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ProgrammingRe: Why Is My Androidvnc Not Connecting To Debian?? by gilloway(m): 11:35am On May 22, 2017
Hmmm looks like you broke vnc tongue I would recommend reinstalling vnc do apt-get remove tightvncserver then apt-get install tightvncserver
then do a restart of your device and try again.
ProgrammingRe: Regex Phone Number(nigerian Format) In Python by gilloway(m): 9:20am On May 22, 2017
Learn to make them yourself with this nice tool http://gskinner.com/RegExr/
Christianity EtcRe: Atheism Is The Uncoolest Choice Ever, And I Can Prove It by gilloway(op): 8:50am On May 22, 2017
Pastafarian:
you're also not a "Christian" according to some people, No True Scotsman fallacy
Being a Christian is not decided "According to People" there are Qualities and Lifestyle Choices that define a Christian and it is all written in the Bible. If someone does something not in accordance with what the Bible is saying then that person is NOT a Christian
Nairaland GeneralMan Breaks Into Home, Steals Woman's Underwear by gilloway(op): 8:36am On May 22, 2017
Authorities say a man broke into a Delaware home and stole a pair of women's underwear.

Delaware State Police say two women heard an unusual noise in their house early Friday and barricaded themselves in a bedroom.

Authorities say after someone tried to get in the room, the women escaped out the window.
Officers later found 21-year-old Tyrone Jenkins-Heath Jr. walking through a neighbor's yard in possession of a pair of one of the women's underwear.

Police say Jenkins-Health told investigators he intended to make one or both of the women perform unlawful sexual acts on him.

Police say he faces charges including burglary and attempted rape. There was no number publicly listed for him and it wasn't immediately clear Saturday whether he has an attorney.

Science/TechnologyFacebook Wants To Help You Order Food by gilloway(op): 8:13am On May 22, 2017
Facebook is starting to roll out an 'Order Food' button in its desktop and app interface in the US.

The Order Food button however works only for restaurants using Delivery.com or Slice services to help deliver their food to customers.
What Facebook did was to integrate with these services, allowing customers to just click on a hamburger icon and from there order food without leaving Facebook.

While Facebook pages have supported 'Shop Now' for some time, integrating food delivery is a smart move and something that would be worth expanding into other markets. Many customers already visit Facebook to either like eatery pages, look at food pictures, share promotions and such - enabling the outright ordering of food from a Facebook page is the logical next step.

Besides ordering food, Facebook has started to introduce other features such as city guides, a town hall, online jobs boards as well as a networking feature called 'Discover People'.
Christianity EtcRe: Atheism Is The Uncoolest Choice Ever, And I Can Prove It by gilloway(op): 8:10am On May 22, 2017
lepasharon:
Stop lying, these are extreme Christians


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn81nLNkEgI
Those are not Christians
Nairaland GeneralRe: Lagos Annual Rape Festival by gilloway(op): 9:03pm On May 21, 2017
Skillfullulu:
Kilode now?
It was getting interesting already but it too much to read during the day but midnight.
Sorry grin
Christianity EtcRe: Atheism Is The Uncoolest Choice Ever, And I Can Prove It by gilloway(op): 9:01pm On May 21, 2017
AccidentalGenius:
well then, i guess this post expresses how much you "Approve" of atheism.
That's​ my opinion of Atheism, the least you could do is tell me why it's cool to you instead of guessing what I mean undecided
Christianity EtcRe: Atheism Is The Uncoolest Choice Ever, And I Can Prove It by gilloway(op): 8:51pm On May 21, 2017
AccidentalGenius:
I live in a country in which people are okay with seeing children called witches and abandoned on the streets or worse killed; but any form or mention of atheism is met with frown, disapproval, hate and confusion. *SPITS*
"Frown, Disapproval, Hate and Confusion" are not expressed in any way on this post, your opinion is just typical to Atheists always bringing up issues that we all know exist but doesn't justify anything.
Nairaland GeneralLagos Annual Rape Festival by gilloway(op): 8:09pm On May 21, 2017
One of the most traumatic things that can happen to a woman is to be handed a baby that is less than perfect in the labour room. Imagine it…
Nine months is a long time to haul another human around inside you and I am not talking about the morning sickness and the crazy cravings for the most absurd things like wanting to eat charcoal. I am talking about the real lugging, yes. Not being able to sleep because the little being inside you is fully awake. Not being able to lie on your side because the little lady’s little legs are there. The heart burn is another story as the little one gets bigger and the uterus pushes against the stomach contents. Your bladder feels like it is perpetually full and you are peeing so often. The baby is oblivious of your discomfort. He’s probably having a blast in there. Some babies have been known to enjoy their lives in the uterus world that the doctors have to coax and sometimes haul their tiny behinds into the real world. The mother has to endure all, the pain, the sleepless nights, the kicking and then many times the doctor’s knife and of course the stitches and accompanying pain.
All that do not obliterate the joy and excitement of expectation; the frenzied shopping, choosing colours for everything from the basinet to the socks and nursery. In this part of the world, the naming ceremonies are usually at an advanced stage long before the baby arrives.
Now, whether the labour is long and hard or swift and easy, it is still labour. Tough stuff, trust me. You scream until you are hoarse, recite the Quran or call Jesus until the Holy One is forced to persuade your baby to take pity on ‘mummy’ and leave his comfy cocoon. Sometimes it takes two hours. Sometimes you are in and out of pain for 24 hours. Some have done more. And then finally you do that long push and he cries, yes, he cries. You heave a sigh of relief and wait for the baby to be placed in your arms. Five minutes, ten minutes and the nurses are dashing up and down, colliding with the midwife and doctor-on-duty… you are wondering what is taking them so long, and then the doctor clears his throat, face dead-pan, hands your baby over and there he is, cute little thing, one thumb in his small mouth but he has only one eye, only one!
You move swiftly from shock to anger to exasperation and then the flood of tears express the dozens of questions that are running around in your head and bleeding heart. What did I do wrong? Why is God punishing me? Who have I offended? Did I take the wrong drugs? Unending questions. Inconsolable mother on the day she had looked forward to for 40 weeks.
Thank God for science, new medical discoveries and support, a lot of less-than-perfect babies are now able to live life to the fullest.
But what about where the imperfections are not detected until the child is fully grown and well into his teens? There is no way of knowing a rapist at birth, is there? Yet a mother nurses and nurture her infant boy with all the love she has, only to wake up one morning and find out that her 17-year-old son has been caught pants down or boxers-around-his-knees pushing himself forcefully into an unwilling frightened girl in broad daylight? What does a mother do then? How does she face the world? And it is an extremely bad case of the disease called rape when the rapist is caught doing the evil not only in the open but in front of a cheering and clapping audience.
And that brings us to the story of something that had become an annual traditional sexual assault ceremony by male students of Ireti Grammar School, SW Ikoyi, on female students of Falomo High School, both in Lagos. In case you didn’t, let me share excerpts from Michale Matthew, a woman of strength who braved the odds (she could have been mobbed by those stamping rascals) and captured the daylight evil in words and pictures.
According to Ms Matthew, that fateful Wednesday, the Ireti Grammar School boys had armed themselves with scissors and many ‘ready randy dangling modifiers’ to unleash horror on the girls. Just like they did last year and the year before that. They pinned down their struggling victims, violated them while their colleagues cheered and security guards recorded the obscene drama, instead of protecting the girls.
These teenage rapists cornered the frightened girls, pushed them down, tore their skirts and underwear’s with their scissors and forced their cursed things into the girls. They grabbed the girls’ breasts, hair and did this evil in the sight of God and man. In broad daylight. And it was not the first time. And this is neither the medieval times nor a remote village inhabited by apes. It all happened in Lagos.
So how did we get to this sorry pass?
Was there a Principal or were there Principals, Vice Principals in those schools all these years, men and women who supervised the raped and the rapist? How did those principals sleep at night, after every rape tradition? I still haven’t recovered from the account of one of those sick boys who violated and invaded a girl ‘from the back’ while people looked on. And they say it was tradition, something that happened every year like Egungun or Eyo festivals. In a community, state that has kings and laws. Again, I ask, how do those teachers of rapists sleep at night? Do they dream or have nightmares where boys with vampire teeth sink their incisors in the necks of shivering girls? I think up until Ms Matthew’s move of decent courage, those teachers slept soundly and did not dream at all. And that made me wonder: was there something in their constitution that made them immune to the agony and evil of broad daylight rape, or they simply got used to it over time? What kind of mothers and fathers are they, these teachers who could sleep, eat and go their merry way after the rape festival of Falomo?
Do those teachers have children and if they do, do they actually answer, respond when their children call them mummy, daddy? How do they look the rapist in the eye the morning after, in class, at ‘assembly, when they meet them in town, at valedictory service?
These principals, they must be in their 50s, right? Maybe they are community leaders, Chairpersons of Parents and Teachers’ Associations of the more decent schools where their own children are pampered and treated like real children. I also imagine they are elders in their churches, mosques. Ah, God is so merciful. They stand in the house of God and make the sign of the cross, take Holy Communion the Sunday after an episode where:
‘The crowd of boys are wild with frenzy, cheering the two boys on, while grabbing at her hair, breasts and she is fighting for dear life.’
The Muslims among those teachers, do they sit or stand and face Ka’aba when they pray five times after supervising this part of the ceremony:
“The girl is kicked down, she bravely pushes herself up and another guy tries to clear her legs and she lunges at him and then a guy takes a pair of scissors in his hands and with one swoop tears her skirt from the bottom and also a part of the black spandex shorts she has on underneath. All this happens really in a few minutes and he proceeds to push himself into her through her back. His trousers is open too and another one tries to do same from the front.”
When the pastor says, shall we rise and lift up holy hands to the Lord, do those teachers actually lift their soiled hands to the same God who created the children whose lives are marred forever by the rape ceremony.
How much of this rape tradition happens between these dark students and their even darker teachers or am I wrong to assume some of these teachers benefit from this rape festival? Were these teachers simply told to look the other way by their teenage students, and they complied meekly? I indeed think there is plenty of cultism in this club of silence. There certainly is more lying beneath this surface and the Governor Ambode administration must put an end to this evil. Fortunately cleansing this fouled and defiled schools can’t be much work for Akinwumi Ambode and his team, not compared with Abule Egba, Berger and Ajah flyovers. Clearing out the priests and priestesses of the Falomo rape shrines should be easier than the months of planning the removal of the once intractable Lekki traffic. The Lagos state governor has assured us that these little rapists will face the full consequences of their evil tradition and Ambode’s word, you can take to the bank. But the men and women in whose care we entrusted these children should not go unpunished.
Nairaland GeneralRe: Man Gets 128 Years In Prison For Sex Assault Of Baby by gilloway(op): 7:59pm On May 21, 2017
sleepyeyez:
JUST 128 YEARS?
Haba! is it not enough??
Christianity EtcRe: Atheism Is The Uncoolest Choice Ever, And I Can Prove It by gilloway(op): 7:57pm On May 21, 2017
See the difference?

3) As a Christian, my girlfriend looks at me like I'm a gift from God. Seriously, to her that's what I am. Your atheist girlfriend (should you ever get one after you move out of your Father's house) will see you as a gel-haired accident in skinny jeans on a lonely rock orbiting a meaningless sun in a mistake of a universe. See the difference? It's kind of a big one.

2) Many of your University professors agree with your atheist beliefs. How's that for the uncoolest choice ever? Hey, look at you siding with all the gray-haired tweedy authoritarian types at your school. Note: If your best friend in the University is the "Diversity Awareness Coordinator" you're colleging wrong. And if you think your professors are cool, I think they call that being a brown-noser. And brown-nosers are even less cool than gender studies majors.

Y'know when the whole 60's thing happened, young people would say not to trust anyone over 40. But now, you guys go off to the University wanting nothing more than to adopt the beliefs of your old boring professors. What could be less cool than wanting to be like your teacher? (Except if your teacher is Kim Kardashian Then it's ok.) wink

1) Atheists have less children and that probably means...well you probably know what that means grin since you're all about SCIENCE! Once again, to sum up, you'll be miserable, have a shorter life, and quite likely less sex than your religious counterparts. And you thought atheism was cool? Reconsider and repent ye' fools. Jesus said he is the way, the truth, and the life. Left unsaid, is that He's totally cooler than Adolf Hitler
Christianity EtcRe: Atheism Is The Uncoolest Choice Ever, And I Can Prove It by gilloway(op): 7:53pm On May 21, 2017
4) This is an extreme Atheist

Christianity EtcRe: Atheism Is The Uncoolest Choice Ever, And I Can Prove It by gilloway(op): 7:51pm On May 21, 2017
4) This is an extreme Christian.

Christianity EtcRe: Atheism Is The Uncoolest Choice Ever, And I Can Prove It by gilloway(op): 7:49pm On May 21, 2017
See the difference?

5) Most of your big time mass killers of the 20th century were atheists. I'm talking Stalin, Mao, and Che among others. These guys had the kind of body counts that there weren't enough body bags for so bulldozers needed to be employed. And nothing says uncool like being a mass killer of the innocent.
Christianity EtcRe: Atheism Is The Uncoolest Choice Ever, And I Can Prove It by gilloway(op): 7:49pm On May 21, 2017
World Youth Day:

Christianity EtcRe: Atheism Is The Uncoolest Choice Ever, And I Can Prove It by gilloway(op): 7:48pm On May 21, 2017
6) Typical Atheist gathering:

Christianity EtcRe: Atheism Is The Uncoolest Choice Ever, And I Can Prove It by gilloway(op): 7:46pm On May 21, 2017
Michel Angelo was never Photographed like this, Never grin

Christianity EtcAtheism Is The Uncoolest Choice Ever, And I Can Prove It by gilloway(op): 7:45pm On May 21, 2017
I've read a number of stories about how atheism is seen as "cool" by many young people, especially among college age youths. That's funny to me because I couldn't think of anything less cool than becoming an atheist. So, just in case any young people are reading, here are eight reasons that atheism is the in-coolest choice ever.

cool Religious people live longer, happier lives, according to numerous scientific studies. I know you atheist types are all about the SCEIENCE even though you pretty much get all your scientific information from Huffington's Post articles with clickbait headlines like "Watch Bill Nye completely own a Creationist!" or "How Rolling Your Eyes is the Greatest Debate Tactic Against Christians!" (Rule of thumb: if the article you're reading contains exclamation points, it's probably not a respected scientific publication.) But I guess because you're an atheist who will live a shorter life maybe you don't have time to read actual scientific journals. I mean, something's gotta' be cut out, right?

But on top of shorter lives, studies indicate you'll be more miserable too. So while your life won't be longer, it might just feel that way.

7) Michelangelo and Bach (look 'em up kids!) were indisputably awesome Christian artists. But hey, atheists have the kid who plays Harry Potter. Do you really don't want to be a part of any group that includes the actor formerly known as Harry Potter. Or maybe you do because that's how uncool you actually are.

Nairaland GeneralRe: Man Gets 128 Years In Prison For Sex Assault Of Baby by gilloway(op): 7:39pm On May 21, 2017
Krystalzkris:
How many years does he get to live Kwan?


In my classmates voice when lecturer threatens to subtract 20marks, "no be when I get reach 20 before you collect? "

Them for just kill am.. .
grin hahaha, this one good nah what of the one that they will give Triple Life Sentence
Nairaland GeneralMan Gets 128 Years In Prison For Sex Assault Of Baby by gilloway(op): 7:28pm On May 21, 2017
A Long Beach man was sentenced Friday to 128 years and four months to life in prison for sexually assaulting a family member in Costa Mesa for more than a year, starting when she was 9 months old, and circulating videos of his acts online.

Ryan Michael Booth, 32, was convicted in March of multiple felony counts of sexually assaulting a child, using a child for obscene matter and possession of child pornography.

Booth molested the girl until she was 2 years old, and made four videos of himself sexually assaulting the baby in her crib, according to Deputy District Attorney Rick Zimmer.

Law enforcement officers who testified at his December 2015 preliminary hearing said he had 220,000 images of child porn on a hard drive in his home computer, which also contained 2,000 child porn videos and 150 images of the victim.

Los Angeles police detective Eric Good testified that the defendant told him "he liked girls between the ages of, I believe, it was 9 to 12."

Booth also told the detective that he had been downloading child pornography on and off since high school.
Science/TechnologyAll About Google I/o 2017 by gilloway(op): 6:44pm On May 20, 2017
What is a developers’ keynote supposed to be about? All that technical gobbledegook that you probably don’t want to get into on your first date lest someone mistake you for a geek. And while I agree that it is not best practice to let loose your inner nerd on your first tête-à-tête with your would-be soulmate, discussing a possible future overrun by sentient robots may just make up for a great conversation starter. At this year’s I/O over at Mountain View, California, however, I couldn’t help but feel less like a first date and more like an old crone celebrating a routine anniversary with dear old hubby. There was the sudden kindling of a slow-but-steady spark, sure, but most of the event felt so mundane that it lost the charm I expected to feel at a futuristic tech keynote addressing the influencers of 2017.

Artificial intelligence is going to play a great role in shaping the upcoming decade, and, companies like Google and Facebook are trying their best ahead in the race by pumping more and more machine learning into our everyday lives. Therefore, it came as no surprise that artificial intelligence played a rather important role at Google I/O 2017, as most of our first day was spent discussing the how the company has been working on improving the robot’s recognition of sound and visuals over the past one year.

The first step, as Google CEO Sundar Pichai put it, is turning your camera into a search box. The company accomplishes this feat with its latest application, Google Lens, which uses machine learning technology to understand the world around you through your smartphone camera, and help you take action based on that understanding. For the first few minutes, Pichai showed us how this new technology can be used to do everything from recognizing a specific flower or a restaurant on the street to connecting to a Wi-Fi network simply by looking at the router sticker. The Google Lens can perform an array of interesting functions, from giving you the names of a prominent building in a city to translating a billboard from Japanese to English by just looking at it. This is an important landmark in the quest for bringing artificial intelligence to people’s homes on a wider level, and shows that Google doesn’t intend to wait long for the future we so closely desire.

Next up was a variety of improvementsconcerning the versatility, functioning and efficiency of the Google Assistant. Not only has the AI been greatly improved, the Google Assistant has been tweaked to appear more conversational and human than its counterparts. Voice recognition for the virtual assistant has improved greatly, and, starting now, we can even type into the Google Assistant instead of merely relying on voice commands. The most important announcement in this junction, however, was perhaps the fact that Google Assistant is now available for download on the iTunes Store for iPhones. This move is remarkably contradictory to Google’s earlier decision of keeping the Assistant a Pixel exclusive and shows that the company has come a long way since trying to bridge the gap on universalization.

At last year’s I/O, the CEO of Google introduced us to the first generation of chips made especially for machine learning tasks. This time around, Google introduced its next generation of Cloud TPUs, bringing unparalleled speed and performance to the world of machine learning technology. Each model Cloud TPU consists of four 45-teraflop chips that collectively deliver 180 teraflops of speed. The Cloud TPU’s will be initially made available through the Google Cloud platform on the Google Compute Engine, hence the name. The Cloud TPU makes uses of the open-source tensor flow technology that helps create machine learning algorithms at remarkable speed.

In other news, Google CEO told us that its mobile platform had reached a new milestone with over two billion active devices running on the Android OS. With this came a flurry of announcements regarding plans for Android O, the latest addition to the Android family that is scheduled for release in summer this year. Google launched the first official beta of the Android O on May 17, and with it came a bunch of features including improved notifications, picture-in-picture and more. The Android O is also scheduled to be releasing a number of features in the vitals category, including an inbuilt virus scanner for apps and wise limits to prevent applications from overusing the device’s battery resource. While the beta is far from ready for installation on your regular smartphone, developers itching for a peak can download a copy of the software to their preferred Nexus or Pixel devices.

As part of the same announcement, we received word on an internal project by the name of Android Go, the initiative that Pichai says will help the company reach its next billion users on smartphone. Android Go is a lightweight version of the Android OS created especially for the developing world, with focus on performance rather than quality. The Android Go is said to run easily on devices with less than 512 MB of RAM, feature its own version of a lightweight Play Store and include a system that allows users to check how much data they have left on the device.

The I/O Developers Conference also introduced a set of new features for the Google Home, the voice-enabled speaker that brings artificial intelligence to your autonomous house. The first of these was proactive support, which means that Google Home will light up with notifications on its own without the user having to request them. A host of new services, including Spotify, Hulu and HBO Now are now coming to Google Home devices, which means that you will now be using your voice-enabled Google Assistant to issue commands to these apps throughout the house. The final feature was hands-free calling for Google Home, including free unlimited voice calls for the US and Canada.

Apart from its usual set of announcements, Google took a moment to step off the AI horse and address two other important technologies that will be playing a role in shaping the world of the future. The first was virtual reality, to which Google announced that its been working with Lenovo and HTC to develop its ownstandalone virtual reality headset for Google Daydream. As far as augmented reality is concerned, Google announced this new indoor navigation technology known as Virtual Positioning Service (VPS), which is built upon Project Tango and will help further the cause of AR via next-generation indoor experiences.

Google delved deeper into the realms of VR and AR on the second day of the developers keynote. “They allow us to experience computing more like the real world. It works more like we do.”, said Clay Bavor, VP of Google’s Virtual Reality division. After spending what felt like a lifetime talking about older developments in augmented reality and Project Tango, Bavor showed attendees how Google has used Tango’s precise navigation technology to map the largest augmented reality experience in the world, a 10,000 square-feet virtual rainforest by the name of Into The Wild.

The company further elaborated on its initiation of augmented reality features into Expedition, the classroom educational app that was announced two years ago to help teachers take their pupils on virtual reality field trips. Mike Jazayeri, Director of Product Management at Google, also announced that Daydream will now be coming to the new LG and Samsung Galaxy S8 devices. The company also heralded the release of Daydream 2.0, Euphrates. With the new version of virtual reality software come features like chromecasting, web browsing and YouTube VR. Daydream 2.0 will be available later this year on all Daydream-supported phones and the upcoming standalone headset. It will run on a modified version of Android O.

What if you could achieve the high-quality graphical elements of the desktop on mobile virtual reality experiences? Google Seurat, a new technology named after a famous French painter, aims to do just that. This technology helps break down complex three-dimensional scenes on the desktop so that they may be rendered without a visual loss in fidelity on mobile devices. Next up, virtual reality experiences are coming to the immersive web via Google Chrome. “Our goal is to make web VR and web AR first class citizens in all browsers”, said Andrey Doronichev, Director of Product Management at Google VR.

All in all, much of the announcements on the second day of Google’s I/O event seemed more exciting than the first. We are, of course, talking about the more important announcements here, as a variety of other smaller things were also announced, including a new way of arranging images on Google Photos and using the Google Assistant to make payments on websites. The developers’ keynote did feel a bit too dumbed down and morose to be a tech keynote meant for seasoned developers, and I can’t help but wish that Google had gone into greater depth into the questions posed by AI, AR and VR in our daily lives. However, the conference was still a fascinating event, and I am looking forward to how Apple intends to match this with WWDC this June.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Manchester United Have Completed The Signing Of Arnau Puigmal by gilloway(op): 6:32pm On May 20, 2017
United edged 'noisy neighbours' Manchester City to secure the prodigy's signature.

Despite the fact that City are banned from making young signings from English clubs, they are still allowed to import young talents from outside the country.

Although the deal for the starlet is completed, he will become an official United player when the transfer window opens on June 1.

EducationRe: SS2 Student Expelled For Sleeping With Classmate's Dad And Teacher's Husband by gilloway(m): 6:06pm On May 20, 2017
Okay, enough Nairaland for the day, I dey go sleep
PhonesThese 12 Android Apps Won The 2017 Google Play Awards by gilloway(op): 5:01pm On May 20, 2017
The results are in for the second annual Google Play Awards, the company’s new tradition to honor excellence in the world of Android apps. In late April, we took a look at the 60 nominees across the Play Award’s 12 categories.

Now, here are the winners.

Best Accessibility Experience

Name: IFTTT

Price: Free

Description: This is the go-to service to automate all kinds of online services and smart home devices in ways that wouldn’t be possible without it. Now it’s being honored for “enabling device interaction to serve people with disabilities or special needs.”

Best Social Impact

Price: Free

Description: This charity app from the World Food Programme lets you give small donations (as little as 50 cents a day) to feed a child in an impoverished or war stricken area of the world.

Standout Indie

Price: N1573

Description: A puzzle platformer game that takes you through a post-apocalyptic world where you help a new lifeform grow among the ruins.

Standout Startup

Name: Hooked

Price: Free (in-app purchases)

Description: This app shows you stories in the format of an SMS/Messaging app. It’s supposedly an attempt to make reading fun again. Having swapped novel-length attention spans for tweets and status updates year ago, Hooked offers short engaging stories in a format our primitive ape brains can still handle.

Best Android Wear Experience

Price: N1573

Description: This popular smartphone-based workout tracker has always been a top choice among runners.

Best TV Experience

Price: Free

Description: Have you ever spent time on Red Bull’s TV site or one of its TV apps? If you like action or motor sports, my advice is don’t. You could be lost for days.

Best VR Experience

Price: N1473(sale price)

Description: As its name suggests, the idea in this Daydream VR experience is to explore virtual reality inside virtual reality. You can take on and off VR headsets inside this VR game to experience more than 50 levels and over two hours of unique virtual, virtual experiences. 

Best AR Experience

Name: Woorld

Price: Free

Description: For Tango devices, Woorld lets you place virtual characters and toys inside your own living room or whatever other physical space you find yourself in.

Best App for Kids

Price: Free (in-app purchases)

Description: This kids app lets your little ones design their own animal characters, create animal dens, and hang out with friends in a virtual 3D world.

Best Multiplayer Game

Price: Free (in-app purchases)

Description: Blizzard’s popular digital card game has been around for years and shows no sign of slowing in popularity.

Best App

Price: Free (in-app purchases)

Description: This language-learning app offers lessons in 14 languages, and contains two million words and phrases that are taught through games, chatbots, and videos of native speakers.

Best Game

Price: Free (in-app purchases)

Description: It’s like Streetfighter, but with Transformers. But it’s also got aspects of tower defense and RPG.
Science/TechnologySteve Jobs First Ever Computer Just Sold For £100,000 by gilloway(op):
Someone has just bought one of the first computers built by Steve Jobs – and it still works.

The rare Apple-1 was one of just 200 the late Apple founder and Steve Wozniak designed, created and sold in 1976. Now, it has been sold for more than £100,000.

Although relatively humble looking now, it was this machine that gave birth to the humongous Apple empire. It was also the first ever ready-made PC to come on the market, costing $666 at the time.

Apple-1 had a tiny 8K of RAM – around 600,000 times less than is standard in Apple computers today. It wouldn’t have even been able to store one song.

There are thought to be only 60 Apple-1 computers that have survived, with just eight still in working order.

This particular machine, Apple-1 No. 01-0073, belonged to a software engineer from Berkeley in California’s Silicon Valley, who has had it ever since he bought it new at the time.
And it had extremely good provenance. It came with a rare white ceramic 6502 microprocessor and a complete set of time-correct chips and historic documents, including receipt of purchase from November 1976 and the earliest provisional manual.

It even had contemporary notes of telephone conversations between the owner and Wozniak – also known as Woz – from 1977.

Of the 200 machines made by Jobs and Woz, 50 were sold to a local shop called Byte.

Uwe Breker, from the Team Breker auctioneers in Cologne, Germany, said: ‘The Apple-1 really is the symbol for the American dream.

‘Two students had an idea, built and marketed it, and 40 years later it is the highest valued company ever.
Steve Wozniak designed the Apple-1 computer, the first fully assembled computer kit, in 1976 and Steve Jobs took on the task of selling it.

‘In Jobs’ parents garage the pair built 200 Apple machines and sold 50 to a computer shop called Byte.

‘The shop marketed it with the slogan “Byte into an Apple” which gave Jobs the idea for the iconic logo we know so well today.

As with all Apple products the Apple-1 wasn’t around long before a better model was launched, but a legend had begun.

‘The rest is history.

‘You couldn’t actually do very much with the Apple-1. You had to load your program each time on a cassette and it only had eight kilobytes of memory – enough for only the most basic of word processing.’

The computer was sold to a buyer in the room for a hammer price of £78,000, which rose to £115,000 with fees included.

PhonesRe: History Of Android Operating System From Cupcake To Nought by gilloway(m): 1:29pm On May 17, 2017
LordZero:
[color=#F70D1A]If you want to enjoy any version of android from kitkat upwards, nothing beats custom roms (cyanogen, pacman, lineage n co not some less privileged roms you see on some mtk devices)[/color]
exactly.

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