surface, there now lies the "most technologically advanced subsea cable," providing up to 160 terabits (Tbps) of data per second — beating Google's alternative, now poorly named,  "Faster."  The cable is the handiwork of Facebook, Microsoft, and Spanish telecommunication company Telxius.  Construction on the cable, which stretches 4,000 miles from Virginia Beach, Virginia to Bilbao, Spain, began in August 2016. Microsoft announced its completion on Thursday, but it won't be operational until  early 2018 .  SEE ALSO:  Why Consumer Reports is wrong about Microsoft’s Surface products Facebook, Microsoft, and Telxius will jointly own the cable, which weighs almost 10.25 million pounds — as much as 34 blue whales. Telxius will serve as the cable's operator and will sell and lease its capacit...

Her's a official news, NOKIA has launched its new smartphone named as  "NOKIA  8". The  Nokia  8 is the fourth 'Nokia' branded smartphone coming this year after the Nokia 6, 5 and 3. Based on Android 7.1.1 Nougat, Nokia 8 boasts of a 5.3-inch QHD (2560x1440 pixels) resolution screen with 2.5D curved display along with Corning Gorilla Glass 5. The processing power of the smartphone lies with the flagship octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor, which is complimented by 4GB LPDDR4X RAM. The Nokia 8 comes with dual rear camera setup powered by 13MP sensors each. The camera lens comes from Carl Zeiss. While the first lens shoots coloured shots with OIS, the secondary rear camera shoots in monochrome. The primary camera has an aperture of f/2.0 along with PDAF and dual-tone flash. Nokia 8 is also the company's first to come with Nokia OZO audio, which is a 360-degree audio technology for better multimedia experience. The cameras can also capture videos...

Here's an Ice-Cream, which doesn't melt at all. It is invented in Japan.                                           Everyone knows that one of the greatest challenges of the  summer season  (aside from not screaming every time you see a wasp), is eating your ice cream before it melts.   Although sunshine and a 99 flake seem like natural bedfellows, the sticky dairy running down your hand at great speed would perhaps indicate otherwise. But now a team of Japanese researchers have come to solve all our woes and created an ice cream that doesn’t melt. Japan’s biotherapy development research centre (who should probably be doing far more important things) made the discovery when they asked a pastry chef to make a dessert using polyphenol - a liquid extract from strawberries. But the chef hit an obstacle fairly early on, as every time he tried to use the ...

Facebook has added a new WhatsApp button into its application. The social media giant owns the messaging company, having bought it for $19 billion back in 2014, and appears to be trying to tie the two services closer together. The button, which simply shows the WhatsApp logo alongside the messaging app’s name, appears as an option in the Android app's main menu. It was first spotted by Facebook user Arvind Iyer, who reported it to  the Next Web . It appears to be little more than a shortcut that might save you a second or two every now and again.  (The Next Web) Tapping it simply launches WhatsApp from Facebook, cutting out the need for you to leave the social network and open WhatsApp from your phone’s homescreen.  However, navigating to the menu area of the Facebook app arguably takes the same amount of time, and a lot of people simply launch WhatsApp from their phone's notification bar when they've got new messages to read. W...

Facebook has done it, YouTube has done it, Twitter is doing it, too. We’re talking, of course, about offering a lightweight version of the platform to make it easier for users in countries with less robust access to data to use Twitter. In April, Twitter product manager Patrick Traughber published a  blog post  announcing the debut of Twitter Lite, described as “a new mobile web experience which minimizes data usage, loads quickly on slower connections, is resilient on unreliable mobile networks, and takes up less than 1MB on your device.” Though the  we do have Twitter Lite , it was inevitable that an app would be released, and Tech Crunch reports it’s  being tested in the Phillipines . For users in the Phillipines, the  app can be found in the Google Play Store  for those who have Android 5.0 and above. It has English and Filipino support, and can be used on 2G and 3G networks. “The test of the Twitter Lite app in the Google Pla...

This post will explain you people regarding, how to check your android update, because new updates has certain additional features. If you’re an Android user, you likely know the pain of waiting for a new version of Android to hit your phone. That “check for update” button becomes the most-used feature on your device but you might not be aware that to date that button really hasn’t done much. That, however, is now changing. According to Google’s Elliot Hughes, as long as the latest version of  Google Play Services  is on your phone, hitting the “check for update” button will now reveal an update if one is available. In other words, whether you are in the current rollout group or not, you will get the update. The reason for that is that Google is now flagging you pressing the button as “user-initiated,” which essentially allows you to bypass the rollout groups, which were generally between one and 25 percent.“One thing I haven’t seen the tech press notice is that the...

M ark Zuckerberg is in damage control mode  like never before because Facebook is facing the only real threat to its dominance: U.S. government regulation. Zuckerberg's video on Thursday told the story. Staring directly into the camera, the Facebook CEO offered by far his biggest mea culpa. He looked, for lack of a better word, scared. He should be. The revelations that Facebook's platform was used by Russia to target politically divisive ads represents a systemic threat to the empire that Zuckerberg has built in just 13 years. The threat doesn't come from its loyal users or from disgruntled advertisers or growing competition. Facebook has shown its ability to keep users happy, advertisers spending, and competition at bay.  The Russian controversy is about one thing that keeps Facebook executives up at night: government regulation.  SEE ALSO:  Facebook let advertisers buy ads targeting 'Jew haters' Facebook is now having to work with the governmen...