I like budget airlines! But, how is it possible for airlines to have such low price? This video will explain.
Nokia 216
Microsoft will be releasing Nokia 216 and Nokia 216 Dual Sim. I thought Microsoft will stop making another Nokia phones. But, aside from the fact that smartphones are getting more popularity, there is still a huge market. I’m thinking of getting this new phone — when it’s available in Indonesia. Its “up to 24 days of standby time ” is just tempting. Of course, it’s might be less than that. But, I can accept 14 days of standby time. The overall specifications are not bad at all.
Google’s AI Object Recognition Accuracy: 93%
How’s the accuracy of Google’s AI to identify objects in an image? According to the research report, it’s more than 93%. It’s 93.9% to be precise.
Today’s code release initializes the image encoder using the Inception V3 model, which achieves 93.9% accuracy on the ImageNet classification task. Initializing the image encoder with a better vision model gives the image captioning system a better ability to recognize different objects in the images, allowing it to generate more detailed and accurate descriptions. This gives an additional 2 points of improvement in the BLEU-4 metric over the system used in the captioning challenge.
A New Type Of Font by Google, Apple, and Microsoft
Google, Apple, And Microsoft Are Quietly Developing A New Type Of Font. “What are variable fonts, and why are some of the biggest tech companies on the planet throwing their weight behind them?”
How-To: Calling Siri on Mac Using Custom Keyboard Shortcut or Dictation
I tried using Siri on Mac after my upgrade to macOS Sierra, and it works as expected, even I’m still using some basic commands. It’s just like they way I talk to Siri on my iPhone and iPad. Asking Siri is simple, just hit the Siri button on the menu bar, and send your command.
But, can we call Siri from a keyboard shortcut or even dictation? Yes, we can.
Snap, Inc.
Snapchat rebrands as Snap, Inc, a camera company. Its frist product is Spectacles, a pair of funky sunglasses with a built-in wireless video camera.
Upgrading to macOS Sierra
I love keeping everything updated on my Mac, from the operating system, and also the applications. I just updated to macOS Sierra — the latest operating system by Apple. I upgraded from OS X El Capitan. This post is posted after the upgrade.
Preparation
On my Mac, I installed all upgraded applications. Some applications already released the update to make them work with macOS Sierra. About my Mac, it’s 15″ MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) with 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 processor and 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 of memory.
Telegram’s Photo Editor 2.0, Masks, and GIF Creation Tool
Telegram just released some new features to work on the pictures that hopefully will make the communication (chat) become more fun and enjoyable. For those who love to edit photos, add additional texts, drawings, or even stickers, Telegram offers the functionalities directly in the app. I wish Telegram adds “Call” feature.
Google Allo
I just had Google Allo — another messaging app by Google — installed on my Android phone. There are already some messaging installed and used on my daily basis. Well, basically, I only use Telegram (mostly) and WhatsApp. And now, Google Allo. I tried Google Assistant more inside Allo, and it works pretty well. I think the messaging feature will be something I will not be using.
Malaysian man spent 18 days in Changi Airport lounges using 31 forged boarding passes
Malaysian man spent 18 days in Changi Airport lounges using 31 forged boarding passes.
He downloaded images of mobile boarding passes issued by two airlines – Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines – from the Internet, and used an image editing software on his laptop to alter them.
Raejali inserted his name, a false flight number and a false destination on the fake mobile boarding passes, before sending them to his phone. He forged 31 such passes and used them at nine lounges run by five operators.
Find and Remove Duplicate Photos on Flickr
I’m organising my Flickr photos and want to find the easy way to remove duplicate photos that are already in or outside albums. Flickr does not offer the simple tool to work on this task. After searching for a while, there is Flickr Dup Finder 2. It’s a simple tool to search for duplicates and remove them. It’s utilising Flickr’s API and it works really good. At least for now, I already found more than 1,600 duplicate photos.
Google delisted 1.75 billion websites
Google delisted 1.75 billion websites. “Around 40 million takedown requests were rejected, which is 2.1 percent of the total requests. Another 16 million requests were duplicates.”
Inbox by Gmail: Moving Spam email to Inbox
I’ve been using Inbox by Gmail as my default web-based email to manage emails powered by Gmail. The “Snooze” and “Pin” are just helpful to keep me organised with my emails. Everything works, but there is a small things that — in my opinion — little bit inconvinient: dealing with Spam.
Gmail’s spam filter is great. But, sometime, I found that Google makes mistakes on the spam identification. Of course, it should be easy to bring back emails marked as spam to the inbox. Well, not while using Inbox by Gmail.
Viewing an email under the Spam folder will give the same experience. How to move email to inbox?
There is a menu to “Move to…”, but I could not see “Inbox” as one of the folder. The solution? Simple: Pin it.
Pinned email will go back to the inbox. It’s much simpler with the classic Gmail.