With an aim to accelerate the path from AI research to production, Facebook today announced a new version of its open-source AI framework, PyTorch 1.0. With new framework, AI developers can seamlessly transition between a flexible, immediate execution mode for research. Continue reading “Facebook launches PyTorch 1.0 open-source AI framework for developers”
With phone sizes becoming bigger and bigger every passing day, the U.I redesign of apps has become mandatory in order complement the larger screens. With the same thought, Twitter is now said to be testing bottom navigation bar, but there is no way you can to trigger the UI yourself just yet. Continue reading “Twitter said to be testing bottom navigation bar for Android”
Xiaomi opts Hong Kong to sell its shares giving the city world’s biggest initial public offering (IPO) of 2018 and the pole position in a race with New York and Shanghai to be the global capital for raising funds. Xiaomi has submitted the IPO application to the Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Limited under new listing regulations for technology start-ups. Continue reading “Xiaomi files for an IPO in Hong Kong; seeks to raise at least $10 Billion at $100B valuation”
Worldwide smartphone shipments have declined 2.9% YoY in Q1 2018. The smartphone vendors shipped a total of 334.3 million units during the first quarter of 2018. This is a sharp decline compared to the 344.4 million units shipped in the first quarter of 2017. Continue reading “Worldwide smartphone shipments decline 2.9% YoY in Q1 2018, Xiaomi posts 87.8% YoY growth: IDC”
Asus today has launched the Vivobook 15 X507 laptop in India. It comes with 15.6-inches LED-backlit display and is powered up to 6th Gen Intel Core i3 Processor. It weights just 1.68kgs making it one of the most light-weight laptops. Continue reading “Asus Vivobook 15 X507 launched in India starting at Rs. 21990”
The Center has announced that Aadhaar card is no longer mandatory for getting a mobile SIM, meaning that telecom operators can now accept another form of verification like driving license, passport, and voter ID card. The operators have been asked to follow the directive immediately. Continue reading “Government confirms Aadhaar card not mandatory to get mobile SIMs”
Telecom Commission on Tuesday has approved the proposal to allow internet telephony in the country as well as in-flight mobile services. With this new approval, users can now make calls to mobile phones as well as landlines using the Wi-Fi broadband. The proposals were approved by the commission chaired by telecom secretary Aruna Sundararajan. Continue reading “Telecom Commission approves internet telephony, use of mobile services in flights and ships in India”
Bharti Airtel today has announced the launch of first-of-its-kind carrier digital platform which will enable global carriers with wholesale voice business with Airtel at the click of a button. This platform will offer paperless sign-up, quick voice interconnects and real-time traffic analytics for global carriers across the world. Continue reading “Airtel announces roll out of world’s first carrier digital platform for wholesale voice business”
Facebook’s smart speaker has been in the news for quite some time now, the company actually planned to launch it at the F8 event but backed out after the privacy concerns. Now it is said that the company will first launch the smart speaker in the international markets first to avoid U.S. public scrutiny of data privacy issues. Continue reading “Facebook smart speaker said to launch in international markets first, might come with ‘M’ smart assistant”
Fitbit has announced that it has partnered with Google across wearables and digital health. Under this partnership, Fitbit will be using Google’s Cloud Healthcare API to provide an interoperability solution to enable users to collaborate on care with their own healthcare providers. Continue reading “Fitbit partners with Google to accelerate digital health and wearables”
Twitter app is now available for Windows 10 on the Microsoft Store. It packs most of the essential features like longer Tweets, the Explore tab to find topics relevant to your interests, and the ability to bookmark Tweets to be read later. Continue reading “Twitter releases new app with refreshed look, push notifications for Windows 10”
Google today has announced the .app HTTPS-default top-level domain. The company purchased the TLD in 2015 for approx $25 million, and it is launching it today with apps, developers, and security as the primary objective. Continue reading “Google announces .app HTTPS-default top-level domain, early registrations start today”
At the Facebook F8 event, the company has made some significant announcements to its products. One of them is the new ‘Clear History’ tool to delete browsing history amidst the privacy concerns. Continue reading “Facebook introduces ‘Clear History’ tool to delete browsing history, Dating service; WhatsApp to get group calling and stickers”
Instagram today is rolling a bunch of new features including GoPro, Spotify integration, Video calls, AR camera effects and more. Instagram now allows users to post directly to Instagram Stories from apps like Spotify and GoPro, it also mentioned that it will bring the ability to share to Stories to many other apps in the future. Continue reading “Instagram Stories gets GoPro and Spotify integration, Video calls, AR camera effects and more”
Facebook at the F8 event has introduced a bunch of new features to its Messenger platform. It now brings the ability for brands to incorporate augmented reality into their Messenger experiences and also adds Spanish translations so that buyers and sellers in Marketplace can communicate across languages with M suggestions for translations. Continue reading “Facebook Messenger for brands gets AR camera effects, Spanish translations”
