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Internet of Things (IoT)and AI-powered technology has enabled many new innovations, and improved productivity in almost every industry. Add farming to that list, at least in India as heavy vehicles makerEscorts has unveiled a “connected” and autonomous tractorwhich shouldallow farmers to make smarter choices and enablemore precise farming to eliminate loss due to negligence. The smart tractor hassensors which study the health of the agricultural landand conserve water by managing it judiciously....

Apple has permanentlyremoved the Infowars appfrom App Store, following a ban from Twitter yesterday. The development comes almost exactly a month after the company hadremoved a number InfoWars podcasts from iTunesfor allegedly violating the company’s stated policy against hate speech, and just a day afterTwitter finally banned Alex Jones and Infowarsfrom all its platforms after publiclydefending its earlier decisionof not banning the controversial firebrand. Infowars, in case you didn’t know it already, is the far-right website founded by notorious American conspiracy theorist and talk-radio host,Alex Jones, who is known for making incendiary statements and peddling debunked conspiracy theories....

New challenges for Week 9 of Fortnite’s fifth season rolled out recently, and as is usual, among the various new challenges is a particularly difficult one which involves following a treasure map. So, if you’re looking forward to completing the challenge and grabbing those 10 battle stars, here’s how to do it. Fortnite Week 9 Challenges Just like every other week, this time around there are 3 challenges for people playing in the free tier, and four more for those with the Battle Pass....

After being accused ofartificially inflating benchmark scoresof its smartphones by whitelisting popular benchmarking apps, Huawei was blacklisted by UL (formerly Underwriters Laboratories), the developers of one of those applications, 3DMark. The company delisted Huawei’s P20 Pro, Nova 3, and Honor Play from its leaderboard for‘Best Smartphones’afterAnandTech publishedits detailed report about how the performance of the company’s devices differ drastically with their so-called‘Performance Mode’turn on and off. Explaining the rationale behind its decision, UL at the time had said,“We found that the scores from the public 3DMark app were up to 47% higher than the scores from the private app, even though the tests are identical… This kind of detection and optimization is forbidden by our rules for manufacturers”....

SeveralPUBGplayers on Xbox Onestarted complainingon the game’s official forumsand on Redditabout an apparent glitch in the system that’s preventing some of the game’s achievements from unlocking. GameRant is also reportingsimilar problems, and was apparently able to replicate many of those issues that have seemingly cropped up after the popular Battle Royale titlereceived a new updateearlier this week, officially ending the game’s beta phase. Many gamers have been reporting that their actions are only unlocking some achievements but not others....

A group of security researchers from the GuardianApp team have discovered 24 iOS apps that were sending user location data along with other sensitive information to third parties for data monetization. The team of researchers used tools that analyse network traffic to spot these apps, all of which required access to a user’s location data. However, according to the researchers, the apps usually gave users plausible explanations for needing access to their location data, and in many cases not mentioning that the data will be shared with third parties....

Afterfacing severe criticismfrom several quarters for failing to act against notorious right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Twitter is finally falling in line with fellow tech giants Google,AppleandFacebookin banning the controversial talk-radio host from its platform. The micro-blogging site announced that it has permanently banned the accounts of Jones and his website, InfoWars, for allegedly violating the company’s policies on abusive behavior and hate speech. Today, we permanently suspended@realalexjonesand@infowarsfrom Twitter and Periscope....

Google has been releasing India-only apps and features at a steady pace in recent times, and the latest offering from Google targeted at Indian bloggers. The Blog Compass app is designed for bloggers and content creators, and Google aims to ease the task of website management such as traffic assessment, activity tracking as well as discovering relevant content. Blog Compass is currently listed as a beta app on the Play Store and is only available for users based in India....

From sending WTF emails to employees, dating celebs and waging war against AI to creating electric cars and plans tocolonize Mars, Elon Musk’s personality has won him fans while his flamboyance has landed him introuble with investors. Yet, there’s no stopping Musk from being, well, himself, and his personality was on full display in a recent interview during which Musk smoked weed, sipped whiskey and talked about innovations and events that could alter the course of humanity....

As we approach theSeptember 12 launch datefor the new iPhones, the leaks are becoming more rampant. In the last few days we’ve seenleaked press rendersof the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max, and theApple Watch Series 4. We’ve seenCAD rendersof the iPad Pro, and now we have the third and final piece of the new iPhone puzzle —dummy models of the 6.1-inch LCD iPhone have just popped up in red, blue, gold, and white colors....

Fortnite’s delayed patch v5.40 is about to go live, with the game entering downtime at 1:30PM IST today. The patch brings along abunch of changes, but mentioned deep inside the patch notes for v5.40 is a pretty huge change for people who playFortnite on Android. TheFortnite Android port is finally getting voice chat in the game, so you can talk to your squadmates in-game, strategize your moves and more. It’s a pretty huge feature that is simply mentioned as ‘Added VOIP to Android’ in the ‘Mobile’ section of the patch notes for this week’s update....

The Xiaomi Mi A2 will once again go on sale today at 12 PM on Amazon and Mi.com. The phone is available with 4GB RAM + 64GB storage, and is priced at Rs 16,999. Xiaomi has tied-up with Reliance Jio to offer Rs 2,200 as cashback when buying the phone with a new connection, along with 4.5TB of 4G data. The Mi A2 will be available in four different color variants, Black, Gold, Lake Blue, and Rose Gold....

After Wednesday’s congressional hearings, Facebook and Twitter will now face questions from the Justice Department (DOJ) over allegations of political bias, an issue flagged by US President Donald Trump. In a meeting in September, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, along with state attorneys general, would look into whether Facebook and Twitter are“intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas on their platforms”, CNET reported on Wednesday. The DOJ announced the meeting on a day when Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg appeared before the US Congress, admitting to the lawmakers that they were“too slow to act”and“ill-prepared”to tackle foreign interference on their platforms....