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Image Source Why do Apple products have this reputation to begin so expensive?  We could understand that the original iPhone and Macintosh were way ahead of its time and they were pricy but they were the original line of new device category and they were original; they defined the category. the original iPhone and Macintosh were way ahead of its time and they were pricy but they were the original But now in the present day, there are plenty of other manufacturers release "do it all" type smartphones and really good looking computers. So how Apple still in 2020, justifying charging a premium? So how Apple still in 2020, justifying charging a premium? A short and sweet answer is "the brand!". We are at least partially paying for the brand. Similarly to other companies that tend to charge more for their product that isn’t necessarily better than their competitors in terms of performance or features. Apple has successfully positioned them as a "Lifestyle brand...

Image Source So how did the Internet come to Sri Lanka? We all thought it was from satellites right? No not like that!! Submarine Cables Not from satellites. We are receiving the internet through the sea. Okay, then you might wonder how the Internet Comes off the Sea? An island connected to the rest of the world by several cables laid along the seafloor. These are called submarine cables. Let's talk about it! SEA-ME-WE cable system SEA-ME-WE (SIMV) is the main cable system coming to Sri Lanka. SEA-ME-WE stands for South East Asia - Middle East-West Europe.   SLT in Sri Lanka invested in these cables This cable system runs from France to Singapore 😲. Almost every country has an agency (SLT in Sri Lanka) that invests in these cables. The size of the investment will determine the capacity of the cable system. At present, there are 1 to 5 SEA-ME-WE cable systems in the sea. Copper Cables Long ago these submarine cables were made of copper. The diameter is a little less than a foot...

Harley Quinn real life vs Cartoon Who is Harley Quinn? Harley Quinn is a special character in DC Comics . Psychiatrist Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel goes to treat Joker, who is imprisoned in the Asylum, and then falls in love with Joker's crazy stories and becomes a psycho villain, a beautiful character who becomes Joker's girlfriend. From the films 'Suicide Squad' and 'Birds of Prey', Margot Robbie did maximum justice to this character. A video of a beautiful Chinese-looking girl in jail has gone viral on all social media platforms, including Tik Tok these days. In that viral video, there is the real-life Harley Quinn. That's Isabella Guzman. Isabella Guzman lives in Colorado, USA. A girl born in 1995. To be a Harley Quinn you have to be a serious psycho who kills people without a heart. So is Isabella. Seriously, Isabella kills her own mother. On the night of August 28, 2013, Isabella went into the bathroom of her home and stabbed her mother 79 times i...

Your Social Media Everyone knows what is like to "Work from home" nowadays right? since the current situation went worldwide most of the companies moved to work from home. Which led lot of companies open to cyber attacks. Most of the cyber attacks were targeted to the employees of the companies. It's not just their company profiles/emails/user accounts but also their social network accounts as well. Those users/employees were open to attacks due to the fact that they were not using an extra layer of security for their social profiles and also their email accounts. Well sounds a little paranoid?  Let me start over. When you were logging into your social network account (Example:- Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter etc.) out of nowhere you cannot login or most of the time your password changed. And when you look up your account using a google search or from another social account, you see a little suspicious about it. Some of the posts are so different even...

  5G logo 5G stands for 5th generation, this is the fifth generation of cellular connectivity standards. Previous iterations were 1G, 2G, 3G, and 4G. As previous generations did, 5G also enable the connectivity between everyone and everything virtually. Which include machines objects and devices. 5G stands for 5th generation, this is the fifth generation of cellular connectivity standards 5G is a network created using the software. This means that 5G will replace cable-driven networks but not entirely. 5G will operate largely in the cloud and it will surely reduce the need for cable-driven networks.  How 5G works? 5G is based on millimeter waves. Which includes the frequency range from 20Ghz to 90Ghz.  Signal towers will deliver the 5G signals since higher frequencies will reduce the range of the signal delivering, there should be more signal distributors comparing to the 4G network.  Also, 5G signal speeds will be higher to the devices that have a direct line of...

Neuralink Logo Merging Man and the Machine Neuralik is another Elon Musk own American neurotechnology company. It was started back in 2016 and headquarters are in San Francisco, USA. We all use computers right?! How we use them? We use input devices right, mouse keyboard or if it is a touch-based device we use our finger.  This is the traditional way of humans interacting with computers. Not only interacting we even create software and design computers using traditional interacting ways. Some times you have a great idea in your mind but you can't execute it. You might be busy with something else, or you just forgot the idea because of a distraction, or in a more serious note you might be disabled. You might not even be able to communicate with a computer.  you might be disabled. You might not even be able to communicate with a computer  Basically, we use traditional input methods to communicate with a computer or even a machine. What if we can communicate with a devi...

Surprising right!? Apple is making its own search engine. Let's start from the bottom.  What is a search engine? A search engine is a program that allows to search and identifies items in a database that correspond to keywords or characters specified by the user, in this case,  a web search engine is a program that used to identify particular web site or web sites.  What are the popular search engines? Why we consider popular?  Goof questions, Google's google search engine is the world's most popular search engine with over 75% of the overall market share. Then there is Microsoft Bing , Yahoo , Duck duck go and etc. Also, the defining fact of "popular" in this case is the majority of users. As mentioned in the popular search engines, there are search engine giants like Google and Microsoft. Reports are suggesting that the latest member will be Apple. And you might wonder why? Why now? After all these years? Again!! Good questions. Will elaborate on those. An...