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Technology giants like Apple, Google, Whatsapp and Snapchat have announced their plans to increase privacy on users data amid the fight between Apple Inc and the FBI over encryption. The next date of hearing in the Apple encryption case is scheduled for March 22, a day after Apple unveils its latest iPhone, smart watch and iPad pro.
The California-based companies have also indicated the industry would be willing to back up their public support for Apple with concrete action, the Guardian reports

Sennheiser has announced flat 30 percent discount on RS 110 and RS 120 wireless headphones on the day of India’s WT20 match
Sennheiser has announced flat 30 percent discount on RS Wireless 110 or 120 headphones. The company is offering the discount only on the days India plays a World T20 match and is available from Sennheiser’s website.
Sennheiser says its offer will be live for 48 hours from the match day till the next day. Sennheiser’s RS series delivers best interference-f

Intex Intex IT-4950SUF BT is a bluetooth speaker with 5.1 channel audio support (Source: Intex Technologies)
Intex has launched 5.1 channel speaker IT-4950SUF BT in India. The Bluetooth-enabled speaker sports a USB port, SD card slot and a built-in FM tuner. It also comes with an auxiliary audio input which makes it compatible with traditional home entertainment devices.
The Intex IT-4950SUF BT speaker features a wooden body and a plastic panel in the front. The speaker is operated via LED disp

Go player Lee Sedol puts the first stone against Google’s artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, as Google DeepMind’s lead programmer Aja Huang, left, sits during the final match of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match in Seoul, South Korea. (Source: AP)
Google’s Go-playing computer program has again defeated its human opponent, in a final match sealing its 4:1 victory.
The week-long showdown between South Korean Go grandmaster Lee Sedol and AlphaGo ended Tuesday with furthe

Harman Kardon One features aluminium unibody design and HTC Connect technology for smart connection (Source: Harman Kardon)
Harman has announced the launch of Karman Kardon One and Esquire 2 speakers in India. Both are wireless speakers that fit into the premium segment of audio devices.
Harman Kardon Esquire 2 is the more premium of the two and is priced at Rs 19,990. The HK Esquire 2 features unparalleled quad microphone conference technology coupled with echo cancelling technology. The speak

Google, Facebook and other US tech companies are stepping up the encryption of user data in the wake of Apple’s ongoing battle
As Apple battles the US government over encryption to unlock an iPhone used by an attacker in a mass shooting in San Bernadino last year, top US companies Google, Facebook and Snapchat are expanding encryption of user data in their services, media reported.
According to The Guardian, while Whatsapp is set to roll out encryption for its voice calls in addition to i

Apple could be forced to provide the source code and signing key which could make iPhone and other Apple devices highly insecure
The latest filing in the legal war between the planet’s most powerful government and its most valuable company gave one indication of how the high-stakes confrontation could escalate even further.
In what observers of the case called a carefully calibrated threat, the US Justice Department last week suggested that it would be willing to demand that Apple turn ov

OnePlus 2 was launched in 2015
OnePlus has announced a price cut on its 2015 flagship, the OnePlus. The 16GB version of the phone will now cost Rs 20,999, while the 64GB version will be priced Rs 22,999.
The company justified the price drop saying: “Let’s just say that thanks to both timing and scale, our operations have sized up sufficiently propelling us to offer our flagship offering as an even better proposition for your connectivity needs.”
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OnePlus 2 gets a price-cut, 16GB version of the phone will now cost Rs 20,999, while the 64GB version will be priced Rs 22,999.
OnePlus has announced a price cut for its flagship device, the OnePlus 2. The 16GB version of the phone will now cost Rs 20,999, while the 64GB version will be priced Rs 22,999.
The company justified the price drop saying: “Let’s just say that thanks to both timing and scale, our operations have sized up sufficiently propelling us to offer our flagship offe

Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus is the budget smartphone from Chinese company featuring 5-inch full HD display and priced at Rs 8,499
Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus is now officially out for India at a price of Rs 8,499. The smartphone,  first showcased at Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona, will be a Flipkart exclusive. India is the first country to get the new smartphone, revealed Sudhin Mathur Lenovo’s Director for smartphones.
“The new Vibe K5 Plus will be our successor to the A6000 series i

Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus is the budget smartphone from Chinese company featuring 5-inch full HD display and priced at Rs 8,499
Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus is now officially out for India at a price of Rs 8,499. The smartphone,  first showcased at Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona, will be a Flipkart exclusive. India is the first country to get the new smartphone, revealed Sudhin Mathur Lenovo’s Director for smartphones.
“The new Vibe K5 Plus will be our successor to the A6000 series i

Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus is the budget smartphone from Chinese company featuring 5-inch full HD display and priced at Rs 8,499
Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus is now officially out for India at a price of Rs 8,499. The smartphone,  first showcased at Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona, will be a Flipkart exclusive. India is the first country to get the new smartphone, revealed Sudhin Mathur Lenovo’s Director for smartphones.
“The new Vibe K5 Plus will be our successor to the A6000 series i

Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus is the budget smartphone from Chinese company featuring 5-inch full HD display and priced at Rs 8,499
Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus is now officially out for India at a price of Rs 8,499. The smartphone,  first showcased at Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona, will be a Flipkart exclusive. India is the first country to get the new smartphone, revealed Sudhin Mathur Lenovo’s Director for smartphones.
“The new Vibe K5 Plus will be our successor to the A6000 series i

OnePlus 2 runs on OxygenOS, based on the latest Android version Lollipop 5.1. It is the first device to ship with OnePlus’ own operating system out of the box. (Source: IE) OnePlus 2 smartphone announced a price cut for both 16GB and 64GB variants. The 16GB version of OnePlus 2 smartphone will now be priced at Rs 20,999, while the 64GB version will be priced at Rs 22,999.
OnePlus 2 features a 5.5-inch in-cell display with a full-HD (1080×1920 pixel) resolution;a 64-bit octa-core Sna

Google Now could soon work in offline mode as well, shows a new research paper.
Google Now or the AI voice-command feature that we’ve all come to use on our Android smartphones, could work even in offline mode, according to a research paper put out by a team of Google Researchers.
Essentially Google’s researchers looked at how they could embed a “large vocabulary speech recognition system”, which is accurate, has low latency, doesn’t use up too much memory power on

Google Now could soon work in offline mode as well, shows a new research paper.
Google Now or the AI voice-command feature that we’ve all come to use on our Android smartphones, could work even in offline mode, according to a research paper put out by a team of Google Researchers.
Essentially Google’s researchers looked at how they could embed a “large vocabulary speech recognition system”, which is accurate, has low latency, doesn’t use up too much memory power on

Sony MDR-XB650BT, a high bass headphone that is more than partial to bass
Since my childhood when I used to play with equaliser on my aunt’s Technics hi-fi music system, I have preferred to keep the bass low and push the treble up as much as possible. But I am in a minority, especially in India. Here we love our music in our cars, in our homes and even on our phones. A lot of our music also lends itself to be the lower frequencies, especially the numbers youth today love to play all the t

Sony MDR-XB650BT headphones have been launched at Rs 7,990. The high bass headphone is definitely one of the best in the market right now.
Since my childhood when I used to play with equaliser on my aunt’s Technics hi-fi music system, I have preferred to keep the bass low and push the treble up as much as possible. But I am in a minority, especially in India. Here we love our music in our cars, in our homes and even on our phones. A lot of our music also lends itself to be the lower frequ

Android updates in India are slow to roll out and most users are unaware about the same, shows a study.
For most Android smartphone users, the wait for an update for the next level of OS can be an eternal, and an agonising, one. Google might regularly showcase the next ‘sweetly-named’ Android OS at each of its I/O conferences and Nexus launches, but for most real-time users, a taste of the new Android flavour, be it a Marshmallow or a Lollipop, remains a dream.
Now a new study by CR

Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus comes with a 5-inch FullHD IPS display with a 1080×1920 pixels resolution which roughly translates to 441ppi pixel density. (Source: IE) Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus smartphone launched in India today priced at Rs 8,499 exclusively on Flipkart. The smartphone will be available through open sales on Flipkart from March 23. Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus was first unveiled (along with another phone, the Lenovo Vibe K5) at the recently concluded MWC 2016 event in Barcelona, Spain.
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Dell XPS 12 is a 2-in-1 in with an Ultra HD 4K display and starts at Rs 1,24,990.
Dell has launched its new XPS range in India with two new laptops: The Dell XPS 12 which has 4K Ultra HD Display and is a 2-in-1, and the Dell XPS 13.
“The XPS brand has always been committed to delivering superior design along with performance to the consumer. After receiving tremendous accolades for the XPS 13 at CES 2015, we have enhanced the XPS portfolio, making the laptop incomparable with any other in

Social networking giant Facebook is using its artificial intelligence (AI) technology and resources to map the entire Earth and launch the world’s most detailed population maps that will help it beam cheap internet to remote areas.
To begin with, the Facebook AI team crunched 14.6 billion images of maps from across 20 countries, including India, covering 21.6 million sq kms to come up with the first detailed map of human settlement for these countries.
“This is an impressive project