TECHNOLOGY

COSMOS to democratise learning & ignite inquisitiveness: Sitharaman
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 Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday laid the foundation stone of a state-of-the-art planetarium in Mysore University's Chamundi Hill Campus. This will be India's first planetarium with a Digistar 7 system and a Domex screen, COSMOS and will serve as a planetarium and also provide students and research scholars a platform to access the real time as well as archival data for analysis and use.
Apple iPhone SE 3 key features revealed ahead of launch
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Apple is holding a hardware event on March 8 and the company is expected to reveal a new iPhone SE and refreshed iPad Air. The new iPhone SE is expected to start at $300 and have the A15 Bionic SoC at the helm, reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has outlined his "predictions" for the new iPhone SE, reports GSMArena.
Google Stadia to receive 4 new games next month
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Google has announced that four titles in the pipeline including Deliver Us the Moon, which comes out next month to Stadia. Google this week confirmed four games coming to Stadia, with Deliver Us the Moon being the most interesting of the batch, reports 9To5Google.
Apple working on Studio Display with 7K resolution: Report
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Apple is reportedly working on an "Apple Studio Display" which at 7K will be higher resolution than the current Pro Display XDR.According to 9to5Mac, Apple Studio Display will sport a higher resolution than Apple's Pro Display XDR, the 32-inch 6K (6,016 A- 3,384 pixels, 218 PPI) resolution display that launched in late 2019. Last year, reports suggested Apple was testing a new display with a built-in A13 chip.
N.Korea conducts 'important test' for 'reconnaissance satellite' development
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North Korea said on Sunday it has conducted another "important test" for developing a "reconnaissance satellite". The DPRK is the acronym for the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.Launched from around the Sunan area in Pyongyang, the missile flew about 270 km at a top altitude of 560 km, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
The BharatPe Saga: How an astutely run business venture came apart
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Coming from middle-class families, Ashneer Grover and wife Madhuri Jain Grover together built an astute business profile with a net worth of at least Rs 21,300 crore, before a heated and abusive telephone call with a Kotak Mahindra Bank's employee, that went viral in early January, triggered their downfall.
Top Internet backbone provider Cogent shuts service in Russia
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 The US-based Internet backbone provider Cogent Communications has cut off services in Russia, "terminating its contracts" with the customers in the country in compliance with the European Union's move to ban Russian state-backed media outlets.
S. Korea aims to commercialise 6G mobile services by 2028
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South Korea will push to commercialise sixth-generation (6G) services by around 2028, the country's Science Minister has said. Science and ICT Minister Lim Hye-sook made the remarks during her speech at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2022, a mobile technology trade fair underway in Barcelona, reports Yonhap News Agency.
Samsung reportedly hacked by foreign entity, confidential data leaked
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Samsung Electronics has allegedly been hacked by a foreign hacking group, which breached its confidential source code and other classified data, industry sources said.Data extortion entity Lapsus$ has claimed that it hacked the system of the South Korean tech giant and leaked up to 190 gigabytes of its data and source code online, according to the sources. It also said that it uploaded the leaked data for download via torrent, reports Yonhap news agency.
Samsung stops shipping products to Russia
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"Due to the current geopolitical developments, shipments to Russia have been suspended," reads a statement from an unnamed Samsung representative, via Samsung's generic PR email address. "We continue to actively monitor this complex situation to determine our next steps." According to The Verge, Samsung is also making donations to humanitarian efforts.
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