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Apple is working on three different color options for the launch of its much-rumored 4-inch iPhone, including a version closer in hue to a hot pink iPod than rose gold, a report said Friday.
It appears Apple's so-called "iPhone 5se" might see further differentiation from its iPhone 6s and 6s Plus siblings than expected, as Japanese website Mac Otakara reports the company plans to market the handset in a new pink chassis color alongside the silver and Space Gray options currently available for iPhone 5s.
In its report, the publication cited unnamed third-party accessory manufacturers exhibiting products at the recent Tokyo International Gift Show expo.
Sources describing the color compare it to a pink sixth-generation iPod touch or seventh-generation iPod nano. While the exact hue remains open to interpretation, the new pink tone is markedly different than rose gold options available for iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, these people said.
The report is unclear on the prospect of a yellow gold iPhone 5se version, meaning those interested in an updated 4-inch handset might be limited to silver, Space Gray and pink. Apple first introduced gold as an iPhone 5s option in 2013, developed in part to satiate Chinese market demand. The gold color jumped to other product lines including Mac, while its success spawned a rose gold variant that launched with iPhone 6.
Production of the next-gen 4-inch iPhone is supposedly underway ahead of a rumored spring announcement. Details are scarce, but the device is said to boast a metal-backed design similar to the current iPhone 6s with refreshed internals like an A8 or A9 processor and NFC support for Apple Pay.
Most recently, a photo popped in January purportedly showing the unreleased 4-inch iPhone in comparison to an iPhone 5s. If the image is legitimate, Apple's small format handset borrows heavily from iPhone 6s, with curved edges, a sloping "2.5D" screen and a front-facing camera shifted to the left of the ear speaker.
Apple is widely expected to hold a special event in March to unveil the iPhone 5se, a revamped iPad Air 3 and minor Apple Watch upgrades. Visit our website: www.pixotritechnologies.com , http://pixotrigames.com/
Windows 10 is here, and Microsoft made it easy to reserve your upgrade copy of Windows 10by adding an icon in your notification area (it's a small white Windows logo). But if you haven’t seen this upgrade option appear, you might need to do a little tinkering to ensure that you’ll be able to get your free copy easily when the big day comes. Here's how to check you're running the right version of Windows, and what to do if the icon just won't appear.
Update 4 February 2016: After having had a few Windows 7 machines unable to receive the Windows 10 update, we were able to force the download through Microsoft's 'Get Windows 10' program. We've updated the article to guide you through the steps you need to take in order to upgrade to Windows 10. Do read the rest of the article, though, as it may explain other reasons why Windows 10 won't download or install on your PC.
After having written this article a faster and even easier method to install Windows 10 has emerged, through the Get Windows 10 program that can be found on Microsoft's website. For more information see our in-depth guide explainingHow to install Windows 10 using Microsoft's new tool.
Missing Windows 10 upgrade icon: Check your version
While Microsoft said that Windows 10 is a free upgrade to existing Windows customers, it’s actually a little more complicated than that. There are only select versions of Windows that are eligible for the free offer; which we cover in our guide 'Will my PC get Windows 10?' these are Windows 7 (SP1) and Windows 8.1. If you’re running Windows 8, Vista, XP, or Enterprise versions then the upgrade icon won’t appear as you don’t qualify for Windows 10. Of course you can upgrade Windows 7 and 8 to the necessary versions for free using Windows Update on your PC. If you’re not running an official copy of Windows then it doesn’t matter which version you have, as the system will know and stop you upgrading. Naturally, we realise that our readers are far too honest and splendid to dabble in such forms of piracy, but just thought we’d mention it in the spirit of completeness.
Missing Windows 10 upgrade icon: Windows Updates
Another reason why you might not be seeing the icon is if you have Windows Updates turned off. To remedy this on Windows 7 click on the Start button, type in update, then select Windows Updates. Now you can click Check for Updates, and Install Updates if any are found.
For Windows 8.1 users you’ll need to go to the Windows Store, open the Settings bar on the right side of the screen by either swiping in or moving the mouse pointer there, select App Updates, then ensure that Automatically update my apps is turned on.
Missing Windows 10 upgrade icon: Check tool
If all of the above is proving futile then there is another route left open. Some rather lovely folks on the Microsoft Support Forums have created a script file that can fix the most common problems that block the upgrade icon from appearing. Now, this isn’t an official Microsoft solution, and therefore must be attempted at your own risk, but from the research we’ve done it certainly seems a legitimate and non-nasty bit of code that is there simply to help people. It’s available to download from Dropbox here.
Once you have the wind10fix_full.zip file on your hard drive (it only takes a few seconds to download as it’s tiny) you can extract it, then right click on the file to bring up the contextual menu. In here you’ll want to select Run as Administrator, then Run the program.
Now read the instructions on the screen and after a couple of warnings you’ll be presented with a menu. Selecting the first option will run a system update to make sure everything is up to date. Then you can work your way through the other options until you hopefully see the icon appear.
How to force Windows 10 update: Reserving your copy of Windows 10
Once the mystery of the missing icon is resolved you need to click on the newly arrived Windows logo, then follow the simple instructions to reserve your free copy of Windows 10. If you have any qualms about leaving your old version behind you could take a look at our comparative guides 'Windows 7 Vs Windows 10' and 'Windows 8 vs Windows 10'.
How to force Windows 10 to download and install through Windows Update
Assuming you've done all of the above and Windows 10 still isn't downloading in Windows Update, try the following.
1 - Make sure Windows Update is set to get updates automatically.
2 - In File Explorer go to C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download and delete everything in it. This removes downloaded updates, and one of these could be corrupt or be causing another problem stopping Windows 10 from downloading.
3 - Press Win-R to bring up the Run box. In it, type cmd. A command prompt window will appear.
4 - Type wuauclt.exe /updatenow and press Enter. This forces Windows Update into action.
5 - Check in Windows Update and you should see that it's downloading Windows 10:
If you've had the screen or home button replaced on your iPhone and the work wasn't done by someone at the Apple Store, you may want to skip the latest iOS update.
Apple's iOS 9 update has a little-known feature that will render your iPhone 6 and 6 Plus about as useful as a brick if you've had it repaired by anyone but an Apple technician.
There are numerous accounts online from users who have had their screens or home buttons repaired by a third-party, and when they try to upgrade their software, the update gives an error message that reads: "The iPhone '[device name]' could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (53)."
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Needless to say, iPhone users who receive this message are frustrated.
"Bricking [disabling] the phone so that you can't even recover the photos on it is ridiculous. Imagine, for example, you go on honeymoon to somewhere really pretty that doesn't have an official Apple store. You take some pictures of you and your beloved with your iPhone. Unfortunately you drop it, and break the home button. You get it fixed at a local repair place and take a few more gorgeous photos. Then the phone updates and [...] YOU GET NOTHING," user iey404 said on Reddit.
"I work for a company that repairs iPhones and we refurbish thousands of iPhone 6. We have tried everything under the sun to get around this error but it is simply not possible. If someone brings in an iPhone 6 for repair and the home button is damaged in any way, we tell them up front the phone is unrepairable and we won't take it," user Facebomb Wizard also said on Reddit.
Jenna Burdett, who runs a website called iPad Rehab, fixes Apple devices for a living and blogs about it. She posted a YouTube video titled "iPhone6 Error 53 Solutions." In it, she says the iPhone's Touch ID sensor inside of the home button is married to the CPU on the motherboard, which means you can't take a home button from one phone to another and retain the Touch ID function.
"If you had your screen replaced and the shop that replaced it for you did no keep the original home button, that's where the problem comes in."
"There is no amount of restoring that will clear error 53 to get rid of it — you have to have the original home button," Burdett said.
Some observers have speculated that Error 53 is the company's way of imposing a monopoly on repairs. Others say it could be Apple's way of trying to prevent theft of your data after security is tampered with.
Until now, Apple's only official statement on the issue has been that the issue is real and that it is due to security for fingerprint data that relates to Touch ID. But in a statement to NBC Friday, a company spokesperson said, "We take customer security very seriously and Error 53 is the result of security checks designed to protect our customers. iOS checks that the Touch ID sensor in your iPhone or iPad correctly matches your device's other components. If iOS finds a mismatch, the check fails and Touch ID, including for Apple Pay use, is disabled. This security measure is necessary to protect your device and prevent a fraudulent Touch ID sensor from being used. If a customer encounters Error 53, we encourage them to contact Apple Support."
Apple's statement suggests this is the price iPhone users must pay to secure their fingerprints, which can provide access to a slew of sensitive data.
If you've encountered this problem and your phone is still under warranty, your best bet is to visit an Apple store and give them your phone to be repaired. They have special software to pair the home button with the motherboard, and can fix the error.
A new kind of computer chip can see and learn the way people do
Google’s latest partnership could result in smartphones that recognize objects much the same way humans do.
Machine learning startup Movidius said recently that it’s working with Google to “accelerate the adoption of deep learning within mobile devices.” Movidius makes a vision processor that attempts to replicate human eyesight, taking into account variables like depth and texture to put objects into context. That capability, CEO Remi El-Ouazzane says, could result in much more powerful smartphones and other devices.
“When you understand the context, than there are many things you can do,” says El-Ouazzane. “You can automate tasks, you can free up the human being to do [other] things.”
El-Ouazzane refused to talk about how his company’s chip might be used in any future Google products, like Android smartphones. But he did say it would show up “in the context of personal and wearable computing.” He also argued that it could improve unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, by giving them the ability to better make sense of the video footage they’re recording as they fly about. A drone flown by an oil rig operator, for instance, might be able to detect damage as well as analyze the extent of the problem.
“The level of information you get will be much more sophisticated,” says El-Ouazzane.
Some commercially available software, like Google’s own Photos app, can already recognize particular people or objects in photos. Searching that app for “dogs,” for instance, pulls up only images of our four-legged friends. But that software relies on far-flung computers to run the actual computations. Movidius’ chip is different because its calculations happen right on the processor without any outside help, potentially speeding up the process and removing the need for an Internet connection.
Still, the executive admitted that truly replicating human eyesight and visual recognition is a steep challenge. “What our [vision processor] is doing definitely is not as tuned or as perfect as a [human] visual cortex,” he says. “We’re fighting 540 million years of human progression, so it takes time.”
The Movidius chip relies on an emerging field called “deep learning,”referring to software that mimics the way humans learn from their experiences. Long a mostly academic concept, deep learning is starting to bear fruit in the form of consumer applications. Microsoft Skype’s real-time translator, for instance, is a result of research in this field.
But one disadvantage of deep learning systems is that they typically need to absorb massive amounts of data about a given subject before they can go off and make decisions on their own. For a typical deep learning program to correctly identify a dog, for instance, it first needs to look at lots of poodle pictures. Movidius’ goal is to reduce this need by what it calls “unsupervised networks,” which are systems that can recognize different types of objects on their own with less human intervention.
“I think today we are reaching a very high level of performance on those networks,” says El-Ouazzane.
Last November, we learned that it costs just $90 to replace the 16GB flash memoryon an iPhone with a 128GB module instead of the $200 extra that Apple would charge to buy a 128GB iPhone. To do that, you’d have to go to China and find iPhone experts that have the skill set to pull off this move, but make sure you leave your warranty at the door.
It turns out that the price has significantly dropped since then, and the 30-minute upgrade now costs $60. Furthermore, a video shows you how it’s made.
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If you want to get 32GB of memory – yes, it’s possible – that’ll cost you just $20, while a bump to 64GB is priced at $35.
The trick, however, only works for iPhone 6 models and older. That means you can’t do it with a 16GB iPhone 6s, no matter how appealing it might sound.
Of course, if you’re looking to bump up memory on the iPhone, there are plenty of ways to do it legally. However, most of them include buying a memory adapter that can connect either wirelessly or via Lightning to the iPhone to offer additional local memory. For everything else, you can rely on cloud services.
That said, check out the video below to see how easy it is to have your iPhone’s memory upgraded all the way to 128GB for less than a third of the cost.
We now live in a world where your bathroom mirror can show you the time, temperature, and news headlines as you're brushing your teeth in the morning. Well, one Google staffer can, at least.
In a recent blog post, Google software engineer Max Braun said at some point late last year he realized he wanted his basic bathroom mirror to be smarter — like the one from that 2000 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie The 6th Day. After searching online, he couldn't find what he was looking for. So, he built it.
Using a two-way mirror, display panel, controller board, other components, and arts and crafts supplies, Braun rigged up something pretty fantastic. Now, when he's looking at his mug in the morning, Braun can glance over to the right and see the time and date displayed directly on his medicine cabinet mirror or look left for the current weather, a 24-hour forecast, and recent news headlines.
The code behind the user interface leverages some simple Android APIs like TextClock for the date and time, as well as Forecast for the weather and the Associated Press for news. He's also playing around with adding traffic and reminders to the interface.
"The idea is that you don't need to interact with this UI," he wrote. "Instead, it updates automatically and there's an open-ended voice search interface for anything else."
Braun said the project involved "quite a bit of experimentation and some dead ends" and his prototype is still a work in progress. The thing is currently powered by an Amazon Fire TV Stick, which runs an Android API that drives the UI. But Braun also experimented with using Chromecast and Nexus Player before putting together his "finished — yet by no means final" product.
It’s the end of an era for the tech giant’s earliest business-focused product.
Google’s Search Appliance, the company’s first business-focused product introduced in 2002, is being put out to pasture.
The tech giant told its reseller and consulting partners the news via email on Thursday, noting that they can continue to sell one-year license renewals for existing hardware customers through 2017, but that they will be unable to sell new hardware. Renewals will end in 2018, according to a copy of the email viewed by Fortune.
Google will continue to issue bug fixes, security updates, and technical support as long as license agreements are valid, which could be through 2019 in some cases.
According to a post by Perficient, a Google partner:
Google has decided to sunset the hardware-based Google Search Appliance (GSA) and focus their engineering efforts on cloud-based solutions. The GSA will remain supported for the next three years, giving you plenty of time to evaluate the future of your enterprise search investment and continue to deliver value to your business
Fortune contacted Google for comment and will update this story if a response is provided.
Google means business when it comes to cloud
Google’s GOOG-2.61% appliance was intended for companies that want to use Google technology to search internal documents by author name, prices, dates, and other data. Google’s partners made money by integrating the appliance’s search with customer document archives, applications, and websites.
Another long-time Google Enterprise partner that got the notice said the writing may have been on the wall: Google alreadyphased out one model of the appliancethree years ago.
This move could be a sign that Diane Greene, who was named senior vice president of Google’s enterprise unit in November, is setting priorities as the company prepares to push Google cloud more aggressively, as company CEO Sundar Pichai indicated on the company’s fourth quarter earnings call this week.
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Per the Google notification, the company said it is working on a new cloud-based product which is now in limited beta.
Microsoft's latest OS is proving more attractive to firms than Windows 8 - particularly among larger businesses.
Businesses are proving far more willing to experiment with Windows 10 than they were with Windows 8.
Six months after Windows 10's launch nearly one in five firms, 18 percent, appear to be testing the OS, research by professional IT network Spiceworks found. In contrast, at the same point after Windows 8's release, the OS was only being trialled by just over nine percent of businesses.
The anonymised data on what proportion of firms are using at least one Windows 10 machine was gathered by Spiceworks from the millions of IT pros that use its software. Spiceworks says businesses of all sizes use the software to inventory devices connected to their networks.
This faster pace of enterprise adoption is backed up by figures from IT asset management company Samanage, which told ZDNet that 62.4 percent of its enterprise customers have at least one managed PC running Windows 10. These are sizeable businesses, with each of Samanage's enterprise customers having an average of more than 1,000 seats. Microsoft also claims that 76 percent of its enterprise customers are piloting its new OS.
"Our data shows that IT pros were most excited about the return of the familiar start button experience in Windows 10, which reduces the need for end-user training required for Windows 8," said Peter Tsai, IT analyst at Spiceworks in his assessment of why the new OS is proving more popular than Windows 8.
"Many IT pros also liked the free upgrade offer via Windows Update, which makes it easy for many to test the new OS. And lastly, they were looking forward to new security features that promise to make Windows 10 a more secure operating system than previous versions."
Windows 10 is benefiting from a comparison to an unpopular OS, demand for Windows 8 was so weak that analyst firm Canalys warned in 2014 that "Microsoft risks losing momentum unless it does something drastic to turn its Windows business around".
And while a significant proportion of businesses may be experimenting with Windows 10, it is likely to be some time before a large number move to the OS, as business typically lag behind consumers due to the complexity of managing such upgrades at scale. Of those firms testing Windows 10, about 40 percent have three or more devices running the OS, according to Spiceworks' data.
Medium and large businesses were the most likely to have at least one Windows 10 machine Spiceworks found - with 31 percent of firms with more than 500 people trialling the OS, compared to 10 percent of companies with 50 employees or fewer.
"We also know from many conversations with IT pros that smaller companies tend to have fewer resources for OS migration, so many SMBs could be holding off on Windows 10 until they have the time and manpower to adequately test the OS for hardware and application compatibility," said Tsai.
Last year, half of the 500 IT pros surveyed by Spiceworks expressed an interest in adopting Windows 10 inside their business.
Microsoft's decision to phase out support for Windows 7 and 8 on new PC hardware will also put pressure on businesses not to downgrade new Windows 10 machines to an earlier OS, as has been common in the past in order to standardize corporate hardware.
Microsoft is also reporting rapid adoption of Windows 10 by home users, with more than 200 million devices worldwide running the OS.
The popularity of the OS may, in part, be a result of Microsoft's tactics to get consumers to upgrade. This aggressive approach includes recently implementing changes that will trigger the free upgrade to Windows 10 to begin automatically installing on many Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 PCs used in homes. Microsoft is making this push as part of its drive to get one billion devices running Windows 10 by 2018.
