Flipkart Big Billion Days Sale 2018 scheduled from October 10 to 14

Flipkart has announced that the fifth edition of Big Billion Days sale will be held between October 10th and 14th, 2018. This year’s sale is powered by Mastercard. Flipkart said that the sale will offer unique & exclusive selection across mobile phones, TVs and appliances, fashion, personal care, furniture and others and will also have financing programs such as No Cost EMI, Product Exchange along with discounts for HDFC Debit & Credit card holders. The company also said that Mastercard users will get Amazing rewards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlQ6VtX1pLI Fashion, TVs & Appliances, Home & Furniture, Beauty, Sports and more will go on sale on October 10th, and phones and tablets will go on sale starting October 11th. Flipkart Plus members will get 3 hours of exclusive access. Amazon is yet to announce its 'The Great Indian Sale' dates, which is expected to start around the same time. Regarding the Big Billion Days Sale, Kalyan Krishnamurthy, CEO, Flipkart said: This year marks the fifth edition of TBBD and we are focused on making it the biggest and best one yet. After working closely with our sellers and brands over the last few months, we plan to deliver unparalleled, diverse, and affordable offerings to customers in every corner of India.

Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger to leave the company

Instagram Co-founders; Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger today have announced that they have resigned and plan to leave the company in the coming weeks. This move adds challenges to Instagram’s parent company, Facebook. kevin Systrom who is currently Instagram’s chief executive, and Mike Krieger, the chief technical officer have notified Instagram’s leadership team and Facebook about their decision to leave the company. However, Instagram Co-founders; Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger did not give a reason for stepping down. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, in a statement said: “all the best and I’m looking forward to seeing what they build next.” This move comes at times when Facebook is facing toughest of times in its 14 years of existence where it is being criticised for being careless of the user data. Against all the odds, Instagram remained a gem and it recently hit a billion monthly active users and Stories has 400 million daily users. This departure might create some uncertainty around the app and the moment it is unclear who would lead the company in the days to come. Kevin Systrom, Co-Founder & CEO said: Mike and I are grateful for the last eight years at Instagram and six years with the Facebook team. We’ve grown from ...

Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018) with 6-inch FHD+ Super AMOLED Infinity display, triple rear cameras launched in India starting at Rs. 23990

Samsung has launched  the Galaxy A7 (SM-A750F), the company’s latest mid-range smartphone with triple rear cameras in India. It has a 24-megapixel primary sensor with f/1.7 aperture, secondary 8-megapixel 120° Ultra Wide Lens for wide-angle photos and a third 5-megapixel camera to capture depth information for portrait shots.  It also has a 24-megapixel front camera with that automatically lets more light in by combining four pixels into one pixel in low light conditions. It  has an adjustable LED flash, Selfie Focus, Pro Lighting Mode and AR emoji. It has a metal frame and a glass back. It packs a 6-inch Full HD+ Super AMOLED screen, is powered by Exynos 7885 14nm processor with up to 6GB of RAM, has a side-mounted fingerprint scanner, supports Dolby Atmos and packs a 3300mAh battery. Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018) specifications 6-inch (1080×2220 pixels) Full HD+ Super AMOLED Infinity display Octa-Core (2.2GHz Dual + 1.6GHz Hexa) Exynos 7885 14nm processor with Mali-G71 GPU 4 GB RAM with 64GB / 128 GB Storage, 6GB RAM with 128GB storage, expandable up to 512GB via micro SD card Android 8.0 (Oreo) Dual SIM 24MP rear camera with LED flash, f/1.7 aperture, 8MP 120° Ultra Wide camera, 5MP f/2.2 depth camera 24MP front camera with f/2.0 aperture Side-mounted Fingerprint sensor 3.5mm ...

Apple iPhone XS Max has the ‘best smartphone display’: DisplayMate

Apple earlier this month had launched the iPhone XS and XS Max smartphones with OLED Super Retina HDR display and the iPhone XR with Liquid Retina Display. DisplayMate Technologies which is known for their accurate and in-depth evaluation of smartphone displays has completed its comprehensive evaluation of the iPhone XS Max and rated it as the 'Best smartphone display.' It describes the 'Color Accuracy' of the iPhone XS as "truly impressive," achieving a score of 0.8 JNCD (Just Noticeable Color Difference) for the sRGB/Red.09 color gamut. The 0.8 JNCD for the wider DCI-P3 color gamut used by 4K TVs and digital cinema. Both results are termed "visually indistinguishable from perfect," and is likely to be better than most monitors, TVs and other visual output devices on the market. Furthermore, the screen is extremely bright and with low reflectance, which makes it extremely useful for readability, picture quality, and color accuracy in ambient light. The iPhone XS max has a record high calibrated 100% APL full-screen brightness of 660 nits for sRGB and DCI-P3 color gamuts, while the home screen offers 725 nits. The Screen reflectance is 4.7%, which is close to the lowest ever measured in testing for a smartphone. "The iPhone XS Max is a ...

Snapchat testing option to purchase products on Amazon right from Snapchat camera

Snap.Inc today announced that beginning this week, it will be testing new ways to search for products on Amazon right from the Snapchat camera. It also said that it will be rolling it out slowly and hence it is making this announcement ahead of the release. Snapchat says that it is super easy to use this feature; simply point your Snapchat camera at a physical product or barcode, and press and hold on the camera screen to get started. When the item or barcode is recognized, an Amazon card will appear on-screen, with a link for that particular product or similar ones available on Amazon. You can make your selection to visit the Amazon App or Amazon.com, where you can complete your purchase or keep browsing. Snapchat says that it is the fastest way to shop. It is something similar to Google Lens and Bixby Camera, but with the ability to shop directly. Source

Some Apple iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max users are reporting poor LTE and Wi-Fi reception

Apple iPhone XS and XS Max which went on sale recently are getting complaints from customers who are noticing an issue with LTE and Wi-Fi speeds and connectivity when compared to other, older Apple devices. Multiple users have reported that there are noticeable differences in cellular reception between the iPhone XS models and the iPhone 8 and iPhone X, suggesting this is a widespread problem. It is reported that users are noticing fewer bars and the poor signal on iPhone XS and XS Max especially in areas where the signal is weak. Furthermore, many of the complaints are coming from Verizon users, suggesting the issue could potentially be carrier specific. The issue is said to be related to Qualcomm vs. Intel models as the new iPhone XS and XS Max are using Intel modems, while older devices used a mix of Qualcomm and Intel modems. AT&T iPhone 8 and iPhone X models used Intel modems previously, while Verizon iPhones had Qualcomm modems. Some AT&T and T-Mobile users are complaining of connectivity problems too, while others have noticed better signal, this is leading to a confusion among users. At the moment, it's not clear if modem differences are causing the connectivity issues that iPhone XS and XS ...

Google adds activity cards and collections to Search results

Google has shared new features that help you resume tasks where you left off, keep track of ideas and content that you found useful, and get relevant suggestions of things to explore next. The new activity card will help you pick up from where you left off in Search. Next time When you revisit a query related to a task you've started in the past, Google will show you a card with relevant pages you’ve already visited and previous queries you’ve done on this topic. This helps you retrace your steps when you might not remember which sites had that useful information you’d found earlier. This information will only appear when it’s useful and it won’t appear for every search. You can easily remove results from your history, pause seeing this card, or choose not to see it all together. This new activity card will be available in Search later this year. You can also keep track of the searches  by adding useful content to Collections. Collections in Search help you keep track of content you’ve visited, such as a website or article or image, and quickly get back to it later. The improved Collections experience lets you add your content from an activity card directly ...

Google overhauls Image search on desktop, brings Lens to Google Images

Google has introduced three fundamental shifts including a range of new features that use AI to make your search experience more visual. The company also announced that it is making the Google Images experience even more useful and powerful. Google earlier this year worked with AMP Project to announce AMP stories, an open source library that makes it easy for anyone to create a story on the open web. Now Google announced that it will use AI to intelligently construct AMP stories and surface this content in Search. It is starting the stories about notable people like celebrities and athletes—providing a glimpse into facts and important moments from their lives in a rich, visual format. This format lets you discover content from the web. Using computer vision, Google is now able to deeply understand the content of a video and help you quickly find the most useful information in a new experience called featured videos. With featured videos, Google is aiming to deeply understand the topic space and show the most relevant videos for those subtopics. Google is also introducing new features to help you find visual information more easily. It is now prioritizing sites where the image is central to the page, ...

Microsoft Surface Hub 2S coming in Q2 2019, can be updated to Surface Hub 2X with removable cartridge in 2020

Microsoft introduced Surface Hub 2 with 50.5-inch 4K multi-touch display with 3:2 aspect ratio and extremely thin bezels and several new features back in May. At the Ignite the company has announced that the Surface Hub 2S with lighter, thinner, more vibrant design will be available in Q2 2019 with original Surface Hub software. It also said that it can be updated to Surface Hub 2X in 2020 using an upgrade cartridge. This includes the ability to tile, rotate, and enable multi user log in with removable processor cartridges, in an easily accessible hardware chassis on the back of the Surface Hub 2. Microsoft said that the processor cartridge can be removed, upgraded and serviced over time. This will let you switch to the Microsoft 365 powered Surface Hub 2X in 2020. Even though the software will be different, both the Surface Hub 2S and 2X will have the same 4K edge-to-edge multi-touch display, 4K cameras that rotate with the device, integrated speakers, and far-field mic arrays. Microsoft hasn't revealed the price of Surface Hub 2 yet. Regarding the Surface Hub 2, Microsoft said: As with all our devices, Surface Hub 2 was designed to give people a product that will help them create more, do more, ...

Google News Feed is now ‘Discover’; gets revamped with fresh new look, new types of content and more

Google last year introduced the 'Google Feed' which will surface relevant content from the web to you even when you're not searching. Today, Google is a major making change to it including a new name, a fresh look, and a brand-new set of features. The 'Google Feed' will be called 'Discover'. Additionally, you’ll also see new types of content in Discover, more videos and fresh visual content, as well as evergreen content including articles and videos that aren’t new to the web. Using the 'Topic Layer' in the Knowledge Graph, Discover can predict your level of expertise on a topic and help you further develop those interests. You can tap on the control icon to indicate that you want more or less content on that topic. You’ll continue to see content from a range of sources on any given topic, helping you explore new ideas surrounding your interests. Google also announced that Discover is coming to google.com on all mobile browsers. This will act as your new mobile homepage where you can not only search but also discover useful, relevant information and inspiration from across the web for the topics you care about most. This will be rolling out over the next few weeks. Source