TECHNOLOGY

Samsung launches IoT-enabled air purifiers in India
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"Our latest range of air purifiers is designed to remove even the most ultrafine dust particles effectively allowing consumers to breathe pure air. We are optimistic that our new range of air purifiers will help improve the lifestyle of consumers," Mohandeep Singh, Senior Vice President of Consumer Electronics Business at Samsung India, said in a statement.
New Nokia 2780 Flip launched with FM radio support
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According to GSMArena, the Nokia company launched the feature phone in the US in two colours, Red and Blue, which are priced at $90 and will go on sale starting November 15. The phone runs on KaiOS 3.1 which brings features such as FM Radio, MP3 support, and Wi-Fi support.
Google plans to develop AI model supporting 1,000 most spoken languages
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"The company believes that creating a model of this size will make it easier to bring various AI functionalities to languages that are poorly represented in online spaces and AI training datasets (also known as "low-resource languages)," Zoubin Ghahramani, vice president of research at Google AI was quoted as saying.
Elon Musk gains over 24 mn followers in just 6 months after Twitter deal saga
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Elon Musk had around 89 million followers in April after the first Twitter deal announcement. However, as of Thursday, his follower count had reached 113.6 million, and growing at a phenomenal rate as he continues to tweet 24/7 since buying Twitter last week.
Twitter can allow users to see global content with ease: Elon Musk to Ali Zafar
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Ali Zafar, who has 3.2 million followers, posted that Twitter should change the algorithms so that "a person sitting in the US should be able to come across content being made in Japan more easily and vice versa". "Tweets and content should have a much higher reach and monetisation. Companies can pay for reach, individuals can't," Zafar tweeted.
You can now control your iPhone with your brain: Report
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Rodney Gorham, a retired software salesman in Melbourne,has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a nervous system disease that severely impacts physical functioning. Synchron has six patients using the Synchron Switch device and Gorham is the first ever to use it with an Apple product, according to a report.
Mark Zuckerberg announces Communities, 32-person video calling on WhatsApp
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"Today we're launching Communities on WhatsApp. It makes groups better by enabling sub-groups, multiple threads, announcement channels, and more. We're also rolling out polls and 32 person video calling too. All secured by end to end encryption so your messages stay private," said the Meta CEO.
Our 5G wireless fibre offers great opportunities for India: Qualcomm CEO
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Bharti Airtel and Qualcomm have already collaborated for accelerating 5G in the country. Airtel and Qualcomm are enabling a wide array of use cases, including 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) that is designed to deliver broadband connectivity at Gigabit speeds to homes and businesses.
Jio significantly better than Airtel, shows Ookla 5G test report
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In the national capital, Airtel reached nearly 200 Mbps median download speed at 197.98 Mbps while Jio almost broke 600 Mbps (598.58 Mbps) since June 2022. In Kolkata, the operators' median download speeds varied the most since June 2022: Airtel's median download speed was 33.83 Mbps while Jio had a much faster median download speed at 482.02 Mbps.
Elon Musk may enable Twitter Edit button for everyone
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As early as this week, the platform might implement one of the first significant product changes under Musk's rule, by making the edit function available to all the users, reports The Verge. According to the report, tweet editing has been locked behind the company's soon-to-change $4.99 Twitter Blue subscription which is only available to users in a few countries.
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