Apple launches iMessage Apps so third-party devs can join your convos

At today’s WWDC Keynote, Apple swung open the gates for developers. Not only has the company opened up Siri to third-party developers, but it’s also letting third-party devs into sacred space: messages.

With iMessage Apps, users can simply open up an app drawer from right within the Messages app to interact with others (and apps) at the same time.

This ranges from silly sticker apps like Mickey Mouse gifs to more sophisticated integrations, like paying friends through Messages with Square Pay or collaboratively ordering food from DoorDash.

iMessage Apps are the biggest addition to Messages in iOS 10, but certainly isn’t the only new thing to look for.

For one, users can now send each other rich links, with music and videos playing directly within the conversation.

Messages now offers emojification, letting users spot words that come with an accompanying emoji and translate those real words to emojis with a single tap.

Users can also use different bubble animations for their messages, adding a gentle touch to the delivery of their message or adding a ‘pow!’ to the message. In fact, there is an “invisible ink” option that you can use for both text and photos that hides the message until the recipient swipes their finger across it to reveal the content (not unlike Confide).

These animations are not just for the chat bubbles, but can also go full-screen, with options for balloons, confetti and more.

Plus, users can add Slack-like reactions to a single message, as well as Digital Touch (the same drawing feature that has been available on the Apple Watch since launch).

Apple also announced upgrades to QuickType. With iOS 10, the keyboard will understand when a friend asks for someone’s contact info and proactively serves up options to send them. The keyboard can understand when someone asks where you are and proactively let you send your location on a map.

With all these upgrades to the Messages app, our conversations will likely look very different after the launch of iOS 10. (credit-TechChrunch)

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9 of the most egregious lies and inaccuracies in Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech

Donald Trump has lied in debates, sent threatening tweets, misled interviewers, and circulated outrageous personal and political conspiracy theories throughout his presidential campaign.

On Monday, Trump made clear that his habit of getting the facts wrong wasn’t limited to the rough-and-tumble nature of a primary campaign: He made repeated, clearly false assertions throughout a high-profile speech about the Orlando shooting, a major domestic crisis. The speech was read from a teleprompter and presumably written over several hours and, one would imagine, with the help of Trump’s staff.

"The mouth moves and the lies pour forth," wrote the New Yorker’s David Remnick in a story published Monday morning about Trump’s response to the shooting. And that was before Trump’s speech in the afternoon.

Here are 9 of the most egregious things Trump got wrong in the speech.

1) Trump: There’s no screening for refugees coming to the US

We're not screening people. So why don't we have an effective screening system? We don't. We're being laughed at all over the world. The burden is on Hillary Clinton to tell us why we should admit anyone into our country who supports violence of any kind against gay and lesbian Americans.

The truth: Trump is wrong: There is an extensive, onerous screening process for refugees who come to America. You can see so yourself here.

2) Trump criticizes Libya intervention, supported it himself

For instance, the last major NATO mission was Hillary Clinton's war in Libya. That mission helped unleash ISIS on a new continent.

The truth: Trump has repeatedly characterized Libya as a unique failure of President Obama and Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy. But he actively supported that intervention, even though he's spent much of his candidacy pretending he didn't.

3) Trump: Clinton wants to admit "hundreds of thousands" of refugees to the US

Altogether under the Clinton plan, you'd be admitting hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Middle East with no system to prevent radicalization of the children and their children.

The truth: Trump is wrong here as well: Clinton has only called for increasing the number of Syrian refugees by 65,000, according to CNN.

4) Trump: The Orlando shooter was "born this Afghan"

The killer, whose name I will not use or ever say was born this Afghan, of Afghan parents, who emigrated to the United States.

The truth: Trump is wrong: Omar Saddiqui Mateen, the killer, was born in New York and raised in Florida.

5) Trump: "Large numbers" of Somali refugees joining ISIS

Large numbers of Somali refugees have tried to join ISIS. The male shooter in San Bernardino, again whose name I will not mention, was the child of immigrants from Pakistan and he brought his wife.

The truth: This dramatically misrepresents the number of Somali refugees from the US who have joined ISIS, which a New York Times story pegs at no more than 15. Perhaps Trump is speaking about Somali refugees globally, but given when he made this point — during a part of his speech about domestic terrorism — that’s almost certainly giving him too much credit.

6) Trump: Obama’s "famous apology tour" created ISIS

We've tried it President Obama's way. Doesn't work. He gave the world his apology tour. We got ISIS. And many other problems in return. That's what we got. Remember the famous apology tour

The truth: There is a coherent conservative critique of President Obama's speeches abroad, in which he has at times acknowledged America's faults in foreign wars. And there is a coherent conservative critique of President Obama's approach to defeating ISIS.

But Trump isn't engaging with either narrative. He's instead just drawing a direct link from Obama "apology tour" to the birth of ISIS, and I'm not aware of any serious attempt to connect the two. Trump certainly doesn't give any reason to believe they're related.

Even if you look at the supposed apologies that have to do with Islamic terrorism or the Muslim world, it’s not clear how they could have possibly created ISIS.

7) Trump: Hillary Clinton wants to ban guns

[Hillary Clinton] says the solution is to ban guns. ... She wants to take away Americans' guns and then admit the very people who want to slaughter us. Let them come into the country. We don't have guns. ...

She wants to take away Americans' guns and then admit the very people who want to slaughter us. Let them come into the country. We don't have guns. Let them come in, let them have all the fun they want.

The truth: Clinton has not called for anything remotely resembling a ban on guns — she wants to ban assault weapons but has otherwise not called for a gun ban. Someone listening to Trump's speech would have come away with an entirely wrong idea of her policy.

8) Trump’s criticism on pushing for regime change in Syria

The decision to overthrow the regime in Libya, then pushing for the overthrow of the regime in Syria, among other things, without plans for the day after, have created space for ISIS to expand and grow.

The truth: As with his initial approval of the Libya invasion, Trump has grossly distorted his record on Syria. (As Vox’s Matt Yglesias points out, he once called for a "big, beautiful safe zone" in the country.)

The weirder, specific problem here is the knock on Clinton and Obama for creating ISIS by "pushing for the overthrow of the regime in Syria" — when Trump has himself calledfor ground troops in Syria.

9) Trump suggests Muslims need to do more to help fight terrorism

They have to work with us. They know what is going on. They know that he was bad. They knew the people in San Bernardino were bad. But you know, what they didn't turn them in and we had death.

The truth: This line revives a long-running Trump suggestion that Muslims are largely to blame for not really joining us in the fight against terrorism. (Credit-Vox)

Blaming Muslims After Attack, Donald Trump Tosses Pluralism Aside

I said this was going to happen — and it is only going to get worse” Trump said in a statement because he know about this attack that this going to happen. it's feel like there is hand of @Donaldtrump in this mass murder.

Radical Donald Trump try to get everything to win election

How leaders react to challenging times of tragedy is an important measure of their ability to perform the duties demanded of their position. This candidate has chosen to misconstrue the facts around a horrible terrorist attack, conducted by an American citizen, to further his racist agenda calling for a ban on an entire religion. This is not Presidential. This is not American. This is not acceptable. It is illegal, dangerous, hate speech that devalues the lives lost in Orlando this weekend.

Donald Trump is looking benefits from #Orlandoshooting to win precidency election. it's okay...but can he also called #RadicalJewsandChristian because if you look at history of mass murder by using guns. you can found most of are christians. should he apologize for that?

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Shiv Sena releases posters on social media targeting Modi, BJP

In a series of posters released on social media, Shiv Sena is questioning Modi and BJP's performance in the last two years.

 

Escalating its turf war against the BJP government, Shiv Sena released a series of posters on the social media questioning Modi and BJP's performance in the last two years.

The posters doing rounds on Facebook and WhatsApp in Maharashtra  are depicting how the Union government had failed on many fronts like rise of crime against women, Swacch Bharat Abhiyaan,  etc have been made which show the statistics different than that claimed by the government.

While the first poster questions the slogan 'desh badal raha hai ' saying 'kya sach main desh badal raha hai?, another one talks about farmers and how government has ignored farmers who have been forced to commit suicide.

Other posters challenge government's claim with their own statistics on job creation, petrol prices and unrest on university campuses.

Even though Shiv Sena has not officially taken the responsibility for these posters but the posters are in line with Shiv Sena's criticism of Modi government's performance in its mouthpiece Saamana.

Even though the BJP is choosing to ignore this anti campaign by alliance partner but it's likely that Shiv Sena will get some reaction on social media by BJP.
 
This social media war has made it clear that both alliance partners are going to be die hard opponents in upcoming municipal corporations elections in Maharashtra due in February 2017. (Source-India today)

JEE (Advanced) 2016 results declared: Aman Bansal is topper

Aman Bansal of Jaipur has topped the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2016, the results for which were announced on Sunday on the official website.

Bhavesh Dhingra of Yamuna Nagar has got the second rank while Kunal Goyal from Jaipur has stood third. Riya Singh (All India Rank (AIR) 133) from Kota is the topper among girls.

About 2,00,000 students qualified for the exam by clearing JEE (Main). Students who cleared the Main, the first phase of all India common engineering entrance examination, were eligible to sit for the Advanced on May 22.

The performance of a candidate in Advanced will form the basis for admission to the Bachelor’s, Integrated Master’s and Dual Degree programs (entry at the 10+2 level) in all the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) and the Indian School of Mines (ISM).

The All India Ranks of successful candidates will be made available on the website but they will not get personalised rank cards.

Students can check their results on the official website of JEE (Advanced) 2016.

or

Click here to directly go to the candidate portal to check results.

Click here to see the summary of results, rank list and much more.

The exam was organised by IIT Guwahati along with the Joint Admission Board 2016 across hundreds of centres in the country for admissions to engineering courses.

“Around 96 marks can be considered easy overall, 118 marks moderate and 158 marks are considered difficult in the paper by the Resonance Team. Overall, it is felt that paper was of similar difficulty as last year,” Verma said.

Allen Career Institute director Brajesh Maheshwari too made a similar observation. He said the second physics paper was tougher than the first, and the first mathematics paper was lengthy than the second, in which calculus questions were tough.

In chemistry, questions related to physical chemistry were difficult but those on organic and inorganic chemistry were of moderate difficulty, he said.

Lenovo Vibe K5 launching in India on June 13

Lenovo has announced that it will be launching the Vibe K5 in India on June 13. The phone will be available through Amazon.

The Vibe K5 is the younger brother of the Vibe K5 Plus. It has a 5.0-inch 720p display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 415, 2GB RAM, 16GB expandable storage, 13 megapixel rear camera, 5 megapixel front camera, stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos, metal body, TheaterMax, dual SIM, and 2750mAh battery. In comparison, the Vibe K5 Plus has a 1080p display and Snapdragon 616.

No pricing has been announced yet but considering the Vibe K5 Plus is available for INR 8,499 ($127), the Vibe K5 will likely be around INR 6,999 ($104).

TE3N movie review: 'Te3n' takes its own sweet time counting down to its climax

Movie: TE3N 
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Vidya Balan
Director: Ribhu Dasgupta

A grieving grandfather, a crumbling city and a sarcastic cop-turned-priest: Director Ribhu Dasgupta’s TE3N is the sum of this riveting combination, made more powerful by one of Amitabh Bachchan’s finest performances.

An eight-year-old girl is kidnapped and the police are clueless, because what looks like an ordinary crime turns out to be a meticulously planned abduction.

It leaves the child’s justice-seeking grandfather John Biswas (Bachchan) in lurch, but he won’t accept defeat without a fight. He begins to probe into the matter but a police officer Sarita (Vidya Balan) and a pastor Martin Das (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) can make his task easy.

TE3N is based on a Korean film, Montage. (YouTube)

Though Dasgupta takes the audience straight to the scene of the crime, he doesn’t offer see-through solutions. It becomes a speculation game where you compare your theories about the next scene.

John Biswas’ long face and hunched walk make an impression the moment he appears onscreen. Here’s a sad, strong-willed Kolkata guy who is polite yet firm in his approach. You can’t doubt his good manners, but there’s something which makes you wary of him.

It’s not the world of shining skyscrapers, but a city where the walls demand a coat of paint. Here the lights are dim and bylanes eerie and empty. People are helpful but clueless. And, on top of everything, you’re alone in your pursuit.

Based on the Korean thriller Montage, TE3N is like a Hitchcock film where you keep staring at the screen in anticipation of a new twist even though you have a vague idea about the end.

It’s edgy, gripping and dark, mostly because of the actors and partly due to the milieu. While Nawazuddin brings a strangeness to the table, Sabyasachi shows how to get noticed without ditching subtility. Amitabh Bachchan is the cohesive force behind this thriller.

The director weaves a web of lies and psychological disorders, but he also attaches motives to his characters. Though his choice of background music surprises at times, he compensates it with pace. His biggest success is the high degree of audience involvement in a 138-minute film.

TE3N catches you by the neck and keeps you engrossed till the end credits. Amitabh’s superlative form is just one of the incentives to watch it. TE3N has enough to make you like it. (Credit -HT)

Review : 3.2/5

Android Marshmallow finally hits 10 percent adoption - but still dwarfed by four-year-old Jelly Bean

Google's newest mobile OS, Android 6.0 Marshmallow, is now running on more than 10 percent of Android devices.

The milestone comes eight months after Google released Marshmallow, with growth in recent months spurred by most new devices shipping with the version of Android.

Marshmallow was the fastest-growing version of Android in terms of adoption, increasing 2.6 percentage points since May, while most other versions were flat or declined by less than one percent. Marshmallow's share has more than doubled since April when it was on just 4.6 percent of devices.

However, there are still fewer Marshmallow devices connecting to Google Play today than devices running the four generations old Jelly Bean, which has an 18.9 percent share.

By contrast, Apple iOS 9, which was released 10 months ago, is now on 84 percent of all iPhones and iPads.

Based on this month's growth for Marshmallow, the current OS could eclipse Jelly Bean to become the third most adopted version by October, roughly around the time Google is scheduled to release Android N to the public.

The numbers come from Google's Platform Versions data, which are gathered from the Google Play Store app in the seven-day period ending on June 6.

The only other version of Android that grew this month was Android 5.1 Lollipop, which now has a 20 percent share, up from 19.4 percent.

Android 5.0 Lollipop dipped slightly to 15.4 percent. Together, they account for 35.4 percent of all installations. Android 4.4 KitKat meanwhile declined by less than one percent to 31.6 percent.

Like KitKat, all older versions of Android declined by less than one percentage point over the month. Android 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 JellyBean have an 18.9 percent share, while Android Ice Cream Sandwich, Gingerbread and Froyo each have a share of two percent or less. Credit - zdent

What most of the successful people of the world do first after they get up.

Mornings hold the key to taking control of our schedules.

If we use mornings wisely, we can build habits that will allow us to lead happier, more productive lives.

While many of us are still in bed, some folks are scoring daily victories to improve their health, careers, and personal lives without sacrificing their sanity.

Every successful man in this world understands the importance of time. This is the only reason they get up early. Once they are up early, they have a few extra hours to contemplate before the day begins

Jack Ma- Founder, Alibaba Group

"I always tell myself that we are born here not to work, but to enjoy life. We are here to make things better for one another, and not to work. If you are spending your whole life working, you will certainly regret it."

This sentiment lies at the heart of Jack Ma’s lifestyle. That is why; he gets up early around 6 to 7 am and utilizes every single second by enjoying it. He does work for half an hour and then spends time with family.

Tim Cook, CEO, Apple

Tim Cook is known for sending out company emails at 4.30 in the morning, according to Gawker’s Ryan Tate. By 5 am, he can be found in the gym. And he works late too, priding himself on being the first in the office and the last out.

Bill Gates, Co-founder, Microsoft

Bill Gates takes out atleast one hour for exercise. During which he works on treadmill and cardio. For this, he follows the instruction video of teaching company.

Mark Zuckerberg- Co-Founder and CEO, Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg usually makes his first move at 6:00 am in the morning, gets ready, and goes straight to the office. According to www.sleepypeople.com website, earlier Mark was known for starting his day with very little sleep as his chatting with programmers used to go on till 6:00 am sometimes.

Richard Branson- Founder, Virgin Group

Richard Branson swims on his island early in the morning. After that, he goes to play tennis and then has a healthy breakfast.

Warren Buffett- CEO, Berkshire Hathaway

Warren Buffett gets up in the morning by 6.45 am and reads six newspapers. But otherwise, he does not have any fixed schedule. He spends 80% of his time reading.

Oprah Winfrey- Actress, Host and Author

Oprah’s day starts with a 20-minute meditation session for keeping her mind at peace. Thereafter, she exercises in her gym.

Virat Kohli- Cricketer

He gets up early in the morning at 6.00 am. His workout pattern includes a wide combination of weights as well as cardio exercises. This combination has helped him develop muscles in a most appropriate way to suit his batting(hitting).

Bob Iger- CEO, Disney

Bob Iger told The New York Times that he gets up at 4.30 every morning. He takes the quiet time to do a number of things, claiming to read the papers, exercise, listen to music, look at email, and watch TV all at once. Even though it’s a quiet time, he’s “already multitasking.”

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Salesforce is investing $50 million in startups and launching an incubator for early-stage cloud startups

Salesforce.com will devote a new $50 million investment fund to startups and create an incubator for early-stage cloud startups, Chief Executive Marc Benioff said.

The dual move is the sales-software provider’s latest push to foster an ecosystem of applications that run on its cloud-computing platform.

“We’ll give you real estate, money and support,” Mr. Benioff said Tuesday, speaking at the company’s developer conference here. The incubator will be housed in its San Mateo, Calif., offices.

Salesforce is one of the most active corporate venture investors in software that helps run large companies, and its investments have increased significantly in the past couple of years.

As of January 31, Salesforce had invested $504.5 million, compared with $158 million a year earlier, according to company filings. The increase was due, in part, to the creation of a $100 million fund to invest in European startups.

Salesforce has invested in companies since 2009. It founded Salesforce Ventures in September 2014, John Somorjai, executive vice president of corporate development and Salesforce Ventures told CIO Journal in January.

Salesforce Ventures is the only corporate venture fund invested 100% in enterprise cloud computing, he said.

Salesforce’s new fund, called the Lightning Fund after the company’s software development platform, comes as startups are having a more difficult time finding funding and private-company valuations are cooling. The company’s investments have fared relatively well in this regard. It estimates the fair value of its investments at $706.9 million as of April 30, compared with $714.1 million as of January 31.

Over all, corporate venture groups invested over $7.5 billion in 905 deals to high-growth startups in 2015, accounting for 13% of venture-capital dollars invested that year and 21% of deals, according to a recent report by Price water house Coopers and the National Venture Capital Association.

Corporate venture investments have been hurt in the past when markets fell sharply. That happened after 2000, when such funding hit a peak of $15.1 billion invested in 1,948 deals, according to the National Venture Capital Association. During the first three months of 2001, investments fell 81%, and by the end of that year, 45% of the corporate venture funds that existed in 2000 had shut down, according to work published by Professor David Garvin at Harvard Business School.

35 Amazing Facts about the Internet

Did you know when radio took 38 years and TV took 13 years internet took only 4 years to reach 50 million users. Those who have access to it almost use internet every day. Almost 300 million people use internet every day but very few of them will be aware with a myriad of facts about internet. Check out these amazing facts about the incredible internet.

1. 1/7 th of the world’s population are Facebookers.

2. 57% of internet users chat more online than they do in real life.

3. 1 in 8 coupes who married in the US last year met via social media.

4. 1 in 5 divorces are blamed on facebook.

5. There are over 770 billion facebook page views per month and more than 30 billion pieces of content shared on it each day.

6. The average Facebook user is 4.7 degrees away from anyone else on Facebook including the queen, the president of the USA Johnny Depp and H.H The Dalai Lama.

7. 48% of under 35s check their Facebook first thing in the morning; 28% before they even get out of bed.

8. The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 year old females.

9. The UK is the world’s 22nd most populous country but it is the world’s fourth largest facebook user.

10. More people read Justin Bieber’s twitter than the global readers of the times, the new york times, the sun, the wall street journal, the daily telegraph, the washington pos, daily mail, usa today, the guardian, daily mirror, the independent, daily express, los angeles times combined.

11. Lady Gaga has more twitter followers than the global Jewish population.

12. The internet influences $5.77 spent offline for every $1 spent online

13. Two-third of people research products and businesses online before engaging with them offline.

14. 31 million people from the UK regularly shop online. 97% of British females use search engines to research products and services online. 92% of them regularly buy products online.

15. 91% of millionaires use search engines to research luxury products online before deciding on a purchase.

16. Only 12.5% of people are influenced by ads or advertorials in a newspaper or magazine.

17. Only 18% of TV advertisements generate a positive ROI.

18. 90% of people who can fast forward through TV advertisements do.

19. There are now more mobile phones on the planet than there are human beings.

20. 15% of people use their mobiles to shop online.

21. Most use Google to find what they want to buy.

22. The global web economy has been doubling in size every two years.

23. One of the biggest Deterrents to a purchaser engaging with a brand online or offline is poor website design.

24. Only 14% of people trust advertisements but 83% of people trust the information on Google’s result pages.

25. Google sees 2.9 billion searches everyday. This is the largest and most targeted marketing platform in history.

26. Every second there are 5000 facebook status updates,2000 twitter tweets,34,000google searches.

27. Worldwide Web was developed in Objective C programming language.

28. Any web policy or standard do not require the “www” part of a website and it is optional.

29. All three letter word combinations from aaa.com to zzz.com are already registered as domain names.

30. People often use the term internet and World Wide Web without much distinction in every-day speech however they are two different terms. The Internet is a global data communications system. It is a hardware and software infrastructure that provides connectivity between computers. On the contrary, the Web is one of the services communicated by means of the Internet. It is a collection of interconnected documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs.

31. It is considered by the researchers that the first search engine was Archie, which was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, who was a student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

32. Did you know that the original URL of Yahoo! was http://akebono.stanford.edu.

33. Google got its name from the mathematical figure googol, which denotes the number ‘one followed by a hundred zeros’.

34. The main reason the Google home page is so bare, is because of the fact that the founders didn’t know the HTML and just wanted a quick interface. Actually, the submit button was added later on and in the beginning, hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.

35. Anthony Greco was the first person to be arrested for spam at the age of 18, on February 21, 2005.He was sending unsolicited instant messages