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Amazon Cuts Down The Price Of Its Echo Devices Yet Again

12Jun By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Amazon Cuts Down The Price Of Its Echo Devices Yet Again

Amazon has brought in a modification in the prices of its echo devices in India namely Amazon Echo Dot and Amazon Echo smart speakers. The prices of both the devices have been pulled down to a great extent. The Echo Dot is now being sold at a price of Rs 4,099 which was earlier being sold for Rs 4,499 in the market. On the other hand, the Echo is now available at Rs 8,999 which earlier was being sold at a price of Rs 9,999. The Echo has received a price cut of Rs 1,000 while Echo Dot has received a price cut of Rs 400 that has made it the most affordable and reliable Echo device. This has been the second discount offered to the customers in less than two months of the launch of the product. These devices are perfect for those who do not want to spend a lot and still have a need to ow...

Inshorts Launches AI Based News Summarization on its App

11Jun By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Inshorts Launches AI Based News Summarization on its App

The online news aggregator application called Inshorts has inaugurated artificial intelligence (AI) based information summarization on its platform. Inshorts is a news app that chooses and picks latest and best news from various national and international sources and summarises them to present in a short and crisp 60 words or less format. The attribute of the app is built on Rapid60 algorithm which automatically summarizes a full-length news article to sixty words article brief along with a headline and a card image as well. In this regard, the words of Azhar Iqubal, CEO of Inshorts were that the human curation comes with a restriction on how many numbers of articles they can produce, and with this idea, they plan to increase the number of articles being published on its platform to ...

Xiaomi Pacts with Dixon to Produce 55K TV Sets Every Month

11Jun By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

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Xiaomi Pacts with Dixon to Produce 55K TV Sets Every Month

Chinese Smartphone Maker Xiaomi has reportedly entered into a pact with consumer electronics maker Dixon Tech to kick start 55K TV sets production locally every month. While, earlier we had reported about Xiaomi planning to manufacture Mi TV sets in India to amp up Diwali sales, another collaboration with Dixon is a robust move by the company to expand its foothold in the country. Dixon Partnership will likely ensure an August launch “Make in India” Mi TVs. The large scale productions is expected to begin next month at Dixon’s Tirupati plant where 32-inch and 43-inch models will be manufactured. Within the deal, the local production will follow an "open cell" route for which the company will be importing television panels in an open cell state that would involve assembling much be...

Meet The World’s Fastest Supercomputer Launched By IBM

9Jun By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Meet The World’s Fastest Supercomputer Launched By IBM

The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) along with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) announced the launch of its latest and world’s fastest supercomputer named ‘Summit’. Summit was revealed at Friday at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The supercomputer highlights a peak performance of tremendous 200,000 trillion calculations per second. That as fast as each of the planet's 7.6 billion people doing 26 million calculations per second on a hand calculator. IBM has declared that ‘Summit’, at present, is the most powerful and intelligent scientific computer in the world. The production and working on the supercomputer has been carried for decades and it seems their efforts have well succeeded. The features of the computer are th...

Airtel TV Crosses 50 Million Downloads on Android: Extends Free Subscription

7Jun By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Airtel TV Crosses 50 Million Downloads on Android: Extends Free Subscription

India’s popular Delhi-based telecom company Bharti Airtel has publicized that its Android app called Airtel TV has crossed the milestone of 50 million (5 crores) downloads on the Google Play Store. To acknowledge this success, the company has announced that it will be offering a free subscription to the Airtel mobile customers till 31 December 2018. Earlier, Airtel provided free subscription on Airtel TV app to its customers only till June, but now the time period has been extended till the end of this year. The free subscription will be offered to each and every Airtel prepaid and postpaid user. "We are thrilled at achieving this milestone and being able to scale up the app so rapidly. This is a strong endorsement from our users and a result of our unrelenting focus on delivering a wo...

Indian Developer Raja Vijayaraman wins the Apple’s Design Award

6Jun By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Indian Developer Raja Vijayaraman wins the Apple’s Design Award

A Chennai-based app developer Raja Vijayaraman has been awarded the reputable Apple’s Design Award yesterday for his iOS app 'Calzy' on the very first day of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2018, which is being hosted in San Jose, California. The WWDC offers prestigious awards to the best iOS app developers across the globe. Vijayaraman’s app called Calzy which is a modern and beautifully designed calculator app for iPhone/iPad was chosen by Apple for the award. The award is given on the basis of the creative artistry and technicality of the developer that reflected the best in design, innovation and technology on Apple platforms. Today people across 150+ countries use my apps and I just received an Apple Design Award ?. Thanks to Apple’s @AppStore and huge s...

Xiaomi Asks Users For Their Personal Details

6Jun By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Xiaomi Asks Users For Their Personal Details

The consumer electronics company Xiaomi that at present rules the Indian market has silently updated its privacy policy for the Indian website. The policy was updated on 25 April 2018 and will come into force from 25 May 2018. The new policy wants the users to provide them with their personal information such as bank details, working place and much more. In case the user does not provide this information, he will not be able to make use of all the Xiaomi services. The privacy policy on the official website reads, “If you do not agree with these changes and no longer wish to use our services, you may cancel your account.” This clearly states that the users' account will be canceled if he does not provide his private details. The list of details that the users are bound to share with t...

Google Launches an Indian Q&A App Neighbourly

1Jun By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Google Launches an Indian Q&A App Neighbourly

The American technology company Google is lately focusing on India quite a lot. The technology giant has just instigated an all-new Q&A app in beta known as 'Neighbourly' (targeted at neighborhood communities) which will resolve the queries related to places and events in your community. The Android application will enable the users to ask questions to their neighbors through text or by voice and find well-grounded and admissible answers. The people can share local expert skill or knowledge, and keep updates from the neighborhood.In a blog, Caesar Sengupta, VP of Next Billion Users Team, said, "People nearby often have the exact information you need, but they are too busy these days to stop and chat on the street or in the park. And group chats keep getting bigger and noisier - and oft...

1Jun By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Xiaomi to Start its Television Production in India for Diwali

Chinese electronics company Xiaomi is planning to go ahead with the manufacturing of televisions in India. Instead of importing them from the other country, the company has decided to partner with Foxconn which is Taiwanese contract manufacturer. This idea has basically been formulated to intimidate online sales in the upcoming festive season during Diwali. “Xiaomi’s talks are in advanced stages with Foxconn for manufacturing televisions in India, which will start from July-August so that in the festive season-Diwali sales it has mostly made-in-India models,” quoted an industry executive acquainted with the idea. The manufacturing of televisions in India will give tax benefits to the company, but, it has been reported the prices of the television may not come down and that is because...

Apple’s iOS 11.4 Software Update is Out with All-New Features

31May By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Apple’s iOS 11.4 Software Update is Out with All-New Features

The popular technology company, Apple Inc. released its new software update, iOS 11.4 that has come up with a few new features, which may interest the Apple users. The latest update will bring features such as AirPlay 2 and iMessages in iCloud among others. Stating in detail, apart from a couple of performance advancements and bug fixes, iOS 11.4 update focuses on: Update 1 - AirPlay 2 : This update will help us control the compatible home audio system and speakers, which are based on the new AirPlay protocol, throughout our home location that is one can play a song everywhere or transfer music from one room to another using an Apple device or with the help of Siri. This will allow two HomePod speakers to work together as a stereo pair. Along with this, the interesting part is that t...

Apple to Bring OLED Panel Feature in these Upcoming iPhones

30May By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Apple to Bring OLED Panel Feature in these Upcoming iPhones

The multinational technology company Apple is planning to switch to organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays, similar to that of iPhone X, in the upcoming iPhone models. According to the reports, Apple is expected to launch the three new iPhones in the second half of 2018, out of which two models will feature the OLED display. Apple from the very beginning has been using the LCD display in its models but now, it will make use of a superior quality OLED display. These displays are more power efficient and also, they provide powerful contrast, more vibrant colours and higher brightness. One of the models with come with 6.5-inch and 5.8-inch display-variants and the one is expected to feature a 6.1-inch OLED panel. It is being co...

Snapchat Introduces its All New Sound Reacting Lens

29May By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Snapchat Introduces its All New Sound Reacting Lens

The multimedia messaging app ‘Snapchat’ has reportedly introduced its first-ever lens that will not only react to what it sees but also to the sound. The lens will produce a cute animal face overlay with moveable eyes and ears that pulse and glimmer, depending on the sound. However, Snapchat has yet not revealed exactly the sounds on which the Lens reacts in certain ways, but it seems like the louder the noise, the more will be the reaction of the lens. The company plans to launch more such lenses over the coming week that react to sound as well as what they see. Snapchat already had quite a few fascinating Lenses one can play with, which includes its body-tracking ones that follow us around and its majestic sky whale Lens that uses sky segmentation technology. The app announced its ...