The iPhone 6s is among Apple’s fastest devices ever released. But if you’re pleased with the speed of Apple’s A9 chip, your iPhone can fake a speed increase that translates to real world results.

The glitch was found by 9to5Mac’s Jeff Benjamin. The iDownloadBlog alumni points out that, even without a jailbroken device, you can completely remove the animations from your device. Instead of tapping on an app and waiting for it to expand on screen, you’re taken right to the app—no waiting. Check Jeff’s video for details on how to reenact on your own iDevice.

Enacting the Assistive Touch accessibility feature allows you to begin removing animations from your iPhone. Once enabled, you’ll want to return to the homescreen and swipe down to access Spotlight search (what you use to search your entire device). If you swipe down and then up at the right moment, your iPhone will weirdly remove animations from your phone experience. As Jeff notes in the video, it doesn’t have to do with how fast or slow you go, just a matter of timing it right, similar to what we see in the video. Rebooting your phone resets the glitch and reenables animations. You can follow the steps once again to remove animations.

Jailbreak users have known of the perils of iOS animations for a while. Cydia tweaks like NoSlowAnimation and FakeClockUp have allowed jailbroken iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users to shorten animations, remove them altogether or even lengthen them—should said iOS user be a masochist.

With the iOS glitch now widely known, there is a good chance that we could see a patch for the glitch in Apple’s release of iOS 9.3. Along with a potential fix for the newfound “error,” users can look forward to Night Shift. The feature made popular by f.lux allows the device to adjust colors at the end of the day to offer a warmer hue—providing colors presumably better for one’s sleep patterns.

Much like jailbreak users, Apple may patch this glorious use of a bug very soon. Until then, enjoy living life in the fast lane.

Of all the people to offer congratulations in the wake of Google's artificial intelligence program AlphaGo winning its third victory in the board game Go last night, overcoming human world champion Lee Se-dol (and thereby ensuring the A.I.'s victory in the five-game series, no matter the outcome of the remaining two games), Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg might not be the first to come to mind.

Yet that's exactly what Zuckerberg did earlier today, writing on his Facebook page:

Congrats to the Google DeepMind team on this historic milestone in AI research -- a third straight victory over Go grandmaster Lee Sedol. We live in exciting times.

Zuckerberg's praise for an advancement by one of Facebook's frequent competitors is notable for its politeness, but also because Facebook is itself heavily invested in developing artificial intelligence. Zuckerberg also has an avid personal interest in the field: earlier this year, he announced (on–where else?—Facebook) that he had begun building his own personal A.I. assistant, even referencing the fictional Iron Man character Jarvis as inspiration (nevermind the fact that Jarvis goes on to become the independent, super powerful being Vision).

I'm also going to go out on a limb here and assume that Zuckerberg's borderline creepy line "We live in exciting times," is a deliberate reference toMr. Robot.

Facebook, the world’s biggest social media network, has announced that it now has over 1 billion active users. The social media site reaches one in seven people on our planet. Over 600 million of them connect through mobile phones. Launched in 2004, Facebook is responsible for 1.13 trillion “Likes” and over 17 billion uploaded photos.

On his personal Facebook page, founder Mark Zuckerberg said he is proud of what the company has achieved in such a short time and feels good about giving so many people a new form of getting together. 

Zuckerberg plans to expand Facebook to those areas of the world where the social media site is currently not yet dominant, like China or Russia, where local social media sites have a higher ranking. Only recently, Zuckerberg travelled to Russia where Facebook has only about seven million users.

In many African countries, Facebook has a simplified version which can be displayed on basic mobile phones that have no internet access. Many people, especially in rural areas, ask for such phones “with Facebook on them”.

In contrast, Facebook growth has been slowing down in Europe and North America. Here, Zuckerberg wants to expand advertising on by using the personal data of each of its members. This could cause protests as especially European users are skeptical of Facebook’s privacy guidelines.

The company’s main income sources are advertising and other non-standard features like social games. Users in the United States and Canada make up over 50% of the company’s income. The California-based company worries that, as more and more people connect via mobile phone, ads will not be clicked on as often as on desktop computers or laptops. Facebook is looking for more ways to make money. It is becoming a platform for other apps.

Zuckerberg also wants to help Facebook get a better image after the stock market disaster last May. The company suffered a financial loss when its share prices started out at $38 and then dropped to almost half.

The world’s number one  search engine , Google, has  developed  a new  operating system  called Chrome. It automatically connects the user to the internet where people write their letters, emails, post their photos and do many other things they would normally do on a  desktop OS .

The  development  of Chrome started in 2008 when Google built its own  browser , also called Chrome. Today 12% of net  community  uses it regularly.

Google thinks that the operating systems of today, Windows, Apple’s MacOS and Linux are old fashioned   and do not meet the  needs  of the people.  Computer users of today we spend most of their time on the net and not with a  desktop application .

Google’s  vision  of the next generation computer goes even  further . It wants to put its Chrome OS on laptops and  netbooks , so that the user just pushes a button and automatically gets  connected . Chrome’s main  aim  is  speed . It wants to make the computer fast. The first tests on netbooks showed that you could get  connected  to the internet within seven seconds from  startup . Chrome OS  skips  everything from starting up the PC to getting connected.

 

Google also wants to make a computer cheaper. People who buy computers today often have to buy the operating system,  anti-virus software  and office programs before they can really work with it. This kind of software often costs hundreds of dollars. With these applications   on the web you wouldn’t need to buy such expensive programs.

Chrome is not the first operating system that comes from the search engine. Android is already successful on  tablet PCs  and  smartphones .

Windows is still the most  successful  operating system. Windows 7 has become very popular   after the  failure  of its  predecessor  Vista. But this may change. By 2012 laptop and major netbook  manufacturers  are expected to  offer  machines with Chrome OSpreinstalled .

Not everyone will use Google OS .  Gamers  will  avoid  it because need better  hardware and those that use  high-tech  software will also  stick  to normal PCs.  But for many normal users, pressing the button and getting connected to your Facebook  account  may soon become  reality .

Huawei is a multinational company that makes  telecommunications  parts for  mobile phones , network equipment  and other high-tech  devices . It is the second largest such company in the world. Huawei has its headquarters  in Shenzhen, which became China’s first special economic zone  in 1979.

The Chinese technology company, which was founded  about 20 years ago, has over 100,000 workers in all parts of the world, more than Microsoft.  Most of the company is owned by its  employees .

Huawei started out in the rural  areas in China. In those days most of the telecom contracts  went to  state-owned  Chinese or  foreign  firms. As the company grew, it  took hold of urban markets in big Chinese cities and in 1997 it  expanded  to other countries.

Today, Huawei is the second biggest manufacturer  of telecom  equipment , after Ericsson. In 2011,  annual  sales  is expected to be about $12 billion dollars and  likely to get three times as high within the next ten years.

Working for Huawei is something many young Chinese engineers and  IT  workers dream of. The 1.5 square km site  has modern apartments that can be rented, its own hospital, restaurants and bars where employees  can go to in their free time. For Chinese standards workers are  well-paid . 

Although   Huawei has been concentrating  on making telecom parts and whole networks, the company is also looking into other industries in an  attempt  to diversify and grow. At Shenzhen  engineers  are experimenting on new forms of video conferencing, abranch  that is expanding rapidly  The Chinese hi-tech giant  is also starting to produce  cloud-based  hardware and computers that work  out of the box .

Even though Huawei is one of the world leaders in producing mobile phone parts it is also pushing into the consumer market with its own  brand  of computers, tablets and smartphones .

So far Huawei has failed  to reach  the American market because of security  reasons. The American  government  thinks it hasconnections  with the Chinese  military and is afraid it will spy  on the American  public .

Microsoft has announced that support for its successful XP operating system is coming to an end.  The operating system is 12 years old and still used by a third of all Windows users. Users, however, must not worry as computers will continue to operate. But there will no longer be any updates or security patches delivered by Microsoft.

Security experts around the world state that computer users should update their computers to a more modern operating system, preferably Windows 7 or 8, because these are supported by Microsoft. They also say that it will become easier for hackers to enter systems that no longer are able to defend themselves from new attacks.

Windows XP was developed towards the end of the1990s and introduced in 2001. It did not have the requirements to deal with the Internet, cloud computing or mobile devices.

Some offices and companies have stuck to XP over the years because it runs on older computers. Many firms do not have the funds to buy new hardware. When Windows 7 was launched in 2009, users still did not want to move away from XP, even though today, more than half of all Windows users run Windows 7. In addition, some special applications were specially written for Microsoft XP and will not run on other systems.

Microsoft sees the end of Windows XP with mixed feelings. For one, they hope it will spur more users to skip Windows 7 and go directly to Windows 8, which has been rejected by many in the computer world. On the other side, they fear that users might altogether leave Windows and switch to other operating system like Linux or Apple OS.