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The $249 device, which is designed to clip onto furniture or other fixed objects, automatically captures su... Read More SAN FRANCISCO: Babies, dogs, and artificial intelligence. Alphabet Inc 's Google is betting this combination proves irresistible with the Tuesday launch of Google Clips , a pocket-sized digital camera that decides on its own whether an image is interesting enough to shoot. The $249 device, which is designed to clip onto furniture or other fixed objects, automatically captures subjects that wander into its viewfinder. But unlike some trail or security cameras that are triggered by motion or programmed on timers, Clips is more discerning. Google has trained its electronic brain to recognise smiles, human faces, dogs, cats and rapid sequences of movement. The company sees big potential with parents and pet owners looking to grab candid shots of kids and animals. The Clip shoots seven-second videos, without audio, that can be ...

Canon has launched two new budget cameras, the EOS 2000D DSLR (called the EOS Rebel T7 in the US) and the EOS M50 mirrorless camera. The cameras are being positioned as cameras for beginners looking to upgrade from shooting with their smartphones. The EOS 2000D is the new entry-level DSLR in Canon's lineup, replacing the existing EOS 1300D. It features an upgraded 24.1MP APS-C CMOS sensor, 9-point AF system, 3fps continuous shooting, and 3.0-inch LCD. There's also built-in Wi-Fi and NFC for file sharing. Canon EOS 2000D The EOS 2000D will be available in April with EF-S 18-55 f/3.5-5.6 IS II kit lens for $549.99. The EOS M50 is Canon's first mirrorless camera with 4K recording. It has a 24.1MP APS-C CMOS sensor with Dual Pixel AF, DIGIC 8 processor, IS 100-25600, 4K at 24fps, 1080p at 60fps, 720p at 120fps, fully articulated 3.0-inch 1.04 million dots LCD touchscreen, 0.39-inch 2.36 million dot OLED viewfinder, Wi-Fi and NFC. ...

Highlights Airtel to bring range of Android Go based 4G smartphones First smartphones to come from Lava and Micromax India among the first countries to roll Android Go handsets Telecom operator Bharti Airtel and technology giant Google have partnered to launch low-cost 4G smartphones powered by Android Oreo (Go edition) in India. The entry-level 4G smartphones under Airtel's 'Mera Pehla Smartphone' program will be shipped with Android Oreo (Go edition) starting March this year. Notably, mobile manufacturers Lava and Micromax , will make the first set of 4G handsets powered by Android Go. Android Oreo (Go edition) or Android Go is a trimmed down version of Android 8.1 Oreo aimed at low-cost smartphones. It works even with smartphones that have only 512MB of RAM and has access to a slew of apps designed for low-bandwidth. Notably, the upcoming smartphones with basic specifications will arrive preloaded with compatible apps, including MyAirt...

WhatsApp in January launched it Business app for small and medium businesses in selective markets which include Italy, Mexico, Indonesia, the United States, India and the UK WhatsApp in January launched it Business app for small and medium businesses in selective markets which include Italy, Mexico, Indonesia, the United States, India and the UK. (Reuters) WhatsApp in January launched its Business app for small and medium businesses (SMEs) in selective markets which include Italy, Mexico, Indonesia, the United States, India and the UK. Now, it has been reported that the Facebook-owned messaging app will soon roll out the version for more countries. As the name suggests, WhatsApp Business app comes with business-oriented features and targets business entities. The app is available in the Google Play Store in the aforementioned countries. WhatsApp Business App is currently being tested in its beta versions with various businesses across the world, including s...

Highlights Nokia 7 Plus price in India has yet to be revealed The smartphone will go on sale in early April It bears an 18:9 display, the first Nokia offering to do so Nokia 7 Plus was launched at the HMD Global launch event in Barcelona on Sunday, ahead of MWC 2018. The Android One smartphone has been designed for ‘creators’, the Finnish company said, and sports a dual rear camera setup just like the original Nokia 7.  Thee company is touting the use of Zeiss optics on the rear camera, as well as its capabilities in the realm of low-light photography. It offers the Bothie feature first seen on the Nokia 8, and also bears a 6-inch 18:9 display – the first smartphone from the company to bear the longer, more immersive display aspect ratio.T he smartphone sits above the Nokia 7 in the HMD Global Nokia Android smartphone lineup, and below the Nokia 8. Nokia 7 Plus price, availability The Nokia 7 Plus price has been set as EUR 3...

WhatsApp is testing its payment feature in India which will allow users to send and receive money through the chat app. WhatsApp Pay is based on the Indian government's Unified Payments Interface (UPI), a real-time payment system that merges several bank accounts into a single platform. If you are a part of the initial roll-out, here is how you can use the feature. You will first have to link your bank account to WhatsApp. This can be done by going to Settings > Payments > Bank Accounts. Go through the terms and conditions and add a new account. For successful linking, please make sure that your WhatsApp number and your mobile number linked to your bank account are the same. Create a UPI pin for authentication of transactions Once your mobile number has been verified, you can choose from the list of over 70 Indian banks for the account you want to link to WhatsApp Pay. Finally, enter the last six dig...

This feature has been spotted on WhatsApp beta version 2.18.54 and later versions for Android and WhatsApp bet... Read More WhatsApp seems to be on quite a roll when it comes to launching new features and services. In the last six months, the popular messaging app has been actively upgrading features. The latest addition is a new feature for group chat users, called the Group Descriptions. As the name suggests, this feature enables users to add a up to 500 characters’ description for the members of any group. As per reports, the feature of adding a description for a group is not restricted to just the admins but can be added by any member in the group. However, this may be changed in the future. Also, this description is visible only to fellow group members who have this option of adding the description, others don’t see it. Once the description is added, the group chat gets a notification as well that ‘Person’s name has changed the group descripti...

Honor 9 Lite, a device launched under Huawei's sub-brand Honor, has started receiving "Face Unlock" feature via HOTA (Huawei's Over the Air update), the company said on Wednesday. Wi Fi Vs LiFi IN +91 1234 5678 90123 (13 Digit) or +91 123 456 7890(10 Digit) Know Here. The HOTA rollout has started in batches and will be rolled out to everyone by March 5. "'Honor 9 Lite' will be the most affordable smartphone in the Indian market to support 'Face Unlock' feature and will further emerge as the best value for money smartphone with superior hardware and software configurations," P Sanjeev, Vice President, Sales, Huawei Consumer Business Group, said in a statement. Why WhatsApp's entry into payment arena could change Indian banking forever The 5.65-inch Honor 9 Lite has dual cameras on both the front and rear and runs Android 8.0 Oreo with EMUI 8.0. The quad-camera smartphone is available for Rs 10,999 (32 GB variant) an...

Wi-Fi  technology is wireless local area network technology, which allows an electronic device to access internet. Everyone at their home, even in an offices use Wi-Fi technology and is very common. But do you know about  Li-Fi  technology, how Li-Fi works, etc. This article deals about the Li-Fi technology and how it is different from Wi-Fi technology. Cisco : Indian companies lost $500,000 to cyber-attacks in last 18 months What is Li-Fi Technology? Li-Fi (Light Fidelity)  is a light based communication technology that delivers a high-speed, bidirectional network, mobile communication in a similar manner as Wi-Fi. Being bi-directional technology, Li-Fi is 100 times faster in comparison to Wi-Fi and amazing it can reach speeds up to 224 gigabits per second. IN +91 1234 5678 90123 (13 Digit) or +91 123 456 7890(10 Digit) Know Here The term Li-Fi was coined by pureLiFi’s CSO, Professor Harald Haas. This technology uses light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for data t...

NEW DELHI: Cyberattacks in the country caused financial damages to the tune of about $500,000 to India companies in the last 12-18 months, says a study. IN +91 1234 5678 90123 (13 Digit) or +91 123 456 7890(10 Digit) Know Here "...more than half of all attacks resulted in financial damages of more than $500,000, including, but not limited to, lost revenue, customers, opportunities, and out-of-pocket costs," the technology firm Cisco 2018 Annual Cybersecurity report ( Download Report ) released today said. A Single-Character Message Can Crash Any iOS Device iPhone, iPad Or Mac Cisco interviewed around 200 organisation across vertical in the country including financial services, manufacturing, government (including defence), telecommunication, retail, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, education. Why WhatsApp's entry into payment arena could change Indian banking forever The report said that security is getting more complex and scope of breaches is e...

Highlights Certain sections of the media seem to have misinterpreted a DoT order for machine to machine or M2M numbers The DoT had issued a directive to telecom operators mentioning the implementation of 13-digit numbering scheme for M2M communication If you've been reading reports about your mobile number having 13 digits (from 10 digits currently) from July 1 and have been feeling perplexed , relax! Your mobile number will continue to have 10 digits. Certain sections of the media seem to have misinterpreted a DoT (Department of Telecommunication) order for machine to machine or M2M numbers. Microsoft Won't Patch a Severe Skype Vulnerability Anytime Soon M2M numbers are the ones that are used for SIMs in devices like swipe machines, cars, electricity meters etc. Officials from Bharti Airtel--India's largest telecom service provider, Reliance Jio and telecom industry body COAI (Cellular Operators Association of India) confirmed t...

A serious vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft-owned most popular free web messaging and voice calling service Skype that could potentially allow attackers to gain full control of the host machine by granting system-level privileges to a local, unprivileged user. A Single-Character Message Can Crash Any iOS Device iPhone, iPad Or Mac The worst part is that this vulnerability will not be patched by Microsoft anytime soon. Knowing India's position in the 4G speed compared to the countries of the whole world will not be trusting It's not because the flaw is unpatchable, but because fixing the vulnerability requires a significant software rewrite, which indicates that the company will need to issue an all-new version of Skype rather than just a patch. The vulnerability has been discovered and reported to Microsoft by security researcher Stefan Kanthak and resides in Skype's update installer, which is susceptible to Dynamic Link Libraries...

Microsoft Issues Security Patch Update for 14 New Critical Vulnerabilitie Only a single character can crash your iPhone and block access to the Messaging app in iOS as well as popular apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Outlook for iOS, and Gmail. First spotted by Italian Blog Mobile World, a potentially new severe bug affects not only iPhones but also a wide range of Apple devices, including iPads, Macs and even Watch OS devices running the latest versions of their operating software. Why WhatsApp's entry into payment arena could change Indian banking forever Like previous 'text bomb' bug, the new flaw can easily be exploited by anyone, requiring users to send only a single character from Telugu—a native Indian language spoken by about 70 million people in the country. Once the recipient receives a simple message containing the symbol or typed that symbol into the text editor, the character immediately instigates crashes on iPhones, iPad...

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday for this month falls the day before the most romantic day of the year. Yes, it's Valentine's, and the tech giant has released its monthly security update for February 2018, addressing a total of 50 CVE-listed vulnerabilities in its Windows operating system, Microsoft Office, web browsers and other products. Why WhatsApp's entry into payment arena could change Indian banking forever Fourteen of the security updates are listed as critical, 34 are rated as important, and 2 of them are rated as moderate in severity. The critical update patches serious security flaws in Edge browser and Outlook client, an RCE in Windows' StructuredQuery component, and several memory corruption bugs in the scripting engines used by Edge and Internet Explorer. Critical Microsoft Outlook Vulnerability One of the most severe bugs includes a memory corruption vulnerability ( CVE-2018-0852 ) in Microsoft Outlook, w...

Intel Movidius is an interesting piece of hardware that could work on embedded system like Raspberry Pi that will enable neural network computing. Even thought is only supported under Linux, we could always use Oracle Virtual Box to get it to work on Mac or Windows platform. Intel Movidius also support both Caffe and TensorFlow models and the typical workflow is as follow :- Typical Intel Movidius workflow (Image courtesy: https://movidius.github.io/ncsdk/ ) The full documentation is available at Intel Movidius NCSDK[1] In this post, I will be focusing on how to get started on Oracle Virtual Box and Rapsberry Pi 3 Model B environment using Ubuntu 16.x variant. Oracle Virtual Box Grab the installation from Oracle Virtual Box download[2] and install the Extension Pack. Before install Ubuntu 16.x, configure/add the following USB devices. Note that Intel Movidius has two modes, hence two different device configurations are needed Confi...