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Today, Facebook-owned photograph-centric social network Instagram announced that it has hit 400M users. This comes just 9 months after announcing that it hit the 300M mark. Here’s what the team had to say about hitting the 400M user mark: Our community has evolved to be even more global, with more than 75 percent living outside of the US. To all the new Instagrammers: welcome! Among the last 100 million to join, more than half live in Europe and Asia. The countries that added the most Instagrammers include Brazil, Japan and Indonesia. Yes, it’s no mistake that the team wanted to let all of us know that it’s growing internationally, the key to grabbing its “next 400M.” Yes, Instagram sports a bigger userbase than Twitter, who last reported 316M users. Seems like Instagram has cracked the code of finding users in every nook and cranny of the internet all over the world. With Facebook’s help of course.

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Radical technologies around the world may soon overhaul the field of disability and immobility, which affects in some way more than a billion people around the world. MIT bionics designer Hugh Herr, who lost both his legs in a mountain climbing accident, recently said in a TED Talk on disability, “A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people need not accept our limitation, but can transcend disability through technological innovation.” His words are coming true. Around the world, the deaf hear via cochlear implants, paraplegics walk with exoskeletons and the once limbless have functioning limbs. For example, some amputees have mind-controlled robotic arms that can grab a glass of water with amazing precision. In 15 or 20 years, that bionic arm could very well be better than the natural arm, and people may even electively remove their biological arms in favor of robotic ones. After all, who doesn’t want to be able to do a hundred pull ups in a row or lift the front end of a car up to quickly change a flat tire? The same radical improvements will happen with eyesight. Already, blind people can see some things better than the natural eye with robotic technology made possible by the Argus II. In 15 years time, expect bionic eyes to be electively installed in our eye sockets, as they will be superior to human eyes. And wheelchairs? They are likely going the way of the dinosaurs. Expect some wheelchair companies to go bankrupt if they don’t diversify over the next decade as exoskeleton technology becomes commonplace. Soon, I think many people will have exoskeleton suits — disabled or not. In fact, some people will probably have different models. Some suits will be for sports, some for wearing exclusively on the battlefields (such as the Ironman suit) and some will be just for having crazy sex in positions most people never thought possible. All this is great news for the hundreds of millions of disabled people around the world, many who are suffering and are mentally depressed as a result of their handicaps. Transhumanist technology is revolutionizing the way we deal with physical disability. And I couldn’t be happier about that fact. I hope every handicapped person in a wheelchair gets out of it and into an exoskeleton suit. And I hope in two decade’s time, improved stem cell technology will get their spines and other nonfunctioning body parts back to ideal health and strength. [CENSORED]urist and writer B. J. Murphy recently emailed me, “In the [CENSORED]ure where mostly everyone is able bodied, how might we define ‘disability?’ Surely, as the disabled become augmented and/or enhanced, our current definition of what makes someone disabled — not able bodied — will be done away with altogether. Though, how do we then consider those who are, albeit able-bodied, not augmented or enhanced? Do we change the definition of ‘disability‘ as something which someone simply is when not modified with advanced technologies?” The questions are certainly interesting and important. Could we one day be a species that sees itself as born “not fully able-bodied,” or even technically disabled before modern technology has had a chance to radically transform us? Exoskeleton suits and bionic boots will probably allow us to run as fast as cheetahs in the near [CENSORED]ure, and bionic eyes will allow us to see far more of the existing light spectrum than human eyes can, so such ideas are possible. Continuing with this line of thinking, people who don’t use smartphones, own and drive a car or participate in social media are sometimes seen at a definite disadvantage in the 21st century — one that some might call a social handicap and that some employers would find unhireable. On the flip side, though, some people will probably be turned off by too much augmentation and technology in their lives, even when it helps their disabilities. And those people may refuse treatment or help. That is, of course, their right to do so, and it will be important to respect their feelings and prerogatives. But many others will welcome radical technology to change their lives and physical states. “It’s not well appreciated,” said, Herr in his TED Talk, “but over half of the world’s po[CENSORED]tion suffers from some form of cognitive, emotional, sensory or motor condition, and because of poor technology, too often, conditions result in disability and a poorer quality of life. Basic levels of physiologically function should be a part of our human rights. Every person should have the right to live without disability if they so choose.” Regardless of how people accept such enhancing technology, I’m betting in the [CENSORED]ure, the definition of disability will change dramatically. It will be based on what kind of improvements people accept and what kinds they do not accept. The “disability” definition will probably change as much as the definition of death has been changing over the last decade. With suspended animation now being practiced in an American hospital in Pittsburgh, doctors can keep people completely dead for a few hours, then revive them back to life. In five years, that “few” hours are likely to become 24 hours. And in 10 years, that brain-dead suspended animation state could become weeks or even months (which [CENSORED]urists hope will be useful for space travel). Like the changing specter of death, the challenge of physical disability upon the human race will also change. If the species allows these changes, we may overcome physical disability completely. The medical field will probably have to come up with new terms to define this post-disability age that transhumanists aim to usher in. Those new terms will be welcomed words for many of the hundreds of millions of disabled people around the world eagerly waiting to regain their full physical possibilities.

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It was never a secret that Google was working hard to enter the competitive auto market with its self-driving car project. But things are starting to get a bit more real, with the hiring of ex-Ford and ex-Hyundai GM John Krafcik to lead the initiative. Krafcik, whose resume lists 14 years at Ford followed by 10 years at Hyundai – including five years in the top job in the US – has turned to Twitter to confirm the news and express his excitement at the opportunity. "Yes, true: I'm joining the Google Self-Driving Car project in late September," Krafcik tweeted. "This is a great opportunity to help Google develop the enormous potential of self-driving cars. I can't wait to get started," he added. "Self-driving cars could save 1000s of lives, give people greater mobility & free us from things we find frustrating about driving today," Krafcik announced in a third tweet. The news comes just two months after Apple also went on an automotive hiring spree (well, maybe not quite a spree), nabbing ex-Fiat-Chrysler exec Doug Betts in an undisclosed role.

Along with SK Hynix, Toshiba is one of the NAND flash manufacturers that we rarely hear about in the client space. Toshiba has a long list of client SSDs built with in-house controllers and with the company's own NAND flash. Complicated product names and odd release times have kept many of these products out of review charts, but in the previous generation, the company moved to a more reasonable naming scheme. Two new models dubbed Q300 and Q300 Pro should receive more attention than previous products like the "THNSNFxxxGMCS." The new products use Toshiba's Quadruple Swing-by Code error correction that the company claims is more powerful and efficient than BCH and LDPC used in other controllers shipping today. http://i.imgur.com/oSPuFJ8.png The new Q300 Series features 3-bit-per-cell NAND flash and pairs it with Toshiba's TC358790 controller. The sequential performance is said to be 550 MB/s read and 530 MB/s write. Random performance is aided by pSLC that uses a dynamic amount of NAND in SLC mode to achieve 87,000 random read IOPS and 83,000 random write IOPS. The Q300 ships in four capacity sizes, 960 GB (MSRP $449.99), 480 GB ($309.99), 240 GB ($159.99) and 120 GB ($99.99). This series is also backed by a three-year warranty. The Toshiba Q300 Pro with 2-bit-per-cell NAND flash was designed for gamers, enthusiasts and power users. The Pro model uses a Toshiba TC58NC1000 controller that allows the combination to achieve up to 550 MB/s sequential read and 520 MB/s sequential write performance. The random read performance inches up to 92,000 random read IOPS but has lower random write performance than the base Q300. The random write performance dips down to 63,000 IOPS. The Q300 Pro only comes in three capacity sizes: 512 GB (MSRP $389.99), 256 GB ($199.99), and 128 GB ($124.99). The warranty does increase to five years on the X300 Pro. The new Q300 series products went on sale for preorder last week on Toshiba's website. Q300 models begin shipping September 4, and the Q300 Pro models begin shipping later in the month, on September 21.

APIs are an essential piece of software technology, and they play a major part in making the various hardware components and software programs we use work together. Periodically, new APIs are created as a means of increasing efficiency and enabling more advanced features, but the side effect of designing new programs to use those APIs can limit software compatibility with systems that don't have them. This has resulted in some problems in the past, but Microsoft is developing a new technology in order to resolve these issues. Microsoft's plan to deal with these problems is to group similar APIs into "contracts." Each contract is essentially a list of similar APIs that can perform the same task. Later, if a program tries to run and cannot find the appropriate API that it requires, but a similar API in the same class is present, it will be able to use that API instead. Previously, many applications have been capable of running with multiple alternative APIs, but the programmer was required to anticipate that scenario and write in code that points the program to secondary APIs that it could use instead. This could be quite time consuming, and often wouldn't cover all potential backup APIs. Program developers will need to tweak their code a bit in order to take advantage of this new technology, but now with a single line of code, they will be able to point to all potential backup APIs, making their work easier, too. Eventually, this new method of dealing with APIs will extend program support across a wider range of platforms and devices, but it will have limited effect in the near [CENSORED]ure. Microsoft is implementing this approach to APIs starting with Windows 10. Because all Windows 10 systems will have essentially the same API support, these advantages won't be realized until later. As Windows 10 is the first to group APIs into these "contracts," it will not help programs designed for Windows 10 to run on Windows 7, 8 or 8.1. Once the successor to Windows 10 is released, however, this technology will become increasingly useful to those who continue to use Windows 10, as it will allow applications designed to use newer APIs that Windows 10 lacks to run on the (at that time) older OS. It will achieve this by using the API contracts and selecting a similar alternative API that is capable of performing essentially the same task. This might result in a performance or stability drop compared to the newer system, but at least the application will be able to run. When Microsoft releases Windows 10 on mobile devices, there should be some level of benefit to this technology right away, as mobile operating systems are typically somewhat cut back in order to save space. For now, this should help reduce the amount of work when writing a program without needing to point to multiple APIs, as the programmer can simply point to the API contract. In the long run, it could extend software support to multiple platforms and versions of Windows.

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After announcing that Office 2016 will become available for consumers starting September 22 and for business users starting October 1, Microsoft reveals that it is adopting the same update strategy that it is taking for Windows 10. When the Microsoft switched to offering Windows as a service, rather than as a software product, it revealed that updates will automatically download and install in the background, and consumer users cannot opt out of these updates, bringing security patches, fixes or new features to the OS. With Office 2016, enterprise customers will be placed in similar Current Branch or Current Branch for Business, following a similar upgrade cadence as Windows 10. Unlike Windows, however, there will not be a third Long Term Service Branch, or LTSB. Keeping current : Users on Current Branch will receive new updates and features faster. They trade off a little bit of stability as the new features may not have undergone large scale testing, but they also have access to new features sooner. Current Branch customers will receive updates on a monthly cycle. On the other hand, Current Branch for Business, or CBB customers, will get updates every four months. Microsoft will still deliver security fixes as needed in the months where there isn't a CBB update. Penalties for not keeping current : Like Windows, customers must stay current to receive [CENSORED]ure product updates, security fixes and new features. In a similar strategy to Windows 10, Microsoft is forcing CB and CBB customers to install updates as they're ready, but CBB can delay updates if needed. Unfortunately, this means that like Windows 10, CB customers cannot skip an update. CBB users can defer one cycle of updates, which gives them four months to decide. If CBB customers defer updates, they must deploy the subsequent round of updates or else they would not receive further updates from Microsoft. Your placement in CB or CBB will vary depending on the Office 365 package your organization subscribes to. Office 365 Business and Office 365 Business Professional users fall under the CB track, while Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 Enterprise E3 or Office 365 Enterprise E4 users can switch to CBB for greater flexibility on when to deploy updates. The CBB plans are pricier, costing about $12 to $22 (£7-14, AU$16-31) per seat monthly, while the CB plans cost $8.25 to $12.50 (£5-8, AU$11-17) per seat monthly. Owning Office : The CB and CBB policies only apply to customers who sign up for the Office 365 subscriptions. Individuals and organizations who prefer to purchase a perpetual license won't be able to join the CB or CBB track, Microsoft said. Once Office 2016 is released, users of Office 2013 will continue to receive updates and security fixes for 12 months, and Microsoft is urging those users to migrate to Office 2016. Office 2016 will be available on September 22 for CB users, and the first CBB update will occur in February 2016. Business customers can start downloading Office 2016 in October through Software Assurance.