Hotstar announced new plans, starting from September - July 2021

The Indian OTT gaint  Hotstar has introduced a lot of changes on its platform and most noticeable and important is the new subscription plans for the users. The company has disclosed three new plans for the streaming platform. The plans will cater to different audiences in accordance with their needs. The basic VIP plan has increased from ₹399 to ₹499 and the highest costs₹1,499. These new plans will be starting by September 1st.

One of the stark departures from the previous pricing method is that the inclusion of all content. Earlier, users without Premium subscription could not access content such Disney+ originals, TV shows from Disney, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, HBO, FX, Showtime, 20th Century, and Searchlight Pictures. Now, the extensive content library will be the same for all sunbscribers.

The new plans are priced in accordance with the streaming quality (HD or 4K) also because the maximum number of devices that users are going to be ready to access simultaneously.

₹499/year plan

The entry point for Disney+ Hotstar plan now offers the whole bouquet of content. However, the streaming quality has been limited to HD and therefore the content will only be available on mobile phones. This plan is as same as Netflix's mobile plan.

₹899/year Plan

The plan offers the benefit the benefit of streaming HD content on two devices simultaneously and there is no limitation on the form factor of the devices. It can be used for both mobile phones as well as TVs.

₹1,499/year Plan

The pricing and benefits of the new plans are similar to the offerings by Netflix. However, in terms of overall pricing, Netflix is much more expensive in terms of monthly costs. And in this you can watch in the highest quality.

Google to reveal Why it displays search results to users

  Google recently revealed the knowledge that it attaches to look results to display its users why they get the web site recommendations including the 'matching keywords' and 'related terms' also as other pages that are nearby the local area.

According to Mashable India, Google recently unveiled the knowledge behind this search algorithm with the hope that showing users this information will ultimately cause finding better results. The panel also will include tips for a way to enhance searches, like suggesting more precise terms or advising to place quotation marks around specific phrases.

When a user searches in google, the results that show up will have three vertical dots within the upper right-hand corner on the Google page. Clicking the three dots, will take the user to the 'About this result' panel, which is where the search information is saved.

Google initially unrolled the 'About this result' panel in February, but the knowledge it contained was much sparer. It showed a Wikipedia highlight about the online page source, that said whether the result was secure, and highlighted whether the result was an organic search or a paid advertisement.

But, with the update, Google had made the panel far more robust and interactive.

Despite the previous smaller scope of the panel, Google told Mashable India via email that the panels had been used "over 100 million times." the corporate also noted that "our early data has indicated that folks are more likely to consult these panels when trying to find important information like health" which "this is encouraging given the crisis of COVID and the spread of COVID vaccine misinformation."

The world's hottest source of information's search algorithm is certainly complex to know , and as per Mashable India, with Google's advancements in machine learning for surfacing results for increasingly nuanced queries, it's only getting harder for a non-tech savvy to know it.

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WHAT IS RAM & ITS TYPES---DDR1,DDR2,DDR3&DDR4

WHAT IS A RAM?

      RAM(random access memory) is the primary storage or the temporary storage of a computer, I call it the working area of the processor, so here's an example, If you are working in a room, and if you want to take a file, you have to walk to the cupboard every time. So, instead of walking every time, you kept the important files in the drawer of the desk you work, and it saves your time and is also convenient. And the same applies to RAM, the storage drive is the cupboard and the drawer in the desk is the ram installed on the motherboard. If you open a file, an app, or software, anything you open from your hard drive, first it will be loaded into the RAM, after loading the data onto the RAM, the CPU can do the processes you command. And the read/write speed of the RAMs are way faster than the storage drives. RAM is stored on the motherboard in modules, called DIMM. 

DIMM (Dual Inline Memory Module)is a dual independent module with pins peripheral down on each side. It has either 168,184,240 or 288 pins.

 

a RAM with the pins on the right(golden strips)

And the DIMMs are installed on the memory slots on the motherboard. A motherboard can have a various number of memory slots. Most of the motherboards will have between 2-4 memory slots.

RAM slots on a motherboard

Coming to app management, If you open 5 apps, and that is loaded into your RAM, If the RAM reaches its maximum capacity, and want to open another app, the RAM force-shutdowns the first or unused app which was loaded into the memory. And there is a myth that The higher the RAM your computer has, the speeder it would be, as I said it is just a myth, the more RAM you have, you can switch to apps/browser tabs fast and without any reloads/relaunches, It helps a lot if you multitask. The RAM needs a constant electric supply. And if the power is off, the data will be erased. There is a type of RAM called dynamic RAM or DRAM.

DRAM is a memory that contains capacitors. A capacitor is like a small bucket that stores electricity, and it is in these capacitors that hold the bit of information such as 1 or 0 because that's how computers read data, which is 1s or 0s. And because DRAM has capacitors, they have to be refreshed with electricity constantly because the capacitors do not hold the charge for a long time, they leak constantly.  And this refreshing is where the name 'dynamic' comes. The capacitors have to be dynamically refreshed often, or else they will forget the information that they're holding.

SDRAM(Synchronous DRAM) is another type of RAM which is used in the RAM DIMMs today. It also has capacitors like DRAM, but speed is the difference.

TYPES OF RAM

  Many of you could have noticed the term DDR from the pictures shown. The term means Double Data Rate, First know about SDR, which elongates Single Data Rate, meaning, it can only send one signal per clock cycle. And as you know, DDR can send twice the amount of signal than SDR.SDRs are not in use now.

Generations of DDR

1. DDR(2002)
2. DDR2(2004)
3. DDR3(2007)
4. DDR4(2014)
5. DDR5(2020)(Not available for consumer-grade use till now)

The main difference between these is the speed. There is also a version called LPDDR(LPDDR3&LPDDR4), which means low-powered DDR. It is mostly used in laptops because of the low power consumption and high performance, which improves the battery life.

If you take the best DDR3 RAM and the least best DDR4 RAM and compare, the chances of getting the same performance are rare. So that means the difference between the versions is huge. 

Here are a few facts/information about DDRs :

• The maximum memory storage of DDR3 is 16 gigabytes, but DDR4 has no limit.
• The disadvantage of DDR memories is the constant need to upgrade hardware due to incompatibility reasons

CONCLUSION

• RAM is the primary memory of the computer, on which the processor work. 
• It is faster than the storage drives.
• Everything you open gets loaded onto the ram for the processor to work.
• RAMs are installed onto the ram slots with DIMM
• If you multitask a lot, higher RAMs are advised
• SDRAM is faster than DRAM
• Double Data Rate RAMs can send two signals in a single clock cycle
• The generations of DDR rams are DDR, DDR2, DDR3&DDR4

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