The Xiaomi Redmi 3 launched in January and saw multiple revisions (3s, Pro, Prime), but the new Redmi 4 is quickly clearing the regulatory hurdles to gaining an official status. Info coming out of China suggests that the new model will upgrade the 5” screen to 1080p resolution (up from 720p) and the 13MP camera on the back gains a second LED for its flash (the selfie cam remains at 5MP). The Xiaomi Redmi 4 is powered by an unnamed Snapdragon chipset with an octa-core processor, a Snapdragon 430 perhaps? It’s paired to 3GB of RAM and 32GB storage, same…
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Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman sold Reddit to Condé Nast when they were 23. Then both — in stages — came back to the company. Why? According to Ohanian, because of a single and rare thing that was happening at Reddit and almost never happens in the technology industry. “In spite of us being gone for half a decade, the company had not really changed,” Ohanian told CNBC from the Net/Net event on Tuesday. “It kept growing. That’s rare. In any industry, lack of innovation will hurt you. In tech it almost guarantees it will kill you,” he said. “We…
Getty Images AT&T President and CEO Randall Stephenson. AT&T’s massive $85 billion deal to acquire Time Warner has generated plenty of attention in the press, and it will have to weather a lot of scrutiny from federal regulators before it becomes official. Many have compared the deal to Comcast’s acquisition of NBCUniversal, a deal which seems to have been good for the financial health of both companies, but has produced little of note for consumers. That’s led to speculation that this deal is a vanity project for telecom executives, a way to diversify the business that doesn’t actually have any…
If Donald Trump goes down in flames on Election Day it won’t just be the GOP that has learned a valuable lesson as it searches for a winning public message to take with it into an uncertain future. The New York Times cataloged on Tuesday the 282 times that the paper claims Trump has used Twitter as a launch pad for insult comedyand offensive behavior, but Fortune 500 companies should come away from this election year with a different take on Trump and tweeting. So far, most corporations only have one thing in common with Trump on social: They’re smart…
Apple’s enormous cash hoard grew to $237.6 billion in the fiscal fourth quarter, up $6.1 billion from the previous quarter. If the company’s massive cash pile was its own company, it would be the seventh largest in the S&P 500 and the fourteenth largest public company in the world. The tech giant reported earnings that beat Wall Street expectations on Tuesday, and sold more iPhones than expected. The stock briefly jumped after hours before settling down 2 percent. ADVERTISING inRead invented by Teads The company’s cash reserves have long fueled speculation of acquisitions that Apple might make. Last quarter, Apple’s…
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) constituted the Baswan Committee to review the modus operandi of the commission for conducting the Civil Service Examination (CSE) earlier this year in August. It is speculated that the committee headed by retired IAS and former Human Resource Development Secretary, BS Baswan, has recommended a few changes in the CSE pattern. However, the Centre has so far refused to disclose the recommendation forwarded by the said committee. In a response to the RTI filed by some petitioners, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) said that the Baswan Committee has submitted its report to…
IIT Kharagpur has signed a memorandum of understanding with Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST) and Guru Nanak Institute of Dental Sciences and Research (GNIDSR) this morning to conduct interdisciplinary research in the field of oral healthcare. “Millions of people, especially from the economically underprivileged sections of our society, today suffer from oral and dental diseases, particularly from oral pre-cancer and cancer,” said Sardar Taranjit Singh, Managing Director, JIS Group Educational Initiatives, which runs GNIDSR. “But no breakthrough has yet been achieved towards treatment and management of these malignant diseases resulting in the loss of millions of lives,”…
IoT is making devices smaller, smarter, and – we hope – safer. It’s not easy to make all those things happen at once, but chips that can help are starting to emerge. On Tuesday at ARM TechCon in Silicon Valley, ARM will introduce processors that are just a fraction of a millimeter across and incorporate the company’s TrustZone technology. TrustZone is hardware-based security built into SoC (system on chip) processors to establish a root of trust. It’s designed to prevent devices from being hacked and taken over by intruders, a danger that’s been in the news since the discovery of…
Rolling out the internet of things means using devices as our eyes and ears and even asking them to make decisions for us. The chips at the heart of those devices play critical roles, and on Tuesday some of them got better at their jobs. While ARM introduced two minuscule processor architectures with security features borrowed from larger chips, Intel unveiled its Atom E3900 chips with improved computer vision and industrial-grade timing. The E3900s are designed for a wide range of applications, including manufacturing and surveillance, and they’ll soon be joined by a version specifically for vehicles, called the A3900.…
Xiaomi finally took the ribbon off the Mi Note 2 today. Right off the bat, we can’t fail to mention the phablet has taken more than a few pointers from the now late Samsung Galaxy Note7 and frankly, the timing couldn’t be better. The Mi Note 2 comes with a stylish dual-curved design on both the front and the back. Furthering the similarities with the aforementioned Samsung device, the Mi Note 2 also has a 5.7-inch OLED, panel, curved on both sides. Since we are talking about a true flexible panel here, not just some optical trickery, we have to…