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Apple guidelines, releases ‘Flappy Bird’ clone for weighing ‘oregano’

Picture this: You’re in the sketchy part of town with a friend at 2am to buy some oregano. Your friend uses more oregano than you, so you decide go splitsies with him getting 75 percent and you taking 25 percent… you’re making pasta tomorrow, after all. Since most of us aren’t in the habit of carrying around a scale with us, and we all like to ensure that we’re receiving exactly the amount of oregano we’ve paid for, a smartphone solution makes sense.
The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus both have 3D Touch, which could make a perfectly suitable scale. Thing is, Apple forbids them from being sold on the App Store.
Steady Square is different. Or, at least asafagus, an app developing Redditor, wants you to believe that.
To bypass Apple’s guidelines forbidding scale apps, asafagus made a Flappy Bird clone instead. This clone, however, has a built-in scale.

Credit: u/asafagus

Using the iPhone’s 3D Touch feature, and a conductive material — a spoon works best, according to asafagus — you can let the game run in the background while you weigh out your, uh, what was I saying again? Oh, your oregano.

Credit: u/asafagus

Simply place the spoon on the screen while the game runs in the background. Note the weight of the spoon, as you’ll be subtracting this later.
Add your oregano and log the measurement on the scale. Steady Square uses a 0-1000 scale, with 1000 representing 385 grams.
Take the measurement from the scale, subtract the weight of the spoon, divide the weight by 1,000 and then multiply the result by 385.

I know what you’re thinking: “that’s a lot of work for oregano,” but fear not, chances are the scale will be removed before you have a chance to use it. Once Apple gets wise, it’s only a matter of time.

Google the D-Wave 2X quantum computer offers extraordinary performances

According to Google the D-Wave 2X quantum computer offers extraordinary performances

                   

A 1,152-qubit Washington processor (Image courtesy D-Wave Systems. All rights reserved)

Google published a series of results obtained with the D-Wave 2X quantum computer, a system purchased to use it together with NASA. The fuss came from the fact that tests showed performance a hundred million times greater than those of a traditional processor. The problem is that these results are achieved only for specific operations ending up adding new controversy around these systems.
In May 2013 Google and NASA announced the opening of the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL) with the installation of a D-Wave Two quantum computer. In September 2015 the installation of a more advanced model was announced, the D-Wave 2X, the one used for the test published by Google.
The processors that power the computers designed by D-Wave Systems use the method called quantum annealing. For the tests conducted by Google, the comparison was made with a traditional system which used a method called simulated annealing, which allows to approximate with a probabilistic technique certain operations of a quantum computer. The D-Wave 2X was over a hundred million times faster than a traditional single core system that used the method of simulated annealing.
The tests also included a comparison of the quantum system D-Wave 2X with a traditional system that used an algorithm of the quantum Monte Carlo family, exploited to simulate quantum computers. In this case, the performance differences varied but can still be a hundred million times greater than those of the traditional system that uses a quantum Monte Carlo algorithm.
The problem is that in simple words these tests only prove that a quantum system can provide a performance extremely superior to those of a simulation of that type of system. In essence, these tests bring out the best possible conditions for the D-Wave 2X quantum system.
The conditions are almost opposite to those of a test that last year gave disappointing results on a D-Wave Two system. It must be pointed out that the quantum computer used now has a higher level than the previous one, with a 1,000+ qubit quantum processor.
The Google team that participates in the use of the D-Wave systems will seek to optimize their use. However, doubts remain about the practical uses of this type of quantum computers, which add to the controversy that always exist around the D-Wave systems. At least for now, they appear to be really valuable only for certain types of uses.

Top 10 Android apps that probably killing your battery and eating up your data like Zombies

Most likely you buy your new Smartphone and as soon you load it with new apps or pre-install app like messaging apps, games, entertainment and shopping apps, you find your device battery backup come to lowest and mostly drained your data pack. Now AVG has put together a few handy lists of the biggest culprits when it comes to draining your power & your data.


AVG looked at anonymous data from more than one million AVG Android app users to put together its top 10 lists – and there are quite a few of them, as seen in the graph below.

AVG says, that social networking and chat apps is remains culprit of draining your battery. Here are AVG’s top Android apps that you should avoid if you want to improve battery life, storage and data consumption issues, well it won’t be easy to get rid of it as some are quite popular and are required in daily life.

1. Top 10 Battery Drainers

Samsung WatchON, Snapchat, WeChat, Microsoft Outlook, BBC News, Netflix, LINE: Free Calls & Messages, CleanMaster, Walmart, Amazon Shopping Global

2. Top 10 Performance Draining Apps

Facebook, Google Play Services, BBM, Instagram, Messenger, ChatOn Voice & Video Chat, Facebook Pages Manager, The Weather Channel, KakaoTalk, WhatsApp Messenger

3. Top 10 Storage Hogs

Spotify Music, Chrome, Ailis Filters & Stickers, LINE Free Calls & Messages, Facebook, TripAdvisor Hotels Flights, Amazon Shopping Global, Snapchat, Clean Master, Photo Editor by Aviary