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Children with autism were able to improve their social skills by using a smartphone app paired withGoogle Glass— the eye-wearable device — to help them understand the emotions conveyed in people’s facial expressions, according to a pilot study. Autism is a serious developmental disorder that impairs the ability to communicate and interact. However, the therapy, named “Superpower Glass” developed by the researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, uses an app that provides real-time cues about people’s facial expressions to a child wearing Google Glass....

Google Maps’ live location feature can be a godsend for those who need to keep a watchful eye on their loved ones. And it can also stop those unfamiliar with a city from getting lost by letting friends track their whereabouts. But that’s not always the full picture. What if your friend or relative has low battery and suddenly drop off the map; it could cause panic or anxiety. But Google is looking to change that by showing battery percentage and distance from your contact....

JioPhonehas given birth to a new segment in India – the ‘Fusion’ phones segment. “Fusion” handsets have a feature phone form factor with 4G connectivity and may have a closed apps ecosystem enabling limited smart features for users, a report by CyberMedia Research (CMR) said. One in four mobile handsets is now being manufactured in India at a completely knocked-down (CKD) level. Reliance was followed by Samsung at 17.2 per cent market share in the mobile handset market....

The rumor mill has been rife with Samsung touted to be the first company to debut with a bendable smartphone. However, it seems like LG has emerged as the company all set to challenge Samsung’s monopoly on the flexible OLED display supplies for bendable phones. As reported byETNews,many companies are increasingly partnering with LG on the production of flexible OLED panels for their bendable smartphones. According to Korean Media, LG is ready for commercial production of its bendable displays that may go into foldable devices phones from the likes of Huawei, Xiaomi or Oppo....

Afteracquiring Musical.ly last yearfor a reported $1 billion, China’s Bytedance Technology is shutting down the service and starting the process of migrating all users to its own TikTok video app, which currently has over 50 million downloadson the Play Store. Interestingly,Musical.lyitself last month shut down its own live streaming app called Live.ly that it had developed before being acquired by Bytedance. Musical.ly and TikTok are competing apps that let users create and share short singing and dancing videos that are set mostly to well-known songs....

Netflix will be cashing in on the popularity of the mega-hit Baahubali series to expand its presence in the country. The video streaming giant has revealed that it working on the production of a Netflix original, two seasons of which have been ordered. The series will serve as aprequel to the two Baahubali movies. Called “Baahubali: Before the Beginning”, the first season of the series will be based on the novel, “The Rise of Sivagami” written by Anand Neelakantan....

India is a huge market for phone makers and it seems to be growing by the month, as all manufacturers look to grab a slice of the pie. OnePlus isleading the premium segmentand that’s on the back of minimal sales from offline channels. But the company is looking to expand its retail store presence in the country to bridge the gap between online and offline sales. The timing of this development coincides with an important milestone for OnePlus....

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds or PUBG is one of the best battle royale games out there and has been growing strong on the PC platform, thanks to plenty of new updates and patches. Now, the game has just received the Update #19 on the Test Servers, and boy is this a massive update. As announced in anofficial Steam post,PUBG Corp. has rolled out the new update for PUBG on PC on the test servers....

Reddit today revealed thatback in June, it suffered a data breachwhere hackers got access to some non-sensitive data including old databases, and other technical stuff including internal logs, configuration files, employee data, and the website’s source code. The company has now concluded its investigation over the matter and has issued some advice for users. While the breach was discovered on June 19, it isexpected to have taken place between June 14 and 18....

Now that the Jio Payments Bank, a 70-30 JV between Reliance Jio and SBI, has been operational for some time, the two companies have announced a new digital partnership to offer digital banking, commerce and other financial services to customers. The services would be provided through SBI’s digital banking app, YONO (you only need one). In a press release on Thursday, Jio said that the new initiative will not only“increase SBI’s digital customer base multi-fold”, but will also“bring next generation”banking to customers....

What’s In the Box The Samsung Galaxy On8 comes inside a fairly good cardboard box. When you open the box, you are greeted by the device front and center while all the other accessories are hidden behind a thin cardboard partition.Here is a list of the things that you get inside the box: It’s good to see that Samsung is still packing a pair of earphones inside the box as most other companies have stopped doing that....

Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 The Galaxy Tab S4 is a premium Android-based tablet that comes with Samsung famed stylus, the S-Pen. The device features a 10.5-inch Super AMOLED display (2560×1600) with 16:10 screen ratio, and sports thin bezels. It is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 SoC, and packs 4GB of RAM along with either 64GB or 256GB of internal storage depending on the model. The storage is expandable by up to 400 GB using a microSD card....

Sony has today extended its Home Theatre lineup in India with the launch of two new 5.1 channel soundbars, namely HT-S500RF and HT-S700RF. Both of these soundbars will be available at Sony Centers and major electronic stores across the country from August 10, starting at Rs 29,990. In itsofficial blog post, the Japanese giant claims that the said soundbars are designed to cater to the needs of the Indian masses. They are said to come with an exclusive “India sound setting,” which provides the users with a powerful bass output coupled with clear vocals....