Yahoo! Messenger will get a major updates and changes on December,14th as the company's new CEO, Marissa Mayer, has a lot of challenges to address for the former king of internet.

Sadly, the update won't add new features but removing some of the existing ones, like Public Chat rooms and Voice In-Out calls and other. The changes will be applied to all Yahoo messenger for PC, Mac, Android, iOS and other mobile platforms too. List of the changes below:

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Cellhpones! Everyone got one, but... Did you know that there are more phones in the U.S. than people, by a few million ? The Infographic below shows you some Amazing facts about Cell phones and even more amazing.

You've heard that Google is working on computerized glasses. They're called Google Glass, and developers can already buy them. Last week, we saw that Microsoft is also working on something similar too.

The most recent word out of Google is that Google Glass isn't going to use "augmented reality" where data and illustrations overlay the actual world around you. Google Glass is actually just a tiny screen you have to look up and to the left to see. Apple has been also granted a patent to make a product similar to the Google Smart glasses too.

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However, Microsoft's glasses seem to utilize augmented reality. In a patent illustration photo below you can see that the glasses put data on top of a live action concert and a ballgame.

Computers have been getting smaller and closer to our faces since their very beginning. First they were in big rooms, then they sat on desktops, then they sat on our laps, and now they're in our palms. Next they'll be on our faces. Is this the End of the Smartphone Era ?

Scientists from the University of Texas are on the verge of developing a mobile technology capable to see through walls and other solid objects. The technology combines the capturing of an unused "TERAHERTZ" range in the electromagnetic spectrum with a a new microchip capable of reproducing the data.

Thanks to the direct tapping in the terahertz range the future sensors will be much more simple than similar technology used nowadays, as it won't need the use of several lenses inside a device.

The new chip is based on the popular CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) technology, but when combined with terahertz waves it becomes possible for the sensor to capture images behind solid objects like walls and bodies.

The technology is very powerful as it offers limitless uses in construction, medicine, archaeology, document and money authentication and many more fields. The simplicity of the technology also makes it usable in mobile devices, which adds an interesting privacy concern to the matter.

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I'll assume that you are familiar with the South Korean singer PSY's video "Gangnam Style" by now, and you probably watched the Video clip to the point where you don't want to watch it ever again. A lot of people have done the same, which is why the video is now the most watched video in the history of YouTube.

The video, which at last count had 805,055,375 views since it was uploaded on July 15, 2012, just went past the previous record holder, which was Canadian singer Justin Bieber's for his crap song "Baby" that at last count had 803,732,561 views but was uploaded over two years ago, on February 19, 2010.

Gangnam style achieved its score in less than 4 Months only, while Bieber took 2 and half years to get.

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Researchers at India's Anna University of Technology in Tamilnadu have developed a way to prevent those behind the wheel of a vehicle from making/taking calls or texting. By blocking the signals to and from a mobile phone used by the driver of a vehicle, it prevents the driver from losing focus on his task. The hard part in developing the system say those working on it, is blocking the driver's phone from working while still allowing passengers in the vehicle to use their device.

The system detects if the driver is using the phone while the vehicle is in motion. If so, a mobile jammer blocks the radio waves from getting to the driver's phone. To get around the problem with the passenger's devices, the jammer has a low range which should allow others in the vehicle to use their phone.

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Most impressively, the Vivo X1 is the world's thinnest smartphone measuring only 6.65mm only (about 0.26 inches). And still, it manages to fit a 2,000mAh battery inside. And if you are wondering what kind of company is BBK Electronics, it is a Chinese phone maker working under different brands like Vivo, and exporting mainly to Russia.

Apart from that, the Vivo X1 is not all that top notch, but not a slouch either. It packs a 1.2GHz dual-core Cortex A9 MediaTek MT6577T processor and 1GB RAM.

The X1 features a 4.7-inch qHD (540 x 960-pixel) screen and an 8-megapixel camera on the back, as well as a 1.3-megapixel shooter up front. Internal storage is 16GB and there is 3G on board as well.

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Despite it being a pretty bad habit, it is estimated that 95% of people use some kind of a gadget before sleep, be it for texting, surfing the web, or watching TV. Perhaps not all of them realize that doing so makes it difficult to fall asleep afterwards.

ZTE i getting into the Android Smartphone market with a New flagship device, A leaked press photo leaked shows the company's upcoming next flagship, the Grand X Pro.

The Grand X Pro UI is almost like the Android's stock UI (Vanilla) with some minor changes made by ZTE, but it's almost like a Nexus device. Like any other Flagship device this year it the Grand X Pro will pack a Quad-core and Jelly Bean inside of it.

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Qualcomm has just acquired EPOS, an Israeli based technology development company, EPOS is known for its research & development on the Ultrasound technologies. Qualcomm confirmed that Future Snapdragon chips will make use of EPOS's progress and include the Ultrasoud technology, By using this feature we could move away from current touch-screen technologies .

EPOS Ultrasound technology could be used for stylus and gesture recognition. What this means is that the ultrasound technologies works in three dimensions, both on the display and off the display. So, you could just use gestures in the air to control the device.

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