Motorola, an American multinational telecommunications company has finally released Motorola One Action in India. Motorola One Action will go on sale in India from August 30. It is a budget friendly phone designed to capture detailed videos. The company has also provided its very own Artificial Intelligence based software algorithms to improve the image quality of Motorola One Action smartphone.
PRICE:
Motorola One Action is available in Denim Blue and Pearl White colour variant.
It will be available for purchase in the country through websites like Flipkart starting 12pm IST on August 30.
LAUNCH OFFER:
2,200 Jio instant cashback, and 125GB of additional Jio 4G data.
SPECIFICATIONS:
It runs on an Android 9 Pie.
The smartphone can upgrade to Android 10 and Android 11.
It features a 6.3-inch full-HD+ (1080×2520 pixels) IPS Cinema Vision display along with 21:9 aspect ratio.
It is powered by an octa-core Samsung Exynos 9609 SoC, coupled with Mali G72 MP3 GPU and 4GB of RAM.
It sports a triple rear camera setup that includes the 16-megapixel action camera sensor, 12-megapixel primary sensor and a 5-megapixel depth sensor .
It sports a 12 MP selfie sensor. The selfie camera sports features like Portrait lighting, Shot optimisation, Auto smile capture, Group selfie, Portrait mode, and Cinemograph among others.
The rear camera set up of the Motorola comes with an ‘Enhanced Video Stabilisation’ to reduce jerks and shakes in action videos.
The connectivity options include 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth v5.0, GPS/ A-GPS, NFC, USB Type-C, and a 3.5mm headphone jack.
Do you remember the Intel’s original Itanium processor, code-named McKinley? It was considered to be massive chip with 221 million transistors when it was first launched in 2002. Now in 2019, Cerebras, a computer system company that is dedicated to accelerating deep learning is all set to launch the largest chip ever at the Hot Chips Conference at Stanford University. The company claims that the chip is going to be as large as computer’s keyboard. As per the company, the chip requires 46,225 square millimeters of silicon and 1.2 trillion transistors which is 5,000 times the transistors that McKinley had. Hence it would be a rectangular chip that would measure 8 by 9 inches.
The Cerebras Chip is not designed for your PC, but the company uploaded the picture of the ship, comparing its size with the keyboard. For now, the company has not revealed the crucial details such as amount of memory of the chip or the manufacturing cost. But the chip is manufactured in a relatively old 16nm process technology from TSMC. The brand designed its chip for deep learning and characterized the chip as a “wafer scale” implementation of a neural network, essentially clustering the logic, interconnect and memory onto a single piece of silicon.
The former chief hardware architect for Sea Micro, later acquired by AMD, as well as the Data Centre Server Solutions business at AMD, Mr Sean Lie said that designing a single chip save manufacturing cost because, in a single chip you get all of it at vastly lower power and less space.
As the size of chip is large or for cooling, a cold plate is attached above the silicon, using vertically mounted water pipes to cool the chip directly.
The Chinese manufacturer of laptop and tablet, Telecast has recently launched F7 plus notebook, giving better performance and big storage as compared to the last generation. The F7 Plus Notebook looks stylish with a metal body and an ultra-thin design. The laptop comes with a 14-inch display with high-pixel resolution and incredible FHD picture quality with IPS screen technology. The laptop is extremely lightweight and comes with just 8mm narrow bezel and 2.5 arc design.
Coming to its hardware, the Telecast F7 Plus Notebook is powered by Intel Gemini Lake N4100 Quad Core, a processor with a speed of up to 2.4 GHz. The Ultra-low-voltage platform and Quad Core processing provide maximum high-efficiency, so you can easily do multitasking without any lags. The processor is coupled with an 8GB RAM for multitasking. With substantial high-bandwidth RAM, switching between the apps, playing games and streaming online movies become smoother. The notebook is equipped with an Intel UHD graphics 600 GPU providing high image quality for internet use, basic photo editing and casual gaming.
The device also has a 128 GB SSD and extended micro SD card can provide sufficient room to store pictures, videos, music, office files and more. The F7 Plus Notebook comes with the latest and the most productive operating system; Windows 10. The laptop is suitable for both daily use and business or office work.
The full-sized and illuminated keyboard of the allows the user to type even in the dark environment. Different from the traditional touchpad, the notebook has a larger size Touchpad, giving a more comfortable touch feeling. The laptop sports a 2.0MP camera for capturing memorable moments or chatting face-to-face with friends. The laptop has a built-in speaker and is driven by 65000 mAh built-in battery.
When we come to connectivity, the Dual band 2.4 GHz/5.0 GHz WiFi support ensures high-speed surfing. The laptop is fitted with two USB 3.0 host, a 3.5mm Earphone Jack, a TF Card Slot, and a DC Jack. It also has a Mini-HDMI port that allows the user to connect to a high-definition monitor or projector.
You can buy the Telecast F7 Plus Notebook on www.gearbest.com at a flash sale price of $359.99. Its stunning looks, easy-to-use interface, and affordable price make the user buy it, you can also use Gearbest Promo Code to get extra Discount.
With great success comes great bargain. Where on one hand “Spiderman: Far From Home” is the highest-grossing film ever in Sony’s pictures history on the other hand news is spreading like the fire in the jungle that Marvel Studios may be stepping away from the cross-studio partnership. As per the reports by the Hollywood trade deadline, there was a disagreement over the profit-sharing structure. Spider-man might be leaving the MCU because of the financial disputes between Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios’ parent company Disney.
Disney wanted a higher share of the profit i.e. 50-50 co-finance deal rather than the current 5 percent revenue share. Sony simply refused the offer because it does not want to share its biggest film franchise. Both of these American companies were not able to reach to a conclusion regarding profit sharing and hence marvel studios President Kevin Feige won’t be involved with future Spider-Man productions. It simply means that the characters might stop crossing over between the two Marvel universes.
After all the failed agreements, late on Tuesday, Sony Pictures updated on Twitter that though they are disappointed that final settlement was not done with the Disney but Kevin Feige has a lot on his plate as the newly added Marvel properties do not allow time to work on IP that they do not own.
Spider-man is one of the best-known characters in the MCU and Feigen would have continued working on making movies on this superhero only if Sony and Disney could have reached an argument. For now, Sony has two Spider-man films in progress with Tom Holland set to repeating his title role.
Sony has received lots of blessings because of live-action Spider-Man movies since Spiderman 2 in 2004. Its only success was Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which won much acclaim and an Oscar.
Xiaomi launched the latest smartphone named Mi A3 in India on Wednesday. Mi A3 is the company’s latest Android One smartphone and it was launched first in Europe last month. Mi A3 will be available on Amazon India and mi.com websites.
PRICE AND AVAILABILITY:
Mi A3 is available in two variants based on the storage:
4GB RAM + 64GB internal storage priced at Rs. 12,999
6GB RAM + 128GB internal storage priced at Rs. 15,999
JioSaavn is the online music streaming platform and a digital distributor of Bollywood, Hollywood and other regional music across the world. No doubt that JioSaavn has an enormous number of listener base and just because of its popularity and that it is being used by so many people, it is offering the brands the opportunity to connect with its growing listener base and announcing the addition of all-new display and ad products – Maximus and Showcase.
Maximus:
It is a full-screen display ad that is available at the launch of the JioSaavn app.
It is a five-second non-dismissible branding product that guarantees maximum visibility as the first impression.
Showcase:
It appears at the top of the JioSaavn App homepage.
It is an interactive display product that offers brands a customizable ad placement.
The always-on ad experience stays anchored and does not disappear while the duration of the campaign.
Both Maximus and Showcase are designed to ensure that brands get the attention of all the listeners on the JioSaavn platform in the most effective way. According to Mr. Gaurav Kaushik, Global Vice-President, Advertising Platform of JioSaavn, the JioSaavn streaming application has always been the most premier destination of advertisers in India and as a part of the evolution the ad industry is continuously working on delivering the most – effective ad experience possible for their brands. He also added that the new opportunity is a sort of blessing to focus on targeted users/listeners.
JioSaavn is the most downloaded OTT music platform in app stores and it is on top among the first to launch native ad products in addition to bringing programmatic audio to India. With its latest display ad offerings and upcoming video unit, JioSaavn aims to provide exposure to the brands in an immersive listening environment.
As per the news by Russian cyber-security Kaspersky on Monday, soon after the abolition of Article 370 and 35A by Indian Government, India has come under the threat of cyber attacks and the country needs to be more careful with respect to the security of websites and critical infrastructure.
Some of the websites are already hacked! On Sunday, the official website of the Bihar Education Department was hacked by Turkish hacker and he posted a message praising Pakistan and Islam. The message was – “We Love Pakistan”. Somehow the hacked portal was restored but chances are that such cyber-attacks can occur again and on large scale. Mr. Saurabh Sharma, the Senior Security Researcher, Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) APAC, Kaspersky, told IANS that INDIA is ranked 7th under the title of most cyber- the attacked country in the world. He also informed that for now, it is difficult to understand whether attacks are state-sponsored attacks or not.
As per the data are given to the Parliament by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), over 24 websites of central ministries, departments, and state governments were hacked till May. To this, the IT Minister, Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha that cyber threat attempts have been made from to launch cyber-attacks on Indian cyberspace. He also added that these attacks were seen to be originating from countries like China and Pakistan.
As for now, our country is under the major threat of cyber-attacks and we need to be careful when it comes to the security of India’s website and critical infrastructure. The Kaspersky executive also said that India needs to be careful especially when there are cyber-attackers that are ready to exploit our vulnerabilities in the name of cyberwar between countries.
Cure. Fit is a Bengaluru-based fitness and wellness tech start-up. For now, the start-up had to pause on its latest product launch named as Gym. Fit. The order came as a temporary instruction for Bengaluru-based gym booking marketplace BookYourGame by Bengaluru City Civil Court.
The Bengaluru City Civil court, on August 7 has inhibited Cure. Fit start-up company to launch, promote or sell any product or service which uses the name like ‘Gym. Fit, CultX, and Sports.fit’, in any manner until the next hearing which is scheduled on September 11, 2019.
BookYourGame (BYG) claimed in its petition that Cure.fit made an offer to acquire BYG for about INR 5 Cr in the month of June. However, after placing the offer and once the exchange of crucial data and intellectual property was done, Cure.fit disclaimed the offer made to BYG. The petition also says that employees of BYG began to be inducted as an employee of Cure.fit. In the start, the employees were welcomed and greeted but slowly in order to show loyalty to Cure.fit. BYG and its employees obeyed the instructions of Cure.fit and they begin to share confidential information.
Basically, Cure.fit uses an online and offline medium to offer:
physical fitness (Cult.Fit)
mental fitness (Mind.Fit)
nutrition (Eat.Fit)
All these offers by Cure. Fit is under the primary vertical named as care vertical (Care.Fit). The company ensures that the bookings for these training through a smartphone application where users can sign up for new classes or sessions. The company was now all set to launch a national gym subscription called Gym. Fit, which bundles up all the gyms across the city. But because of the allegations by BYG all the launch and marketing under the name ‘Gym. Fit, CultX, and Sports.fit’ has been paused. Cure. Fit also reverted back to the allegations and said that the transaction never proceeded to definitive closure and neither the formal on-boarding of the BYG employees took place. The start-up also added that a fair breakaway fee was also offered to BYG and that Gym. Fit is the Cure.fit’s own internal initiative that has nothing to do with BYG. The company said that because of some potential legal and compliance issues in BYG’s operations the company called off the proposed deal with BYG.
However, the case between Cure.fit and BookYourGame sounds similar to the case of OYO and Zo Rooms (Zostel) in 2016. Even today no decision has been taken by the court when we consider the case of OYO and Zo Rooms (Zostel). Let us see how long the battle between CureFit will and BookYourGame last.
A Beijing based electric scooter manufacturer named Segway-Ninebot Group which is one of the largest suppliers for scooter-sharing companies such as Bird and Lime. has revealed the recent scooter that they have been working on. On Friday the company unveiled information regarding a scooter that can return itself to the charging stations without the driver. The scooter is named as KickScooter T60.
At a Segway-Ninebot product launch event in Beijing on 16th of August, Ninebot president Wang Ye unveils semi-autonomous scooter KickScooter T60 that can return itself to charging stations without a driver. The company also said that Uber and Lyft services are expanding into scooter sharing and will be available among the customers in the form of new semi-autonomous vehicles. These vehicles are expected to hit roads early next year. Adding up to this, Ninebot chairman, Gao Lufeng said that these autonomous scooters will be AI-driven and will be controlled remotely from the cloud and this could eventually improve the economics of the scooter-sharing. The chairman also said that the pain point or the major difficulty faced by the scooter operator is to maintain the scooters at a lower cost as for now the operators of the scooter sharing fleets have to collect the machines manually for recharging. With the arrival of semi-autonomous vehicles, the scooter operators work will become less hectic.
As per the information available, the new scooter will be priced at close to 10,000 yuan ($1,420), more than the company’s traditional scooters, which it sells to scooter companies for $100-$300. The new vehicle will start road testing next month and will be commercially launched in the first quarter of 2020.
Gao Lufeng, Ninebot chairman and chief executive said that according to him semi-autonomous scooters will replace bicycles as the prime solution for micro-mobility. Apart from semi-autonomous vehicles, the company has also launched two robots. One for outdoor delivery and the other one for indoor services.
Decades ago, Pan Jian-Wei, a Chinese physicist returned home from Europe to help the researchers to research some of the most important and amazing technologies of the 21st century. This summer at a conference in Shanghai, Pan Jian-Wei and his team introduced some of their work which they have been describing as “REVOLUTION”
Pan Jian-Wei and his team mainly talked about:
The hacking – resistant communication network they are building across China.
The sensors they are designing. These sensors can see through the smog.
The prototype of a computer that will be capable enough to smash the computational power of any existing machine.
All the recent technologies under “Revolution” is based on Quantum technology. Quantum technology is an emerging field of creating practical applications that could transform information processing and configure big economic and national -security advantages to all the countries that dominate the technologies.
Many different countries are supporting China for all the research. Beijing is investing billions into research and development and hence providing an opportunity to all the Chinese scientists to return home from western labs and work on all the innovative research that their county is planning on.
China’s drive has demanded more funds from the United States for Research and development to support China’s quantum Ambition. This call from china has triggered the concerns in the Trump administration that any sort of scientific collaboration with China may help in promoting people’s liberation army and hurting US interests.
Last year as per the market research firm Patinformatics, china had nearly twice as many patent filings as the United States for quantum technology. Pan, often known as “Father of Quantum”, by Chinese media is 49 years old and is working with 139 researchers in order to help oversees china’s program from his labs at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in Shanghai and Hefei. Pan was appreciated for his efforts in 2017 via journal named Nature that addressed him among the “Top 10 people who mattered this year.” Not only this much Chinese President Mr. Xi Jinping often visits Pan’s lab as he has a very keen interest in Pan’s work. Pan is also working on setting a new national lab for quantum research in Anhui province.
At the event in Shanghai, Pan explained the difference between the quantum particle and the bits that are used in today’s technology through numerous examples. He gave detailed information on how china is harnessing quantum bits or qubits to safeguard its communication from hacking. He along with his team is planning to launch a constellation of satellites and a nationwide fiber-optic network that use qubits to securely transmit information. On this, some of the western scientists say that the complete network can complicate US efforts to eavesdrop on China’s government or military communications.
Most of the Chinese researches who spoke at the event have spent years of studying overseas and the slide deck prepared by them was full of humorous references to western pop culture and events. These researchers have done their PhDs from universities such as Stanford and Cambridge. Most of the technologies they all are working can be used in both the commercial and defense departments.
Where on one hand few of the scientists kept their point regarding the quantum tech issues, Pan said that he has strongly believed that collaboration would only bring rewards and achievements in quantum science. For now, China is focusing on building a quantum computer. A fully functional quantum computer that has the ability to be transformative and is capable for greater calculation power that could identify new chemical compounds to treat intractable diseases and eliminate traffic snarls by predicting and managing the flow of vehicles. The only concern is that the machine can then eventually crack all the existing forms of encryption which in return is a cause of major worry for militaries, governments, and businesses that handle sensitive data.
The Chinese researchers have so far reported that they have a 12- quantum bit processor that uses superconducting technologies which are similar to Google’s and IBM’s. Lu Chaoyang, a young physicist said that the idea of developing a quantum computer came 40 years back and there is still a long way to go in order to design and develop a fully functional quantum computer. In the end, Lu quoted a line of “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling, who spoke that “It’s important we set achievable goals for experiments so we can continuously progress.”
Samsung launched its latest smartphone in India on Tuesday. Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy Note 10+ were unveiled in New York earlier this month and just after the official launch the south Korean company started taking pre- orders for the Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy Note 10+ in the Indian market, and at the time, had revealed their prices as well. The company also revealed that the sale of these two smartphones will begin from 2rd of August. To create more impact on Indian Customers both the smartphones i.e. Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy Note 10+ comes with S Pen handwriting recognition support for four Indian languages.
SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 10:
PRICE, OFFER & AVAILABILITY:
The smartphone is priced at Rs. 69,999 for 8GB + 256GB storage variant.
The smartphone is available in three colour optionsAura Black, Aura Red, Aura Glow, and Aura White colour.
The smartphone is available throughvarious online channels, offline retailers, and the Samsung Online Store.
Customers can pre order this smartphone and can avail a cashback of Rs. 6,000 using HDFC Bank credit cards retail outlets and Samsung Online Store.
Samsung is offering a cashback worth h up to Rs. 6,000 for customers pre-ordering through ICICI Bank credit or debit cards at Amazon, Flipkart, Paytm Mall, and Tata Cliq.
Customers also get the chance to buy galaxy buds at Rs. 4,999 and Samsung galaxy watch active at Rs. 9,999, at the time of pre booking of the smartphone.
SPECIFICATIONS:
It comes with S Pen support and run One UI based on Android Pie.
The Samsung galaxy Note 10 runs on an Android 9 Pie with the latest One UI version on top.
It features a 6.3-inch full-HD+ (1080×2280 pixels) Infinity-O Display along with a Dynamic AMOLED panel.
It is powered by the octa-core Exynos 9825 SoC, coupled with 8GB of RAM.
The smartphone sports a triple rear camera set up that includes 12MP +16MP+12MP camera sensors.
It sports a selfie camera of 10MP.
It includes connectivity options such as 4G (LTE Cat. 20), Wi-Fi 802.11ax, Bluetooth v5.0, NFC, MST, GPS/ A-GPS, and a USB Type-C port.
It includes sensors like accelerometer, ambient light sensor, barometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, proximity sensor, RBG light sensor, and an ultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensor.
It is backed up by a battery of 3,500mAh.
SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 10+:
PRICE, OFFER & AVAILABILITY:
The smartphone is priced at Rs. 79,999 for 12GB + 256GB storage variant and the 12GB+512GB storage variant is priced at Rs. 89,999.
The smartphone is available in three colour optionsAura Black, Aura Glow, and Aura White colour.
The smartphone is available throughvarious online channels, offline retailers, and the Samsung Online Store.
Customers can pre order this smartphone and can avail a cashback of Rs. 6,000 using HDFC Bank credit cards retail outlets and Samsung Online Store.
Samsung is offering a cashback worth h up to Rs. 6,000 for customers pre-ordering through ICICI Bank credit or debit cards at Amazon, Flipkart, Paytm Mall, and Tata Cliq.
Customers also get the chance to buy galaxy buds at Rs. 4,999 and Samsung galaxy watch active at Rs. 9,999, at the time of pre booking of the smartphone.
SPECIFICATIONS:
It comes with S Pen support and run One UI based on Android Pie.
The Samsung galaxy Note 10+ runs on an Android 9 Pie with the latest One UI version on top.
It features a 6.8-inch full-HD+ Infinity-O Display along with a Dynamic AMOLED panel.
It is powered by the octa-core Exynos 9825 SoC
The smartphone sports a triple rear camera set up that includes 12MP +16MP+12MP camera sensors.
It sports a selfie camera of 10MP.
It includes connectivity options such as 4G (LTE Cat. 20), Wi-Fi 802.11ax, Bluetooth v5.0, NFC, MST, GPS/ A-GPS, and a USB Type-C port.
It includes sensors like accelerometer, ambient light sensor, barometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, proximity sensor, RBG light sensor, and an ultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensor.
People have started to come up with new solutions to reduce their CO2 emissions, some prefer to wear an extra coat instead of turning on the heat and others prefer to leave their car home and walk to work. But, people have the tendency to forget that technology can have a major impact on CO2 reduction. Why is this happening? It’s simple, for people it is clear that if they walk they generate no emissions. However, when it comes to the energy their tech devices consume, they don’t find it as obvious.
We should all be in the pursuit of advanced tech and reduced energy consumption. And it may sound surprising but coders have a colossal role in fighting climate change.
But what is climate change?
We have introduced the subject of the fight, coders should take part in without explaining what it implies. People should not mistake climate change for global warming; global warming is the factor that leads to climate change. Because the temperature is rising constantly, the climate has started to suffer variations. The Earth has experienced numerous climate changes during different areas, but it’s alarming that the cycles have never been so fast. It took millions of years for the Earth to reach a point that extinct dinosaurs, but nowadays in just around 200 years, it reached a point that brought us closer to our extinction.
So, you may ask yourself…
How can a coder reduce climate change effects?
You may find hard to believe that a computer scientist can contribute to the fight to lower the climate change effects. The truth is that they can help in numerous ways.
Develop software for climate scientists
Let’s start by saying that most of the tools climate scientists are using are not designed by coders, so they lack numerous features and tools that could help professionals to identify, analyze, and solve the problems that are leading to the current situation. Climate scientists know what tools they need, and they’ve tried to create them, but they have no knowledge in software engineering, therefore some of the tools their systems feature are not even tested.
It’s a miracle that they were able to write their own codes and come up with software that can assist them in tracking climate changes. There are certain domains like mathematics and bioinformatics in which experts can write their own code because that have basic knowledge in IT, but atmospheric physics is not one of them. So, this is only one of the ways in which a coder can help climate science, they can write and execute code that can deliver software that is able to preserve and even improve the climate.
Climate scientists need programs that use the data they gather to simulate climate change, and programmers can step in and develop the systems they need to handle the massive information they use. Many of the experiments they conduct are unique, so they need tools that allow them to customize data and features from a project to another. At the moment there is no system that can effectively analyze and process the data scientists gather. They have limited ways to engage with the data and create experiments.
Develop software for public education
Energy researchers state that educational software is one of the best ways to inform the public on their impact on climate change. They think that making people aware of their responsibility is essential in creating a cleaner world. The first step would be for mobile devices manufacturers to create educational apps for energy, people can easily access. This would require coders to focus on creating programs people find intuitive to use, during the development process. Some apps that could help people track their impact on the environment are:
An app that tracks the electricity consumption of a building on a determined basis
An app that shows the greenhouse gas emissions every state, city, and neighborhood has monthly
An app that comes up with alternative solutions for the users who want to cut their household energy consumption
An app that allows users to track their individual impact on climate change
Reduce the amount of energy coding requires
Coding is a process that consumes energy, and software developers should not ignore this problem. The way they write code can reduce energy consumption and fight climate change. They should start by reducing null checking and spaghetti code because they consume more energy than the coding process would require. Cleaner code is simpler to maintain. The companies specialized in enterprise mobile applications development should focus on creating sustainable code, code that is efficient, simple and easy to read. A solution is to write negative code, a strategy that implies cutting down the lines of code in a program while the coder boosts its sustainability and quality. Another solution is code refactoring, a strategy that allows users to maintain external behavior while they change the code.
Develop predictive software with the help of machine learning
Climate specialists state that programs that can track trends and analyze data to make decisions and predictions are highly needed in the climate science area. They are not afraid to say that this one of the most scrutinized solutions in climate change at the moment. All the features this type of software can come up with would prove highly beneficial for the planet. But because the software has to deliver results with virtually no mistake, it’s almost impossible to create one without using machine learning. Some experts even state that it would be fool move from developers’ part to try to create this type of system, and they should better look for a way to use machine learning to create systems that learn automatically.
Climate scientists state that now it’s impossible to take into consideration all the variables the climate has. The only software that can evolve together with the changes in the clime can prove useful. A system that can learn by itself according to the data it receives. Predictive software is a great advancement, but climate scientists wait for the day when coders can come up with a version that is able to learn on its own.
