Atoztechy: July 2019

Wednesday 31 July 2019

2019 iPhone Models to Support Apple Pencil, Analyst Claims

2019 line-up of iPhones are expected to come with support for Apple Pencil -- a wireless stylus pen from Apple, a new analyst note from Citi Analysts suggests.

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Google Play Pass Subscription Service in Testing With ‘Access to Hundreds of Premium Apps’: Report

Play Pass will allow users unlimited access to premium games and apps during the subscription period, for a single monthly fee.

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Huawei Y9 Prime to be launched in India today: expected price, specifications

Huawei confirmed the launch date of the Huawei Y9 Prime a couple of weeks ago. Today, on August 1, Huawei is all set to reveal the price of the smartphones. Although, the global variant of Huawei Y9 Prime was unveiled in May, the availability and price had not been detailed. The smartphone features a notchless display along with a pop-up camera mechanism.

Huawei Y9 Prime launch time and expected price in India

The Huawei Y9 Prime price in India will be revealed today at 2pm, and its launch will begin at 12pm in New Delhi. As mentioned above, the price of Huawei Y9 Pro was not revealed by the company at its global launch event in May. However, according to a report, Huawei Y9 Prime will be priced under Rs 20,000 in India.

Huawei Y9 Prime specifications

The Huawei Y9 Prime features a 6.59-inch full-HD+ LCD display that delivers an aspect ratio of 19.5:9 and a resolution of 1080 x 2340 pixels. The smartphone is powered by an Octa-core Kirin 710F processor coupled with 4GB of RAM. It comes in two storage variants - 64GB and 128GB. It packs a 4000mAh battery and runs EMUI 9 baked on Android 9 Pie.

In the optics department, the device sports a triple rear camera setup: a 16MP primary sensor, an 8MP wide-angle camera, and a 2MP depth sensor. On the front is a 16MP pop-up camera for selfies. Further, it has USB-Type C support as well.

The smartphone will also be part of the Amazon Freedom Sale 2019.

The Huawei Y9 Prime is an upgrade over the Huawei Y9, which was launched in India in January 2019. It features a similar 6.5-inch LCD display with an aspect ratio of 19.5:9 and a resolution of 1080 x 2340 pixels. The smartphone runs on a HiSilicon Kirin 710 chipset, coupled with 4GB RAM and 64GB of internal storage. The smartphone has a 13MP + 2MP sensor at the back and a dual 16MP + 2MP sensor setup on the front. It packs a 4000mAh battery as well.

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OnePlus Beats Apple, Samsung in Premium Smartphone Segment in India: Counterpoint

Riding on its flagship OnePlus 7 series, OnePlus captured its highest-ever shipment share of 43 percent in the second quarter (Q2) to become the leader in the premium segment (Rs 30,000 and above) in India, Counterpoint Research said.

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Zomato Defends Using Halal Tag as People Leave 1-Star Ratings for the App on Google Play, App Store

Zomato is facing criticism from some people who are asking how it is fine if some customers specifically want Halal meat.

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Lewis Hamilton Wants to Edit Himself Out of Netflix Series

Lewis Hamilton has said he will not let Netflix use film of his travails while feeling sick at last weekend’s German Grand Prix to be used in their second ‘Drive to Survive’ Formula One series.

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Amazon in Talks to Buy Up to 26 Percent Stake in Reliance Retail: Report

Amazon.com is in exploratory talks with Reliance Industries Ltd-owned Reliance Retail for buying up to 26 percent stake in India's biggest brick-and-mortar retailer.

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Hike Sticker Chat Brings Auto Backup Feature for Quick Data Transfer, Web Client Debuts Too

Hike Sticker Chat that was launched as a dedicated app back in April has received an Auto Backup feature for easy transferring of data from one device to another.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 With In-Display Fingerprint Sensor, S Pen Support, Quad Speakers Launched

Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 is official. The new Samsung tablet will be available in the US from September 6, and is priced starting at $649.

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Elon Musk Could Get in Trouble With Regulators Over a Tweet, Again

Once again, Tesla CEO Elon Musk could be in hot soup with US securities regulators, this time for tweeting a forecast for solar roof production.

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PUBG Mobile Lite: What's It Like to Play the Game on 4 Popular Phones Under Rs. 8,000

PUBG Mobile Lite was recently launched in India, so we picked up some popular entry-level smartphones to find out the most affordable smartphone that can run it.

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Facebook to Launch a TV Chat Device This Year, Might Include Support for Streaming Netflix: Report

Facebook is launching its own TV streaming service this fall and has reportedly approached Netflix, Disney, Hulu, HBO and other media companies for a new TV chat device for making video calls from TVs.

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Samsung Galaxy A80 Goes on Sale in India: Price, Offers, Specifications

Samsung Galaxy A80 is currently up for purchase via Amazon India, Flipkart, and the Samsung India website.

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Huawei Y9 Prime 2019 India Launch Set for Today: Expected Price, Specifications

Huawei Y9 Prime 2019 was globally unveiled back in May, and is due to launch in India today.

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Poco F1 gets lucrative price cut as part of Poco Days Sale

Poco F1 was launched in India last year at a starting price of Rs 20,999. Now, the phone is selling for as low as Rs 17,999 as part of Poco Days sale that ends today, July 31. The base variant has 6GB RAM and 64GB of internal storage. The highlight of the phone is that it comes with Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chipset. Furthermore, Xiaomi’s Poco Days sale price is also reflecting on Flipkart with options to avail exchange offers and no-cost EMI options as well.

During the Poco Days sale, both the 128GB and 256GB variants of Poco F1 are up for grabs at a discounted price. However, today, July 31 is the last day of the sale. The 128GB storage variant is available for Rs 17,999, whereas the 256GB model is available for Rs 22,999 down from Rs 27,999. Additionally, the top-end Poco F1 Armoured Edition is selling at Rs 23,999 during the sale. However, there is no new discount on the 6GB RAM + 64GB storage model, which is selling at Rs 17,999 since June 2019.

During the sale, Xiaomi is also offering an additional exchange discount of up to Rs 2,000, and a no-cost EMI option is also available.

Coming to the specifications of the Poco F1, it features a 5.99-inch full HD+ display with a 1080x2248 pixels resolution, and a 19:9 aspect ratio. The display has a notch as well that houses a camera along with the infrared sensor for the face-unlock feature. The phone is powered by the Snapdragon 845 chipset paired with an Adreno 630 GPU. On the storage front, it has up to 8GB RAM and 256GB of internal storage. In the optics department, the phone sports a dual rear camera setup, which is a combination of 12MP and 5MP cameras. In contrast, there is a 20MP front camera. You can read our review of the Poco F1 to help make your purchase decision.

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Truecaller covertly signed up users for its payments service, calls it a bug

Truecaller, the crowdsourced caller ID service that’s highly popular among Indians covertly signed up an unspecified number of users to its payments service without their explicit consent. Users in India took to social media to complain that they had been registered to the payments service without their consent. However, in a statement, Truecaller said the issue happened because of a bug in the software, and soon rolled out an app update to Android users in India fixing the issue.

The bug made the app covertly send an SMS to the user's bank to verify accounts under the phone number and created UPI address on their behalf. It’s standard procedure to create UPI addresses but usually, the action is initiated by the user and not automatically done by an app.

Truecalled acknowledged the issue and said it will be releasing a new update to fix the issue. Till then, users signed up for payments service will be deregistered automatically.

We have discovered a bug in the latest update of Truecaller that affected the payments feature, which automatically triggered a registration post updating to the version. This was a bug and we have discontinued this version of the app so no other users will be affected. We're sorry about this version not passing our quality standards. We've taken quick steps to fix the issue and already rolled out a fix in a new version. For the users already affected, the new version with the fix will be available shortly, however, in the meanwhile they can choose to manually deregister through the overflow menu in the app," Truecaller said in a statement.

The payments service by Truecaller was added to the app around two years back. Just like Google Pay, Phonepe and the likes, Truecaller also depends on the UPI payments platform to initiate transactions. UPI laws state that signing up users without their consent is illegal.

This is not the first time a company has covertly signed up users to a payments platform. Airtel, when it launched the Airtel Payments Bank, also onboarded users to its payments platform without their consent.

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Beyerdynamic Lagoon ANC Headphones Launched in India, Featuring Active Noise Cancellation and Wireless Connectivity

Beyerdynamic has launched its latest premium headset, the Lagoon ANC in India, priced at Rs. 29,990

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Redmi Gaming Phone With MediaTek Helio G90T SoC to Launch Soon, Company Confirms

Xiaomi is working on a new gaming phone, and it will be powered by the Helio G90T SoC.

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Tuesday 30 July 2019

Facebook publishes first results of its brain-typing experiment

Facebook has published details of its brain-computer interface experiments, with some promising results. The system is a brain-reading computer developed by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco backed by Facebook Reality Labs. The paper was published in Nature Communications and details the team's success in reading brain impulses associated with certain words that the test subjects were about to utter.

There already exist brain-computer interfaces that people can use to type, but in order to do so, they need to spell out each letter individually on a virtual keyboard. The team at USCF demonstrated that their system could extract the answer to pre-determined questions based on the subject’s thoughts.

The experiment was performed on subjects who were on their way to epilepsy surgery and had invasive implants placed in various parts of their brain. Then the system was trained on the 24 pre-determined questions and its possible answers. Once the training was complete, the subjects would be presented with a question, to which, they would answer out aloud. The system would be able to detect their answers based on its training and lead author and UCSF neurosurgery professor Edward Chang said that the accuracy of the system was between 61 to 76 percent, far higher than the current 7 to 20 percent of existing such brain-computer interfaces.

While the study has promising results, it is far from what Facebook has been promising the world; a non-invasive brain-computer interface. The current paper is based on a system that requires highly invasive implants, and more importantly, is functional in a very limited environment where it has already been trained on all the questions and their potential answers. Lastly, the answers had to be spoken in order for the system to read the brain waves and deliver the result, which isn’t exactly “thinking and typing.”

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Google researchers find six security bugs worth 5 million in iOS

Two members of Project Zero, Google’s bug-hunting team, have found six bugs in iOS that could have led cyber attackers to compromise devices like iPhones and iPads. The duo published the details and demo proof-of-concept code for five of the six “interactionless” security bugs that made the OS vulnerable to hackers who could have exploited it via the iMessage client. If sold in the exploit market, these six bugs would have reportedly fetched over $5 million.

The bugs were discovered by Google Project Zero security researchers Natalie Silvanovich and Samuel Groß. ZDNet reports that all the six security flaws were patched on July 22 when Apple rolled out the iOS 12.4 update. As per Silvanovich, details about one of the "interactionless" vulnerabilities are kept private because the latest iOS update did not completely patch the bug. Silvanovich will be holding a presentation about these vulnerabilities at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas next week.

How the bugs could have compromised iOS security

The researcher said that out of the six vulnerabilities, four could have lead to the execution of malicious code on a remote iOS device, with no user interaction needed. To compromise the device, an attacker could have sent a malicious message to the victim's phone. In such cases, the code is executed once the user opens and views the received message. The fifth and sixth bugs could have allowed an attacker to extract data from the compromised device's memory and read files off the device remotely, this too, with no user interaction.

According to a price chart published by US-based information security company Zerodium, if these bugs were sold on the exploit market, they could have brought over $1 million each for every vulnerability. It means that the bugs which the researchers published are valued between $5 million and $10 million. Vulnerability research hub Crowdfense told ZDNet that since the exploits were “interactionless,” and the vulnerabilities worked on recent versions of iOS exploits, these could have been valued between $2 million and $4 million each, that is, the total value of the bugs is between $20 million and $24 million.

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Windows 10 cloud reinstall option coming soon

It appears Windows 10 is scheduled to get a new feature that could save users a lot of effort while reinstalling their operating system. It’s a feature that MacOS has enjoyed for quite some time now. Dubbed “Cloud download”, the feature is expected to be found in Windows’ reset options in Settings along with “Reset locally”, which means users reinstalling Windows 10 in the future can either choose to use a local image or download it afresh from the cloud.

The news of the new Windows 10 reset method that Microsoft is currently working on comes in the form of a tweet sent by WalkingCat. According to the tweet, the boot menu in the leaked Windows Build 18950 (for the upcoming 201H1 update) gives the user an option to reinstall the existing operating system using a local image or download Windows from the cloud. This build has reportedly been leaked before its official roll-out to the Windows Insider Fast ring users.

An earlier report by groovyPost claims that Microsoft Surface devices such as the Surface Book and Surface Pro already come with an option to download the Windows 10 image from the cloud at the time of setup. “Recover from the Cloud is especially handy if your recovery partition is corrupt. Microsoft has not documented the feature anywhere on its official Surface web page,” writes groovyPost in its report while explaining how to use the feature.

Earlier this week, another leaked internal Windows 10 build showed us that Microsoft is working on a redesign of the Start menu in which the popular Live Tiles are missing and the icons are unnaturally large. You can see how the new Start menu that’s still in development looks here. The redesigned Start menu and Cloud download feature aren’t expected in the stable release of Windows 10 till June next year.

18950 bootux : How would you like to reinstall Windows? > Cloud download : Download Windows > Reset locally : Reinstall my existing Windows operating system

— WalkingCat (@h0x0d) 29 July 2019

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Apple’s India Revenue Rebounds, Sees Double Digit Growth During June Quarter

Apple’s June quarter revenue grew double digits in India as the international sales accounted for 59 percent of the last quarter’s total revenue for the iPhone maker.

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Samsung Galaxy M20s in the Works With 5,830mAh Battery: Report

Samsung Galaxy M20s is said to have the battery pack with 'rated' 5,830mAh capacity, while its 'typical' value could be 6,000mAh.

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Redmi K20, Redmi K20 Pro to go on sale in India today: offers, price, specifications

The Redmi K20 series will be up for grabs again in India today. Just like the previous sales, the Redmi K20, K20 Pro will be sold on Flipkart and Mi.com. The sale will be live at 12pm today, and the phones will be sold till the stocks last. The phones offer a 3D curved back, and sport a pop-up selfie camera that comes with a pulsating notification LED light. They also have Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection on top.

Redmi K20, K20 Pro price, offers, and sale time

The Redmi K20 is priced at Rs 21,999 for the base variant of 6GB RAM + 64GB storage variant. The 6GB RAM + 128GB storage variant will cost you Rs 23,999. Additionally, the Redmi K20 Pro is priced at Rs 27,999 for the 6GB RAM + 128GB storage variant, whereas its 8GB RAM + 256GB storage will cost you Rs 30,999.

As mentioned before, the latest sale will kick off at 12pm today. The phones will be available in three colour options: Carbon Black, Flame Red, and Glacier Blue.

As for the sale offers, both phones include a five-percent unlimited cashback on Flipkart Axis Bank credit card, flat Rs 1,000 off on ICICI Bank credit card and debit card EMI transactions, and five-percent cashback on HDFC Bank debit cards on Flipkart.com. In contrast, Mi.com is offering Rs 1,000 off on ICICI Bank credit cards and EMI transactions, exchange discounts, and two claims of Mi Screen Protect.

Redmi K20 Specifications

The Redmi K20 features a 6.39-inch AMOLED full-HD+ (1080x2340 pixels) display with an aspect ratio of 19.5:9 and 91.9-percent screen-to-body ratio. It is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 chipset, paired with 6GB of RAM and up to 128GB of onboard storage. The phone runs MIUI 10 based on Android 9 Pie. The phone packs a 4000mAh battery that supports 18W fast charging.

As for the cameras, the Redmi K20 sports a triple rear camera setup: a 48MP primary Sony IMX582 sensor with an f/1.75 lens, a secondary 13MP sensor with a wide-angle lens, and an 8MP tertiary sensor with an f/2.4 lens. And for the selfies, the phone has a 20MP pop-up camera.

Redmi K20 Pro specifications

The Redmi K20 Pro features a 6.39-inch AMOLED full-HD+ (1080x2340 pixels) display with 19.5:9 aspect ratio. It is powered by a Snapdragon 855 chipset, paired with up to 8GB RAM and up to 256GB of internal storage. The phone packs a 4000mAh battery that supports 27W fast charging.

In the optics department, the phone ports a triple rear camera setup: a 48MP Sony IMX586 primary sensor with an f/1.75 lens, a 13MP secondary sensor with a wide-angle lens, and an 8MP tertiary sensor with an f/2.4 lens. There is also a 20-megapixel pop-up selfie camera on board.

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PUBG Mobile Lite tops Google Play Store Ranking in just three days

It is obvious that PUBG Mobile has taken the world by storm. However, the game was not playable on all smartphones especially entry-level devices with 1 or 2GB RAM. PUBG Mobile Lite was in the works for quite some time and the game finally hit the market. The game hit the Google Play Store and, in just three days, has become the number 1 downloaded app on the Google Play Store. Numbers from the app's page on Google Play Store say it has crossed more than 10 million downloads. The highlight of the game is its ability to run on low-end devices with 1 or 2 GB RAM.

In an official release, PUBG said, “PUBG MOBILE LITE, attracts attention by reaching the number 1 spot on the Google Play Store, within the first 3 days of launch. This is not too surprising, given the popularity of the mobile version of the game within the country. Built with Unreal Engine 4, this version of PUBG MOBILE is compatible with even more devices and optimized for devices with less RAM without compromising on the gameplay experience, which has attracted millions of fans around the world. The popularity of PUBG MOBILE LITE can be attributed to the fact that a considerable segment of the Indian smartphone market comprises of ‘entry-level smartphones’ and now thanks to the new lighter version - PUBG MOBILE LITE, this segment has access to a game which was beyond their reach.”

We at Digit ran the game on a smartphone with 1GB RAM and the game ran smoothly. PUBG Mobile Lite does make the obvious compromises. For starters, the map is smaller when compared to the full mobile version. Instead of 100 players, PUBG Mobile Lite has 60 players on the map. In terms of textures and game assets, you will notice that things like furniture and other items in the houses and hangers are missing. The terrain in the game is simpler too. Graphically, the game runs at a lower resolution. That doesn't mean the game is unplayable. The best part about PUBG Mobile Lite is the fact that the game runs butter smooth and is very responsive on the 1GB RAM device. Foliage is one key asset in the game. Players use the foliage to hide and take on unsuspecting enemies. The foliage representation in the game is good and works well for cover. Elements like smoke grenades and vehicles too work as they do in PUBG Mobile.

Needless to say, we enjoyed our experience with the game on an entry-level device. You can check out our detailed hands-on of PUBG Mobile Lite running on a Redmi Go here. If you are new to PUBG Mobile Lite here are some tips and tricks to help you get that chicken dinner.

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Redmi 7A goes on sale today at 12pm: Specs, price and all you need to know

Redmi's entry-level smartphone, the Redmi 7A will go up for sale today. This time, the handset will be up for grabs via Mi.com and Flipkart. The Redmi 7A was launched in the first week of July and is priced starting at Rs 5,799 on the company’s e-store. The phone competes with other entry-level handsets like the Realme C2.

Redmi 7A specifications:

As mentioned, the Redmi 7A is an entry-level smartphone and it comes equipped with a 5.45-inch HD+ Full HD display. It features a unibody matte finish design and comes in Matte Blue, Matte Gold and Matte Black colours. Under the hood, the phone sports the Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 mobile platform, which is paired with up to 3GB RAM and 32GB of storage. There’s also a dedicated microSD card slot to expand its storage up to 256GB.

In terms of optics on the back, it comes equipped with a 12MP Sony IMX 486 sensor paired with an f/2.2 aperture lens. On the front is a 5MP camera that supports AI face unlock, AI Background blurring, AI Beautify and some additional features. Backed by a 4000mAh battery that is claimed to deliver 17 hours of HD video playback, the handset also features a splash-resistant design and is said to sport reinforced corners. The device gets a two-year warranty and also comes equipped with wireless FM radio feature.

Redmi 7A price, availability and launch offers

The 2GB RAM + 16GB storage version of the Redmi 7A costs Rs 5,799, while its 2GB RAM + 32GB storage variant is priced at Rs 5,999. The smartphone will go on sale today at 12pm via Mi.com and Flipkart.

For launch offers, buyers of the handset on Flipkart can avail a BuyBack offer, along with a 5 percent discount with Axis Bank Buzz credit card. One can also opt for no-cost EMI options, exchange discount, and Complete Mobile Protection at Rs 199. On Mi.com, there's a Rs 2,200 cashback and 125GB extra data for Jio subscribers who buy the Redmi 7A. The company is also offering an exchange discount and Mi Protect for security against liquid and accidental damages at Rs 399.

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2020 iPhone could support time-of-flight 3D sensors: Report

While the 2019 iPhones are yet to be launched, the rumour mill is already churning out predictions for the 2020 iPhones. According to some reports, Apple is expected to release three new iPhones this year. As for 2020, the tech giant could supposedly incorporate time-of-flight (ToF) sensors in the future iPhones. Additionally, Apple might also include 5G connectivity in next year’s iPhone models.

Previously, a report speculated that Apple might introduce VCSEL (Vertical Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser) ToF sensors on the rear of the 2020 iPhone models. The setup is similar to the TrueDepth camera setup found on the current iPhone models, but on the front. Ming Chi Kuo, a well-known analyst, has also predicted that Apple might bring ToF sensors to its 2020 iPhone lineup.

In the latest research note shared by 9to5Mac, Kuo claims that at least two of the 2020 iPhone models could feature a ToF sensor on the rear. Furthermore, Kuo added that Apple might introduce three iPhone models next year with Face ID support.

Additionally, according to Kuo, all three 2020 iPhone models could support 5G connectivity. He added that 5G iPhone models might support both mmWave and sub-6GHz bands. Last year, Kuo also said that Apple could first bring ToF-sensing technology to the iPad lineup sometime in early 2020.

As for VCSEL, it is currently used in a number of consumer electronics products. It is a semiconductor that emits infrared light, and it is primarily used to enable augmented reality-based applications and range finding. It could help Apple create a much bigger use case for AR-based applications while enabling users to capture photos with even more detail.

Apple is expected to introduce an all-new iPhone lineup in 2020. However, all these are speculations at the moment and it’s fairly early to trust them all.

As for this year, the tech giant might launch three iPhone 11 models with A13 chip, taptic engine, and more.

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Apple Wants to Make Mac Pro Computers in the US, Needs Tariff Relief: Cook

Cook on Tuesday said that the desire to keep Mac Pro computer production in United States was behind the company's recent request for tariff exclusions.

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The Lion King Roars Past $1 Billion at Worldwide Box Office, Fourth for Disney in 2019

The Lion King is now a billion-dollar movie, hitting that milestone less than three weeks into its global opening. In doing so, it gave Disney the fourth billion-dollar title for 2019, after Captain Marvel, Avengers: Endgame, and Aladdin.

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Amazon Freedom Sale Begins August 8: Mobile, Other Top Deals Previewed

Amazon Freedom Sale will see price cuts on phones like Samsung Galaxy M40, Oppo K3, and more, and the e-commerce giant has partnered with SBI Bank to offer additional discount as well.

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Bollywood Rapper Badshah Sets Viewer Record YouTube Isn't Talking About

Within 24 hours of posting his video Paagal to YouTube, Indian rapper Badshah broke a record even Taylor Swift couldn't touch.

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Realme X goes on sale today at 12pm: Price, specs, offers and all you need to know

Realme launched its midrange Realme X handset earlier this month with the aim of taking on the competition like the Redmi Note 7 series. The smartphone comes with an almost bezel-less display without a notch, thanks to a pop-up camera and it is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 SoC. It goes up for sale today at 12pm on Flipkart and Realme’s official website.

Realme X specifications

The Realme X is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 chipset and is paired with up to 8GB RAM and 128GB of internal storage. It is equipped with a 6.53-inch Super AMOLED display that sports a resolution of 2340 x 1080 pixels with a 19.5:9 aspect ratio. Additionally, the device has a 91.2-percent screen-to-body ratio. The phone packs a 3745mAh battery, which supports 20W VOOC-charge technology.

In terms of optics, the Realme X sports a dual rear camera setup which consists of a 48MP Sony IMX586 sensor and a secondary 5MP depth sensor. The camera also offers features like Nightscape and Chroma Boost. Additionally, the 16MP selfie camera is housed in the pop-up camera module, which according to Realme, rises in just 0.74 seconds and has a fall-detection feature. The fingerprint sensor is tucked under the display and the phone runs on ColorOS 6 based on Android 9 Pie.

Realme X price, availability, and sale offers

The base variant of Realme X with 4GB RAM and 128GB of internal storage is priced at Rs 16,999. The top-end 8GB RAM + 128GB storage variant carries a price tag of Rs 19,999. The handset will be available in Space Blue and Polar White colour variants and will be up for purchase via Realme's official website and Flipkart at 12pm today.

As for the sale offers, Flipkart is offering no-cost EMI for buyers, along with a 5-percent cashback for Axis Bank Credit card holders, and 5-percent discount for purchases made using an Axis Bank Buzz Credit card. However, when buying the phone from Realme’s official website, one can get 10-percent MobiKwik SuperCash worth Rs 1,500 and Jio benefits worth Rs 7,000, which will be credited in the form of cashback vouchers.

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Redmi K20 Pro, Redmi K20 Go on Sale in India Today via Flipkart, Mi.com: Check Price, Offers, Specifications

Redmi K20 Pro and Redmi K20 will be available for purchase through the latest sale round with a starting price of Rs. 21,999.

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Samsung Profit Slumps on Chip Market, Slow Flagship Smartphone Sales

Samsung has enjoyed record profits in recent years despite a series of setbacks but is now struggling with chip prices falling as global supply increases.

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Apple's Services, Wearables Shore Up Results as iPhone Drops Below Half of Sales

The strategy of diversifying proved especially useful in China, the world's largest smartphone market.

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Realme X to Go on Sale in India Today via Flipkart and Realme.com: Check Price, Offers, Specifications

Realme X price in India starts at Rs. 16,999, and it will go on sale at 12pm (noon) in India today.

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Redmi 7A to Go on Sale in India via Flipkart, Mi.com Today: Price, Specifications, Sale Offers

Redmi 7A will go on sale at 12pm (noon) IST on Flipkart and Mi.com today, and both the sites have listed a host of sale offers as well.

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Google Pixel 4 confirmed to have Motion Sense, Face Unlock

It seems that Google has taken up the mantle to best the industry leaksters. Earlier, when tipsters were sharing source-based information about the camera of Google's upcoming phone, the company went ahead and posted an image of the camera module. Similarly this time around, when news of Google’s Soli radar chip cropped-up, the tech giant edged forward and announced that the company will use Soli motion-sensing radar, which it has been working on for the last five years. This new technology is expected to enable Motion Sense and Face Unlock functionalities.

We have already seen these features in some other phones. Talking about Motion Sense, LG was first to introduce this concept in LG G8 that was launched at MWC this year. It called the feature Air Motion, which allowed users to use gestures to perform tasks like changing songs, increase/decrease volume, etc. When it comes to Face Unlock, it was first introduced by Apple in the iPhone X (Face ID) almost two years ago. Since then, other OEMs have been trying to replicate it by using the front camera, however, unlike others, Google is adding sensors in the Pixel 4.

Google Pixel 4 Sensors

Moreover, the company also took a dig at Apple and said that keeping users’ privacy and security in mind, it will store the facial data used to unlock the device on the Titan M chip on the phone. “As we shared last month, Pixel 4 is in the works. Today we’re giving you an early look at the technology behind two new features coming to Pixel 4 that make your phone more helpful and represent the next step in our vision for ambient computing,” the company said in a blog post.

Motion Sense

As mentioned above, Google has confirmed that it will be using Soli motion-sensing radar to power this feature. It said that the company’s Advanced Technology and Projects team (ATAP) has been working on Soli for the past five years. Google says that it has developed a miniature version of the radar used to detect planes and large objects. The radar will be located at the top of Pixel 4 and it will sense small motions around the phone. Along with software algorithms, the radar will be able to recognise gestures. With the Soli radar at its disposal, the Pixel 4 will let users skip songs, snooze alarms, and silence phone calls, just by waving their hand(s). Google says that these capabilities are “just the start, and just as Pixel phones get better over time, Motion Sense will evolve as well.” Motion Sense will be available in select Pixel countries.

Face unlock

“Unlocking your phone should be easy, fast, and secure. Your device should be able to recognise you — and only you — without any fuss. Face unlock may be a familiar feature for smartphones, but we’re engineering it differently,” Google noted. While taking a dig at Apple, Google said that unlike “other phones” that are required to be lifted “all the way up, pose in a certain way, wait for it to unlock, and then swipe to get to the homescreen”, Pixel 4 does “all of that in a much more streamlined way.” Apple has apparently improved upon the feature in the iPad Pro and it is likely to bring a better version in the 2019 iPhones.

Google says that as a user reaches for Pixel 4, Soli turns on the face unlock sensors and recognises that the user may want to unlock the phone. “If the face unlock sensors and algorithms recognise a user, the phone will open as you pick it up, all in one motion,” Google claims. It adds that face unlock works in almost any orientation- even if the phone is held upside down - and the feature can be used for secure payments and app authentications. The comapny also released an image showing the components used for these features. There is no secondary camera on the front, it could mean that Google is going ahead with a single camera like the one in the Pixel 3a.

The company also mentions that it has taken into account the privacy and security of the users. It highlights that the face unlock feature uses facial recognition technology that is processed on the device. It claims that the images used for face unlock are not saved or shared with other Google services and the face data is securely stored in Pixel's Titan M security chip, which was introduced in Pixel3 devices. Similarly, Soli sensor data is said to be processed on the phone, and never saved or shared with other Google services.

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Sony A9G Bravia 4K OLED Android TV Launched in India, Priced at Rs. 2,69,900 Onwards

Sony has launched its latest flagship TV in India, the A9G Bravia OLED TV that comes in 55-inch and 65-inch size options.

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Vivo S1 vs Vivo Z1 Pro: What’s the Difference?

Vivo S1 is pit against the Vivo Z1 Pro here to see how the new entrant will fare in the Indian market, at least on paper.

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Huawei Nova 5 Series Sales Cross 2 Million Units in a Month

Huawei Nova 5 series includes the Nova 5, Nova 5 Pro, Nova 5i, and the most recently launched Nova 5i Pro.

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Qualcomm and Tencent team up to create 5G gaming devices: Report

Qualcomm and Tencent are teaming up to make the Chinese giant’s mobile games run better on Snapdragon-powered smartphones. There’s also talks of a 5G-powered, Tencent-backed gaming phone that will be powered by a Qualcomm 5G modem and the company’s flagship processor, according to a Reuters report.

The cooperation could see Tencent games ‘optimised’ for Android phones powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets. Qualcomm has the Elite Gaming program under which certain chipsets are better optimised to handle gaming and offer a richer experience. Now that the hardware is ready, Tencent will provide the games that will work better with the chipsets. It’s not the first time Tencent will work with a smartphone OEM to optimise their games.

Tencent’s most popular game PUBG Mobile already comes with special optimisations in certain smartphones. The Vivo Z1 Pro, for instance, is the official smartphone for the PUBG Mobile Club Open championship and comes with special features like 3D vibrations, training room and the likes. The new ROG Phone II by Asus also offers special support for gamepads, mouse and keyboard for the mobile game. The gaming phone is powered by the new Snapdragon 855 Plus allowing the game to take advantage of the overclocked CPU.

The report also claims Tencent and Qualcomm are working on a 5G gaming phone that could help with Tencent’s plans to launch a game streaming service. 5G gaming devices could also make way for allowing resource-intensive PC games to be played on phones via Google’s and Microsoft’s game streaming services.

“Mobile gaming, an important 5G use case, will soon take advantage of the next generation of connectivity. Faster speeds, more bandwidth, and cutting edge ultra-low latency will support real-time, multi-player and immersive gaming experience,” Frank Meng, Qualcomm China Chairman told Reuters in a statement.

Tencent is yet to reveal details about its cloud-based game streaming service, but it’s likely to be called Instant Play and could be pitched to game developers to power streaming games.

The report also states that the partnership will include tweaking games for laptops powered by Qualcomm’s processors with 5G connectivity instead of Wi-Fi chips.

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The Family Man, Amazon’s Next Indian Series With Manoj Bajpayee, to Release in September on Prime Video

The Family Man — Amazon Prime Video’s next original series from India — will release in September. Written and directed by Indian-American duo Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K., the action drama series The Family Man stars Manoj Bajpayee in the lead.

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Monday 29 July 2019

Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ specs sheet leaked, 5G variant benchmarked

Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ is almost a week away from being unveiled, and new information about the device has started circulating on the internet. A new report claims to bring us the spec sheet of the Galaxy Note 10+. Another report claims that the 5G variant has been benchmarked on Geekbench. Previously, it was expected that the higher model of the Galaxy Note 10 will be called Galaxy Note 10 Pro, but as we previously reported, there's a chance that it might be launched as the Galaxy Note 10+.

There have been a few leaked images and renders of the Galaxy Note 10+ already, but now, we have a leak of specs sheet. According to the new leak, the Galaxy Note 10+ could feature a 6.8-inch Quad HD+ 3040×1440 pixel resolution display with 498ppi. The display is said to be protected by Gorilla Glass 6 and the phone is expected to be powered by the 7nm Exynos 9825 processor, paired with up to 12GB RAM and up to 512GB UFS 3.0 internal storage. Additionally, it could have a microSD card slot.

On the optics front, the Galaxy Note 10+ is expected to sport a triple rear camera setup. The primary 12MP camera could have a three-stage variable aperture with f/1.5, f/1.8, and f/2.4 aperture setting. The secondary 12MP telephoto camera could come with an f/2.1 lens for better low-light zoom pictures. The 16MP tertiary camera is said to have an f/2.2 wide-angle lens. Additionally, rumours suggest that there could be a ToF sensor on board as well. As for the selfie department, the smartphone could come with a 10MP front camera.

The leaks claim that the Galaxy Note 10+ could be powered by a 4,300mAh battery that might support 45W fast charging. However, the 45W charger is said to be absent from the box, and one could have to buy it separately. The phone could measure 162.3mm x 77.1mm x 7.9mm, and weigh 198g.

As for the connectivity options, Galaxy Note 10+ is expected to have 20W wireless charging, Bluetooth 5.0, NFC, and Wi-Fi 6. It could also sport AKG-branded stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos support.

The Galaxy Note 10+ leaked spec sheet doesn’t reveal anything out of the ordinary. Also, there’s no mention of IR blaster, which some have been hoping for.

Coming to the Galaxy Note 10+ 5G Geekbench leak, the phone is tipped to come equipped with 12GB RAM and the Exynos 9825 chipset. The 5G variant apparently scored around 4,500 points and 10,400 points in the single-core and multi-core tests, respectively. If the numbers are to be believed, they are on par with the Galaxy S10+. The specifications are expected to remain similar to the Galaxy Note 10+. Previously, Galaxy Note 10 was spotted on Geekbench as well.

Meanwhile, images of the pink colour variant of the Galaxy Note 10 have also started floating around the internet. According to WinFuture, the new colour model could be limited to certain regions. It’s unclear if the Galaxy Note 10+ will also get the pink colour variant.

Samsung’s new Note 10 devices will be unveiled on August 7 in New York City. Additionally, it is worth mentioning reports suggest that smartphones could become available for pre-order on the same date.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 10’s Red, Green Colour Variants Leaked, Galaxy Note 10+ 5G 3C Listing Tips 25W Charging Support

Alleged official renders of the Galaxy Note 10 in green and red colours have surfaced online, while the Galaxy Note 5G has been spotted on 3C and Geekbench.

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Capital One Bank Targeted in Massive Data Breach

The Capital One hacker got information including credit scores and balances plus the Social Security numbers of about 140,000 customers.

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Realme Calling Beta Testers for Mysterious Project X, Could Be Realme OS

This new mysterious Project X could be the new Realme OS or even the Android Q based ColorOS software, however this is pure speculation.

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Facebook's Like Button Makes Websites Liable, Top EU Court Rules

Facebook's 'Like' button makes third-party websites responsible for processing people's data under the European Union's privacy rules, according to the EU's top court.

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Microsoft Acquires Data Privacy, Governance Service BlueTalon

Microsoft has acquired BlueTalon, a data privacy and governance service that helps enterprises set policies for how their employees can access their data, for an undisclosed sum.

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PUBG Mobile Lite Becomes Top Free Game in Google Play in India

PUBG Mobile Lite has become the top free game in the Google Play Store within three days of India launch, Tencent Games has announced.

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Xiaomi Continues to Lead Indian Smartphone Market, While Vivo Sees Strong Growth: Canalys

Xiaomi grabbed 31 percent of share in the Indian smartphone market in the second quarter this year, claims a new report by Canalys.

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Qualcomm, Tencent Agree to Collaborate on Gaming Devices, 5G

Qualcomm and Tencent said they will cooperate on projects that could include making the latter's videogames play better on devices with the former's chips, and create a 5G version of a Tencent-backed gaming phone.

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Avengers: Endgame Now Available on Google Play, iTunes, YouTube in India

Avengers: Endgame is now available for purchase on Google Play, iTunes, and YouTube in India. It costs between Rs. 100 and Rs. 850, depending on whether you choose to rent or buy, and the version — SD or HD — and the platform you pick.

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WhatsApp Multi-Platform System Confirmed, Will Allow Same Account to Run on Many Devices: WABetaInfo

WABetaInfo has now confirmed that the multi-platform system is indeed in the works and will launch in the future

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Uber Lays Off 400 Employees From Its Global Marketing Team to Reduce Costs

Uber on Monday confirmed it is cutting 400 jobs from its marketing team of more than 1,200 workers to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

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WhatsApp iOS Beta Starts Testing Quick Media Edit Feature, Multi-Platform System Rumoured

WhatsApp has released a new beta for iOS, and version 2.19.80.16 removes the ability to save profile pictures using 3D Touch.

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Google Pixel 4 to Feature Soli-Powered Face Unlock, Motion Sense Gestures

Google's Soli radar chip on the Pixel 4 will work in tandem with software algorithms to recognise hand gestures and detect when users are nearby.

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Google Confirms Paying People $5 to Scan Their Face for Pixel 4 Face Unlock Feature

Google paid people $5 in exchange for a facial scan to build an accurate face unlock feature for the upcoming Pixel 4.

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Oppo K3 Sale Today at 12 Noon via Amazon.in in India: Price, Sale Offers, Specifications

Oppo K3 is all set to go on sale once again today via Amazon. The Chinese smartphone maker will be putting the phone on sale at 12pm (noon).

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Realme 3i to Go on Sale at 12 Noon via Flipkart, Realme Online Store Today: Price, Sale Offers, Specifications

Realme 3i flash sale is set for today, and it will begin at 12pm (noon) IST on Flipkart and Realme online store.

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Sunday 28 July 2019

Flipkart Launches Its First 'Furniture Experience Centre'

Flipkart has said that it has launched its first "furniture experience centre", in Bengaluru. The company said that it is also working with Google to enhance customers' overall viewing experience at these centres through integration with Google Lens.

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YouTube Needs 'New Set of Rules and Laws', Company’s Product Chief Says

YouTube is striving to block those who would use it to promote racism, hate speech, violence and disinformation, its number two executive has told AFP, as the Google-owned company comes under increasing scrutiny.

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Tesla to Soon Get Netflix, YouTube Streaming Support: Elon Musk

Elon Musk has announced that people would be soon able to stream videos on digital platforms like Netflix and YouTube in parked Tesla electric vehicles.

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Facebook’s Instant Games Migrating From Messenger to Main App

Facebook Instant Games will no longer be playable directly in the new version of Messenger on iOS starting later this summer.

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The Lion King Nears $1 Billion at Worldwide Box Office, as Disney Has a Record Year

The Lion King is now set to cross a billion dollars at the worldwide box office after it added $218.3 million this weekend. In the process, it helped Disney set a new all-time global annual box office record with $7.67 billion, surpassing the one it previously set in 2016.

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The Lion King Nears $1 Billion at Worldwide Box Office, as Disney Has a Record Year

Redmi K20, Redmi K20 Pro to Go on Sale Again in India Today at 12 Noon via Flipkart, Mi.com: Price, Sale Timing, Specifications, Offers

Xiaomi is hosting yet another flash sale of the Redmi K20 and Redmi K20 Pro on Flipkart and Mi.com, and the sale will begin at 12pm (noon) IST.

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Fortnite World Cup Solo Finals: US Teen Walks Away With $3 Million Prize

American Kyle Giersdorf, alias "Bugha," became the first Fortnite world champion in the solo division, winning $3 million at age 16 on Sunday.

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How to Get Back the Old Twitter for Web With a Few Clicks

Apart from the GoodTwitter add-on, there's a do-it-yourself method to get back the old Twitter, but it's more of a temporary fix that will disappear when you reload the app.

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Black Shark 2 Pro Confirmed to Debut With Snapdragon 855 Plus SoC, DC Dimming 2.0 Ahead of July 30 Launch

Black Shark 2 Pro will come with Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus SoC, Black Shark has confirmed through a video teaser.

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Microsoft's New Cortana App for Windows 10 Released in Preview Build

Microsoft has released a beta version of the updated Cortana app for Windows 10. The new experience features a brand-new chat-based UI.

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Samsung Galaxy A50 Starts Receiving July Security Patch, Galaxy J7 Duo Reportedly Gets Android Pie Update in India

Samsung Galaxy A50 is getting the July 2019 Android security patch through a new software update that carries build number A505FDDU2ASG4.

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FIFA 20 Pre-Orders Live in India for Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, Xbox One

The FIFA 20 Standard Edition, FIFA 20 Champions Edition, FIFA 20 Legacy Edition are up for pre-orders on GamesTheShop.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Reservations Kick Off Along With Trade-in Options; Early Pre-Orders Hint at a Limited Edition

Samsung Galaxy Note 10 launch is set for August 7, but ahead of the official launch, the phone is available for pre-orders in the US and Philippines.

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Reliance Jio Now Largest Telecom Operator in India, Beating Vodafone-Idea's 320 Million Base

Reliance Jio had last week reported it had 331.3 million subscribers at the end of Q2 2019.

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Marcus Hutchins, WannaCry 'Hero', Freed After Guilty Plea Over Banking Malware

A British cybersecurity expert who admitted writing and selling malware was spared prison Friday by a judge who said the misconduct was outweighed by his help in stopping a worldwide computer virus in 2017.

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Jio Saarthi Digital Assistant Launched to Ease Recharge Process for Subscribers

Reliance Jio has announced Jio Saarthi digital assistant that will be integrated within the MyJio app to make digital recharges easier.

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Apple Admits a Small Portion of Siri Recordings Are Heard by Humans

Apple allows Siri recordings to be heard by contractors as part of a process called "grading", which improves the efficacy of the voice assistant, a report claims.

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Vivo Z1 Pro Now on Open Sale in India via Vivo E-Store, Flipkart

Vivo Z1 Pro open sale is live through Flipkart and the Vivo India E-Store. The phone price is set at Rs. 14,990 for the base 4GB RAM + 64GB storage variant.

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Trump Says US Could Tax French Wine in Retaliation for Digital Tax

US President Donald Trump threatened to tax French wines on Friday in retaliation for France's recent proposal to levy a tax aimed at big US technology companies.

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Sprint, T-Mobile Win US Antitrust Approval for $26 Billion Merger

T-Mobile US won US antitrust approval for its $26 billion takeover of rival Sprint, the US Justice Department said Friday.

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Apple Request for Tariffs Exemption on Mac Pro Parts From China Denied: Trump

"Apple will not be given Tariff waiver, or relief, for Mac Pro parts that are made in China. Make them in the USA, no Tariffs!" Trump tweeted.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 10, Galaxy Note 10+ Aura Glow Colour Variant Leaked With Blue S Pen

Samsung Galaxy Note 10, Galaxy Note 10+ leaks in Aura Glow revealing new colour and blue coloured S Pen.

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Saturday 27 July 2019

Black Shark 2 Pro Live Image Leaked, AnTuTu Listing Tips Key Specifications

Black Shark 2 Pro has been leaked in a live image, and the back panel looks almost identical to the Black Shark 2.

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Flipkart Super Flash Sale Sunday Will Offer Redmi K20 Pro, Redmi K20, Redmi 7A, Realme X, Realme 3i

Flipkart is hosting a Super Flash Sunday sale wherein five phones - Redmi K20 Pro, Redmi K20, Redmi 7A, Realme X, and Realme 3i – will all go on flash sale at 12pm IST on July 28.

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Amazon Optimistic on Stable E-Commerce Policy From India

The commerce ministry is currently in the process of finalising the national e-commerce policy.

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Zomato Launches 'Infinity Dining' for Gold Members to Offer Unlimited Servings

Zomato Gold members can avail Infinity Dining to get an "eat and drink all they can" experience through over 350 restaurants and bars across Delhi NCR, Mumbai, and Bengaluru.

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Apple to Gradually Replace MacBook's Butterfly Keyboard Starting This Year: Kuo

Apple may finally put an end to all its MacBook keyboard problems by gradually replacing all its MacBook keyboards with a brand new scissor switch-based keyboard design.

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Huawei Flags First Hongmeng OS Devices - 'Smart Screens'

Huawei on Friday released its first 5G phone in China and said it would soon launch smart TVs equipped with its own Hongmeng operating system.

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Samsung Catching Up With Xiaomi in Indian Smartphone Market: Strategy Analytics

India smartphone shipments grew 3 percent annually to reach 35.6 million units in Q2 2019.

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Twitter Sees Rise in Daily Users Viewing Ads, Beats Expectations on Revenue

Twitter posted a better-than-expected second-quarter revenue on Friday and an uptick in daily users who see advertisements on the site.

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Huawei Nova 5i Pro With Quad Rear Cameras, Kirin 810 SoC Launched: Price, Specifications

Huawei Nova 5i Pro price in China has been set at CNY 2,199 (roughly Rs. 22,000) for the 6GB RAM + 128GB storage configuration, while the price of its 8GB RAM + 128GB storage option is set at CNY 2,499 (roughly Rs. 25,000) and 8GB RAM + 256GB storage at CNY 2,799 (roughly Rs. 28,000).

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This Is How Much Virat Kohli and Priyanka Chopra Charge per Instagram Post

The 2019 Instagram Rich List released by Hopper HQ shows Kylie Jenner as the highest-paid celebrity influencer, who's claimed to cost $1.266 million (roughly Rs. 8.74 crores) for each sponsored post.

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Honor Friendship Days Sale: Honor View 20, Honor 10 Lite, Honor Play, More Discounted on Amazon

Huawei’s sub-brand Honor is running a sale in partnership with e-retailer Amazon. The company’s Honor Friendship Days sale went live earlier today and will continue through July 29.

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Vivo Y90 With 4,030mAh Battery, MediaTek Helio A22 SoC Launched: Price, Specifications

Vivo has now launched the Vivo Y90 in Pakistan, and it features a waterdrop-style notch, an 8-megapixel rear sensor, and a 4,030mAh battery.

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Xiaomi Continues to Lead Indian Smartphone Market in Q2 2019: Counterpoint

Xiaomi grabbed the top spot in the second quarter (Q2) of 2019 with a 28 percent share as smartphone shipments in India grew to 37 million units

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Corsair Acquires Boutique Gaming PC Manufacturer Origin PC, Sets Sights on Pre-Built Computer Market

Origin PC will continue to operate as a brand under Corsair, and will take over its new parent company's Systems business

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Amazon Has 'Destroyed' Retail and Should Be Scrutinised, US Treasury Secretary Says

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that he supported the Justice Department's efforts to look into Amazon because the tech giant has "destroyed the retail industry."

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Lenovo Tab V7 Tablet With Dual Front-Facing Speakers, 5,180mAh Battery Launched in India: Price, Specifications

Lenovo has now launched a new Lenovo Tab V7 tablet in India, and it is priced starting at Rs. 12,990.

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SoftBank to Commit $40 Billion to Second Vision Fund: Report

SoftBank Group will invest $40 billion in its forthcoming second Vision Fund, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. SoftBank's board will meet on Thursday to approve the commitment.

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Twitter’s ‘Lights Out’ Dark Mode Could Be Coming to Android by Mid-September

Twitter is working on bringing Lights Out - its dark mode - to Android, and could do so by mid-September this year.

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Tinder’s New Feature Aims to Keep LGBTQ Users Safe in Countries That Discriminate

Tinder has announced a new safety feature for members of the LGBTQ community aiming to protect them from the risk of using dating apps in nearly 70 countries where the LGBTQ status still remains criminalised.

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Asus ZenFone 6 Android Q Beta Programme Announced, Recruitments Now Open

Asus ZenFone 6 aka Asus 6Z Android Q beta testing recruitment has been started, and the beta testers will receive over-the-air (OTA) updates.

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Samsung Galaxy S10, Samsung Galaxy S10+, Samsung Galaxy S10e Start Receiving July Android Update: Report

Samsung has finally started rolling out the July Android security patch for the Samsung Galaxy S10, Samsung Galaxy S10+ and Samsung Galaxy S10e phones.

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Password Stealing Malware Attacks Rise 60 Percent in First Half of 2019: Kaspersky

The use of malware designed to harvest consumers digital data, known as password stealers, grew 60 percent in the first half of 2019, affecting a large number of users in India, showed data from cyber-security firm Kaspersky.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Series Set at Hulu With Lost’s Carlton Cuse, Wonder Woman’s Jason Fuchs: Report

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is reportedly being turned into a new TV show. Lost co-showrunner Carlton Cuse and Wonder Woman co-writer Jason Fuchs are developing a series adaptation of Dogulas Adams’ iconic comedy sci-fi classic for Hulu.

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Black Shark 2 Pro Confirmed to Debut With Snapdragon 855 Plus SoC, DC Dimming 2.0 Ahead of July 30 Launch

Black Shark 2 Pro will come with Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus SoC, Black Shark has confirmed through a video teaser.

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Microsoft's New Cortana App for Windows 10 Released in Preview Build

Samsung Galaxy A50 Starts Receiving July Security Patch, Galaxy J7 Duo Reportedly Gets Android Pie Update in India

FIFA 20 Pre-Orders Live in India for Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, Xbox One

The FIFA 20 Standard Edition, FIFA 20 Champions Edition, FIFA 20 Legacy Edition are up for pre-orders on GamesTheShop.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Reservations Kick Off Along With Trade-in Options; Early Pre-Orders Hint at a Limited Edition

Reliance Jio Now Largest Telecom Operator in India, Beating Vodafone-Idea's 320 Million Base

Reliance Jio had last week reported it had 331.3 million subscribers at the end of Q2 2019.

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Marcus Hutchins, WannaCry 'Hero', Freed After Guilty Plea Over Banking Malware

Jio Saarthi Digital Assistant Launched to Ease Recharge Process for Subscribers

Apple Admits a Small Portion of Siri Recordings Are Heard by Humans

Vivo Z1 Pro Now on Open Sale in India via Vivo E-Store, Flipkart

Friday 26 July 2019

Trump Says US Could Tax French Wine in Retaliation for Digital Tax

Sprint, T-Mobile Win US Antitrust Approval for $26 Billion Merger

T-Mobile US won US antitrust approval for its $26 billion takeover of rival Sprint, the US Justice Department said Friday.

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Apple Request for Mac Pro Tariffs Exemption From China Denied: Trump

Everything You Need to Know Before Buying a Fitness Wearable

Do you need an activity tracker or a smartwatch? Read this and decide.

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BSNL Rs. 1,399, Rs. 1,001 Prepaid Recharge Plans With Unlimited Calls, and Other Benefits for 270 Days Launched

Rs. 1,399 BSNL prepaid recharge plan offers unlimited voice calls, 1.5GB daily data, and 50 SMS messages per day for 270 days, while Rs. 1,001 BSNL prepaid plan brings 9GB data, and 750 SMS messages, and unlimited calls for 270 days.

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BSNL Rs. 1,399, Rs. 1,001 Prepaid Recharge Plans With Unlimited Calls, and Other Benefits for 270 Days Launched

PUBG Mobile Lite Launched in India for Phones With Less Than 2GB of RAM: Everything You Need to Know

PUBG Mobile Lite is now available in India. The India launch of the game comes almost a year after PUBG Mobile Lite made its debut in the Google Play Store for users in Philippines.

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Lenovo launches Tab V7 with 69-inch display, 5180mAh battery in India at Rs 12,990

Lenovo has launched the Tab V7 in India, a 7-inch phablet (smartphone + tablet) device at a starting price of Rs 12,990. The Tab V7 sports a 6.9-inch display, 5180mAh battery, and 4G VoLTE connectivity. The Lenovo Tab V7 is set to go on sale on Flipkart starting August 1. It will eventually be available on other channels, including Amazon.in and Lenovo.com. It will also be available through offline retailers, such as Croma and Reliance Digital.

The Tab V7 will be sold in two variants: one with 3GB RAM + 32GB storage (for Rs 12,990) and another with 4GB RAM + 64GB storage (for Rs 14,990). Onboard storage can be expanded up to 128GB using a microSD card. The display is a 6.9-inch IPS LCD panel with an 18:9 aspect ratio and Full HD resolution (1080 x 2160 pixels). Lenovo claims the device has a screen-to-body ratio of 81 percent and a slim build. Measuring 7.89mm in thickness and weighing in at 195g, Lenovo's new phablet also features Dolby Audio through its two front-facing speakers.

Lenovo says that the Tab V7's 5180mAh battery is good for up to 10 hours of local video playback and browsing, and up to 30 hours of talktime. The Lenovo Tab V7 has a single 13MP camera on the back and a single 5MP camera on the front, with night shot and panorama modes in the default camera app along with HDR capability. Though it has a fingerprint scanner on the back panel, the tablet supports face unlock too. The Tab V7 is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 mobile platform with an Octa-core processor and runs Android 9 Pie right out of the box.

“Tablet market is showing signs of recovery, driven by the potential demand from sectors like Government, education, banking and finance and as the market leader, we are well positioned to lead this growth,” commented Rahul Agarwal, CEO and MD of Lenovo India in the company's press release. Lenovo's belief in the tablet market appears to be contrary to Google's, which recently confirmed its decision to stop making tablets altogether and instead focus on laptops. You can read more about that here.

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Thursday 25 July 2019

Pixel 3a Helped Google Double Pixel Sales in Q2 2019: CEO Sundar Pichai

Google’s jump in the mid-range smartphone segment with the Pixel 3a launch is seemingly paying off for the company.

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Zombieland: Double Tap Trailer Brings Back Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone to Kill More Zombies

The first trailer for Zombieland 2 — titled Zombieland: Double Tap — is here. Cast members Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin are back for the Zombieland sequel, along with the director Ruben Fleischer (Venom) and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Deadpool).

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Orange Is the New Black Season 7 Now Streaming on Netflix in India

The seventh and final season of Orange Is the New Black is now streaming on Netflix. If you don’t have Netflix, you can catch Orange Is the New Black season 7 on Colors Infinity starting 1pm on Saturday in India.

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Chandrayaan-2 Successfully Performs Second Orbit Raising Manoeuvre: ISRO

Chandrayaan-2 on Friday successfully completed its second earth bound orbit-raising manoeuvre, ISRO said.

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Its official: Apple to acquire majority of Intels smartphone modem business

Two days after a report claimed that Apple is going to buy Intel’s smartphone modem business, the Cupertino-based giant has confirmed the development and provided more clarity on the deal. Apple and Intel have signed an agreement for Apple to acquire “the majority” of Intel’s smartphone modem business. The deal, which is valued at $1 billion, is expected to be closed in the fourth quarter of 2019, Apple said. The transaction, however, is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary conditions, including works council and other relevant consultations in certain jurisdictions.

As a part of the deal, about 2,200 Intel employees will join the iPhone-maker, along with intellectual property, equipment, and leases. Apple also highlighted that by combining the acquired patents for the current and future wireless technology with the company’s existing portfolio, it will hold over 17,000 wireless technology patents. These patents range from protocols for cellular standards to modem architecture and modem operation. Intel, however, will retain the ability to develop modems for non-smartphone applications, such as PCs, internet-of-things devices, and autonomous vehicles.

“We’ve worked with Intel for many years and know this team shares Apple’s passion for designing technologies that deliver the world’s best experiences for our users. Apple is excited to have so many excellent engineers to join our growing cellular technologies group, and know they’ll thrive in Apple’s creative and dynamic environment. They, together with our significant acquisition of innovative IP, will help expedite our development on future products and allow Apple to further differentiate moving forward,” said Johny Srouji, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Hardware Technologies.

Intel CEO Bob Swan added that the agreement will enable the company to focus on developing technology for the 5G network. “We have long respected Apple and we’re confident they provide the right environment for this talented team and these important assets moving forward. We’re looking forward to putting our full effort into 5G where it most closely aligns with the needs of our global customer base, including network operators, telecommunications equipment manufacturers and cloud service providers,” Swan noted.

Previously, Apple depended on Qualcomm for smartphone modems, but Intel and Apple partnered for 5G modems for future iPhones when the Tim Cook-led company’s relationship with Qualcomm jeopardised by a patent lawsuit. In December, it was reported that Apple’s relationship with Qualcomm soured over time and, since Intel was facing a problem of heat dissipation caused by the 8060 modem chip, Apple decided to take the matter into its own hands, and posted a job listing for a cellular modem systems architect.

It is implied that the company’s plans didn’t come out as it wanted to, and after a two-year long feud, a surprise agreement was reached between Apple and Qualcomm in April. Hours after the development made headlines, Intel announced that it was dropping out of the 5G smartphone modem business. If we are to believe the analysts’ expectations and rumours, Apple will launch a 5G phone in 2020.

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Google Images Gets ‘Swipe to Visit’ for Mobile Web Searches, Uses AMP to Quickly Load Source Page

You can now easily visit the origin website of an image when doing mobile Web searches for images using Google

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WhatsApp iOS Beta Starts Testing Quick Media Edit Feature, Multi-Platform System Rumoured

WhatsApp has released a new beta for iOS, and version 2.19.80.16 removes the ability to save profile pictures using 3D Touch.

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Flipkart Month-End Mobiles Fest Sale Offers Google Pixel 3, Motorola One Power, Honor 9N Discounts, and More Deals

Flipkart is conducting its Month-End Mobiles Fest sale to offer discounts and deals on smartphones such as the Google Pixel 3, Motorola One Power, Honor 9N, Poco F1, and Nokia 6.1.

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Sonys wearable air conditioner can keep you cool on the go

If you have always dreamed of an air conditioner that you could take with you on the go, then you aren't alone. Battling the heat is a task but it looks like Sony may have the answer. The company has announced the Reno Pocket, a portable air conditioner that is smaller and lighter than a smartphone. The device sits on the back of an undershirt just below the wearer's neck and has the ability to cool the body by about 13 degrees Celsius when compared to the temperature of the surroundings. It also has the ability to provide the user with heat during winters by raising the temperature by about 8 degrees Celsius.

The device can be controlled by a smartphone app. The app works on iOS and Android and connects to the Reon via Bluetooth. The device charges via USB-C and can take about 2 hours to charge for 90 minutes of use. It is light, weighing in at about 85g. The device will be available in two variants - the Reon Pocket Standard and Reon Pocket Lite. The Reon Pocket Lite is cheaper and only works with manual controls whereas the Reon Pocket Standard works with a smartphone. The Reon Pocket Standard will have an auto mode as well. The undershirt is available in three sizes - small, medium and large.

Sony started the crowdfunding campaign for the device on Sunday and has met 43 percent of its funding goal. The device will, unfortunately, only be available in Japan. The price of the device will range from 12,760 yen (about Rs 8,100 directly converted) to 19,030 yen (about Rs 12,000 directly converted). This will depend on the version and how many undershirts you decide to get with the device. If the funding requirement is met, then we can see the device being launched sometime around 2020.

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Spider-Man: Far From Home Swings Past $1 Billion at Worldwide Box Office, the First Spidey Film to Do So

Spider-Man: Far From Home is now a billion dollar movie, and the first Spidey movie to achieve that. The latest Marvel Cinematic Universe film has grossed $1.005 billion at the worldwide box office, becoming the ninth chapter in the MCU to hit that milestone.

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SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Successfully Launched With 3D Bioprinter, Supplies for ISS

A space capsule carrying a 3D printer to make human tissue and about 5,000 pounds of other experiments and supplies is on its way to the ISS after a thunderous SpaceX launch.

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YouTube Videos Featuring Kids Get More Views: Pew Research Centre

Pew Research Centre said its findings show videos aimed at or featuring children are among YouTube's most popular materials.

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Moto E6 With Snapdragon 435 SoC, 13-Megapixel Camera, 3,000mAh Battery Launched: Price, Specifications

Moto E6 is here. Motorola Moto E6 skips the current trend of going for either display notch, hole-punch, or an all-screen design.

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Intel Says Customers Stockpiling Chips on US-China Tension

Intel forecast current-quarter profit and revenue above estimates and raised its full-year revenue forecast on Thursday, allaying concerns about a global semiconductor sales slowdown and curbs on US sales to China's Huawei.

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Google Parent Alphabet Sees Fresh Growth Amid Antitrust Woes

Alphabet said profits tripled in the second quarter from a year earlier to $9.9 billion while revenues increased 19 percent to $38.9 billion.

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Apple Buys Intel Smartphone Modem Division for $1 Billion

Apple is paying Intel $1 billion for the chip maker's smartphone modem division in a deal driven by the upcoming transition to the next generation of wireless technology.

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Vivo Z1 Pro to Go on Sale in India Today at 12 Noon via Flipkart, Vivo e-Store: Price, Specifications, Sale Offers

Vivo Z1 Pro price in India is set at Rs. 14,990 for the base 4GB RAM + 64GB storage option, while its higher-end 6GB RAM + 64GB storage variant is priced at Rs. 16,990 and the top-end 6GB RAM + 128GB storage model at Rs. 17,990.

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The Boys, Amazon’s New Superhero Series, Now Streaming on Prime Video in India

There’s a new superhero team in town. Except they are not really heroes. Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys is now streaming. Co-developed by Seth Rogen, The Boys stars Karl Urban in the lead, with a recurring role for Simon Pegg.

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Windows 10 leaked internal build reveals new app drawer-like Start menu with no Live Tiles

There's much outcry happening on Twitter and other online forums over Windows 10's new unfinished Start menu design. Spotted originally by Twitter user NTAuthority and eventually by Windows Central, the new Start menu is found in a leaked internal release of Windows 10 numbered Build 18947. The new design ditches the two-column approach with Live Tiles for something more rudimentary and unappealing. But we suggest you consider what you see with a pinch of salt because it's not the finished design.

Start. pic.twitter.com/3QvWGPdQW9

— NTAuthority (@NTAuthority) July 24, 2019

NTAuthority shared two screenshots last evening: one that shows the new Start menu in Windows 10's default desktop mode and one that shows the new Start menu in Windows 10's Tablet mode. In either case, the iconic Windows menu is nothing like what we currently know it to be. Retaining only the slim hamburger menu on the extreme left, the menu loses the two-column architecture and settles for an Android app drawer-style look. Oh, and it also has no Live Tiles, a feature Microsoft introduced in Windows 8.

Start in tablet mode. Meh. pic.twitter.com/Ou7o7ol5g2

— NTAuthority (@NTAuthority) July 24, 2019

The icons of all the installed apps and shortcuts show up on the new Start menu as unnaturally large blocks, as if someone has turned on the Magnifier accessibility tool only for the menu. Fortunately, as it's demonstrated in Windows Central's video, there's an option to take you back to the old Start menu look. The biggest difference between the Start menu in the default desktop mode and the one in Tablet mode is the placement of the entire menu. In Tablet mode, the same Start menu appears in a transparent full-screen window so the icons are more accessible.

The new Start menu also seems to place more emphasis on the user icon, which is normally found on the hamburger menu as an icon of regular size with the user's picture. In the new version of Start, the user icon is significantly larger and at the top, where it's easily found. This is not the case in the Tablet mode though. At any rate, it's hard to say if Microsoft will pursue this design for its final build. If it does, then it may spell the end for Live Tiles. We'll just have to wait and see what Microsoft does with this new design.

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Wednesday 24 July 2019

Did Facebook Data Help Trump? Netflix's The Great Hack Documentary Explores Scandal

The new documentary The Great Hack captures how Facebook's cavalier handling of user data in the Cambridge Analytica scandal posed a threat to democracy.

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Vivo Z5 Specifications Confirmed by Teasers Ahead of Launch, Will Sport Snapdragon 712 SoC, 48-Megapixel Rear Sensor

Vivo has released multiple teasers of the Vivo Z5 ahead of its launch next week, revealing key specification details like the Snapdragon 712 SoC, 4,500mAh battery, and more.

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Libra Fakes Undermine Facebook's Charm Offensive on Cryptocurrency

Facebook is trying to rebuild trust in Washington as it seeks the go-ahead to launch a new cryptocurrency.

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Byju's to Replace Oppo on Indian Cricket Team Jersey

Team India will sport Oppo logo on their jerseys till the West Indies tour which commences on August 3 and ends on September 2.

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Vodafone Rs. 1,699 Prepaid Recharge Plan Revised to Offer 1.5GB Daily Data Benefits for 365 Days

Rs. 1,699 Vodafone prepaid plan has been revised to offer 1.5GB daily data benefits, unlimited voice calls, and 100 SMS messages per day for 365 days.

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Vodafone Rs. 1,699 Prepaid Recharge Plan Revised to Offer 1.5GB Daily Data Benefits for 365 Days

Tesla Needs More Time to Turn Profit; Founding Engineer Steps Down

Tesla has pushed back its profit timeline after missing financial targets in Q2, while announcing that the pioneer of the company's electric batteries, J.B. Straubel, was stepping down from his role as chief technology officer.

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Silicon Valley Season 6 to Premiere in October on Hotstar in India

The sixth and final season of Silicon Valley will premiere in October, HBO announced Wednesday at the summer 2019 press tour of the (US) Television Critics Association. An exact release date wasn’t revealed. Silicon Valley airs on Hotstar and Star World in India.

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Facebook fined 5 billion by FTC for failing to protect users privacy

After being in the spotlight for quite some for its involvement in several data leak cases, Facebook has been awarded a settlement fine of $5 billion (approx Rs 35,000 crore). The fine was imposed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) after it concluded an investigation into the Cambridge Analytica scandal and other privacy breaches in which the social media giant was mired in. The US government agency also told the company to establish an independent privacy committee that Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Chief Executive Officer, will not have control over. The FTC alleged that Facebook violated the law by failing to protect users’ data from third parties, serving ads through the use of phone numbers provided for security, and lying to users that its facial recognition software was turned off by default.

“The Commission’s career enforcement staff conducted an extremely thorough investigation for over a year that focused on all potential violations of the FTC’s 2012 order and Section 5 of the FTC Act. The sweeping settlement announced today is based on the staff’s recommendation, and includes three major components: a record-breaking $5 billion penalty; new substantive privacy and data security requirements; and significant structural reforms to ensure greater corporate accountability, more rigorous compliance monitoring, and increased transparency,” FTC said in a joint statement by Chairman Joe Simons, and Commissioners Noah Joshua Phillips and Christine S. Wilson.

The fine is said to be the biggest ever imposed on any company for violating its consumers' privacy. The $5 billion penalty is approximately 9 percent of Facebook’s 2018 revenue and approximately 23 percent of its 2018 profit. FTC also told Facebook to enforce its platform terms against app developers on the basis of the severity of the violation. “Pursuant to the Order, Facebook must expand its existing privacy program to cover WhatsApp and any Facebook product or service that receives personal information from Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. Moreover, this is the first FTC order to address biometric information, requiring Facebook to get consumers’ option consent before using or sharing such information in ways that exceed prior disclosures and consents,” the FTC said.

While the settlement announced is based on the FTC staff’s recommendation, for some Democratic FTC commissioners, the penalty imposed on the company is just a way to get out of trouble. “The settlement’s $5 billion penalty makes for a good headline...but the terms and conditions, including blanket immunity for Facebook executives and no real restraints on Facebook’s business model, do not fix the core problems that led to these violations. The settlement imposes no meaningful changes to the company’s structure or financial incentives nor does it include any restrictions on the company’s mass surveillance or advertising tactics. Instead, the order allows Facebook to decide for itself how much information it can harvest from users and what it can do with that information, as long as it creates a paper trail,” FTC commissioner Rohit Chopra said.

Meanwhile, Facebook reiterated that it had made large strides in privacy, had given people more control over their data, and had closed down apps and applied more resources in protecting people’s information. “But even measured against these changes, the privacy program we are building will be a step change in terms of how we handle data. We will be more robust in ensuring that we identify, assess and mitigate privacy risk. We will adopt new approaches to more thoroughly document the decisions we make and monitor their impact. And we will introduce more technical controls to better automate privacy safeguards. As part of this effort, we will be undertaking a review of our systems,” Facebook said in a statement.

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Flipkart Grand Gadget Sale Begins: Laptops Starting From Rs. 14,990, Tablets From Rs. 4,299, and More Deals

The Flipkart Grand Gadget Sale will go on till July 27, and it is offering up to 70 percent off on headphones and speakers, and power banks start from as low as Rs. 325.

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Huawei Nova 5i Pro Appears in Leaked Official Renders and Hands-On Video, Quad Rear Cameras Detailed

The Huawei Nova 5i Pro’s official renders and key specifications have been leaked, alongside a hands-on video of its black variant.

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Game of Thrones Prequel Wraps Up Pilot Filming, HBO Addresses Season 8 Backlash

The Game of Thrones prequel series has finished production on its pilot episode and is now being edited, HBO’s president of programming Casey Bloys said. He also touched upon the backlash to and fan petition to remake Game of Thrones season 8.

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Vivo Z1 Pro to go on sale again at 12pm via Flipkart, Vivo e-store: Specifications, price, offers, and more

The Vivo Z1 Pro was launched in India earlier this month, on July 3. Since then, the company has held quite a few sales for the phone, and it will again be up for grabs at 12pm today. Those of you who want to order the phone can head to Vivo India’s online store or Flipkart at 12pm. The Vivo Z1 Pro is a budget gaming offering from the company as it comes with a host of gaming-centric features.

Vivo Z1 Pro specifications

The Vivo Z1 Pro features a 6.53-inch Full HD+ display that delivers a 2340x1080p resolution. The screen has a 19.5:9 display aspect ratio, which helps the device to have a 90.77-percent screen-to-body ratio. The phone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 chipset, paired with an Adreno 616 GPU and up to 6GB RAM. It runs Funtouch OS 9 based on Android 9 Pie.

As mentioned earlier, the Vivo Z1 Pro is a gaming-centric smartphone. Hence, it comes with features such as Game Mode 5.0, 4D vibrations, and 3D surround sound for an enhanced gaming experience. It features Multi-Turbo technology that is said to help optimise the overall smartphone in key areas like cooling, AI, internet, gaming and more. When turned on, the Center Turbo feature is said to deliver up to 78 percent improvement for anti-frame drops, whereas, Cooling Turbo is touted to drop the handset’s temperature by 1-1.5 degrees.

On the camera front, the Vivo Z1 Pro sports a triple-rear camera setup: a 16MP primary Sony IMX499 sensor, an 8MP sensor with a 120-degree super wide-angle f/2.2 lens, and a 2MP sensor with an f/2.4 lens for bokeh images. On the front resides a 32MP sensor with an f/2.0 aperture lens. Additionally, the smartphone comes with a dedicated physical button for Google Assistant and Google Lens.

The Vivo Z1 Pro packs a 5000mAh battery that supports 18W fast charging. You can read our gaming review of the phone here and comparison with other mid-segment devices here.

Vivo Z1 Pro price, availability, and sale offers

The Vivo Z1 Pro comes in three variants: 4GB RAM + 64GB storage, 6GB RAM + 64GB storage, and 6GB RAM + 128GB storage. The smartphone is priced at Rs 14,990 for the base variant, and goes up to Rs 17,990 for the top-end variant. The smartphone is available in three colour variants, namely, Mirror Black, Sonic Black, and Sonic Blue. It will go on sale today at 12pm on Flipkart and Vivo India’s e-store.

As for the sale offers, Jio subscribers who buy the smartphone can avail a cashback worth Rs 6,000 that will be credited in the form of 40 discount coupons worth Rs 150 each in the MyJio app. There are options for no-cost EMI as well, alongside a cashback of Rs 3,750 for Vodafone and Idea subscribers. Additionally, Flipkart is offering a 5-percent cashback on purchases made using a Flipkart Axis Bank credit card or HDFC Bank debit cards.

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Microsoft Accidentally Releases Internal-Only Windows 10 Build With New Start Menu

Windows 10 build 18947 was rolled out to Windows Insiders accidentally with a new Start menu design and an all-new GIF search tool.

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New Xbox One home screen and voice commands rolling out to Xbox Insiders

Microsoft has updated its home screen experience for the Xbox One console. The new home layout doesn't have tabs for Game Pass, store, mixer, etc. instead, they are all buttons below the “resume” game tile. On the right, we have access to the “My games and apps” screen making the entire layout more compact and easily accessible. According to the official Xbox website, “With this new experimental Home design, the first thing you’ll notice is we’ve removed the Twists from the top of Home in favour of separate buttons that launch your gaming experiences. The goal is to let you jump into Xbox Game Pass, Mixer, Xbox Community and Microsoft Store quicker than ever. We’ve also shifted things around to make more room for your recently played titles”.

The new home screen is rolling out to select Xbox Insiders in the Alpha and Alpha Skip Ahead rings. This isn't the final design though. According to Xbox, the home experience will continue to evolve and change based on users feedback. So it is possible that we will see some features tweaked or moved around before the final build is released. Xbox says that users “may see this layout change and even come and go as we iterate on your feedback”.

There are some changes to Xbox voice commands. Xbox has said that users can no longer talk to Cortana via a headset. However, the Xbox Skill for Cortana via the Cortana app on iOS, Android, and Windows will still work for commands like powering on the Xbox One, adjusting volume, launching games and apps, capturing screenshots, etc. The same can be done with an Alexa enabled speaker. With memory freed up from Cortana on the Xbox One, it is possible that the UI becomes a little smoother and loads a little faster. In the current UI, there are times when the UI can get quite laggy and slow. Hopefully, this will be addressed with the new home screen update.

A full roll-out of the update for all users will come this fall. There is no exact date mentioned for the same on the Xbox site.

Ever since the launch of the Xbox One, Microsoft has constantly tired new things to update the UI and add new features to the console. Even though the next-generation Xbox is rumoured to launch in 2020, it is nice to see new features being worked upon on the current-generation console.

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Samsung Galaxy Fold Now Ready for September Launch After Delays

Samsung's first foldable smartphone, the Galaxy Fold, will go on sale from September in selected markets after the launch was delayed by screen problems earlier this year, the company said on Thursday.

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Redmi 7A to Go on Sale Today at 12 Noon via Flipkart, Mi.com: Price, Specifications, Sale Offers

Redmi 7A will be put on sale once again on Flipkart and Mi.com today. The budget smartphone will be available at 12pm (noon).

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SK Hynix Warns of Chip Supply Disruption on Japan's Export Curbs

SK Hynix warned of a supply disruption due to an escalating trade dispute between South Korea and Japan, and said it would cut investment and production to support a nascent recovery in chip demand.

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Facebook Ends Microsoft, Sony Access to Friend Data

Facebook will end access to limited friend data from Microsoft and Sony as a first step under a record $5 billion US FTC settlement.

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iPhone 11 to Feature A13 Chip, New Taptic Engine, Retina Display: Report

The iPhone 11 models will continue to sport a Lightning port, and won’t be switching to USB Type-C port, the report says.

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Facebook to Pay Record $5 billion US FTC Fine Over Privacy, Faces Antitrust Probe

Facebook will pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine to resolve a government probe into its privacy practices and will boost safeguards on user data, the US FTC and the social media company said on Wednesday.

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Vivo Z1 Pro to Go on Sale Today at 12pm via Flipkart, Vivo e-Store: Price, Specifications, Sale Offers

Vivo Z1 Pro packing triple rear cameras and the Snapdragon 712 processor will go on sale today via Flipkart and Vivo e-store.

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Honor 9X, 9X Pro with Kirin 810 chipset launched in China: Specs, price and all you need to know

Amid its tensions with the US, Huawei sub-brand Honor has launched the Honor 9X and Honor 9X Pro smartphones in China. The smartphones sport the same overall design with the basic differences being the RAM, storage options, and camera setup. These are the second lot of phones by Huawei Technologies that are powered by HiSilicon Kirin 810 chipset and the first Honor devices to get the mobile platform. The Chinese tech giant debuted the SoC in the Huawei Nova 5 Series phones last month.

Honor 9X price and availability

The Honor 9X is offered in three variants: 4GB RAM + 64GB storage variant, which is priced at CNY 1399 (approx Rs 14,000); 6GB RAM + 64GB storage version for CNY 1599 (approx Rs 16,000); and 6GB RAM + 128GB storage model, which can be purchased for CNY 1899 (approx Rs 19.000). It will go on sale in China on July 30. The Honor 9X Pro is available in only two variants. The 8GB RAM + 128GB storage version costs CNY 2199 (approx Rs 22,000) and the 8GB RAM + 256GB storage variant will be available at CNY 2399 (approx Rs 24,000). The Honor 9X comes in Red, Blue and Midnight Black colours and the Pro model, which will go on sale on August 9, is offered in Phantom Blue and Midnight Black colours.

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Honor 9X and Honor 9X Pro specifications

Both the Honor 9X and Honor 9X feature a 6.59-inch multi-touch display that offers 2340 x 1080 pixel resolution and 19.5:9 aspect ratio. The phones are powered by an Octa-core Kirin 810 chipset (2.27GHz A76 x 2 + 1.88GHz A53 x 6) with ARM Mali-G52 MP6 GPU. The Kirin 810 is the company’s mid-range chipset, which is based on TSMC’s 7nm process. Huawei is also the world’s first company to have two 7nm chipsets (Kirin 980 was the first). Both phones have expandable storage up to 512GB.

In the camera department, the phones have a 16MP selfie camera with f/2.2 aperture lens. The Honor 9X sports a dual camera setup on the back consisting of a 48MP sensor with f/1.8 aperture lens, and a 2MP shooter with LED Flash. The Honor 9X Pro, on the other hand features an additional 8MP ultra-wide sensor. Both devices are equipped with side-mounted fingerprint sensors, and 4000mAh batteries. They run on EMUI 9.1.1 based on Android 9.0 Pie.

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Amazon Moves Into Real Estate by Teaming Up With Realogy

Amazon is branching into real estate through a partnership with Realogy, the nation's biggest residential real estate broker, the company announced Tuesday.

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Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 specs leaked, could be launched before Galaxy Note 10

The launch of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 is just around the corner, and while the phone(s) have been leaked and talked about to death, another device we’re finally starting to get details on is the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2.

New rumours shed some light on the potential specs of the new wearable from Samsung. The Galaxy Watch Active is rumoured to come in 40mm and 42mm sizes, with the display on the respective size measuring 1.2 inches and 1.4 inches. Samsung will protect the Super AMOLED display on both the watches with Gorilla Glass DX+ and the watches are expected to weigh just 31 grams for the 40mm version and 36 grams for the 42mm version. Both watches will use a steel or aluminium case that will be MIL-STD 810G certified.

While rumours have long suggested that the rotating bezel won't be present any longer on Samsung’s wearable, the Watch Active 2 is rumoured to have a touch-sensitive bezel around the watch face. This could work just as easily as the rotating dial, but it would be interesting to see how Samsung manages to separate the touch interface of the watch face from the touch input on the bezels. The Watch Active 2 will employ the same Samsung Exynos 9110 SoC as its predecessor, with 768 MB of RAM on the Bluetooth-only model and 1.5GB on the LTE-capable wearable. Both will get 4GB of internal storage.

What is interesting is that the renders leaked by @evleaks show a date of August 5 on the watch, hinting that maybe Samsung could announce the new watch ahead of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 announcement on August 7.

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Tuesday 23 July 2019

Facebook, Amazon Set Lobbying Records as Tech Scrutiny Grows

Facebook and Amazon.com set records for lobbying in the second quarter as Washington ramped up scrutiny of big technology companies.

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How to Save WhatsApp Status Videos and Photos on Your Android Phone

WhatsApp Status photos and videos usually disappear within 24 hours. If you see an interesting WhatsApp Status and want to save it, follow these steps.

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Facebook Libra Cryptocurrency Plan Details Still Awaited by Swiss Watchdog

Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency project has not responded to an information request by Switzerland's data privacy watchdog, the authority said on Tuesday,

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Google is buying faces of passers-by for Rs 345: Report

The news that Google is quietly developing its own Apple Face ID-like technology for its Pixel line-up of smartphones has been making the rounds on the internet for quite some time now. But Google appears to be more serious about it than we anticipated. We say this because, according to a recent report by ZDNet, Google is buying facial data of passers-by in the US for $5, which translates to about Rs 350 in India. We imagine this data will help the Android-maker train its new face unlock system better.

In a recent ZDNet report, frequent contributor Chris Matyszczyk writes about his friend George, who was, on one sunny day, ambling through a park in New York only to be encountered by a Google representative for a quick survey. “I basically had to use selfie mode and move my face around to get different angles of my face,” Matyszczyk quotes his friend as saying. In return for his time, Google reportedly offered him a $5 gift card to either Amazon or Starbucks.

From the article, we gather that Google is currently collecting data “to improve the next generation of facial recognition phone unlocking”. Google is apparently conducting this sort of survey in multiple cities across the US. While we're not entirely sure for which device Google is honing its facial recognition tech, our guess is that it's for the upcoming Pixel model, the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL. Google is most likely collecting the facial data of real people to train its neural network to read faces better in the upcoming Pixel devices.

It's hard to say whether Google's public collection of people's facial data in this manner is ethically right or wrong. “Google basically has my whole life on their servers already. And removing Google from my life just isn't going to happen from a practical point of view. I don't really care about data privacy because I think it's all an illusion anyway,” Matyszczyk quotes his friend as saying while discussing data privacy.

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