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March 21, 2016 Casio Smart Outdoor Watch to Be Available From March 25
Casio launched its first Android Wear smartwatch named the Casio Smart Outdoor Watch WSD-F10 at CES and promised it to release in March. The Japanese company is indeed keeping its promise and is making the Casio Smart Outdoor Watch available to buy starting March 25. Casio has confirmed that the Smart Outdoor Watch WSD-F10 will […]
ELECTRONICS March 21, 2016 New App to Enable Mid-Air Commands on Smartphones, Smartwatches
As wearable devices grow and screens shrink, a team of Indian-origin researchers has developed a new sonar technology that allows you to interact with smarwatches by writing or gesturing on any nearby surface – a tabletop, a sheet of paper or even in mid-air. Called FingerIO, it tracks fine-grained finger movements by turning a smartphone […]
ELECTRONICS March 21, 2016 Apple Aims to Bolster Lineup With New iPhone
New iPhone and iPad models likely to be unveiled Monday are aimed at helping Apple keep momentum in the fast-evolving mobile device market. The media gathering at the company’s intimate Town Hall auditorium in Silicon Valley will also give Apple a chance to restate its case for fighting a US government demand that it break […]
NEWS March 21, 2016 Apple Said to Have Hired a Corporate Security Officer Amid Legal Battle With the US
Apple Inc, amid a pitched battle with the US government over law enforcement’s desire to crack into iPhones, has hired a new security executive to oversee its corporate digital defences, people familiar with the matter said. Apple appointed George Stathakopoulos, formerly vice president of information security at Amazonand before that Microsoft Corp’s general manager of […]
COMPUTERS March 21, 2016 Dell’s Back to School Offer Lets You Purchase a Laptop at Re. 1, Pay Rest in EMIs
Dell India is making it more convenient for people to purchase a desktop or a laptop. The computer manufacturer has announced its ‘Back to School’ programme, wherein it is allowing students (and parents) to take home a new laptop at Re. 1, and pay the remainder under instalments – sans interest – later. The program […]
ELECTRONICS 
March 19, 2016 Apple Launches Repair Program for Late 2013 Mac Pro Due to GPU Issue: Report
Apple has reportedly quietly launched a new Repair Extension Program for (Late 2013) Mac Pro models to cover an issue being faced by users. As part of the program, the Cupertino-based company is addressing the video issues on the aforementioned lineup, caused by faulty graphics cards. Apple this week sent out details to its authorised […]
NEWS March 19, 2016 Microsoft Launches Windows 10 Update History Portal to Highlight Changes
Microsoft on Tuesday released a new update (build number 10586.104) for Windows 10 to fix a number of bug fixes including security vulnerabilities in its Edge Web browser. The Redmond-based company also launched a dedicated portal on which it now showcases all the features and changes it seeds with the new Windows 10 update. Since […]
COMPUTERS 
March 19, 2016 Intel SoCs Get Built-in Speech Recognition; May Help Apple Bring Siri to OS X
Intel SoCs will soon have native support for speech recognition features. This capability comes as the chipmaker partners with Sensory, a Silicon Valley-based company focused on machine learning techniques. The announcement further intensifies the speculation about Apple bringing Siri to its OS Xdesktop operating system. Dubbed TrulyHandsfree, the always-on, always-listening voice triggering component and low-power […]
COMPUTERS March 19, 2016 TeslaCrypt Ransomware Flaws Patched, Making It Impossible to Crack: Researchers
Fraudsters behind ransomware TeslaCrypt have patched the flaws that allowed victims to recover their files without paying them first. In fact, according to researchers, TeslaCrypt 3.0.1, the new version, doesn’t have any known flaws at all, making it “impossible” for anyone to crack it. Security researchers at Cisco Talos report that TeslaCrypt 3.0.1 comes with […]
COMPUTERS March 18, 2016 Eight-Year-Old Vulnerability Exposes Thousands of Apps, Devices to Attack
Researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in the GNU C Library, glibc, which is exposing many Unix-based systems such as Linux servers to a range of security attacks. According to estimates, hundreds of thousands of devices, as well as apps utilising the GNU free software project are believed to be vulnerable. All versions of glibc […]
COMPUTERS 
March 18, 2016 NexDock Claims to Turn Windows 10 Mobile Smartphones, Mini-PCs Into Laptops
Over the past few months, we’ve seen smartphones such as the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL getting so powerful that they can nearly serve as a Windows 10 desktop when connected to a display. We also have miniature computers such as the Raspberry Pi that can be plugged into a display and work as […]
NEWS 
March 17, 2016 Twitch’s New Initiative Aims to Put Game Streaming at the Centre of Everything
Since launch four years ago, live streaming video platform Twitch has become a popular way for millions to get their gaming fix by watching others plough through new releases and hear their narration. Now Twitch wants to take that a step further, and influence game development itself with its new initiative called “Stream First”. “In […]
