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Mixed Reality Flashlight Flashlight is a new feature aimed at users of the company’sMixed Reality headsets. According to the company, the feature allows users to peer into their physical environment without removing their headset, enabling a seamless mix of physical and virtual realities. “With the latest Windows Insider Program build, you can open a portal into your real world at any time via the Start menu, a button shortcut, or a voice command....

WhatsApp Payments may have been envisioned as the killer feature within WhatsApp to dominate the digital payments business. After all, WhatsApp has over 1.5 billion monthly active users, which would immediately make it the largest payment services in the world, if all the active users get the feature. That’s the endgame, of course and it’s far from a certainty as teething troubles withWhatsApp Payments, oppositionfrom rivals, lawmakers andFacebook’s own troubles with data scandalsthrowing the plans off....

Althoughself-driving carsremain a distant reality for the Indian roads, a Mumbai-headquartered firm has become the first desi company to develop high-precision HD maps for a customer in the United States which is at the forefront of autonomous vehicle technology. Established in 1995, Genesys International Corporation Ltd has completed an extensive HD mapping of road and street network for an autonomous driving project in North America that will enable residents to access self-driving taxis at their doorstep....

PUBG Corp. had previously stated at the media day of PGI that they are going to be working hard on establishing the game as a proper eSports title while showcasing theirfive-year plan of the game. Now, the time for PUBG’s biggest competitive tournament of the year is finally here! The PGI Tournament will feature both third- and first-person perspective modes and will be played out on both Erangel and Miramar maps....

Qualcomm is one of the world’s leading chipset producers, powering a plethora of devices around the globe. While many were expecting the company to announce a second processor in the 7xx series, presumably the Snapdragon 720, recent reports suggest that the company might be working on something else altogether. As reported byGSMArena, an unexpected series of teasers emerged on Qualcomm’s official Weibo page. One of those images carriesa poster of a chipset inside a smartphone with some teasers engraved in there reading “smoother,” “cooler,” “smarter....

San Diego-based chipmakerQualcommhas walked away from buying Dutch firm NXP Semiconductors for $45 billion after the Chinese regulators did not grant last-minute approval to the deal. Eight of the nine countries where Qualcomm has businesses had approved the deal. With no answer from China’s Ministry of Commerce as the deadline passed (it was 9.30 a.m. Indian time on Thursday), it was clear that the merger was officially dead. “We intend to terminate our purchase agreement to acquire NXP when the agreement expires at the end of the day today, pending any new material developments,” Steve Mollenkopf, CEO of Qualcomm Incorporated, said in a statement late on Wednesday....

Samsungtodayannouncedthat it has started mass producing its 2nd-gen 10-nanometer-class (1y-nm) LPDDR4X DRAM for premium smartphones. Compared to the 1st-gen 10nm (1x-nm ) 16Gb LPDDR4X DRAM memory chips that are used in current flagship mobile devices, the 2nd–gen chips are expected to improve efficiency and lower power consumption by 10 percent while maintaining the same data rate of 4,266 megabits per second (Mb/s). Samsung has combined four of the 10nm-class 16Gb LPDDR4X DRAM chipsto create an 8GB LPDDR4X mobile DRAM package that’s 20 percent slimmer, which should help smartphone OEMs reduce the thickness of their handheld devices even further....

Samsung is all set to unveil the Galaxy Note 9 onAugust 9, so the company’s promotional machinery is in full force as the smartphone’s announcement inches closer. Now that the device is just two weeks away from its official unveiling, Samsung has released a teaser trailer which suggests that the Galaxy Note 9 will provide users some respite from their smartphone’s battery woes. Titled‘Battery can’t keep up? A lot can change in a day’, the teaser video clearly suggests that the Galaxy Note 9’s battery would easily last longer than a day....

Samsung makes some of the best displays in the market whether they are Super AMOLED panels for smartphones or gigantic TVs that take up your entire wall. Samsung Display has now announced a new ‘unbreakable’ OLED smartphone panel, certified by Underwriters Laboratories (UL). The panel was put through a series of tests performed in accordance with US military standards. The certification puts a seal of approval on the South Korean company’s claims that its new panel is unbreakable....

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Thursday gave its final approval to theproposed merger between Vodafone India and Idea Cellular, according to government sourcesquoted by the PTI. The decision comes after the two companies jointly paid Rs. 7,268.78 crore to the DoT, including Rs. 3,926.34 in cash and Rs. 3,322.44 crore by way of bank guarantee. The companies have, however, paid under protest, which means they can mount a challenge and ask for a refund in the future....

When it comes to IoT, Qualcomm has been one of the most remarkable names in the industry, be it the development of AI-enabled chips for connected devices to network modems. Take for example the introduction of the QualcommVision Intelligenceplatform for powering smart home devices and the announcement of the high-endSnapdragon 820Eembedded platform for IoT developers, the chipmaker is betting it big on the IoT ecosystem, but the company also realizes the possibility of security risks associated with smart home devices....

Now, recent reports suggest thatApple has acknowledged the issue, and is rolling out a new updatefor its brand new MacBook Pro models to fix the bug that resulted in performance issues. Apple’s official statement says: “Following extensive performance testing under numerous workloads, we’ve identified that there is a missing digital key in the firmware that impacts the thermal management system and could drive clock speeds down under heavy thermal loads on the new MacBook Pro....

Asphalt 9: Legends, the much-awaited iteration to the series of leading racing title from Gameloft, is finally here. While Asphalt 9 was launched as a preview back in February, the crowd-puller is nowlaunching for Android and iOS. Asphalt 9 weighs in at 1.5GB on both the platforms and brings enhanced graphics, better customization options, improved controls.Gamelofthas added new options for multiplayer racing, and now offers better rewards to users, in order to emphasize on online gaming....