Author: Yaabot Staff
Finnish company HMD Global, the firm owning Nokia, has revealed the price tag of its much-anticipated affordable smartphone – the Nokia 2. The device has been priced at Rs 6,999l and is currently available both in stores and online starting 24 November across India. Nokia’s entry-level smartphone offering is now available in pewter/black, pewter/white and copper/black colours. Also early buyers can avail an additional 45 GB of free 4G data on the purchase of the smartphone. Additionally to this, HMD announced that Jio will give out 5 GB of data on the next nine recharges (Rs 309 and above) till…
Director Ry Russo Young has given a groovy touch to Before I Fall, making it one of the best movies from the year 2017. Now out on DVD and Blu-Ray by Sony DADC, we reviewed it for you. Plot Before I Fall revolves around Samantha Kingston(Zoey Deutch), a poppy high-school girl with her mischievous friends Lindsay, Rob and Ally. All tangled in a crazy flourishing relationship, but suddenly her life takes a twist. She gets a glimpse of illusions at certain points in time, and relives the same day over and over again. To make her overcome the blunder she…
With all sources of minerals and ores desiccating up, there is urgent need of deriving a new replacement compound. The future of our industries could hinge on a single material – and our industries are currently buzzing over the potential of graphene. It is the strongest, slimmest and most malleable material in existence. Graphene emerged from the carbon family, its allotrope are graphite and diamond. The word graphene is sometimes used in place of ‘carbon nanotubes’. CNTs are sheets of graphene that have been rolled up into a nano-scale tube (just like a micro-straw). The walls have the thickness of…
Almost a year after the Karnataka government permitted pubs in Bangalore to remain open until 1 AM on all days after a week, the already booming pub scene is now headed on a one-way trajectory: up. The young city sees thousands of its populace head over to Brigade Road, Koramangala and other nightlife hubs every weekend. One pub that seems to have made the most of this situation is Easy Tiger, located at Church Street, near Brigade Road. Incepted in 2015 by 36 year old Vikram Dasappa, Easy Tiger has already built for itself a loyal customer base, which further…
“Dreams are more real than that of reality itself”, said Nobel prize winner Gao Xingjian once. Someone could possibly attain his full potential in dreams as he is closer to self-enabling himself to achieve a positive vibe. There are some other scientific explanations as well. People, at a certain time in the night may experience some heavenly and fascinating series of situations, which are received by the person positively or negatively. You may be driving an F1 car or you can ride on a unicorn or maybe have a dream date with your favorite celebrity. Dreams have been a fascinating concept, experienced by nearly every…
Android is the most widely used mobile operating system on the planet today. Android Inc. a start-up, was founded in Palo Alto, California in October 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears, and Chris White. In July 2005, Google moved to acquire it. Google then launch the Linux-based operating system on November 5 2007. Initially developed as a platform for digital cameras, manufacturers soon began to focus it on smartphones. The first commercially available Android phone was launched in September 2008 by HTC, called the Dream. The OS remains open source – which allows manufacturers to freely customise the software according to their requirement. Now, the OS powers…
We’re into our second decade of the 21st century, and we still don’t have flying cars. Yes, we’ve said this previously as well – but so what if we’re getting autonomous vehicles? What’s stopping the emergence of flying vehicles? Not much, apparently. After years of diligently sticking to the roads for transport, the world has been eagerly waiting for cars to fly. We reproduce our dreams about them in fiction such as Jet sons, Back to the Future movies, Star Wars and many more. With recent news about Terrafugia’s TF-X, we can finally hope to welcome flying cars in…
Us millennials, or even those slightly older, have had it better in life on a lot of parameters. That’s not to say we have it better on every aspect, but some of the joys of life have certainly come to us far easier than for the older generation. Take travelling for instance – most global destinations are far more accessible now than they were ever before. We’ve got access to detailed guides, better tech, and many more airline routes. So why not help our older folks explore locales they couldn’t before? Royalty in Rajasthan Rajasthan has got more royal history than…
In our everyday conversations, sometimes we need to be a bit tricky with the truth to get things done smoothly. But what if there were scientific tips to help us do this better? We’re going to give you a scientific basis on how to get away with lying effectively. We’ll look at the psychology and brain science behind it all, making the art of stretching the truth a bit easier to understand. Let’s dive in. Eye contact Before you start with the lie, always make eye contact with the person. This delineates that you aren’t hiding anything and there is nothing…
Plenty of us operate two accounts or dual-SIM cards on the same smartphone simultaneously. And we know how difficult and tedious it is to switch between them on the go. For apps like WhatsApp, we’re unable to create and use two different accounts in spite of having two numbers. The same task that is effortless on a computer, can become a horrible nightmare on the smartphone. That’s the problem the apps we’re going to look at try to solve. Their aim is to simplify our constant struggle of logging out and logging in for separate IDs. And all it takes…
Project management can be a tough task, especially when it involves a group. Managing progress, working with deadlines and keeping track of who’s responsible for what can soon get tedious. Not to mention if there are multiple projects being worked on simultaneously. How do you work it out? Given the abundance of choices, that we have, let’s focus on the top-rated and most popular project management apps: Trello and Asana. First of all, even though these two are the best ones available in the market, they’re not perfect. So we’ll take a look at their pros and cons and how…
In 2017, we think very little about typing into our search engine for anything from directions and advice affecting our daily lives, to philosophical ideology dating back centuries. Every second the internet is mined, used to store photos, memories, and notes – used as a lifeline for busy people leading busy lives. In fact, Google processes around 40,000 queries per second – that amounts to between 3.5 billion and 1.2 trillion searches per day, according to Internet Live Stats, which broadcasts the amount of worldwide searches in real time. 2016 in particular garnered its busiest searches for politicians and athletes…