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The Supreme Court isn’t looking to let the Information and Broadcasting Ministry impede on the citizen’s privacy and has declined the proposal to set up “social media monitoring hubs” around the country. It said that monitoring online data for the citizens would seem “like creating a surveillance state” in India. In response to a plea by Trinamool Congress (TMC) legislator Mahua Moitra, a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud has issued a notice briefing the government’s proposal....

Intel has taken wraps off of its new Xeon E-2100 processor family meant for entry-level workstations. The company has announced ten new chips as part of the lineup that is an upgrade overlast year’s Kaby Lake chips, and are based on the14nm++ Coffee Lake architecture. The new processors range from 4-core/4-thread chips at the lower-end to 6-core/12-thread units at the premium-end of the spectrum, and are expected to bring significant performance benefits for their customers....

Motorola hasalready launchedthree variants of the budget-centric Moto E5 series i.e the Moto E5, Moto E5 Plus, and Moto E5 Play. However, the company has today launched the new ‘Moto E5 Play Android Oreo (Go Edition)‘, which is an even more affordable iteration of the existing device in this lineup. No, this is not the same device as the original Moto E5 Play that waslaunched earlier this year, but differs in some key internal hardware....

Support for multiple controllers is a much-requested feature for theGoogle Daydreamplatform, and latest developments now seem to suggest that Google may have been listening all this while. According to thechangelogfor the latest version of the Google Daydream SDK for Unity, support for multiple controllers may be well on the way. The device currently only supports a single controller. Believed to have been first spotted within the Google VR Unity SDK (version 1....

Afterannouncing a seven-year banon Chinese telecom major ZTE in April for allegedly failing to discipline employees blamed for illegally shipping goods to countries under US trade embargo, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Friday reversed its decision shortly after the company deposited $400 million in a U.S. bank escrow account as part of a settlement reached last month. The settlement, worked out by ZTE and Trump administration officials last May, called for the Chinese tech major to pay a total of $1....

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) hasgrantedWalmart a patent on a surveillance technology called‘Listening to the Frontend’that could allow it to record sounds within its stores. The patent is basically for some sound sensors that the company is said to be planning on installing at checkout counters in its stores, and is raising serious concerns about the privacy of shoppers and workers. The patent was originally filed-for last year, and granted last Tuesday,according to CBS....

Xiaomi has launched the Quartz hybrid smartwatch under its MIJIA brand in China, and as sleek as it looks, it is equally affordable too. The Quartz watch features a premium leather build with three color options, white, gray and black, and will be available at just CNY 349 (app. Rs. 3,600) starting July 17. As for the Quartz watch, it does not feature a touchscreen like a traditional smartwatch, instead, it looks like a classy wristwatch with a two-hand dial design and a smaller dial beneath it....

The above screenshots are from ourPixel 2 XLthat is runningAndroid P Dev Preview, but the feature is also available on devices running Android Oreo. It doesn’t, however, seem to be available on devices running Android Nougat, like the Redmi Note 4 with MIUI 9.6. As can be seen in the image below, the new design is just not available on Nougat and older platforms. Do note that this is a server-side update, which means users won’t need to download the latest version of the YouTube app to enjoy it....

YouTube TV was down for about an hour and hundreds of England fans missed out on the disappointment of seeing their team eliminated from this international tournament. Some fans took to Twitter, as expected, to complain about YouTube TV going down during such an important match. Whereas others decided not to waste any time and logged into the Fox Sports Go mobile app or website with their YouTube TV credentials....

Apple surprisingly refreshed its MacBook Pro models with the latest Intel CPUs and what it claims to be a quieter butterfly-switch keyboard, but alongside it comes an external GPU for users who need a little more graphics processing power. While companies such asRazer already have eGPUsfor Macs, Apple has also decided to embrace this technology andpartnered withBlackmagicto launch an external GPU. It has simply been named theBlackmagic eGPUand sports an AMD Radeon Pro 580 with 8GB of DDR5 RAM....

Apple has finally announced the refreshedMacBook Prowith faster performance thanks to the latest 8th-Gen Intel Core processors. Starting at $1,799 and $2,399 respectively, the updated 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro models with Touch Bar are available today through Apple’s website, and in select Apple retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers later this week. Apple calls it the most advanced Mac notebook ever thanks to the Touch Bar, 8th-generation hexa-core processors on the 15-inch model and quad-core Intel CPUs on the 13-inch model....

Apple yesterdayannounced the refreshed MacBook Pro lineupwith the latest 8th-Gen Intel Core processors. In the US, the devices are priced starting at $1,799 and $2,399 for the 13-inch and 15-inch models, respectively. Now, the company has listed themon its India websiteas well, revealingthat the 13-inch model will be available at a starting price of Rs. 1,47,900 while the 15-inch model will start at Rs. 1,95,800.Both will be available via select Apple Authorised Resellers from later this month....

CCI, however, sided with Google’s defense team, and gave the tech giant clean sheet, saying that the company had committed no legal violation of competition norms with its actions. In its order, CCI noted that there is demonstrable evidence that the ads being booked by the complainants through AdWords were misleading, and in clear violation of the company’s guidelines. According to the PTI, the order also pointed out that,“there were multiple violations of AdWords Phone Number Policy by including telephone numbers in ad titles, text, or visible URLs that mislead users into thinking they would place a call by clicking on the ad, when in fact they would be redirected to a website”....