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Marvell Technology Names New CEO After Firing Predecessor
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The new boss takes over on July 11. Chipmaker Marvell Technology named Matthew Murphy as chief executive and president, replacing its co-founders who stepped down from the posts in April after a probe raised questions about the top management's ...
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The company claimed that enquiries are pouring in from across the globe, seeking to license the cost-effective, indigenous technology. (PTI) Reliance Industries in a collaboration with Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP) Dehradun has developed an indigenous technology to restrict benzene, a carcinogenic element in gasoline and naphtha.
“…in a major technological and scientific breakthrough, RIL and IIP have come up with an indigenous Benzene Recovery Unit (BRU) which restricts benz

Twitter did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. (Reuters) Twitter Inc said on Monday it acquired London-based Magic Pony Technology, a machine-learning startup that specializes in working with images, to deliver better video and picture content.
Twitter did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. Technology news website TechCrunch cited sources saying the deal was worth $150 million. (http://tcrn.ch/28IW80e)
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Twitter did not disclose the financial terms of the deal.
Twitter Inc said on Monday it acquired London-based Magic Pony Technology, a machine-learning startup that specializes in working with images, to deliver better video and picture content.
Twitter did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. Technology news website TechCrunch cited sources saying the deal was worth $150 million.
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Christie names N.J. cybersecurity chief to protect data, improve technology
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Chief Technology Officer Governor Chris Christie announces the creation of position of Chief Technology Officer by appointing David Weinstein as the first ever CTO during a press conference at the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J. on Monday, June 20, 2016.
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The Sunway TaihuLight, a new Chinese supercomputer has topped a global list of the fastest systems for a seventh straight year. Li Xiang/Xinhua via AP
A new Chinese computer system that can make 93 quadrillions calculations per second was on Monday named the world’s most powerful supercomputer. The supercomputer called Sunway-TaihuLight developed by the National Research Centre of Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology (NRCPC) is built entirely using process

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The fastest computer in the world uses no US technology
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The Sunway TaihuLight, a new Chinese supercomputer, is capable of 93 petaflops, or quadrillion calculations per second, according to TOP500. Photo: AP. More On: computers · The government of the free world still uses floppy disks · How to make your ...
World's Fastest Supercomputer Now Has Chinese Chip TechnologyBloomberg
Technology: China has fastest supercomputer, with Chinese chipsAsia Times
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Global internet conglomerate LeEco’s first “Chief Experience Officers (CEO) Programme” has become an outstanding success on LeMall.com — the recently launched marketplace e-commerce website — receiving more than 1,00,000 registrations.
In less than a second, the first 200 applicants grabbed LeEco’s Rs 11,999 smartphone Le 2 for free and a privilege card offering numerous benefits to them, the company said in a statement.
“The immense success of the prog

Google’s free WiFi project in India has close to 1.5 million users.
Google has revealed that close to 1.5 million people are using free WiFi at 19 railway stations in India where the project has gone live.  Google and RailTel are targeting close to 100 stations under the free WiFi scheme for 2016.
In a blogpost, Google wrote, “Last week we rolled out the network at four of India’s largest stations – Sealdah, Lucknow Jn, Lucknow and Gorakhpur Jn and we are delighted t

The Sunway TaihuLight, a new Chinese supercomputer has topped a global list of the fastest systems for a seventh straight year, and for the first time the winner, Sunway TaihuLight, uses only Chinese-designed processors instead of U.S. technology. (Li Xiang/Xinhua via AP)
A new Chinese computer system that can make 93 quadrillions calculations per second was on Monday named the world’s most powerful supercomputer. The supercomputer called Sunway-TaihuLight developed by 

LeEco is now Coolpad’a largest shareholder after purchasing 11% of Coolpad’s shares.
LeEco has become Coolpad’s largest shareholder after it purchased another 11% of the latter’s shares, according to a deal announcement on June 17. LeEco bought the 11% Coolpad shares from Data Dreamland, the former largest shareholder of Coolpad, with 1.047 billion HKD (US$135 million). After the transaction, LeEco holds a total 28.9% of Coolpad’s shares and becomes the largest sha

The, “CEO Project” for LeEco’s second generation Superphone Le 2 that kick-started on June 15, concluded at noon on Monday.
 
LeEco’s unique CEO project became an outstanding success on the company’s recently launched marketplace e-commerce website, with an impressive number of more than 1,00,000 registrations. The, “CEO Project” for LeEco’s second generation Superphone Le 2 that kick-started on June 15, concluded at noon on Monday.
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Motorola Moto G4 smartphone sports a 5.5-inch Full HD display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3, Snapdragon 617 octa-core processor with 2GB RAM, 16GB storage and a 3000 mAh battery with support for Turbo Charging. Motorola Moto G4 smartphone is likely to be launched in India on June 22 and will be available only on Amazon. Motorola Moto G4 Plus smartphone comes in 2 versions: 2GB RAM+16GB storage priced at Rs 13,499 and 3GB RAM+32GB storage priced at Rs 14,999.
Motorola Moto G4 smartphone sports a

Motorola Moto G4 smartphone sports a 5.5-inch Full HD display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3, Snapdragon 617 octa-core processor with 2GB RAM, 16GB storage and a 3000 mAh battery with support for Turbo Charging. Motorola Moto G4 smartphone is likely to be launched in India on June 22 and will be available only on Amazon. Motorola Moto G4 smartphone sports a 5.5-inch Full HD display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3, Snapdragon 617 octa-core processor with 2GB RAM, 16GB storage and a 3000 mAh batt

The company said that the average consumption per user on the network is 15 times the data they would consume on a 3G pack in a day. (Reuters) Nearly 1.5 million Indians are using the high-speed Wi-Fi services at 19 railways stations across the country that Google provided as part of its project, the echnology giant revealed on Monday.
“On the occasion of the inaugural World Wi-Fi Day by the Wireless Broadband Alliance that aims to provide a platform to help bridge the digital divide, we

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Twitter pays up to $150M for Magic Pony Technology, which uses neural networks to improve images
TechCrunch
Twitter today is taking another step to build up its machine learning muscle, and also potentially to improve how it delivers photos and videos across its apps: the company is acquiring Magic Pony Technology (that is really the name), a company based ...
What will Magic Pony Technology do for Twitter?Christian Science Monitor
Twitter acquires AI startup Magic Pony for a reporte

Google’s free WiFi project in India has close to 1.5 million users.
Google has revealed that close to 1.5 million people are using free WiFi at 19 railway stations in India where the project has gone live.  Google and RailTel are targeting close to 100 stations under the free WiFi scheme for 2016.
In a blogpost, Google wrote, “Last week we rolled out the network at four of India’s largest stations – Sealdah, Lucknow Jn, Lucknow and Gorakhpur Jn and we are delighted t

Moto G4 will launch in India on June 22: Here’s a look at the top competition, which includes Redmi Note 3, Le 2, and Yu Yunicorn. 
Moto G4 will launch in India on June 22, and just like the Plus version, it will be an Amazon exclusive smartphone.
Moto G4 features a 5.5-inch Full HD display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3, Snapdragon 617 octa-core processor with 2GB RAM, 16GB storage and a 3000 mAh battery with support for Turbo Charging. It runs the Android 6 OS and has a 13

Moto G4 will launch in India on June 22: Here’s a look at the top competition, which includes Redmi Note 3, Le 2, and Yu Yunicorn.
Moto G4 will launch in India on June 22, and just like the Plus version, it will be an Amazon exclusive smartphone.
Moto G4 features a 5.5-inch Full HD display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3, Snapdragon 617 octa-core processor with 2GB RAM, 16GB storage and a 3000 mAh battery with support for Turbo Charging. It runs the Android 6 OS and has a 13 megapi

Deeper public-private engagement and training officials on latest technologies can help the National Informatics Centre (NIC) transform its operations to play a bigger role in Digital India initiatives, a report said.
According to the report by a high-level committee chaired by Infosys co-founder S Gopalakrishnan, there is a critical shortage of manpower at NIC as its HR strength remained more or less stagnant in spite of increasing workload.
Besides, upgrading the knowledge of NIC professionals

China’s new supercomputing system Sunway-TaihuLight was on Monday named the world’s fastest computer at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany.
The National Supercomputing Centre was also unveiled simultaneously in China’s Jiangsu province, where the new-generation supercomputer is installed, Xinhua news agency reported.
With processing capacity of 125.436 petaflops (PFlops) per second, which means it can perform quadrillions of calculations per second at peak p

University of California Davis scientists have created what is the world’s fastest-ever microchip with 1000 processors. (Source: UC Davis press release)
Scientists have designed the world’s first microchip containing 1,000 independent programmable processors, that can compute upto 1.78 trillion instructions per second, and is thought to be the fastest ever designed at a university.
The energy-efficient “KiloCore” chip contains 621 million transistors, researchers said.
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OnePlus 3 is not fully utilising the 6GB RAM on board, reveals company co-founder Carl Pei.
OnePlus 3 is not fully utilising the 6GB RAM on board, and instead the company has gone for a different RAM management to boost battery life, and overall user experience. OnePlus cofounder Carl Pei revealed this on Twitter, in reply to a video which compared OnePlus 3 and Samsung Galaxy S7 edge.
The videoby C4Tech did a speedtest between OnePlus 3 with S7 edge, and showcased how Samsung’s flagship

Moto G4 India launch is confirmed for June 22. Here is a look at the top competition of the Moto G4.
Moto G4 will launch in India on June 22, and just like the Plus version, it will be an Amazon exclusive smartphone.
Moto G4 features a 5.5-inch Full HD display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3, Snapdragon 617 octa-core processor with 2GB RAM, 16GB storage and a 3000 mAh battery with support for Turbo Charging. It runs the Android 6 OS and has a 13 megapixel rear camera, not the 16 mp one i

More than half the links shared on Twitter are not clicked by those who share them, shows a new study.
More than half (59 per cent) links shared on micro-blogging website Twitter are never clicked including by the people who share them, a new study has found.
The researchers from Microsoft and Columbia University collected the data over a month and included 2.8 million shares on Twitter, encompassing shared links to the BBC, CNN, Fox News, The New York Times and the Huffington Post.
“It i

Microsoft has finally got the long awaited official Facebook app for Windows that would be available for Windows 10-powered personal computers and smartphones.
Technology giant Microsoft has finally got the long awaited official Facebook app for Windows that would be available for Windows 10-powered personal computers and smartphones, a media report said on June 20.
“Facebook is now turning its attention to the Windows 10 platform, as it released a beta version of its Windows 10 applicatio

With a Rs three crore investment,the company’s vision is to to be among top three online grocery businesses. (Reuters) An E-commerce store onlystaples.com that sells online grocery, fruits and vegetables was launched here today.
The initial focus was to target the city and Tier II cities in Tamil Nadu and depending on maturity of the business model in these markets, it would be taken to other cities, including by way of franchisee model, CFO and Director of the company, Rajesh Keerthi tol

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