Amazon Halo View fitness tracker was launched on Tuesday, September 28 among a host of other devices during a major event hosted by the e-commerce giant. The fitness band comes with features like step tracking as well as optical heart rate and skin temperature monitoring. It counts activity points, gives a sleeps score, and also
iPad mini 2021 users have reported a slightly uneven scroll issue when using the device in portrait mode. This is said to be specifically apparent when scrolling on a screen with a lot of text. The term ‘jelly scroll’ was also coined for this issue and Apple has officially responded on the matter. The company
Netflix has bought video game creator Night School Studio and rolled out five mobile gaming titles in select European markets, the company said on Tuesday, as it looks to diversify revenue sources amid intensifying competition in the streaming space. Night School Studio, the company’s first gaming studio purchase, is best known for its debut game,
DMARC is a global standard for email authentication. It allows senders to verify that the email really comes from whom it claims to come from. This helps curb spam and phishing attacks, which are among the most prevalent cybercrimes of today. Gmail, Yahoo, and many other large email providers have implemented DMARC and praised its
WhatsApp is found to be working on expanding its multi-device feature to let users access the instant messaging app on multiple devices based on Android and iOS. At present, the feature works in beta as an opt-in offering designed for WhatsApp on the Web, desktop, and Facebook Portal. It allows users to access WhatsApp on
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Boots, which is part of the Walgreens Boots Alliance, saw a 250% year-on-year online sales increase during 2020’s pandemic-induced lockdown. This shift was overseen by Boots UK CIO Richard Corbridge, who acknowledges what a huge shift the move to ecommerce
Samsung Galaxy F42 5G was launched in India on Wednesday. The new Samsung phone comes with triple rear cameras and carries a 90Hz refresh rate. It is also the first phone in the company’s Galaxy F-series to come with 5G connectivity in India, and features support for 12 distinct bands. The Samsung Galaxy F42 5G
Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday said the U.S. government should steer clear of trying to regulate the crypto market. “It is not possible to, I think, destroy crypto, but it is possible for governments to slow down its advancement,” Musk said at the Code Conference in Beverly Hills, California. Musk was responding on stage
YouTube deleted Russian state-backed broadcaster RT’s German-language channels on Tuesday, saying it had breached its COVID misinformation policy. “YouTube has always had clear community guidelines that outline what is allowed on the platform,” said a spokesperson. Initially RT’s German channel was issued a strike for uploading content that violated YouTube’s COVID misinformation policy, resulting in
Nokia PureBook S14 laptop and a new Nokia Smart TV range were launched in India on Tuesday, September 28 by Flipkart. The devices will go on sale from October 3, i.e., the beginning of the Flipkart Big Billion Days sale. The Nokia PureBook S14 runs on Windows 11 and is powered with up to an
Opportunistic threat actors have been found actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Atlassian Confluence deployments across Windows and Linux to deploy web shells that result in the execution of crypto miners on compromised systems. Tracked as CVE-2021-26084 (CVSS score: 9.8), the vulnerability concerns an OGNL (Object-Graph Navigation Language) injection flaw that could
Social media firms must do more to stop advertising “dodgy financial promotions” that fuel a surge in fraud or face action, Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority said on Tuesday. “We are putting them on notice that we expect them to be involved in this process of protecting the community,” the FCA’s head of enforcement Mark Steward
Astronomers at NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered at least six early galaxies, massive in size, which were “dead” when the universe was about 3 billion years old. These galaxies had run out of cold hydrogen, something necessary for the formation of stars. With no fuel to form
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Machine learning has become an important component of many applications we use today. And adding machine learning capabilities to applications is becoming increasingly easy. Many ML libraries and online services don’t even require a thorough knowledge of machine learning. However,
Xiaomi Watch Color 2 has been launched in China alongside the Xiaomi Civi smartphone. The wearable comes with 117 sports modes and claims to last for up to 12 days on a single charge. Xiaomi Watch Color 2 has a round dial and comes in varied silicone strap colour options. There are over 200 customisable
Samsung’s Galaxy A52s is a mid-year upgrade to the Galaxy A52 which was launched in March this year. The GalaxyA52 has so far been a decent mid-range offering, and stands out thanks to its IP67 rating, which most other phones in the mid-range don’t have. With a starting price of Rs. 26,499 for the 6GB
Xbox Series X and Series S have now support Dolby Vision that promises to deliver an enhanced experience to gamers around the world. Dolby Vision enhancement for the latest Xbox gaming consoles was first revealed by Microsoft last year — alongside Dolby Atmos support for gaming. The update is claimed to provide “full-spectrum visuals” along
In this article AMZN Amazon Astro home robot Todd Haselton | CNBC Amazon announced its long-rumored $999 Astro home robot on Tuesday. I had a chance to check it out in a demo with Amazon last week and wanted to share a few thoughts on what Astro is, what it can and can’t do and
Google said deals with Android phone makers that landed it a record EUR 4.3-billion (roughly Rs. 37,230 crores) antitrust fine boosted competition and rejected EU charges they were a carrot-and-stick tactic that stifled rivals. Google was addressing the second day of a week-long hearing as it tries to get Europe’s second-highest court to annul the
Flipkart Big Billion Days 2021 sale is set to begin on October 3 and will be live till October 10. The eight-day event will be the year’s biggest sale by the Walmart-owned e-commerce website. Many brands including Blaupunkt, Infinix, and Thomson have announced big discounts on their smart TV lineups that will be live during the
A new advanced trojan sold on Russian-speaking underground forums comes with capabilities to steal users’ accounts on popular online video game distribution services, including Steam, Epic Games Store, and EA Origin, underscoring a growing threat to the lucrative gaming market. Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, which coined the malware “BloodyStealer,” said it first detected the malicious tool