Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids Edition and ‘Show Mode’ hands-free Alexa experience, Show Mode Charging Dock for Fire Tablets announced

Amazon today is introducing the All-New Fire HD 10 Kids Edition; it is Amazon’s Largest and Fastest Kids Tablet Fire HD 10 Kids Edition. It packs 10.1-inch 1080p Full HD screen, 32 GB of storage, and up to 10 hours of battery life, plus a year of Amazon FreeTime Unlimited. The tablet comes with Quad-Core processor, 32GB of storage with up to 256 GB of expandable storage via a microSD card slot. The company is also bundling it with Includes a year of Amazon FreeTime Unlimited, which offers more than 15,000 books, videos, educational apps, and games that have been curated for age-appropriateness. After the first year, Amazon FreeTime Unlimited starts at $2.99 per month for Prime members and $4.99 per month for customers non-Prime members. As a layer of protection, the company is offering Fire Kids Edition tablets with a kid-proof case available in blue, pink, or yellow, and a two-year worry-free guarantee. Not just that, Amazon today announced Show Mode; a new, immersive hands-free Alexa software experience for Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10 tablets. It lets you ask Alexa to see trending news, weather, camera feeds, and more. The company is also announcing new Show Mode Charging; it is a docking station for current generation ...

OPPO O-Free Wireless Bluetooth Headset with translation, voice assistant announced

At the Find X launch event in China, OPPO also introduced O-Free Wireless Bluetooth Headset. It has a compact, ultra-light weight design and is comfortable to use. It has a built-in smart chip that synchronizes the left and right ear sounds with the phone without delay. It has ultra-low power consumption and lets you easily adjust volume, playback, and changing songs with simple operation. The headset promises 4 hours of continous playback with a single charge and the charging case will offer additional  12 hours of power. In addition to answering the phone calls, it also supports translation (probably like the Google Pixel Buds), wake-up voice assistant, and more. The OPPO O-Free wireless Bluetooth headset is priced at 699 yuan (US$ 105 / Rs. 7,230 approx.), and will go on sale in August in China. Global roll out of the headset should start around the same time. Source

OPPO Find X and Find X Lamborghini Edition launched in China, price and availability revealed

OPPO introduced its flagship Find X  and Lamborghini Limited Edition with an unique slider camera design at its global event in Paris last week. Today, as promised, the company has launched the phones in China, and also revealed the availability details, which is a month earlier before it starts rolling out in Europe. As usual, it is cheaper compared to the Europe pricing. There is also a 128GB storage version for the Chinese market which comes with standard VOOC flash charge, while the 256GB storage version comes with SuperVOOC charging to charge the phone fully in 35 minutes, similar to the  Lamborghini Edition. The OPPO Find X comes in Bordeaux Red and Glacier Blue colors, is priced at 4999 Yuan (US$ 754 / Rs. 51,715 approx.) for the 128GB storage version and the 256GB storage version costs 5999 yuan  (US$ 905 / Rs. 62,060 approx.) and will go on sale in China from July 13. The Lamborghini Edition with carbon fiber back costs 9999 yuan (US$  1510 / 1,03,440 approx.) and will be available in August. OPPO Find X and Find X Lamborghini Edition specifications 6.42-inch (2340 x 1080 pixels) Full HD+ AMOLED 19:5:9 aspect ratio Panoramic Arc display with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection 2.5GHz Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 ...

Niantic is opening up its Real World AR platform for developers to create games like Pokémon Go

Niantic Studios today previewed Niantic Real World Platform that it is working on. In fact, this is the first time the company is giving an update of this nature publicly. It also announced  that it has acquired computer vision and machine learning company Matrix Mill, and have established its first London office. Niantic Real World Platform according to the company will act as an operating system that bridges the digital and the physical worlds. This is built towards the contextual computer vision, where AR objects understand and interact with real-world objects in unique ways stopping in front of them, running past them, or jump into them. For this, the company is using a codename; Niantic Occlusion and is using, of course, Pokémon. https://youtu.be/7ZrmPTPgY3I As you can see from the demonstration, Pikachu is weaving through and around different objects in the real world, dodging feet and hiding behind planters. It uses machine learning to map and track objects in 3D space enabling much more realistic AR interactions than that are currently possible. Multiplayer gameplay requires the components of Niantic’s Real World Platform to work in concert across multiple users. https://youtu.be/dO1NpT2SSX4 To address the issues based on unified, cross-platform solution that enables a shared AR experience with a single code base, it has developed proprietary, ...

SD Express and SD Ultra Capacity will offer up to 985MBps transfer rate and up to 128TB cards

The SD Association at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai announced SD Express and new SD Ultra Capacity (SDUC) cards. The SD Express adds PCI Express and NVMe interfaces to the legacy SD interface. The PCIe 3.0 interface delivers 985 MBps maximum data transfer rate and the NVMe v1.3  protocol enables advanced memory access mechanism. Thre new SD Ultra Capacity (SDUC) will offer cards up to 128 TB, up from 2TB with SDXC. There are part of new SD 7.0 specification. SD Express delivers speeds necessary to move large amounts of data generated by data-intense wireless communication. SD Express will be initially offered on SDUC, SDXC and SDHC memory cards. SD Express uses the PCIe 3.0 specification and NVMe v1.3 protocols defined by PCI-SIG and NVM Express, respectively, on the second row of pins used by UHS-II cards today. These cards also provide system developers new options offered by PCIe and NVMe capabilities, such as Bus Mastering, Multi Queue (without locking mechanism) and Host Memory Buffer. Any speed cards can be used in UHS-I, UHS-II, UHS-III and SD Express host devices. Faster performance levels will only be attained when matching the card to the host device. Cards using SD Express may consume up to maximum of 1.80 Watts from the host, representing the ...

Twitter introduces Ad Transparency Center for users to identify political campaigns

Twitter last year had announced its intentions to offer transparency for all ads running on Twitter, with a specific emphasis on political advertising. Today the company is introducing the Ads Transparency Center, which allows anyone across the globe to view ads that have been served on Twitter.  Much like the Search Experience on Twitter, you can view ads from any advertiser by simply searching for a specific handle and see the creative for all ad campaigns that have run within the last 7 days from that handle. However, if any ad is reported or taken down from the Twitter, it will be moved to the Ads Transparency Center within approximately 24 hours. If the account was suspended, Tweets will not be shown in the ATC. As for the US the political advertisers that fall under the new Political Campaigning Policy, you will be able to see further details, including billing information, ad spend, and impression data per Tweet. Additionally, Twitter will also present you with demographic targeting data for the ads being served. The company is making it clear that who is advertising the US federal political campaign content on Twitter by including a visual badge and disclaimer information on promoted content from certified ...

LG Display said to supply 2 to 4 million OLED Panels for 6.5-inch Apple iPhone X Plus

Back in July 207, there were reports that Apple is on the verge of investing around $2.7 billion in LG to get OLED panels for future iPhones. However, we now hear that the Korean firm is almost ready to become Apple's second supplier for OLED screens. This will also allow Apple to reduce its dependence on Samsung who is currently the sole manufacturer of the panels in iPhone X models.  This falls in line with the previous rumor that suggested LG will be the supplier for this year's 6.5-inch "iPhone X Plus". Today's report claim that LG Display will initially supply between 2 million and 4 million units, as it continues to work on ramping up capacity. While the count of panels in small compared to the Apple iPhone sales,  Apple would gain leverage in price negotiations with Samsung. Back in April, a report from The Wall Street Journal stated that the mass production challenges caused LG to fall behind the schedule it had agreed with Apple and this made the company rethink on whether LG Display would be in a position to complement Samsung as a second source of OLED displays for the upcoming iPhones. Then again analysts at investment firm Susquehanna estimated that LG would be ...

Instagram now lets you add sound tracks to your Stories

Instagram today is introducing music in Stories. Now you can add a soundtrack to your story that you feel fits perfectly at any moment. The company says that Instagram Stories is now used by 400 million every day.   To add music to the Stories, when you tap to add a sticker to a photo or video in Stories, you’ll now see a music icon, from there tap on it to open a library of thousands of songs along with search and browse by mood, genre. You can tap the play button to hear a preview. It also gives you the option to fast-forward and rewind through the track to choose the exact part that fits your story. You can also choose a song before capturing a video, swipe up to the new “Music” option under the record button and then add the song to have it playing in the background. The company says that it is adding new songs to the music library every day. This feature is now available in select countries,  and it is only available for iOS. However, support for Android will be coming soon. Source

Motorola One Android One phone with notch display surfaces, could be announced alongside One Power and Z3 Force on August 2

Motorola is prepping to launch the Motorola One Power Android One phone with 19:9 notch display, dual-rear cameras and now yet another phone, that might be a brand new variant in the series have surfaced online revealing similar design footprints. Meet, Motorola One and this too is an Android One phone.  https://youtu.be/o4yl-nsjskM The renders of the Motorola One Android One phone reveals a 19:9 aspect ratio notch display and dual rear cameras at the back with glass back, unlike the Motorola One Power which has smooth matte finish going by the leaks. This means that Motorola is planning to unveil at least two phones which will collectively form the Motorola One line. Interestingly, Motorola One is a smaller phone when compared to the Motorola One Power in terms of display size. But it could easily be in terms of the thickness. The use of 'Power' word means that the phones could focus more heavily on battery life. However, with lesser-capacity battery, the standard Motorola One will arrive as a slimmer device. From the front, both the Motorola One and the Motorola One Power look strikingly similar. The Motorola logo might double as a fingerprint sensor, but the dual rear cameras on the Motorola One Power are flushed into the same module, but the ...

Xiaomi Mi 6X Hatsune Miku Special Edition smartphone announced

Xiaomi has announced Mi 6X Hatsune Miku Special Edition in China, over a year after it introduced the Redmi Note 4X Hatsune Miku Edition. It has the same specifications as the Mi 6X smartphone that was introduced recently, but comes in new green color and comes in a unique package that has a Limited edition Mi Power bank, soft protective case printed with Hatsune Miku image, metal nameplate and the the phone has an unique Hatsune Miku image engraved along with Hatsune Miku’s signature at the back. [embed]https://v.mifile.cn/b2c-mimall-media/d380928de0b9ddc8b46ceda396fc3e00.mp4[/embed] The phone also has exclusive Hatsune Miku themes matching the phone. Xiaomi  Xiaomi Mi 6X Hatsune Miku Special Edition specifications 5.99-inch (2160×1080 pixels) Full HD+ 2.5D curved glass display with  1500:1 Contrast Octa Core Snapdragon 660 14nm Mobile Platform (Quad 2.2GHz Kryo 260 + Quad 1.8GHz Kryo 260 CPUs) with Adreno 512 GPU 6GB LPDDR 4x RAM, 64GB (eMMC 5.1) storage Android 8.1 (Oreo) with MIUI Dual SIM 12MP rear camera with LED flash, f/1.75 aperture, Sony IMX486 sensor, 1.25μm pixel size, 20MP secondary camera with Sony IMX376 sensor with f/1.75 aperture, 4 in 1 – 2.0um pixels 20MP front-facing camera with Sony IMX376 sensor, 4 in 1 – 2.0um pixels soft LED flash USB Type-C audio Fingerprint sensor, Infrared sensor Dimensions: 158.7×75.4×7.3mm; Weight: 168g Dual 4G VoLTE, ...