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1)HTC U11 Oreo Update HTC has announced Android Oreo update for its device HTC U11 which started to roll out on 27 November. With this, HTC joins the growing list of smartphone makers rolling out Google's latest OS to their devices. 2)Honor 7X Honor  is set to launch the  Honor 7X  next week in London, but the company has already shared the availability details – at least for India.  The smartphone will be available exclusively on Amazon.in in India and go on sale starting 12 noon on December 7. Registrations for Honor 7X are already open and the company is running several promotions that can help you win over 1000 prizes including paid trips, smartphones, power banks, and headphones. 3)Samsung Gear Fit Samsung Gear Fit 2 Pro and Gear Sport have launched in India, the former is for Rs 13,590 while the latter is for Rs 22,990. Gear Sport will available on Amazon while Gear Fit 2 Pro will be sold by Flipkart and it will also be made available by Samsung. Pre-

I n this post, you'll know about the history, properties and uses of Gorilla Glass, one of the craziest technology which goes into our mobile devices. Pick up your smartphone. Touch its screen. It’s smooth, crystal-clear, and amazingly resilient. Chances are your smartphone is protected by a sheet of Corning Gorilla Glass. But what exactly is this Gorilla Glass? How is it fabricated and what makes it so strong? HISTORY The glass which protects your smartphone from shattering into pieces when fallen from your hand while taking a selfie, from where it originates? Do you know? Corning Glass was born of a science experiment gone wrong. In 1952, a scientist at Corning placed a piece of photosensitive glass in a furnace for testing. At some point, the furnace skyrocketed from 600 degrees Celsius to 900 degrees. Expecting a ruined sample, the scientist was surprised to find an opaque sheet of material rather than a melted blob of molten mess. As the scientist removed the

When it comes to listening to some music while you're working, or drinking your coffee in the morning, active noise cancelling headphones are just great.  They’ve seen a huge rise in popularity which is probably due to how good the technology has become. Tiny microphones hear what’s happening around you and then the headphones produce the opposite sound, which effectively cancels the outside sound wave. It’s simple (or not-so-simple) physics. Let's have a look at some of them... 1)BOSE QC20 Positives Great ANC Decent Sound Negatives Expensive OS Specific Bose is still king when it comes to ANC, and its hard to beat QC20 headphones even if they are expensive. Buy QC20 2)B&O Beoplay H3 ANC Positives Design Battery Life Negatives Expensive Though they are expensive, the H3 ANC headphones have a great design which fits in with the rest of B&O line up. Buy B&O H3 3)BOSE Quiet Control 30 Positives Controllable ANC Comfort

Meccano-Erector - Micronoid Code Zapp Programmable Robot Building Kit: Kids can build their own robot (named Zapp) with this kit. Once it's built, they can hook it up to a computer and away you go — your child can program their bot to be a personal DJ, change Zapp into robot fighting mode, or see where Zapp will be in the future with magic 8-ball mode. The robot, which should take about an hour to build, is recommended for ages 8 and up. For Cyber Monday, Amazon is selling the Zapp-building kit for $25.20, or 37 percent off the normal list price (and the lowest price Amazon has sold the kit for). Buy Robot Building Kit on Amazon.com Thames & Kosmos Geckobot Wall Climbing Robot:   This may be one of the cutest climbing robots. Recommended for ages 8 and up, the Geckobot model can climb up smooth, vertical surfaces like windows and mirrors. The kit comes with a manual and instruction video to help kids put the bot together. Along the way, they will learn about physi

Need a gift for a special someone who seems to have everything? Or perhaps a friend or partner who is interested in their ancestors or just in history?  Buy the AncestryDNA Kit With AncestryDNA, you or a friend can discover their true ethnicity and your ancestors (and where they came from). "AncestryDNA is the only DNA test with more than 190 migration stories, so you can find out if your family is Pennsylvania Dutch or Louisiana Acadian—and even when they likely reached American shores," according to the company's website. Here's how it works: AncestryDNA collected DNA information from groups of people across the globe, "from small tribes in Africa to farmers in the Irish countryside," says AncestryDNA. Once you order the kit, you'll receive a saliva collection tube, instructions and a pre-paid return envelope that you can drop in the mail with your saliva sample inside. The results are compared with everyone in the company's database to

A ugmented Reality is the flavour of the day. Even Apple has announced its ARKit that allows developers to create apps. But AR in the mobile space is not new. If you have a smartphone you can already download educational content, multimedia entertainment and even 3D scanners. QUIVER VISION | Android, iOS Quiver Vision is a website-app combination that takes printed colouring page and turns them into interactive presentations. It creates a 3D render of the page. Say, if your child coloured a volcano. The app will load a virtual volcano that smokes, rumbles and finally erupts when you tap on the screen. At present, there are over 18 free colouring packs comprising over 50 pages on the QV website, along with many more paid options. ANATOMY 4D | Android This educational app helps students understand human body with the help of AR. It includes a "Target Library" with two images- one of the entire body and the other of the heart. With Anatomy 4D, you can observe or

G oogle India has collaborated with Pluralsight and Udacity to help train 1.3 lakh developers and students across India and providing them with some knowledge regarding Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Mobile and Web Development, AR/VR and Cloud Computing. And, has also announced a 130K scholarship for the developers and students. As statement released by Google India on Thursday reads, "Today, we are taking a big step forward by partnering with Pluralsight and Udacity for a new scholarship program that will help 130K developers and students across India to gain the skills they need to be successful in the changing technology landscape." What's In It for Students & Developers Google India is facilitating 100 Thousand (1 Lakh) Scholarships on Pluralsight and 30 Thousand Scholarships on Udacity for the meritorious candidates helping them gain advanced insight into fields like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Mobile and Web development, AR/VR a

1)Google Play Discount Google has announced some amazing discount on apps, games, movies, music, TV shows and books ahead of Black Friday this week. The deals during the Google Play Cyber Week Sale will run through November 27 in select markets and will give as high as 80 percent discounts on games. Some of the deals will go live following Black Friday, and most of them are applicable in  India  alongside the US and other markets.  Among the offerings, Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies is available in the US for $2.99 (Rs. 180 in India), dropped from the original price of $6.99 (Rs. 470), whereas the original Monument Valley is listed for $1.29 (Rs. 85).  Link for discounted apps 2)UC Browser Back After being  removed  from  Google Play  for a week, Alibaba-owned  UCWeb  said on Wednesday that a new version of  UC Browser  is  now available on Google Play . Update for UC Browser 3)Google Pixel XL Wallpapers Zedge Ringtones & Wallpapers  is one of

Here is some of the interesting news which came out last week and it may blow away your mind. 1)Tesla Roadster The new Tesla Roadster promises a 0-60 acceleration time of just 1.9-seconds, which could come in really handy for stealing parking spots outside Best Buy on Black Friday. Pre-Order here now... 2)Google's Wireless Headphone The $159 headphones have potential, but the touch interface can get so frustrating that you put them on a plant. Google’s first pair of wireless headphones showed a lot of promise, but the over-sensitive touch controls might drive you crazy. 3)Bose Sleep Buds These $300 Bose Sleep Buds are built to help you sleep instead of rock out. 4)OnePlus 5T OnePlus announced its new phone called the 5T. It’s an Android phone with a six-inch OLED screen, a double camera system, and even a headphone jack. It has a starting price of  just Rs. 33,000 , which sounds like a steal when lots of other high-end phones are tipt