TECHNOLOGY

Sony launches BRAVIA X80J Google TV series in India
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The new X80J TV series is available in 189 cm (75-inch), 165 cm (65-inch), 140 cm (55-inch), 126 cm (50-inch) and 108 cm (43-inch).The new lineup integrates Google TV that allow users to browse upto more than 700,000 movies and TV episodes from across your streaming services.
TECNO launches SPARK 7 at special introductory price of Rs 6,999
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The SPARK 7 comes in two storage variants at a special launch introductory price of Rs 6,999 for 2GB+32GB variant and Rs 7,999 for 3GB+64GB variant and offers three colour options -- spruce green, magnet black and morpheus blue.
MacBook, iPad production delayed over global chip shortage
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According to Nikkei Asia, chip shortages have caused delays in a key step in MacBook production -- the mounting of components on printed circuit boards before final assembly. The report, citing industry sources and experts, said the delays are a sign that the chip shortage is growing more serious and could impact smaller tech players even more heavily.
OnePlus 9R 5G brings top-class gaming to Indian fans
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The mobile gamers -- both entry-level and hardcore ones -- in the country seek solid internals to back up demanding games and the latest device in the OnePlus 9 series aims to deliver a fast and smooth flagship experience, featuring Qualcomm Snapdragon 870, 120Hz Fluid AMOLED Display and Warp Charge 65 technology for hours of seamless gaming.
Samsung unveils upgraded smart tracking tag with UWB tech
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The latest product will be available beginning next Friday though its launch schedule will vary by market. Its predecessor, Galaxy SmartTag, which was launched in January, only used BLE technology, which provides reduced power consumption and lowers costs compared with the previous Bluetooth wireless technology, reports Yonhap news agency.
Epic charges Apple of monopoly, iPhone maker says ‘PR stunt'
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While Epic Games argues about Apple's monopoly over the app market and treats a 30 per cent standard fee amount to anti-competitive behaviour that must be regulated by antitrust law, Apple contends that "the whole antitrust allegation and associated dust-kicking is little more than a PR stunt," reports TechCrunch.
After Facebook, LinkedIn now faces massive 500 million users' data leak
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An archive with data purportedly scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles has been put for sale on a popular hacker forum, with another 2 million records leaked as a proof-of-concept sample by people behind the hack.
Nokia maker HMD Global introduces 6 new phones
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At top of the new portfolio are the Nokia X20 and Nokia X10, powered by the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 5G Mobile Platform, Android 11 straight out of the box, ZEISS Optics and innovative AI solutions. With a wide 6.67-inch Full HD+ punch-hole display, Nokia X20 and Nokia X10 also come with a 100 per cent compostable case in the sales box, the company said in a statement late on Thursday.
Elon Musk's Neuralink shows how monkey plays Pong with his mind
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Pager, a nine-year-old macaque monkey, had a Neuralink chip implanted about six weeks before the video was shot. The monkey was first trained to play the Pong video game with a joystick for a banana reward. The Neuralink device recorded information about which neurons were firing as the money played the video game.
Facebook, Instagram face another global outage in less than a month
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People took to the online outage detector platform DownDetector as they were welcomed with a "sorry something went wrong" error message from Facebook and Instagram. The outage appeared to affect Facebook's internal websites as well, noted in a tweet from famed developer Jane Wong.
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