How To Increase RAM In Android Devices Using SD Card

We all know that Android is the brand of alteration and modifications if your android device is already rooted then this tutorial is the best to gain more knowledge relating how you can really increase your Android RAM without changing any hardware.

Just follow the below process and in the process of increasing your Android RAM, you need to understand what are the requirements to perform this tutorial.

Requirements:

• Rooted Android Device
• SD Card Must Be 4GB Or Higher(Class 4 or higher)
• SD Card reader
• Windows Computer

Follow the below process. Be sure that your SD card is formatted or blank! Follow the tutorial below.

Step1. Download and install a software called Mini Tool Partition for your Windows PC. This software will help you to do partition of your SD card, use your SD card reader to insert your SD card!

Step2. Now open Mini Tool Partition and from there just select your SD card and right click on that, and select delete(The delete button is for format)

Step3. Once your SD card formatted, right-click on that and select ‘Create“, it will create partitions, if your sd card is below 4GB then select “FAT” if higher then click on FAT32.

Step4. You can drag the Size and location, you must leave 1000MB on unallocated Space and the rest is for partition size. and Click OK.

Step5. Now you have left 1000MB unallocated space so need to get it located, again right-click on it and select Create, select Primary as the same on previous and then Ext2, not FAT32, in this you should not leave any unallocated space.Click OK done.

Step6. Now all done editing partition. Just Click Apply at the left top corner of your mini tool partition wizard.

Now move to Android device!

Step1. Download and install Link2sd from google play store on your Android.

Step2. Just open that downloaded application and it will ask for the rooted device if your device is rooted then it’s well and good or if not then you have to root your Android device. So after that, the application will ask you for the file system as .Ext partition, just select Ext2 if you had created the unallocated partition using Ext2 in the previous step, Click OK.

Step3. Prepare the application to take the partitioned space that we have taken 1000MB, and then link up all of them.

As I said at the beginning of the post, you are not adding any sort of hardware, Increasing RAM in Android means using your own SD card and approximately it will take 10-15 minutes to perform.

SOURCES: CODINGSEC.NET

All of Google’s cloud database services are now out of beta

Google is making a number of announcements around its Cloud Platform today. Most of these focus on its various cloud database services, but the company is also making a major update to its low-cost Nearline cloud storage service for cold data, making its disk volumes faster, and allowing its users to bring their own encryption keys to Cloud Storage.

The overall message Google is clearly trying to send here is that its cloud computing services are ready for production use.

On the database side, the big news is that all of Google’s cloud database services are now out of beta. That means the company’s second generation version of Cloud SQL, which allows you to easily run and manage MySQL databases in the cloud, is now generally available after about nine months in beta.

Cloud Bigtable, another NoSQL database, but with a focus on very large analytics and operational workloads, is now also generally available.

Also out of beta is the API forGoogle Cloud Datastore, Google’s NoSQL database for web and mobile app workloads. Cloud Datastore itself was already generally available for a while, but developers were only able to use it as part of Google App Engine. With the API, developers can use it for applications outside of App Engine as well. The company says Cloud Datastore, which is used by the likes of Snapchat, currently handles one trillion requests per month.

Google notes that it had added various features to these services over the course of their betas, but what will likely matter even more to its users is that these services are now backed by an SLA (for Cloud Datastore, that’s 99.95% monthly uptime, for example).

For those who want to use Microsoft’s flagship database server in the Google Cloud, the company now also offers SQL Server images with built-in licenses (currently in beta) and the ability to bring existing licenses to its platform. Running SQL Server images incurs some extra cost on top of Google’s normal instance costs, though. That’s $0.1645 per core/hour for SQL Server Standard and $0.011 per core/hour for SQL Server Web. Using SQL Server Express, though, is free.

While Microsoft may have an edge when it comes to running SQL Server in the cloud, Google knows that it needs to offer its enterprise users the option to bring their existing applications and workloads to its cloud if it wants to wean them off Microsoft’s cloud services (which, for the time being, remain significantly more popular than Google’s among enterprise customers).

As for storage, Google today announced that its low-cost Nearline storage service for “cold” data is getting much faster. Nearline competes directly with Amazon’s Glacier storage and like that service, it provides lower availability guarantees in return for significantly lower storage cost. Until now, Nearline users also had to contend with a 3 to 5 second latency when accessing data. That latency is now gone. As a Google spokesperson told me, access is now “almost real-time.”

Google’s Persistent Disk volumes are now also faster, with maximum read and write IOPS going from 15,000 to 25,000. That’s useful for both database applications and storing other types of data locally as well.

“Today marks a major milestone in our tremendous momentum and commitment to making Google Cloud Platform the best public cloud for your enterprise database workloads,” the Google team writes today. It’s not like we needed more evidence that Google is taking its Cloud Platform very seriously these days, but if you needed more evidence, now you have it.

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SOURCES: TECHCRUNCH

Indian engineering student builds a real-life walking Iron Man suit for just $750

Real-life Iron Man suit built for just $750 by this Indian student

Ever fancied getting into the iron suit of Tony Stark from the Hollywood blockbluster movie ‘Iron Man’? Well, if you didn’t, this Indian student certainly did.

Vimal Govin Manikandan, an engineering student has gone ahead and built a real-life Iron Man suit using exoskeleton technology. While it doesn’t fly and can hardly walk, Manikandan and his team developed a novel way to control a walking robot suit.

Manikandan says the suit was inspired by action movies especially the Hollywood blockbuster Avatar that featured machines designed for use by the military.

The exoskeleton made by Manikandan weighs 220 pounds, and can roughly lift 330 pounds. However, it is unclear if that includes the exoskeleton and human inside.The exoskeleton cost Manikandan just $750 (approx £578) to make, which is quite impressive. However, on the downside, as the suit weighs 220 pounds, it makes it difficult to walk or run while someone’s wearing it. Also, since it is powered by batteries, the chance that it lasts long is unlikely.

It’s not the first exoskeleton that Manikandan has built. Previously, he had made a mechanically powered Iron Man suit (see video below). Manikandan wants the military to use his technology, he told Al Jazeera.

SOURCES: TECHWORM

IBM’s Watson Artificial Intelligence discovered a rare illness in a woman suffering from leukaemia

Japanese Doctors Use AI To Detect Rare Leukaemia

Artificial Intelligence (AI), which is looked upon as a threat to humans, as they are rumoured to take place of humans in factories, industries, etc. in the coming years turned saviour for a patient suffering from leukaemia. Yes, you heard it right!

A team of Japanese doctors turned to IBM’s AI system, Watson for help after the treatment for an 60-year-old woman suffering from leukaemia proved unsuccessful. The AI was successfully able to find out that she actually suffered from a different, rare form of leukaemia, as the disease had gone undetected using conventional methods by the doctors.

Arinobu Tojo, a member of the medical team, told Efe news on Friday that the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science has successfully used the new method of diagnosis, which includes a computer programme capable of studying a huge volume of medical data.

Watson, which has been jointly developed by the US’ IBM and other firms, looked at the woman’s genetic information and compared it to 20 million clinical oncology studies. It later determined that the patient had an exceedingly rare form of leukaemia and recommended a different treatment which was successful.

Originally, the woman had been diagnosed with, and treated for, acute myeloid leukaemia; however, she failed to respond to the traditional treatment methods, which confounded doctors.

The conventional method of diagnosis for different types of leukaemia is based on an evaluation by a team of medical specialists after studying the genetic information of patients as well as the clinical studies available; an enormous task owing to the huge amount of data to be gone through.

Satoru Miyano, a Professor at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science, points out that this is proof enough of the ability that AI likely has in the coming years, “to change the world.”

This is the nation’s first case of an AI saving someone’s life, emphasizing that this is “the most practical application in the field of medical and health care for artificial intelligence,” added Seiji Yamada, of the National Institute of Informatics and chairman of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence.

What was remarkable was that the AI was able to diagnose the condition in just 10 minutes. Whether we would be able to see AI as a regular feature in the hospital in the coming years only time will tell.

SOURCES: TECHWORM

Microsoft won’t fix Windows flaw that lets hackers steal your username and password

The flaw, which allows a malicious website to extract user passwords, is made worse if a user is logged in with a Microsoft account.

A previously disclosed flaw in Windows can allow an attacker to steal usernames and passwords of any signed-in user — simply by tricking a user into visiting a malicious website.

But now a new proof-of-exploit shows just how easy it is to steal someone’s credentials.

The flaw is widely known, and it’s said to be almost 20 years old. It was allegedly found in 1997 by Aaron Spangler and was most recently resurfaced by researchers in 2015 at Black Hat, an annual security and hacking conference in Las Vegas.

The flaw wasn’t considered a major issue until Windows 8 began allowing users to sign into their Microsoft accounts — which links their Xbox, Hotmail and Outlook, Office, and Skype accounts, among others.

Overnight, the attack got larger in scope, and now it allows an attacker to conduct a full takeover of a Microsoft account.

Source: Zdnet

SOURCES: TECHWORM

Google buys cloud platform

Google buys Orbitera, a platform for cloud marketplaces, for $100M+

Google today announced another acquisition that will help the company improve how it competes against Amazon’s AWS, Salesforce and Microsoft in the area of enterprise services, and specifically selling enterprise services in the cloud: it has acquired Orbitera, a startup that developed a platform for buying and selling cloud-based software.

Terms of the deal have not been disclosed but our sources close to the deal tell us it’s just north of $100 million.

This is an acquisition of talent, technology, and existing business. The CEO Marcin Kurc (tellingly) is an alum of AWS. And Google notes that some 60,000 enterprise stacks have already been launched on Orbitera. These include the likes of Adobe, Oracle and Metalogix, who all resell cloud services from third-party vendors as part of their larger enterprise businesses.

“This acquisition will not only improve support of software vendors on Google Cloud Platform but also provides customers with more choice and flexibility in today’s multi-cloud world,” Google said in a statement provided to TechCrunch.

Kurc notes in his announcement that Google will keep everything running as is, “at this time.”

The startup says its focus is on providing four (end-to-end) aspects of building cloud marketplaces: Packaging and Provisioning, Billing and Cost Optimization, Marketplace and Catalogs, Trials and Lead Management.

It looks like Google will continue to operate that business on behalf of existing users, and maybe to help out its own marketplace for cloud services on its own cloud platform.

“Looking to the future, we’re committed to maintaining Orbitera’s neutrality as a platform supporting multi-cloud commerce. We look forward to helping the modern enterprise thrive in a multi-cloud world,” writes Nan Boden, head of global technology partners at Google.

As Google has grown well beyond its earliest roots as a search company, its reached an interesting relationship with companies that are at turns friends and rivals to its own business interests.

Buying a platform company that works with so many of these in the area of cloud services is an interesting development for Google, and one that it’s keen to try to tread carefully in making.

In this case, Google is trying to reassure customers that even as it sells a platform to sell products, it recognises that the ultimate repository of those products might not be Google itself.

(Whether or not that is the case longer term is another question — in other areas like ads, Google has walked an impartial line and then changed course — but for now there is a viable enough business for Google in remaining a neutral party.)

“We recognize that both enterprise customers and ISVs want to be able to use more than one cloud provider and have a way to conduct product trials and proofs of concept before building a full production deployment, all using their trusted SIs (System Integrators), resellers and normal sales cycles,” Boden notes.

“Orbitera has built a strong ecosystem of enterprise software vendors delivering software to multiple clouds. This acquisition will not only improve the support of software vendors onGoogle Cloud Platform, but reinforces Google’s support for the multi-cloud world. We’re providing customers with more choice and flexibility when it comes to running their cloud environment.”

Orbitera was co-founded by Firas Bushnaq and Brian Singer, who came up with the idea for the company to fix some of the “transactional and operational challenges associated with selling software” that they encountered while founding and working at previous tech companies.

Based out of West Hollywood, CA, Orbitera had raised some $2 million in funding from angels like Hiten Shah and Arjun Sethi, Double M Partners and Resolute.vc

SOURCES: TECHCRUNCH

The Jungle Book and other iconic 16-bit Disney games are now available on PCs

Nostalgia reloaded: 16-bit classic Disney games now available on PC and Mac

For all those Disney game lovers out there, it’s time to get nostalgic. Digital distribution site GOG.com in a surprise announcement yesterday disclosed that three classic, 16-bit retro Disney games from the ’90s are going to be available in their store. In other words, you can now play these games on your Windows PC and Mac.

The three Disney’s classic 16-bit platformers are Aladdin, The Lion King and The Jungle Book, which have been updated for modern computers and re-released exclusively on GOG.com.

“All three titles have been meticulously updated to be compatible with modern operating systems while preserving the original graphics, sound and gameplay,” GOG.com’s press release reads.

In order to bring popular Disney characters to life in the gaming world, all the three timeless classics were developed using Digicel technology. The technology, which was unmatched at that time and even today looks quite impressive produced vibrant colors and visuals.

GOG.com explains the games’ history as follows:

“Developed during the golden age of platformers, Disney Aladdin, Disney The Lion King, and Disney The Jungle Book established themselves as hallmarks of the genre, earning the praise of fans and critics alike for over two decades. That was due in no small part to their groundbreaking visuals. With the advent of Digicel technology, hand-drawn cels from Disney’s animation team brought the characters to life with a level of vibrancy that was unparalleled at the time, and remains impressive today. Just look at how adorable little Simba looks when he roars at his enemies!”

All three games are playable on Windows PC, Mac and Linux. The retailer for video games and films is selling the 16-bit Aladdin, The Lion King and The Jungle Book platformers for $9.99 each or as part of a bundle for $19.99 until August 8. However, GOG.com is offering a 10 percent discount, reducing the price to $8.99 for the launch.

GOG.com has also previously teamed up with Disney in 2014 to re-release the digital versions of two Star Wars classics from the early ’90s, Star Wars: X-Wing and Star Wars: TIE Fighter. Since then, the retailer has released more than two dozen Disney-owned titles, including The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition and LucasArts’ The Dig.

SOURCES: TECHWORM

Google wants to help you

Google wants to help you manage your passwords

The search giant intends to use password managers to log you in to your Android apps, a process that could expand to other devices and operating systems.

Google is looking to rid you of the burden of remembering passwords.

Password manager Dashlane said Thursday it's partnering with Google on a project that will enable Android users to easily and securely log in to their mobile apps via stored passwords. It's called Open Yolo -- you only log in once. The project would involve other companies that make password managers, which automatically create, store and apply passwords for websites so you don't have to remember them.

Passwords have become a necessary evil for logging in to websites and apps. It's tough to create and recall them, and they're not fail-safe. Other security methods, such as fingerprint and iris scanning, are simpler and more secure, but they're still in their infancy. Integrating password managers directly into your website and app logins could prove to be the best solution.

Password managers are a viable way to avoid dealing with passwords. But multiple password managers -- including Dashlane, Roboform, LastPass and 1Password -- all try to do essentially the same job. Which one should you use? Well, the goal behind Open Yolo is to come up with a single, more seamless login process that taps into whichever password manager you use.

So far, such leading password managers as 1Password, LastPass, Keeper and KeePass are either already participating in the project or have expressed a strong interest in it, a Dashlane spokeswoman told CNET. One password manager ideal for the project is Smart Lock, a tool already built into your Google account. Introduced last year, Smart Lock can automatically log you in to an Android app and apply your username and password to websites opened through the Chrome browser.

Open Yolo currently exists as an open API (application programming interface), which allows app developers to support different password managers. Any maker of a password manager can contribute its own technology and expertise to try to enhance and develop the API. With the open API, a password-protected app would be able to query other sources of credentials -- such as Dashlane, another password manager or even another browser -- if it contains a credential for the app, the spokeswoman said.

"The big picture is to make password managers more proactive and more transparent, which means it will be seamlessly available every time you need it," the spokeswoman said. "This project is the first big step towards making security simple and accessible for every user, on every device."

Google is expected to approve the API by next month.

For now, Open Yolo's focus is to create a login process for Android apps, but the project has bigger aspirations.

"In the future, we see this open API going beyond just Android devices, and becoming universally implemented by apps and password managers across every platform and operating system," Dashlane said in Thursday's blog post. "Ultimately, we look forward to expanding this collaborative project, so that it will benefit the entire security ecosystem as a whole."

SOURCES: CNET

Torrentz.eu follows KickassTorrents, shuts down

Torrentz.eu, the Mega Torrents Search Engine Shuts Down

2016 is a bad year for torrent websites and the torrents community as a whole. Just weeks after one of the most popular torrents website, KickassTorrents was shut down, another Torrents community icon, Torrentz.Eu has mysteriously shut shop.

It has been exactly sixteen days since US Department of Justice announced the arrest of Kickass Torrents’ admin in Poland and seizure of KickassTorrents domains like Kat.cr. Now, Torrentz.eu, the Internet’s biggest BitTorrent meta-search engine, has shut down, according to messages displayed its home page.

At the time of writing, the Torrentz.eu displays a message that reads “Torrentz was a free, fast and powerful meta-search engine combining results from dozens of search engines.”

Trying to run a search, or clicking any link on the site changes that message to “Torrentz will always love you. Farewell.”

Its not just the most popular Torrentz.eu domain, in fact, all Torrentz domains feature the same page. This includes the Torrentz backups .ME, .CH, and .IN. The site’s HTTPS version features the same messages.

Torrentz.eu was never a torrents website but a very popular mega torrent search engine. It was so popular that we had listed it in our most popular torrents websites for 2016 and before its abrupt shutdown, Torrentz.eu had #186 Alexa rank.

The site was launched in July 2003 by an individual named Flippy. The site’s purpose was to index torrents from several large portals and aggregate all the different trackers. This allowed users to download torrent files with multiple trackers in their source, speeding up downloads and preventing dead links in case servers went down.

SOURCES: TECHWORM

Facebook deploys a new anti-clickbait algorithm for News Feed

Facebook’s new anti-clickbait algorithm will further remove bogus headlines

In an effort to reduce the number of clickbait stories that show up in users’ feeds and to keep posts relevant, Facebook has once again gone ahead and tweaked its algorithm that controls its News Feed. In the past too, Facebook has made changes to the news algorithm many number of times.

User Experience Researcher, Kristin Hendrix and Research Scientist, Alex Peysakhovich at Facebook explain clickbait stories as those with headlines that deliberately leave out important information or else try to mislead readers and get them to click their story.

For instance, the new Facebook algorithm can identify headlines like “What she saw at this moment will SHOCK YOU!” or “You won’t believe what will happen next” or “He Put Garlic In His Shoes Before Going To Bed And What Happens Next Is Hard To Believe” or “The Dog Barked At The Deliveryman And His Reaction Was Priceless.” and it doesn’t assign only a binary like “Yes, clickbait” or “not clickbait”, but it gives each story a score. The algorithm mainly looks for phrases often used in clickbait headlines but not in genuine headlines, similar to email spam filters.

The system classifies posts that are clickbait and which Pages and web domains these posts come from. Links posted from or shared from Pages or domains that constantly post clickbait headlines will appear lower in News Feed. If a Page stops posting clickbait headlines, their posts will stop being affected by this change, which in turn would lead to improvement in News Feed over period of time. This new update will have a huge impact on your page, if you are a spammer.

The change supports Facebook’s recently announced “News Feed Values”, which concentrates on “Friends and Family Come First” that resulted in last month’s feed change to de-emphasize news publishers.

Facebook has published a guide for bloggers, news agencies, and anybody else on how to avoid clickbait titles. Facebook advises that publishers avoid omission of important information to fool users into clicking, like “You’ll Never Believe Who Tripped and Fell on the Red Carpet…” Instead, Facebook recommends calls to action and text prompts. It also suggests avoiding exaggeration like “This Pen Never Ever Runs Out of Ink! Get It While It Lasts!”

“Pages should avoid headlines that withhold information required to understand what the content of the article is and headlines that exaggerate the article to create misleading expectations,” Facebook explained in its page. “We don’t post clickbait and we always appreciate a new like on our page on Facebook. We rely on people like you.” Facebook added.

Click here to read more on Facebook’s clickbait.

SOURCES: TECHWORM

Mathematical formula that solves the mystery why and when headphones tangle

Know the mystery behind entangled headphones

Had a bad day at college or work? Want to just rush home and listen to some music to calm yourself? However, when you take out the headphones from your bag, you realize that they have somehow tangled themselves into a tight knot. You have not touched them all day or taken them out; so, how did they manage to entangle themselves?

Well, actually there is actually a mathematical formula that describes exactly how they tangle. In a paper titled “Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string” by Dorian M. Raymer and Douglas E. Smith of the University of California at San Diego Department of Physics has explained this phenomenon.

To find out why the headphones get tangled, the researchers used mathematical ‘knot theory’ to analyze the knots. They ran 3,415 trials of shaking a headphone in a box and found some interesting results. The results showed that two key factors that cause complex knots to “form within seconds”: “critical string length” and “agitation time”.

Here is what the curve looks like:

According to the paper, the chances of a string getting tangled depend on its length. If a string is shorter than 46 centimetres, then it will rarely get knotted. However, the probability of a string getting tangled increases with an increase in the length of the string. With a string up to a length of 2 meters has about a 50% chance of getting tangled; but, strings longer than 2 meters seem cramped in the box, so the probability of them getting tangled does not increase past 50% with additional length.

Raymer and Smith also noted that the Y shape of headphones increases the chance of knotting considerably, with only one end of the wire or cable having to cross another to start off the tumble-weed reaction of a spontaneous tangle.

The physicists also found that when the stray ends of the headphones are allowed to freely lay the tangling occurs. When a bag or container is shaken, these free ends tend to move around and intertwine with the loops around them, causing tangles.

Basically, a typical headphone has a length of about 120cm-160cm, so every time you put your earphones in your pocket, there is a 50% chance that you’ll be annoyed the next time you pull out your headphones for some music.

To sum it up, scientists are saying that there is nothing you can do to prevent your headphones from getting tangled up when you put them in your pocket or bag. So the fact is that whether you like it or no, you will have to face this tangling mess every time you remove your headphones.

Basically, a typical headphone has a length of about 120cm-160cm, so every time you put your earphones in your pocket, there is a 50% chance that you’ll be annoyed the next time you pull out your headphones for some music.

To sum it up, scientists are saying that there is nothing you can do to prevent your headphones from getting tangled up when you put them in your pocket or bag. So the fact is that whether you like it or no, you will have to face this tangling mess every time you remove your headphones.

Source: Business Insider, TECHWORM