Facebook said on Monday it bought New York-based CTRL-labs, a start-up that is exploring ways for people to communicate with computers using brain signals, in a deal that CNBC said was valued at $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,100 crores). Facebook Vice President of AR/VR Andrew Bosworth announced the deal in a Facebook post. CTRL-labs will join
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As Samsung and Huawei double down on their foldable smartphone lineups, and other handset vendors try to hide the notch, Chinese giant Xiaomi today chalked out a different path altogether. The company unveiled the Mi Mix Alpha, a smartphone with a front display that fully wraps around the back, save for a strip. The Mi
Amazon is building wireless earbuds that offer Alexa voice assistant access, and fitness tracking for use during activities, according to a new report from CNBC. These earbuds, combined with a new, larger Echo designed to provide more premium sound, could feature into Amazon’s hardware event taking place this Wednesday in Seattle, though the outlet is
Google is not required to apply an EU “right to be forgotten” to its search engine domains outside Europe, the EU’s top court ruled Tuesday in a landmark decision. The European Court of Justice handed victory to Google in the case, seen as crucial in determining whether EU online regulation should apply beyond Europe’s borders
Samsung Galaxy A70s was recently spotted on Geekbench and has also received Wi-Fi certification, indicating that the phone is inching closer to its launch. The phone has now been spotted in Chinese regulator TENAA’s database, giving us our first look at its design and some of the key specifications. The Samsung Galaxy A70s, which builds over
Stationhead, the mobile app that turns its users into streaming radio DJs, got a big upgrade today. Where Stationhead DJs were previously limited to broadcasting live, they can now record their shows, making them available on-demand for anyone to listen later. The idea behind Stationhead is to democratize and recapture the personality of traditional radio
Facebook is buying CTRL-labs, a NY-based startup building an armband that translates movement and the wearer’s neural impulses into digital input signals, a company spokesperson tells TechCrunch. CTRL-labs raised $67 million according to Crunchbase. The startup’s investors include GV, Lux Capital, Amazon’s Alexa Fund, Spark Capital, Founders Fund, among others. Facebook didn’t disclose how much
The OnePlus TV is on its way, and will be launched on September 26. The TV is coming to India first, and will eventually make its way to other global markets as well. The company has been teasing various features, with company CEO Pete Lau tweeting titbits of information on the new product every few
There have been some big gaming-related updates to iOS 13. Apple Arcade is the most prominent of these changes, but that’s not the only one. Now the Dualshock 4 controller for PS4 and some official Xbox controllers are also supported on iOS 13. Controller support has been available on iOS for a few years now, but
Aiming to make its cryptocurrency Libra customer friendly when it arrives next year, Facebook has acquired a startup called Servicefriend that builds Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven bots for messaging apps. The Israel-based startup is known for building “Hybrid Bot Architecture” – an approach that offers the enterprise the scalability of a bot with the intelligence, comprehension,
Vivo U10 is set to launch in India today. The launch event is taking place in New Delhi and it will be live streamed on YouTube. Ahead of the formal launch, Vivo has confirmed that the U10 would debut as the company’s new online-exclusive smartphone. The phone will be available for purchase exclusively through Amazon
iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max have gone through iFixit’s usual teardown treatment and the repair manual website has found the new iPhone model to have some interesting additions over their predecessors. Apple has already confirmed that the iPhone 11 series will offer better battery life than the iPhone XR, iPhone XS, and
A man from city of Spokane in Washington State has credited Apple Watch for saving his father’s life after a biking accident. Gabe Burdett was waiting for his father Bob at their pre-designated location for some mountain biking at the Riverside State Park when he received a text alert from his dad’s Apple Watch, saying
Google Assistant and other voice assistants have recently come under fire over grading and other improvements programmes where the tech companies use humans to listen to voice recordings made by the digital assistants to gather feedback. Google is now implementing certain changes to make Google Assistant more conscious of user privacy. The company is letting
Following the well-received launch of Apple Arcade, Google today is officially introducing its own take on subscription-based access to premium mobile games — or, Google’s case, premium mobile apps, too. The new Google Play Pass subscription, arriving this week, will offer over 350 apps and games that are completely unlocked, with no upfront fees, in-app
Amazon is introducing a new feature to its Alexa Show device designed to help blind and other low-vision customers identify common household pantry items by holding them up in front of Alexa’s camera and asking what it is. The feature uses a combination of computer vision and machine learning techniques in order to recognize the
Microsoft may launch a 15-inch Surface Laptop 3 next month alongside a 13.5-inch model, which is the same screen size as the Surface Laptop 2’s. The company is hosting an event on October 2. The company is also expected to launch an AMD-powered Surface Laptop 3 and it is possible that this chip could be
Xiaomi recently took the wraps off the Redmi K20 Pro Premium Edition aka Exclusive Edition in China. The new smartphone is similar to the Redmi K20 Pro that was launched earlier this year, but the new model comes with beefed up hardware. The Redmi K20 Pro Premium Edition packs Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ SoC and comes
Asus ROG Phone 2 is set to launch in India today, the latest gaming smartphone from Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Asus. To recall, the Asus ROG Phone 2 was unveiled in July, and runs on the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ SoC with up to 12GB of RAM. Other highlight of the phone are its 120Hz AMOLED
At its Smarter Living 2020 launch, the company launched four new Mi TVs running on PatchWall 2.0 based on Android Pie-backed Android TV. Now, the company has announced that Android Pie support is coming to all of its previously-launched Mi TVs as well. This also includes support for Netflix and Amazon Prime. The update will
iOS 13 adds a few much-needed features to the Files app and one of these is the ability to open ZIP and other compressed files, as well as the ability to create such files on your device. Now that this feature is baked into Files app on iOS 13, it is much closer to how
Facebook Inc said on Friday it has suspended tens of thousands of apps on the social networking platform, as part of the company’s ongoing app developer investigation it began in March 2018 in response to the Cambridge Analytica row. The suspended apps are associated with about 400 developers, Facebook said, adding that it is not
Oppo A5 2020 smartphone has gone on sale in India. The phone was launched last week, and is now available on Amazon India and offline stores both. It is listed with a slew of bank offers, Jio Subscriber benefits, and no-cost EMI options. Key features of the phone include a quad rear camera setup, a
In 2017, Apple was embroiled in an iPhone slowdown saga, wherein the company admitted to slowing down old iPhone models to prevent unexpected shutdowns. The feature was meant to keep the smartphones running longer, and Apple’s failure in bringing more clarity to the matter led it to initiate a battery replacement programme throughout 2018, apart
Nokia 7.2 will go on sale in India today, after being launched last week. The smartphone was unveiled at HMD Global’s first IFA event earlier this month. The Nokia 7.2 is an Android One smartphone, which means its Google-certified to feature an optimised interface, and has receive timely updates. The smartphone will features a 48-megapixel
iFixit has disassembled Apple’s new iPhone models, which tells us more about the differences with last year’s phones. iFixit shot a live-stream video of the iPhone 11 Pro teardown and wrote a guide for the iPhone 11 Pro Max. The first major difference is that the batteries in the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11
Oracle Corp <ORCL.N> and VMware Inc <VMW.N> on Monday announced a deal designed to resolve years of tension over how Oracle handles technical support for VMware users and make it easier for them to move to Oracle’s cloud computing service. Oracle is competing against Amazon.com, and Microsoft to offer cloud services, where businesses use Oracle’s data
Microsoft said Friday it will offer free security updates through the 2020 election in the United States — and in other interested democratic countries with national elections next year — for federally certified voting systems running on soon-to-be-outdated Windows 7 software. An Associated Press analysis previously found that the vast majority of 10,000 election jurisdictions
Barely a day after YouTube rolled out changes to its verification programme amid a controversy over the content it pushes to its users, the company’s CEO Susan Wojcicki promised to re-evaluate the company’s recently revamped policy. Apologising to video creators, Wojcicki posted on Twitter on late on Friday: “To our creators and users – I’m
One of the prime areas of focus with every iOS release is better security and privacy. And with the release of iOS 13, Apple wants to take this a step further and give users the option to disable Bluetooth access for apps if necessary via a new permission setting. This will present itself in the
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