Chandrayaan-2 Moon mission’s plan to soft land the Vikram module on the lunar surface did not go as per script. The success ratio of lunar missions undertaken in the last six decades is less than 60 percent, according to US space agency NASA’s ‘Moon Fact Sheet’. Of the 109 lunar missions during the period, 60
Month: September 2019
Jio Fiber was commercially launched this week, and it is certainly the highlight in terms of tech news of the past 7 days. Telco Reliance Jio detailed Jio Fiber plans subscribers can avail, and it also explained the process of migration of current preview subscribers. This week also saw the IFA 2019 trade show take
Chandrayaan-2 Moon mission has accomplished 90 to 95 percent of its mission objectives, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a new statement on Saturday following the loss of contact with the Vikram lander in the early hours of the day. ISRO said the “precise launch and mission management” had given the orbiter a
How long have you been using your current smartphone? The answer for an increasing number of consumers is years, plural. After all, why upgrade every year when next year’s model is almost exactly the same as the device you’re holding in your hand? Dutch social enterprise Fairphone sees this as an opportunity to sell sustainability.
Product announcements from IFA 2019 are in full swing and at Asus’s press event, the company announced a slew of new products, many of which were targeted at professional users. Asus expanded its ProArt series of products with brand new laptops, monitors, and a desktop. It also announced the AsusPro B9 business laptop, which it
Food delivery platform Zomato on Saturday said that it has laid off 541 people — 10 percent of the company’s strength — across customer, merchant and delivery partner support teams. The reason behind the move is an improved Zomato platform with artificial intelligence (AI)-driven bots and automation in resolving customer queries that has led to
Xiaomi is slowly expanding its smart home portfolio in India, launching products ranging from smart bulbs to lifestyle products and household paraphernalia. The company has now begun teasing the arrival of a new product in India that might well turn out to be the freshly launched Redmi TV 70. The official Xiaomi India Twitter account
A coalition of US state officials announced Friday they had launched an antitrust investigation of Facebook to determine if the social media giant “has stifled competition and put users at risk.” New York state Attorney General Letitia James released a statement announcing the action on behalf of seven other states and the District of Columbia.
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Apple will live stream the company’s September 10 iPhone launch event on YouTube this year, a first for the company. Apple has in the past limited the live stream of major launch events to its official website, but the upcoming iPhone 11 series launch event will mark the first time that Apple is shifting away
Huawei P30 Pro has won considerable acclaim for its impressive camera capabilities and overall performance. Huawei has now announced at IFA 2019 that the company has managed to ship 16.5 million units of the Huawei P30 Pro globally so far. The smartphone maker has also lifted the covers from two new colour variants of the
Nintendo has begun teasing the launch of a new accessory for the Nintendo Switch that will be unveiled on September 12. The accessory looks like a flexible ring on which the Nintendo Switch’s Joy-Con controllers can be fitted to enjoy games that require physical movement to varying degrees in different postures. A strap-like attachment for
The Chandrayaan-2 mission will “absolutely have no impact” on the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) ambitious manned mission Gaganyaan, scheduled to be launched in 2022, according to an ISRO official. P G Diwakar, who was earlier scientific secretary at the space agency and is now the Director of Earth Observations Applications and Disaster Management Programme
Google said Friday it was banning online ads for unproven medical treatments including most stem cell and gene therapy. “This new policy will prohibit ads selling treatments that have no established biomedical or scientific basis,” Google policy adviser Adrienne Biddings said in a blog post. Biddings said Google will “prohibit advertising for unproven or experimental
Here’s an interesting bit of news out of IFA today. TCL this morning announced a deal with Tempow that will bring the French company’s clever bluetooth streaming protocol to its forthcoming Plex flagship device. TCL follows Motorola in adopting the Tempow Audio Profile (TAP) technology. The protocol, which Tempow showed off a few IFAs back,
Razer has launched what it calls the world’s first gaming ultrabook, the Razer Blade Stealth, at the IFA 2019 trade show. This super-compact laptop is designed to take advantage of Intel’s 10th gen Ice Lake CPUs with its brand new integrated Gen11 Iris Plus GPU to enable high-quality 60fps gaming even on battery power no
Apple on Friday confirmed that China’s Uighurs, a mostly Muslim minority group considered a security threat by Beijing, had been the target of attacks due to iPhone security flaws, but disputed rival Alphabet’s description of the effort to track users of the smartphone in real time. Google Project Zero researchers said last week that five security
Here’s what we know for sure: Apple’s holding a big event on its campus at 10AM PT on September 10. Here’s what we almost certainly know for sure: The iPhone 11 will launch with a new camera configuration. There will be probably be three different models. From there, things get a bit more complicated. There’s
OnePlus is building up to the launch of its first TV, which is expected to be launched later this month. Quite a few details about the OnePlus TV are already known, but a couple of major new reveals have been made today. One is an announcement regarding a strategic partnership between Eros Now and OnePlus
Facebook is teaming up with Microsoft, the Partnership on AI coalition and academics from several universities to launch a contest to better detect deepfakes, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. The social media giant is putting $10 million into the “Deepfake Detection Challenge,” which aims to spur detection research. As part of the
Pandora users can now share music and podcasts on Instagram Stories. Sharing content from Pandora to Instagram Stories is a really simple process, and it could even help your friends who don’t use Pandora get free access to the music and podcasts Pandora offers. How to Share Pandora Music on Instagram Stories As detailed on
Apple Music is great but fans of the service have been longing for the ability to access their music library through a Web browser, rather than having to use iTunes. That all changes now, as Apple has finally launched a Web player for Apple Music. It’s currently in beta, but the feature is live at
Vivo’s latest offering — the Vivo Z1x — is an example of how a company can take a winning product and improve on it to cater to even more people. Vivo has taken everything that was good about the Vivo Z1 Pro and has made some tangible enhancements, such as more capable camera hardware, an
Huawei has launched the company’s next generation truly wireless earbuds at IFA 2019 – the FreeBuds 3. The most notable feature of the FreeBuds 3 is that they feature support for active noise cancellation. They come equipped with a built-in bone voice sensor for voice conduction, touch gesture support, and dual-mode Bluetooth 5.1 connectivity. Moreover, Huawei’s
Chandrayaan-2, India’s historic Moon mission, will attempt in the early hours of Saturday to reach its desired conclusion: land on the lunar surface. It’s taken over six weeks to get there, thanks to the more fuel-efficient slingshot technique used by Chandrayaan-2, which meant it spent three weeks orbiting the Earth before launching itself towards the
The good news: Samsung says it has addressed the early problems with the Galaxy Fold and finally has a release date (in Korea at least). The bad news: the company is canceling the first round of U.S. preorders. The gooder news: if you were among those early adopters, the it’s giving you a $250 in-house
Xiaomi’s has confirmed that it is looking to announce Mi Charge Turbo on September 9. The upgraded wireless charging technology is set to launch next week, and details are scarce at the moment. Currently, Xiaomi offers 27W fast charging support on its flagship Mi 9 that was launched in February 2019. The teaser poster suggests
Electric bike maker Cowboy has recruited a well-known name when it comes to mobile app design. Jeremy Le Van co-founded Sunrise, a well-designed calendar app that was acquired by Microsoft back in 2015. Le Van will become VP of Product and lead the development of Cowboy’s mobile app. Following Sunrise’s acquisition, Le Van has worked
Xiaomi said on Friday it has shipped over 100 million smartphones in India, its most important market, since beginning operations in the nation five years ago. The company cited figures from research firm IDC in its claim. The Chinese giant, which has held the top smartphone vendor position in India for eight straight quarters, said
Lenovo has updated its portfolio of laptops by launching four new ThinkBook-series devices that are geared at SMBs and professionals. The new ThinkBook laptops are powered by 10th Gen Intel Core processors and pack PCIe SSD storage among other performance-centric attributes. Additionally, Lenovo has launched a trio of new monitors at IFA 2019 with a