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HIGHLIGHTS Samsung Galaxy Note 9 has now been listed on Flipkart Flipkart has created a dedicated section This hints at the soon launch of the Galaxy Note 9 in India While its official global launch is  scheduled for August 9 ,  Samsung Galaxy Note 9  has now been  listed on  Flipkart . The online marketplace has included all the three teaser videos that  have  so far been released  by Samsung to tease some of the key features of the upcoming  Galaxy Note model. Also, the listing of the Galaxy Note 9 hints at its arrival in India  sometime after the global launch. We can safely presume that the India launch schedule of  the handset could be in line with its debut in major worldwide markets. The South Korean  company is additionally likely to retain its partnership with Flipkart for selling the Galaxy  Note 9 online. Flipkart has created a dedicated section, namely Galaxy Unpacked, that ...

HIGHLIGHTS 6.1-inch LCD iPhone to support a 'Full Active LCD' panel The new panel is said to help manage thin bezels Apple is also reportedly set to ditch headphone jack from new iPad Pro While a recent leak  showed thicker bezels  on the 6.1-inch LCDiPhone over the OLED models  in the  2018 iPhone  lineup, a new report claims that  Apple  has preferred a 'Full Active LCD'  panel for the cheaper model to offer plenty of display area. The Cupertino company is  reported to have tied up with  Japan Display  for manufacturing the required LCD panel. The  Japanese manufacturer is also reportedly designing a third-generation 'Japan Pixel Eyes'  touch sensor. Due to the advancements in terms of designing - despite using cheaper  solutions such as an LCD over an OLED panel, the company is claimed to have some  production constraints and will not be able to bring the 6.1-inch model alongside t...

HIGHLIGHTS New keycaps with silicone cover greatly reduce dust invasion 2017 MacBook Pro gets filled with dust, in comparison Apple is mum about addressing this issue Earlier this month,  Apple  updated its  MacBook Pro  lineup, with new  13-inch and 15-inch Touch Bar models , and announced they had "quieter" keyboards, but didn't reveal whether it had  fixed the  dust issue that it had acknowledged  earlier this year. DIY repair authority iFixit did a  teardown soon after, and it revealed how the Cupertino giant has  addressed dust issues  affecting its Butterfly switch keyboard design. iFixit said Apple's claim of a "quieter"  keyboard was a cover-up. To lend more weight to its claim, iFixit has now done a  comparison between the old and new MacBook Pros, showing us how much of an  improvement the new model brings, with respect to dust-resistance. The teardown initially revealed that ...

Recent advances in  Artificial Intelligence (AI)  have been "pretty stunning" but what the  humanity is going to see soon will be even more profound,  Microsoft  CEO  Satya Nadella  has  stressed. Addressing thousands of partners at the 'Microsoft Inspire' event here on Wednesday,  Nadella said that the potential is for us to be able to turn every industry into an AI-first  industry, be it healthcare or agriculture. "We want to be able to make sure that they can take their data, in a secure, privacy- preserving way, and can work that into AI capabilities," he told the gathering. "As we look forward, the opportunity for us to serve our customers in this new era of the  Intelligent Cloud and the Intelligent Edge is far greater," Nadella said. According to him, Microsoft is going to infuse everything with AI. "It's going to have perception capability,language capability and autonomy that's going to be...

Apple  earlier this month  unveiled  a refresh to its  MacBook Pro  range of professional  notebooks.The refreshed lineup comes with the latest 8th generation Intel Core processors,  including Core i5, Core i7, and Core i9 with up to 6 cores. The top-end offering in the range,  with Core i9-8950HK, comes with a base clock speed of 2.9GHz, going up to 4.8GHz  with  Intel's  Turbo Boost technology. However, a video reviewer has alleged that the laptop is  unable to reach the chip's true potential mostly because of how the MacBook Pro is  designed, something other publications have corroborated. In a video uploaded to his channel on Tuesday, YouTuber Dave Lee  showed  results from  video editing software  Adobe Premiere Pro  that reveal that the Core i9 model of the MacBook  Pro 2018 took more time to render content compared to even the Corei7 variant of the 2017  Mac...

HIGHLIGHTS HP EliteBook x360 1030 G3 is priced starting Rs. 1,49,900 Elite x2 1013 G3 is available for a starting price of Rs. 1,79,900 EliteOne 1000 AiO G2 is expected to be priced at Rs. 1,73,645 Global PC and printing major  HP  on Tuesday unveiled a new lineup of its Elite series of  notebooks and AIO desktops in India that includes the world's smallest busines convertible  and detachable for a secure modern workplace. The HP Elite 1000 devices include a full  suite of solutions, including the HP Endpoint Security Controller, HP Sure Start Gen4 and  HP Sure Run, the company said. The HP EliteBook x360 1030 G3 is priced starting Rs. 1,49,900, while the HP Elite x2 1013  G3 is available for a starting price of Rs. 1,79,900. The HP EliteBook 1050 G1 is expected  to be available in July at a starting price of Rs. 1,59,900, while the HP EliteOne 1000 AiO  G2 is expected to make its way to India between August t...