As Google is trying to make a comeback in China with censored apps, its biggest rival in the country, Baidu, said it was prepared to take on the US tech giant and defeat it, the media reported. According to a report in The Verge on Tuesday, Baidu CEO Robin Li wrote on his verified WeChat account that if “Google decides to return to China, we are very confident we can just PK and win again....
The government should look for “more effective” steps to curb fake news and maintain public order, instead of blocking mobile applications which is very difficult and may hamper routine actions of innocent people, the COAI said on Tuesday. Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) Director General Rajan S. Mathews’ comments came after reports that the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had asked telecom companies for ways to block social media platforms like Whatsapp, Facebook, Telegram and Instagram in case of threat to national security and public order....
The European Union is now planning to crack the whip after tech companies have failed to introduce common mobile phone chargers to cut down on electronic waste, the media reported. The idea behind the undertaking, signed back in 2009, was generalizing the charging ports so that users could use the same physical connectors and power inputs, preventing them from having to change their chargers while switching from one brand to another, reducing costs and environmental damage from old, un-used chargers....
An internal Facebook document obtained byBuzzFeed Newshas revealed that Facebook consulted tbh’s team on the latter’s aggressive method of marketing their app among teenagers, something which can help Facebook tackle its dwindling popularity among the teenaged user base. As per the memo, tbh leveraged Instagram’s popularity among teenagers and took the advantage of their tendency to mention their school’s name in the profile to market their product. To do so, tbh’s team targeted one school at a time and created an Instagram account with the school’s name, and then followed all accounts wherein the school’s name was mentioned....
Mozilla has announced a new feature for the Firefox web browser which employs machine learning to suggest new websites and pages based on users’ browsing history and web surfing habits, and that too, in real time. The new feature is calledAdvance, and it is an extension which has been introduced as part of Mozilla’s Test Pilot program. Once the Advance extension is enabled, it will track users’ internet browsing patterns such as websites they visit, what kind of content they consume on a regular basis, etc....
The offer is valid for any purchase of discrete GPU made between August 7 and November 3. You can avail the free copies of the games until December 31. AMD claims that its Radeon RX series graphics card can take on any AAA title with ease, especially theRX Vega which is capable of gameplay in 4K or VR at up to 60fps. Of the three games that will be available to users,Strange Brigade will be coming out the earliesti....
In a bid to support the next generation of innovative female entrepreneurs in India, Google on Wednesday joined hands with co-working community hub 91springboard. 91springboard connects over 8,000 entrepreneurs across the country through various hubs. “With Google for Entrepreneurs building its presence in India, we now have an end-to-end mentoring and support programme helping entrepreneurs across all stages of their startups,”said Rajan Anandan, Vice President, Southeast Asia and India, Google....
Huawei’s sub-brand Honorrecently launched the Honor Play— its low-priced phone that comes with the company’s proprietaryGPU Turbotechnology. A technology that Honor claims gives a pretty impressive 60% boost to gaming performance on the phone, and a 30% reduction in battery consumption while gaming — all thanks to software tweaks and improvements. Well, we have the Honor Play with us and I put it through its paces playing games that support GPU Turbo....
When Honorannounced its gaming phone, the Honor Play in China, I wasn’t too impressed at first, because it does not really look like a gaming phone, but then, I took a look at the specs and the price and that’s when it hit me that this could be the perfect budget phone for gamers. Well, the Honor Play isfinally here in Indiaand at a starting priceRs. 19,999, the Honor Play seems like the perfect “Play” from Honor, with high-end specs like the Kirin 970 and the new GPU Turbo tech....
Huawei recently launched its latest mid-range smartphone, theHonor Play, in India. The device ispositioned as a gaming phone, especially for gamers on a tight budget and promises enhanced gaming performance, thanks to the company’s proprietary GPU Turbo technology. Well, it appears that the Honor Play is proving to be highly popular among smartphone gaming fans and is in a great demand, as the device was recently sold out in a span of just 20 seconds on Amazon India....
The notch is a highly divisive design trend, it has certainly caught on and new devices across all segments featuring a notch are making their way to the market. But when it comes to the brand which has shipped the highest number of smartphones with a notched display, Huawei reigns supreme over its rivals in the domain. On a worldwide scale, a total of 86 million smartphones with a notched display were shipped between January 1 and June 30, which means Huawei accounted for around one-third of the total shipments in the segment....
Alex Jones and his Infowars show are all over the internet right now, particularly after Apple booted off the conspiracy theorist’s objectionable content fromiTunes, which was followed by departure fromFacebook, YouTube, Spotify, etc. But one platform that did not follow suit was Twitter, which was all the more surprising, as the company has taken a proactive approach in the recent times to curb hate speech and rumor mongering, something Jones is particularly notorious for....
The all-newAndroid Piehas brought with it a number ofnew featuresthat are expected to make the overall experience just that bit better for users. One such feature is‘Overview‘that marks a massive departure from how the‘recent apps’screen worked in Oreo. First and foremost, the carousel is horizontal now instead of vertical, which means users will have to swipe right/left (rather than up/down) to see their recent apps. There are loads of other changes as well, which makes the new feature extremely useful and intuitive....
