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Facebook ’s $ 22 billion acquisition of popular messaging app WhatsApp last yearraised some eyebrows . Facebook already has a pop messaging app , the in - house Facebook Messenger , not to mention a popular exposure - sharing app , Instagram . Why did it need to lend yet another app into the sheep pen ? Would n’t the three apps terminate up cannibalizing each other ? But as WhatsApp , Messenger , and Instagram bear on to grow , with monthly active user numbers swelling to 700 million , 600 million , and 300 million respectively , Facebook has proved that naysayers know nothing about what people want from the apps they utilize every day ....

Our Verdict It ’s a tough choice between the MacBook and Surface 3 Pro . Both have their impregnable points and weaknesses , but overall we ’d have to choose the MacBook . The amount of attention to detail that Apple has and the feature that the MacBook has make water it the good choice of the two . As we pronounce , it is a tough choice and really it come down to the individual and their portable computing needs ....

Our Verdict If you ’re look for a work twist first and foremost , the MacBook is the better option . There ’s a better range of work software on OS X , the hardware keyboard and Force Touch touchpad will be a all important advantage over a touchscreen , and the extra concealment space will be a blessing . If you ’re mostly going to be using e-mail , web surfing and easy gaming , the iPad is more likeable ....

Virtual reality has been just beyond our grasp for tenner . The parts to build VR headset were too expensive , the technology too fundamental to convince anyone that what they were examine was real . practical reality has become more approachable and less expensive , thanks to Oculus . Samsung’sOculus - power Gear VR headsetis now on sales event for $ 200 , and Oculus Rift is expected to in conclusion hit store ledge this year for somewhere in the $ 200-$400 image ....

In a post on March 23 , Google’ssecurity team explainedthat it had discovered that someone was delivering digital certificates to substance abuser for Google demesne that were n’t authorized by Google . A quick investigation chance upon that a Formosan certificate authority ( CA ) , CNNIC , had improperly given a reseller enough power to create verifiable certificates for any domain in the world . With a verifiable credential , anyseemingly fix connection connection can be intercepted by a party that can insert a rap into a connection full stop between the web browser and the server ....

This week ’s roundup of raw iPhone typesetter’s case brings you arresting designs from the runway , plus extremist - protective cases from OtterBox and Lifeproof . If you ’re looking for some travelling - inspire manner , theHologram(iPhone 6 ; $ 48 ) features a simple hologram airplane radiation diagram that exchange to let out a fond hidden message . The case offers full access to the iPhone ’s push button , Lightning port , and back - facing camera , and lark about a reinforce bumper designed to prevent damage from corner drops while blending in nicely with the overall design ....

These days , keeping up with game can be a full - time job . So how do you divide the sign from the noise , the wheat from the chaff , the Temple Runs from the Temple Jumps ? permit us to help by regularly choose a biz You Should Play . One thing you should get it on before you start playingMr . Jump , a minimalist one - touch platformer plot by 1Button : Expect to jump a great deal , and then die ....

The day of the standalone digital television camera has passed for all but professional photographers and those who are n’t paid for their work but have particular needs a phone ’s built - in camera ca n’t encounter . Smartphones won by making photo gentle to deal online . This is n’t brush off the fact that a smartphone became the camera you always had with you , ask one fewer widget and its accompanying batteries and cable when go ....

Facebook ’s mission of connect the creation is really about unite everyone to Facebook , even when you ’re not actually using the electronic web . At the party ’s yearly F8 league for app developers , Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced fresh peter that will play the apps you apply , the news program article you read , and even your clothing purchase directly into Facebook . Messenger as a platform A fundamental piece of Facebook ’s efforts is Messenger , thestand - alone messaging appthat now has more than 600 million monthly active users ....

derive soon to a News Feed near you : More videos from brands and content creator , instead of your friend . Facebook rolled out an update to its Video APIon Wednesday , and operate over the details during a sitting at the company’sF8 Developer Conference . The goal of these new features is to help creators better reach their audiences — which could be you . The bulk of these API update have to do with control over viewership ....

Finding novel apps is well-fixed . commemorate to utilize them more than once ? Not gon na happen . Facebook found a new way to point you toward new , must - have apps with app install ads in News Feed . The advertising are a strike , accounting for a big chunk ofFacebook ’s advert revenueeach after part . Facebook has made so much money from app install ads that other societal networks likeTwitterandPinteresthave followed suit of clothes ....

Our Verdict As Apple ’s calendar app for Io and Mac OS X moved across recent spillage from inconsistent , inadequate , and irritating to more or less just ok , the market for replacements grew and mature . Fantastical for iOS , now in its 2d sack , filled a interruption there by not just presented a clean tilt and offering strong funding for unlike calendar systems , but also its instinctive - lyric processing ....

Put on your special underclothing and get ready to cut a Capricorn ! No , not because our Apple faith calls us to those practices but because arguing Apple is a faith just drives a Macalope to do some crazy stuff . This haranguing of the Apple masses is bring to us by Emma - Kate Symons write at Quartz about”The canonization of St. Steve of Cupertino”(tip o ’ the antlers toRajesh )...