Modern agriculture involves fields of mind-boggling size, and spraying them efficiently is a serious operational challenge. Pyka is taking on the largely human-powered spray business with an autonomous winged craft and, crucially, regulatory approval.
Just as we’ve seen with DroneSeed, this type of flying is risky for pilots, who must fly very close to the ground and other obstacles, yet also highly susceptible to automation; That’s because it involves lots of repetitive flight patte
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Pyka and its autonomous, electric crop-spraying drone land $11M seed round
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Micro-angelo? This 3D-printed ‘David’ is just one millimeter tall
3D printing has proven itself useful in so many industries that it’s no longer necessary to show off, but some people just can’t help themselves. Case in point: this millimeter-tall rendition of Michaelangelo’s famous “David” printed with copper using a newly developed technique.
The aptly named “Tiny David” was created by Exaddon, a spin-off company from another spin-off company, Cytosurge, spun off from Swiss research university ETH Zurich. It’s
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The 10 Worst Tech Product Launches of the 2010s
via wired.com
It wasn't all unicorns and cryptokitties. From Apple's Antennagate to Juicero's fruit bomb, the decade offered up plenty of brutally expensive embarrassments.
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MSI Creator 17 Laptop With Mini-LED Display to Be Launched at CES 2020
MSI on Tuesday announced that the company is set to unveil a new laptop titled 'Creator 17' with mini-LED display at the CES 2020 in Las Vegas.
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Malware Broker Behind US Hacks Now Teaching Computer Skills in China
A Chinese malware broker who was sentenced in the United States this year for dealing in malicious software linked to major hacks is back at his old workplace: teaching high-school computer courses, including one on Internet security.
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BSNL Christmas and New Year Offer Adds Additional 60 Days Validity to Rs. 1,999 Prepaid Plan: All Details
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has announced a slew of lucrative offers to celebrate the onset of Christmas and New Year. The telecom operator has announced that the validity of the Rs. 1,999 prepaid plan has been increased by 60 days.
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Show Creator Wants the Game Awards to Be 'A Prototype' for 'A New Era of Programming'
More than 45.2 million livestreams displayed the real-time action from The Game Awards earlier this month. The figure marks a 73 percent increase for the annual awards show, and demonstrates the continuing rise in interest around the world of video games.
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Tesla Stock Hits Record $420 Fulfilling Elon Musk's Infamous 2018 Tweet
Tesla stock briefly hits $420 per share on Monday and the CEO Elon Musk could not hide his joy.
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Beauty Brands Tap TikTok Influencers for Holiday Campaigns
TikTok is testing e-commerce features, such as adding shoppable product links to videos. Just over a year after TikTok officially launched US brand partnerships, major brands are tapping influencers on the social video app for holiday campaigns.
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India to Take Big 5G Leap in 2020 but Mass Adoption Far Away
Although the 5G technology that is gaining momentum fast globally may take at least another 5-6 years to reach the masses in India -- for the simple reason that even 5G spectrum allocation is yet to take place for full-fledged trials.
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Google Patches Fresh Magellan 2.0 SQLite Vulnerabilities in Chrome
Google Chrome is impacted by a fresh set of SQLite-based security vulnerabilities. While Google has patched all five of them, users on older versions of the browser are still vulnerable.
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Acer Launches E-Store to Boost Online Sales in India
Acer has launched its online store to strengthen its e-commerce platform in India. The eStore will feature and sell all the latest range of products ranging from laptops, desktops, monitors, projectors and other accessories.
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Realme Fitness Band to Launch in H1 2020, Company’s India CEO Madhav Sheth Reveals
In the latest AskMadhav monthly episode, CEO Madhav Sheth confrms that the company is not just a smartphone brand, and that it looks to add several IoT products in its portfoilio in 2020.
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WhatsApp Wars Over CAA Protests Divide Families
With their parents bombarding them on WhatsApp with misinformation and even abuse over their stand on the new citizenship law, young women are hiding their identities on social media to voice outrage and find alternative families.
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Realme X50 5G With Snapdragon 765G SoC Set to Launch on January 7, Company Reveals
Realme X50 5G is all set to launch on January 7 next year. The company had announced a day ago that it would confirm the launch date today, and it has kept its promise.
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Farmers' Kids Win India's Largest Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain Hackathon
In a shining example of how Indian youth from smaller cities can now create unique Artificial Intelligence (AI) and blockchain-based applications to solve real-life problems, members of a team -- all hailing from farming backgrounds -- have won India's largest AI and blockchain hackathon.
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Twitter Pulls the Plug on Animated PNG Files Amid Safety Concerns: All You Need to Know
Twitter has announced that APNGs will no longer be supported on its platform. To further elaborate on the matter, APNGs reportedly don’t respect the autoplay settings and can be used by trolls to trigger seizures in people who have epilepsy.
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Instagram Influencers Partied at a Saudi Arabian Music Festival — but No One Mentioned Human Rights
On social media accounts of the followed and famous, the MDL Beast music festival was a rave true to form: fluorescent face paint, flashing lights and a star-studded lineup of DJs that spun dance music into the wee hours.
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40 Million-Year-Old Star With Massive Gas Disk Discovered
Astronomers have discovered a young star surrounded by an astonishing mass of gas which raises questions about current understanding of planet formation.
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Honor Plans to Foray Into Indian PC Market With MagicBook Laptop Launch in 2020
Honor on Tuesday said it will foray into India PC market, with two laptops built on Windows platform, in the first quarter of 2020. Honor MagicBook laptop comes with chipsets of US companies -- Intel and AMD.
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Holiday Season: It Takes a Tech Village to Track Santa on Christmas Eve
For the 64th time, a wildly popular program run by the US and Canadian militaries is providing real-time updates on Santa’s progress to millions around the globe.
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Grand Theft Protest: Hong Kongers and Chinese Gamers Battle Online
Grand Theft Auto's wildly popular online multiplayer game has become the latest venue for Hong Kong pro-democracy supporters and Chinese nationalists to wage their ideological battles, with protests now breaking out in the virtual world.
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Realme C3, Realme 5i Listed on Singapore’s IMDA Certification Site, Expected to Launch Soon
Realme’s upcoming budget smartphones — the Realme C3 and 5i — were spotted on Singapore’s certification website.
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LG V60 ThinQ With 5G and Dual-Screen Functionality Launching at MWC 2020: Report
LG’s V-series is set to get an upgrade with the V60 ThinQ, with reports suggesting the smartphone will be launched at MWC 2020.
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Vivo Y11 (2019) With 5,000mAh Battery, Dual Rear Cameras Launched in India: Price, Specifications
Vivo Y11 (2019) will go on sale in India via offline channels, Vivo India e-store, Amazon.in, Paytm Mall, Tata Cliq and Bajaj EMI E-Store. The phone will be offeredin Mineral Blue and Agate Red colour options.
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TikTok Searching for Global Headquarters Outside of China: Report
TikTok has been the breakout social media platform of recent times, adding subscribers at a breakneck pace and continuing to make inroads in the markets where Instagram and Snapchat have ruled the roost. The company is now looking to set up an overseas headquarter.
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Holiday Season 2019: Google Marks Arrival of Holidays With Special Christmas Eve Doodle
Google is celebrating the arrival of the holiday season with a new festive-themed doodle, continuing a long tradition of spreading the cheers at the same time of the year.
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2019: A Year of Many New Beginnings for Indian Space Sector
The year 2019 was a year of several new beginnings for India's space sector that is now on Mission 2.0 mode.
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At Least a Hundred Stars May Have Disappeared From Our Night Sky, Researchers Claim
Researchers working on the project called “Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations" (VASCO) have identified that at least 100 of stars in our night sky that were visible in the mid-20th century skies have been disappeared.
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Uber Knows More About Its Rape Problem Than Anyone Else. What Should It Do With That Data?
Uber this month reported data on the dangers of sexual assault on its app. Now it's facing calls to action, requiring the ride-hailing giant to make tough decisions on how to balance victims' wishes with demands to report dangerous riders and passengers to local regulators or law enforcement - or both.
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Realme X2 Pro Master Edition to Go on Sale for the First Time Today: Check Price in India, Offers, Specifications
Realme X2 Pro Master Edition is fashioned by Naoto Fukasawa and has been launched in India in Red Brick and Concrete finishes. This variant comes only in 12GB RAM + 256GB storage options.
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Cortana Mobile Apps to Stop Working in India and Other Countries Starting January 31, Microsoft Reiterates
Confirming once again that Microsoft was killing off its virtual assistant Cortana for Android and iOS and removing Cortana from its Launcher app for Android from January 31, the company now says the app will continue in the US only.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 5G Model Listed on Company Site, Launch Imminent
Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 5G variant is coming and it has now been spotted on the company’s official support page and a promotional website.
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TikTok Not Being Put Up for Sale, Media Report Untrue, Internal Note Claims
ByteDance has no plans to sell part or all of its TikTok app, the short video platform's head said on Tuesday, denying a media report which said the company was currently weighing options to do so due to US concerns.
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Jio 2020 Happy New Year Offer Launched: 1 Year Validity, Unlimited Voice Calls, Other Benefits at Rs. 2,020
Jio has announced a “2020 Happy New Year Offer” for its customers using Jio prepaid connection as well as a “2020 Jio Phone Happy New Year Offer” for customers planning to buy a new Jio Phone.
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Redmi K20 Starts Receiving Android 10-Based MIUI 11 Update: Report
Redmi K20 gets updated to Android 10 and the update brings new features like system-wide dark mode, more privacy controls, a focus mode to let users silence apps they find distracting, and more.
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With 'Tornado Beer' and Brick-Breaking, Chinese Villager Becomes Twitter Sensation
Hebei Pangzai's real name is Liu Shichao. The odd job labourer hails from Zhengyuansi, a nondescript village where everyone knows everyone.
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Netflix Girds for Price War in India Streaming Battleground
Netflix and its rivals are facing a price war in India as a jump in the cost of watching video on mobile phones threatens to slow demand in what is shaping up as a key growth market globally for streaming.
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We’ve got two new Tech Guide podcasts – Episode 380 and a special Star Wars edition of the show
via techguide.com.au
We’ve got not one but two new Tech Guide podcasts for you this week – one is Episode 380 of the top-rating Tech Guide show and the other is a special Star Wars edition which takes a look at the Rise of Skywalker and the conclusion of the Skywalker saga.
In Episode 380, Westpac finally getting Apple Pay, embattled Huawei sets the record straight on a number of false claims and the new Virtual Power Plant which makes cheaper electricity available for customers.
In the Tech Guide Review
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Boeing Fires Dennis Muilenburg, Names David Calhoun as CEO Amid Max Crisis
Boeing on Monday pushed out its embattled chief executive, Dennis Muilenburg, as it attempts to pivot from a protracted crisis surrounding the grounding of its top-selling 737 MAX after two deadly crashes.
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Get a head start on the Boxing Day tech bargains
via techguide.com.au
The Boxing Day sales are going to be massive this year and we’ve put together a list so you can get a head start on the best bargains you’ll find the day after Christmas.
Amazon Boxing deals are already available.
AMAZON
Amazon DevicesEcho Dot + Echo Show 5 bundle for $99
2 x Echo Show 5 bundle for $129
Echo for $99
Echo Show for $249
Buy any Kindle device, get 50% off select covers
2 x Fire TV Stick bundle for $99ElectronicsSave on select soundbars from Sonos, Bose and Yamaha
Save o
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Get a head start on the Boxing Day sales with these tech bargains
via techguide.com.au
The Boxing Day sales are going to be massive this year and we’ve put together a list so you can get a head start on the best bargains you’ll find the day after Christmas.
Amazon Boxing deals are already available.
AMAZON
Amazon DevicesEcho Dot + Echo Show 5 bundle for $99
2 x Echo Show 5 bundle for $129
Echo for $99
Echo Show for $249
Buy any Kindle device, get 50% off select covers
2 x Fire TV Stick bundle for $99ElectronicsSave on select soundbars from Sonos, Bose and Yamaha
Save o
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DJI patents an off-road rover with a stabilized camera on top
DJIis easily the leading brand when it comes to camera drones, but few companies have even attempted a ground-based mobile camera platform. The company may be moving in that direction, though, if this patent for a small off-road vehicle with a stabilized camera is any indication.
The Chinese patent, first noted by DroneDJ, shows a rather serious-looking vehicle platform with chunky tires and a stabilized camera gimbal. As you can see in the image above, the camera mount is protected against shoc
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