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After successfully launching the Launchpad Accelerator program in India three and a half years ago, Google has now tweaked the program to make it more relevant in the Indian context. The company is calling it ‘Launchpad Accelerator India‘, and is advertising it as a“new mentorship program tailored exclusively for startups based in India and deploying Machine Learning/AI to build solutions for India’s local needs”. As part of the program, the company is expected to provide opportunities to tech startups working withmachine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI)to enhance the quality of their products and services by offering assistance and expertise in terms of network, resources, methodologies and technology....

Thanks to data recovered from HITMAN Server Version 7.3’s assets stored on the official IO-Interactive servers, a PDF document suggests thatHitman 2 will be set in multiple locations including Mumbai in India.Besides India,other notable locations include Miami, Colombia, New Zealand, North Sea, and more. Well, that is pretty much all you need to know about Hitman 2 if you don’t want to spoil the entire game experience. However, if you’re not shy of spoilers, read on to see what else has been leaked....

HP launched theOmen 15andPavilion 15gaming laptops in India today, and also announced the availability of a wide range of gaming accessories such as keyboards, mice, headset as well as a backpack. The wired mouse is compatible with Windows 7, 8, and 10, and has a DPI level ranging between 800-12,000, complete with an advanced optical sensor designed for superior gaming performance. The gaming mouse is priced at Rs. 4,999, but you can get it from HP’s official website at just Rs....

The refreshed Pavilion 15 gaming laptop features a relatively sleek build for a gaming machine, with a brushed black body with violet accents for the logo, and keyboard for a unique appearance. HP has launched the Pavilion 15 gaming laptop in a total of three variants, which come with all the bells and whistles of a gaming machine, as well as an advanced thermal management hardware and superior audio output....

HP has today launched the high-end Omen 15 gaming laptop in India, which was originallyannouncedin back in May, packing some top-of-the-line hardware such as a 4K display, GTX 1070 Max-Q GPU and up to an Intel Core i7 processor with an option to configure it with an Intel Optane SSD storage. HP has launched the Omen 15 gaming laptop in India in a total of five variants, all of which feature the same processor but differ in certain aspects such as the screen resolution and the GPU powering the graphics among others....

Published byCable.co.uk, the data reveals that Singapore has the fastest broadband services with average download speeds of 60.39Mbps, while the war-torn Yemen came in at the last place with 0.31Mbps. Both countries retained their positions from last year, when the list was compiled for the first time. Even as internet connectivity in India hasincreased considereablyover the past few years,speeds continue to remain a perennial problem. While those in top urban locations have access tosuper-fast broadband, people in small towns and rural areas have to be content with slow, laggy connections that are just not good enough for the demands of twenty-first century internet....

In the beta build of iOS 11.4 update, Apple had added a new ‘USB Restricted Mode’ that will reportedly disable data transfer through the Lightning port after the screen has been locked for more than 1 hour. Now, Apple has publicly released the iOS 11.4.1 which adds on to the USB Restricted Mode and blocks passcode cracking tools favored by law enforcement. Basically,the tool renders the iPhone unaccessible to the third-party software of any kind after its screen has been locked for one hour....

The central government on Monday announced the names of six universities in the country as ‘Institutions of Eminence’ (IoEs), making them eligible for special funding and increased autonomy that the government says will raise their standards as world-class institutions in the coming years. The#InstituteofEminenceare important for the country. We have 800 univ, but not a single university in top 100 or even 200 in the world ranking. Today’s decision will help achieve this....

After teasing a new product on itsofficial Twitter handle, Microsoft has finally lifted the curtain over the newest member of the Surface family, the Surface Go. As announced byMicrosoft, the Surface Go is a smaller, less powerful take on the popular Surface Pro. It packs in a 10-inch screen, an integrated kickstand, Windows 10, and a design that is similar to the Surface Pro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krRRskzHWFE Compared to the Surface Pro, the smaller 10-inch display has a resolution of 1800×1200 pixels, which is not bad for this size....

After making us wait for overtwo monthsafter the official unveiling, Motorola has finally brought themuch-awaitedMoto E5 series to India. We anticipated the phone maker to launch just the high-end Moto E5 Plus in the country, but the Moto E5 also tagged along for the launch. TheMoto E5 has only one variant and has been priced at Rs 9,999(which is lower than what we’d seen in alisting on Amazon). The Moto E5 is already available on Amazon India, Moto Hub offline stores, and leading retail stores across the nation....

Though smartphone cameras have improved a lot over the years, low-light photography still seems like a arduous task and the images can turn out grainy or blurred or just plain bad. Nvidia is working on a new tech that makes it possible to fix such grainy photos. In anofficial blog post, Nvidia highlights its deep learning-based model that has learned tofix your grainy images simply by looking at other similar ‘corrupted’ photos....

The successor to the Galaxy S9 may ship with an Exynos 9820 under its hood. According to well-known tipsterIceUniverse, theGalaxy S10, which is expected to be launched in the first-half of next year, will be powered by the next-generation Exynos chip fully designed, developed and manufactured by Samsung. The chip will come with an embedded Mali-G76 GPU, which will be the first mobile graphics processor to be manufactured on a 7nm fabrication process....

With Instagram Stories taking amajor leadover Snapchat, the company is now looking to expand its scope beyond its popular AR camera effects and turn your camera into a visual search tool. First spotted by app researcher Ishan Agarwal (via TechCrunch), the code hinting towards the arrival of a ‘visual search’ feature has been found buried in Snapchat’s Android app. Snapchat is working on this unreleased feature (codenamed Eagle) thatlets you press and hold on the screen to scan objects and be pointed to a list of Amazon resultsrelated to the same....