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Despite most of these companies trying to get as accurate as possible, the technology is yet to be full proof and sometimes the results are funny. While Google holds translatathons and has a natural language understanding team that focusses on teaching machines to understand language, Microsoft is working on a cloud-based solutions to cater to customers and enterprises to help wherever translation is required.

Google Translate or Microsoft Translator? Neither actually

Despite most of these companies trying to get as accurate as possible, the technology is yet to be full proof and sometimes the results are funny. While Google holds translatathons and has a natural language understanding team that focusses on teaching machines to understand language, Microsoft is working on a cloud-based solutions to cater to customers and enterprises to help wherever translation is required.
Legion fancies itself as cyber vigilantes working to expose the corrupt. But the group is yet to bolster their anti-corruption crusader credentials, given that it has so far offered very little valuable information.

Legion: Meet the hackers who broke into Rahul, Barkha Dutt’s Twitter accounts

A hackers group called Legion has repeatedly hacked the Twitter accounts of some well-known Indians including Rahul Gandhi, Barkha Dutt, Vijay Mallya.
According to reports that cites Apple’s Taiwanese supply chain, the next iPhone dubbed iPhone 7S might come in a flashy red colour. Japanese blog Mac Otakara also claimed that the phones might get a hardware refresh.

Apple to come out with iPhone 7S in red colour before iPhone 8

According to reports that cites Apple’s Taiwanese supply chain, the next iPhone dubbed iPhone 7S might come in a flashy red colour. Japanese blog Mac Otakara also claimed that the phones might get a hardware refresh.
The abandonment rate of smartwatches is 29%, and 30% for fitness trackers, because people do not find them useful, they get bored of them or they break, a new report from research and advisory firm Gartner showed.

Wearable devices need to be more useful: Gartner

The abandonment rate of smartwatches is 29%, and 30% for fitness trackers, because people do not find them useful, they get bored of them or they break, a new report from research and advisory firm Gartner showed.
Microsoft in May had sold Nokia’s branding rights to HMD Global and contract manufacturer Foxconn for $350 million. Microsoft had bought Nokia’s phone business in 2013 for nearly $7.2 billion and was forced to sell the business after the last quarter alone saw a 46% drop in phone revenue, slightly better than the 49% drop in the quarter before that.

HMD Global to bring Nokia branded phones, tablets for next 10 years

Microsoft in May had sold Nokia’s branding rights to HMD Global and contract manufacturer Foxconn for $350 million. Microsoft had bought Nokia’s phone business in 2013 for nearly $7.2 billion and was forced to sell the business after the last quarter alone saw a 46% drop in phone revenue, slightly better than the 49% drop in the quarter before that.
The new malicious video link, reported by EverythingApplePro, causes an iPhone, iPad or an iPod to completely hang when in Safari browser. The only way to workaround currently seems to be a hard reboot which the user has to initiate by long pressing a set of buttons on the device.

Malicious video link for Apple devices doing rounds, requires hard reboot

The new malicious video link, reported by EverythingApplePro, causes an iPhone, iPad or an iPod to completely hang when in Safari browser. The only way to workaround currently seems to be a hard reboot which the user has to initiate by long pressing a set of buttons on the device.
According to a new report from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone profits reached $9 billion in total during the third quarter of 2016 (ended September). While Apple leads the chart with an operating profit of $8.5 billion, Huawei comes in second with just $0.2 billion followed by Vivo and Oppo with the same operating profit numbers.

Apple leads in smartphone profits with 91% share, Samsung not in top five

According to a new report from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone profits reached $9 billion in total during the third quarter of 2016 (ended September). While Apple leads the chart with an operating profit of $8.5 billion, Huawei comes in second with just $0.2 billion followed by Vivo and Oppo with the same operating profit numbers.
While the iPhone 7 256GB is being sold for Rs 80,000 with a cashback of Rs 10,000 on purchase, the company is also offering Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge at 15% discount. Other flagships from Sony, and HTC are also listed at a discounted rate with individual cashback offers.

Paytm offers ₹10,000 cashback on iPhone 7, 6S, Samsung S7, Gionee S6s

While the iPhone 7 256GB is being sold for ₹80,000 with a cashback of ₹10,000 on purchase, the company is also offering Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge at 15% discount. Other flagships from Sony, and HTC are also listed at a discounted rate with individual cashback offers.
Domestic handset-maker Micromax on Monday said that the company hopes to start complete knock down (CKD) components manufacturing in the next 60 days.

Micromax to start CKD manufacturing in 60 days

Domestic handset-maker Micromax on Monday said that the company hopes to start complete knock down (CKD) components manufacturing in the next 60 days.
Workers walk out of the entrance to a Foxconn factory in Chengdu, Sichuan province.

India’s loss, America’s gain? Apple may shift iPhone factory to US

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