YouTube Go: Watch YouTube Videos Without Using Internet

YouTube Go, a data efficient YouTube app, has been announced at the Google for India keynote. The app includes smart offline feature and it designed to use a lesser amount of data while streaming videos. This will help the users connected to a slow internet.

India has been the wellspring of various Google ideas like Offline Google Maps, YouTube Smart offline features, etc. These features were designed to help the internet deprived Indian population which also serves as a large potential market for the search giant. Eventually, the unique features become popular across other countries.



At the second Google for India event in Delhi, Google announced YouTube Go. The company continued Google’s legacy of creating data efficient products and announced YouTube Go.


YouTube Go is created to cater the needs of the users trying to use YouTube on a slow and very slow internet connections existing in the country.



The new YouTube app designed using the already existing Smart Offline feature which allows a user to download a YouTube video for offline viewing. In fact, it has taken a few steps further.

YouTube Go offers more transparency in terms of how much data is used to download a specific video. Before downloading a video, the app shows how many MBs it would require. Google’s data compression algorithms work to reduce the size of the offline video file. The app also benefits the people in your vicinity allowing you to share your offline youtube videos. So, in other sense, you can watch videos without using the internet.

Source: YouTube Go

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Microsoft Windows 10 Is Now Running On 400 Million “Active Devices”

At the Microsoft Ignite Conference, the company announced that the Windows 10 OS has reached 400 million active devices. A 100 million jump has been observed since May 5 when Redmond recorded 300 million active devices.

Launched in 2015, Windows 10 is the biggest operating system release from Microsoft which puts an end to major upgrades in the Windows update cycle. The Windows 10 OS was rigorously promoted by Redmond who didn’t leave any marketing strategy to install the OS on users’ computers. The free upgrade campaign soon turned into a forced upgrade campaign.

At the Ignite conference, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 currently running on 400 million active devices including personal computers, smartphones, tablets, Xbox one gaming consoles, HoloLens, and Surface Hubs.

The numbers have jumped from 300 million active devices recorded on May 5, 2016. A device running Windows 10 in the last 28 days can be tagged as an active device.

400 million active devices may sound “whopping” to most people but for Microsoft, it is a matter of little concern. The Windows-maker eyed a Windows 10 consumer base 1 billion by the end of 2018 but the figure seems hard to achieve considering the current numbers.

Via ZDNet

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How to Identify the New Galaxy Note7

Samsung has begun replacing the Galaxy Note7 with a battery manufacturing standard. To help users easily understand if they have a new device and use their new Galaxy Note7 with confidence, the company has introduced a Green battery icon that has been included in three specific software changes.



The new green battery icon will be visible on: 1) the Status Bar; 2) the Always On Display screen; and 3) the Power Off prompt screen, which can be accessed by long-pressing the power key.







Additionally, users can easily check if they are using the new Galaxy Note7 by looking for a square symbol on the label of the packaging box as below.



Our highest priority is the safety of our customers, and we strongly urge Galaxy Note7 users to immediately participate in the replacement program based on local availability.


*Battery icons’ color of the new Galaxy Note7 will be changed to green after Software update.



**All functionality, features, specifications and other product information provided in this document including, but not limited to, the benefits, design, pricing, components, performance, availability, and capabilities of the product are subject to change without notice or obligation.

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Best KickassTorrents Alternatives — Top 10 Torrent Websites Of 2016

We have been regular in publishing the lists of best torrent websites on the internet for the last two years. The year 2016 reached has its second half, so we thought to update the list with any latest additions. Continuing the legacy further, we are now writing about the top 10 most popular torrent websites of 2016 which are also the alternatives to the dead KAT.

Before starting the compilation, let us guide you through the recent updates in the torrent world. We are well aware of the KickassTorrents losing its life and then coming back from the dead with new domain names Dxtorrent and KAT.am. This happened due to the arrest of its alleged founder, Artem Vaulin. Following the takedown of KickassTorrents, the movie streaming website Solarmovie also disappeared from the internet.

Torrents are a good medium to share files over the internet but people have used them to promote distribution of illegal content and earn money from it. Do keep in mind, using a torrent website is completely legal, unless, you indulge yourself in downloading pirated movies and songs.

We have curated this list of popular torrent websites in 2016 based on their popularity on the internet.

1. Torrentz

Note: Torrentz is not working as per our current knowledge. However, the URL of the website is accessible.


Alexa Rank – 189


Torrentz is not a torrent hosting website but a search engine that displays results from other torrent hosting platforms. This website has taken over the pirate throne after the takedown of KickassTorrents.

2. The Pirate Bay

Alexa Rank – 334


Founded in 2003, It’s the first torrent hosting websites on the internet. TPB went into exile after its co-founder Peter Sunde was arrested following a raid on the website. A movie named The Pirate Bay Way From keyboard was also made. The website changed various domains before returning to its original .org domain.

3. Extra Torrent

Alexa Rank – 450


Extratorrent is a known name among the torrent community. The website houses approximately 1.3 million torrents in its database. While torrentz.eu served as a meta search engine with a simple GUI, ExtraTorrent claims to be the 10 newly most popular torrents in each category. This torrent search site has different search categories defined over its main page like movie torrents, tv torrents, music torrents, games torrents, books torrents, software torrents etc. And this torrent is becoming more and more popular mostly for the book and software downloads. The also changed their URL following the ban from extratorrent.cc to extratorrent.unblockme.co.

4. YTS

Alexa Rank – 695


YTS took birth as YIFY, a well-renowned movie piracy brand which became an internet sensation within a couple of years from its existence. It’s probably the most good looking and perfectly crafted pirated movie torrent hosting website.

5. RarBG

Alexa Rank – 768


Short coded as RBG, it originated in 2008, just like KickAss Torrents. The P2P Torrent link provider has been banned in countries like UK, Saudi Arabia, Denmark, Portugal, etc. It also maintains a blog in the news section for latest updates on movies and TV shows.

6. 1337x

Alexa Rank – 1151


Following the norms of community sharing, 1337x is a community-based Torrent website. You can upload some files on this torrent site. They have also provided some norms on using this site. This top torrent site also shows you the link of trending torrents in a form of the most popular torrent of the week and month and the most searched torrent of the week.

7. Torrentdownloads

Alexa Rank – 2765


This website appears very much similar to the dead KAT, expect that it uses a different color combination. The neat and clean interface provided by Torrent Downloads is visually attractive and has helped it gain a position in the list of most popular torrent websites.

8. isoHunt

Alexa Rank – 3370


Another name in the top alternatives to KickAss Torrents is isoHunt. As soon as you log on to IsoHunt, you’ll be welcomed with the website’s blog unlike a torrent list on other websites. The movie charts option present on isoHunt displays movies collections categorized by the starring actor or actress.

9. Limetorrents

Alexa Rank – 4253


Some say Limetorrents has been inspired by the LimeWire. Whatever the case be, it offers a great UI for each individual torrent. You can clearly see the seed, leech, torrent health, ratings, comment, and the stars given to a torrent. These features of this website made it to the list of top torrents sites of 2016.

10. BitSnoop

Alexa Rank – 5710


BitSnoop has gathered a lot of attention in recent times but the website is constantly moving on a declined slope in terms of popularity. It offers a simple to use interface which is not visually appealing but offers different categories for torrent search.


So, this is the compilation for top 10 torrent websites of 2016 and might prove to be an alternative to the exiled KickassTorrents.


Note: The Alexa Ranks mentioned in this list were the same at the time of writing this post.

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Facebook Celebrates Star Trek’s 50th anniversary with new ‘Like’ Buttons

Happy 50th Anniversary Star Trek! Facebook celebrates with new like buttons

If you are a Star Trek fan, you will definitely love this bit of news! The popular cult sci-fi series which many of us grew up watching is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2016. To honour the creation of Star Trek: The Original Series. To mark the occasion and celebrate the franchise’s milestone, the world’s most popular social media site, Facebook has created custom ‘Like’ buttons for users and a temporary profile picture frame.

The ground-breaking show, which was launched on September 8, 1966 on NBC, was cancelled three years into its mission. “Star Trek'” showed a utopian future for the universe in which a cast of international fictional characters, including Americans working side-by-side with Russian and Japanese characters in the middle of the Cold War, featured exploration rather than fighting, as well as peace between not only the people of earth and aliens, like the Vulcan character Spock, but also among races on Earth itself.

In a statement by Lindsey Shepard, the social network’s marketing lead for Messenger, explained the creation of the Star Trek Reactions:


“In addition to the greeting and profile frames, we decided to add another element to the celebration with custom Star Trek Reactions. In order to make this understood by all Star Trek fans, we chose the most iconic and recognizable characters and symbols from the original Star Trek series, as well as the Next Generation. We also wanted to honor the original design and spirit of Reactions, so we needed visual cues that were easy to identify at a glance, like Geordi’s visor. This led us to our final cast: Kirk, Spock, Geordi and a Klingon.

“In our custom set of Reactions, “like” stays true to form but with a little added sparkle, and “love” is represented by the Vulcan salute. We also think it makes sense that Kirk, as the first captain, is first up after “like” and “love,” and that a Klingon should be the “angry” Reaction, given that they are easily agitated.


“These Reactions will be available to some Star Trek fans in the U.S. and Canada for a limited time, and will appear when you hover over the like button on a post.

“This project has truly been a labor of love. We hope that people find as much joy in using these different celebratory elements as we have in creating them. We may test experiences like this in the future, and will focus on community and moment-driven events like this one.

“Live long and prosper.”

This is not the first time that the social media giant has played with the buttons. Facebook had tested out a temporary reaction earlier this year for Mother’s Day by adding in a flower.

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