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Apple working on realityOS for its upcoming AR/VR headset

The AR/VR headset is reportedly expected to run a new operating system, previously referred to as “rOS”, which stands for Reality Operating System

Apple is reportedly planning to launch its AR/VR headset sometime in late 2022 or 2023 and now a new references to “realityOS”, the AR/VR operating system that may run the headset have been found in App Store upload logs.

The AR/VR headset is expected to run a new operating system, previously referred to as “rOS”, which stands for Reality Operating System, reports MacRumors.

The upcoming headset would likely not be aimed at…read more

How will UPI Lite allow payments without internet ?

Technology, sure, is making our lives better. Very soon, you may be able to make digital payments up to a certain amount without an active internet connection.

Let us find out how:

According to media reports published late in January this year, the National Payments Corporation of India, or NPCI, has been testing a new solution that will enable Unified Payments Interface-based digital payments without an active internet connection.

The new solution, which is called UPI Lite, will arguably be the…read more

Apple might unveil first 5G supported low-cost iPhone SE in march

According to The Verge, a reliable source for Apple rumours has provided the news, and also divulged that the company is targeting March 8 for a spring event to show off these gadgets

American tech giant Apple might be planning to reveal a new low-cost iPhone SE with 5G, as well as a refreshed iPad Air that adds a new CPU and 5G for cellular-equipped models.

According to The Verge, a reliable source for Apple rumours has provided the news, and also divulged that the company is targeting March 8 for a spring event to show off these gadgets.

Rumours of an update for the iPhone SE have been…read more

Amazon hikes Prime membership fees in US

For the holiday quarter, the company earned $14.3 billion, double its net income from a year earlier.

Amazon.com Inc on Thursday said it was raising the price of its annual U.S. Prime subscriptions by 17%, as it looks to offset higher costs for shipping and wages that it expects to persist this year.

Shares rose as much as 17% in extended trade as Amazon also beat profit expectations for the holiday season. If shares increase on Friday by that much, it would be the stock’s biggest percentage gain since October 2009 and grow founder Jeff Bezos’ wealth by about $20 billion.

For the holiday quarter, Amazon earned $14.3 billion, double its net income from a…read more

YouTube Shorts hit 5 trillion all-time views

The Google-owned video streaming giant on Tuesday said that this is helping its creator community reach newer and bigger audiences

YouTube Shorts, a TikTok-like short form video app, has hit 5 trillion all-time views and has over 15 billion views each day globally, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said during the company’s earnings call.

The Google-owned video streaming giant on Tuesday said that this is helping its creator community reach newer and bigger audiences.

“We are also seeing exciting momentum at YouTube. YouTube Shorts continues to drive significant engagement. We just hit 5 trillion all-time views and have over 15 billion views…read more

6 Reasons that Meta is in Trouble

The company formerly known as Facebook has hit major turbulence as it suffered its biggest one-day wipeout ever.

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, suffered its biggest one-day wipeout ever on Thursday as its stock plummeted 26 percent and its market value plunged by more than $230 billion.

Its crash followed a dismal earnings report on Wednesday, when Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive, laid out how the company was navigating a tricky transition from social networking toward the so-called virtual world of the metaverse. On Thursday, a company spokesman reiterated statements from its earnings announcement and declined to comment further.

Here are six reasons that Meta is in a difficult spot.

User growth has hit a ceiling.

The salad days of Facebook’s wild user growth are over.

Even though the company on Wednesday recorded modest gains in new users across its so-called family of apps — which includes…read more

Xiaomi to invest $7 billion in 5G, AI, Internet of Things over next 5 years

The announced investment increases Xiaomi’s pledge made last year to invest 10 billion yuan over five years in an “All in AIoT” strategy

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp will invest more than 50 billion yuan ($7.18 billion) in artificial intelligence and fifth generation internet technologies over the next five years, as competition in the sector grows.

Xiaomi Chief Executive Lei Jun made the announcement in a letter posted on the company’s social media account on Thursday, but did not provide specific investment details.

“We need to turn our continuous advantage we have in AIoT and intelligent life into absolute victory in intelligent full scene, and completely cement our king status in the smart era,” Lei said, using the acronym for artificial intelligence of things, a reference to a combination of…read more

Hindustan Aeronautics, Wipro 3D join hands for 3D printing in aerospace

The companies hope the initiative will bring metal 3D printing into the mainstream of Indian aerospace

Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) and Wipro 3D, the metal additive manufacturing (AM) business of Wipro Infrastructure Engineering (WIN), have joined hands to design, develop, manufacture and repair aerospace components using metal 3D printing technology. Prove-outs and certification of components developed using metal 3D printing are other key elements of this pact.

The companies hope the initiative will bring metal 3D printing into the mainstream of Indian aerospace.

“Wipro 3D and HAL have worked together in the past. This further strengthens our collaborative efforts to create additive technology leadership in aerospace,” said Pratik Kumar, CEO, Wipro Infrastructure Engineering.

Globally, the aerospace industry has been one of the foremost adopters of metal 3D printing due to the benefits of…read more

Artificial intelligence can spot breast cancer better than doctors

Artificial intelligence can spot breast cancer better than doctors

Technology news: Artificial intelligence can spot breast cancer more accurately than doctors, according to a study by Google Health.

The technology’s reading of mammograms reduced both false positives, where healthy patients are mistakenly diagnosed with the disease, and false negatives, where the cancer is missed, the Alphabet unit said in a blog post. The system reduced false positives by 5.7 per cent in the US, according to the data from more than 28,000 mammograms performed there and in the UK.

Artificial intelligence is particularly good at reading scans, often outperforming experts. Last year, Google published research that showed how the technology could be used to tell whether breast cancer had spread to surrounding lymph nodes, helping pathologists make…read more

Slowdown hits sales of cars, biscuits in 2019, but not smartphones

A back of the envelope calculation shows that over 115 million units smartphones were shipped in India in the first three quarters of 2019 with Xiaomi, Samsung making up the top two tally

The economic slowdown may have clipped sales of cars and biscuits in 2019, but smartphones bucked the trend as urban and rural users continued to buy, and even upgrade to, expensive handsets – a trend likely to pick up pace in the coming year.

The growth in smartphone adoption was further fuelled by the government’s push to position the country as a global hub for manufacturing and coax Apple and other leading brands to produce and export more phones from India.

Experts say that phone shipment is expected to see high single-digit to double-digit growth in India as smartphones aiding everything from shopping to banking to social media…read more