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Ad-blocking software maker AdGuardsaysit has discovered“multiple browser extensions and mobile apps invisibly collecting users’ browsing history”.Alarmingly, more than 11 million people seem to be using those apps and extensions, seemingly oblivious to the privacy and security risks posed by them. Interestingly enough, the spyware apps are wreaking havoc not only on Android, but also on iOS. According to the report, the offending apps and extensions belong to what AdGuard describes as‘a newly registered Delaware company named Big Star Labs’....

Having officially entered the Indian market earlier this year, British tech company, Dyson, has revamped its product portfolio in the country by launching the newCyclone V10 Absolute Propremium vacuum cleaner and two new models in itsPure Coolrange of air purifiers. Cyclone V10 Absolute Pro The Cyclone V10 is powered by the company’s super-fast V10 motor that can run at a whopping 125,000 rpm top-speed. According to the company’s press release, the motor enables the air inside each of the fourteen cyclones to travel at a speed up to 190 kmph, creating a suction so powerful that it can separate ultra-fine dust particles up to the size of 1 micron....

Flipkart and Amazon are undoubtedly the e-commerce websites to beat in India – even though Paytm Mall is snapping at their heels. Both offer consumers plethora of products, and the range is more or less the same. What sets them apart are the exclusives – whether they are smartphones, other gadgets or any other products. Flipkart and Amazon have tie-ups withmultiple companies in India, which make them the exclusive official online retailer for a specific product....

Back in May earlier this year, Flipkart not onlysold a controlling staketo Walmart but also bought eBay’s India operations in exchange for a minority stake. Fast forward a couple of months and Flipkart has now decided to shut down eBay India, which falls in line with the plans it had in mind while buying India’s oldest retailer in the first place. When Flipkart bought eBay India, it had already decided that eBay will not continue to run in a similar fashion and that it will be refreshed and relaunched for the Indian masses....

Google recently convened the Next ’18 event to announce its major developments in the areas of cloud computing. The key announcements came to introduce cloud services in an innovative way to help business re-evaluate opportunities, improve product reliability and scalability, and become more efficient. Google majorly announced new applications for developers, AI for businesses, and a slew of other improvements to the G Suite applications. We’re specifically concerned about the new developments and announcements in G Suite apps including Gmail and Google Docs....

As part of its quest to make its News Feed smarter and more accessible toGoogle Assistantusers on smart speakers, the tech giant isintroducingnew tools for news organizations and webmasters. As part of the process, Google says it is collaborating with schema.org, whose Speakable markup identifies sections within an article or webpage that are best suited for audio playback using text-to-speech (TTS). Using the Speakable structured data specification, publishers can designate specific portions of their articles for Google Assistant to read out loud to users when asked for news on any subject....

Google had long resisted using third-party vocabulary tools in Google Docs, adding support for Grammarly only recently. But it doesn’t seem to fancy the idea of users being stuck with Grammarly’s solutions, which is why it has now announced a nativegrammar checker for Google Docs. Earlier, Google Docs only had a rudimentary spell checker but with web-friendly writing flouting grammar rules liberally, a grammar checker has become essential. The grammar checker inGoogle Docs will rely on machine learning, like a lot of Google’s recent announcements and features forGoogle TranslateandGoogle Assistant....

Rome, July 24 (IANS/AKI)Italian news agency Adnkronos has taken center-stage with an innovation that revolutionizes journalism and use of information by the public – the ‘News Juice’ technology, a project that the Google Digital News Innovation Fund has expressed interest in and whose development it has decided to co-finance. A semantic engine that reads, understands and synthesizes news,‘News Juice’ will give journalists real support in creating video news for end-users via all of Adnkronos’ channels of communication and a dedicated YouTube channel....

According to Bakar, it was his wife, Carla, who was the inspiration behind Chromecast. Recounting events from 2008, Bakar said that Carla’s struggles with getting a streaming service to play nice with the TV inspired him to“build an interface where everything happens on the phone, and only the video plays on the large screen”.“And let’s make the hardware device that enables this experience as small and as hidden as possible”, he said....

Google has announced it is working with several partners like Cisco and Genesys to build Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology that will replace some of the work in call centres. The software is called “Contact Center AI” which will install “virtual agents” that will be the first to pick up the phone when a customer connect to a call centre. “When the customer asks something that the AI cannot do, it will automatically forward the call to a human,” said Fei-Fei Li, Chief Scientist at Google, during the Cloud Next conference here late on Tuesday....

For more than a year, none of Google’s over 85,000 employees have been hacked, thanks to physical security keys that have replaced one-time codes at their workplace. Security Keys are USB-based devices that offer an alternative approach to two-factor authentication (2FA). In 2FA, users log into a website using a password and then enter an additional one-time code usually sent to smartphones. In Google’s case, the one-time password was sent via an in-house app calledGoogle Authenticator....

While Apple is having a tough timecracking the Indian market, a Kantar report suggests that iOS gained market share at the expense of Android during Q2 this year. According to the data, strong sales of the latest iPhones (X/8/8 Plus) resulted in a 6 percent increase in Apple’s smartphone market share when compared to the same period last year. Meanwhile, the iPhone X was also the best-selling device in China with 5....

Panasonic has announced its debut in the OLED TV segment in India with a new line-up of two series, along with 11 models in the 4K segment. The range was unveiled today in Delhi. The OLED lineup comes in 55-inch FZ950 model and the 65-inch FZ1000 model, starting at Rs 2,99,000. The new models in the 4K series start at Rs 65,000. Both the series are equipped with features like ‘Hexa Chroma Drive PRO’ colour management system, an ‘Absolute Black Filter’, ‘Super Bright Panel’, ‘Ultra Fine Tuning Technology’ and thin ‘Dynamic Blade Speakers’....