iPhone X was started to sell by flipkart. But it was available for Delhi, Mumbai and Benglore city. Within a few second it was sold out.
Sunday, 5 November 2017
Friday, 8 July 2016
Notion Ink Able 10 2-in-1 laptop with Windows 10 launched at Rs. 24,990
Notion Ink, the Indian company behind the Adam and Cain devices, has launched a new Windows 10-powered 2-in-1 laptop. Called the Able 10, the device is currently available for purchase on Snapdeal at Rs. 24,990. It sports a 10.1-inch display with a resolution of 1280x800 pixels and is powered by an Intel Cherry Trail z5-Z8300 quad core processor with 4GB of DDR3 RAM. The Able 10 also offers 64GB of onboard storage that can be expanded by up to 128GB via a microSD card. Further, the Able 10 features a 8100mAh battery, which the company claims can offer up to seven hours of backup. The 2-in-1 also features an Aluminium keyboard, and sports two 2MP cameras with Omnivision OV2680 sensors. Notion Ink is holding an event on July 8, and it is most likely that the company will officially unveil the device then.
Notion Ink is perhaps most famous for taking on the original Apple iPad with theAdam tablet. The Adam was powered by a dual-core Nvidia Tegra 250 processor and was pretty powerful for a device launched in 2010. Unfortunately for the company, the Adam was plagued by delays. Notion Ink did launch a follow-up to the device in 2013 called the Adam II, which featured dual displays. A year later, the company launched a 2-in-1 called the Cain. The device was powered by an Intel Atom Bay Trail Processor Z3735D with 2GB of RAM. It was launched at a price of Rs. 19,990.
Google Now on Tap to allow text translation from any screen
Google introduced Now on Tap as part of Android Marshmallow, and now, has further expanded its capabilities. The feature will now give users the option to translate text from any screen, be it an app or a web page. When a user translates a screen using Now on Tap, the text will be translated to the language set on the device. The company notes that the feature will only be available for those who have set their phone’s language to English, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, or Russian.
Google also introduced a new feature called Discover in Now on Tap. This helps users discover more about topics viewed by the user by fetching articles and videos related to it. In its official blog, the company notes that Discover would be ideal for browsing and exploring topics instead of searching for anything in particular. Now on Tap will also let users scan barcodes and QR codes by pointing their camera at the code. Users will then get a set of cards related to that particular item such as user reviews. The company notes that the feature will work with packaged products, books, DVDs and so forth.
Last month, the company announced a similar feature where users can use the camera and get information about landmarks and other objects in real time.
Sunday, 6 March 2016
Data analytics on driving behavior help users improve safety and lower insurance rates
Are you a safe driver? According to MIT alumnus Brad Cordova SM '13, co-founder of driving-data-analytics startup Censio, you'll probably answer "yes," but the real answer may be "no."
Those who consider themselves safe drivers may tailgate, speed, or use cellphones while driving, which significantly increase the probability of an accident, Cordova says. "For most of us, the most dangerous thing you do from day to day is driving," he says.
To improve driver safety, Censio has developed an app that captures and analyzes data on driving behavior to show drivers where they can improve. In September, Progressive Insurance began piloting the app with customers nationwide, with aims of reducing insurance rates for good drivers.
In a way, the app acts as a sort of "external brain" for drivers, Cordova says, helping them see the risks associated with certain driving behaviors—especially distracted driving. "The human brain is not good at statistics and probability, so most people aren't thinking how sending this text will affect their probability of getting into an accident," he says. "We calculate these complicated probability distributions and send that back to the app in a very digestible way."
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration attributes one accident every 24 seconds in the United States to distracted driving; the National Safety Council estimates that 1.6 million crashes annually are due to cellphone use, with another 1 million due to texting while driving.
Beyond safety, there's also a monetary incentive: The startup hopes to shift insurers toward user-based insurance programs, where rates are based on how well a person drives. Those policies could lower rates for the 200 million insured drivers across the United States, Censio president Kevin Farrell says, but are being held back by the logistics and costs of introducing hardware into cars. "We believe bringing an app into the market really opens things up," he says.
Breaking bad driving habits
To capture driving behavior, the app identifies when a person is driving—not, for instance, in the backseat of a cab—and then uses a smartphone's accelerometer, gyroscope (positioning), and GPS to track driving dynamics. Added to that is external data, such as on speed limit, weather, and street information, such as on safe or dangerous intersections.
Using this data, the app looks for habits such as speeding through intersections and braking hard, which could indicate tailgating or not paying attention to the road. It also observes cellphone use while driving.
Analyzing all this data, the app then scores the driver, on a score of 1 to 100, and keeps track of the habits a driver has, or may need to improve upon. Scores are also compared with other drivers across the nation. A user, for instance, may brake hard more frequently, or pick up their phone less often, than the national average.That data are shared with insurers to help them assess the overall risk of a particular driver.
Behind the scenes, Cordova says the app earned the business of Progressive, over 10 competitors, because it doesn't drain a phone's battery and is as accurate as a hardware-based solution.
Beating battery drain, Cordova says, came down to developing optimization algorithms that collect data only when needed, and shut off when not collecting data. Gaining accuracy, he says, was about cleaning up messy data. "When the data comes in from the car, it's extremely noisy," Cordova says. "A lot of the engineering effort went into better signal processing and machine learning to clean up those signals."
Driven by social change
Leaving an engineering position at CERN in 2011, Cordova came to MIT as a PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science with aims of "making a social difference." (He left after completing his master's degree to pursue Censio.)
While taking 15.390 (New Ventures), he met Censio co-founder and current vice president of operations Joe Adelmann, a Harvard University student who shared his inclination toward social change.
Inspired to launch a startup, Cordova and Adelmann designed a system that used a smartphone to alert people who fall asleep at the wheel. Mounting the camera on the windshield, the camera would track the road and the app would calculate various driving data, such as braking frequency and vehicle positioning.
That system wasn't exactly practical—but at its core was an app that could collect movement and driving data. As a test, several MIT students downloaded the app to their phones, and it accurately predicted if the students were walking, sitting at a desk, or climbing stairs—and when they were about to get in a car and drive.
But that app drained a phone's battery with a day of use. "As an engineer, you try to make the most awesome product, but you miss something like battery life," Cordova says. "We had to go back to the drawing board."
After much refining, the end product was a prototype for the Censio app that collected necessary data in the background to let drivers know the risks of their behavior.
This prototype landed Cordova and Adelmann a finalist spot in MIT's $100K Entrepreneurship Competition in 2012. They further developed the business in office space in the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and Harvard's Innovation Lab, where they met co-founder Jon McNeill, an entrepreneur with prior experience in the insurance industry, and co-founder Scott Griffith, former CEO of Zipcar.
Three years later, the startup earned its initial funding round of $10 million and the partnership with Progressive, which is offering the app as a replacement for its Snapshot hardware component—a hub that plugs into a car's onboard diagnostics port—currently being used by more than 3 million participants. The plan is to officially release a commercial version of the app early next year.
Although the app has proven to have a viable business model, Cordova says the mission still harkens back to his MIT years, with a focus on social change: "The aim is to make drivers around the world better and safer."
Thursday, 17 December 2015
19-Year-Old Teen Steals $150,000 by Hacking into Airline's Website
What do you do to earn up to $150,000?
Somebody just hacks into airlines and sells fake tickets.
That's exactly what a 19-year-old teenager did and made approximately 1.1 Million Yuan (£110,000 or $150,000) by hacking into the official website of an airline and using the stolen booking information to defraud hundreds of passengers.
The teenager, identified as Zhang from Heilongjiang, north-east China, hacked into a Chinese airline website and illegally downloaded 1.6 Million passengers bookings details, including:
Flight details
Names
ID card numbers
Email addresses
Mobile phone numbers
Zhang then used this information to successfully defraud hundreds of customers by convincing them that there was some issue with their booking flights, and they had to pay extra fees, according to People's Daily Online.
Moreover, the hack caused the airline to lose almost 80,000 Yuan ($12,365 USD) as a result of customers requesting refunds.
The incident took place from 31 July to 20 August this year, and the suspect was arrested by the police on November in Dalian, north China.
A police officer said the hack was not highly sophisticated and was a result of a loophole in the airline's computer system. However, the name of the airline is not yet disclosed.
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