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Samsung’sGalaxy flagshipshave always had some of the best smartphone cameras, and they are about to get even better. Samsung has today announced that it has achieved a new breakthrough in the ISOCELL sensor technology which significantly enhances the color accuracy and sharpness of images captured by the sensors. Christened‘ISOCELL Plus’, the next generation of Samsung’s in-house sensor technology significantly increases the light sensitivity and color fidelity by allowing the CMOS sensors to capture more light, paving the way for better low-light shots, more accurate color profile and clearer photos especially in surroundings with non-optimal lighting conditions....

Just three weeks after itsunveiling, Apple is giving everyone a chance to try out the new macOS Mojave. So if you can’t wait any longer to try out the new features, the Cupertino giant has opened the public beta of macOS Mojave to everyone. To install the macOS Mojave public beta, you will first need to sign up forApple’s Beta Software Programand then enroll each of your Mac devices onto the same....

TheVivo NEX S and NEX Aare on show here at the Qualcomm booth and while we were going hands on with the new smartphones, we enquired about the availability of these phones in global markets including India. Well, the spokesperson we talked to did not really mention a specific date or time but he did say that “Vivo is definitely bringing the NEX phones to India”. While we would have loved to know the exact launch dates, it’s good to get a confirmation that the phones are definitely hitting Indian shores....

Fake news,spam,harassment, andabusive online behaviorare among the many problems plaguing Twitter right now, but the company is continues to develop safeguards day by day. Continuing the fight against the ‘Twitter Troubles’, the company has announced that it will now ask new users to verify their email address or mobile number before signing up. In an official blog post, Twitter said email/mobile number verification for creating a new account will become a mandatory step later this year, in a bid to tackle spam and make sure that a real person is behind the new account....

Vivo has confirmed that the Vivo NEX flagship will be unveiled for the Indian market on July 19. The company has sent out invitations for the press event which show the flagship phone along with the date. Vivo NEX Hardware It’s not yet known which variants of the Vivo NEX will be unveiled for the Indian market. In any case, all three feature a 6.59-inch Full HD+ Super AMOLED screen (19....

The implementation of 3D depth-mapping with the Time-of-Flight (TOF) camera will not only bring hardware-based facial unlocking to Vivo’s next-gen flagship phone, but is also expected to be used for authenticating mobile payments, which is simply not possible without dedicated hardware. The new sensor, which uses“3D structured light technology”for depth-sensing, is also said to be able to identify faces froma distance of three meters, which is a much longer range than what’s on offer from current-gen technologies....

Sony’s PS4, despite itscontroversies, is still the most preferred console for gamers among the current generation. Apart from the great exclusives as well as the pure horsepower that runs through the device, Sony also offers the PS Plus members free games every month for its subscribers. That being said, even if you’re not a PS Plus subscriber, there is still some good news for you. Sony says players can experience the full Destiny 2 campaign, “from the invasion of our home to the final battle against Ghaul of the Red Legion....

According to areport from MarketWatch, Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty has predicted thatApplemay price its iPhones a little lower this year compared to the pricing of their predecessors. The Cupertino giant is believed to be having a re-look at its pricing strategy after therelative under-performance of the iPhone Xthat was priced at a whopping $1,000 in the US. According to Huberty, the 5.8-inch iPhone model could be priced anywhere between $800-$900, which would be between $100-$200 cheaper than last year’s iPhone X, which was priced at $999....

While network providers might be offering hefty discounts and lucrative deals to mobile internet users, broadband users won’t be left disappointed for long. As per recent reports,Airtel is offering up to 20 percent off for its subscribers,as a response to theimminent entry of Reliance Jio in this space. Airtel is offering the discount for broadband subscribers buying its monthly plans for a year. On the other hand, subscribers selecting monthly plans for six months are offered a 15 percent discount....

Manufacturing the iPhone 6s in India will help Applesave significantly on import duties, thanks to the massive tax-concessions being offered by the government as part of its Make-it-India initiative that seeks to bring more manufacturing jobs to the country. The companyhiked iPhone pricesacross all models after the government increased customs duties twice within three months, going from 10 per cent to 15 per cent last year and then to 20 per cent in February....

Apple touts its iPhone and iPads to be highly secure and difficult to break into, but these bold claims were recently challenged by security researcher Matthew Hickey. He took to Twitter to detail a ‘brute force’ method that reportedly bypassed an iOS passcode on any up-to-date iPhone or iPad. Hickey, who’s also the co-founder of cybersecurity firm Hacker House, demonstrated the whole brute force hack process on video. It showed him transmitting passcodes over the lightning cable to a locked iOS device, running the latest iOS 11....

Also, owing to the sluggish sales of the original HomePod,Apple is working on a new version of the HomePodfor as early as next year, and it could switch production away from Inventec for the latest model. According to the report, Inventec executives met with Apple executives in California in recent weeks to discuss future HomePod orders, but a final decision on working with Inventec on the new model hasn’t been made, the people said....

When the Dota 2 world championship, ‘The International’, kicks off this August in the Canadian city of Vancouver, the world’s best professional gamers will have some serious competition from five AI bots that will be trying to set a new marker for the power of machine learning. Developed by Elon Musk’s OpenAI research institute, the bots have already beaten a team of highly-skilled Dota 2 players who rank among the top 1 percent globally, and will now take on the best professional players in 5-against-5 exhibition game at what is said to be one ofthe biggest e-sports tournamentsin the world with an annual prize money that’s said to be in the region of $40 million....