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Upcoming brand by realme to be unveiled on May 25
The brand, through its Twitter handle @realmeTechLife, talked about the origin of this new brand saying that it started with a DREAM, which led to a DISCOVERY of new DESIGN and DEVELOPMENT, to produce something DIFFERENT.
Facebook purges over 18M pieces of fake, harmful Covid content
The social network removed these many pieces of content from the the start of the pandemic to April this year. "We're also working to increase vaccine acceptance and combat vaccine misinformation," the company said in its Community Standards Enforcement Report Q1'.
TECNO announces 60-day warranty extension policy for its smartphones
"The welfare and safety of our consumers are of utmost priority," the company said in a statement. TECNO India has implemented a two-month warranty extension policy, which is valid for all TECNO smartphones whose warranty expires during the period between April 15 to June 15, will be automatically extended for 2 months.
Sony expands E-mount lens lineup in India
Priced at Rs 162,990, the company said that it allows users to capture the world with new perspectives, especially when shooting landscapes, architecture, starry skies and interiors. "The latest Sony lens from the G Master series, the FE 14mm F1.8 GM, offers extraordinary resolution, fast and quiet autofocus and is remarkably compact," Mukesh Srivastava, Digital Imaging Head at Sony India, said in a statement.
Amazon.in suffers brief outage for several users in India, up now
Downdetector, a website that monitors app outages, showed a massive spike in problems on amazon.in that started around 10 am and continued till about 12 noon. It mentioned that the most problems faced by the Indians during the outage were logging into the website and checking out.
Apple announces powerful software updates for the disabled
To begin with, customers visiting Apple Store locations in the US, the UK and France can use SignTime to remotely access a sign language interpreter right in their web browsers. Later this year, people with limb differences will be able to navigate Apple Watch using AssistiveTouch.
Twitter phasing out its controversial image cropping algorithm
The company said on Wednesday that not everything on Twitter is a good candidate for an algorithm, and in this case, "how to crop an image is a decision best made by people". Twitter started using a saliency algorithm in 2018 to crop images and improve consistency in the size of photos in users' timeline. However, people on Twitter noted instances where its model chose white individuals over Black individuals in images and male-presenting images
Qualcomm unveils new Snapdragon 778G 5G mobile platform
The chipset is slated to power upcoming high-tier smartphones from Honor, iQOO, Motorola, OPPO, realme and Xiaomi. "Snapdragon 778G was developed to address the growing demand by global OEMs for more platform options in the high-tier," Kedar Kondap, vice president of product management, Qualcomm Technologies said during the company's annual 5G summit on Wednesday.
India 2nd to US in asking Facebook for user data in H2 2020
The restricted access was due to violating Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, including content against security of the state and public order. "Of these, 10 were restricted temporarily. We also restricted access to 54 items in compliance with court orders," Facebook said on Wednesday in its latest Transparency Report for the July-December period in 2020.
Microsoft to retire iconic Internet Explorer on June 15, 2022
Over the last year, Microsoft is moving away from Internet Explorer support, such as an announcement of the end of IE support by Microsoft 365 online services. "With Microsoft Edge capable of assuming this responsibility and more, the Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired and go out of support on June 15, 2022, for certain versions of Windows 10," the company said in a statement on Wednesday.
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