Apple last Monday unveiled iOS 8, giving users’ incredible new features and developers the tools to create amazing new apps. iOS 8 delivers a simpler, faster and more intuitive user experience, including iCloud Photo Library, allowing you to enjoy your photos and videos more easily across your devices; new Messages features to easily share voice, video or photos with just a swipe; and an entirely new Health app that gives you a clear overview of your health and fitness data all in one place. iOS 8 also includes predictive typing for Apple’s QuickType keyboard; Family Sharing, the easiest way to share purchases, photos and calendars within the same household; and iCloud Drive, so you can store files and access them from anywhere.
iCloud Photo Library
In iOS 8, the Photos app and iCloud Photo Library give you access to all of your photos and videos anytime, anywhere. Your photos are easy to find and are organized consistently across your enabled devices. The Photos app can automatically straighten horizons and with smart editing tools, you can quickly adjust light and color or access individual tools for deeper fine-tuning. With iCloud Photo Library, every adjustment and effect is automatically updated across your devices.
Health app
The new Health app gathers the information you choose from your various health apps and fitness devices, and provides you with a clear and current overview in one place. iOS 8 offers developers the ability for health and fitness apps to communicate with each other. With your permission, each app can use specific information from other apps to provide a more comprehensive way to manage your health and fitness.
Family Sharing
iOS 8 introduces Family Sharing, making it easier than ever to communicate and share purchases, photos and calendars within the same household. Family members can browse and download each other’s iTunes®, iBooks® or App Store purchases. Up to six members can participate, each with their own Apple ID. Parents can create Apple IDs for children, which includes Ask to Buy, requiring parental permission for purchases. Family Sharing automatically keeps everyone connected by creating a shared family photo stream, shared calendar and provides an option for locating family members and their devices.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.
Samsung’s Pranav Mistry keen to work with PM Modi
India-born computer scientist and all-round whiz kid Pranav Mistry, known for cutting-edge innovations focused on the fields of wearable technology and augmented reality among others, wants nothing more than to give up what many would consider a dream job and come back home to work with newly elected India Prime Minister,Narendra Modi.
Well known for his work on Sixth-Sense and the Samsung Galaxy Gear, Mistry will call on the prime minister sometime this month. “I am keen to serve one-sixth of the world’s population where the miracles of science and technology would multiply manifold for betterment of mankind,” said Mistry, who’s been a Modi fan-boy for a while now.
Prime Minister Modi has many firsts to his credit as an early technology adaptor, be it using Google Hangouts, 3D holograms, social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube.
I am waiting for him to pop the question… and ready to say bye to my lab,” Mistry, vice-president of research at Samsung and head of its Think Tank Team based in Silicon Valley.
Solar Plane makes inaugural flight
A solar-powered plane that will be taken on a round-the-world journey in 2015 has made its inaugural flight.The Solar Impulse 2 vehicle lifted off from an airfield in Switzerland, returning two hours later.
The plane climbed to just under 6,000ft , conducting a number of manoeuvres to prove the handling of the aircraft.
The pilot reported some early vibrations, but overall the mission outcome appeared very positive.
The plane soaks up energy from the sun through some 17,200 solar cells that cover its massive wings, which span 72 meters.