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What do you do when you just can’t date in your backyard? Download an app, and take a trip around the world.
It’s winter in Nairobi now and I am daunted by that information. Around me are ridiculously good-looking men of various ethnicities, in progressive states of undress. I feel ugly and overdressed. Of course, I won’t be approached by anyone, I should have gone shirtless. This was a bad idea, I tell myself. I stare intently at the tea-stained rim of my favourite mug. I rea

A blackhole. (Credits: NASA)
The first-ever detection of gravitational waves a few months back has reconfirmed our picture of the universe. Specifically, it corroborated the existence of black holes, one of the most mysterious and yet interesting constituents of the universe. While much that we know about black holes has now been proved to be correct, there is still a lot that we do not fully understand about them. Some more information about black holes can potentially be revealed by our group

Samsung Gear IconX is a wireless earbud with heart rate sensor and accelerometer and capacitive touch sensor
Samsung has announced its latest fitness tracker, Gear Fit 2 globally but the company is just not stopping there. It is expanding beyond fitness trackers with its first truly wireless earbuds called Gear IconX.
Samsung Gear IconX is a fitness earbud that connects to your phone without and guess what, there are no wires between the earbuds themselves. Samsung Gear IconX is a pair of earbu

Mobile device maker Datawind today said it plans to start offering telecom service before Diwali this year. (Image Source: Website) Mobile device maker Datawind today said it plans to start offering telecom service before Diwali this year.
“We are already in discussions with key network operators and intend to file our application for a VNO licence shortly, with a target launch date before Diwali,” Suneet Singh Tuli, CEO and Founder of DataWind said in a statement.
The Telecom Depar

Samsung Gear Fit 2 has a larger 1.5-inch display with built-in GPS (Source: Samsung)
It’s 2016 and fitness trackers are still very much a desirable thing than a must-have but that hasn’t stopped companies from trying out new ideas. With most companies being a startup, Samsung doesn’t want to be left behind and is jumping in with its Gear Fit 2.
Samsung Gear Fit 2, essentially does everything that Gear Fit failed to accomplish when it was launched in 2014. Samsung Gear Fit 2 co

AMD plans to work closely with Tollywood and other cine industries in the graphics sector.
Semiconductor major Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has evinced interest to work with Telugu movie industry in the field of graphics.
According to a government release, Telangana IT Minister K T Rama Rao, who is touring the US, met AMD Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster and Senior Vice-President (Human Resources and Corporate Communications) Ruth Cotter at the chipmaker’s headquarters in Sunnyva

Samsung Gear IconX is a wireless earbud with heart rate sensor and accelerometer and capacitive touch sensor
Samsung has announced its latest fitness tracker, Gear Fit 2 globally but the company is just not stopping there. It is expanding beyond fitness trackers with its first truly wireless earbuds called Gear IconX.
Samsung Gear IconX is a fitness earbud that connects to your phone without and guess what, there are no wires between the earbuds themselves. Samsung Gear IconX is a pair of earbu

Samsung Gear Fit 2 has a larger 1.5-inch display with built-in GPS (Source: Samsung)
It’s 2016 and fitness trackers are still very much a desirable thing than a must-have but that hasn’t stopped companies from trying out new ideas. With most companies being a startup, Samsung doesn’t want to be left behind and is jumping in with its Gear Fit 2.
Samsung Gear Fit 2, essentially does everything that Gear Fit failed to accomplish when it was launched in 2014. Samsung Gear Fit 2 co

There is no point delving into the absurdness of rumours that Shah Rukh Khan is becoming the Apple brand ambassador in India.
There is no point delving into the absurdness of rumours that Shah Rukh Khan is becoming the Apple brand ambassador in India. However, this is a good time to look at how celebrities and tech companies have not been the most comfy bed fellows, notwithstanding the involvement of some of the biggest names in both tech and entertainment. Sample these 11 tech-celeb commercial

The affordable Evok looks just like any other Micromax smartphone in terms of design and comes with a plastic back
Micromax seems to be on an overdrive. Ever since the Indian smartphone maker announced a revamp along with a new logo, we have been witnesses to a series of budget devices by the company. Micromax, which is the second largest smartphone player in India, recently announced its flagship devices — Canvas 6 and Canvas 6 Pro — at Rs 13,990.
Micromax Canvas Evok, a 4G LTE sma

The affordable Evok looks just like any other Micromax smartphone in terms of design and comes with a plastic back
Micromax seems to be on an overdrive. Ever since the Indian smartphone maker announced a revamp along with a new logo, we have been witnesses to a series of budget devices by the company. Micromax, which is the second largest smartphone player in India, recently announced its flagship devices — Canvas 6 and Canvas 6 Pro — at Rs 13,990.
Micromax Canvas Evok, a 4G LTE sma

While all VoIP apps lets you make data calls, Nanu lets you make a connection even when the connection is bad, really bad
Call drops are a way of life these days. So much so, that some users feel they are subscribing to call drops and not the actual ability to stay connected. But people, and technology, are getting the better of this problem. For instance, more people are now turning to apps like Skype and Facebook Messenger to make their calls, while connected to a wireless network. However, W

JBL Project Everest DD67000 will be exclusively distributed in India by ‘Meilleur by Fairdeal Electronics.’
Harman’s JBL has introduced Project Everest DD67000 loudspeaker which comes in rosewood and mapple finishes.
Project Everest DD67000 retains curved and angled surfaces with a flared midrange horn complemented by a carbon-fiber baffle trim panel design.
JBL DD67000 is equipped with two 1501AL-2 cast-aluminum-frame woofers. The loudspeaker features a three-layer laminated

Audeze Sine is the most compact and affordable headphone ever from the company
Audeze, the US based premium audio maker, has launched world’s first on-ear planar magnetic headphones in India. Audeze Sine is the most compact and affordable headphone ever from the company.
With Audeze Sine, the company has replaced the traditional sound drivers with Audeze’s renowned array of fluxor magnets. It has a uniforce diaphragms and fazor elements, something synonymous with more premium Audeze

Instagram will roll out the new algorithm experience over the coming month where the best posts will show first.
Instagram has announced a new way of ordering posts in its feed so that users will be able to see the moments that they care about first. Instagram has first announced plans for this in March, which had prompted a worry among Insta-celebs that they would start to lose engagement on their posts.
Instagram will now order photos and videos in the user’s feed based on the content t

Facebook also revealed that the deep learning-based text understanding engine is being tested on Facebook Messenger. (Reuters) Social media giant Facebook is removing the messaging capability from its mobile web application to push people to Messenger, a media report has said.
According to the report in tech website, Techcrunch.com, the company served notice to the users saying, “Your conversations are moving to Messenger”.
For now, the users can skip the notice but soon the users m

“Twitter is the destination for instant news and Yahoo has a lot of eyeballs on its site,” the source said.
Executives from the sinking micro-blogging website Twitter have met Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to discuss merger possibilities, the media reported.
At the management meeting, Twitter and Yahoo executives spent several hours hashing out Yahoo’s financials and whether a strategic combo might make sense, a source close to the talks told the New York Post on Friday.
“Twit

Tony Fadell’s Nest made the connected home mainstream (Source: Wikipedia)
Tony Fadell, a well-known Silicon Valley executive who was once expected to play a central role in Alphabet Inc’s hardware efforts, has stepped down as chief executive of the search giant’s Nest unit, the company said.
Fadell will remain an adviser to Alphabet and Google co-founder Larry Page. He will be replaced at Nest, which makes smart thermostats and smoke detectors, by Marwan Fawaz, who had prior s

There is no point delving into the absurdness of rumours that Shah Rukh Khan is becoming the Apple brand ambassador in India.
There is no point delving into the absurdness of rumours that Shah Rukh Khan is becoming the Apple brand ambassador in India. However, this is a good time to look at how celebrities and tech companies have not been the most comfy bed fellows, notwithstanding the involvement of some of the biggest names in both tech and entertainment. Sample these 11 tech-celeb commercial

The affordable Evok looks just like any other Micromax smartphone in terms of design and comes with a plastic back
Micromax seems to be on an overdrive. Ever since the Indian smartphone maker announced a revamp along with a new logo, we have been witnesses to a series of budget devices by the company. Micromax, which is the second largest smartphone player in India, recently announced its flagship devices — Canvas 6 and Canvas 6 Pro — at Rs 13,990.
Micromax Canvas Evok, a 4G LTE sma

While all VoIP apps lets you make data calls, Nanu lets you make a connection even when the connection is bad, really bad
Call drops are a way of life these days. So much so, that some users feel they are subscribing to call drops and not the actual ability to stay connected. But people, and technology, are getting the better of this problem. For instance, more people are now turning to apps like Skype and Facebook Messenger to make their calls, while connected to a wireless network. However, W

Google said its cars are meant to be “polite, considerate, and only honk when it makes driving safer for everyone”. (Reuters) Software giant Google, in its Self-Driving Car Project’s latest monthly report, has said that it has been experimenting with horn algorithms in the vehicle.
The company is experimenting with the algorithm by playing the horn inside the car to make sure the honking does not confuse other drivers.
“It is also an important step in developing the capa

Instagram will roll out the new experience over the coming month.
Instagram has announced a new way of ordering posts in it’s feed so that users will be able to see the moments that they care about first.
According to TechCrunch, the company had previously rolled out a plan “to move away from showing posts in strict reverse chronological order.” Instead, Instagram has introduced a new way of ordering photos and videos in the user’s feed which will be based on the content