Google Fit App to Use Smartphone Cameras to Measure Heart Rate and Breathing

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Google on Thursday unveiled an upgraded fitness app which uses smartphone camera capabilities to measure respiration and heart rate. Google Fit already uses smartphone sensors to figure out how far people walk or how many calories they have burned, but new features rolling out to Google Pixel phones will add pulse and breathing to health … Read more

Apple Tops Fortune’s List of World’s Most Admired Companies List

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Apple has topped Fortune’s list of World’s Most Admired Companies. In the list of top 332 companies, compiled by the US-based multinational business magazine, Apple has topped the tech industry (Computers and Communication) sector rankings as well. Apple has beaten Amazon, Microsoft, Google parent firm Alphabet, as well as Netflix. Fortune says that this is … Read more

Apple Tops Fortune’s List of World’s Most Admired Companies List

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Apple has topped Fortune’s list of World’s Most Admired Companies. In the list of top 332 companies, compiled by the US-based multinational business magazine, Apple has topped the tech industry (Computers and Communication) sector rankings as well. Apple has beaten Amazon, Microsoft, Google parent firm Alphabet, as well as Netflix. Fortune says that this is … Read more

Global Chip Sales Rose 6.5 Percent in 2020 After Year-End Rush: Report

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Global semiconductor sales rose 6.5 percent overall in 2020, as a recovery during the last three months of the year helped offset a sharp dropoff in March and April, when pandemic stay-home orders rolled out around the world. Global sales were $439 billion (roughly Rs. 32,08 lakh crores) in 2020, according to data from the … Read more

Inevitable that Google, others will pay for news: Australia treasurer Josh Frydenberg

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Sydney: Australia treasurer Josh Frydenberg said it’s “inevitable” that Google and other tech behemoths will have to eventually pay for using media content, responding to the internet giant’s threat to disable its search engine in the country if forced to pay publishers for news. Google on Friday said the proposed law intended to compensate local … Read more

Google Pixel 4a 5G Touchscreen Issue Persists Even After January Update

Google Pixel 4a 5G users on Android 11 have been reporting touchscreen issues following the December update, but the latest update has reportedly failed to resolve the issue. While Google had said last month that a fix for the issue will be included in the upcoming software update, users are claiming that the January update … Read more

Is Silicon Valley over? Not so fast

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Is Texas the new Silicon Valley? This month Oracle said it was moving its headquarters to Austin after more than 40 years in California. Hewlett Packard Enterprise, descended from the Valley’s original garage start-up, is off to Houston. Elon Musk has moved to Texas, too, and has hinted that Tesla, the car company he co-founded … Read more

Indian economy | RBI: Indian economy reviving; coming out of pandemic slowdown at unforeseen pace, says RBI

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NEW DELHI: As economic activities gather momentum and strive to get back to pre-Covid levels, the Reserve Bank of India has said that the Indian economy is reflating at a pace higher than most predictions. The monthly bulletin of the central bank for December said the more evidence has emerged since the last bulletin which … Read more

Cyberpunk 2077 Gets Hotfix 1.05 for Xbox and PlayStation Consoles

Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red has released Hotfix 1.05 for Xbox and PlayStation consoles with a long list of fixes and optimisations. The game has consistently been in the news for all the wrong reasons ever since its launch earlier this month. It is riddled with bugs on both PC and consoles, especially last … Read more

Track Santa Claus with Google, NORAD this Christmas: Here’s how a child’s phonecall gave rise to the tradition

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Google’s Santa Tracker website can be considered as a virtual wonderland filled with some colourful design. Santa Claus can be tracked from home this Christmas and people can keep the Christmas spirits high with this. The activity introduced by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and Google have been going on a few years … Read more