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Dialing a wrong number can often surprise you – whether pleasantly or unpleasantly varies with the situation and how you work your way through the awkwardness it. For a Kolkata-based man, however, it was like a jolt to his political preferences as hecalled Flipkart but received an invitation to join BJP. The incident began when the said person ordered a pair of headphones fromFlipkartand received a bottle of oil, instead. Infuriated, he called the number printed on the package to complain about the incorrect delivery but the call went through and then disconnected after a single ring....

Google is one of the biggest companies in the world, with a wide array of products and services under its name. Apart from serving general consumers and business users, the company also works for improving education with its Google Classroom. In case you’re unaware of it, Google Classroom is a free web service developed by Google for schools that aims to simplify creating, distributing and grading assignments in a paperless way....

Google Earth, a geo-browser which employs satellite imagery to render a 3-dimensional representation of our planet, has received a new feature which allows users to measure the distance between two points on Earth and also map an area. Google Earth’s new mapping feature is calledMeasure Tool, and it is now available on Chrome and the Google Earth app for Android. As per Google’s official blog post, Measure Tool is one of the most demanded features and will soon make its way to the Google Earth app on iOS too....

Google’s Files Go is an efficient storage management app which provides storage clearance tools and also facilitates offline file sharing. Google has now released a new update which further improves the app, with a key focus on increasing the file sharing speed, boosting connectivity and enhancing security among other improvements. Google claims that the latest Files Go update speeds up the offline data transfer speed by up to 4 times by choosing the fastest method of offline file sharing available on a smartphone, which also includes the superfast 5GHz Wi-Fi Direct....

After beinglaunched last monthalongside the Honor 7A, theHonor 7Chas now gone on open sale on Amazon India. The device competes against the likes of the Redmi 5, the Redmi Note 5 and the RealMe 1, and wasearlier sold via the flash sales modelin the country. Huawei’s other mid-range smartphones, theHonor 7Aand theHonor 7X, continue to be sold via flash sales. Honor 7C Features and Specifications The Honor 7C features a 5....

Back in January, the Indian government collaborated with Cray Inc to deploy asupercomputerdubbed‘Pratyush’at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) with the goal of enhancing the accuracy of weather forecasts and conducting research. Pratyush has now been ranked as the39th most powerful supercomputer in the world, according to TOP500’s latest list of the most powerful supercomputers across the globe. Pratyush is joined in the coveted sub-100 ranking class by another Indian supercomputer called Mihir, which was also deployed in collaboration with Cray Inc at the same time at the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast (NCMRWF) in Noida....

Facebook’s acquisition ofInstagramandWhatsAppmight have been a smart move from a business perspective, but both the platforms are now giving some tough competition to Facebook’s own social media identity. According to a new report from market intelligence company SimilarWeb, users in the United States spend nearly the same amount of time on the Instagram app on a daily basis as they do on Facebook. As per SimilarWeb’s report, the average amount of time spent on the Instagram app is 53 minutes per day, while that on the Facebook app stands at a close 58 minutes per day....

In an attempt to make it easier for users to check out someone’s profile onLinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social networking platform has added QR codes for user profiles. First pointed out by Matt Navarra, the feature has seemingly gone live for most users, and some of us here at Beebom have also received it on our profiles, as can be seen in the screenshots below. It’s worth noting here that users could always use third-party tools to create QR codes for their LinkedIn profile, but things are likely to become much more seamless with the company rolling out the feature natively....

I know I’ve used the statement “Xiaomi recently launched…” a lot, but then again, that is due to the fact that Xiaomi actually does launch a lot of products at quite a rapid pace. Despite that, the company still manages to find success for its devices. The Chinese giant had recently launched the Mi 8 series of smartphones, consisting of the flagship Mi 8, accompanied by the Mi 8 Explorer Edtion and lastly, the Mi 8 SE, which is the world’s first smartphone to ship with Qualcomm’s latest processor, theSnapdragon 710....

Face unlock is undoubtedly one of the biggest trends in the smartphone world, right alongside the infamous notch. We’ve already seen plenty of smartphone manufacturers incorporate their own variants of face unlock on their devices, with some even dropping the fingerprint scanner as a whole and using just facial recognition. Following this trend, many companies had launched their mobile devices, with promises of a Face Unlock feature to be delivered in a future update....

Oculus has officiallylaunchedits dedicated app for watching videos on a virtual flatscreen that’s said to be the equivalent of a massive 180-inch TV in real life. Called Oculus TV, the app was originally announced at Facebook’s F8 developer conference last month, and will present users with a new way to watch TV shows, movies and streaming videos on theOculus Goheadset. The app includes both on-demand and live content separated into different channels that can be surfed like an actual TV....

Gamers who did not buy thePUBGSanhok event pass will need to play the game for over 200 hours (6-8 hours daily for 29 days straight) to unlock all the content on their way to level 20, which is the maximum that one can attain without the pass. The premium pass, which costs $10, offers 30 levels and a number of rewards. The number crunching was doneby Reddit user iisfitblud, and if correct, gamers starting now with 26 days remaining will have to play for around 12+ hours per day to get to level 20....

According to a report from DigiTimes, Samsung is hard at work at developing the InFO (Integrated Fan-Out) packaging technology which decreases the thickness of chip packaging while enhancing processor speed and improving power dissipation, with the ultimate goal of landing the orders for the A13 chips.Image only for representation purpose As per insider sources, Samsung has also made bold claims about outpacing TSMC when it comes to the production of 7nm+ chips based on the EUV technology, which is an advanced method of printing the actual chip circuitry that also suffers from a host of issues such as low yield, quality risks and complex procedure....