BCCL Nambi Narayanan, the former top ISRO scientist, who fought a legal battle for 24 years, to restore his reputation after he was falsely accused of spying, has finally received the compensation awarded by the Supreme Court. Read More. Here’s More Top News For The Day: 1) At Least Seven Dead, 35 Injured After Farakka Express …
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Google unveils Marvel, Childish Gambino AR partnerships at Pixel event
Google has made it possible for you to join the Avengers, unveiling a new AR team-up with Marvel Studios as part of a big hardware event the search giant held Tuesday in New York. At the event, Liza Ma, a Google product manager, and Brian Rakowski, vice president of product management, also revealed that the company is working with actor and …
Read More »Pixel 3 camera has better resolution and can shoot in the dark with no flash
With its Pixel 3 phone, Google has improved photography with a feature called Top Shot to avoid unflattering photos, an ability to shoot in the dark with no flash, and a way to zoom in beyond the camera’s ordinary resolution known as Super Res Zoom. Top Shot lets you skip photos where people are blinking, frowning and otherwise not looking …
Read More »Google Android TV comes to new 4K HDR Xiaomi Mi Box S for $60
Android TV is taking another stab at the living room. Unlike the $35 Google Chromecast, Google’s big-screen Android TV operating system appears only on relatively expensive devices, namely the $200 Nvidia Shield and Sony TVs, for example. Today Google aims to close the price gap a bit by building Android TV into a new device. The Xiaomi Mi Box S …
Read More »Chinese police can officially demand user data from ISPs
The sky, as they say, is the limit. Especially when it comes to China’s stranglehold on its internet. From November onward, internet service providers must fork over data on citizens’ internet histories if the country’s public security personnel deem it related to cybersecurity, according to a statement posted on the public security ministry’s website last month. Police may also conduct …
Read More »This cordless drill comes with all the extras for $53
If there’s one tool every homeowner needs, it’s a cordless drill. Actually, forget homeowners — every person needs one, because there are countless occasions when you need to tighten a screw, drill a hole and so on, regardless of where you live. At last count there were about a zillion drill bundles out there. This is one is noteworthy because …
Read More »Midrange phones are boring, but here’s why they’re important, too
Google will announce the Pixel 3 and 3 XL on Tuesday, two more in a wave of premium phones hoping to sweep up buyers ahead of the holiday season and beyond. But as we ooh and ahh over the iPhone XS and Note 9, and yes, the LG V40 and Pixels as well, it’s important to remember that not every …
Read More »Hear China’s rousing song about the perks of being a cyber superpower
Sometimes you’re just so excited about your country’s cybersecurity strategy that you have to sing about it. The song, which lasts about two-and-half minutes, was written by Qin An, who is director of the China Institute of Cyberspace Strategy. It was unveiled in a post on his WeChat account last month. The lyrics largely talk about how becoming a “cyber …
Read More »Snapcrap lets you take pictures of poop on sidewalks and report it to the city
A new app called Snapcrap lets users take pictures of human poop on San Francisco’s sidewalks or streets and send them to the city’s Public Works Department to initiate a cleanup. Snapcrap, which launched on iOS last week and on Android on Tuesday, uses your phone’s GPS to determine the exact location of the feces. You can also track recent …
Read More »Asus unveils midrange Chromebook C423 with a 14
Without much fanfare, Asus has unveiled the new Chromebook C423, a lightweight, midrange Chrome OS laptop. The C423 appeared on Asus’ website over the weekend, where it was spotted by Reddit users. The Asus Chromebook C423 has a 14-inch screen and weighs under 3 pounds (1.34kg) with battery, making it easy to lug around. It’s powered by an Intel quad-core or dual-core …
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