Bouquets of brightly colored flowers and prayer candles rest at the door of a small windowed guard booth in downtown Oakland, California. A ribbon with an American flag motif waves from the door handle. Two bullet holes pockmark the booth’s windows. This is where Dave Patrick Underwood, 53, was fatally shot around 9:45 p.m. on …
Read More »Razer THX Spatial Audio app embiggens any gaming headset’s surround sound
Twenty bucks (or £20) won’t buy you a nice set of 7.1 surround gaming headphones, but it can help you fake it with Razer’s THX Spatial Audio App for Windows 10. It uses the same underlying technology as Razer puts into its headsets, but generalizes it to work with all brands and types (analog, USB or Bluetooth connected) and audio …
Read More »Instagram will top Twitter as a source for news, survey says
Instagram is likely to overtake Twitter as a source for news within the next year, according to the 2020 Reuters Institute Digital News report. Use of the Facebook-owned app for news has doubled across age groups since 2018, the report says. Instagram, which in recent years has expanded to include features like Stories and IGTV, now reaches more than a …
Read More »Amazon’s new Distance Assistant uses AI to encourage social distancing
Amazon said Tuesday it’s developed a new artificial intelligence system to help maintain social distancing in its warehouses, and it plans to share the underlying technology for free. Called Distance Assistant, the tech involves a 50-inch monitor, camera and laptop set up on a mount. The camera tracks how closely people are walking near each other, showing workers walking by …
Read More »Qualcomm brings 5G to cheaper phones with Snapdragon 690 processor
Qualcomm on Tuesday introduced the newest 5G chip in its lineup, and this one’s targeted at cheap smartphones. The processor, called the Snapdragon 690, marks the first time Qualcomm has offered 5G toward the lower-end of its smartphone chip lineup. It’s had 5G modems for premium smartphones since 2016 (though they didn’t start appearing in devices until a couple of …
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Read More »After Chennai, Delhi, COVID-19 Death Mismatch Allegations In Mumbai, Says 950 Deaths Unreported
On Tuesday, the official death toll in Mumbai due to COVID-19 stood at 2,250, the highest anywhere in India. But the state has been hit by allegations of COVID-19 death cover-up as the opposition BJP alleged that nearly 1000 deaths in Mumbai have not been reported. BCCL Maharashtra government has not reported as many as 950 COVID-19 deaths from Mumbai, …
Read More »227 Maharashtra Policemen Test Positive For COVID-19 In Past 72 Hours, Taking Total To 3,615
Maharashtra is the worst-affected state in the country reeling under exploding cases of the novel coronavirus and the collapsing health infrastructure. The state is also dealing with rising COVID cases among the police personnel. In the last 72 hours, 227 police personnel were found COVID-19 positive. The total number of cases among police personnel in the state is now at …
Read More »Army Joins Efforts To Douse Flames As Oil Well Fire Continues In Assam's Baghjan Since June 9
Indian Army has joined efforts to douse the blaze after Assam’s civil administration sought its help in constructing a bridge over an adjoining water body. The gas continues to flow uncontrollably and fire rages on in Baghjan as Oil India Limited (OIL) continues to face public ire over the tragedy. The production has been affected massively with the company losing …
Read More »While Other Metro Cities Crumbled, Bengaluru Has So Far Stood Resilient Against COVID-19
Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, and Bengaluru are the names that one could instantly associate with when we talk about the biggest cities in India, because of their size, population, job opportunities and much more. BCCL But during the COVID-19 pandemic, one of them has stood out – Bengaluru. COVID-19 is still mostly an urban problem in India and the majority …
Read More »AT&T expands 5G network to cover over 160 million people in 327 markets
AT&T’s low-band 5G network is growing, expanding on Monday to now cover over 160 million people in 327 markets. Among the new areas that can now tap into 5G are Atlanta, Baton Rouge and Nashville. AT&T previously announced that it planned to launch a nationwide 5G in the first half of 2020. With the coronavirus disrupting the world, that timeline moved toward having …
Read More »Apple’s 16
Apple on Monday added a fresh graphics option for its 16-inch MacBook Pro: AMD’s new Radeon Pro 5600M GPU. It offers a higher performance than the current Radeon Pro 5300M and 5500M GPU options, but it’ll cost you at least $700 more. The 5600M GPU’s 8GB of HBM2, or second-gen high bandwidth memory, should make it considerably faster than the …
Read More »Apple WWDC 2020: Everything you need to know about the online developers conference
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s 31st annual Worldwide Developers Conference will kick off next Monday, June 22. The conference will take place entirely online due to the coronavirus pandemic, allowing millions of developers to get early access to upcoming updates for iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, WatchOS and TVOS and learn …
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