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Nokia 7.1 With Dual Rear Cameras, HDR Display Launched in India

Nokia 7.1 price in India is set at Rs. 19,999 (recommended best buy price) for its 4GB RAM/ 64GB inbuilt storage variant. from NDTV Gadgets - Latest https://ift.tt/2SmexFT via IFTTT

OnePlus 6T Display Affected by 'Static Wave' Issue, Some Users Report

Users have started reporting a weird issue with the display on their newly bought OnePlus 6T handset. from NDTV Gadgets - Latest https://ift.tt/2Q4EAon via IFTTT

Airbnb Will Start Testing Prototype Homes as Soon as Next Year

Airbnb announced Thursday that it will begin testing prototype homes as soon as next year to accommodate the needs of owners or occupants who rent and share living spaces. from NDTV Gadgets - Latest https://ift.tt/2PaKA9A via IFTTT

Daredevil Cancelled by Netflix After Successful Third Season

The first three seasons of Daredevil will continue to be available for streaming on Netflix. from NDTV Gadgets - Latest https://ift.tt/2Sjq8W3 via IFTTT

HTC U11 Life Android One Variant Now Getting Android Pie Update: Reports

The Android 9.0 Pie update for the HTC U11 Life is reportedly rolling out in some part of Europe. from NDTV Gadgets - Latest https://ift.tt/2RlwSTi via IFTTT

OnePlus 5, 5T Get Android Pie-Based HydrogenOS Public Beta Update

As the HydrogenOS public beta is rolling out to OnePlus 5 and OnePlus 5T, the company may soon release the Android Pie-based OxygenOS beta. from NDTV Gadgets - Latest https://ift.tt/2PbryzV via IFTTT

Astrophysicists Count All the Starlight in the Universe

By their estimate, over the history of the universe, stars have emitted 4 times 10-to-the-84th-power photons into the visible universe (that's a 4 followed by 84 zeros). from NDTV Gadgets - Latest https://ift.tt/2E7X14Y via IFTTT

Realme U1 vs Realme 2 Pro: What's the Difference?

Realme U1 vs Reame 2 Pro price in India, specifications compared of the two Realme smartphones. What's the difference between Realme U1 and Realme 2 Pro? from NDTV Gadgets - Latest https://ift.tt/2Sp3gor via IFTTT

Moto G7 Play With Display Notch, Snapdragon 632 Spotted on FCC in the US

Moto G7 Play will be the Lenovo-owned brand's budget smartphone in its upcoming Moto G series refresh sometime next year. from NDTV Gadgets - Latest https://ift.tt/2AqoPNX via IFTTT

Oppo A7 vs Redmi Note 6 Pro vs Vivo Y95 vs Honor 8X

Oppo A7, Redmi Note 6 Pro, Vivo Y95, and Honor 8X price in India and specifications compared. from NDTV Gadgets - Latest https://ift.tt/2FIZ0yu via IFTTT

Philips LED TV Range With 7 New Models Debuts in India

The new range of Philips TVs covering 22- to 65-inch screen sizes start at Rs. 9,990. from NDTV Gadgets - Latest https://ift.tt/2zAplJt via IFTTT

Moto G7 Power Spotted on US FCC Site Tipping Massive 5,000mAh Battery

Moto G7 Power has been certified by the Federal Communications Commission in the US, tipping some of the specifications of the smartphone. from NDTV Gadgets - Latest https://ift.tt/2Sm6vwJ via IFTTT

Asus ROG Phone With 3D Vapour-Chamber Cooling Launched in India

Asus ROG Phone, the company's first gaming smartphone, has been priced at Rs. 69,999 in India. from NDTV Gadgets - Latest https://ift.tt/2P9xXMg via IFTTT

Realme 1 ColorOS 5.2 Stable Update Rollout Begins, Includes Early Access

Realme 1 has now started receiving the latest ColorOS 5.2 software update in India starting Thursday. from NDTV Gadgets - Latest https://ift.tt/2E5lBUk via IFTTT

NASA's InSight Spacecraft, Safely on Mars, Snaps Some Pictures

NASA engineers are planning to begin work with its robotic arm soon, but are proceeding with caution. from NDTV Gadgets - Latest https://ift.tt/2DS6Pzc via IFTTT

Oppo India MD Yi Wang Steps Down Amid Mounting Losses

Wang will relinquish office on November 30. His resignation coincides with the increasing losses to the handset maker in the country. from NDTV Gadgets - Latest https://ift.tt/2rf2Qp2 via IFTTT

NASA Chooses Nine Companies to Bid on Flying to Moon

The move is part of NASA's goal of sending people to the Moon in the next decade, for the first time since the Apollo era of the 1960s and '70s. from NDTV Gadgets - Latest https://ift.tt/2Sjiuej via IFTTT

Honor 8C vs Realme U1

Honor 8C and Realme U1 launched in India this week - we compare the specifications of Honor 8C and Realme U1. from NDTV Gadgets - Latest https://ift.tt/2Si1LrS via IFTTT

Smartphone vs Camera: Do Millennials Even Want a DSLR Anymore?

Smartphone cameras continue to get better, thanks to better hardware and powerful software. from NDTV Gadgets - Latest https://ift.tt/2KGMH4p via IFTTT

Fortnite GeForce GTX Bundle With Fortnite Counterattack Set Announced

Fortnite and Nvidia have teamed up for a Fortnite GeForce GTX bundle that comes with 2,000 V-Bucks and what's being branded as the Fortnite Counterattack Set. from NDTV Gadgets - Latest https://ift.tt/2TVtekR via IFTTT

SoftBank sets indicative share price of 1,500 yen for next month’s IPO

In a regulatory filing today, SoftBank Group said it has set an indicative price of 1,500 yen ($13.22) per share for the initial public offering of its domestic telecoms unit next month. This means the offering is potentially worth 2.4 trillion yen (about $21.16 billion), making it one of the largest IPOs ever. The price is the same as the tentative one SoftBank disclosed in a previous filing earlier this month . The IPO is set for Dec. 19 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and its final price will be determined on Dec. 10. The record for the largest IPO is currently held by Alibaba Group, which raised a total of $25 billion in 2014. If there is enough demand for SoftBank Group’s shares, a overallotment can potentially increase its offering’s total by 240.6 billion yen (or about $2.12 billion), bringing it closer to the amount Alibaba raised. One interesting aspect of this initial public offering is SoftBank Group’s efforts to reach retail investors. For example, brokerages have run televi...

Don’t miss out on free tickets to Startup Battlefield Africa 2018

Sorry folks. If you wanted to buy a ticket to Startup Battlefield Africa 2018  you’re out of luck. We’re sold out. However, you could be one of the lucky few to score a free ticket to our day-long startup-pitch extravaganza in Lagos, Nigeria on 11 December. We have a limited number of tickets available, so apply for your free ticket here — before they’re all gone. Don’t miss 15 of the continent’s top early-stage startup founders as they launch their companies on a global stage in front of a live, enthusiastic audience. Choosing the Startup Battlefield competitors from hundreds of applications was no easy feat — a testament to the depth and creativity of the region’s growing startup scene. A quick reminder of how Startup Battlefield works. The 15 teams compete in three preliminary rounds — five startups per round. They get only six minutes to pitch and present a live demo to a panel of expert technologists and VC investors. After each pitch, the judges have six minutes to grill t...

“Daredevil” will not be renewed for a fourth season, the latest Marvel series cancelled by Netflix

Despite strong reviews and a fan petition , Netflix said today that it is cancelling “Daredevil” after three seasons. This is the latest Marvel series, after “Luke Cage” and “Iron Fist,” that Netflix has cancelled recently, and is a sign that Marvel TV and Netflix’s multi-series agreement, signed in 2013, may be hitting some bumps. Centered around a blind lawyer-turned-superhero in New York City, played by Charlie Cox, “Daredevil” was the first series released as part of the Marvel -Netflix deal in 2015. This leaves “Jessica Jones” and “The Punisher” as the two remaining Marvel series on Netflix. Netflix said in a statement sent to Deadline, which first broke the news , that “we are tremendously proud of the show’s last and final season and although it’s painful for the fans, we feel it best to close this chapter on a high note. We are thankful to our partners at Marvel, showrunner Erik Oleson, the show’s writers, stellar crew, and incredible cast including Charlie Cox as Daredevil ...

Insurance startup Bright Health raises $200M at ~$950M valuation

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A flurry of digital-first insurers are betting they can surpass industry incumbents with a little help from technology and a lot of help from venture capitalists. The latest to land a massive check is Bright Health , a Minneapolis-headquartered provider of affordable individual, family and Medicare Advantage healthcare plans in Alabama,  Arizona ,  Colorado ,  New York City ,  Ohio  and  Tennessee. The company, founded by the former chief executive officer of UnitedHealthcare Bob Sheehy; Kyle Rolfing, the former CEO of UnitedHealth-acquired Definity Health ; and Tom Valdivia, another former Definity Health executive, has brought in a $200 million Series C. The funding values Bright Health at $950 million, according to PitchBook — more than double the $400 million valuation it garnered with its $160 million Series B in June 2017. Sheehy, Bright Health’s CEO, declined to comment on the valuation. New investors Declaration Partners and Meritech Capita...

Nine companies will compete to help NASA astronauts return to the moon

NASA is ready to send astronauts back to the moon for the first time in more than 40 years. It won’t be doing it alone, however. The agency is enlisting nine companies, large and small, to compete for a combined maximum contract value of $2.6 billion over the next 10 years. NASA released the list of names today, including aerospace stalwart Lockheed Martin, along with Astrobotic Technology, Deep Space Systems, Draper, Firefly Aerospace, Texas Intuitive Machines, LLC, Masten Space Systems, Inc., Moon Express and Orbit Beyond — all American companies. “Today’s announcement marks tangible progress in America’s return to the Moon’s surface to stay,” NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said in a press release. “The innovation of America’s aerospace companies, wedded with our big goals in science and human exploration, are going to help us achieve amazing things on the Moon and feed forward to Mars.” Baby steps. The teams will start with lunar payload missions, which could kick off as ear...

New AWS tool helps customers understand best cloud practices

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Since 2015, AWS has had a team of solution architects working with customers to make sure they are using AWS services in a way that meets best practices around a set of defined criteria. Today, the company announced a new Well Architected tool that helps customers do this themselves in an automated way without the help of a human consultant. As Amazon CTO Werner Vogels said in his keynote address at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, it’s hard to scale a human team inside the company to meet the needs of thousands of customers, especially when so many want to be sure they are complying with these best practices. He indicated that they even brought on a network of certified partners to help, but it still has not been enough to meet demand. In typical AWS fashion, they decided to create a service to help customers measure how well they are doing in terms of operations, security, reliability, cost optimization and performance efficiency. Customers can run this tool against the AWS services th...

The attributes that define the increasingly critical Data-as-a-Service industry

Alex Rosen Contributor Alex Rosen is managing director at Ridge Ventures . More posts by this contributor An inside look into a venture negotiation Building a Series A SaaS valuation estimator (2017 edition) It’s now common in tech to describe data as “the new oil or electricity” — a fuel that will power innovation and company growth for the foreseeable future. However, data is far from a novel industry. In fact, it’s a decades-old market, and many successful data companies, such as Bloomberg, LiveRamp ( now Axciom ), Oracle Data Cloud and Nielsen have been built in the past and serve as industry leaders… for the time being. Still, a few characteristics separate today’s world of data businesses from those in the past. The market for data  is  increasing in size at a rapid rate, mostly due to new methods of measurement (like mobile phones, IoT sensors and satellite imagery) that generate new forms of information, as well as new, prevalent use cases like AI, which ...

The White House will meet with tech execs to talk ‘transformational ideas’

Top tech executives from Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Oracle will head to the White House next Thursday to discuss “bold, transformational ideas” focused on U.S. innovation. The meeting, framed as a “roundtable discussion” by The Wall Street Journal , is expected to cover a broad range of emerging tech topics, from 5G to AI to quantum computing, which “can help ensure U.S. leadership in industries of the future,” according to a White House email. The meeting follows longstanding tensions between the Trump administration and many large tech firms over policy decisions, ranging from social issues like LGBTQ rights and immigration to trade tariffs. Notably absent is Amazon, which participated in early White House meetings, but has grown increasingly at odds   with the administration as Trump has specifically targeted Washington Post owner, Jeff Bezos. Twitter, Facebook and Google have all also been in the president’s cross-hairs over accusations of media bias and “shadow bannin...

AWS announces a slew of new Lambda features

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AWS launched Lambda in 2015 and with it helped popularize serverless computing . You simply write code (event triggers) and AWS deals with whatever compute, memory and storage you need to make that work. Today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the company announced several new features to make it more developer friendly, while acknowledging that even while serverless reduced complexity, it still requires more sophisticated tools as it matures. It’s called serverless because you don’t have to worry about the underlying servers. The cloud vendors take care of all that for you, serving whatever resources you need to run your event and no more. It means you no longer have to worry about coding for all your infrastructure and you only pay for the computing you need at any given moment to make the application work. The way AWS works is that it tends to release something, then builds more functionality on top of a base service as it sees increasing requirements as customers use it. As Amazon ...

Meet the five Startup Battlefield finalists at Disrupt Berlin 2018

Thirteen companies took the stage today at Disrupt Berlin, delivering six-minute pitches and demos, then answering free-for-all questions from expert judges. Now that the judges have given us their feedback, we’ve chosen five finalists. These finalists will all take the stage again tomorrow afternoon to present in front of a new set of judges, who will have time to ask more in-depth questions. Then one winner will be chosen to take home the Disrupt Cup — not to mention $50,000, equity-free. Here are the finalists. The competition will be live-streamed on TechCrunch starting at 2:05pm Berlin time on Friday. Imago AI Imago AI is applying AI to help feed the world’s growing population by increasing crop yields and reducing food waste. To accomplish this, it’s using computer vision and machine learning technology to fully automate the laborious task of measuring crop output and quality. Read more about Imago AI here . Kalepso Kalepso says it can do better than other database o...

Nintendo Switch forecasted to outsell the PS4 in 2019

The Switch has been a monster hit for Nintendo by nearly every measure. The convertible console is precisely the success the company needed after a few years in the wilderness following the Wii U flop and smartphone foot-dragging. Strategy Analytics predicts more good things for the platform, predicting that Nintendo will surpass Sony in console sales next year. The margins are admittedly pretty thin, with Nintendo selling 17.3 million Switches to Sony’s 17.1 million PS4/PS4 Pro (Microsoft’s in a distant third here at an even 10 million), but if it holds, it will be an impressive feat nonetheless.  That number would put Nintendo ahead of the pack for the first time in 10 years, back in the Wii/PS3/Xbox 360 days. The company’s gearing up to release one of the console’s biggest titles yet, with the new Super Smash Bros. due out next week, and rumors have been swirling around update hardware for 2019, which would be pretty standard fare for Nintendo. While those sales would propel...

South Korea indicts group for allegedly leaking Samsung flexible display tech to Chinese company

Prosecutors in South Korea have indicted the chief executive and eight other employees of Toptec Co for allegedly selling information about Samsung’s flexible OLED displays to a Chinese company. The charges detail that the company received more than $13.8 million for the information, Bloomberg reports. Toptec, a Samsung supplier that manufactures display-related equipment, has denied the charges in a statement. “Our company has never provided Samsung Display’s industrial technology or business secrets to a Chinese client. Our company will fully cooperate with legal proceedings to find the truth in court.” The company’s share price is down 20 percent at the time of writing. Samsung’s flexible display tech probably makes you think of their weird and yet-to-be-released foldable phone that they just showed off earlier this month. Samsung’s been deep in the flexible display business for a while though even if their bends have been less acute like the designs of much older handset...

Starbucks To Block Porn Access On Free Wi-Fi In All US Outlets From 2019

American coffee chain Starbucks has announced that it will block access to pornography on its free Wi-Fi in all its US outlets from January 2019. While watching explicit content in store was always... from NDTV News - Top-stories https://ift.tt/2PaVI6D via IFTTT

Hulu with Live TV adds Discovery Networks programming to its core and add-on packages

In September, Hulu and Discovery announced a partnership for live and on-demand programming that would see Discovery’s content coming to Hulu’s streaming service. Today, as promised, those channels are going live with the launch of Discovery Networks programming across all of Hulu with Live TV packages. That means Hulu with Live TV subscribers will now have access to five new channels in the core package, including Discovery, TLC, Motor Trend, Animal Planet and ID. This is the first time the content from these networks has been available live on Hulu’s service. Hulu’s on-demand service subscription plan, however, offers a number of library episodes from the networks, including shows from Food Network, TLC and HGTV. In addition to the expansion of the core package, Hulu’s new add-on bundles focused on Entertainment and Spanish programming are being expanded with Discovery Networks content, as well. Earlier this month, Hulu announced the launch of these two new add-ons, which a...

AWS launches a managed Kafka service

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Kafka is an open-source tool for handling incoming streams of data. Like virtually all powerful tools, it’s somewhat hard to set up and manage. Today, Amazon’s AWS is making this all a bit easier for its users with the launch of Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka . That’s a mouthful, but it’s essentially Kafka as a fully managed, highly available service on AWS. It’s now available on AWS as a public preview. As AWS CTO Werner Vogels noted in his AWS re:Invent keynote, Kafka users traditionally had to do a lot of heavy lifting to set up a cluster on AWS and to ensure that it could scale and handle failures. “It’s a nightmare having to restart all the cluster and the main nodes,” he said. “This is what I would call the traditional heavy lifting that AWS is really good at solving for you.” It’s interesting to see AWS launch this service, given that it already offers a very similar tool in Kinesis , a tool that also focuses on ingesting streaming data. There are plenty of applications o...

Analysts are still bullish on wearables

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New numbers from Gartner this morning show solid projections for the wearable market, in spite of a few relatively lackluster years following the category’s initial explosion. The drivers for the projected growth should be no surprise to anyone who has been following it of late — namely smartwatches and ear-worn devices (the unfortunately named hearables). Overall, Gartner his predicting a jump in shipments in excess of 25 percent in 2019, up to 225 million, from 179 million. That number is expected to continue to increase all the way up to 453 million by 2022. Smartwatches — led by Apple, Samsung and relatively recent entrant Fitbit — are a key factor, growing from 53 million units shipped to 74 million, and then up to 115 million by 2022. Impressive, if it plays out accordingly, though interestingly, average selling price is expected to drop over that time frame by ~$11 per device. That’s a product of lower-priced competition for the industry-leading Apple Watch. We’ve already s...

Cruise Automation taps GM president Dan Ammann as its new CEO

Cruise Automation, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM, is getting a new CEO. The autonomous vehicle company, which was acquired by GM in 2016 and became subsidiary GM Cruise, has tapped Dan Ammann as CEO. Ammann (shown on the right in the photo above) will step down as GM’s president, a role he’s held since January 2014. Kyle Vogt, a Cruise co-founder who was CEO and also unofficially handled the chief technology officer position, is staying with the company. Vogt will now become president and CTO. The changes take effect January 1, 2019. The executive-level shuffling makes sense for Cruise, which has transformed from a small startup with 40 employees to more than 1,000 today at its San Francisco headquarters. And it continues to expand as the company prepares to launch a commercial robotaxi business in 2019. Cruise recently announced plans to open an office in Seattle  and staff it with up to 200 engineers. And with the recent investments by SoftBank and Honda, ...

Lyft’s pink-wheeled shareable bikes will be available to rent soon

Lyft has finally given us a glimpse of its forthcoming line of shareable bikes, which the ridesharing company says will be available to rent within its mobile app in select cities “soon.” The news comes as the $15 billion company announces the final close of its acquisition of Motivate , the New York City-based mobility startup that owns a number of bike-rental services, like Citi Bike, Ford GoBike, Divvy, Blue Bikes and Capital Bikeshare. The transaction was reportedly worth some $250 million . Lyft brought in $600 million in fresh funding in June from backers Fidelity Research & Management, AllianceBernstein, Baillie Gifford, KKR, CapitalG, Rakuten and others. Now that its bike deal is complete, Lyft becomes the largest bike service provider in the U.S. That’s a big leap forward for a company that hopes to  have the largest dockless bike fleet in the world — outside of China, of course, where companies like Mobike have deployed millions of bikes . [gallery ids="1...

Nielsen: Americans are streaming 8 billion hours of content per month on connected TVs

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With the rise of streaming services and the trend toward cord cutting, the way U.S. consumers are watching video is also changing. Today, more than two-thirds of U.S. homes have devices that are able to stream video, according to Nielsen . In a new report out this morning, the measurement firm looked at the impact these services are having on the “connected living room” experience, noting also that Americans are now streaming nearly 8 billion hours per month on connected TV devices like Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV. What’s more is that consumers ages 13 to 34 will spend twice the time streaming when watching on connected TV devices, compared with watching on the computer or mobile devices. Specifically, Nielsen says that consumers 13 and older were streaming an average of more than an hour per day, versus 36 minutes on the computer and 24 minutes on mobile devices, like smartphones and tablets. The firm also noted there’s an opportunity for live TV networks to better reach a y...

So crypto didn’t kill venture capital after all

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Last year, $7 billion followed into ICOs. Combined with 2018, the cryptocurrency-based funding mechanism is estimated to account for $20 billion. ICOs threatened to disrupt venture capital more widely across the board, but the signs suggest that a relative status quo for investment is returning with VC capital a preferrable option once again. We’ve seen this with some recent investments — particularly those for Binance , Kucoin and Imtoken — but more widely a relative ‘norm’ is close to being reached, two crypto industry experts told an audience at the TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin event today in conversation with TechCrunch’s Mike Butcher. The crypto winter is here . Crypto companies are laying off staff to cut costs . The market is moving south in terms of financing, but it isn’t all bad. These moves are going to bring stability and legality, according to Vinay Gupta — one of the developers who helped birth Ethereum who is currently CEO of tokenization product Mattereum. The altco...

Rail fares to rise by 3.1% in January

Rail passengers will have to pay an average of 3.1% more for train tickets in 2019. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2zvB10g via IFTTT

Ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch charged with fraud in the US

Founder of UK software giant is charged with fraud seven years after the firm's sale to Hewlett-Packard. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2Q7wcnZ via IFTTT

Trump's trade war: Stakes are high at G20 summit

President Trump's threats of more tariffs against China dampen hopes of a breakthrough over trade at a meeting with Xi Jinping. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2AvVvW4 via IFTTT

WTO chief warns of worst crisis in global trade since 1947

Roberto Azevedo says the trade body is looking for a "plan B" to stop its dispute system being paralysed. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2TXR2EQ via IFTTT

Tesco and VW plan free electric car charging points

Customers can leave electric cars to charge while shopping, under a partnership with Volkswagen. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2Sj3zB6 via IFTTT

Deutsche Bank headquarters raided over money laundering

Prosecutors raid Frankfurt headquarters of Germany's biggest bank in a money laundering investigation. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2AwwOJk via IFTTT

Smart meter fitting slows as deadline looms

Fewer smart meters are being fitted despite the government insisting all homes will have one by 2020. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2E4ldFo via IFTTT

Brexit: Let's focus on the deal, May tells MPs

The PM says she still hopes the Commons will back her Brexit plan as she prepares to meet G20 leaders. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2zz4OoH via IFTTT

Bayer to cut 12,000 jobs and sell brands

Dr Scholl's and Coppertone are among the consumer brands to be sold by the German company. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2Aws1Yk via IFTTT

Starbucks to block porn on free wi-fi in US

The coffee chain says watching porn has always been banned, but it will now block access to content. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2rdnLsn via IFTTT

Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled settle SEC charges

The regulator says the celebrities didn't tell their followers they had been paid to promote some investments. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2PaQkAc via IFTTT

Danish firm claims first biofuel commercial sea voyage

Danish shipping company Norden says it has completed the first voyage by an ocean-going vessel powered purely by biofuel made from used cooking oil. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2E4Td4y via IFTTT

Carphone Warehouse faces Black Friday backlash

Problems with credit checks led some customers to be wrongly refused smartphone contracts. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2E4L5kO via IFTTT

JLR to cut 200 jobs as production moves to Slovakia

Jaguar Land Rover says there will also be a "temporary pause" at its Wolverhampton engine plant. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2FPdhK6 via IFTTT

Shares in shopping centre owner Intu sink after takeover collapses

Shares in shopping centre owner Intu sink more than a third as a takeover bid falls apart. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2BF4w1a via IFTTT

Rail regulator orders Network Rail to improve performance

Rail regulator orders Network Rail to improve after rail performance hits five-year low. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2E3KzDo via IFTTT

How do you make a vinyl record?

Watch behind the scenes as a vinyl record is processed from start to finish. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2QpItn5 via IFTTT

'We had to pay £300 each just to view a property'

Prospective tenants at one letting agency have been asked for money in order to view rental properties. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2E24rXJ via IFTTT

Brexit Barometer: How are small businesses feeling?

5 Live is getting the views of people across the UK. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2FNpm2d via IFTTT

'My mum's funeral costs were extortionate'

The UK's £2bn funeral sector now faces a major investigation by competition authorities as costs rise. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2KFvF6H via IFTTT

'People find anything about the vagina hard to talk about'

An innovation surge and the lifting of health taboos is giving rise to an industry worth billions. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2QujvTC via IFTTT

Nokia 7.1 With PureDisplay Screen Launched in India for Rs 19,999

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HMD Global has launched the Nokia 7.1 in India, and it will go on sale in the country starting December 7. The successor to the Nokia 7 from last year, it has a new and modern design, a superior display, and improved camera hardware thanks to dual Zeiss lenses. Nokia 7.1 Launch Date and Price in India This time around there’s no e-commerce exclusivity for the Nokia 7.1 smartphone and it will be available at mobile retail outlets in India and on Nokia’s online store. The Nokia 7.1 is priced at Rs 19,999. Nokia 7.1 Specifications The Nokia 7.1 follows in the footsteps of the recent Nokia 6.1 Plus and Nokia 5.1 Plus with a glossy glass-sandwich design. The device features a 6000 series aluminum frame, with 84% glass used across the board , which makes the Nokia 7.1 look gorgeous and tempting to pick up. First, let’s take a look at the specs for the Nokia 7.1 right here, before diving into the special features: Dimensions 149.7 x 71.18 x 9.14 mm Weight 160 grams Displ...

Many OnePlus 6T Users Affected by Weird Pixel Wave Bug in AMOLED Display

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A few months ago, some OnePlus 6 users started observing a weird screen flickering issue which was later fixed via an OxygenOS update in August. Now, a few OnePlus 6T users have started to notice a pixel wave on the device’s AMOLED display which appears randomly and vanishes quickly. Multiple affected users have mentioned on the official OnePlus forum that they see random waves of brightly colored pixels moving across the screen, but so far, the cause of the issue is yet to be determined. In the video below, you can see the OnePlus 6T’s pixel wave display issue near the end of the clip: Multiple users have pointed out that they see a line of red or green pixels going down from the top to bottom or bottom to top, while a few have reported that they’ve just seen a random cluster of brightly colored pixels on the OnePlus 6T’s display. As of now, it is not clear whether the waves are generated by a software bug or they have something to with the hardware, in which case, getti...

Nvidia Launches ‘GeForce Fortnite Bundle’ With Special Items, V-Bucks

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The Fortnite fever is still going strong and if you are looking to upgrade your gaming PC to enjoy this battle royale title with friends, then the holiday season sales may be the perfect time for it. Nvidia and Epic Games have now teamed up to bring you the ‘GeForce Fortnite Bundle’ in time for the game’s seventh season and it offers you a ton of goodies. As per an official press release , Nvidia has decided to sweeten the deal for the upcoming season for those buying the  GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, GTX 1070, or GTX 1060 GPUs , desktop PC, or laptop. The company is offering them the GeForce Fortnite Bundle with rare outfit items and in-game currency V-Bucks, so they can pick up new emotes and outfits in the future. As you can see in the photo attached above, Nvidia and Epic are offering you the following in this bundle: 2,000 V-Bucks The Fortnite Counterattack Set, consisting of: Reflex Outfit (Rare) Pivot Glider (Rare) Angular Axe Pickaxe (Uncommon) Response Unit Back Bl...

MediaTek Helio P90 Launch Teased; Expected to Debut on December 13

The first smartphone powered by MediaTek’s latest chipset, the Helio P70 , just made its debut earlier this week but the company is now teasing the unveiling of its next flagship chipset – the Helio P90. It is expected to be made official at a launch event in Shenzhen, China on December 13. Though it’s too soon for MediaTek to be launching another flagship-grade chipset for mid-range devices, the company has taken to Twitter to tease the launch of its upcoming Helio P90 chipset , which it says will be powerful, efficient and feature “groundbreaking AI” applications. Coming Soon! The MediaTek Helio P90. Powerful. Efficient. Groundbreaking AI. #MediaTekHelioP90 #thischipchangeseverything pic.twitter.com/HiALFuRWHZ — MediaTek (@MediaTek) November 29, 2018 The teaser falls in line with recent rumors and sightings of Helio P80’s benchmark scores (which were only a tad bit behind the upcoming Snapdragon 8150 chipset), however, it’s interesting to see the company jump straight to ...

Top Google Maps Local Guides Get Free 100GB Google One Cloud Storage

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As internet connections get faster and affordable, cloud storages are rapidly replacing physical storage drives. Apart from its benefits of mobility and access from many different devices – even simultaneously, online storage is almost becoming a necessity with major services like WhatsApp using it to back up yout data . If you’re a Google user, you already get 15GB of free storage via Google Drive . But there’s a high chance that you might be already running out of available space, especially if you’re tied apps like Google Photos , Docs, Keep Notes etc. To solve this, Google recently began offering paid Drive storage, just like iCloud , to consumers under the banner of Google One. Back in September, Google announced that Google One would be coming to India soon and a month later, those using paid Google Drive plans in India received an invitation to join the Google One. Over time, the service has been made publically accessible and in order to subscibe, you can start by visiting ...