Who would you trust to determine history's most creative at? A room full of seasoned critics? Rutgers University researchers think a machine can do the job.

They've developed a computer vision algorithm that ranks the creativity of art based on how similar it is to earlier works in terms of everything from color and texture to the presence of familiar objects.

 The code treats art history as a network -- groundbreaking pieces are connected to later derivatives, and seemingly unique content may have a link to something produced in the distant past.

So what are the top picks? In many ways, they match what you'd expect.

 Edvard Munch's iconic The Scream is considered exceptionally creative, as are Goya's Christ Crucified and Monet's Haystacks at Chailly at Sunrise.

 At the same time, though, the algorithm knocks classics like Auguste Rodin's scuplture Danaid or Albrecht Durer's portrait of his mother.

 However, it's important to remember that the software is looking for originality, not whether or not artwork is good.

 Although the algorithm could easily apply to books and other artistic formats, it's going to take considerably longer before computers develop a critical eye.

Twitter        has      been overhauling   Direct    Messages over the past several months,



 and today it's announcing an enormous change:

 plans to lift the classic 140-character limit. Starting in July, DMs will seemingly be able to run as long as you'd like, turning it into much more of a typical instant message and group chat service.
The limit stays for normal tweets


It's a sensible movie — the 140-character limit was always more of a nuisance in DMs, since they're private and not meant to be the same type of quick info bite as a tweet. It'll also be a huge help to companies that run customer service on Twitter. Twitter has already made it easier for companies to do that by giving them the option to let anyone initiate a DM, and now they'll be able to send long messages back and forth, rather than being arbitrarily restricted.


Twitter traditionalists don't have to worry much: "You may be wondering what this means for the public side of Twitter," writes Sachin Agarwal, Twitter's DM product manager. "Nothing! Tweets will continue to be the 140 characters they are today."

There's no specific date on the change beyond "July." That should still give you enough time to prepare yourself.

Facebook crowed that an Android version of its Messenger app has been downloaded more than a billion times from the Google Play store. “Happy to make it to the very exclusive Android 1 billion+ downloads club,” the head of the Messenger team David Marcus said in an online post.
Other than Facebook, only Google boasts apps with more than a billion Google Play downloads onto Android-powered mobile devices, according to technology news website TechCrunch.
A chat forum on Messenger’s page at Google Play was rich with accolades but peppered with comment that the high download count was driven by Facebook spinning the widely used service out of the social network, compelling people to get the app. Facebook last year broke off Messenger from the main Facebook application for mobile users, creating a separate platform that claims more than 600 million users.
Facebook in April began rolling out video calling on its Messenger mobile application, enabling face-to-face conversations among users of the app around the world.
With the new feature, users can add video to calls to another person with the same application. Similar services are offered by Microsoft’s Skype, Google Hangouts and Apple’s FaceTime.
Free calling has been available for two years to users of Messenger, although people may be required to pay for data used during the connections.
The world’s biggest social network also opened up Messenger to outside developers as part of its strategy to create a “family” of apps that also includes Instagram and WhatsApp. Facebook has offered few hints on how it will monetize Messenger, but recently unveiled a system of peer-to-peer payments which could be adapted as an e-commerce platform.
Messenger also lets users communicate with online merchants, essentially turning formerly impersonal Internet shopping into ongoing text message conversations.

Starting Monday, India's low-cost Mars mission that has been orbiting the red planet will enter the "blackout" phase snapping all communication with the satellite as the sun will block Mars from the earth from June 8 to 22.

Mars Orbiter Mission(MOM) during this period will go into "autonomous mode" and will take its decisions, a senior ISRO official told PTI. "This will be for the first time that there will be a communication break for such a long period of about 15 days. During this period, there will not be any communication with the satellite," he said.

Idea Cellular has hiked data tariffs by over 18% for its pre-paid subscribers in Delhi-NCR with effect from June 3.


The company may also hike data tariffs in five or six more circles soon.

Cyanogen has announced it has closed out its series C round of funding with a strategic investment from Foxconn, one of world's biggest contract manufacturers that counts names like Apple and Samsung amongst its clients.

Cyanogen has not detailed how much Foxconn has invested, but added

Lenovo's A7000 budget 4G LTE-enabled smartphone will go on sale again on Wednesday. The fifth flash sale will commence at 2pm IST for registered users on Flipkart.

Lenovo India, at the time of writing, had not revealed the number of Lenovo A7000 units that will be going on sale in the flash sale on Wednesday. The last sale saw 20,000 units going out of stock in 31 seconds.

 

Unfortunately, the company never revealed the number of Lenovo A7000 units that went on sale in the fourth and third flash sales as well as the time taken for the

 

Key Features

OS Name:

Cyanogen OS 12/Android Lollipop 5.0.2

Processor:

Qualcomm snapdragon 410(64 Bit compatible)

Chip set Type:

MSM 8916

Frequency:

1.2GHz Quad core

 The micromax yu cyanogen powerd smartphone will be receiving its android 5.0 lollipop update shortly with the new cyanogen mod 12


Rahul Sharma ,the co-founder and CEO of yu, reviles that the os is submitted for testing and certification by Google and our experts think that since the roll out is still so late the company will be pushing itself to make the roll-out as fast as possible.

WHATS FRESH IN CM M12??

YU has announced that they are planning to launch a new smartphone codenamed Project Caesar which is expected to be the elder  brother of the YU  yureka smartphone.
Can you guess its name?? well yu has given as an opportunity to name its new cyanogen  powered smart phone

Regarding the upcoming smartphone and the contest, YU said:

YU is focused on revolutionizing the mobility experience through highly customizable and individuality driven technology. After the enormous success of its first device YUREKA, Project Caesar is the next big thing to watch out for from YU and who better than the tech-enthusiasts to pick the name for it.

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Latest addition to Xiaomi Redmi series ,Xiaomi Redmi 2A announced for approximately $82 USD , featuring a 4.7-inch HD display, 1.5GHz quad-core  SoC processor and  4G LTE support

redmi 2a was announces in china as the 5th anniversary pres

ent from xiaomi, instead of going with the Snapdragon 410 64-bit SoC processor the company has decided to go with Leadcore L1860C processor

   XIAOMI REDMI A2 SPECS

                            Display                                                                          :                    4.7-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) IPS

                            Processor                                                                      :                    1.5 GHz quad-core LCI L1860C 

                            GPU                                                                              :                     Mali T628 dual-core GPU

                            RAM                                                                              :                     1GB

                            Internal memory                                                          :                    8GB(micro SD card up to 32GB)

                            OS                                                                                 :                     MIUI v6 on top of Android 4.4 (KitKat)

                            SIM                                                                                :                    Dual SIM

                            Primary Camera                                                           :                     8MP rear camera with LED Flash,

                                                                                                                                         BSI sensor, f/2.2 aperture,

                                                                                                                                         Omnivision sensor, 

                                                                                                                                         1080p video recording

                           Secondary Camera                                                       :                     2MP front-facing camera, 

                                                                                                                                         720P HD video recording

                          Network                                                                         :                      4G LTE/3G, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, 

                                                                                                                                         Bluetooth 4.0, GPS

                          BATTERY                                                                     :                      2200mAh

The Xiaomi Redmi 2A comes in White, Dark gray, Bright Yellow, Light Green and Pink colors and is priced at 599 Yuan (US$ 97 / 6,049 approx.) originally, but is available at 499 Yuan (US$ 80 / 5,035 approx.) only on April 8th. No details about the global roll out yet.

ASUS has finally reviled the launch date of the most awaited Intel powered zenfone 2 in India. The company is expecting to launch all its variants in India by the end of April.

Zenfone 2 is a feature packed phone featuring 3 variants -ZE500CL(5" 720 HD & 2gb RAM) , ZE550mL(HD & 2gb RAM) & ZE551mL(5.5" 1080 HD & 4gb RAM)

With BSNL being the least preferred network provider among the Indian youth, it was obvious that they have to do some thing to grab the attention of the wide verity of internet users in India(especially youths )  

currently BSNL is providing 1GB 3g data at a rate of rs.138

our sources reviles that BSNL is planing to launch a data plan at just rs 68, which includes 1GB data usage

keeping in mind the fact that BSNL is running at lose,it's not 100% guarantee that they will provide this offer for every circle 

With Microsoft’s Windows 10 update is coming to both desktop and mobile devices later this summer ,leaks and news about  the all new spartan browser is getting hotter by the minute

Microsoft revealed how Windows 10 will look on a smartphone Wednesday during its big press event. Now the company has offered a close look at how its new "Project Spartan" browser will look on a mobile screen.

 This promising browser offers tons of improvements compared to our current experience with Internet explorer 11,
the leaked Spartan images indicate that the address bar has moved to the top of the screen, and a Hub section is now present, likely to store articles for offline reading. Furthermore, the “hamburger” menu has apparently been replaced with ellipses.

Unfortunately, the browser is still in very early stages of development. Microsoft did not have any demos on hand for the media yesterday, and we are likely months off before it comes to the Insider program.

Recently Microsoft’s Gabe Aul has posted an update regarding the status of the Windows 10 Mobile Technical Preview program . microsoft explains that it had to select phones that had sufficient partition sizes. While that limited the number of phones that could handle the Technical Preview, Microsoft has come up with a way to increase the number of handsets that will receive the next Technical Preview.

Thanks to a process called "partition stitching," Microsoft can re-size the partition dynamically, allowing the update to be sent to more models. The "partition stitching" was tested last week by Microsoft. The company says that another week of engineering is needed to make sure that the next Technical Preview will be representative of Windows 10 for all of the units that will be allowed to install it.

according to the update the following list of phones are expected to receive the next build of technical preview by next week

• Lumia 1020
• Lumia 1320
• Lumia 1520
• Lumia 520
• Lumia 525
• Lumia 526
• Lumia 530
• Lumia 530 Dual Sim
• Lumia 535
• Lumia 620
• Lumia 625
• Lumia 630
• Lumia 630 Dual Sim
• Lumia 635
• Lumia 636
• Lumia 638
• Lumia 720
• Lumia 730
• Lumia 730 Dual SIM
• Lumia 735
• Lumia 810
• Lumia 820
• Lumia 822
• Lumia 830
• Lumia 920
• Lumia 925
• Lumia 928
• Lumia ICON
• Microsoft Lumia 430
• Microsoft Lumia 435
• Microsoft Lumia 435 Dual SIM
• Microsoft Lumia 435 Dual SIM DTV
• Microsoft Lumia 532
• Microsoft Lumia 532 Dual SIM
• Microsoft Lumia 640 Dual SIM
• Microsoft Lumia 535 Dual SIM

Microsoft cautions that the phones listed above are not 100% locked into receiving the preview. If a bug shows up on a particular handset during testing, that model might be removed from the list. If the Windows Phone model you own is on the list now, you might just want to keep your fingers crossed hoping that it stays there.