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Google Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL Renders Surface Online, Foxconn May Be Potential Manufacturer Google Pixel 3  and  Google Pixel 3 XL smartphones are expected to launch sometime in October, but leaks have already began to pick up pace. Fresh leaks inform that the new flagships will be manufactured by Foxconn, and be Verizon exclusive (in the US) once again. The Pixel 3 XL may be the only variant that will see the notch design and that the display for the OLED panel will again be made by LG only. Last but not the least, the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL renders based on  early screen protector leaks  have surfaced online giving us a first glimpse of what the upcoming flagships could looks like. A recent Bloomberg  report  claims that Google will go the Apple way to get its smartphones manufactured this year. Traditionally,  Google  would go to companies like  LG  to manufacture their devices, but this year it's thinking of Foxconn as a potential...

Nokia Completes Sale of Its Withings Digital Health Venture Back to Co-Founder Nokia  said on Thursday it had sold its small digital health business, including activity trackers and smartwatches, and the executive who wound down the company's consumer ventures will leave Nokia after less than a year in the job. Digital health was one of the areas the Finnish company had been counting on for future growth opportunities amid a tough market for its mainstay telecom network equipment business. But Gregory Lee, a former  Samsung executive who took the helm of Nokia's Technologies unit last year, pulled Nokia away from the business as well as a virtual camera venture, leaving the unit to focus on patent and brand licensing. The health business was sold to Eric Carreel, co-founder and former chairman of the operation, for an undisclosed price. Nokia  had announced plans  to sell the business earlier this month. "Gregory came to Nokia... and took the bold decis...

Xiaomi Mi VR Standalone Virtual Reality Headset With 72Hz Display Launched Xiaomi Mi VR Standalone virtual reality headset was launched on Thursday at  Xiaomi's  annual launch event in Shenzhen, China. The event also saw the  launch  of the  Mi 8 , the  Mi 8 Explorer Edition ,  Mi 8 SE ,  Mi Band 3 , and  MIUI 10 operating system. The Mi VR Standalone headset was built in collaboration with Facebook-owned  Oculus , and is the next step in the Chinese company's partnership with Oculus after it  manufactured  the  Oculus Go  headset for it. The Mi VR Standalone headset has been priced starting CNY 1,499 (roughly Rs. 15,800) for the 32GB inbuilt storage version, and it is already up for pre-orders in the country. The Xiaomi Mi VR Standalone headset is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 SoC coupled with 3GB of RAM, and features a 2560x1440 pixels display Fast Switch LCD that supports 60Hz and 72Hz refresh rates ...

Jio to Offer Additional Rs. 50 Cashback on Popular Rs. 399 Recharge via PhonePe Jio is set to announce a new partnership with Flipkart-owned payments service  PhonePe  under which it will provide users with cashback on purchasing the Rs. 399 recharge, Gadgets 360 has learned. The cashback offer, which will be called ‘Holiday Hungama’, on Rs. 399  Jio recharge will be provided only between June 1 and June 15, and will be applicable only on purchases made using the MyJio app. To recall, the Rs. 399 Jio recharge provides users with 1.5GB data per day for 84 days, along with freebies such as unlimited calls, 100 SMS messages per day, and access to the company’s apps. This will be the latest offer by the operator to retain users as incumbents continue to launch new recharges to compete with it better. Under the cashback offer, which Jio is said to call ‘Holiday Hungama’, provides Rs. 50 cashback to customers on buying the Rs. 399 prepaid pack. Users will have to select P...

Samsung Leads Global Smartphone Sales Despite Slowdown: Gartner With 20.5 percent market share,  Samsung  led the global smartphone sales in the first quarter of 2018 but suffered a dip in its sales globally from the same quarter last year, Gartner  said on Tuesday. Samsung had 20.8 percent market share in the first quarter of 2017. In Q1 2018, its 20.5 percent share was followed by  Apple  (14.1 percent),  Huawei  (10.5 percent),  Xiaomi  (7.4 percent), and  Oppo  (7.3 percent) respectively. According to Gartner, global sales of smartphones to end users returned to growth in the first quarter with a 1.3 percent increase over the same period last year. Nearly 384 million smartphones were sold in the first quarter of 2018, representing 84 percent of total mobile phones sold. Xiaomi was the clear winner of the first quarter, achieving a growth of 124 percent year on year, the report showed. A refreshed portfolio of smart...

PS4 Days of Play Limited Edition Console Announced Sony has revealed yet another special edition  PS4  console. Dubbed the Days of Play Limited Edition PS4, it's a blue and gold PS4 Slim that comes with a gold PlayStation symbol design placed at the centre of the top surface and a matching DualShock 4 wireless controller which also features PlayStation controller icons on the touchpad. The PS4 Days of Play Limited Edition price is  $300 in US  ( around Rs. 20,300 for 1TB only) and  200 Euros in Europe  (almost Rs. 23,500 for 500GB only) and it has a release date of June 8 in the US and Europe. No India release date or price has been announced just yet. In addition to this, Sony has revealed a host of discounts from June 8 to June 18 on the PS Store to celebrate Days of Play, its yearly sales promotion. These include discounts on God of War, Shadow of the Colossus, and Gran Turismo Sport to name a few. At the time of writin...

Xiaomi Mi Bluetooth Headset With 40mm Dynamic Driver, Bluetooth 4.2 Launched Xiaomi  has unveiled its latest  Mi Bluetooth headset  in China. Priced at CNY 299 (roughly Rs. 3,200) in the country, the Mi Bluetooth headset comes with features like aptX lossless transmission, 40mm dynamic driver, Bluetooth v4.1, and a closed sound cavity design with a low frequency. The pair of wireless headphones are currently up for pre-orders on Xiaomi's Mi Mall and will start shipping from 12am (midnight) on June 1. The headphones will be available in a Black colour variant. The earpads on the Xiaomi Mi Bluetooth headset have a reflective design. The covers are made of a soft PU material while the headband is made of silicone material which is expected to be equally delicate. Apart from that, there are certain controls on the side of the headset that can be used to answer calls, manage music playback, and activate the inbuilt voice assistant. There is also a volume control but...

Amazon Now Rebranded as Prime Now in India, Prime Members Now Get 2-Hour Ultra-Fast Deliveries Amazon India  on Tuesday announced the rebranding of its grocery offering  Amazon Now  to  Prime Now  as it looks to offer more benefits to Prime members. With Prime Now, Amazon will provide exclusive Express 2-hour delivery to Prime members anytime between 6am to 12am (midnight). Also, same-day and next-day delivery will remain available for all customers, in 2-hour slots from 6am to 12am (midnight). Notably, Prime Now, an app-only service, is now available to customers in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mumbai, and New Delhi. Notably, the company had announced Prime Now  in the US  back in February this year. Prime Now has a selection of over 10,000 products now, including fruits and vegetables, grocery, staples, meats, as well as home & kitchen items, fulfilled by Amazon through the Now Store, and by supermarkets such as Big Bazaar, Aditya Birla More, and ...

Was Playing Pokemon Go, Says Father of Child Rescued in Paris The family of the young boy saved by "Spiderman" Mamoudou Gassama in a daring rescue that won him global acclaim and a promise of French citizenship has thanked the Malian youth for his quick thinking. Gassama, 22, scaled four storeys of an apartment bloc in France on Saturday to rescue the four-year-old who was spotted dangling from a balcony. On Tuesday, French authorities began the first steps towards making him a citizen in recognition of his bravery. The boy's father, who had been living alone with him in Paris, had left him alone to go out to the shops and then remained on the street to play  Pokemon Go , according to French investigators. The boy's mother learned the news of the rescue on Reunion Island -- the French Indian Ocean territory where she and the father were born and where she still lives. Reacting to Gassama's intervention on Antenne Reunion radio late Monday, the woman,...

2019 iPhone Will Get Triple-Lens Camera With 3D Sensing and Enhanced Zoom, Says Analyst Apple  is expected to introduce a triple-lens camera setup in its next iPhone if a recent report is to be believed. While the  iPhone X  brought the trend of sporting a notch design and offering facial unlock, Apple fans will expect a few hardware upgrades in 2019. The Cupertino giant is already in rumours for building a new iPhone model for 2019 with not just a dual rear camera setup but a triple-lens rear camera setup. According to a new report, the triple camera setup will come with a 3D depth sensing and enhanced zoom. As per Taiwanese site Economic Daily News,  citing a research note  from Deutsche Securities analyst Jialin Lu, Apple will launch at least one new iPhone model that with a triple-lens rear camera in 2019. The prediction matches something we heard only earlier this month about the 2019 iPhone when a  report had claimed  that at least one of t...

Google to Host First Demo Day for Asian Startups in Shanghai Google  on Monday said it will host its first-ever  Demo Day  for Asian startups in China's Shanghai city on September 20. Since 2014, Google for Entrepreneurs has organised Demo Days in the US and Europe for startups to connect with investors and scale globally. "As our CEO  Sundar Pichai  announced earlier this year, this is the first time we're doing this in Asia Pacific, and we're excited to see some of the best ideas from the region," said Michael Kim, Partnerships Manager, Google for Entrepreneurs. The Demo Day will bring together "investible" startup founders in Asia to pitch their business ideas on a global stage and connect with top regional and global investors, Google said. The tech giant said that Demo Day Asia will give regional startups the opportunity to showcase and highlight their innovative technologies and drive investment. The selected startups will receive m...

Microsoft Launches Free-to-Play Windows 10 Racing Game, Miami Street Microsoft Studios  has released a new free-to-play single-player racing game called Miami Street for  Windows 10 . It's been developed by Brighton-based Electric Square, which is the sister studio to Studio Gobo, in-charge of delivering new content for  For Honor , and the now-defunct Disney Infinity. Unlike traditional racing titles, Miami Street is played in a cinematic view – think  Fast and Furious  movies, without any of the banter – and you're in charge of navigating corners via quick-time events. You can accelerate via left mouse button, space bar or touchscreen (if your device has one), and brake by releasing said control. Miami Street has been developed for any Windows 10 device, so it doesn't have high graphics requirements. That means you don't need a GPU from the likes of  Nvidia  or  AMD . It's also trying to appeal to everyone, with Electric Square stating a...

Google India Unveils 'Summer With Google' Educational Campaign for Kids Google India  on Monday announced a fun, yet educational summer campaign that will help children across the country spend more time learning and making new discoveries, as well as teaching them how to become responsible explorers of the Web. As part of the campaign, named #SummerWithGoogle, Google assigned an activity to the kids. They will release one assignment every week for four weeks, the tech giant said in a  blog post . The assignment ranges from exploring the country that is home to all the Pandas in the world on  Google Earth , to saying 'Gracias' and 'Por Favor' as they learn phrases in Spanish and other languages on Google Translate, to taking dramatic virtual tours of museums to make their own gallery on  Google Arts & Culture ; and ultimately building their very own app to share their summer experience. Each assignment will also carry questions on the four fundament...

Airtel Rs. 449 Pack Takes on Rs. 448 Jio Recharge With 140GB Data for 70 Days Airtel  has launched a new recharge pack worth Rs. 449 for its subscribers in India. With the all-new plan, Airtel is directly countering  Reliance Jio's prepaid recharge plan  priced at Rs. 448 . This Airtel recharge is offering 2GB of data per day and is available to Airtel prepaid subscribers. The Rs. 449 Airtel recharge offer comes with a total of 140GB of 3G/ 4G data for a period of 70 days with a daily FUP limit of 2GB data. As per Airtel's website, this prepaid pack also offers unlimited local, STD and roaming voice calls. 100 local and STD free SMSes are also bundled with this plan. The validity of the plan is 70 days. Jio, on the other hand, offers 2GB of high-speed 4G per day data for a period of 84 days. Interestingly, Airtel already has a prepaid recharge plan ​priced at Rs. 448 that offers 1.4GB of per day 3G/4G data for a period of 82 days. However, this pl...

Apple May Give iPhones More NFC-Based Capabilities With iOS 12 With  Worldwide Developers Conference 2018 (WWDC)  set to kick-off on June 4,  Apple  is likely to announce a change in near-field communication (NFC) policies when it releases its next-generation  iOS 12  operating system. "The change to the near-field communication, or  NFC , chip, which is expected to be announced next month, could pave the way for people to use iPhones for other security-sensitive interactions, from paying transit fares and opening car doors to verifying their identity in other ways," tech website The Information  reported  late on Friday. Notably, since Apple first launched NFC-capable devices  iPhone 6  and  iPhone 6 Plus  in 2014, its implementation of NFC has been primarily restricted to Apple Pay transactions. "Apple employees are already using their iPhones to unlock doors at Apple Park, likely via custom badge reader...

Tesla Said to Have Flown in New Battery Production Line for Gigafactory Tesla Inc has flown six planes full of robots and equipment from Europe to California in an unusual, high-stakes effort to speed up battery production for its Model 3 electric sedan, people familiar with the matter told Reuters this week. Transporting equipment for a production line by air is costly and hardly ever done in the automotive industry, and the move underscores  Tesla  Chief Executive  Elon Musk's urgency to get a grip on manufacturing problems that have hobbled the launch of the high-volume  Model 3  and pushed Tesla's finances deep into the red. "As usual with Tesla, everything is being done in a massive hurry and money seems to be no obstacle," said one of the two sources. Tesla on Friday declined to comment on whether it has shipped in any new production equipment from Europe. Investors are closely watching Tesla and its high-profile, often brash CEO to see if th...

Apple Set to Counter Microsoft By Building 'Star' Hybrid Computer With ARM Processors: Report Amid rumours of  the Mac ecosystem coming a step closer to iOS ,  Apple  is now reportedly building a hybrid computer that is said to use  ARM processors. The new device, codenamed 'Star', is likely to support 4G LTE through a dedicated SIM card slot and come with a water-resistant build. The Cupertino giant is notably relying on Intel processors since 2005, though a recent report claimed that the company  will start using its in-house chips in Mac machines  beginning as early as 2020. According to a  report  by 9to5Mac, the Star project by Apple is currently in prototype stage, and the initial prototypes have been manufactured by Pegatron, the Taiwanese manufacturer that already builds a large number of iPhone and iPad models, since at least January this year. It is also reported that a small number of prototypes have already been shipped to Cupert...

MIUI 10 Closed Beta Programme Started in China Ahead of May 31 Launch MIUI 10  closed beta programme has begun in China. While MIUI 10 is  set to be launched  on May 31,  Xiaomi  has kicked off its recruitment drive to find beta testers for the new MIUI version. Devices that are compatible with the beta version include the  Redmi Note 5 ,  Mi Mix ,  Mi Mix 2 ,  Mi Mix 2s , and the  Mi 6 . Moreover, the fresh experience is expected to debut on the  Mi 8  that  will be unveiled  alongside MIUI 10 next week. The flagship is also expected to run  Android 8.1 Oreo  behind the latest MIUI. As  posted  on Weibo, Xiaomi will be accepting registrations for the MIUI 10 closed beta programme. As the programme is live in China, you need to in the same country to participate to get started with the new MIUI beta. If in case you are already in China, you can participate after following some simple steps. ...

Apple Sees US National Security Requests Rise Two and a Half Times Within a Year Apple on Friday issued its biannual transparency report on government data requests, showing another sharp increase in US national security-related requests. Apple  said it received as many as 16,249 national security requests affecting up to 8,249 accounts during the second half of 2017. The number of requests rose 20 percent compared with the first half of 2017, when Apple received 13,499 such requests. But the most recent figures are more than two-and-a-half times higher than the comparable period a year earlier, when Apple received only 5,999 such requests. Other tech firms also experienced a jump in national security request between the second half of 2016 and the first half of 2017. National security requests to Google rose 36 percent, to almost 51,000. Similar requests to Facebook nearly doubled, to almost 27,000. Facebook  and  Google  have not yet re...