• ELECTRONICS
    iMCO’s CoWatch Smartwatch Launches with Alexa Virtual Assistant

    iMCO’s CoWatch Smartwatch Launches with Alexa Virtual Assistant HIGHLIGHTS The smartwatch brings mostly all of Alexa’s functionality The smartwatch runs on an Android-based OS called Cronologics The CoWatch smartwatch is available on Amazon starting at $279 Fans of Amazon’s Alexa will be happy to know that their favourite voice-controlled virtual assistant is now coming to […]

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    Apple Said to Expand HealthKit From Tracker to Diagnosis Tool

    Apple Said to Expand HealthKit From Tracker to Diagnosis Tool So far Apple’s HealthKit has mostly collected fitness data from its devices. In the future, if the company gets its way, the software will interpret that information, turning it into advice for users, doctors and others. Scores of health-care experts hired by Apple in recent […]

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    Personally Tech With Dinesh Aggarwal of Anchor Electricals

    Personally Tech With Dinesh Aggarwal of Anchor Electricals In our weekly column Personally Tech we talk to people from all walks of life to learn about the apps and gadgets that they love and can’t live without. Technology has changed the way we all live and work, in myriad ways. This week we spoke to […]

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    China’s $100 Billion Chip Supremacy Bid Deemed Unrealistic

    HIGHLIGHTS China wants to become premier supplier of semiconductors to the planet Part of a broader effort to wean itself off foreign technology China currently makes just 15 percent of the semiconductors it consumes China faces an uphill battle in its push to become the global leader in computer chips because of a lack of […]

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    LeapPad Inventor Wants to Turn Your Eyes Into a Mouse

    HIGHLIGHTS Eye-based technology is key to improving and popularizing VR technology System designed to help alleviate the nausea experienced by some VR users Eyefluence is currently hammering out licensing deals with headset makers First came the computer mouse. Then the touchscreen. Now the tech industry is looking for a new human-machine interface-this time, one that […]

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    Can You Trust the Lithium-Ion Battery in Your Pocket?

    US safety regulators on Thursday ordered a nationwide recall of the new Samsung Galaxy Note 7smartphone, two weeks after reports first emerged that the popular device’s lithium-ion batteries were prone to catching fire and raising fresh doubts about the power sources tucked inside almost all smartphones, laptops and electric vehicles. The mandatory recall, which makes it […]

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    LeEco US Launch Confirmed for October 19

    LeEco US Launch Confirmed for October 19 HIGHLIGHTS LeEco to announce US debut on October 19 Event to take place in San Francisco LeEco expected to launch smartphones apart from other products in the US China’s LeEco has confirmed an event in San Francisco, California next month where the company can be expected to formally […]

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    Nexus Series Discontinued; All Products Removed From Google Store

    HIGHLIGHTS Google will release smartphones under ‘Pixel’ brand moving forward All Nexus products have been pulled from the Google Store Google confirms that no more Nexus devices will launch in the future Alongside the big launch of the Google Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones, the tech giant has also confirmed that the Nexus series is […]