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"More", "Less", and "Better": These 9 Apps will Help You Reach Your New Year's Goals

Here are 9 apps that can help people achieve their new years resolutions. With the help of the smartphone, people can read faster, eat better, and save more.

Huawei Unveils New Android Smartwatch With Swarovski Crystal

Huawei showcase its luxury Android smartwatch in Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2016 that opens today. The watch is designed specifically for women decorated with Swarovski crystal.

‘Microsoft Selfie’: Smart Photo App For Intelligent Quality Enhancements

After leveraging the popularity through release of Outlook and other free apps, Microsoft has appeared again in the screen with an intelligent photo quality improver, the Microsoft Selfie. It uses algorithms to improve photo quality, capable of reducing noises and provide the same look and quality across rear and front camera lenses. Available in the iTunes, the app is believed to be displayed in the home screen of the iPhone and Android devices,during the past two years.

New Android Version Will Ditch Oracle's Proprietary Java API

Google will replace Java's Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) in the next version of Android. The decision was made over a long dispute with Oracle regarding the API.

Android 6.0 Marshmallow Brings New, Helpful Features to the Android OS

Google's new updated OS, Marshmallow will allow its users plenty of new features and extended functionality.

Google's new feature allows users to login without password

Google is testing a new feature that will allow the users to sign into their Google accounts without having to type password. The users will only have to authenticate the login with their smartphones.

Evernote is killing its Pebble app and all versions of Skitch except for Mac

Evernote is doing some thinning on its software offerings as the company announced that early next year the company is going to discontinue Evernote for Pebble, every version of Skitch except for the OS X app and its Clearly web extension. Each version will continue work for existing users but, because there is no longer a team or resources dedicated to each product, external changes like updates to your operating system or browser may break features or functionality at any point in the future.

HTC One X9: An Android smartphone that looks like an iPhone

HTC plans to release its new Android smartphone called One X9. The smartphone is targeted toward midrange market, and will go on sale in early 2016.

Prismatic will shut down its news app for iOS, Android and Web

Prismatic declared that it will no longer be available for iOS, Android, and web news reader products

Mozilla Stop Its Failed Firefox OS

Mozilla decided to stop its Firefox OS, after it is unable to compete in the market dominated by Android,

Turn your Android phones into VR cameras with Google's latest app

Now you can turn your Android phones into Virtual Reality (VR) cameras as the Google has launched a new app Cardboard Camera that allows you to capture 360 - degree photos in seconds. These photos look like your usual panoramic photos, but strap on the Cardboard VR, and suddenly they become more immersive. The 360-degree photos become 3D-like with nearby objects seeming so close that you can almost touch them.

Android to make new emoji available to Nexus phones next week

Android is going to make new emoji everyone has been waiting for, available to Nexus phones next week, in an update going to roll out next week. In late October, Hiroshi Lockheimer first announced that Google was working on bringing the new emoji to the Android platform, but it was not announced when it would happen. According to Lockheimer, the update will hit Nexus devices beginning next week.

Oppo R7S, the rose gold Android to launch in US and Europe

China smartphone maker Oppo will launch rose gold smartphones called Oppo R7S in the US and Europe on Dec 1. The phone adopts the latest iPhone's colour which has became popular among smartphone users.

MIT research finds Android apps doing covert data transfers

MIT research found that 63% of popular Android apps allow data transfers that do not have any significant effect on the users' experience. The top apps that allow covert communications including Google's background service, Facebook, and Walmart.

Newest Android and iOs Games of 2015: Paradise for Gamers

The android and iOs game collection of 2015 is full of merriment, excitement and prized possession for avid gamers. If you have not tried any of them, do try the November collection to make your pastime exciting and enthralling.

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The idea of a nation acquiring large gold reserves in preparation for military endeavors is not without historical precedent. Prior to World War I, European powers increased their gold reserves, and a century later, Russia's central bank doubled its gold holdings in the years before its invasion of Ukraine. This same strategic stockpiling of gold could be inferred from China and its pre-war positioning for a Taiwan incursion.

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