Apple News: Check Out Official Tips And Tricks For iPhone 5s, 5c And 4s
If you’ve managed to get your hands on Apple’s new duo of iPhones and are experiencing difficulties with the devices, then the Californian giants have you covered. As part of their efforts to continuously improve the levels of service that they offer and seamlessly integrate their products into our lives, Apple has updated their iPhone section of the Apple.com website to include tips and tricks on how to get the best out of different aspects of an iPhone.Anyone who has been finding it difficult to use their iOS powered smartphone will definitely find the new sections of the website extremely helpful. The in-depth iPhone tips that are offered will even benefit the most experienced device user, as it contains lots of nuggets of information pertaining to iOS 7 that some of us may not even know existed. Rather than act as a full and thorough online user guide for the different available iPhone models, the websites seem to focus more on allowing users to get the most out of the device when used with Apple’s new iOS 7 software.
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Technology News: Why the NSA’s attacks on the internet must be made public
Today, the Guardian is reporting on how the NSA targets Tor users, along with details of how it uses centrally placed servers on the internet to attack individual computers. This builds on a Brazilian news story from last week that, in part, shows that the NSA is impersonating Google servers to users; a German story on how the NSA is hacking into smartphones; and a Guardian story from two weeks ago on how the NSA is deliberately weakening common security algorithms, protocols, and products. The common thread among these stories is that the NSA is subverting the internet and turning it into a massive surveillance tool. The NSA’s actions are making us all less safe, because its eavesdropping mission is degrading its ability to protect the US.
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Programming News: Natural Language Processing with Ruby: n-grams
Natural Language Processing (NLP for short) is the process of processing written dialect with a computer. The processing could be for anything – language modelling, sentiment analysis, question answering, relationship extraction, and much more. In this series, we’re going to look at methods for performing some basic and some more advanced NLP techniques on various forms of input data. One of the most basic techniques in NLP is n-gram analysis, which is what we’ll start with in this article!
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Photography News: 7 Common Landscape Photography Clichés (And How To Make Your Shots Stand Out)
Just like anything else there are trends and fashions in photography which means that almost as soon as a style starts to become popular it becomes a cliché. In their latest guest blog post, the photo management and Canon Project1709 experts at Photoventure take a look at some of the current landscape photography clichés and suggest some alternatives to help your images stand out from the crowd.
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