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More Than 1 Bn Fingerprint Sensor-Enabled Phones Expected to Ship in 2018
The fingerprint feature is likely to become the standard choice for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to provide authentication access, driven by a rapid rise in services like digital payments and mobile banking.
iPhones Don't Have FM Radio: Apple to FCC Chairman
"Apple is the one major phone manufacturer that has resisted (activating the chips). But I hope the company will reconsider its position, given the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria," FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement on Th...
NASA Teams up With Russian Agency to Send Humans in Deep Space
The two space agencies signed a joint statement on Wednesday at the 68th International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia, to give shape to the "deep-space gateway" concept, a mission architecture designed to send astronauts into cislunar space...
India Set to Leapfrog Learning Stages Towards Digital Transformation: Piyush Goyal
Addressing the gathering on the second day of the 'India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2017' here, Goyal said: "We have to expand the level of technology for growth. The telecom industry and Railways are helping India expanding it to benefit the masses".
Bill Gates Uses Android Smartphone With 'Lots of Microsoft Software'
Microsoft Founder Bill Gates has recently revealed about the kind of smartphone he uses and about his relationship with Apple Founder Steve Jobs. Read to know what the tech Billionaire said in a recent interview.
Samsung Scion Jay Y. Lee Set to Begin Appeal
Since Lee filed for appeal late last month, the appellate court is likely to try to rule by next January, as under Korean law, he can only be kept in detention a maximum of four months while the court considers his appeal.
Powerful Supercomputers May be Developed Using 'Magic Dust'
Modern supercomputers can only deal with a small subset of such problems when the dimension of the function to be minimised is small or when the underlying structure of the problem allows it to find the optimal solution quickly even for a function of larg...
IIT Kharagpur Alumni Develop Social Network For Foodies
Three alumni from IIT Kharagpur -- Mainak Sarkar from the Electrical Engineering Department, and Pritam Khan and Sumit Agarwal, from the Computer Science and Engineering Department -- developed this social network-cum-utility platform for foodies anywhere...
India's Aadhaar Rivals Growth of Windows, Android, Facebook: Satya Nadella
Aadhaar now has scaled to over one billion people, rivalling the growth of other platform innovations such as Windows, Android or Facebook, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote in his book that hit the bookstores today.
ONGC to Fund Solar Electric Stove Project: Dharmendra Pradhan
According to Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, funds from the "ONGC StartUp Program" will be used to make the idea of solar-powered electric stove a reality.
Samsung Announces Anniversary Offers For Online Store
Samsung is celebrating its anniversary by offering discounts and deals on its products through its official online e-commerce store 'Samsung Shop'.
Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Sell 35-75 Million Facebook Shares
"Over the past year and a half, Facebook's business has performed well and the value of our stock has grown to the point that I can fully fund our philanthropy and retain voting control of Facebook for 20 years or more," Zuckerberg wrote in a post.
Microsoft HoloLens: Renault Sport CIO Shares How Formula One Can Use it
Renault Sport CIO Pierre d'Imbleval shared the scope of Mixed Reality with Microsoft HoloLens in Formula One racing during the recently held Singapore Grand Prix.
5G Acceptance Increasing Quickly Across Top Tech Firms
According to the network solutions provider Ixia, 5G adoption is happening much quicker than predictions and 67 per cent organisations have evaluated or will evaluate 5G technologies in the next 12 months.
Saudi is Lifting Skype, WhatsApp Ban, But Will Censor Calls
Saudi Arabia, which introduced blocks to internet communications from 2013, along with its Gulf Arab neighbours have been wary that such services could be used by activists and militants.
Twitter to Meet Congressional Panel Probing 2016 U.S. Election
Twitter's meeting with the committee comes amid mounting pressure on regulators and Silicon Valley companies to open up the opaque world of online political ads and to prevent governments from using them to sway elections or attempt other meddling.