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The latest technology news, product launches, software updates and industry changes, explained with relevance for India.
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Xiaomi’s next Mi Home Store heading to Chennai
A few months back Xiaomi opened their first ever Mi Home store in Bangalore, India and they were committed to opening 100 more stores in the next two years. A few months later, they’ve already expanded to Delhi and the next store seems to be in Chennai. We spotted the following ‘Coming Soon’ Mi Home Store at…
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Jio User Data Has Been Leaked, Affects More than 100 Million Indians
The user data of more than 100 million Jio sim users has been breached and readily available for anyone to access. This could very well be the biggest breach when it comes to the telecom industry. A website by the name “magicapk” has popped out of no where and was brought to my attention by…
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14 Year Old Drone “Genius” From Gujarat Is A Fake, Did Not Invent Anything
I have been a drone enthusiast since long, the news of a 14 year old “genius” signing an MoU with the Gujarat government caught my attention but what set me off is the claim that the drone was “invented” by him. I decided to dig into the the claims made by him as well as…
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Reddit India User’s Satire Post Goes Viral As Propaganda
WhatsApp user base is increasing at an unprecedented rate and it is almost impossible to find someone owning a Smartphone without WhatsApp installed on it. It is undoubtedly a good sign for the average Indian to embrace technology but on the contrary propaganda is reaching new heights in digital India. Its been over a year…
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Narendra Modi App Hack & Its Rushed Cover Up
The “Narendra Modi” app had a vulnerability that compromised the private info of 7 million users who had registered on it. Before we proceed with this article we would like to explain the meaning of “Hack” to our media who for reasons best known to them have been calling this incident as a “Non hack” Hack…
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NVIDIA announces Watch Dogs 2 for free with new Pascal Cards and Laptops
Watch Dogs 2 is Ubisoft’s second take on the open world game where every piece of technology is hackable. The first pard failed to impress most. But the second version takes place in the city of San Francisco, with a fun story and has been getting some good reviews. PC gaming is still the best…
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3.2 Million Indian Debit Cards Compromised and Nobody knew about it
Many Indians are falling prey to what is now becoming the biggest breach of financial data in the recent times. Indian debit cards are being used to make payments at various outlets in China! This could very well be the biggest debit card scam in India. Economic Times claims nearly 3.2 millions card details have…
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Future of Ather Energy
We’ve been closely following along the development of Ather Energy and their first scooter, S340. We were there at their announcement of the S340 in February this year at Bangalore and you can check it out here. Recently we got an opportunity to ask some specific questions to them and here they are: 1. Connectivity…
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NVIDIA Launches 1050 and 1050Ti
NVIDIA just announced the 1050 and 1050Ti, once again based on this year’s PASCAL Architecture. NVIDIA is marketing this as the best entry level card, and it is! 1050 runs on 75W and does not even require the power supply from the PSU. The GPU can run on a bare minimum of 300W PSU. 1050 has…
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Airtel launches V-Fiber to bring speeds up to 100Mbps with existing infrastructure
Airtel is upgrading all their existing infrastructure using Vectorization. This is good news because Airtel will be able to compete with other providers who provide similar speeds, without spending significant costs. There will be no digging and changing of wires. For existing customers, it is just a quick modem change. There will be no cost…
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Honor 8, Honor 8 Smart and Holly 3 launched in India
Huawei finally launched it’s latest flagship phone in the Honor series in India, which has the similar dual camera from the bigger Huawei P9. Honor 8 has 2.5D glass on front and back which is a composition of over 15 layers of glass. Honor 8 is powered by HiSilicon Kirin 950 made using the FinFET+…
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Crofters Unveils India’s First Aquaponics Garden
There’s been a growing interest in Urban Plantation and Crofters is planning to improve that with technology. Crofters is an automated aquaponics ecosystem. It has a 20 Gallon Aquarium in the bottom and 330 Square Inch Grow Bed for Plants at the top. The whole system looks great and is built for the living room.…
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Huawei Announced Huawei P9 in India for ₹39,999
Huawei has finally announced Huawei P9 in India after almost 4 whole months since it’s launch in the international market. Every year since 2013, Huawei has been launching a new P series smartphone which is the flagship model for the company. This year, P9 completlety focuses on reimaginging the camera system with a great partnetship…
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Epson announces Epson L655, a duplex all-in-one ink-tank printer
Epson announced the launch of their first ever duplex InkTank printer, the Epson L655. This is an all-in-one printer with ADF, WiFi, networking, fax and duplex functionalities as well as a suite of connectivity features, aimed at achieving cost effective speed and quality. Ideal for office and commercial environments, the Epson L655 prints colour documents…
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Transcend announces SSD220S Solid-State Drive for India
Transcend announces the SSD220S Solid-State Drive for India, which comes with fast transfer speeds, higher durability, low power consumption at an economic price point for an average consumer. Some of the core features include, Speed: The Transcend SSD220S has a transfer speed of 550MB/s transfer speed for faster boot times and open apps faster. For 4K,…
