Samsung’s The Frame, Smart 7-in-1 TVs now in India
Gurugram, Aug 6 (IANS) Samsung on Tuesday launched its online exclusive range of TVs — the 55-inch ‘The Frame’ and two variants of ‘Smart 7-in-1’ – in India. ‘The Frame’ is priced at Rs 1,19,999…
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Your video selfie may measure blood pressure
Toronto, Aug 6 (IANS) In good news for people who have blood pressure (BP) problems, monitoring BP might one day become as easy as taking a video selfie. Researchers, including one of an Indian-origin, have…
Viral memo alleges Google of discriminating against pregnant women
San Francisco, Aug 6 (IANS) A memorandum written by a female Google staffer that accuses the tech giant of discriminating and retaliating against her for being pregnant has gone viral and has been seen by…
Wipro’s Third Annual State of Cybersecurity Report Finds Organizations Focusing on IoT and Cloud While Developing Cyber Defense Systems
Business Wire IndiaWipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, today released its 2019 State of Cybersecurity Report that highlights the rising importance of…
YouTube CEO addresses LGBTQ creators’ monetisation concerns
San Francisco, Aug 6 (IANS) Addressing the concerns of YouTube’s LGBTQ community members, CEO Susan Wojcicki has denied claims that the video-sharing platform demonetises content from the community members because they fall under queer categories….
Truecaller apologises for bug that covertly signed up users for UPI
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Swedish caller identification app Truecaller on Tuesday apologised to the users who were affected by the the bug that automatically created Unified Payments Interface (UPI) accounts with their banking partners…
Chandrayaan-2 orbit successfully raised for fifth time
Chennai, Aug 6 (IANS) The Indian space agency on Tuesday successfully raised Chandrayaan-2’s orbit for fifth time at 3.04 p.m. According to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the orbit of Chandrayaan-2 was raised to an…
Samsung’s ‘The Frame’, ‘Smart 7-in-1’ TV range now in India
Gurugram, Aug 6 (IANS) Samsung on Tuesday launched its online exclusive range of TVs — the 55-inch ‘The Frame’ and two variants of ‘Smart 7-in-1’. ‘The Frame’ is priced at Rs 1,19,999 while the variants…
Samsung to launch Galaxy Note10 devices in India on Aug 20
New York, Aug 6 (IANS) Samsung Electronics, which is set to unveil two Galaxy Note devices — Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy Note10+ — here on Wednesday, would bring the new Note family to India…
Acer launches 8 new gaming laptops in India
Mumbai, Aug 6 (IANS) Taiwanese electronics major Acer on Tuesday launched a wide array of gaming laptops within the price range of Rs 60,000 to Rs 4,50,000 in India. The new eight devices feature advanced…
HK protesters use Tinder, Pokemon Go to spread messages
Hong Kong, Aug 6 (IANS) Protesters in Hong Kong are taking to Tinder, Pokemon Go and Apple’s AirDrop to invite people to join them on the streets as the city rolls into its third month…
IIT Guwahati builds hand-held device to detect bacteria
Guwahati, Aug 6 (IANS) Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati researchers have developed a low-cost, hand-held device for rapid detection of bacteria, bringing portable bacterial detection kits closer to reality. This novel, low-cost diagnostic device…
Jeff Bezos cashed in another $990 mn Amazon shares
San Francisco, Aug 6 (IANS) After cashing in $1.8 billion worth of the Amazon shares over the last three days of July, Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has now sold Amazon shares worth $990…
Contrary to policy, Google shows shopping results for guns
San Francisco, Aug 6 (IANS) At a time when the US is bleeding red from the recent mass shootings in Texas that left over 30 people dead, Google is showing shopping results for 100-bullet magazines,…
Google to neutralise carbon emission for device shipments by 2020
San Francisco, Aug 6 (IANS) Tech giant Google has announced a string of sustainability pledges for its hardware and has said that it aims to neutralise carbon emissions from delivering consumer hardware like Pixel phones…
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover undergoes ‘eye’ test
Washington, Aug 6 (IANS) NASA’s latest robotic mission to the Red Planet, the Mars 2020 rover which has an armada of imaging capabilities from wide-angle landscape cameras to narrow-angle high-resolution zoom lens cameras, underwent an…
2021 iPhones may have Face ID, in-display Touch ID
San Francisco, Aug 6 (IANS) Apple is planning to reintroduce Touch ID with an in-display fingerprint sensor to its iPhones starting in 2021, a new report from noted industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said. Kuo said…
AU Bank Launches Account Opening on WhatsApp
Business Wire IndiaAU Small Finance Bank has announced the rollout of their Savings Bank Account opening process initiated with WhatsApp. This service is powered by Karix Mobile using an advanced multi-channel conversational and compute platform….
AI augmentation to power $2.9 trillion of business value in 2021
San Francisco, Aug 6 (IANS) Artificial intelligence (AI) augmentation will create $2.9 trillion of business value and 6.2 billion hours of worker productivity globally in 2021, according to a forecast by Gartner. Augmented intelligence refers…
Drug users regret posting on social media while high
New York, Aug 6 (IANS) Posting on social media, texting or calling while high on drugs is prevalent among young people, and many say that they regret this behaviour later, researchers said. “Risky social media…