Many readers will have heard of WhatsApp or possibly use this messaging app themselves. Not so many will have heard of the modded WhatsApp Plus version, but if you have you might be interested to hear that WhatsApp Plus APK 6.13 is now available.

Some of you may be considering switching from WhatsApp to this modified version, and as you would expect there are some differences between the official WhatsApp for Android and the free WhatsApp Plus app. For a start the app is also known as WhatsApp+ or WhatsApp Plus Holo, and the icon is blue rather than green.

Just like WhatsApp, the modified app is a cross-platform messaging app. It’s said to work well and be easy to install, although you will have to remove your original WhatsApp before you install WhatsApp Plus. The Plus version does have some features that the original WhatsApp does not.

These include free visual themes, with more than 700 on offer, additional emoticons, edit file sharing options, and menus for editing appearance and settings. If you’re interested in this alternative to the official WhatsApp and want to download WhatsApp Plus 6.13 you can do so at WhatsApp Plus Android APK 6.13 here. You’ll find all of the versions along with a changelog for each.

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Intel on Monday introduced its Broadwell processor platform to the world, and it is an impressive piece of technology. Stepping outside of its normal two-step process of first releasing the processor and then updating the platform, Intel is doing both this cycle, and the end result is a massive step forward in terms of size and power efficiency. Intel is stepping solidly into turf once owned by the ARM technology most commonly found in tablets and smartphones.

With Haswell Refresh fully behind us and 2014 now in to its second half, Intel is turning their attention to their next generation of products and processes. Intel’s tick-tock methodology coupled with the long development periods of new products means that the company has several projects in flight at any given time. So while we have seen the name Broadwell on Intel’s roadmaps for some time now, the reality of the situation is that we know relatively little about Intel’s next generation architecture and the 14nm process that it is the launch vehicle for.

Intel Core M

Today’s preview and Intel’s associated presentation are going to be based around the forthcoming Intel Core M microprocessor, using the Broadwell configuration otherwise known at Broadwell-Y. The reason for this is a culmination of several factors, and in all honesty it’s probably driven as much by investor relations as it is consumer/enthusiast relations, as Intel would like to convince consumer and investor alike that they are on the right path to take control of the mobile/tablet market through superior products, superior technology, and superior manufacturing. Hence today’s preview will be focused on the part and the market Intel feels is the most competitive and most at risk for the next cycle: the mobile market that Core M will be competing in.

Broadwell version of  Windows 9

Apple will resist putting touch on a MacBook Air because it wants customers to buy both a laptop and an iPad, but Microsoft doesn't have those concerns. The Broadwell version of Surface running Windows 9 could become both a MacBook Air and an iPad killer. I don't think customers will buy both a light laptop and a tablet if presented with an alternative that does an excellent job replacing both. The prototype tablet Intel is showcasing with the launch -- which runs full OSes like Windows and OS X -- is actually both thinner and lighter than an iPad Air, which creates an interesting problem for the slowing tablet market. What if you could get full Windows and OS X in a form factor thinner and lighter than an iPad Air? Intel Broadwell architecture Last week I was informed on Intel's announcement, and while it was easy -- way too easy -- to get lost in how they made this happen, the reality is that this may be the most significant technical advancement that Intel has made in a processor since the creation of x86. There is really very little, including process technology, that has been left unchanged by this move. This was the culmination of a massive near company-wide effort to counter the threat represented by ARM, to create PC-level performance in an ARM-level energy and heat envelope. In other words, this was one of the most massive efforts I've ever seen Intel -- or any company -- undertake, and the result is stunning. To that end Intel’s preview is very much a preview; we will see bits and pieces of Broadwell’s CPU architecture, GPU architecture, and packaging, along with information about Intel’s 14nm process. However this isn’t a full architecture preview or a full process breakdown. Both of those will have to wait for Intel’s usual forum of IDF. Desktop and Tablet are fully Supported The showcase prototype tablet is thinner and lighter than an iPad Air, and it runs full operating systems and their mobile counterparts. Both Apple and Microsoft have been hinting at converging their mobile and desktop platforms to maximize their apps and minimize their support costs, but they have been somewhat reticent -- in part because tablet platforms couldn't support their desktop efforts, and desktop platforms wouldn't work in a Tablet like the iPad Air. Well, that just changed -- and right now, Intel is the only vendor that can cover the tablet and desktop segments adequately with a single architecture. Part of this is getting the thermals of the processor down so that, like ARM, you don't need a fan. Diving into matters then, Core M will be launch vehicle for Broadwell and will be released for the holiday period this year. In fact Intel is already in volume production of the Broadwell-Y CPU and production units are shipping to Intel’s customers (the OEMs) to begin production and stockpiling of finished devices for the holiday launch. NOTE:  Now on their latest iteration with Broadwell, the company believes they’re turning a corner and have the technology they need to be a leader in the high performance mobile market. It's important to note that despite Intel's best intentions here, Broadwell and Core M remain targeted at premium devices. You won't see these parts in cheap tablets. The duty of doing battle with ARM remains Atom's alone.  Apple's Thin Problem This brings up a problem, though. If Apple and Microsoft can create a thinner, lighter, tablet for their OS X and Windows platforms with a touchscreen, then what happens to tablets? Ever since the iPad came out, folks have been trying to use it for work -- but that hasn't proven very successful. For instance, some peers were trying to use iPads as their primary mobile platform a year ago, and most were either on MacBook Air or Surface products at the last briefing. Now they still want to carry a very thin and light product with good battery life, but the iPad just isn't doing it for them. Present these folks with a laptop with performance size and weight in line with an iPad, and suddenly you wonder why you need an iPad anymore. This creates a rather impressive advantage for Microsoft and Windows 9 to take the market back from Apple. Microsoft's Windows Opportunity You see, while Apple will resist putting touch on a MacBook Air because it wants customers to buy both a laptop and an iPad, Microsoft doesn't have those same concerns. The Broadwell version of Surface running Windows 9 could become both a MacBook Air and an iPad killer as a result, because it will be an ideal blend of both products. I don't think customers will buy both a light laptop and a tablet if presented with an attractive alternative that does an excellent job replacing both. That is what Windows 95 provided. Before Windows 95, DOS was more business and the Mac was more personal. Windows 9 will provide a similar blend between laptops and tablets, and business and personal uses -- particularly when placed on Broadwell -- and we may quickly find that a lot of the more recent Apple converts will convert back as a result. Certainly Apple, which also uses Intel, could do the same thing. However, because it is afraid of collapsing the iPad into the MacBook Pro and losing the revenue, it won't -- handing Microsoft back the market. Granted, Microsoft will have to execute at Windows 95 levels, but its current CEO is far closer to Bill Gates and far more likely to do this than its last CEO was. Intel's Microprocessor Create The Inovation I think we are seeing just the tip of the iceberg with Broadwell. Once you get a fully capable processor into an ARM thermal envelope, you can do some incredible things in a lot of markets. Embedded products -- like those put in cars and homes -- get much more interesting, designs for tablets and PCs potentially far more creative, and products that only could exist in people's minds take form in reality. I think Broadwell will shake up the PC market a lot. Ramping into its launch, PC segments already were growing, while tablet segments were hurting. I think Broadwell creates half of the equation needed for another Windows 95 event, and now we'll see whether Microsoft can step up to this with Windows 9. Apple's betting no -- and I know of at least one time when that didn't turn out so well.

The current outbreak of the Ebola virus in West African countries has claimed over 700 lives. Ebola is lethal and has no cure, at least, it didn’t until this week.

Two of those infected with Ebola in Liberia, Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, are American missionaries , and they were flown back to the US in a special medical plane. The outlook was not good and Brantly even phoned his wife to say goodbye knowing he was about to die. But he didn’t die, and is now well on his way to recovery thanks to an experimental new drug.

Sub-zero secret serum

The drug is called ZMapp and is being referred to as a secret serum in the fight against Ebola. It has been developed by biotech company Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. and has to be stored at sub-zero temperature. Using it requires waiting for it to thaw out.

ZMapp is so new, Brantly and Writebol are the first humans to receive it after successful testing was carried out on monkeys. However, those tests saw the drug administered 48 hours after infection. In Brantly’s case the drug worked 9 days after he’d shown signs of infection, which is very good news.

When I first heard about the Gulfstream air ambulance transporting Ebola patients back to the US I thought it was quite dangerous due to the high risk of infection. But it turns out vials of ZMapp were first sent to Liberia and administered before the missionaries traveled.

It sounds as if ZMapp will be an important drug in the fight against future outbreaks of Ebola, but its use seems unlikely beyond the odd compassionate case right now. ZMapp is not approved for use on humans and both missionaries had to sign consent forms to receive it. And even if it was approved it would be difficult to get to West African countries in large quantities quickly due to the required sub zero temperatures, but also because of the way the antibodies are generated and then harvested from mouse blood.

There are other treatments in development, but ZMapp has been proven to work in humans so I expect its testing and approval will be fast tracked if possible.

Right now, West African countries are experiencing the worst outbreak of Ebola in history. Guinea, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Liberia have confirmed more than 700 deaths from the disease, which has swept through those countries since appearing just six months ago. In this outbreak, it’s killing more than half of the people it infects — which makes it one of the less lethal strains of Ebola to emerge recently. Perversely, this relatively low mortality rate has a lot to do with its quick and devastating spread; Ebola is the sort of malicious evolutionary creation that exploits anything and everything it can find. It is the disease on which virtually all viral-horror thrillers are based.

Ebola, The Horror

Remember that, much like HIV, Ebola is a new disease. The first recorded cases came in just 1976, in and around Zaire and Sudan. Ebola isn’t the sort of long-standing historical hardship that we can shrug off as part of the human experience, like cancer or the flu — this thing is younger than many people alive today, and it’s out to get us.

Ebola was first discovered by doctors from the Institute for Tropical Medicine in, of all places, Belgium. It wasn’t hard for these scientists to pinpoint the source of the mysterious and horrific symptoms suddenly moving through several rural areas in Zaire: looked at under a microscope, infected cells displayed an enormous, worm-like structure. It wasn’t a parasite malaria, but a super-sized virus they dubbed Ebola. Soon, this was amended to Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever. The team could not then imagine the actual human suffering the disease could cause — starting with nausea and vomiting, progressing to bleeding from mucous membranes, lesions, skin peeling, excessive swelling, and eventually death through any of a number of means.

Like HIV, Ebola is an RNA virus, meaning that its genome is made from the flimsier, more mutation-capable cousin to DNA that animal cells use only transiently. Unlike HIV, however, Ebola is not a retrovirus. This means that its RNA blueprint is not converted to DNA and inserted into the host cell’s genome. Ebola basically hijack’s a cell’s machinery and redirects it to making more copies of Ebola. After a while, these copies leave the cell — violently. Many of Ebola’s more famous symptoms exist so the disease can spread from host to host, rather than as a natural result of its survival strategy. Viscous little bastard, isn’t it?

Ebola Region

For several decades after its emergence, Ebola sprang up over and over throughout Africa. Outbreaks tended to begin as a result of contact with primates or fruit bats, the latter of which can carry the disease without symptoms. Ebola’s high lethality tended to work against it in the long term, limiting potential to spread by making the infected immobile and easily identified. Nearly 300 people died in the early infections, stopped mostly by quarantine zones and education campaigns. Ebola caught the public’s attention through its sheer brutality, but there was an assumption: this is an African problem. People assumed (correctly) that this was most likely due to poor infrastructure and education — it’s not the sort of thing that could affect the first world.

Ebola is the basis or the major influence for two famous scenarios you’ve probably seen a hundred times. One: The doctor who accidentally pricks his or her finger with a syringe full of deadly virus. Two: A foreign research monkey ferries a deadly foreign virus onto American shores and infects the researchers. The second of these two incidents, which involved a novel strain of the virus eventually called the Reston virus for the Virginia town in which it was discovered, has become an intractable part of our culture. Though nobody died of Reston virus, there were several infections — and that was all that was required to capture the public imagination.

In reality, we need never have worried. While there is no cure, fighting Ebola is all about quickly quarantining the infected and observing heightened hygiene routines for a few months. This ought to be easy, but superstition about the disease and about foreign medicine in rural Africa has led many to hide their infections in the early stages, and others to actively resist global health workers. Additionally, like malaria, Ebola is especailly deadly to people who are already weakened by things like dehydration or malnutrition. If Reston had turned out to be a deadly Ebola strain, our more affluent and science-friendly culture would have been able to deal with it quite effectively.

Ebola’s maddening ability to flare up anywhere, at any time, with any severity, slowly fell back before determined public health work. In 2007 an outbreak killed over 100 people — and in 2012 the virus appeared and killed just a single young girl. The senselessness of the disease was a big part of the fear it was able to create in Africa and around the world. Still, the last 10 years or so have seen a steady relaxation about the disease. This latest outbreak puts an end to that, as the death toll in the last half-year quickly approach 50% of the disease’s lifetime impact.

Fighting this outbreak is going to take a lot of determination. Both local and foreign health workers get sick very often, despite masks, sterile clothing, and attempts to avoid direct contact with the infected. Additionally, only top-level biohazard labs are even allowed to do research on Ebola in the Western world, so the progress of pure medical research is slow.

The future of Ebola is very likely to be much like its past: slow, tortured, and terrible. The solutions are banal and difficult to pitch at fundraising dinners — not miracle cures, but multi-language leaflets, boxes of soap, and pay for often destitute foreign health workers.

This may not be the last outbreak of Ebola — but it could be the last major outbreak. If the situation is handled properly, both by international organizations and local African societies, this is a very beatable disease.

This post will show you an app named YPFreedom.With this app, 
you can rightfully use to virtually upgrade some, if not all of your android apps.
 
This app like I said upgrades almost all free apps to premium apps on 
your Android smartphones, Imagine when 
using an app and some features 
are deactivated because you are yet to upgraded the app, it's 
disheartening and annoying. 

So if you are in that category, follow the simple guidelines below.

REQUIREMENTS

1. Your device must be rooted 

2. Internet connection.

STEPS

Now kindly follow the instructions below.

1. Asummimg your phone is rooted already now proceed to 
Download and install YPfreedom Here

2. Move it to your device memory

3. Go to your time zone and change it to Moscow.

Note: The reason why we are changing the time zone is because most 
developers are from there and they make their apps work in their time 
zone only.
But if you are from Asian countries like Nepal, India, etc 
you don't need to change timezone to Moscow, as you can use it 
directly.

4. Now launch the app and it will show you lists of apps that can 
be upgraded .

5. Launch the application you want 
to upgrade and go to the part of the application that shows 
"Upgrade via playstore or Buy 
coins/cash (for games) via playstore" then you choose the 
amount to upgrade or the amount 
of item you want to buy, and it pays automatically.

6. Finally, once you are done, change 
the time zone back to normal.

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WhatsApp update offers Android Wear support

The WhatsApp Messenger social networking app is a phenomenally successful mobile app. Therefore it makes sense to offer the cross-platform messaging app to as many device users as possible. News today is that a WhatsApp update now brings Android Wear support.

Android Wear is a recent addition to mobile operating platforms and designed for wearable technology devices such as smartwatches. More apps are being added for Android Wear by the day and now we see WhatsApp a popular Messenger available to everyone with Android Wear support.

A new update for WhatsApp will enable Android Wear device owners to use the app on smartwatches, and this support has already been added although it’s currently in beta. This means that owners of these devices will be able to reply to texts on their wearables, as well as looking at notifications and messages. It also features Stacked Notifications.

This latest WhatsApp update that brings Android Wear support is not yet available on the Play Store. It is available to install from the official WhatsApp website here though, where users can download the .apk.

We always appreciate hearing your thoughts so do let us know using the comments box below.

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has scheduled a "big" media event related to the iPhone for September 9, technology news website Re/code said, without citing sources. (on.recode.net/1qRPvKH)

Apple usually launches the newest version of its iPhone in September.

The company did not immediately return emails seeking comment.

Analysts and media reports have said Apple may launch two iPhone models with 4.7 and 5.5 inch screens this year to compete with Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's (005930.KS) popular Galaxy Note 3 phablets, which have a 5.7 inch display.

Apple's current iPhone models, the 5S and 5C, have a 4 inch display panel.

The company has asked suppliers to manufacture 70-80 million units of the new large-screen iPhones by the end of the year, as we  reported in July about the launch event of the new iphones

Apple's shares were down 0.8 percent at $94.81 in late afternoon trading on Tuesday.