Xiaomi will launch a smartphone with MediaTek’s Helio P60 processor in Q2 of this year. According to a report from My Drivers,
citing supply chain sources, Xiaomi is keen to launch a phone with the
Helio P60 chipset in the second quarter of 2018. In addition, Vivo and
Meizu are also developing smartphones with MediaTek’s Helio P60 mobile
processor. Oppo has used the Helio P60 processor inside the R15 flagship smartphone, which will be made available in China on April 1. Price, specifications, and availability of the upcoming Xiaomi
smartphone with the Helio P60 processor are unknown at this moment.
However,
Galaxy S8+ prices have been slashed in India after the recent launch
of the Galaxy S9 series. The Galaxy S8 series now starts at Rs 49,990 in
India and the new price is listed on the official Samsung estore in
India as well. The Galaxy S8 comes with 4GB RAM and 64GB on board
storage; it was launched in India at a price of Rs 57,900 in April 2017. The starting price for the Galaxy S8 is now Rs 49,990 compared to
Apple has updated its thinnest and most radical MacBook line for the first time since the line made its debut last year.The new 12-inch MacBooks get new silicon and better battery life, among other things. The external design remains the same.he 12-inch MacBook was introduced in the spring of 2015 to both praise and pans. It is the first rethink of the MacBook in years, with a tablet-like weight of just two
The Justice Department said Friday it has withdrawn a request that
sought a court order forcing Apple to assist in opening a locked iPhone
5s linked to a drug case in New York. According to a court filing, the Justice Department
no longer needs Apple’s assistance in unlocking the device because an
BEIJING (AP) — Apple Inc. said Friday it hopes to resume its online
iTunes and iBooks services in China, where they were recently shut down
less than seven months after being launched. The New York Times reported Thursday that Apple's
online movie and book stores initially received government approval but
were blocked last week on orders from the
Apple harvested almost $40 million worth of gold from recycled gadgets last year, and is now deploying robots to take iPhones apart in a major environmental push.In its latest annual environmental responsibility report, which was published last week, Apple explained that it gathered 2,204 pounds of recycled gold during its
HTC this week unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, the HTC 10.
The phone's camera is outfitted with new, larger sensors and 12
million new-generation UltraPixels. Both the front and rear cameras
sport the world's first optically stabilized, larger-aperture f/1.8
lenses on, the company said
The Chinese government issued a notice ordering the media to find and
delete any reprinted reports regarding the Panama Papers, according to a
report in the
China Digital Times.Media were ordered not to follow up on related content, the report
said. Any websites that contain materials from foreign media attacking
China will be
YOUR photos, files and passwords
have never been more valuable or desirable to hackers, with ransomware
skyrocketing in Australia and even stolen Netflix and PlayStation
accounts being sold on the black market.Australians
are the number one target for ransomware in the southern hemisphere and
ninth worldwide, according to the Symantec Internet Security Threat
Report released
A security flaw with the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus will let anyone bypass the phone lock and access personal information without having to know the passcode.The bug, discovered by Jose Rodriguez, who found a similar security hole last
Top tech companies are talking to grassroots organisations across the
globe to organise a fightback on their platforms against online abuse,
hate speech, misogyny and stalking.
Facebook,
Twitter and Google are reaching out to women’s groups, NGOs and
communities in Africa, America, India, Europe and the Middle East as the
scale of abuse online continues to
In the five-star Waldorf Astoria
hotel in Versailles this week, at a luxury conference attended by the
likes of Chanel and Tiffany, Silicon Valley stalwart Hewlett-Packard
Inc made an unexpected launch – a new high-end laptop.This wasn’t just any laptop, its chief executive Dion Weisler
hastened to
Sanjay Parekh was on holiday skiing when his phone vibrated. It was
an app alerting him that there was some unusual activity in his house.
Parekh opened the app to watch a video clip filmed from the main hallway
of his home. It showed a heavy parcel falling through the
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December 1st 2014, a certain Edward Lucas, a well-renowned journalist,
editor and writer became the first person to become an e-resident of
Estonia.
Estonia is a small country of 1.3 million people, but it is also a EU
member, uses the Euro as its currency and along with its neighbouring
states of Latvia and Lithuania, has embraced technology faster than a
Donald Trump Presidential campaign attracts attention. It is a modern
and sophisticated European entity, some would say unlike the Republican
candidate. Lucas became the beneficiary of the country’s new policy to attract
people to set up companies in the country and to cut through the Red
Tape and bureaucracy that branded its former Soviet rulers. He now
effectively has a national ID card that allows him to open a company,
set up a bank account and do all the things that ‘normal’ Estonians can
do. It’s a clever idea and one that gets attention. Estonia is the place
where Skype was born and its young government wants to stop the brain
drain of entrepreneurs leaving for the US and to create the
oft-mentioned tech system that everybody likens to Silicon Valley.The plan is bearing fruit. TransferWise
was set up in Estonia three years before Mr Lucas’s arrival by Taavet
Hinrikus and Kristo Käärmann who were bored by the charges they paid to
pass money between Tallinn and London, so they came up with a
peer-to-peer system that meant they could do so for
Hello, friends, and welcome
to another edition of Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, your guide through
the mists of the gadget announcement universe to the clearing where the
best stand out a little more clearly.
On the other side of the haze this week are a handheld retro gaming
system, a home monitoring camera with style, a
Welcome to Gadget Dreams and
Nightmares, the column that -- for one week only -- is bringing its deep
insight on the latest gadget announcements from a small town in Mexico.On the beach with us this week are a new iPhone, an autonomous
vehicle for pizza delivery, a self-lacing shoe, and a necklace that
listens to what you eat.As always, these are not reviews, and the ratings relate only to
ProtonMail,
which offers encrypted email, on Thursday launched free iOS and Android
mobile apps worldwide, through the iTunes App Store and Google Play,
respectively.They have been in beta since August, company CEO Andy Yen said.
The email service features end-to-end encryption; emails stored on
ProtonMail's servers also are encrypted and thus can't be accessed. "Not even ProtonMail has the ability to read the emails of our users,
and thus it's technically impossible for us to hand over user messages
to third parties," Yen told TechNewsWorld.Based in Switzerland, its servers are out of reach of
Security researchers at
Palo Alto Networks
Unit 42 on Wednesday announced they had discovered in the wild a method
of infecting nonjailbroken iPhones with malware by exploiting design
flaws in Apple's digital rights management technology.The flaw has been exploited since 2013 largely as a means to
Apple on Monday announced a
pair of new products in old sizes -- the 4-inch iPhone SE and the
9.7-inch iPad Pro -- banking on user preferences for the familiar form
factors to lessen their hesitancy to upgrade.
Although Apple's hour-long "Loop You In" event was short on
surprises, it was slimmer on filler as well. Among the notable extras,
Apple announced a price cut bringing the Apple Watch to US$300, along
with a selection of new bands. It also announced support for Apple TV
folders and the release of iOS 9.3. However, the major news was the unveiling of the iPhone SE and 9.7-inch iPad Pro.
Apple used the tag line, "let us loop you in" on its invitations to
Monday's event, but considering just how accurate the pre-event rumors
were about the new iPhone SE, few remained out of the loop. However, Apple added a few pieces to fill out the almost-complete puzzle that analysts and insiders had assembled. Apple last year sold more than 4 million 4-inch phones, reported Apple Vice President Greg Joswiak. Some people asked for the smaller size, while others pleaded for it, he said. Projected to cost between $400 and $500, it turns out that the two
versions of the iPhone SE -- the 16-GB and the 64-GB -- are in fact $400
and $500 respectively. Apple also confirmed that the iPhone SE will pack a 64-bit A9
processor and an M9 motion coprocessor. It will provide improved battery
life, as well as LTE speeds that are up to 50 percent faster than the
iPhone 5s. On its back, the iPhone SE carries a 12-MP iSight camera that
supports 4K video, presumably at 30 fps, and 1080p video at 60 fps. Its
FaceTime camera will be supported by Retina Flash, a feature that
triples the brightness of the phone's display to illuminate selfie
shots. The iPhone SE has Touch ID, enabling it to support Apple Pay. New microphones help it leverage always-on "Hey Siri." "As you can see, we've added an incredible array of advanced
technologies into the iPhone SE and its really compact design, which
makes it the most powerful 4-inch phone ever," Joswiak said. "It really
is an amazing device." Apple will begin taking preorders for the iPhone SE this Thursday, and it will go on sale on March 31.
Apple has sold more than 200 million 9.7-inch iPads, proclaimed Philip Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing. "People have loved this size -- and from the beginning, it has remained our most popular iPad size," he said. When customers learn about the features of iPad Pro, said Schiller, "they'll all see that it is their ultimate upgrade." The 9.7-inch iPad Pro is much like its 12.9-inch stablemate. It's
driven by an A9X processor and an M9 coprocessor. It features a 12-MP
iSight camera, with support for 4K video, and a 5 MP FaceTime camera.
Weighing in at just under a pound, the tablet will be offered with
storage capacities of 32 GB, 128 GB and -- a first for iOS devices --
256 GB. With the smaller iPad Pro, Schiller said, the company hopes to
convince those who didn't spark to the 12.9-inch version to upgrade. Apple also hopes to make converts of Windows users, Schiller said,
remarking that more than 600 million PCs in service today are more than
five years old. "This is really sad -- it really is," said Schiller. "These people
could really benefit from an iPad Pro. And when they see the features
and performance and capabilities of a product like the iPad Pro,
designed for a modern digital lifestyle, many of them will find that it
is the ultimate PC replacement." While attempting to take a jab at Microsoft, Schiller inadvertently
may have insulted hundreds of millions of PC users who either can't
afford to exchange their venerable PC for an $800 tablet -- or simply
don't want to. The iPad Pro's price point seems a bit just too high for the average consumer, said Joe Silverman, owner of
New York Computer Help. "It is certainly a beautiful piece of art, but not everyone can afford Picasso," he said. While the price may be too high for many, the size finally may be right for others, he said of the smaller iPad Pro. That said, Apple may need to worry about oversaturation. "The iPad line, to me, is getting completely watered down as our iPad
users are perfectly content with sticking with the old iPad Air 1 and 2
generations," said Silverman. "No need to upgrade for nominal spec
upgrades -- especially if the iPad is still functional."
The iPad Pro will be available for preorder this Thursday, and it will go on sale on March 31.
On the other side of the haze this week are a handheld retro gaming
system, a home monitoring camera with style, a
