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Samsung Galaxy J4+ review: Feature heavy, but camera, display found lacking

Priced at Rs 9,990, the Galaxy J4+ has a big 6-inch screen, a bright camera of f/1.9 aperture and a 3,300 mAh battery. Can it compete with Chinese counterparts?

As iPhone demand wanes, Apple has plan B, but suppliers don't

There's no back-up for many of the companies that supply components for the iPhone

Detel D1 Gold review: Feature-rich budget phone with good battery life

A good option for those who do not want to shell out much for a feature phone

Meet the men behind Niki, the chat-bot you can leave your mundane tasks to

The bot enables computers to do the humdrum tasks like booking cabs, buying tickets, and paying bills and insurance premiums

How a cancer survivor and his two sons built an $8 billion software startup

Qualtrics had filed for an initial public offering in the US and was planning to raise about $500 million. SAP CEO Bill McDermott preempted the IPO with an all-cash offer

How does fake news spread? WhatsApp to spend $1 million to find out

According to Mrinalini Rao, lead researcher at WhatsApp, the platform cares deeply about the safety of its over 1.5 billion monthly active users globally and over 200 million users in India

Good news! Twitter is working on ways to launch 'edit' option for tweets

We have to make sure that we are actually solving the predominant reason why people would do it first and foremost, says Jack Dorsey

LS polls 2019: In India, CEO Jack Dorsey says Twitter fighting fake news

The Twitter CEO met Congress President Rahul Gandhi and discussed various steps the social network was taking to curb the spread of fake news

Infinix S3X review: Feature-rich smartphone with good battery, performance

Priced at Rs 9,999, the Flipkart-exclusive smartphone comes in three colours - Ice blue, sandstone black, and tradewinds gray

This special smartphone screen Alibaba has built helps the blind to shop

Each film costs about 3.6 cents to produce. It has three mini buttons on each side which are sensory-enabled

Meet the robot who knows how to trade bonds better than a human investor

Investment firms are crunching data and harnessing technology to cut trading costs, save time and avoid errors in markets where bonds trade infrequently

'Facebook luring teenage girls to befriend middle-aged men via suggestions'

Following the findings, UK-based charity the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) has called for friend recommendations to be suspended for children on Facebook

Apple finds bugs in some iPhone X and MacBook models, offers free repair

Apple says displays on iPhone X may experience touch issues due to a component failure. The screens on affected phones may not respond correctly to touch.

Facebook stops requiring arbitration of sexual harassment claims

The change of workplace rules at Facebook, the world's leading social network, will allow complaints of improprieties to be aired openly in court.

NASA to send tissue chips to space to test human health, genetic changes

The "Tissue Chips in Space" initiative seeks to better understand the role of microgravity on human health and disease

Journalists beware: After Bloomberg bots, AI news presenter debuts in China

A digital persona, created entirely by computer programmes, will now present news on Chinese news agency Xinhua

AI technology: China's Xinhua unveils world's first virtual news anchors

The digital anchors offer certain advantages over humans, Xinhua said

Niki.ai chat assistant set to arrive on Amazon Alexa later this month

The company has added two new functionality to the assistant- it now supports Hindi language, both text and voice

As IoT expand, number of connected things to go up 25 bn by 2021: Gartner

By 2023, it is expected that new special-purpose chips will reduce the power consumption required to run a deep neural networks

Facebook's new Portal device: It is meant to bring people closer together

The great thing about these devices is that they are stationary and always on