Walmart Ready For Permission to Use Drones For Delivery

Walmart, which is the world's largest retailer by revenue, has applied to US regulators for permission to use drones for delivery, pickup and checking inventory.

Walmart had been initially testing the drones indoors, which have been made by China's SZ DJI Technology Co Ltd. Now, they hope to test outside.

Using drones will help running the business easier and more convenient. These drones will do inventory of warehouses and speed up distribution of goods. In addition to using them at their stores and warehouses,they wish to use them for deliveries to their stores, as well as to their customers by delivering to their homes.

To do this, Walmart needs permission from the Federal Aviation Authority. Then they will research into this and test out how the system is working and what needs to be tweaked and improved, as well as do risk analysis. WalMart spokesman Dan Toporek said the company would move quickly to deploy drones depending on its tests and regulations.

Other companies such as Amazon and Google Inc have already taken this initiative.  

Walmart Ready For Permission to Use Drones For Delivery

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The New Nook GlowLight Plus is Waterproof

All book readers will agree that they love the portability they offer. Whether it's your commute, an office break or lying on your bed, you can take a book anywhere and enjoy. Well, Barnes and Noble has upgraded its ereader, the Nook GlowLight, and introduced the Nook Glow Light Plus, which is both dust and waterproof. Fans of bath time reading can rejoice.

Due to its IP67 rating, the Nook can be submerged in water for a full thirty minutes and still work! This will definitely eliminate the mini heart attack many of us get when a bit of water comes on our books or ereaders.

In addition to this, it is also metal and not plastic like many of its competitors. It is also slim and light weighing in at 6.9 ounces.

It has twice as many pixels as the previous Nook and has a high resolution, E Ink screen with 300 dpi.

The New Nook GlowLight Plus is Waterproof

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Google Maps: New updates for android users

All those who are passionate about travelling and love to visit new places must have taken the advantage of Google Maps at least once in their life. Stranded in a land full of strangers, speaking their native languages, you must have come to a point where you had to consider google maps your best companion or your only chance of survival. If you include yourself in the above mentioned list of travel lovers then we definitely have a good news for you. If you thought the offline navigation system was very handy then the new update of the app will blow your mind off. Especially for those who love to plan long trips with their families this cool new feature will bring ease in their road trips.

 Google Maps has introduced a hip new detour feature. Now you can easily side-track your long road trips to get gas, food, or even do a little shopping. It's quick, simple and super useful. If you want to discover new places slightly off of your current path it is now possible with the new updated version of the app. There are four pre-selected options to choose from: gas stations, restaurants, grocery stores, and coffee shops, along with a search button which can be used to find any other place of your liking or convenience. The search results appear on the overview map along with names and how much time it will add to your route. This new feature is also a great budget helper. For Instance, if you've chosen to look at gas stations, you'll even see the current prices in the callout boxes. You can also use this feature via voice command which makes your drive easier and safer.

 According to a blogpost by Google Maps Product Manager, Aditya Dhanrajani, “When you’re driving in navigation mode and you get that call from your spouse to pick up some more milk on your drive home or if you’re on a road trip and want to find a great restaurant option along your route, simply tap the magnifying glass at the top right corner of the screen.”

Searching for a new stop along your path will not affect your navigation process at all. So that is one less worry for you. Places you select through this interface can be removed or replaced and your original trip will resume from your current position. Overflow button gives you an option to remove the quick stop you selected. Instead if you are using a dropdown from the search button you can both remove and replace the quick stop with a new one.

       

This update will shortly be introduced for android users. However the company still has not provided any insight on when it will become available for iOS users.

Google Maps: New updates for android users

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Adobe to undo Lightroom change

We all know how it infuriates us when a perfectly good software or app brings an unwanted change. at first there's this uproar from the users, but then it slightly dies down as people start to get comfortable with the new changes. Whatever the case may be there has been hardly any time when a company redos a change over customers wrath. but well this has happened for adobe.

about two weeks ago adobe made a significant change to its widely used lightroom software for cataloging and editing photos. Lots of customers complained about how some important and useful features had been removed. even though adobe claimed to have removed these features for the simplification of the software.

 Last week, Adobe apologized for making a change without consulting its users the way it had previously when Lightroom was in its earlier development stages, and later on Friday night it announced a plan to switch back to the old photo-import process. Tom Hogarty, Adobe's director of product management for photography, said in a blog post. "I'd like to thank our customers for their patience while the team reviewed several options for restoring import workflows and addressing quality in Lightroom."

Lightroom has grown quite in popularity, So much so that Apple in 2014 scrapped its own competitor, Aperture. Adobe updates this software regularly, but much of its recent programming attention has been devoted to trying to extend the Lightroom software to Apple's iPhones and iPads and to competing mobile devices powered by Google's Android software.

Adobe to undo Lightroom change

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Technology Concerns

We've all seen those movies, taking place in a dystopian world where machines somehow gained sentience and took over. Giant robots and machines controlling us, the way we controlled them. Technology is constantly evolving and it seems that every day there is something new. With how exponentially the world is advancing and thus, making our lives much, much easier, one sometimes wonders if all this is going to backfire on us?

Listening to all this, it does sound very bleak and perhaps also rather dramatic. But while giant robots with brains may not be a concern, the technology that so benefits us, is also bringing with it some cons. Negative impact of technology is not simply a fear of the future, it's something that's happening now.

With increased awareness nowadays, the general public also aware of it. In a survey conducted of fifteen hundred adults, done by Chapman University of Orange, California, out of the top five things Americans fear, three are technology related!

While corruption may take the top spot, Americans are increasingly worried about cyber terrorism, followed the invasion of privacy brought upon by tracking by both the corporate industry and the government. It is obvious privacy is incredibly important, and a future where one's every little detail is observed is indeed terrifying.

Technology Concerns

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Facebook introduces "Reactions"

How many times have you come across a facebook post where you just feel like a facebook like is not enough? or maybe just  not appropriate. For me there have been  a lot of times where im stuck in a situation like this, for example a sad post where liking it just feels weird and you just want to have an empathy button or something along those lines, similarly some people have really really wanted a dislike button (which may not be a very good idea if you ask me).

Well after years of people wanting an empathy button or a dislike button , something more then just your ordinary like button , facebook has finally introduced more responses:

With Reactions, Facebook is taking a very different take, something that will let users express an array of emotions while avoiding the up- and down-voting of posts that occurs on YouTube, Reddit and many Internet forums. which has often caused a lot of negativity on these forums-- something Facebook definitely wants to avoid.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg initially teased Reactions during an event at the company's headquarters in September. Acknowledging that "not every moment is a good moment," Zuckerberg said Facebook would introduce a feature to reflect its users' wishes to have more ways to express themselves.

not everything shared on the social network is appropriate for a "like". This means even life's less happy moments can finally have a more suitable response. our trusty old like will of course remain, but along with that we have an extra bonus in the form of icons that show love, laughter, cheeky smiles, shock anger and, well, we're sure there'll be an extensive/ever growing list of options.

Facebook will begin testing initially in Ireland and Spain. there is no news regarding when facebook will release this for the widespread audience but we do that when it will , these reactions will definitely be a hit. 

Facebook introduces "Reactions"

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Microsoft Introduces its First Laptop

After decades as a household name in the technology world, 2015 is finally the year Microsoft launches its first own laptop, the Surface Book. It will be running the latest version of Windows, Windows 10.

The Surface Book will function as both a laptop and a tablet, as its keyboard and screen can be removed from one another. Microsoft's latest product is reportedly twice as fast as Apple's Macbook and will hit stores October 26th, priced at $1499.

Coming towards the Surface Book's features, it has a 13.5 inch display with 267 pixels per inch. The screen can also be folded behind the keyboard to function as a notepad thanks to an innovative design by Microsoft.

In addition, the Surface Book will run on i5 or i7 Intel processor and is light at just 3.5 pounds.

Microsoft also launched other products, apart from the Surface Book, including a line of Lumia smartphones, a new Surface Pro tablet and an updated version of its wearable fitness tracker, Microsoft Band. All of these, like the Surface Book, will be running on Windows 10. 

Microsoft Introduces its First Laptop

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