First Phone with Fingerprint Sensor on Display Intended

Some time ago, the sensor manufacturer Synaptics announced that it has built a screen with an in-screen fingerprint sensor for smartphones bezel-less.

Working closely with the top five smartphone companies, Synaptics boasted that the technology was mass-produced.

Among the five smartphone manufacturers, Vivo emerged as the first Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) manufacturer to embed the fingerprint scanner sensor in the smartphone screen. The sensor is embedded in the OLED display of its smartphone product.

This was revealed by Patrick Moorhead, analyst of research firm Moor & Insight Strategy. Moorhead claimed to be invited by Synaptic to see the technology made, as well as menjajalnya on Vivo devices.

Vivo itself has been showing off a mobile prototype with on-screen fingerprint scanner technology, powered by Qualcomm at the Mobile World Congress in Shanghai early 2017.

Whatsapp will Leave Blackberry OS and Windows Phone

Whatsapp says goodbye to an aging mobile operating system along with the end of the year. Specifically, the app terminates cooperation with Blackberry OS (including Blackberry 10) and Windows Phone 8 down on December 31st.

Reported from engadget, although this Facebook messaging app can still be used but the user can no longer create a new account or re-verify an existing account. Whatsapp also claims its application can stop working anytime so it's a good time to update the app.

In recent months Whatsapp has launched several practical features such as deleting pre-sent chats, real-time location sharing and new emoji. And it looks like the old operating system does not have the capabilities the company needs to expand its functionality in the future.

After extending the deadline to end its support on Blackberry 10, Whatsapp is proven to keep ending its cooperation. For Blackberry users who like to use Whatsapp is advisable to change the phone and move to android.

WhatsApp's New Features are Coming in 2017

While holding the title as the world's largest instant messaging service, with more than 1.2 billion users, WhatsApp does not stop innovating.
Throughout the year 2017 alone, the company owned by Facebook has released more than 10 new features for its application in various platforms.
Here's the list, as summarized KompasTekno from Gizbot, Sunday (24/12/2017). Have you tried everything?

1. Delete the error messageBy turning the date of the phone to the previous day, WhatsApp will again display the message deletion option (right), after it was not there because the message is older than 7 minutes (center).
Long wait, the incorrect message deletion feature finally arrives at WhatsApp in October 2017. The form is the "delete for everyone" option for messages that appear when the user clicks the trash can icon at the top of the app window.

Facebook Presents Additional Music Features for Video

Facebook tries out the latest features to provide experience in video sharing. This time the music will be a nice offer.

Social media applications offer offers the application of music for the soundtrack of the video that users want to upload. By choosing a sound in "Sound Collection."

The social network released thousands of exclusive audio tracks and sound effects can be used for videos uploaded to the network. They are all free and clean to share only on Facebook and Instagram.

Facebook also released new tutorials and resources to create 360 ​​degree videos. Now offers a camera loan program where content creators can borrow cameras like GoPro Fusion and ZCam S1 from companies for specific projects. Facebook will also start a 360-video workshop around the world next year.

Exclusive audio tracks that are launched are actually quite diverse. Some have vocals and others are just instrumental. Facebook says they reach the hip-hop, pop, jazz, and country genre.

Offer Quick Internet Access, It's Different TDD and FDD Technology

Telkomsel strengthens its 4G service by using 2.3 GHz TDD (Time Division Duplex) frequency. As is known, the frequency is achieved Telkomsel in an auction organized by the Ministry of Communications and Informatics (Kominfo).

TDD itself is considered superior to FDD (Frequency Division Duplex) on the spectrum of 900 MHz, 1,800 MHz, and 2100 MHz. Thanks to TDD, customers will enjoy faster internet, and better video quality.

Indra explained, FDD spectrum uses different frequencies when users download or upload. As a result there is a difference between the speed at the time of download and upload.

While TDD uses the same frequency for both upload and download. So customers have the same speed when doing these activities.

"The difference with the current (TDD) upload and download speed is the same, FDD frequency is the same but turns Telkomsel already have both," said Indra Mardiatna, Vice President of Technology and System Telkomsel in Jakarta, Tuesday (28/11/2017).

FDD and TDD ownership also allows Telkomsel to optimize 4G services for customers, for example when TDD spectrum is used by many users.

Number of LED Lamps Cause Light Pollution

Scientists say the night sky no longer feels like night. New research shows the use of artificial lighting from light poles, buildings, and cars causes the loss of the night sky in many regions around the world.

Night death can have a serious impact on animals and plants that biologically react differently during the day and night. Interactive maps have been created to reveal the most seriously exposed global areas of light pollution.

Dr. Christopher Kyba and colleagues from the German GFZ Research Center for Geoscience at Postdam measured the spread of light around the world using satellite images of the Earth's surface. By comparing images taken at night over the years, scientists can map how much light pollution.

In this interactive map, the red part has a high level of light pollution. Meanwhile, the yellow section has a moderate light pollution level.

Green or blue colors show lower light pollution levels. Empty area is not affected by artificial lighting.

Six Things Hidden in Facebook Messenger

A total of 1.3 billion people use Facebook Messenger every month. But do they really use it?

Since Messenger became a separate application, Facebook added functionality to make it stand out. This app has many hidden features, ranging from addictive games and how to send money.

Here are some things you do not know, but it can be done with Facebook Messenger, quoted from the page Mashable.

Use Messenger on your computer
If you want to notify your friends on your computer, without interruption of News Feed, try pulling Messenger directly to your computer. Just sign in to Messenger.com and sign in with your Facebook account. You can also access live conversations by going to Messenger.com/ and adding your friend's Facebook username to the end.

Desktop messenger looks like a Messenger page that can be accessed from Facebook, but does not have a Facebook search bar at the top of the screen.

Send and ask for money
Facebook has allowed users to send and receive money over the past few years. Just like Venmo, Messenger lets you connect credit cards to apps, and send money to friends, and ask for money from them as well.

AI Remind When Others Take a Peek at Mobile

Artificial intelligence or artificial intelligence (AI) makes it easier for humans in any case. Not only on the big things like medical interests and robotics, AI also helps in trivial matters.

One of them is the latest AI innovation being developed by Google. Technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, it makes AI that can remind when there are others peeking at the phone.

The problem is trivial, but often disturbing when someone is in public areas or public transportation. When you're busy mobile phone, people on the side or behind can be a peek at what is being accessed.
 
In order to minimize the risk of privacy, researchers at Google created a device called an e-screen protector. Innovations that are still in the research stage rely on the front camera to identify people other than users who try to peek at the screen.

Qualcomm Improve Voice Quality of USB Type-C Mobile Phone

The 3.5 audio connector is starting to disappear from the smartphone as some vendors move it and relocate it with audio output via the Type-C USB connector.

Users who want to convert the USB Type-C audio output to 3.5 mm plug can use a dongle converter. The problem is, this dongle usually produces a less good sound output.

The problem is trying to overcome Qualcomm by presenting digital codec to analog converter (DAC) Aqstic ATQ1000. It looks like a dongle converter with a Type-C USB imput and 3.5 mm audio output. It's just that, the quality of DAC in it is higher.

"Aqstic ATQ1000 supports sampling rates of up to 384 KHz, 32 bits, and dynamic range of over 120 decibels," said Qualcomm Senior Product Management Director Ravi Satya when announcing the presence of Aqstic ATQ1000 at the Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit 2017 in Maui, Hawaii, USA United, Thursday (7/12/2017).

Android Go Official Released for Low Specifications Mobile Phone

In the Google I / O 2017 event that was held last May, Google introduced "Android Go" as a configuration of the Android operating system 8.0 Oreo. Android Go is designed for low-specification smartphones at low prices.

Now at the end of 2017, Google officially launches Android Go, coinciding with the finalization of Android Oreo 8.1. The smartphone vendors are able to channel Android Go to low-end devices and Android Oreo 8.1 to their high-end devices.

Smartphone specifications that fit the Android OS Go according to Google is a smartphone that has 1 GB of RAM or less, limited memory, connectivity is not qualified, and CPU improvise. Android Go is expected to answer the needs of the community termed "Next Billion Users", ie those who have not been exposed to cyberspace at all.

Their numbers are quite large, ie half of the 7.6 billion human population in the world, or about 3.8 billion people. One of their challenges to becoming an online society is access to smartphones that are still limited because the price is relatively expensive.

Google wants Android Go to help develop the ecosystem of cheap smartphones but qualified. Thus, the growth of online society will be higher, as compiled KompasTekno, Wednesday (6/12/2017), from ArsTechnica.

Google Presents 2 Powerful Apps Quota, What It Is

Google seems to be very concerned about the new internet users (Next Billion Users). Not only released Android Go, as the operating system for low-end smartphones, the technology giant also launched two applications that are quota friendly.

Unmitigated, Google brings two applications titled Files Go and Google Go.

Google Go is a search application that saves data quota for mobile phones with limited internet and Wi-Fi. This application only takes 5 MB memory slot only.

Thanks to Google's innovation development in mobile computing technology, users can even save up to 40% of their quota when they search for information with Google Go.

Meanwhile Files Go is an application to send and receive files without using internet. Users can transfer files from their phones to other phones at close range.

The file transfer process was encrypted, the speed reached 125 Mbps, and did not use the user's phone quota. Not only that, this application is also able to arrange file storage on the user's mobile phone more quickly.

This app is based on Google research in 170 cities in Indonesia and India. New internet users in this region are rated as likely to use low-end phones with memory capacities between 512 MB to 1 GB.

Users in this region also often access the Internet in places with unstable network quality. As a result Google's search app is designed to run quickly despite only supported low-end phones and 2G networks.

Some of These Applications Use AI Technology

Internet-based technology developer company Cheetah Mobile is developing applications besutannya. The application is dibesut with the role of artificial intelligence or Artificial Intelligence (AI).

"AI development has been done since last year," said Cheetah Mobile vice president Johnny Li in Jakarta, some time ago. The AI-based technology platform brings new opportunities to mobile utility space, as well as promotes the advancement of mobile content products.

PhotoGrid, transfer style and facial recognition from AI technology are the main foundation behind a number of special effects on the application. For example, the 'twinkle' effect as the first feature supported by AI so as to change the photo to look like shine. Then the style transfer technology is also applied to the 'venus' filter. Users can combine faces with different characters, such as the example of a woman can combine her face into a fairy-faced woman.

PhotoGrid application can also be applied to animation filters with a smoother effect on the wearer's face. In fact, AI is able to classify images to recognize and delete 'erotic' spicy contents. Now, PhotoGrid is being planted AI in the form of deep learning to be able to understand its users. Deep learning is expected to provide personalized recommendations specifically for photo editing effects and filters.

AI deep learning technology is also applied to Cheetah Keyboard applications. This allows the app to analyze data and 'learn' about 2 billion words and phrases. Especially Indonesian users, Cheetah Keyboard will continue to expand the scale of the language used. Another advantage, the efficiency and accuracy of typing text is largely reinforced with predictive text technology.

Admin WhatsApp Will Be Silent Celotehan Group Members

The WhatsApp group is sometimes annoying because too many voices ask to be heard. As a result, the discussion is often not focused and widened everywhere.

WhatsApp seems to be working on this issue by testing the feature titled "Restricted Groups". The feature allows only group admins to send messages, while other members can only read messages.

Restricted Group was first stabbed by WABetaInfo which has often revealed WhatsApp features in the testing phase. The beta version of Restricted Group itself is present for Android and iOS.

In essence, Restricted Group invites the admin to turn off the chat-group function. This feature glorifies one-way communication, ideal for spreading announcements or other important information that does not need feedback.

"This feature is important when the admin wants all members to focus on one chosen topic, for example for important notes when organizing an event," as written in the blog WABetaInfo, as compiled KompasTekno, Monday (04/12/2017).