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Google May Launch a Standalone VR Headset at I/O 20 17 We are merely hours away from the Google Keynote address at the company's annual developer conference, I/O 2017. It likely to see major announcement on several products. Just ahead of commencement of the I/O 2017, a new report has claimed that the company is all set to launch a standalone VR headset. Reports about  Google  working on a standalone VR headset that does not require an Android smartphone to power it, like the Gear VR or Google Cardboard do, have been  making rounds  on the Internet for more than a year. According to a  report  by Variety, the next-generation VR headset from Google will not require any device to power it, unlike  Daydream headset unveiled last year . The report citing multiple sources with knowledge of the project says that the headset will include inside-out positional tracking. It adds that Google may choose to give limited preview of the standalone VR...

    Airtel Broadband Plans Revised, Offer         Up to Twice the Data at the Same Price. Airtel has revised its broadband Internet plans. The new plans offer up to twice the data at the same monthly rentals, or as Airtel puts it - "up to 100 percent more data." Revised broadband plan prices were provided for the Delhi circle. The Rs. 899 plan now offers 60GB high speed data compared to 30GB earlier. The Rs.1,099 plan will now offer 90GB of high speed data compared to 50GB earlier. Similarly, the Rs.1,299 plan now offers 125GB compared to 75GB, the Rs.1,499 plan offers 160GB compared to 100GB earlier, and the Rs. 1,799 plan offers as much as 220GB of data. It’s worth noting that the Rs. 899 and Rs. 1,099 plans offer speed up to 16Mbps and 40 Mbps respectively, while the others offer speed up to 100Mbps. Airtel says that similar large increments in data benefits have been affected at every price point in every city with unlimited calling to an...

Samsung Tizen Smartphones Will Be Launched Globally, Company Reveals Samsung at its Tizen Developer Conference (TDC) 2017 in San Francisco announced Tizen 4.0, which is set to expand the platform beyond smartphones and televisions to Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Apart from announcing Tizen 4.0, Samsung also showed off new products for the platform including ARTIK 053 Module, a lightweight IoT chipset, and Samsung Z4 Tizen smartphone. The South Korean consumer electronics giant  says  that key changes in Tizen 4.0 are optimisations made on the platform for IoT developers to develop products besides smartphones and televisions, such as thermostats, scales, bulbs, and more. Talking about the Indian market at TDC 2017, Samsung claimed that Tizen powered smartphones have been doing well in the country. The company also revealed plans to launch Tizen smartphones to more countries. Shara Tibken of CNET in a  tweet  quoted the company where it...

Lenovo Legion Y520, Legion Y720 Gaming Laptops Launched Starting Rs. 92,490 Lenovo  has now brought its 'Legion' gaming brand in India as the company launched the Legion Y520 and Legion Y720 laptops in the country on Wednesday, starting at Rs. 92,490 and Rs. 1,49,990 respectively. The pre-booking for Lenovo Legion Y520 and Lenovo Y720 will open this Friday and the laptops will be available online through Flipkart and www.thedostore.com. The company also announced that pre-booking on Flipkart includes a flat exchange offer discount of Rs. 20,000.                       Both Legion Y520 and Legion Y720 are powered by Intel's seventh-generation Core processors (up to Core i7) and feature dedicated Nvidia graphic cards as well. "With its state-of-the-art technology, the new laptops allow for a greater gaming experience in every sense - powering VR, better sound with Dolby, optional backlit keyboards, FHD IPS resoluti...

LG raised the bar for premium Android smartphones earlier this year with its flagship  G6  which was the first to sport the company's  FullVision display  with an 18:9 (or 2:1) aspect ratio. If a new report from South Korea is to be believed then LG may opt for OLED panel for its next premium smartphone, the V30. The move to OLED panels is said to be a way to match Samsung in smartphone market. The Investor citing industry sources claims that the South Korean company can launch the LG V30 with OLED display in the second half of 2017. The report claims that most of the OLED screens produced at LG Display's plant will be utilised for the LG V30. "Some of the OLED production will be supplied to Chinese phone makers who are hoping to catch up with front-runners such as Samsung and Apple," the  report  added citing sources. The company is expected to begin production of OLED panels from July, and these panels will replace LCD displays which were used on...

Asus ZenFone Live India Launch Expected on May 24 The  Asus ZenFone Live's  main highlight is its real-time beautification camera. The BeautyLive app is a live-streaming app that removes blemishes in real-time. The feature would mostly come in handy when livestreaming on social media sites like Facebook, YouTube and others. The smartphone also features built-in MEMS microphones that detects and cancels background noise, another handy feature for livestream enthusiasts. The smartphone runs ZenUI 3.5 based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow and sports a 5-inch HD (720x1280 pixels) IPS display and touts a screen-to-body ratio of 75 percent. The Asus ZenFone Live is powered by a quad-core Qualcomm processor coupled with 2GB of RAM. It is offered in 16GB and 32GB of storage, though we'll have to wait and see whether both the variants will come to the country. The storage can further be expanded via a microSD card slot (up to 128GB). The dual-SIM smartphone supports 4G on both ...

     New Drones Exhibit Has It All: Cool Tech, Games and              Science Drones have come a long way since the clumsy, balloon-driven models that first took to the air during the 19th century. Over the past few decades, and particularly in recent years, technology has rapidly improved to make  drones  smaller, faster, more robust and more maneuverable. Meanwhile, enterprising engineers and designers continue to push the limits for how drones can take on myriad tasks for military, industrial, scientific and personal purposes. A new exhibit here at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, "Drones: Is the Sky the Limit?", is the first to explore the ongoing story of drones — their origin and history, how their forms and uses have changed over time, and how we might deploy them in the future