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Tuesday, 28 November 2017

Amazon introduces Sumerian service to quickly and easily build AR, VR and 3D apps

At the Re: Invent AWS event, Amazon Web Services; an Amazon.com company has introduced Amazon Sumerian service that will make developers quickly and easily build AR, VR, and 3D apps and run them on mobile devices, head-mounted displays, digital signage, or web browsers. Developers with the new Sumerian Service can build realistic virtual environments, 3D objects, and animated characters, and … Continue reading

Sony Xperia X Performance Android 8.0 Oreo update starts rolling out

Just as it promised, Sony is now rolling out Android 8.0 Oreo update to Xperia X Performance two days after it pushed the update for Xperia XZ and Xperia XZs. The new update comes with a build number 41.3.A.0.401, and the update is live on both the single SIM (F8131) and dual-SIM (F8132) versions. The new Android … Continue reading

Snapchat rolls out new contextual filters that can recognize food, pets and more

Snapchat has silently rolled out yet another feature that will automatically identify the object that is being snapped and serve them relevant filters. This feature was first spotted by Mashable and Snapchat later confirmed that it was rolled out to select users last week. This new update comes ahead of the massive re-design of the Snapchat application that … Continue reading

Gboard v6.8 brings handwriting keyboard, to get Motion Stills for GIF creation and more

Gboard after bringing 40 additional languages support in the previous update is now receiving yet another update with version number v6.8. The new update brings features like handwriting keyboards; planning Motion Stills integration and more. Up until today, Google had a separate app for handwriting input for text, and with today’s new update, Google has integrated … Continue reading

Monday, 27 November 2017

Facebook expands real time pattern recognition AI to help prevent suicides

Facebook has announced an upgrade to its suicide prevention AI in order to respond and report about the users who are expressing thoughts of suicide either via posts or live videos. The company has always tried to connect a person in distress with people who can support them in an effort to build a community that is safe … Continue reading

Samsung introduces Burgundy Red Galaxy S8

Samsung introduced its flagship Galaxy S8 smartphone earlier this year in Midnight Black, Orchid Gray, Coral Blue, Arctic Silver, and Maple Gold colors. Today it has introduced new Burgundy Red color variant for the smartphone. Other specifications are similar, including a 5.8-inch Quad HD+ infinity screen with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection on the front and the back, Iris scanner on … Continue reading

Google releases final Android 8.1 Developer Preview 2 for Pixel and Nexus devices

Google released first Android 8.1 (Oreo) Developer Preview for Pixel and Nexus devices last month . Today it has released the final Android 8.1 Developer Preview 2 for the devices. The first update brought a set of targeted enhancements including optimizations for Android Go and new Neural Networks API to accelerate on-device machine intelligence, the latest one includes official APIs (API level 27), the … Continue reading

Reliance Jio triple cashback offer extended till December 15

Reliance Jio introduced triple-cashback offer earlier this month that includes 100% cashback that offers Rs. 400 worth vouchers on recharge of Rs. 399 or more and benefits of up to Rs. 1899 from e-commerce players on every recharge of Rs. 399 or more. The offer was supposed to end on November 25, now it has extended the offer … Continue reading

Samsung files multiple patents for smartphones with full-screen display

Samsung has filed multiple smartphone patents to house the Antenna bands on the frame of both full-screen display and traditional units. The company has filed the patents at the Korean Intellectual Property Rights Information Service. Though the sketches from the patent might look like the company is working on multiple design elements for the Galaxy S9, but the … Continue reading

Samsung Galaxy J5 Prime (2017) passes through the FCC

Samsung launched the Galaxy J5 Prime (SM-G570F) smartphone in India back in September last year. Now the Galaxy J5 Prime 2017 (SM-G571F) has been certified by the FCC in the U.S. This reveals the model number of the smartphone that had already surfaced in GFXBench benchmark, but it doesn’t reveal any specifications. Based on earlier benchmark listing, the phone will … Continue reading