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Meghan Markle to Tristan Thompson; List of Top 5 Google Searches 2018

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Yet again at the end of the year, Google has released its summary of what people searched the most in 2018, or we can say the list of the Most Searched 2018. Google started with a video on its most-searched list, which included the phrase, “In 2018 people searched for Good.” The video includes the searches like, “Good things in the world,” “Good news,” “How to be a good citizen/singer/dancer/listener,” etc.

But the year was not only about searching good things but also included sports, entertainment, history, self-care, etc. The top five searches of 2018 had the FIFA world cup on the top, followed by Avicii, Mac Miller, Stan Lee, and Black Panther, on the rest of the four positions respectively. Sadly the people on the second to the fourth position was searched due to their sudden death. People searched about who Avicii, Mac Miller, and Stan Lee, were, and what was the cause of their deaths.

Among news as well, the world cup topped the list, and at the second position, the Hurricane Florence of September 2018, 2006 and 1994 were the most searched. On the third place in the most searched news were the Mega Million lotteries and its results, which got the most searched in the month of October this year. The Royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle took the fourth place in the list followed by the election results on the fifth position.

The most searched people on Google in 2018 included Meghan Markle on the top for the obvious reasons, American singer Demi Lovato at the second position, Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone on third, the American actor and Internet personality Logan Paul on fourth position, followed by one of the Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, on the fifth position.

Sylvester Stallone and Logan Paul again grabbed a position in the list of the most searched actors of 2018, and this time at the top and the second positions. Pete Davidson held the third position, Bill Cosby from the famous sitcom The Cosby Show and new Netflix sensation Noah Centineo held the fourth and the fifth positions, respectively. Surprisingly no female actor reached the top five most searched actors in 2018.

People also asked many beauty questions, and questions like “How to play Mega Millions,” “How to buy Bitcoin,” also about the “Keto pancakes,” “How to vote,” etc. The Google’s list of five most searched of 2018 in all the categories is as follow:

Searches:
World Cup
Avicii
Mac Miller
Stan Lee
Black Panther

News:
World Cup
Hurricane Florence
Mega Millions Result
Royal Wedding
Election Results

People:
Meghan Markle
Demi Lovato
Sylvester Stallone
Logan Paul
Khloé Kardashian

Athletes:
Tristan Thompson
Alexis Sánchez
Lindsey Vonn
Shaun White
Khabib Nurmagomedov

Musicians and Bands:
Demi Lovato
Cardi B
Daniel Küblböck
Travis Scott
Rick Ross

Actors:
Sylvester Stallone
Logan Paul
Pete Davidson
Bill Cosby
Noah Centineo

Loss:
Avicii
Mac Miller
Stan Lee
Anthony Bourdain
XXXTentacion

Movies:
Black Panther
Deadpool
Venom
Avengers: Infinity War
Bohemian Rhapsody

TV Shows:
Story of Yanxi Palace
Altered Carbon
Buppesannivas
Motu Patlu
Roseanne

Amazon Marks Record-breaking Holiday Season Sale; Ships Over 1 Billion Items in the U.S.

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Christmas just went by and the year is about to end. After the huge festive sales and the big black Friday sale, people were excited about the Christmas shopping. According to Amazon, on Christmas too, people enjoyed lots of discounts, and with the Amazon’s Prime membership, they shipped their gifts for free. This time again, Amazon has recorded huge sales on almost everything.

Reportedly, in the last week, Amazon has shipped more than a billion items only in the US for free, that has even broken its own old records of sales. Both the Prime as well as the Trial members ordered more items than ever in this holiday season.

Though Amazon’s last earnings had disappointed its investors, the holiday season sale may help it regain the profits. The company has not disclosed the revenue it made in the sales, but still, has confirmed that it had the biggest sale ever. The company had a record-breaking business, and it registered tens of millions of people for its Trial as well as Prime memberships.

The company not only marked the sales of clothes, household items but had the most expensive branded things as its best sellers of the sellout, including the Echo, Echo Dot and Fire TV Stick 4K. It also sold the smart home devices such as Amazon Smart Plug, Ring Video Doorbell 2 and the iRobot Roomba 690.

Amazon’s CEO of its worldwide consumer business, Jeff Wilke, said that “We are thrilled that in the U.S. alone, more than one billion items shipped for free this holiday with Prime. This season was our best yet, and we look forward to continuing to bring our customers what they want, in ways most convenient for them in 2019″.

This time, Alexa became the favourite of many, and most of the people shopped using the Alexa app in the U.S. The shopping through the app got tripled this time as compared to the past year. The sale not only earned profits for the tech giant, but also the smaller businesses trading on Amazon, marked up to 50 per cent of profits.

Germany Receives the Stable Android Pie Update for Samsung Galaxy 9 & 9 Plus

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Christmas has just ended well and with that Samsung has announced that the company is rolling out the Android Pie updates for the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ users from some countries of Europe. SamMobile reported that the company has started to release the updates in Germany, and later, Samsung announced that the users from countries like Netherlands and Slovakia are also going to get the new Android Pie updates.

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The release has occurred way ahead of its decided date, that was in the late January in 2019, alongside the release of the same update for the Galaxy Note 9. The Android update is a stable update and not the beta one. Right now it is only available in a few countries in Europe.

Earlier this month, Samsung had released the beta version of Android Pie for its Galaxy S9 and S9+ users in UK, France, Poland, and Germany. The users who are having Samsung Experience UX based on Android Oreo, as well as those with the One UI beta on top of Android Pie, are receiving the update, along with the Samsung’s One UI version 1.0. One UI is basically created for the users so that they can easily use the apps on their big screen phones.

The update will change the software version for Galaxy S9+ to G965FXXU2CRLI, and the software for Galaxy S9 will be G960FXXU2CRLI. The size of the update software is around 1.7GB, which is available for download on the Samsung’s download servers. The users can check the availability of updates on the S9/Plus phones from the Software Update option in the settings of their phone.

The early release of the update indicates that Samsung is getting ready for some tough competition in the upcoming year. Although the update had to roll out for every S9 and S9+ users, all around the world, only a few will enjoy it before it gets officially released in January 2019. Till then, we can evaluate the difference between the earlier and the latest Android version on the basis of the feedback from the European Galaxy S9 and S9+ users.

SpaceX Successfully Launched the 1st Security Space Mission For the US Military

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SpaceX, breaking its own previous records, launched the first national security space mission rocket on Sunday. The company had won the US Air Force’s National Security Space (NSS) contract, in 2016, and was planning to launch the rocket earlier last week. But, due to some bad weather conditions, the launch got delayed and finally, SpaceX’s 21st flight took off on Sunday.

The two-stage rocket, Falcon 9, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, along with the first GPS III satellite from the US Air Force. Lockheed Martin has built this $500 million GPS III satellite. The GPS has been given the nickname Vespucci. The GPS is owned by the U.S. military and operated by the Air Force.

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The secretary of the Air Force, Heather Wilson, said, “This next-generation GPS satellite is three times more accurate than previous versions and eight times better at anti-jamming. It’s the first in a series and nicknamed Vespucci after the 15th-century Italian explorer who calculated Earth’s circumference to within 50 miles (80 kilometres).”

The successful launch of the satellite can be considered as one of the victorious moment for Elon Musk as he had been trying hard to enter the market for military space launches dominated by Lockheed and Boeing Co, from years now.

In 2014, SpaceX had sued the US Air Force as it awarded the non-compete contract for 36 rocket launches, worth a multibillion-dollar, to United Launch Alliance. As a result, the Air Force agreed to open up competition for the next contract and in the next year, SpaceX won the $83 million contract for the GPS III after it demonstrated the reliability of Falcon 9 system and fulfilled all the certification requirements from the Air Force. The company dropped the lawsuit in 2015.

The GPS III contract will have a lifespan of 15 years. According to Lockheed spokesman Chip Eschenfelder, the satellite is the first to launch out of 32 in production by Lockheed under contracts.

The Col. Robert Bongiovi, director of the Launch Enterprise Systems Directorate at SMC, said, “This launch is a milestone for many reasons. For us, it marks the first competitively-awarded launch in over 10 years, the first national security space launch with SpaceX, and the first launch of a GPS III satellite. This really is an exciting time to be in the launch business.”

The other satellites in the series are still in the testing phase, and the next GPS III satellite may have its launch in the mid-2019.

The Six Best Gadgets of 2018 that became the Favourites of All

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2018 showcased a number of gadgets and devices, some of which failed badly and some of which were incredibly good at performance. Many gadgets gave the device goals, even to their rival companies along with tough competition. The year is coming to an end, and still, many companies are coming with their new ideas and launches. But as there are only a few days left for the new year, we are already set with our list of the 6 best gadgets of 2018.

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Microsoft Surface Go: The Microsoft Surface Go is a ten inches netbook from Microsoft, which is not as powerful as much as a Windows desktop or laptop computer, but still is one of the best netbooks. The device ships with Windows 10, which is a plus point over the other tablets, as Windows is more versatile than iOS or Android. The device provides you with the facial recognition technique, Windows Hello and is faster than any other low price laptops. The device comes with a sleek keyboard, that also has a touchpad, that enables to move the cursor on the screen.

Fat Shark 101: Fat Shark 101 is a ready-to-fly FPV racer kit for the FPV pilots, that comes with a quadcopter, FPV Goggles and radio transmitter. As the name suggests, the Fat Shark 101’s design is similar to a shark, it even as a fin and a shark tail. The kit is based on three levels, beginners, intermediate and expert. It comes with brushed motors along with two extra brushed motors. The Fat Shark 101 is embedded with two batteries which can be easily charged via USB cables. The cost of the FPV kit is a bit on the expensive side, but still, its performance makes it worth that much.

Oculus Go: Oculus Go, a virtual reality headset from Oculus is a wireless standalone VR Box, that runs independently of a smartphone or PC. Powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 processor, the VR box has got integrated speakers and microphones, along with a high-resolution fast-switch panel. Performance wise, it is as good as the Oculus Rift. It is a premium device, at an affordable price that still has not been launched in India, but can be ordered online through Amazon.

Bose Sleepbuds: As the name suggests, the Bose Sleepbuds are specially designed to eliminate the disruption and the noise with soothing sounds to help the user get to sleep. The beautifully designed earplugs are super comfortable and are able to mask the outer noise effectively. Though the device is at the higher end of the price, still the earplugs do its job of masking most sounds without damaging the hearing, perfectly.

Nikon Z7: The Nikon Z7 is one of the best-rounded cameras. The lightweight camera is as good as a Nikon DSLR shooter and provides the best quality for the videos as well as stills. It is the first full frame mirror-less camera from Nikon, having three lenses: a 24-70mm f4 ‘kit’ zoom, along with 35mm f1.8 and 50mm f1.8 primes. Although companies like Sony and Canon have already come with their mirror-less cameras much before than Nikon, the Nikon’s patience in launching its first has paid off as it has brought one of the best mirror-less cameras of 2018.

Apple Watch Series 4: Apple’s smartwatches have always been ahead of its contemporaries. The new Series 4 watch not only has a fantastic display, but it also supports many excellent features as well. The watch lets the users handle its calls and messages, and supports LTE. It also supports ECG. The smartwatch is extremely comfortable, and it also comes with the new Activity Competitions, that lets you stay motivated and challenge your friends.

Pinterest is Looking for Underwriters to Take the Company Public in 2019

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Uber and Lyft have already announced their initial public offering in 2019. After the IPO, the valuation of Uber could hit $120 billion, and Lyft may value over $30 billion. Following the footsteps of the two, now Pinterest is also about to enter the list of the companies which are planning their IPOs in the coming year.

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Pinterest is a visual search engine and shopping tool, which earns money through ads inserted into its stream of ‘pins’. The evaluated revenue of the company for the year 2018 was evaluated to be $1 billion. In the month of September, the platform tracked 250 million monthly users. With 1.5 million businesses on the platform, the company may value at more than $12 billion after it goes public.

Currently, Pinterest is in talks with various banks and is looking for underwriters for its IPO. Also, according to the reports, Pinterest may hire the former Google and Alibaba exec Jane Penner as its head of investor relations.

Ben Silbermann, the CEO of Pinterest had already talked about the company going public in 2019 but had not confirmed the dates. Now if the reports are to be believed, the company will go public as soon as in April 2019.

Pinterest was founded in 2010 and is growing at its own pace following its own niche, way different to its contemporaries, Facebook and Instagram. The company currently is valued at between $13 billion to $15 billion, having 800+ employees. The year 2019 is going to be the year for the IPOs, as companies like Uber and Lyft have already registered for their IPOs in the early December, followed by Slack and Pinterest in the same queue.