Microsoft Edge C compared with other Browsers

Most PC users running Windows 10 continues to use the browser Google Chrome. The popularity and accessibility, in addition to personal computers , on two of the most used mobile platforms, making Chrome a versatile tool.

Soon, however, Microsoft intends to change the situation, having won some users using their browser for Edge devices on Windows 10. To attract new users Microsoft plans qualitative superiority of the key characteristics of the browser over the competition. For example, the energy expenditure during its operation. Edge development team conducted a corresponding test using the 4 most popular browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Opera) and Edge was the winner.

Graph comparing the power consumption

Of course, the victory of the browser in the test conducted by its developers, is perceived by many with skepticism, but the Edge really is necessary to win in this kind of testing advantages over Google brainchild. Edge easier and faster to run, and its main advantage on Windows 10 is the integration for use with Cortana. Among the Microsoft browser flaws most vividly highlighted the inability to keep the web-page and the lack of support for extensions. Although support for extensions in the near future promise to add browser flaws still make most users avoid Edge.

However, in the dignity Edge can write more and the fact that the browser is really consumes less battery power, and supports WebRTC streaming. In this case, use Edge is recognized by many simpler and more intuitive. However, the speed of the charge and spending are unlikely to be a decisive factor in the struggle with competitors, so Microsoft's in the near future is expected to further improvements.

Earlier, in Microsoft Windows 10 showed a future version.

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ASUS has Refused Intel chips in smartphones ZenFone 3

Rumors about the upcoming announcement of smartphones series ASUS ZenFone 3, supposedly scheduled for 30 May, the day before the opening of Computex 2016 have not been confirmed. ASUS CEO Jerry Shen (Jerry Shen) announced that the presentation of new products will take place in June.

In an interview with the Taiwanese publication DigiTimes Shen said that ZenFone family of next-generation smartphones will continue to focus on the segment of the average price level.

As you know, most of the models ZenFone 2 series uses the Intel chipsets. However, Intel has announced the suspension of work on mobile chips. Therefore, a new series of smartphones ZenFone 3 will be based on a system-on-chip Qualcomm and MediaTek companies. According to Jerry Shen, approximately 90% of the models ZenFone 3 is set Qualcomm chip, while the remaining 10% of the new devices will be based on chips MediaTek.

The head of ASUS said that the company began to use solutions for Qualcomm chips manufacturer of smartphones in September 2015. Consequently, changes in the Intel policy will not affect the production of the ASUS smartphones, use chips and Qualcomm and MediaTek will not affect the company's profits.

According to the plans of the ASUS , about two-thirds of the supply of a new generation of smart phones will account for PHABLET ZenFone 3 Max and only one-third - on the model ZenFone ZenFone 3 Deluxe and 3.

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Genesis in USA has showed a Concept Sedan

The premium brand of the Hyundai - the Genesis - introduced a new concept in New York under the name of sedan Concept. Public car premiered at the Auto Show in New York. 

New feature a sporty design, long hood and a massive grille. Door handles are hidden in the model-pillar. The prototype of the cabin installed a wide screen with a diagonal of 21 inches, which replaces the dashboard display and entertainment system.

The car is equipped with a hybrid power plant, which consists of a 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine, an electric motor and eight-speed automatic gearbox. Engine power will be 242 hp, while the remaining specifications are kept secret. 

Koreans hinted that the car will become a serial in the near future. New products will be sold under the name G70 and will compete with the BMW 3-Series. Later model will be charged modification, which leads corporate development division N Performance. It is not excluded that the scale of engines will join the 3.3-liter V6 petrol engine with recoil 370 hp and 509 Nm of torque. 

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Samsung Galaxy J7 & Galaxy J5 (2016) with laser autofocus seen in China

The database TENAA Chinese telecommunications equipment certification center information appeared information about the successful completion of tests the new smartphone Samsung Galaxy J7 (2016) and Galaxy J5 (2016) in a metal case. New models have already managed to "light up" in the benchmark GFXBench and get certified in the organization of Bluetooth SIG. Both smartphones are mid-range category.

The Samsung the Galaxy the J5 (2016) is equipped with a 5.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen display with 720p resolution, 13-megapixel main camera with LED flash and a laser autofocus 5-megapixel front camera for selfie. The device uses a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor on board has 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of flash memory, 4G modem. The smartphone is running Android 5.1.1 Lollipop. Dimensions of the device housing amount to 145,7 × 72,3 × 7,9 mm, weight - 155.4 g The smartphone will be available in white casing, gold and rose gold color.

In turn, Samsung Galaxy J7 (2016) will be available in two versions, one of which uses an eight 1.6-GHz processor, and the second is also an eight-processor with four cores clocked at 1.5 GHz and four 1.2-GHz.

Other characteristics of the two variants of the same, including 3 GB of RAM, flash drive 16 GB, a slot for microSD memory cards, the main 13-megapixel camera with LED flash and auto-focus laser, a front with a resolution of 5 megapixels. The smartphone supports 4G LTE network is equipped with a battery capacity of 3300 mAh. The thickness of its body is only 7.6 mm.

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Toyota has unveiled a Concept Car made of Wood

Toyota has unveiled a concept car Setsuna, the main components of the chassis and the body is made of wood. Public premiere of the prototype will take place in April at the Design Week in Milan.

Name of new items is translated from Japanese as a moment. Setsuna symbolizes "the car gradually absorbs aspirations emotions and memories of several generations of the family that owns it."

Overall length of the Toyota Setsuna was 3030 millimeters, width - 1480 mm, height - 970 mm. The size of the wheelbase is 1700 millimeters. Roadster is driven by an electric motor, the details of which will be omitted.

The machine is made in the style of Italian motor boats Riva Aquarama. The frame of the car is made of wood, from the Japanese cedar and steering wheel - from cypress. When assembling machines using traditional Japanese techniques okuriari: parts are interconnected without the use of nails, screws and screws.

On the dashboard set a special meter, counting down the century-old intervals. It symbolizes the temporal distance separating the generations, as well as the longevity and beauty of trees.

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Basic Version of Xiaomi Mi 5 has Showed Excellent Results in Benchmark

The recent presentation of the Chinese company Xiaomi was really memorable. Firstly, the matter is that the long-awaited flagship named Mi 5, which managed to meet the expectations of fans of high technology. Secondly, a management decision to release three versions of said device. Among them, we recall relates Standart Edition, High Edition and Special Edition.

The difference is in the amount of built-in memory and the types of processor speed, as well as the materials of the housing. Now we see the results of benchmark tests passing most cheap version of the smartphone. Standart Edition can boast the presence of 32 GB of internal memory and 3 GB - RAM. Inside the news is the latest generation of Snapdragon chipsets 820 - the same as in the High and Special versions but with a slightly different frequency. Here we are talking about 1.8 GHz, while the more advanced versions of this index is equal to 2.15 GHz.

As representatives phonearena resource capabilities junior representative Xiaomi Mi 5 lines have been tested in the most popular benchmark tests. The result turned out to be quite enjoyable. With regard to the application GeekBench, in the single-core test mode smartphone has received 1901 points, while the multi-core - 4707. In AnTuTu smartphone pulled 110 thousand points.

By the way, the result Galaxy S7 and LG G5 varies between 142 thousand points. Agree, given the relatively low cost of the smartphone, not surprised such a result is absolutely impossible. Debut of new items was successful.

According to information received, the number of pre-orders in China exceeded 17 million. It is likely that provide a huge demand for the company Xiaomi Mi 5 will not be so easy.

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Language Apple Swift Program Ported to Android

In Modocache repository on GitHub first version of Apple Swift programming language has become available, which allows you to compile applications for the Android operating system. So far this is only the first version of the tool with a high level of instability, but the beginning has already been made.

Swift project has been submitted to Apple developers team at WWDC 2014. It was then that there was a qualitative leap forward, the company showed its project, on which worked for five years - a whole new programming language. Apple has tried to create a language that would be spared the cumbersome heritage Objective-C. Swift was founded in NeXt platform, which became the basis for OS X, along later and iOS. Developers can see in real time the results of its programming. Ability to create the Swift-application for the Android operating system, which is the most popular mobile OS in the world, opens up great opportunities for the development of cross-platform software in the first place - for the porting of iOS-applications on the Google platform. So far, Swift version with the possibility of porting the software for Android is not even an alpha version. 

In December last year, Apple Swift, we recall, was the open source programming language. Openness means that programmers can by examining the source code of a programming language, expand it through the issuance of additional tools for developers. In addition, we are likely to see Swift-applications for the operating systems of other manufacturers.

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