Your computer knows you better than your mom

Social networking has become an indispensable part of our lives these days. 'Being Online' is what everyone demands. Kid's these days play online games rather than outdoor or family games. We have more virtually trues friends than real ones. But does this lifesless machine made up of tiny materials know us better than any of our friends or family member ? Well the answer to this question is explained below.
A study submitted by PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), US proved that if we want to know about someone's personality, than computer based judgements are the most accurate in describing him/her.
About ten thousand people participated in this survey by filling a personality test.
In this test, people were asked questions which revealed their five basic traits i.e. extraversion, openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness and neuroticism.
For many of us it may be a deceit, but the judgements made by the computer were solely based on Facebook likes. It was actually based on likes on Facebook pages about movies, books, TV shows, music, etc. rather than likes on statuses or photos.
David Stillwell, deputy director of Cambridge University’s Psychometrics Centre told, "For me it's not completely surprising, because if I went on a blind date with someone I had never met before and they were telling me about their favourite music or favourite films, what sport they like playing, then I could make a judgement about what kind of person they are. But obviously what’s different about our analysis is it’s a computer doing this analysis automatically, without having any real understanding of, what is Big Brother? It only knows what people who like Big Brother are generally like."
These results may also serve as the foundation of innovative tools, for example, getting an insight of someone’s personality. This could be used in suggesting career options or sorting out candidates.

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WhatsApp calling feature officially rolled out

 Now users will be able to use WhatsApp's voice calling feature by downloading it's latest version from the play store. Though iOS users will have to wait for sometime. After lots of twists and turns WhatsApp voice calling feature can be accessed by everyone, although this feature has been used by many in the previous version of WhatsApp, but one needed to be invited by someone who already had this feature. Anyone can enable this feature through Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). But you need to download it's latest version i.e. version-2.12.5 from Google Play Store. Official version of WhatsApp can also be downloaded from it's official website. But yeah, if you download it from official website, don't forget to change settings. Remember to enable allow installation from unknown sources. You can enable it by going to settings>security.

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To make a call, tap the call tab and then new call button at the top of screen. Then it will ask to select a contact with whom you want to make a call. Do remember, if you want to use this feature, then the receiver must download the latest feature of WhatsApp

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iPhone and Windows users don't loose hope, WhatsApp calling feature will soon be officially released for you too because some iPhone users have been seen using this feature through invites.
Comment below if you face any problem. We will be glad to help you

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Outernet: Free internet for all

Outernet, a United States based independent startup has decided to do something big and unimaginable. Do you have any guesses? I am damm sure that there won't be any guesses related to Outernet's aim. This startup aims to provide something huge that almost everyone on earth can access. Outernet aims to provide free internet to everyone, not only in US but to everyone on this earth. In the announcement made by Outernet, it said that with the help of U.K. Space Agency, Outernet will be launching three new nanosatellites, approximately at the start of 2016. These nanosatellites will be manufactured by Clyd Space, a Scotland based company.
According to a survey, out of total world's population, almost half of the people don't have a good internet connection. It isn't a very old news that Outernet started providing its service to 1.3 billion people residing in North America, Middle East, Europe and Asia Pacific. Outernet distribute's internet similar to a radio broadcast. Outernet will be giving internet services in a similar way in which we receive radio signals. Tiny satellites (a bit bigger than the size of a shoebox ) called Cubesats would operate from Low Earth Orbit in UHF frequency which transmits the signals. These signals can be picked up with a much cheaper hardware.
Recently, another technology called "Lantern". Lantern is a distinct WiFi hotspot which has the ability to create WiFi signals by receiving satellite data. Founder and CEO of Outernet, Syed Karim told

"We could send all of the Wikipedia. Essentially, anything that lives on your 

computer is what we can transmit over Outernet. Everyone in the team believes 

in the notion of universal access of information. I've been told by the people who

interacted closely with North Korean defectors and they said that there is internet 

there and it is very limited. They have their own version of Wikipedia.

Now as these satellites will be in space, there shall not be any restrictions on broadcast. Outernet can be a big milestone, if which when crossed, can spread news and unbiased textbooks to all parts of the world.

What do you think, will Outernet be successful in providing free

internet to all or will it fail? Provide us with your 

feedback in comments.

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12-year old girl tried to kill her mother just for taking her iPhone

This is a weird incident of children trying to take revenge from their parents for seizing their mobile phone. A 12-year old girl residing in Boulder, Colorado was arrested, the reason being that she had allegedly tried to kill her mother for taking her iPhone not once, but twice.
The complaint follows accusations that the girl attempted to murder her mother by poisoning her with bleaching powder on two separate occasions. The first instance occurred on march 2, where she succeeded in sending her mother to hospital after she had poured some bleach in her breakfast smoothie.
The girl purposely mixed bleach in the smoothie hoping that it would kill her mother. Although the mother was able to smell the bleach, she thought her daughter was innocent thereby assuming that her daughter might have failed to wash the cup properly. As a result, she drank it and had to be take a short tour to hospital from which she returned unharmed.
But the girl's hatred for her mother was probably much more than what we can think. Because she attempted a similar trick again after a few days.
This time, the 12 year old tried to mix bleaching powder in the water carafe which her mother used to keep in the bathroom for drinking water at night. Like previously, her mother was able to smell the bleach this time too. But this time the mother was suspicious regarding her daughter.
She encountered the girl and had come to know that the 12 year old had mixed bleach on both the occasions. On asking the reason for this, the girl confessed that she had attempted to murder her mother because the mother had taken girl's iPhone previously.
The matter, being considered as serious by the mother, she filed a complaint against her daughter and asked police to explore more about it. Ultimately, the girl was taken into custody.
Both the girl's and the mother's name have not been disclosed by the police yet, considering the girl was too young and mentally ill.

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Your beloved apps are betraying you

Do you seriously read all permissions while you install an app ? For many of us, the answer is a big NO. But while installing an app you unconsciously give many permissions. So here is a piece of bad news for you. You are under a continuous surveillance of your favourite smartphone application. In fact, the apps you have installed for your help are spying on you.
This news became renowned when a team of computer scientists at the Carnegie Mellon University conducted a research on twenty-three randomly selected Android 4.3 users from Craiglist and Carnegie Mellon University's student body. As a result, more than a score of android apps including some of the famous apps like Go Launcher Ex, Groupon, Facebook etc. collect your location data up to 50 meters near you roughly every 3 minutes or 6200 times a week. This doesn't end here, but even your personal details like galleries, call logs and many more are on record with the app publisher.
Norman M. Sadeh, a Carnegie Mellon professor who co-authored the study questioned:

"Does Groupon really need to know where you are every twenty minutes?"

While some of the apps like navigation, forecasting etc are answerable to this obtrusion but the others are invading the privacy of unaware users. Some of the pre-installed services like google play services distribute this information to a variety of third party apps. What's more worse is that you have no control over this.
This report may cause unwarrented suspicion among the public in the era where security and privacy are the foremost concerns of every user.  

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