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• AMD Unveils Next-Gen Ryzen, Epyc CPU Roadmaps; High-End Radeon GPU With Ray Tracing Launching This Year

  06-03-2020 17:04
  
  AMD's upswing continues, and the company hopes to keep investors and analysts positive with disclosures of upcoming products that are expected to perform well
  
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• Sonos Won't Brick Your Device Anymore if You Want to Recycle

  06-03-2020 16:35 via gizmodo.com
  
  A few months ago, Sonos drew the ire of some customers and recyclers trying to trade in their old devices. The main issue was that in order to partake in its Trade Up program—which rewards customers with a discount on new Sonos products if they recycle their old ones—you had to essentially brick the device. People…Read more...
  
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• Fujifilm X100V Review: Refined and Almost Perfect

  06-03-2020 15:00 via wired.com
  
  Improvements to the beloved series make this one of the best street-friendly compact cameras.
  
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• New Research Claims Our Understanding of Universe Could Be Wrong

  06-03-2020 14:57
  
  A recent study has found out that our fundamental measurement of the whole universe could have been wrong all this while. It says that whatever we knew about the chemical measurement of stars could be wrong.
  
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• Jio Fiber Subscriber Base for December Grows Marginally to 86 Lakh Subscribers: TRAI

  06-03-2020 14:56
  
  Jio Fiber had approximately 0.86 million (86 lakhs) subscribers as of December 31, the latest TRAI data showed. The list was topped by BSNL (8.39 million) followed by the Bharti Airtel (2.42 million), Atria Convergence Technologies (1.52 million), and Hathway Cable & Datacom (0.90 million) clung to the top spots.
  
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• Samsung to Shift Some Smartphone Production to Vietnam Due to Coronavirus

  06-03-2020 14:53
  
  Samsung Electronics said on Friday that it would temporarily move some smartphone production to Vietnam from South Korea after another of its Korean staff tested positive for the coronavirus, forcing it to close a factory.
  
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• Realme 6 Pro, Realme 6 Early Access Sale Allows Buyers to Reserve the Phones: All You Need to Know

  06-03-2020 14:45
  
  Realme announced its Realme 6 and Realme 6 Pro smartphones yesterday, March 5. The Realme 6 will first go on sale on March 11 and the Realme 6 Pro will be available for the first time on March 13.
  
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• 12.9-Inch iPad Pro, MacBook Pro With Mini-LED Displays to Launch by 2020-End: Report

  06-03-2020 14:41
  
  Apple is reportedly planning to launch a 12.9-inch iPad Pro and multiple notebook models with Mini-LED backlit displays by the end of 2020.
  
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• Oppo Watch With Curved AMOLED Display, eSIM Support Launched: All You Need to Know

  06-03-2020 14:37
  
  Oppo has launched the eponymous Oppo Watch smartwatch in China packing a flexible curved AMOLED display and Snapdragon 2500 SoC with an Apollo co-processor.
  
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• DuckDuckGo Shares List of Web Trackers That Gather User Data

  06-03-2020 14:33
  
  Privacy centric Internet search engine has been compiling a data set of Web trackers and the firm is now sharing that data publicly and open sourcing the code that generates it.
  
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• Oppo Find X2 Pro Tops DxOMark Camera Ranking With 124 Overall Score, Surpasses Mi 10 Pro

  06-03-2020 14:32
  
  Oppo Find X2 Pro tops DxOMark photography chart with 124 points. It beat the Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro which was launched last month.
  
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• Coronavirus Impact: After AWS, Spotify Reschedules India Event

  06-03-2020 14:27
  
  Adding to the growing number of event cancellations amid rising coronavirus concerns, Swedish music streaming service Spotify is rescheduling all events in India, including one media event which was scheduled to take place in Mumbai on March 24.
  
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• Google Assistant to Soon Bid Goodbye to John Legend's Voice

  06-03-2020 14:17
  
  US-based tech giant Google has announced that it will discontinue John Legend voice for Assistant voice on March 23.
  
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• T-Mobile Hacked Again, for the Second Time in 6 Months

  06-03-2020 14:06
  
  T-Mobile has disclosed that the personal data of its employees and customers has been hacked. This is the second security breach T-Mobile has admitted in the last six months, after the first incident was reported last November.
  
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• Gadget Lab Podcast: Is Facebook Forever?

  06-03-2020 14:00 via wired.com
  
  Steven Levy joins the show to discuss his new book, “Facebook: The Inside Story.”
  
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• Samsung Galaxy S20 Series Receiving a New Update That Improves Autofocus Performance: Report

  06-03-2020 13:38
  
  Samsung has started rolling out a new firmware update for the Galaxy S20 lineup of phones. It will come as an over-the-air update and has a size of around 250MB.
  
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• Oppo Find X2 Pro, Find X2 With 120Hz Display, Snapdragon 865 SoC Launched: Price, Specifications

  06-03-2020 13:25
  
  Oppo Find X2 Pro price is set at EUR 1,199 (roughly Rs. 1,67,300), while the Find X2 carries a price tag of EUR 999 (roughly Rs. 83,400).
  
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• Vivo Nex 3S 5G Teasers Highlight Waterfall Display, Snapdragon 865 SoC

  06-03-2020 13:22
  
  Vivo Nex 3S 5G, an upgrade to the Vivo Nex 3 5G is set to launch on March 10, the company had announced on its Weibo account earlier this week. Now, the company has also released couple of official teasers, which confirms a shade of blue and Snapdragon 865 SoC.
  
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• Instagram Testing Feature to Allow Users to Block or Restrict Multiple Accounts at Once

  06-03-2020 13:21
  
  Instagram is allowing users to block or restrict multiple accounts from the comments section of their posts as a part of a limited test.
  
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• Facebook Removes Trump Ad Disguised as Census Message

  06-03-2020 13:17
  
  Facebook has taken down an ad from President Donald Trump's campaign which critics said misled people into believing it was an official message about the US census.
  
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• NASA's Curiosity Rover Captures Its Highest-Resolution Panorama of Mars

  06-03-2020 13:12
  
  NASA's Curiosity rover that landed on Mars in 2012, on Wednesday released its sharpest-ever panorama of the Martian surface. The panorama image is composed of more than 1,000 images and was captured by the rover between November 24 and December 1, last year.
  
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• Motorola Edge+ Alleged Renders Show Curved Waterfall Display With Hole-Punch Design

  06-03-2020 13:06
  
  Motorola Edge+ alleged renders show curved waterfall display with a tiny hole-punch cutout. On the corner left rear side, we can see a vertically-stacked triple camera setup with a dual-LED flash unit.
  
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• Facebook, Google Ask San Francisco Staff to Work From Home as Coronavirus Spreads

  06-03-2020 13:01
  
  Social media giant Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google on Thursday recommended their San Francisco Bay area employees work from home to minimise the risk of spreading coronavirus.
  
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• Best Galaxy S20, S20 Plus, and S20 Ultra Cases: Spigen, Otterbox

  06-03-2020 13:00 via wired.com
  
  It doesn't matter if you have the Samsung Galaxy S20, S20 Plus, or S20 Ultra—a case to protect your new phone is a good idea.
  
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• Best Galaxy S20 Cases (2020): Spigen, OtterBox, Tech21, and More

  06-03-2020 13:00 via wired.com
  
  It doesn't matter if you have the Samsung Galaxy S20, S20 Plus, or S20 Ultra—a case to protect your new phone is a good idea.
  
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• Ghost of Tsushima Launching on June 26 on PS4, New Story Trailer Reveals

  06-03-2020 11:38
  
  Sony has announced the release date for Ghost of Tsushima that will be available on June 26. It is a PS4 exclusive and is currently up for pre-order.
  
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• Oppo unveils new Find X2 flagship smartphone with enhanced display and camera

  06-03-2020 11:30 via techguide.com.au
  
  Oppo has just unveiled its latest flagship smartphone – the Find X2 – which includes the latest display technology, an advanced camera, fast charging and 5G connectivity.
  The sleek device is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 5G processor with 12GB RAM and 512GB storage.It will be available in two colours – Ceramic Black which has a textured feel to prevent fingerprints and Orange vegan leather.
  What grabs your attention right away is the 6.7-inch OLED Ultra Vision screen w
  
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• Yes Bank Impact: PhonePe, Swiggy, Flipkart Affected By the Moratorium on Private Bank [Update]

  06-03-2020 10:57
  
  Yes Bank faced a moratorium from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday that has affected various fintech startups and companies enabling payments over UPI.
  
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• Yes Bank Impact: PhonePe, Swiggy, Flipkart Affected By the Moratorium on Private Bank

  06-03-2020 10:57
  
  Yes Bank faced a moratorium from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday that has affected various fintech startups and companies enabling payments over UPI.
  
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• Ladies Up: Netflix Sets March 27 Release Date for All-Women Indian Stand-Up Comedy Special

  06-03-2020 10:53
  
  Netflix has set a March 27 release date for Ladies Up, an hour-long stand-up comedy special that features four Indian women in Kaneez Surka, Niveditha Prakasam, Supriya Joshi, and Prashasti Singh.
  
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• Infinix S5 Pro With Pop-Up Selfie Camera, MediaTek Helio P35 SoC Launched in India: Price, Specifications

  06-03-2020 10:31
  
  Infinix S5 Pro has been launched in India, claiming to be among the cheapest phones to offer a pop-up camera in the market.
  
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• Huawei Nova 7 SE Specifications Tipped Before Launch, 5G Kirin 820 SoC, 22.5W Fast Charging Expected

  06-03-2020 10:04
  
  Huawei Nova 7 SE might come with a mid-range Kirin 5G chip and a 6.5-inch hole-punch display.
  
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• TCL Showcases Tri-Fold Foldable and Rollable Display Concept Phones

  06-03-2020 09:58
  
  TCL has showcased two new concept phones – a tri-fold phone-tablet hybrid that bends like the letter Z and another one that has a rollable display.
  
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• Two Blokes Talking Tech Episode 426 is here for your listening pleasure

  06-03-2020 09:44 via techguide.com.au
  
  Two Blokes Talking Tech Episode 426, with Tech Guide editor Stephen Fenech and EFTM’s Trevor Long, takes a look at the week’s biggest stories and we also deliver our verdicts on Samsung’s new Galaxy S20 Ultra smartphone.
  Also on this week’s show, Vodafone kicks off its 5G rollout, severe iPhone shortage as a result of the coronavirus, Belkin’s new USB-C earphones, Ecovacs Robotics offer an amazing bargain with the Deebot OZMO 900 for Aldi customers and Hisense inks
  
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• Jio Seeks Data Price Hiked to Rs. 20 per GB Over 6 Months

  06-03-2020 09:24
  
  Reliance Jio has proposed to TRAI that wireless data prices are gradually increased to Rs 20 per GB from Rs 15 per GB currently, after six to nine months while suggesting floor rate for data prices.
  
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• Redmi Tipped to Use 5G MediaTek Dimensity 800 SoC; Likely to Feature in Redmi Note 9 Pro-China Variant

  06-03-2020 08:50
  
  Xiaomi's Redmi Note 9 Pro may use the MediaTek Dimensity 800 processor. If true, this will be present in the Chinese variant of the smartphone.
  
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• Durian Fruit Can Be Used to Charge Your Phone's Battery: Study

  06-03-2020 08:47
  
  A method to develop super-capacitors from durian and jackfruit waste has been developed by a team of researchers from the University of Sydney.
  
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• Mi 10 India Variant Specifications, Colour Options Tipped Ahead of Launch

  06-03-2020 08:41
  
  Mi 10 India launch is expected to take place soon. But ahead of the official debut, storage, RAM, and colour options of its India variant have surfaced online.
  
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• Apple, Netflix, Amazon Pull Out of SXSW Over Coronavirus Concerns

  06-03-2020 08:24
  
  Apple, Netflix, and Amazon have joined the growing list of tech companies opting not to participate in the 2020 edition of South by Southwest (SXSW) festival conference amid growing coronavirus concerns.
  
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• Twitter Bans Posts That 'Dehumanize' People in Connection With Diseases

  06-03-2020 08:19
  
  Twitter said on Thursday it is banning posts that "dehumanize" people because they have a disease or disability or because of their age, a step that happens to correspond to an explosion of tweets about the spreading coronavirus.
  
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• First Nokia 5G Phone to Launch on March 19, Says HMD Global

  06-03-2020 07:58
  
  HMD Global has announced that the first Nokia-branded 5G phone will be launched at its March 19 event.
  
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• NASA Names Next Mars Rover 'Perseverance'

  06-03-2020 07:43
  
  NASA on Thursday announced the name of its next Mars rover: Perseverance. It will be the fifth exploratory vehicle on the Red Planet following in the tire tracks of the similarly augustly titled Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity.
  
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• Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to 'Reconsider' Africa Plans, Partly Over Coronavirus Fears

  06-03-2020 07:32
  
  Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey said Thursday he is rethinking plans to spend as long as six months in Africa, partly due to concerns over the new-coronavirus epidemic.
  
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• Amazon Vows to Act on Price-Gouging on Coronavirus Goods

  06-03-2020 07:20
  
  Amazon pledged Thursday to take steps to fight price gouging after a US senator complained of "unjustifiably high prices" on hand sanitizers and surgical masks to protect against coronavirus infections.
  
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• Flipkart Faces Further Antitrust Probe in India

  06-03-2020 06:59
  
  Flipkart faces a further antitrust probe in India after an appellate tribunal asked the competition watchdog to investigate whether the company had abused its dominant position in e-commerce.
  
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• Apple Rejecting Coronavirus Apps That Are Not From Recognised Institutions Like Governments, Hospitals: Report

  06-03-2020 06:53
  
  Apple is cracking down on apps related to coronavirus. The company is rejecting all apps related to the COVID-19 disease that aren't from hospitals or recognised health institutions or the governments.
  
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• Oppo Find X2, Find X2 Pro, Oppo Watch Launching Today: How to Watch Livestream, Expected Specifications

  06-03-2020 06:45
  
  Oppo Find X2 launch, which will bring the Oppo Find X2 and Find X2 Pro smartphones as well as the Oppo Watch smartwatch, will take place in London later today. The event will be live streamed online.
  
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• Realme to Launch More IoT Devices, Offline-Focussed Smartphones in Q2: Madhav Sheth

  06-03-2020 06:34
  
  Realme is set to grow its presence in India by launching a range of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the second quarter of this year, revealed India CEO Madhav Sheth. The company is also planning to launch its offline-focussed phones in the country in early second quarter.
  
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• Moto G8 With Triple Rear Cameras, Snapdragon 665 SoC Launched: Price, Specifications

  06-03-2020 06:29
  
  Motorola has launched a new mid-range G-series phone - the Moto G8 - which packs a triple rear camera setup and draws power from the Snapdragon 665 SoC.
  
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• The Last of Us HBO Series Set With Chernobyl Creator Craig Mazin, Game Writer Neil Druckmann

  06-03-2020 06:12
  
  After spending years in development hell, the live-action adaptation of the hit survival horror video game The Last of Us is now in the works at HBO as a series, with Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin and The Last of Us co-director and writer Neil Druckmann set to script it together.
  
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