In a bid to improve understanding of neurological disorders, researchers have created a fast and energy-efficient simulation of part of a rat brain by using computer chip manufacturer NVIDIA's Artificial Intelligence (AI) compute platform.
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WhatsApp New Year Stickers: How to Find, Create, and Share New Year 2019 Stickers on WhatsApp
With the New Year just beginning, we show you where you can find WhatsApp stickers, create your own, and share them with your friends and family.
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Google Duo May Soon Get Group Calling, Low Light Mode: Report
Google is working towards bringing group calling feature as well as a new low light mode on its popular video chat mobile app Duo.
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Xiaomi Mi TV 4A 32, Mi TV 4C Pro 32, Mi TV 4A Pro 49 prices cut in India
Xiaomi has lately been revising prices of a few of its products. After briefly slashing the prices of its flagship Poco F1 smartphone, now is the chance for its Mi LED smart TV series.
Xiaomi has slashed the price of its Mi LED TV 4A 32 by Rs 1,500, which will now be available at Rs 12,499. The Mi LED TV 4C Pro 32 has received Rs 2,000 price cut, and will be available for Rs 13,999. Lastly, the Mi LED TV 4A Pro 49 gets Rs 1,000 price cut, and will now be available for Rs 30,999.
Xiaomi says that the reason behind the price cut for the 32-inch models is the reduction of GST from 28 percent to 18 percent. As for the 49-inch model, the price cut is due to the ‘recent dollar moderation’. The Mi LED TVs will be available at their new prices across all online and offline platforms starting today.
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“We are thrilled to share this wonderful news with our Mi Fans. Mi TVs have gained massive love and popularity among Mi Fans and customers in India,” Raghu Reddy, Head of Categories and Online Sales, Xiaomi India was quoted as saying. “Redefining smart TV experience, Mi TVs deliver high quality with great specs comprising of the customized PatchWall which integrates the best of content.”
Flipkart was hosting Qualcomm Days this week, wherein the Xiaomi Poco F1 was available at a discount. Prices for the smartphone started at Rs 17,999 for the variant with 6GB RAM and 64GB internal storage. The price is inclusive of Rs 2,000 extra off on exchange of any other device.
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Indian firm makes electronic chip to help curb call drop, facilitate 5G
Bengaluru-based Saankhya Labs Wednesday unveiled the first indigenously developed electronic chipset that can be used for functions like direct TV broadcast on mobile devices, curbing call drops and 5G connections.
“Saankhya Labs, a Bengaluru-based company is launching its indigenously designed and developed, the world’s first and most advanced multi-standard next-generation TV system on the chip,” Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha said after unveiling the chipset.
All electronic chipsets, considered as the heart of modern devices, have been developed by foreign companies so far. None of them is made in India because there is no modern semiconductor manufacturing plant in the country.
Electronic chipsets of Saankhya Labs are also being manufactured at Samsung facility in South Korea.
“I am also told that this broadband-broadcast convergence technology has great potential to minimise or eliminate call quality issues faced by telecom operators today,” Sinha said.
Saankhya Labs co-founder and CEO Parag Naik said the chipset will help in separating video content from a mobile network and hence reduce the load on the spectrum for improving call quality.
Saankhya’s Pruthvi-3 chipset will facilitate direct transmission of video on mobile phones and can also help convert an Android-based smartphone into a satellite phone.
The company expects to launch its chipset-based mobile phone accessories in the form of a dongle and mobile phones within a couple of years, Naik said.
“Semiconductor technology takes time in maturing and adoption. Original design manufacturers will incorporate our chipsets into various products. We will try for getting certain standards based on our technology incorporated in 5G services. Our chipsets are 30 per cent more efficient in output compared to our nearest competitor and 50 per cent cheaper too,” he said.
The company already has clients in the US and China and bagged orders to supply 5 million chipsets for various kinds of devices.
“We are looking at 50 per cent year-on-year growth in business. In this financial year, we are expecting sales of around USD 14-15 million (Rs 98-105 crore). We have advance orders for supplying 5 million chipsets to companies in the US that they will use in tablets (PCs), television gateways etc. This order will be completed by the first quarter of 2020,” Naik said.
Saankhya Labs has started a pilot for rural broadband services in Scotland and Africa and received a request for the project in the Philippines, Brazil and the US.
“We are in talks with an Indian firm to start rural broadband trials in the country,” Naik said.
He said that in the next two years TV gateways, rural broadband technology, satellite communications and defence will be the main contributor to the business. PTI PRS MR MR
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This could be the first 'resident' on Mars, as per Elon Musk
Tech billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to establish a base on Mars, and he has indicated the first resident on the planet could be Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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Huawei expects 21% revenue rise despite ‘unfair’ treatment
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei expects to see a 21 percent rise in revenue for 2018, its chairman said Thursday despite a year of “unfair treatment” which saw its products banned in several countries over security concerns.
Huawei would report sales revenue of USD 108.5 billion, up 21 percent year-on-year, rotating chairman Guo Ping said in a New Year message to staff.
Guo also said the firm had signed 26 commercial contracts for its 5G technology despite what he described as a year of “incredibly unfair treatment”.
“Huawei has never and will never present a security threat,” Guo wrote in the message titled “Fire is the Test of Gold”.
“Setbacks will only makes us more courageous, and incredibly unfair treatment will drive us to become the world’s number one,” he added.
The company has been under fire this year, with Washington leading efforts to blacklist Huawei internationally.
A top Huawei executive was also arrested in Canada earlier this month at the request of the US, which is engaged in a bruising trade war with China.
This month, Britain’s largest mobile provider BT announced it was removing Huawei equipment from its 4G cellular network after the foreign intelligence service singled out the company as a security risk.
In November, New Zealand’s intelligence agency barred Huawei equipment in the rollout of the country’s 5G network on the same grounds.
Australia and the United States also enacted similar bans earlier this year, leaving Canada the only country in the “Five Eyes” intelligence network not to take steps against the Chinese firm.
Huawei founder Ren is a former People’s Liberation Army engineer and there are concerns of close links with the Chinese military and government, which the firm has constantly denied.
Last week, the Chinese tech firm sought to dispel the fears around its technology by taking the unprecedented step of opening its research and development labs to media.
“Banning a particular company cannot resolve cybersecurity concerns,” Huawei’s rotating chairman Ken Hu told reporters.
“Huawei’s record is clean.”
Meanwhile, chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, who was arrested on December 1, is fighting extradition to the US where she faces charges of violating Iranian trade-related sanctions.
She has been released on bail and is now living under electronic surveillance in a luxury home in Vancouver.
Following her arrest, two Canadians were detained in China on grounds of national security in what has largely been seen as retaliation for Meng’s case. (AFP) PMS PMS
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AI could be first ‘resident’ of Mars: Elon Musk
Tech billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to establish a base on Mars, and he has indicated the first resident on the planet could be Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Responding to a tweet that asked Musk what his thoughts were on the first Martian being an intelligent machine rather than a human, he replied: “30%.”
How Musk came up with this percentage remains a mystery, however, many people are wondering what this AI “resident” could look like, according to the Geek.
“It’s possible that it could be a rover-like bot that explores the planet, or a stationary device that makes observations and conducts experiments without human assistance,” the Geek report added.
Currently, manned Mars missions are completely hypothetical.
Companies such as SpaceX and scientific bodies around the world have been working towards inventing technologies to allow humans to venture beyond Earth’s moon but it could still take a decade or perhaps several decades before that is attempted.
Musk had told the media in November that there is “70 per cent chance that he will go to Mars”, despite a “good chance” of him not surviving either on the way or after landing. It is only very likely that only a few people might be willing to join Musk in this journey – either because of the risk or the cost involved.
This year, the US space agency NASA also firmed up its plans to return humans to the Moon and use its lunar experience to prepare to send astronauts to Mars in the 2030s.
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This tech giant has filed the largest number of self-driving car patents in Europe
Samsung Electronics Co. filed the largest number of patents related to self-driving cars in Europe, data showed on Monday, far above traditional automobile manufacturers.
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