Daily Archives: April 12, 2016
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NEWS 
April 12, 2016 Huawei Watch With Android Wear Launched at Rs. 22,999
Huawei has launched its Android Wear-based smartwatch in India, the Huawei Watch. First unveiled at MWC 2015, the smartwatch started hitting shelves in launch markets in September last year. The Huawei Watch has been priced at Rs. 22,999, and will be available via Flipkart from Monday. Offline retail via premium stores is also being explored, […]
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NEWS 
April 12, 2016 Apple Watch 2 Tipped to Launch at WWDC; New iPhone 7 Details Emerge
An analyst has claimed that Apple may refresh the Apple Watch in June at its annual developer conference – WWDC. In addition, new details about the next iPhone have emerged, claiming a better battery than previous generations as well as a thinner body. Analyst Brian White has issued his research notes (via MacRumors) with predictions […]
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COMPUTERS 
April 12, 2016 Lenovo IdeaPad 100S Windows 10 Laptop Launched at Rs. 14,999
Lenovo has launched its budget-friendly IdeaPad 100S laptop in India, with an end user price (EUP) of Rs. 14,999. The laptop, which is exclusively available via Snapdeal, runs Windows 10 – the highlight of the laptop at this price. To recall, the IdeaPad 100S was launched by Lenovo at IFA 2015 in September, alongside other […]
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COMPUTERS 
April 12, 2016 PC Sales Slump for Sixth Consecutive Quarter: Gartner, IDC
Sales of personal computers slid for the sixth consecutive quarter at the start of 2016, falling to levels not seen since 2007, a market tracker said Monday. A survey by research firm Gartner shows a 9.6 percent drop in PC sales in the first quarter compared with a year earlier, to 64.7 million units. Figures […]
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COMPUTERS 
April 12, 2016 Windows 10 Blue Screen of Death Now Shows a QR Code
Microsoft for the first time since Windows 8 has updated its Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) interface that shows up when the operating system crashes due to a critical error. The updated screen now shows QR codes to help technicians identify error codes in the blue screens. It is worth mentioning that until now, the […]
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NEWS 
April 12, 2016 Facebook Bots Are a Tough Sell After Microsoft Tay’s Racist Tirade
As more than 2,500 coders and corporate-brand caretakers gather this week to hear what’s in store for the future of Facebook, the buzzword of the company’s event will be bots. The social networking giant is expected by analysts to unveil ways for businesses to build chat bots for Messenger, allowing some 900 million users of […]
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ELECTRONICS 
April 12, 2016 New Report Calls for Ban on ‘Killer Robots’ Amid UN Meeting
Technology allowing a pre-programmed robot to shoot to kill, or a tank to fire at a target with no human involvement, is only years away, experts say. A new report called Monday for a ban on such “killer robots.” The report by Human Rights Watch and the Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic was […]
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NEWS 
April 12, 2016 Nasa Recovers Planet-Hunting Kepler Probe From Emergency Mode
In a good news for astronomers, Nasa engineers have successfully recovered the planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft from emergency mode (EM). The spacecraft is now in a stable state with the communication antenna pointed toward Earth, enabling telemetry and historical event data to be downloaded to the ground. The spacecraft is operating in its lowest fuel-burn mode, […]
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NEWS 
April 12, 2016 Stephen Hawking’s Brief History on Chinese Social Media
Renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking entered the universe of Chinese social media with a big bang on Tuesday, with his first post to the country’s Twitter-like Weibo service garnering him more than a million followers the same day. In less than five hours Hawking flew past Apple chief Tim Cook, who has around 820,000 fans after […]
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COMPUTERS 
April 12, 2016 AMD Plans to Enter India in a Big Way: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Chipmaker AMD plans to enter Indian electronics sector in a big way and has already tied up with HSMC for chip manufacturing in the country, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Tuesday. AMD CEO and President Lisa Su met Prasad and conveyed that the company is committed to transform India into electronics manufacturing hub. […]
