Milos Cuparic

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An extensive guide to cryptocurrency trading
If you are reading this, I will take a wild guess that someone just introduced you to cryptocurrency and told you that this is a great time to invest. If that is the case, I completely agree with that person, but keep in mind that the cryptocurrency market is extremely volatile and still very young. It is hard to tell which project is worth investing in and who is trying to scam you for your money. This guide should help you understand the risks of investing in cryptocurrency and where to start.
Tencent bringing Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds to mobile in China
Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds, or PUBG for short, is going mobile in China and will be published by Tencent games. Tencent is currently one of the world’s biggest mobile game publishers, and they will get even bigger with PUBG. Kim Changhan, CEO of PUBG and Ma Xiaoyi, Senior Vice President of Tencent Group, said:
New WhatsApp update makes it easier to ignore your friends
Looks like WhatsApp is ramping up performance with its new update. The messaging app has never been so functional, as evidenced by its new update, which now lets you ignore your friends more easily.
A Facebook bug put your photos at risk
After Instagram polls came out, Facebook decided to give their users a polling service as well. This new feature rolled out about a month ago, and it gave users the ability to use GIF images as poll reactions. What Facebook didn’t know was that this feature had a loophole that allowed a malicious actor to delete your photos from Facebook. Oops!
Facebook’s improved AI uses pattern recognition to help prevent suicides
Facebook isn’t just a simple social networking website, as they’ve shown before with previous projects and are showing again with their new suicide prevention AI. Using pattern recognition on posts and live video streams, the AI should be able to recognize if a Facebook user is having suicidal thoughts.
Google has been tracking you through cell towers
There are some estimates that Android phones make up 55% of all smartphone sales in the United States, making it the most widely used smartphone OS in the country. A lot of those users know that Google, and some other apps, might be tracking their location. What those same users don’t know is that Google knows where you are even if you disabled location services and even if you don’t have a SIM card in your phone.
Bill Gates wants to build a “smart city” in Arizona
World famous billionaire Bill Gates is known as the founder of Microsoft and for being a big innovator. His latest goal is to build a smart city in Arizona. It has been confirmed that one of his investment groups has already invested, but there is no information about when construction will start.
AI comes to Tokyo, masquerades as 7-year-old boy
Many people are calling 2017 the year of AI, thanks in part to new tech innovations like Elon Musk’s Open AI. In 2017, we are also seeing a lot of chatbots in commercial use. In particular, Tokyo has is taking these chatbots seriously, and they’ve gone a step further when it comes to AI. They have given residency to a chatbot named Mirai.
Which smartphones have the best cameras?
Smartphones have come a long way. I still remember the first camera phone from 2000. The SCH-V200 was manufactured by Sharp and was a flip phone that had a 1.5 inch TFT-LCD screen and a 0.35-megapixel camera. The phone was capable of taking 20 photos at a 350,000-pixel resolution. That might not sound impressive now, but ask people who remember it. I am sure they’ll tell you that this phone started a technology revolution.
How to set up parental controls for YouTube
YouTube is a great place for hilarious cat videos and Minecraft walkthroughs, but it also contains plenty of videos that parents don’t want their children to see. Fortunately, YouTube has parental controls, and they’re not that hard to set up. If you are a concerned parent, follow these steps to get YouTube’s parental controls up and running.
Exploring the Facebook Explore feed
Last week Facebook surprised us with what seems to be a test feature in a select few countries, and we’ve now had a chance to see it in action. The name of this new feature is Explore Feed, and it appears to filter out all the good stuff for both users and publishers.
How to Create a Poll in Instagram Stories
Story Poll is a new Instagram feature that will help you get input from your followers in no time at all. By now, you have probably seen a lot of them in your Instagram feed. If you want to try creating one yourself, here’s how.