What is iPhone 6S Chipgate?

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What is iPhone 6S/ 6S Plus Chipgate? This year actually two (2) Companies contracted to make the A9 Chip for the new iPhone 6S. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited (TSMC) and Samsung. You may ask why Apple choose 2 companies to built the A9 Chip, it’s probably the volume, neither TSMC nor Samsung could build 13 million chips by themselves. Haha.

Well, the only way to know which version of the A9 Chip you have in your iPhone 6S/6S Plus is to check after you buy it (Luck Matters). There is App Called Lirium in App Store (100% Free) will tell you, what Model of the CPU/Chip you have in your new iPhone 6S/6S Plus, Cool uh.

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The new TSMC built A9 and Samsung built A9 aren’t exactly the same, The TSMC built A9 Chip slightly bigger than the Samsung built A9 Chips:-

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As we all think that the Bigger the Chip size usually enables Better Performance and Efficiency, Sad News, Yes It Does, The Bigger Chip on the TSMC A9 is built on a 16nm construction as opposed to 14nm Samsung A9 chip construction. Haha

So here is the result of both iPhone 6S/6S Plus (TSMC built A9 vs Samsung built A9):-

Geekbench Battery Test: TSMC A9 Chip iPhone 6S last up to 20% - 30% longer than Samsung built A9 Chip iPhone 6S/6S Plus.

An (1) Hour Long YouTube Video: TSMC A9 Chip iPhone 6S burns 14% battery life and Samsung built A9 Chip iPhone 6S burns 15% battery (Not a Huge Difference like before; wait, more to come)

30 minutes Time-Lapse Video Recording: TSMC A9 Chip iPhone 6S at 89% Battery and Samsung built A9 Chip iPhone 6S at 84% Battery. (Both Full Charged to 100% at beginning of the experiment)

Battery Life Testing:

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Finally what Apple Inc. said for their Mistake :) (Official)

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Tesla Model S Specification

Manufacturer: Tesla Motors.

Code name: WhiteStar.

Production: 2012-present.

Model Years: 2012-present.

Assembly: United States: Fremont, California (Tesla Factory), Europe: Tilburg, the Netherlands (All Parts).

Designer: Franz von Holzhausen.

Wheelbase: 2,959 mm (116.5 inches).

Length: 4,976 mm (195.9 inches).

Width: 1,963 mm (77.3 inches).

Height: 1,435 mm (56.5 inches).

Curb/Kerb Weight: 2,108 Kg (4,647 lb/pounds).

Electric Motor: 310 kW (Kilowatts), 416bhp, 600 N·m (443 ft·lb), Three-phase AC Induction Motor.

Transmission: 1-Speed Fixed Gear (9.73:1).

Battery: 60 or 85 kWh Lithium Ion.

Electric Range: 85 kWh: 261 miles (426 km) [EPA], 310 miles (500 km) [NEDC] | 60 kWh: 208 miles (335 km) (EPA), 233 miles (375 km) [NEDC].

Plug-in charging: 11kW 85 - 265 Volts on-board charger for 1ϕ 40 A or 3ϕ 16 A on IEC. Type 2 inlet Optional "Twin Charger" for 22 kW for 1ϕ 80 A or 3ϕ 32 A. Optional Supercharger for 120 kW DC off-board charging, adapters for domestic AC sockets (110-240V).

Class: Full-size car.

Body style: 5-door Liftback.

Layout: Rear-motor, rear-wheel drive.

Keys

EPA: US Environmental Protection Agency.

NEDC: New European Driving Cycle.

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Specification

Manufacturer: Samsung Electronics.

Slogan: Do you Note?

Series: Galaxy Note.

Availability of Country: Worldwide October 2014.

Predecessor: Samsung Galaxy Note 3.

Type: Capacitive touchscreen smartphone.

Form Factor: Slate, Phablet.

Dimension: 153.5 mm (6.04 inch) Height, 78.6 mm (3.09 inch) Width, 8.5 mm (0.33 inch) D.

Weight: 176 grams (6.2 ounce).

Operating System (OS): Android 4.4.4 “KitKat”, upgradable to 5.0 Lollipop.

System on Chip: Samsung Exynos 7 Octa 5433 (LTE Category 4 or 6 version), Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 (LTE Category 6 version).

CPU: Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A53 & Quad-core 1.9 GHz Cortex-A57 (LTE Category 4 version), Quad-core 2.7 GHz Krait 450 (LTE Category 6 version).

GPU: ARM Mali T760 (LTE Category 4 version), Adreno 420 (LTE Category 6 version).

Memory: 3GB Low Power Double Data Rate 3 (LPDDR3).

Storage: 32/64 GB Flash Storage.

Removable Storage: microSDXC up to 128 GB.

Battery: Removable Lithium ion 3,220 mAh.

Display: 5.7” inch (145 mm) Quad High Definition (QHD) Super Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode (AMOLED) with 16:9 aspect ratio, 2550 × 1440 pixel resolution, 515 pixel-per-inch (ppi).

Rear Camera: 16 Megapixel (MP), f.2.0, 1/2.6” sensor, with autofocus, Optical Image Stabilization and 4K Resolution video recording (Sony IMX240).

Front Camera: 3.7 Megapixel (MP), f1.9.

Connectivity: Wi-Fi: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (2.4/5GHz), Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), GPS/GLONASS, Near field communication (NFC), USB 2.0 micro-B port, USB On the Go (OTG), High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) [TV-out via MHL A/V link], 3.5 mm (0.14 inch) headphone jack.

Apple Watch Sport Specification

Processor: Apple S1

System software: Watch OS.

Display: Flexible Retina Display, 38mm (1.5 inch) or 42mm (1.7 inch), resolution in pixels of 272 x 340 or 312 x 390.

Other outputs: Taptic Engine, Speaker.

Dimension as estimated: For 38mm: 38 × 32.4 × 12.6 mm (1.50 × 1.28 × 0.50 inch) (17.1 mL) OR For 42mm: 42 × 36.4 × 12.6 mm (1.65 × 1.43 × 0.50 inch) (19.3 mL).

Back: Composite.

Screen: Strengthened Ion-X glass.

Models: 10 Models, 2 Cases: Lightweight anodized 7000 series aluminium (in silver, or space grey) 5 Bands: Fluoroelastomer plastic: sport band (in white, black, blue, green and pink).

Input Methods: Digital crown, multi-touch, force touch, microphone, Siri, connected iPhone.

Connector: MagSafe inductive charging.

Connectivity: Near Field Communication (NFC), Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n.

Sensors: Accelerometer, gyroscope, heart rate sensor, barometer.

Compatibility: iOS 8 running on: iPhone 5, iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus.

Interstellar

Directed by: Christopher Nolan

Produced by: Emma Thomas

                     Christopher Nolan

                     Lynda Obst

Written by: Jonathan Nolan

                    Christopher Nolan

Music by: Hans Zimmer

Distributed by: Paramount Pictures (North America)

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (Other Territories)

Running Time: 169 Minutes

Budget: $165 Million

Box office: $324.9 Million

Starring: Matthew McConaughey as Cooper

                         Ellen Burstyn as Murph (Older)

                 Jessica Chastain as Murph (Adult)

                        Mackenzie Foy as Murph (Young 10 Years)

                        Anne Hathaway as Amelia Brand

                 Timothee Chalamet as Tom (Young 15 Years)

                        Bill Irwin as TARS (Voice)

                        Josh Stewart as CASE (Voice)

                       Michael Caine as Professor Brand

                       John Lithgow as Donald

                       David Oyelowo as School Principle

                       Collette Wolfe as Ms. Hanley

                       Francis X. McCarthy as Boots (as Fracis Xavier McCarthy)

                      Andrew Borba as Smith

                      Wes Bently as Doyle

                      William Devane as Williams

                      David Gyasi as Romily

  Casey Affleck as Tom

  Leah Cairns as Lois

  Liam Dickinson as Coop

  Topher Grace as Getty

  Matt Damon as Dr. Mann

  Flora Nolan as Girl on Truck

  Griffen Fraser as Boy on Truck

  Jeff Hephner as Doctor

  Lena Georgas as Nurse Practitioner

  Elyes Gabel as Administrator

  Brooke Smith as Nurse

  Russ Fega as Crew Chief

  William Patrick Brown as NASA Employee

  Mark Casimir Dyniewicz as NASA Inspector

  Benjamin Hardy as NASA Scientist

  Alexander Michael Helisek as Construction Boss

  Marlon Sanders as Jenkins

  Kristian Van der Heyden as Scientist

Soundtrack: Interstellar (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Price: $13.99 USD in iTunes Store

Reference:   1) Internet Movie Database (IMDb.com)

         2) Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia.org)

Peer to Peer Network (P2PN)

In a peer-to-peer network (P2PN), all of the computers on the network are equals, or peers—that’s where the term peer-to-peer comes from—and there’s no fil server. But there is file sharing, in which each computer user decides which, if any, files will be accessible to other users on the network. Users also may choose to share entire directories or even entire disks. They also can choose to share peripherals, such as printers and scanners. Peer-to-peer network are easy to set up; people who aren’t networking experts do it all the time, generally to share an expensive laser printer or to provide Internet access to all of the workstations on the LAN. Peer-to-peer networks tend to slow down as the number of users increases, and keeping track of all of the shared files and peripherals can quickly become confusing. For this reason, peer-to-peer LAN’s aren’t suitable for networks that connect more than one or two dozen computers.

UNIX

Developed at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories, UNIX is a pioneering operating system that continues to define what an operating system should do and how it should work. UNIX (pronounced “you-nix”) was the first operating system with pre-emptive multi-tasking, and it was designed to work efficiently in a secure computer network. If UNIX is so great, why didn’t it take over the computer world? One reason is the lack of compatibility among the many different versions of UNIX. Another reason is that it’s difficult to use. UNIX, like DOS, defaults to a command-line user interface, which is challenging for new computer users. In the past few years, a number of GUI interfaces have been developed for UNIX, improving its usability.

Integrated Programs

Integrated programs offer all of the functions of the leading productivity programs in a single easy-to-use program. Integrated programs such as Microsoft Works are generally aimed at beginning users. They offer easy-to-learn and easy-to-use versions of basic productivity software. All of the functions, called modules, share the same interface, and you can switch between them quickly. The individual modules, however, may be short on features compared with standalone programs or office suites. The lack of features may make these easy programs seem more difficult when you start exploring the program’s more advanced capabilities. Microsoft Works contains a word processor that is very similar a Word, a spreadsheet program that is very similar to Excel, a database program, a calendar, and other productivity tools. The modules of an integrated program are not available as standalone programs-you cannot purchase the spreadsheet program in Works as a standalone product.

Note: Microsoft Works is a discontinued office suite by Microsoft. Works is smaller, was less expensive, and has fewer features than Microsoft Office or other major office suites. (2014)

Standalone Programs

A standalone program is a program that is fully self-contained. Microsoft Word and Excel are examples of standalone programs. You can purchase and install them separately, and they functions perfectly well all by themselves. However, standalone programs require a lot of storage space. For example, if you purchase Word and install it and then purchase Excel and install it, neither program would know about other, nor would they share any resources, such as menus, drivers, graphics libraries, or tools. Obviously, this is a very inefficient way to install and use software when the programs have so many resources they could share.

Multimedia Authoring Systems

Authoring tools are used to create multimedia presentations. These tools enable you to specify which multimedia objects to use (such as text, pictures, videos, or animations), how to display them in relation to each other, how long to display them, and how to enable the user to interact with the presentation. To take full advantage of an authoring tool’s capabilities, it’s often necessary to learn a scripting language (a simple programming language). A leading authoring package is Macromedia Director. Commercial authoring tools such as Macromedia Director save output in proprietary file formats. To view Macromedia presentations on a Web site, it’s necessary to download and install a plug-in program (software that extends a browser’s capabilities). Some users do not like to download viewers, so the Web’s standards setting body, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), recently approved the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL), a simple multimedia scripting language designed for Web pages. Once SMIL, is supported by Web browsers, Internet users will be able to enjoy enhanced multimedia without having to download plug-in programs.

Video Editors

Video Editors are programs that enable you to modify digitized videos. With a video editor, you can cut segments, re-sequence frames, add transitions, compress a file, and determine a video’s frame rate (the number of still images displayed per second). Video editors also enable you to save video files to some or all of the following video file formats:

Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG): A family of video file formats and lossy compression standards for full-motion video.

QuickTime: A video file format developed by Apple Computer. It is widely used in multimedia

Video for Windows: The native (or original format a program uses internally) video file format for Microsoft Windows. Often called AVI because these files use the .avi file extension, this format is inadequate for full-screen, broadcast-quality video.

Because a huge amount of data must be stored to create realistic-looking video on a computer, all video file formats use codec techniques. For the best playback, special video adapters are required. These adapters have hardware that decodes videos at high speed. To make video available on the Internet, streaming video formats have been developed. These formats enable the video picture to start playing almost immediately after the user clicks the video.

Apple announces Steve Jobs has passed away

Steve Jobs Born on 24th February 1955 at San Francisco, California, U.S. and Rest In Peace on 5th October 2011 at Palo Alto, California, U.S.

Apple co-founder and visionary CEO Steve Jobs has passed away at the age of 56. Apple posted the following statement on their website:

Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.

Below is a statement issued by Apple’s Board of Directors (via AllThingsD):

We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.
Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.
His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts.
Steve Jobs’ family have provided the following statement:
Steve died peacefully today surrounded by his family.
In his public life, Steve was known as a visionary; in his private life, he cherished his family. We are thankful to the many people who have shared their wishes and prayers during the last year of Steve’s illness; a website will be provided for those who wish to offer tributes and memories.
We are grateful for the support and kindness of those who share our feelings for Steve. We know many of you will mourn with us, and we ask that you respect our privacy during our time of grief.

CEO Tim Cook just issued the memo below internally to the company:

Team,
I have some very sad news to share with all of you. Steve passed away earlier today.
Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.
We are planning a celebration of Steve’s extraordinary life for Apple employees that will take place soon. If you would like to share your thoughts, memories and condolences in the interim, you can simply email rememberingsteve@apple.com. No words can adequately express our sadness at Steve’s death or our gratitude for the opportunity to work with him. We will honor his memory by dedicating ourselves to continuing the work he loved so much.
Tim

Bill Gates offers his condolences (via AllThingsD):

I’m truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs’ death. Melinda and I extend our sincere condolences to his family and friends, and to everyone Steve has touched through his work.
Steve and I first met nearly 30 years ago, and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of more than half our lives.
The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come.
For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it’s been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.

Google’s Sergey Brin just posted this statement on Google+:

From the earliest days of Google, whenever Larry and I sought inspiration for vision and leadership, we needed to look no farther than Cupertino. Steve, your passion for excellence is felt by anyone who has ever touched an Apple product (including the macbook I am writing this on right now). And I have witnessed it in person the few times we have met.
On behalf of all of us at Google and more broadly in technology, you will be missed very much. My condolences to family, friends, and colleagues at Apple.

Mark Zuckerberg posted this:

Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. I will miss you.

Disney CEO Bob Iger:

Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined. Steve was such an “original,” with a thoroughly creative, imaginative mind that defined an era. Despite all he accomplished, it feels like he was just getting started. With his passing the world has lost a rare original, Disney has lost a member of our family, and I have lost a great friend. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife Laurene and his children during this difficult time.

President Barack Obama via The White House Blog:

Michelle and I are saddened to learn of the passing of Steve Jobs. Steve was among the greatest of American innovators – brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.
By building one of the planet’s most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity. By making computers personal and putting the internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun. And by turning his talents to storytelling, he has brought joy to millions of children and grownups alike. Steve was fond of saying that he lived every day like it was his last. Because he did, he transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: he changed the way each of us sees the world.
The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented. Michelle and I send our thoughts and prayers to Steve’s wife Laurene, his family, and all those who loved him.

He will be truly missed. Our hearts go out to his family. Rest in peace.
Flags at Apple Headquarters in Cupertino fly at half staff this evening (via Scoble):

File Compression Utilities

Most downloadable software is compressed. To exchange programs and data efficiently, particularly over the Internet, file compression utilities can reduce the size of a file by as much as 80 percent without harming the data. Most file compression utilities work by searching the file for frequently repeated but the lengthy data patterns and then substituting short codes for these patterns. Compression enables faster downloads, but you must decompress a file after downloading it. When the file is decompressed, the utility restores the lengthier pattern where each code is encountered. After decompressing the downloaded software you can install it on your computer. Some compressed files are designed to decompress automatically when you launch them; others require you to run compression utility software.