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Winter is Coming: Keep Warm By Overclocking

Winter is coming, and so is another overclocking competition from GIGABYTE!

Throughout the month of February, we're inviting overclockers to keep warm by pushing their 6th Gen. Intel® processors to their absolute limits on a GIGABYTE 100 series motherboard during our Z170 Winter OC Challenge.

We're giving away a total of 5 GIGABYTE motherboards throughout the contest, with an additional Z170X-Gaming G1 motherboard up for grabs for those users that submit scores to all stages of a round.

You can check out the contest details below. If you head on over to HWBOT you can find out more and submit your scores.

Contest details:

Round 1: Enthusiast, Rookie and Novice Overclockers – 2 Cores
Stage 1: 3DMark11 Physics
- CPU frequency limited to 4503.00 MHz
Stage 2: HWBOT Prime
- CPU frequency limited to 4503.00 MHz
Stage 3: Geekbench Multi Core
- CPU frequency limited to 4503.00 MHZ

Round 2: Enthusiast, Rookie and Novice Overclockers– 4 Cores
Stage 1: XTU
- CPU frequency limited to 4500.00 MHz
Stage 2: HWBOT Prime
- CPU frequency limited to 4503.00 MHz
Stage 3: Geekbench Multi Core
- CPU frequency limited to 4503.00 MHz

Round 3: Elite and Extreme Overclockers – 2 Cores
Stage 1: 3DMark11 Physics
- CPU frequency limited to 5003.00 MHz
Stage 2: HWBOT Prime 
- CPU frequency limited to 5003.00 MHz
Stage 3: Geekbench Multi-Core 
- CPU frequency limited to 5003.00 MHz

Round 4: Elite and Extreme Overclockers– 4 Cores
Stage 1: XTU
- CPU frequency limited to 5000 MHz
Stage 2: HWBOT Prime
- CPU frequency limited to 5003.00 MHz
Stage 3: Geekbench Multi Core
- CPU frequency limited to 5003.00MHz

Contest Rules
- This competition is limited to GIGABYTE Z170 motherboards only.
- Every submission must include the screenshot with the competition background and a picture of the rig.
- To be eligible for the lucky draw, participants must submit in all stages of the round they select.
- A participant is eligible to win in only one round. If he is found to be the winner in multiple rounds, the prize will go to the runner up. If a participant is a round winner, he will not be eligible for the lucky draw.
- In case of a tie, the tie-breaker is the best score in Stage 3. If there’s still a tie, the best score in Stage 2, etc.

Contest Prizes
• Each 1st place winner in a round will be awarded a Z170X-SOC Force Motherboard.
• Users that submit scores to all stages of a round will be eligible to enter the lucky draw for one GIGABYTE Z170X-Gaming G1 motherboard.

Traffic Rider 1.0 APK

From the same Soner Kara folks who created one of our favorite games called Traffic Racer, a new game with the title Traffic Rider is now available to download and play on Android.

Traffic Rider is a great racing game that lets you ride your bike in the endless highway roads overtaking the traffic. The gameplay takes the endless racing genre to a whole new level by adding a full career mode, players can upgrade and buy new bikes to beat the missions.

Here’s a quick look at the features of the game:
- 20 motorbikes to choose from
- First person camera view
- Online Leaderboards and 30+ achievements
- Real motor sounds recorded from real bikes
- Detailed environments with day and night variations
- Career mode with 40+ missions
- Support for 17 languages

The game has great controls, great graphics and overall one of the best mobile games. It's fun with classic gameplay and lots of motorcycles to choose from. Would recommend this game to all bike, all highway riding and arcade enthusiasts.

Traffic Rider is compatible with Android devices running 2.3.3 or higher. While the game is free to download and play, be aware that it also contains in-game purchases to buy items, will require payment with real money. You can check it out on the Google Play Store now or download Traffic Rider apk file from the source link given below to install it directly on your Android phone or tablet.

Iran-- Time To Start Thinking About Tourism?

I've been to Iran twice, both times before Khomeini's revolution. The first time was in 1969 and I was driving to Nepal and had limited interest in modern Iran. But I immediately took to the country, the food, the music and the people. I loved the place. I remember writing a letter home that the Iranians were the most pro-American people I had ever come across. I was impressed by the good roads, a relief after the nightmare of eastern Turkey where there were just rutted tracks. I drove to into a large old town, Dogubayazit, in the shadow of Mt Ararat, and crossed over into Iran at a small town called Bazargan and immediately headed towards Tabriz, one of Iran's biggest cities. It was pretty modern compared to the countryside we had been in in Turkey for the 2 or 3 weeks before we got there. There was a good highway to Zanjan and Tehran, where I decided to spend a couple weeks before heading up to the Caspian Sea and then across to Gorgan and Mashad, where I stayed with a family of Bahai people for a few weeks before heading off towards Afghanistan, where we crossed at Taybad into Islam Qala, on the way to Herat, a city of gardens and Afghanistan's 3rd largest city.

All my experiences in Iran were good and I walked away with a fondness for the country and the people. I was happy to go back a couple years later on my way back to Europe and I certainly thought I would be back again to explore other parts of the country I had missed. But in 1978 serious unrest started and by 1979 the Shah fled and Khomeini abolished the monarchy and declared an Islamic Republic. Americans have been unwelcome, at least officially, for 37 years. But now that's changing. With the international sanctions lifted, Iran wants to open up to tourism again. Iran's neighbors, Russia, will be the first big source of tourists as Russians look for an alternative to Egypt and Turkey.

I suspect Europeans will be enjoying Iran for many years before Americans start coming back in any significant numbers. But, that does't mean you can't go. Roland and I are thinking about it. In fact, now it's looking like it's just a matter of time before there will be direct flights between the U.S. and Iran. This video shows some of the attractions Iran has to offer:

Block nuisance phone calls

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Listen: http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1601/160115-nuisance-calls_1.mp3

Time to Upgrade: Microsoft Cuts Support For New CPUs on Windows 7/8.1

Recently Microsoft® announced that Windows 7 and 8.1 will not support future CPUs from Intel®, AMD®, and Qualcomm®.

This means that Windows 10 will be the only platform supported by future CPUs like Intel's upcoming CPU codenamed 'Kaby Lake', Qualcomm's upcoming '8996' silicon, and AMD's upcoming 'Bristol Ridge' silicon. Furthermore, Microsoft will no longer update Windows 7/8.1 for Intel's 6th Gen. Core™ processor (aka 'Sky Lake').

Here's the rationale for the change from Microsoft:

Windows 7 was designed nearly 10 years ago before any x86/x64 SOCs existed. For Windows 7 to run on any modern silicon, device drivers and firmware need to emulate Windows 7’s expectations for interrupt processing, bus support, and power states- which is challenging for WiFi, graphics, security, and more. As partners make customizations to legacy device drivers, services, and firmware settings, customers are likely to see regressions with Windows 7 ongoing servicing.

For many users, upgrading to Windows 10 is free. You can check Microsoft's website for more information.

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Candy Crush Jelly Saga 1.6.5 APK

From the same Kings folks who created one of our favorite games called Farm Heroes Saga, a new game with the title Candy Crush Jelly Saga is available to download on Google Play Store. As always, we provide you to download Candy Crush Jelly Saga apk file to install it directly on your Android device.

Candy Crush Jelly Saga is a free-to-play puzzle game for mobile. The game contains full of delightful new game modes, features and boss battles featuring the Jelly Queen! In the game, you play as Jenny and show off your Jellylicious moves then take turns switching Candies against the jiggling Jelly Queen. Every sweet move will spread more Jelly and whoever spreads the most will win the level! If you are a Candy Crush fan, this game is for you.

Candy Crush Jelly Saga Game Features

• Over 100 Jellylicious Levels
• Tasty new Color Bomb Lollipop booster    
• New Jelly Queen Boss Modes        
• Mezmerizing new Candies    
• Dreamy new treetop world and a host of quirky characters led by the Jelly Queen and her stooges.
• Marvelous game modes including: Spread the Jelly & Release the Pufflers  
• Easy and fun to play, yet challenging to fully master    
• Easily sync the game between mobile and tablet devices and unlock the full game features when connected to the internet
• For players that Facebook Connect, there are leaderboards for you and your friends to compare your Jellylicious scores

Download Candy Crush Jelly Saga apk

Candy Crush Jelly Saga is compatible with Android devices running 2.3 or higher. While the game is free to download and play, be aware that it also contains in-game purchases. You can check it out on the Google Play Store now or download the .apk file of the game from the source link given below.

Install Candy Crush Jelly Saga APK

• Go to Settings >> Security >> Tap on Unknown Source to install Candy Crush Jelly Saga  game on your Android smartphone
• Now go to your phone memory and find downloaded file
• Tap on Candy Crush Jelly Saga.apk then it will ask you to press next button
• Once you click on next button, the game start installation automatically, it would take couple seconds to complete process
• Now open installed Candy Crush Jelly Saga and tap on trust button to start playing.

The Candy Crush Saga series has consistently produced excellent puzzlers, and this is no exception. Especially considering, it's a nice refreshing change from the same old candy crush. You can see they are going to have tons of content. Have you got the moves?

BBM 2.11.0.18 APK

The latest update to BBM for Android has released in the Google Play Store brings bug fixes and performance improvements. As always, you can download BBM APK file new version from the source link given below.

BlackBerry Messenger is a widely popular messaging service from BlackBerry. The Canadian company released its BBM to Android a while back, and it's now adding notable improvements through the latest update

If you’re a BBM user, then you already know that BlackBerry Messenger is the best way to confidently share private moments with friends and family. The great feature is the ping function to make someone's phone vibrate, so you can get their attention is incredible. The app also perfect for group discussions with faster function than text.

The BlackBerry Messenger new version looks to be widely available,  so if you're already using it, you should be seeing it available for download via the Google Play Store. We’ve got the BBM 2.11.0.18 APK too if you need to install it directly on your Android phone and tablet.

Cognitive Marketing: The Future for Smart Marketers

"Modern marketing is all about making the most compelling offers
to the best customers the fastest." 

Cognitive computing has a big future in marketing. The ability to track virtually everything everyone does on line has elevated the analytical requirements for marketers to the scope of a global stock market. Billions of data points are flowing and changing minute by minute. It is not possible to manage in human time frames or processing capacity. Fortunately machine assistance is rapidly evolving from batch reporting to predictive analytics to automated analytics, natural language processing, natural language generation, machine learniing and cognitive computing. We're not quite ready to add sentient computing but it will probably happen in our professional lifetimes. While all this sounds like it might squeeze the human value add out of marketing quite the contrary. It creates a cognitive surplus for marketers to spend their time on higher value, "right side of the brain" decision making instead of crunching numbers and clicking software UIs all day. For the foreseeable future humans will be better at applying curiosity and creativity to problem solving. 

Virtual telesales is a representative example. As marketers become more sophisticated in understanding customer behavior, they are getting better at managing acquisition cost. High-potential leads get higher-cost resources like a dinner meeting. Low-potential leads go into automated email drip campaigns. But there is a huge midsection in the lead curve that requires a very low cost, highly effective means of further qualification. Traditionally, this is done through telesales services, which can be opaque, inconsistent, and expensive. Enter the virtual sales rep, a digital, rules-based learning algorithm that can replace telesales (via solutions like Conversica. ) 

For simple email interactions, totally virtual reps are not only indistinguishable from humans, they are often preferred. Why? Because they can be set up to be courteous and respectful and are inherently reliable and scalable. For example, the time it takes several people in marketing and sales to follow-up on a Web visit by a prospect is typically more than a day and can depend on complex scoring, routing, and territorial designations. Studies show that delays of more than a few hours dramatically degrade engagement rates. A totally virtual rep can follow-up on every single Web visit with a personalized message within whatever time period it is programmed to do so. And it can manage several qualified exchanges to the point of setting up a human-to-human sales interaction or providing links for digital commerce. This eliminates delays caused by human availability and preference. The quality, efficiency, and cost of the virtual sales rep are simply compelling.

But the virtual rep is only one beginning for cognitive. The level of complexity in ad optimization and the logical future of personalization (individualization) in multichannel marketing will require millions of decisions to be made in real time. Again, the future is already here. IBM officially added Watson to its marketing cloud solution offerings in 2015. Cognitive services will become embedded in many marketing applications through open APIs, SDKs and community initiatives. They have to potential to solve a great deal of the inaccuracy and latency in how brands interact with customers. The question is not so much about when or how cognitive systems will become mainstream in marketing but whether customers will even notice.

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Ideas for integrating technology into the classroom

Source: http://www.emergingedtech.com/2016/01/27-meaningful-ways-use-edtech-make-classroom-more-awesome/

2016 International CES in Las Vegas

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/ces/12080692/ces-2016-best-gadgets.html?frame=3540671

Link: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ces-2016-computing-trends/

video: http://www.digitaltrends.com/videos/

         http://www.newsy.com/categories/tech/

Ehang: the first autonomous human size drone:

http://fortune.com/2016/01/07/ehang184-autonomous-human-size-drone/

SlipperySkip new project (In progress)

You guys might remember Jeffrey Stephenson (Slipperyskip) work from his previous project Addison in 2015 or the Flightline in 2013. Jeffrey manages to bring together style and modern PC performance together in a very unique and crafty way! 

Well good news, Slipperyskip is back at it with a new concept in mind and his work is well underway already!His new project SkyVue features one of GIGABYTE most recent motherboard, the Z170N-WIFI, a mini-ITX mobo part of the 100 Series Ultra Durable line up which is packed with great features, such as the new USB3.1 over USB Type C port which is powered by Intel's powerful USB 3.1 solution! Here are some pictures of his progress. you can follow each step of his work over at his blog here: http://slipperyskip.com/forum/index.php?topic=16.0