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Apple was recently granted a patent, titled “Watch having a camera” by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In the patent, the company describes a way to integrate a camera into the Apple Watch either by using a detachable housing or fitting the camera lens into the existing Digital Crown of the Apple Watch. “The watch can include a housing having a front side, a back side, and an attachment interface configured to couple to a watch band. A camera can be mounted to the housing and configured to capture a picture of a scene through the back side…
Laravel Socialite package allows you to implement a robust, eloquent interface to OAuth authentication with various social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket. It saves your time through its user-centric boilerplate social authentication mechanism. Login with social accounts is a straightforward process and simultaneously enhances the user experience; nowadays, everybody knows a better user experience is the key to any digital product’s success. Social login is a mechanism that propels the user’s expectation forward to access and register within the application. Consequently, we are creating a simple feature to log in with Facebook in…
A repository can be defined as a layer of abstraction between the domain and data mapping layers, one that provides an avenue of mediation between both, via a collection-like interface for accessing domain objects. A key benefit of the Repository pattern is that it allows us to use the Principle of Dependency Inversion (or code to abstractions, not concretions). This makes our code more robust to changes, such as if a decision was made later on to switch to a data source that isn’t supported by Eloquent. It also helps with keeping the code organized and avoiding duplication, as database-related…
Vodafone Idea aka Vi has launched new prepaid recharge plans in India. The new Rs 195 and Rs 319 prepaid plans come with a validity of 31 days and there’s also an affordable new Rs 98 recharge plan too. The new plans with 31 days of validity join the existing Rs 327 and the Rs 337 plans that offer a validity of 30 days and 31 days, respectively. Here’s a look at what benefits are offered by the three new Vi plans. New Vi Recharge Plans Detailed The Rs 195 prepaid plan comes with unlimited calls, 2GB of data, and…
Twitter has accepted a buyout offer from Tesla and SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk, leading to a day of frenzied speculation over one question: how is Musk going to change Twitter? Elon Musk’s Twitter plans are a huge can of worms Free speech Online speech is a minefield, and if Musk really intends on a minimally moderated Twitter worldwide, he could expect huge fights in countries that restrict things like hate speech and false information. But Musk’s view of free speech doesn’t seem too concerned with that. In a TED interview, he indicated that Twitter should “match the laws of the…
Twitter has accepted a buyout offer from Tesla and SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk, leading to a day of frenzied speculation over one question: how is Musk going to change Twitter? Musk’s stated plans are a series of features and principles that he may or may not be serious about pursuing, but they demonstrate a potentially conflicting series of goals and changes whose mechanics have been outlined very little — if at all. The deal to buy Twitter is an all-cash one for Musk and once the transaction will be fully complete, it will become a private company. It is said…
Extensions to your IDE are invaluable to speed up your work without reducing the quality of your output. Considering Visual Studio Code is the most popular IDE, here are some VSCode extensions that will make you a more productive developer. These extensions mostly apply for web developers, but there are some general-purpose extensions that will benefit everyone else too. Bracket Pair Colorizer The VS extension Bracket Pair Colorizer matches corresponding brackets in your code with the same colour. This is a great help when you’re working with things like nested components, objects, or functions that all have brackets or…
Twitter should open-source its algorithm, Tesla chief Elon Musk has said after hitting the headlines with a $43 billion all-cash offer to buy the microblogging site. The billionaire tech entrepreneur, the largest shareholder of Twitter with an over 9 per cent stake, said during a TED Talks event that the platform has become kind of the de facto town square. “It’s very important for there to be an inclusive arena for free speech,” Musk said, adding, “It’s just really important that people have both the reality and the perception that they are able to speak freely within the bounds of…