TECHNOLOGY

Samsung Galaxy F62 with massive 7000mAh battery launched
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Galaxy F62 is priced at Rs 23,999 for the 6/128GB variant and Rs 25,999 for the 8GB/128GB variant and will be available on Flipkart.com, Reliance Digital Jio retail stores, Samsung.com as well as select retail stores from February 22, 12 noon.
Half of realme products in India will be 5G in 2021: CEO
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Half of realme products to be launched in India will be 5G-ready, according to Madhav Sheth, VP, realme and CEO, realme India & Europe.
Apple Watch reaches 100M users globally, says analyst
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Some of the data points revealed by the analyst claim that 30 million new users started using an Apple Watch in 2020, which was way more than the users in 2015, 2016, and 2017 combined. At the end of 2020, approximately 35 per cent of iPhone users in the US were wearing an Apple Watch.
Twitter to label personal accounts of heads of state from Feb 17
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Twitter said it is also updating the label text to add more specificity to the government account labels by differentiating between individuals and institutions, and expanding labels to the personal accounts of heads of state to give people on Twitter additional context.
'We're building in public, join us': Koo blasts privacy critics
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"Koo is fully owned by Bombinate Technologies Pvt Ltd and domiciled in India. All data and associated servers are also run out of India. The team is headquartered in Bengaluru," the Koo team explained. Shunwei, the lone global venture capital firm with China links in the Koo structure, has "committed to exiting the company".
Microsoft planned to buy social media firm Pinterest: Report
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According to The Financial Times, the tech giant aimed to acquire Pinterest, a platform popular for sharing and discovering recipes, home ideas, style inspiration and other ideas, to create a portfolio of active online communities that could run on its Cloud computing platform.
Instagram to block users who send hateful messages via DMs
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"Now, if someone continues to send violating messages, we'll disable their account. We'll also disable new accounts created to get around our messaging restrictions, and will continue to disable accounts we find that are created purely to send abusive messages," Instagram said in a statement late on Wednesday.
Data traffic in India grew 60 times over past 5 yrs: Nokia
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In 2020, the data traffic grew by 36 per cent year-over-year primarily due to rise in 4G data consumption as 4G subscribers surpassed 700 million with 100 million new additions during the year, said the Mobile Broadband India Traffic Index (MBiT) 2021 report on mobile broadband performance in India.
US commission backs LG in high-profile trade secret dispute
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The ITC on Wednesday issued "a limited exclusion order" for 10 years to ban import of some lithium-ion batteries and its components by SK Innovation, but permitted shipment of components for domestic production of its clients, including Ford Motor, Volkswagen and Kia, considering "public interests."
This Epic Games tool creates digital humans in a jiffy
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In addition to speeding up the complex process of digital human creation, it also enables teams of all shapes and sizes to more easily scale and make many types of characters to meet the demands of next-gen platforms and high-end virtual production.
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