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Oppo F17 Pro, Oppo F17 Set to Launch in India on September 2

AdminAugust 26, 20200

Oppo F17 Pro and Oppo F17 are set to launch in India on September 2, Oppo announced on Thursday. This comes just days after the Chinese company started teasing the Oppo F17 series in the country. The Oppo F17 Pro is touted to debut as the “sleekest phone of 2020” with a 7.48mm thin chassis. The smartphone is also teased to carry a total of six cameras on board. The Oppo F17, on the other hand, is likely to come as a toned-down version of the Oppo F17 Pro with slight changes on the specifications front.The launch of the Oppo F17 series will take place virtually through the company's social media channels on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube starting at 7pm on September 2, as per the official invite. The company also posted a tweet on Thursday to publicly announce the launch event.Op

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Realme X2 Pro Getting August 2020 Update in India With DC Dimming, More

AdminAugust 26, 20200

Realme X2 Pro is now receiving its August 2020 update and this update brings along the latest security patch along with other optimisations and system improvements. The over-the-air (OTA) update rollout will be gradual to ensure no critical bugs are passed on the masses. The new Realme X2 Pro update brings the DC dimming feature, a new Power Saving Mode, and also adds a camera text scanner feature. There are a lot of additions in Settings including a new multi-user feature, a default sound recording device option, and much more.The new Realme X2 Pro update comes with firmware version RMX1931EX_11.C.31. Realme took to its forum to reveal the rollout, and said that it was being carried out in a staged manner. It will be pushed out to a limited number of users first, and then a broader rollou

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Airtel Subscribers May Have to Pay Rs. 100 per 1GB Data

AdminAugust 26, 20200

Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal has hinted at a significant hike in tariffs soon. At an event, Mittal asked Airtel subscribers to ‘prepare to pay a lot more'. Mittal suggested that instead of getting 16GB data for Rs. 160, users should get only 1.6GB. This means Airtel looks to ask its subscribers Rs. 100 for every 1GB consumed.“You either consume 1.6GB of capacity per month either at this price point or you may prepare to pay a lot more,” Mittal said at an event, according to PTI. “We don't want $50-60 (roughly Rs. 3,700 – Rs. 4,400) like the US or Europe but certainly $2 (roughly Rs. 160) for 16GB a month is not sustainable.”According to PTI, Mittal said that asking for Rs. 160 for 16GB of data was a tragedy for the business. Consumers should only be offered 1.6GB of data at t

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Microsoft Now Lets You Transcribe Your Conversations Directly in Word

AdminAugust 26, 20200

Microsoft Word on the Web has added an audio transcription feature that lets you easily generate a transcript of your previously recorded conversations or transcribe an ongoing conversation in real time. Called Transcribe in Word, the new feature uses Azure Cognitive Services to help provide transcriptions directly in the online version of Microsoft Word. It is capable of detecting different speakers as well as providing you with time-stamped audio. Microsoft targets the Transcribe feature at reporters conducting interviews, students as well as researchers recording focus group sessions, and entrepreneurs recording informal discussions.Transcribe in Word is available for free to all Microsoft 365 subscribers and is currently accessible through Microsoft Word for the Web in the new Microsof

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Watch: Sherlock’s Sister Is the Star in Netflix’s Enola Holmes Trailer

AdminAugust 26, 20200

The Enola Holmes trailer is here. No, that's not a misspelling, the film is about Holmes' teenage sister. Netflix has unveiled a two-and-a-half-minute trailer for Enola Holmes, with Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown playing the titular teenager, who becomes a detective in her own right after her mother (Helena Bonham Carter) — whom Enola describes as “her whole world” in the Enola Holmes trailer — goes missing on the morning of Enola's sixteenth birthday. Based on Nancy Springer's book series of the same name, Enola Holmes also involves her elder brothers Sherlock (Henry Cavill) and Mycroft (Sam Claflin).Brown frequently breaks the fourth wall and continuously narrates the Enola Holmes trailer, informing us that her name is the reverse of “alone” and that her brother Sherlock is, “ye

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Facebook News Planned for Launch in India, Brazil, France, Germany, the UK

AdminAugust 26, 20200

Facebook said on Tuesday it plans to launch its news service in India, Brazil, France, Germany, and the UK in the coming months, after having introduced the feature in the United States last year. Facebook News is expected to launch in multiple countries within the next year. The social media giant also said that it would pay news publishers to “ensure their content is available in the new product.” A report also suggested that Facebook may not be the launching the service in Australia.In its announcement, Facebook said that looking at the progress the service made in the US since its launch, Facebook News is being planned to be launched in the aforementioned countries within the next six to 12 months. Facebook's Global News Partnerships Vice President Campbell Brown assured in the announc

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Nintendo Switch Next Generation Coming in 2021: Report

AdminAugust 26, 20200

Nintendo may release an upgraded version of the Switch next year according to a report. Nintendo's handheld console was released in 2017 and received a widely positive response and huge sale numbers. Then, in 2019, the company released a more toned down version of the Switch, called the Nintendo Switch Lite, and now it seems like the console will be getting a much needed upgrade. It makes sense for the company to plan an upgraded version of their highly popular console, given that the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X will be launching by the end of this year.A report by Taiwan's Economic Daily News, citing supply chain sources, claims that the Japanese company is working on a more powerful version of the Nintendo Switch. It is said to bring better picture quality and may release sometim

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Boeing, NASA to Launch Starliner’s First Crewed Mission in 2021

AdminAugust 26, 20200

Boeing said on Tuesday it aims to redo its unmanned Starliner crew capsule flight test to the International Space Station (ISS) in December or January, depending on when it completes software and test hardware production development.If the test mission is successful, Boeing and NASA will fly Starliner's first crewed mission in summer 2021, with a post-certification mission roughly scheduled for the following winter, the company added.Boeing is eager for another shot at proving its crew capsule after technical failures put the aerospace juggernaut behind Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX, which successfully returned its rival crew capsule from the ISS earlier this month.During Boeing's first uncrewed test, in December 2019, a series of software glitches and an issue with the spacecraft's au

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Bill Gates Invests $78 Million in Satellite Antenna Firm Kymeta

AdminAugust 26, 20200

Bill Gates is leading satellite antenna firm Kymeta's latest funding round with a $78 million (roughly Rs. 578 crores) investment, the company's president told Reuters.Redmond, Washington-based Kymeta, which sells pizza box-sized antennas for installation on cars, trains and boats, secured $85.2 million (roughly Rs. 633 crores) in capital. It plans to launch a monthly subscription service for satellite-based internet to government customers later this year, Kymeta President and COO Walter Berger said in an interview.“The thesis here is to advance connectivity on a global basis. Cellular doesn't do that,” he said.Gates' firm, which has invested in at least one other funding round, did not immediately return a request for comment.Kymeta antennas mainly link with satellites in high orbital al