Facebook today has announced that it is expanding fact-checking for photos and videos to all its 27 partners in 17 countries around the world. The company says that this will help identify and take action against more types of misinformation, faster. Continue reading “Facebook expands fact-checking to photos and videos in 17 countries”
Apple is adding new features to HomePod including the ability to search by lyrics, set multiple timers, make and receive phone calls and more. It is also bringing support for Spanish in the US, Spain, and Mexico, and expands support in Canada with Canadian French.
Continue reading “Apple HomePod gets improved Siri integration, Spanish language support and more”
Apple has concluded the ‘Gather Around’ event after announcing the new iPhones, Apple Watch. Apart from these, the company has also announced the rollout schedule for the iOS 12, HomePod and tvOS 12 with Atmos and Watch OS and macOS Mojave which it introduced at WWDC. The rollout of the iOS 12 will start from September 17th, while the macOS Mojave will commence from September 24th. Continue reading “Apple to roll out iOS 12, Watch OS 5 on September 17, macOS Mojave available starting September 24th”
Apple has kick started the ‘Gather Around’ event with Apple Watch Series 4 announcement. The new Apple Watch Series 4 packs a stunning new display with an edge-to-edge curved display to perfectly match the shape of the watch. The company says that the screen is over 30% larger than the predecessor. Continue reading “Apple Watch Series 4 with edge-to-edge curved display, ECG, Fall detection announced starting at $399”
ASUS today has announced Intel Optane Memory equipped VivoBook X510 in India. It runs on Windows 10 and packs 4GB RAM + up to 16GB intel optane memory, offering 20GB of memory and has NVIDIA GeForce MX130 graphics. It also offers one-touch access via the fingerprint sensor. Continue reading “Asus Vivobook 15 X510 with Core i5 processor, Intel Optane Memory, fingerprint reader launched in India for Rs. 45990”
Verizon has launched ‘Verizon 5G Home’, the world’s first commercial 5G broadband internet service. Users in the USA can sign up to be a “First On 5G” Member. Verizon 5G Home will initially be available in parts of Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and Sacramento. It is built on Verizon’s Ultra-Wideband 5G network. Continue reading “Verizon 5G Home broadband service available in the US starting October 1”
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Since it is a tiring job for moderators to look at every image or video posted on the enormous platform, the company is building an AI to help them out. The system it built is called Rosetta and is said to extract text from more than a billion public Facebook and Instagram images and video frames in a wide variety of languages, daily and in real time, and inputs it into a text recognition model that has been trained on classifiers to understand the context of the text and the image together. Continue reading “Facebook introduces Rosetta AI to identify text in images and videos”
Google axed the 3.5mm audio jack with the Pixel 2 series last year and it probably will follow the same with the upcoming Pixel 3. It included the 3.5mm headphone adapter within the box and now the company has silently refreshed its headphone adapter. According to the Google Play Store listing, the improved dongle provides 53% lower latency and 38% longer playback time than its predecessor. Continue reading “Google silently refreshes USB-C headphone adapter with lower latency and longer playback”
Aadhaar breach is yet again back in the news, this time it is said to be compromised by a software patch that disables critical security features of the software used to enroll new Aadhaar users thus allowing hackers to generate unauthorized Aadhaar numbers. Continue reading “UIDAI dismisses reports of Aadhaar enrolment software being hacked”
The Department of Telecommunications today has approved the state-owned BSNL plan to seek airwaves in the 2100 Mhz band to launch 4G services pan-India. BSNL in 2017 has submitted a detailed project report and in a bid to acquire spectrum worth about Rs 13,885 crore, and sought Rs 6,652 crore as equity infusion from the government. Continue reading “BSNL gets Government approval for 4G services, wide roll out expected soon”
Instagram has confirmed that it is testing a new feature that would allow users to tag their friends in video posts, not just limiting the tagging feature to photos. The feature would work similarly to photo tagging, but instead of pressing the small icon at the bottom left, it might be more difficult with videos. Continue reading “Instagram confirms it is testing video tagging feature”
Vivo has announced plans to spearhead industry development of pre-commercial 5G smartphones through the introduction of 5G software and hardware based on Vivo NEX S smartphone. The company has also announced that it has completed the initial development of 5G smartphone software and hardware on Vivo NEX S. Continue reading “Vivo spearheads 5G-enabled NEX S with Qualcomm X50 modem”
NVIDIA today announced the rollout of SHIELD Software Experience Upgrade 7.1 bringing a host of new features, improvements and the return of one community favorite. It brings new in-game voice chat support for communicating in top titles like Fortnite and PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS. You can now connect a headset and mic to the SHIELD controller 3.5mm jack. Continue reading “NVIDIA Shield TV v7.1 update brings in-game voice chat, 120Hz display support and more”
Samsung Electronics today announced its new SmartThings Tracker, which is its small, lightweight GPS tracking device connected through an LTE-M network that can easily be attached to backpacks, a set of keys, pet collars and more. Continue reading “Samsung SmartThings Tracker with LTE-M, GPS announced”
