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All Users Upgraded to Security Encryption Settings WordPress.com  has  announced  that HTTPS is now enabled for custom domain sites.  Wordpress.com It mainly affects users which own a custom domain at Wordpress.com domain feature as all other users were already benefiting from security SSL This upgrade was overdue when compared with other social services such as Facebook and Twitter where this encryption service is already provided by a form HTTPS for all their users. Nevertheless, it is great news for domain site owners as WordPress.com  now supports custom domain names across all of its sites, although SSL certificates are required to be owned by the users. Previously, WordPress.com users which were using subdomains have had this security feature HTTPS enabled, however all the other users which use custom domains never had this capability before. This development arrives in a context of the  Let’s Encrypt project, as it has provide...

Art in Wales Review by Welsh Artists Wales was unusual for art compared to other parts of the UK.  The concentration of visual artists in rural areas, rather than urban centres as most of Britain at that time, were drawn to Wales by its impressive scenery. christopherlangley.net The Cambrian Academy of Art was founded by artists in the Conwy Valley where art was exhibited at established commercial galleries in Llandudno on the North Wales coast. In South Wales , Cardiff did not become a large town until rapid industrial expansion took place during the second half of the nineteenth century. Artists had visited the town from an earlier date, painting a number of works of South Wales including of Cardiff's North and West Gates. In 1861, a museum for Cardiff was created in temporary rooms based on subscriptions, sharing accommodation with the Cardiff Free Library in St Mary Street and in 1870 Cardiff's first large-scale public art exhibition, the Fine Art a...

Instagram  users can now publish videos that last up to 60 seconds, before today it was only possible videos up to 15 seconds. This new feature extension, following the latest update on iOS and Android will be available to all users within the next coming months.  This new user feature occurs on the context where around two months ago, Instagram  had extended the video length capability for its advertisers up to one-minute long.  “ We want to bring you fun, flexible and creative ways to create and watch video on Instagram,” the company announced on a post . Following recent marketing studies it was found that the average duration of a top Facebook video is around 1.5 minutes. It then follows, that this new extended length on Instagram will also give creatives and influential users more freedom to communicate their message and affect their audience. This new update will also reinstate users ability to create a video using multiple clips from th...

Following  Facebook strategy it appears that it is about to announce new features particularly in its Facebook Messenger   The development stage for an in-store mobile payment capability. According to The Information , following a source code analysis of the iPhone Facebook Messenger app it can be seen and noted commands such as " pay in person" and "pay directly in Messenger when you pick up the item "  therefore it can be deduced that Facebook Messenger can have in-built the capability for in-store purchasing features. Nevertheless, Facebook was not yet responded to this new feature which is most likely in a development stage.  Furthermore, it is already possible send money to a friend via Facebook Messenger, however the iOS app code implies that Facebook will most likely expand Facebook Messenger features and capabilities as a payment tool. This follows a similar pattern in the peer-to-peer payment feature was also predicted months ahead of officia...

Everyone is Familiar with Selfies, how about when friends take a photo of you using your own camera? The concept is called "Someone Elsie" It was launched today  Shootlr on the iOS and Android stores, a new app that works by giving away self control of a user selfies and sharing and passing the selfie concept to a user's friends control.  In other words, allowing photography decisions to be passed to a user's friends, where they can take a selfie of a user, using the user's own smartphone. In practice the app processes the concept in such a way, as to remind a user that it has been a while since you have seen a photo of your friend e.g. Sasha,  the interested user then sends send a photo request to Sasha. Then, a notification buzzes on Sasha’s phone; when she opens the app, a timer immediately starts its three-second countdown. At the end of the countdown it snaps her photo, then shares it with with the requested user. Below it can be seen the app promoti...

VR (Virtual Reality) The Future Is Now The VR Technology is not something new, as it has been around for the past 20 years. However, there is now a new push to drive the technology to consumers.  Following the initial comsumer solutions and hype in the 1990s,  Samsung's Gear VR  and  Google Cardboard , technology companies such as Facebook ,  Google  and  Microsoft are other main influential trend developers by utilizing mobile devices such as smartphone and tablets. As a result, there is now competition for each company to establish itself as the next global player in this new created market. The  HTC Vive  is due to appear very soon, another technology introduction is the  PlayStation V , however the real innovation is now the  Oculus Rift . As this latest development, is the first high-end consumer VR system to come to market.  There are a number of “Oculus Ready”- certified computers you can buy...

A new company Galactic Exchange  Offers Free Hadoop/Spark Cluster Creations in 5 minutes for Big Data.   It is an impressive free service offering, as normally this process is not simple, and this new offer is a breakthrough and better still, open source.  This new service offer / process is called ClusterGX is currently in Beta, presented at  Strata + Hadoop World . However, the service works by having its beta users to own and have their own data already available with own applications, so that it runs on top of the cluster. This new tool, is open source and superb being free to use for now.  The company is pays and provides the whole cloud infrastructure, this is a breakthrough as it is allowing users with a great vision by utilizing Hadoop and its implied big data wonders and capabilities. The new company Galactic Exchange will eventually release an enterprise version of the product complete with better security, support and all the kinds of features busine...

New Machine Learning Platform by Google It was announced by Google of  a new machine learning platform  which developers can use in their applications and solutions.  It was presented at NEXT Google Cloud Platform user conference . It was stated by Google chairman Eric Schmidt "Google believes machine learning is “what’s next.” The service is now available in limited preview and it was  stated . “ Major Google applications use Cloud Machine Learning, including Photos (image search), the Google app (voice search), Translate and Inbox (Smart Reply),” the company . “Our platform is now available as a cloud service to bring unmatched scale and speed to your business applications. ” Presently, Google’s Cloud Machine Learning platform consists of two parts: one that allows developers to build machine learning models from their own data, and another that offers developers a pre-trained model. To train or operate these machine learning models, developers can choos...

Microsoft Launches Artificial Intelligence Chat Tay For Young People Microsoft  launched in the US an Artificial Intelligent chat bot called Tay.ai , built by the Microsoft Technology and Research and Bing teams,  The goal is to conduct real-world research on conversational understanding.  Tay , works by attempting to engage in playful conversations, by completing  a multitude of tasks. As an example of how it works, is that you can simply ask Tay for a joke, play a game, ask for a story, send a picture to receive a comment back or even ask for a horoscope. From the experienced the bot become, it will then also get smarter from multitude of interactions via chat, so that it makes for an increasingly personalized experience for its users. The bot is similar to another also built by the Bing team for the Chinese market, called Xiaoice, which The New York Times covered in-depth last year. Feel Free to add your comments to this post, thank you.