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A new study has revealed that usage of, the otherwise considered safe, electronic cigarettes still increases the chances of cancer in humans. The public has mostly presumed electronic cigarette to be a safe alternative, but this might not actually be the case. A  new study  published by the researchers at New York University School of Medicine states that the consumption of nicotine through the use of electronic cigarettes is still harmful to the living beings as it still increases the chances of cancer and heart-related diseases. The researchers based their research on a series of laboratory tests which they performed on mice. Mice were subjected to the nicotine smoke equivalent to 10 years of smoking light e-cigarettes. The scientists found out that the mice suffered higher DNA damages in their heart, lungs, and bladder. E-cigarette smoking was also found to increase the chances of cancer as it damaged the DNA repair mechanism, which otherwise stops the cancerous cells f

Intel’s 25-year dominance as the world’s largest chipset seller has ended. Intel, the largest chipmaking company based in America has been defeated by South Korean electronics giant Samsung in its own play. Samsung has announced   record-breaking $50 billion profit for the year 2017, and fourth quarter record with $14.1 billion earned largely from selling marked-up components, rather than Galaxies. The components include memory modules, displays, and processors, but it’s the chip business that made it rain for Samsung in 2017. The company has not even itself highlighted the fact in the annual report that the Samsung made $69 billion of revenue from the chipset manufacturing, while the former champion in this domain Intel (also known as Chipzilla), earned $63 billion revenue during the same period. This is a huge shift in the silicon chipset business made by the South Korean giant, no matter how you slice it. Even though Intel’s focus is on the more upgraded and profita

Finally, Oreo update is rolling out to OnePlus 5T users. After OxygenOS Oreo Open Beta for the OnePlus 5T, the famed Chinese flagship killer is finally releasing stable Android 8.0 Oreo OTA to its latest flagship OnePlus 5T. The beta testing for the smartphone is complete and the OxygenOS 5.0.2 is rolling out over the air. OnePlus uses a customized version of Android called OxygenOS in its smartphones. With this OxygenOS 5.0.2, based on Android 8.0 Oreo, the OnePlus 5T gains lots of new features and improvements. The changelog says this update adds Oreo features like picture-in-picture mode, improved auto-fill, smart text selection, and a new Quick Settings design. The update has brought a new design for Quick settings as well as new versions for some system apps. It squashes several bugs, the biggest fix can be considered as the mitigation for Spectre-style attacks. As for the system apps, the Launcher has been upgraded up to v2.2 includes stuff like the dark theme. T

No, it’s not over yet, investigations are underway. Apple’s #Batterygate scandal seems to be catching more heat. After the news of Italy’s probe to the Cupertino based tech giant on slowing down older iPhones, now the US has come into action. The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are looking at how Apple handled its secret software update that slowed down older iPhones to keep up with old and worn batteries, reports  Bloomberg. According to the report of Bloomberg, the government wants to know whether Apple is in violation of securities laws for not disclosing about its mysterious software updates to consumers. In a statement last week, Apple confirmed that it had been contacted by government officials. “We have received questions from some government agencies and we are responding to them. We have never — and would never — do anything to intentionally shorten the life of any Apple product, or degrade the user experience to

We recently recommended courses you should learn before you will launch your first startup in order to avoid some common mistakes. In Quick Tips today, we’ll recommend you some free courses that will help you make your first game and begin your career as a developer. Before we highlight the details of the courses you ought to take, here are some introductory courses which will prepare you to learn these courses more effectively; Java Programming Basics  – Prepare yourself for programming on Android and the Web Introduction to JavaScript  – Create animations and understand variables and strings. When you have gone through those courses above then proceed to ones given below to develop your first game: 1. Create a 2048 game in just 1 day For those who have zero experience in programming and don’t want to take the above courses, then enroll in this course from Udacity. You will learn the basics of HTML and CSS as well as their interaction with JavaScript. It’ll only tak

A particularly booming sector of technology is mobiles. Steve Jobs led the mobile revolution with the announcement of the iPhone back in 2007 and since then we moved on to the mobile-first world. If you are thinking about a segment in technology where you would like to place your startup, mobile is the best option. Give below are two free courses which can help you get started on two of the biggest platforms in mobile: 1. Learn Swift in just one day and develop apps for iOS If you are interested in developing apps for iOS, then this course can help you get started. You will be acquainted with the simple knowledge of programming and the syntax of Swift. You will learn variables, arrays, functions, loops and conditionals which are basically the essential elements of any programming language you will learn. Aside from that, you will also be making a simple for iOS to make sure you have practical experience with the concepts you learned. Register for the  course here. Bonu

Programming is one thing that everyone should learn and have a know-how of. In the times when technology is becoming a central force in our daily lives. Understanding to code is a skill which can be very helpful. Enki  is a free app which will help you learn code bit by bit every day by following a 5-minute routine. The biggest problem is our busy schedule which hinders us from learning. Enki aims to fit right into our daily routines and help us learn to code if we are a newbie or want to brush up our programming concepts. Enki provides courses regarding the following topics: Java JavaScript Python Computer Science Custom Style Sheets (CSS) Linux Git Taking a rough look at the curriculum, we can see that some of the most important topics in IT have been covered here. In Java, you’ll be able to learn regarding annotations, application integrity, objects and more. JavaScript course can help you learn regarding browser application programming interfaces (APIs). CSS,

Every year at CES, tech giants unveil their new products and gadgets. This year a renowned manufacturer of flash drives and memory products including memory cards and readers, SanDisk showed up with a prototype of the world’s tiniest USB-C which can store up to 1 terabyte of data. SanDisk has claimed that this flash drive is the most powerful USB type-C flash drive until now. SanDisk is the third largest manufacturer of flash drives in the world. Well in the world where everything is going toward digitalization and transforming our lives into digital form, with the increasing demand for visual data, storage of data is the real trouble many consumers face these days. Many flash devices manufacturers have introduced data storage devices with larger space and small sizes, while this gadget by SanDisk breaks the record. SanDisk’s new flash drive is not the device with maximum storage in flash drives, this title has already taken by Kingston Data Traveler by introducing 2TB Flash d

Huawei’s Honor 7X  which is one of the adequate choices in mid-range market segments of smartphones is going to get another fascinating feature i.e. face lock, which is already present in some premium Android manufacturers such as OnePlus 5T. However, this is going to be the first smartphone to have this feature in this market segment. Honor, which is the sub-brand of Chinese manufacturer Huawei has confirmed that the new Honor 7X smartphone will soon get facial recognition and unlocking feature. The company has announced that the feature will be made available through an upcoming software update, proposedly via Android 8.0 Oreo. The Oreo update for Honor 7X is currently in beta testing process and a stable version will be rolled as an OTA to all devices very soon. According to the company’s press release, the update in question will be rolled out in the first quarter. “This is the first time such functionality will be available globally at the $199 USD price point.” Thoug