How Revive Your Phone When It Falls In Water

Knowing fully well how expensive smartphones are these days, the natural thought would be to have them secure at all times or have an entire army guard it (lol if you are an Iphone7 user) , well the reverse is the case where by it ends up in water especially toilet water. well here i am to the rescue with tips on how to revive your dead smart phones .

FUTO Finalist Bulids A Solar-Powered Tricycle

Would you have thought that a tricycle could run on something other than fuel?. Well I haven't neither has the indians , lol ( just kidding ). To my suprise the name Ekomobong Finbarr popped up.
        An undergraduate who happens to be in his final year at the Federal University Of Technology , Owerri , Nigeria studying Electrical/Electronics Engineering.
        The tricycle a.k.a Keke Napep which happens to be he's final year project has no engine and it's outfitted with a battery and a solar panel on the roof . This super tricycle boasts of a travel distance of 11km without recharge .
          Finally someone is putting the hot nigerian sun to good use **winks**.
#TECHTEUSDAY

New Gorilla Glass Smartphone Screens Promise To Be Stronger Than Ever

New Gorilla Glass Smartphone Screens Promise To Be Stronger Than Ever
Take your selfies in peace.

Imagine this: It’s late, you’re tired. You reach for your phone in your pocket. You go to grab it and before you realize it, your grip has loosened and your precious cargo is on the ground ― facedown.

That next moment, before you turn it over to assess the damage, is terrifying. Is it shattered? Have I broken it? Have I just ruined everything?

Well, the glassmaker behind Gorilla Glass is about to make those moments a lot less scary.

Corning, the company behind the chemically strengthened glass known as Gorilla Glass that’s used in personal electronic devices the world over, has just rolled out a new version of its glorious product, according to The Verge.

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In a photo from Dec. 14, 2015, an ice ball breaks up after hitting a sample of Corning Inc.’s Gorilla Glass at the Dearborn Development Center in Dearborn, Michigan.
The latest iteration, Gorilla Glass 5, was specifically engineered to withstand falls onto rough surfaces from waist height or shoulder height (shoulder height being most significant, because selfies!!).

“With many real-world drops occurring from between waist and shoulder height, we knew improving drop performance would be an important and necessary advancement,” said John Bayne, vice president and general manager of Corning Gorilla Glass, in a press release.

The part about the rough surfaces is crucial. Corning did internal research and found that uneven, rough or sharp surfaces are particularly brutal for delicate smartphones. Anyone who has ever dropped their phone in the street can surely attest to this.

Gorilla Glass 5 supposedly survives up to 80 percent of the time when dropped from 1.6 meters, or about 5 feet 3 inches. By contrast, Gorilla Glass 4 could only survive being dropped from a height of about 1 meter, or about 3 feet 3 inches.

However, it should be noted that Corning’s 80 percent survival rate was achieved with glass that was 0.6 millimeters thick. Many companies use significantly thinner glass in their phones ― as thin as 0.4mm.

Facebook plans to open Messenger to publishers later this year

CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about the Messenger app during the Facebook F8 Developer Conference Wednesday, March 25, 2015, in San Francisco.

Facebook's big plans for Messenger may also include publishers.The company plans to open up its messaging platform to developers later this year during its F8 developer conference, according to a new report in Marketing Land. The feature will allow publishers to share content through Messenger via chat bots, with short descriptions linking back to articles on their website, the report says.

School robot can tell if children are paying attention in the classroom

Teaching: It could be helpful in keeping boredom at bay

Scientists are developing robots that recognise human emotions by monitoring people's movements.
Computer programmers have found a way to code machines so that they can read a human's boredom by measuring how often they fidget.
These findings could pave the way for "empathic" robots or online teachers that can tell when a pupil is not paying attention, say scientists.
Researchers showed that boredom levels can be assessed by measuring "non-instrumental" small body movements - in other words, fidgeting.
When people are thoroughly absorbed in what they are watching or doing, they tend to fidget less.
Lead scientist Dr Harry Witchel, from Brighton and Sussex Medical School, said: "Our study showed that when someone is really highly engaged in what they're doing, they suppress these tiny involuntary movements.

See How to Detect if Someone's Stealing Your WiFi

 

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Since you can't see who's got a computer hooked up to your wireless router, is there any way to know for sure if someone else has hijacked your signal? See more internet connection pictures.

It may be hard to imagine, but just a mere 20 years ago, the Internet was nothing more than a novelty -- a way for incredibly smart college professors and researchers to share information, and for a few people to network across the newly developed World Wide Web. E-mail was nothing like it is today. The primitive e-mail systems found at universities or even through accounts offered with the first Internet service providers (ISPs) such as Prodigy and America Online were often difficult to use.
Fast forward to the 2010s and things have changed significantly. Where wired Internet once kept us tethered to a desk, today's laptops and mobile devices give us access to friends and endless entertainment practically anywhere via WiFi, 3G and 4G technologies.

SEE HOT TO PREVENT YOUR LAPTOPS FROM OVERHEATING

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The problem of overheating laptops has been around for years. The reason is rather simple. Laptop manufacturers have been trying to make their product smaller and smaller. In order to achieve their goal, they must make the parts, such as the motherboard, hard drive etc. smaller and smaller. They also have to place all these parts closer to each other. The microprocessor, motherboard and hard drive all produce heat. The closer they are to each other, the more concentrated the heat is. The fans that are built into the laptops to cool these components down cannot work efficiently in such tight quarters. Add to this the fact that it's difficult for the heat to escape, and you have overheating laptops. When a computer overheats it's likely to fail . Here are some tips you should know that will help you prevent your apple laptop from overheating.

INSTAGRAM APP ''BOOMERANG'' TO REPLACE VINES

Instagram launches a new 1-second video looping app ‘Boomerang’ to take on Vine

On Thursday, Instagram unveiled its third standalone app, “Boomerang.”

A mixture between Vine and Photo, the new app lets you quickly and easily create a 1-second video that loops together 5 burst photos, playing them back and then reversing them for the “Boomerang” effect.

The app automatically saves the 1-second GIFs as a video on your camera roll, and the interface is simple and uncluttered — porting you directly to the camera screen upon opening up the app. When you’ve finished shooting a video with Boomerang, you can then share it directly to Instagram of Facebook, which is the only place your friends will see it as the app doesn’t include its own dedicated news feed.

TECH NEWS - Dreams Come True As An Indian Invents A Machine That Converts AIR TO WATER

The answer to Bengaluru's water crisis, it seems, is blowing in the wind. Researchers at the city-based Scalene Energy Research Institute (SERI) have developed a Rain Tunnel - a technology that harnesses water vapour in the air and converts it into drinking water.

Available for domestic as well as commercial use once production begins next month, the former is capable of producing 30 litres of clean, filtered, drinking water within 24 hours. The commercial setup will produce a 1,000 litres in the same period of time. A plug-and-use model for domestic use will cost Rs 50-55,000.
Work on the Rain Tunnel began four years ago at SERI, a 24-year-old organisation that does research in healthcare; energy; water and food. The technology was also patented about one and a half years ago.