A list of Amazon's known businesses, subsidiaries, and brands, including some that have been discontinued or absorbed into other services — Everything about Amazon in 2019 is inconceivably big: Amazon will make up an estimated 38% of the US e-commerce market this year …
7-Eleven shut down its 7Pay service two days after launch after hackers exploited the app's password reset function for ~900 accounts and made ~$500K in charges — Hackers exploit 7-Eleven's poorly designed password reset function to make unwanted charges on 900 customers' accounts.
Source: CFIUS has cleared SoftBank's $2.25B investment in GM's Cruise after fresh assurances that Cruise's technology would be completely off limits to SoftBank — (Reuters) - Cruise, a U.S. self-driving vehicle company majority-owned by General Motors Co, told Reuters on Friday …
Cloud gaming isn’t a new concept but has garnered a lot of attention lately. This is the granddaddy of the internet - Google tossed its hat in the gaming ring with their cloud gaming service Stadia and Microsoft has announced its cloud gaming initiative - Project xCloud. Both services will see some form of release in 2019 and 2020. Sony is the only player with an existing cloud gaming service, PlayStation Now, but the service isn't available everywhere. Nintendo, on the other hand, has stayed mum about its take on cloud gaming.
However, when asked about cloud gaming, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said, “While we don’t expect all games to become cloud games any time soon, the technologies are definitely advancing. We see a future where cloud and streaming technologies will develop more and more as a means of delivering games to consumers. We must keep up with such changes in the environment. That being said, if these changes increase the worldwide gaming population, that will just give us more opportunities with our integrated hardware and software development approach to reach people worldwide with the unique entertainment that Nintendo can provide.”
Nintendo is one of the most innovative companies when it comes to gaming. The Nintendo Wii is one of the most successful consoles causing Sony and Microsoft to toss their respective hats in the motion gaming ring. Nintendo is also the only company that has a console that is portable as well as works with your TV - the Nintendo Switch. The unique proposition of the Switch, which lets you dock it and use it with your TV at home and take it out when you need to play on the go makes it the ideal choice for gamers on the go. The console also has a large library of games including exclusives like Mario and Zelda and AAA heavyweights like Doom and Wolfenstein with the Witcher 3 making its debut on the console later this year.
Whether Nintendo joins the cloud gaming bandwagon is yet to be seen. However, looking at Nintendo's innovative past, we think the company will add its own unique spin to the tech. If only the gaming company had an official presence in India.
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The Nokia 6.1 which launched back in 2018 has seen a price drop. The smartphone is available in two variants - 3GB RAM + 32GB storage and 4GB RAM + 64GB storage. As of writing this story, the new price is yet to reflect on e-commerce websites like Flipkart and Amazon. The new price of the smartphone is Rs 6,999 for the 3+32GB variant and Rs 9,999 for the 4+64GB variant. Even though the smartphone launched at a much higher price point, it was available on e-commerce websites for Rs 8,999 and Rs 9,999 for the 32 and 64GB variants respectively.
Speaking of the specifications of the smartphone, the Nokia 6.1 runs Android Pie. It sports a 5.5-inch full-HD IPS display with a 16:9 aspect ratio. Under the hood, the device has the Snapdragon 630 SoC. On the camera front, the smartphone has a single 16MP camera with an f/2.0 aperture. The camera is accompanied by an LED flash. The front has an 8MP sensor for selfies. AS mentioned above, the smartphone is available in two storage and RAM options and the storage is expandable via a microSD card. For security, the phone sports a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor. A 3000mAh battery powers the entire package.
Those interested in purchasing the device can check out our review of the smartphone here.
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Comscore report: in March, 69.9M US homes had DVRs and 64.1M had smart TVs; monthly viewing hours on smart TVs hit 5.5B, vs. 4.6B for DVRs — Among the many positive indicators for OTT in Comscore's newly released 2019 “The State of OTT” report is the platform's imminent surpassing of DVR tech.
Through a tweet sent out by India Today senior journalist Chaiti Narula on Wednesday, the news of a OnePlus One smartphone that spontaneously caught fire earlier that day has been doing the rounds on the internet. Rahul Himalian, the owner of the OnePlus device in question, claimed in his message to OnePlus Care that the device was in “switched off” and “unplugged mode”. OnePlus has since responded to the unfortunate OnePlus user in a statement to Digit.
“We take such incidents seriously. Our team has already reached out to the user and is investigating this further,” says OnePlus India in its official statement. In his original message to OnePlus Care, Himalian wrote that he “was woken up suddenly by suffocating and nauseating fumes” that came from his “fuming and flaming” OnePlus One smartphone in the early hours of Wednesday. He added that his air conditioner was turned on at the time and that the room temperature was 19 degrees Celsius.
Himalian added in his message to OnePlus Care that his OnePlus One was over five years old when the incident happened. When he saw fumes fill the room up, he splashed water on the burning device to put the fire out. Himalian's message, which was sent to OnePlus Care, expresses the user's disappointment and chagrin over the incident. “I urge the Customer Support team to reach out to me to redress the issue which has not only caused mental agony to me but could have been fatal also,” reads the last line of his message.
OnePlus One is the very first model designed and manufactured by the popular Chinese smartphone manufacturer, whose current models include the recently launched OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7 Pro. The OnePlus One, which has no past history of a battery defect in particular, features a non-removable 3100mAh lithium-ion polymer battery. The OnePlus One was originally unveiled in 2014. It's powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 chipset with 3GB of RAM. Internal storage ranges from 16GB to 64GB.
Someone I know just got saved from fatality. @OnePlus_IN @oneplus how do you explain your phone exploding out of the blue???! Kids use your phone as it’s attractively priced. Where is the responsibility to fix this? pic.twitter.com/CRgmF6RTBB
— Chaiti Narula (@Chaiti) July 3, 2019
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Sarah McBride / Bloomberg : PitchBook: US startups raised $209B in 2024, up ~33% from 2023; AI startups raised $97B, the largest portion ...
