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Sony Brings a Better Version of its Noise-canceling True Wireless In-ear Headphones

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Everything is going wireless, and Apple’s AirPods are the biggest example of the most loved wireless products. But it is not only Apple, but many other tech giants have brought feature-rich wireless headphone and earbuds, one of which is Sony. Sony has just announced a new pair of its in-ear headphones, WF-1000XM3, that the company is claiming will be noise-cancelling true wireless earphones.

Sony in-ear headphones WF 1000XM3
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According to Sony, the noise-cancellation has been improved in this version of in-ear headphones, and it can be easily put down with a touch of a button on the left earphone. The earphones have a set of buttons over it, to provide control for the playback.

The earlier version of the in-ear headphones was a bit heavy and did not cancel out the noise completely. But Sony has embedded this version of the earphones with QN1e, which offers even better sound dampening and makes them a bit lighter. A new digital audio converter (DAC) and amplifier have been integrated to the pair, such that these deliver 24-bit audio.

The earbuds are longer and do not have the wingtips as the earlier version had in it. Instead, it has got rubber on the tip for better support.

Both the earbuds are capable to connect with the device, and on a full charge, these can work for over six hours, along with noise cancellation. The earphones come with a charging case, that can charge the earbuds thrice when fully charged. In fact, if the case is also drained out completely, it can be charged in 10 minutes to provide 90 minutes listening time charging for the earphones. The case has got a magnetic latch, that keeps the earbuds at the place.

The WF-1000XM3 earbuds cost $230 for a pair. Currently, the company has made the earphones available for pre-orders on Amazon and Best Buy. It is shipping the earphone in the colour black and platinum silver. According to the announcement, these will be arriving the retail stores in coming August.

Prime Day Sale

Amazon Teasing the Customers with Early Sale Prior to the Prime Day Sale on 15 July

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The biggest sale of the year, the Amazon Prime Day Sale, is only ten days away, and Amazon has claimed that people will get the most attractive deals in the sale. The sale is to kick off on 15th of this month and is expected to be of a bigger scale even than the Black Friday. The event will last for two days and is only open for the Prime members.

According to the company, along with big discounts and offers, it will be launching over 1000 new products. The Prime users will get access to major discounts in almost every category available on the website, though the offers will be valid on limited stock.

But even before the sale, Amazon has come with major discounts on various products, including the popular Fire TV Recast, which the company is currently selling at the lowest price to date. There is also a big discount on the Amazon’s Alexa, along with few other Amazon devices, too, including Fire TV Stick 4K bundle, Echo Dot, etc. The company as a pre-sale has also put great discounts on smartphones, laptops, DSLR, and other electronic devices.

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The upcoming Prime Day Sale though will have similar products on sale, but this time, the sale will go even cheaper. The company has promised ‘never before offers’ on select premium smartphones. For the sale, the company has put discounts on over 5000 other products in the electronics category.

Amazon will also put out a great discount (up to 60 %) on Books as well. In fact, the company is offering a three months subscription of Kindle Unlimited for free. On a regular basis, the fee for a month costs $9.99/£7.99 per user.

Though the offers are exclusively for the Amazon Prime members, you can get the 30-days free trial subscription to take advantage of the sale. And, if any person is from the U.S., they can get the same deals with three months for $9.99, whereas on the regular days they need to pay three times more for a subscription.

Ola London

Ola Now to Run PHV Ride-hailing Service in London

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We are flooded with the ride-hailing services and Uber being the leader among them all, is giving a tough challenge to even many of the home-grown companies in various countries. Ola the India-based ride rental service provider has been also facing similar competition, ever since Uber has entered India. But to move ahead and beat the competition, Ola finally crossed borders and launched its first international ride-hailing service in Australia in January 2018.

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Now the company is moving even forward and will be starting its ride-hailing service in the capital city of the UK, i.e. London. Last year, Ola started operating in South Wales, and it has now obtained the license from Transport For London (TFL) to start private hire vehicles (PHV) ride-hailing service in London. Though the validity of the license is only one year, and it is a non-carriage license.

According to the rules of the Transport Regulatory of London and the PHV licensing, the Ola drivers will need to register themselves and their vehicles with the license to run the Ola service in the city. Any vehicle that is having a seating capacity of up to eight passengers is eligible for the registration.

“London is one of the world’s most iconic cities and hosts a progressive mobility environment. We couldn’t be more excited to bring Ola to London in the time ahead! We are looking forward to building world-class mobility offerings for London, by collaborating with drivers, riders, the government and local authorities. Londoners will hear more from us closer to our launch in the city, as we get ready to serve them.” One of the Ola spokespeople said.

With more than 8 million people living in London, the scope for the service is quite high. Along with the PHV cabs, Ola also holds the license for the Black cabs, and over 10,000 drivers are already registered with Ola platform. The company has plans to collaborate with local drivers, transport services and government to bring better services to people of London and will be launching its services by the end of this year.

Since last August, the company has been expanding in various cities of the U.K and got the PHV licence for Liverpool, Birmingham and Reading in March this year.

BMW Daimler

BMW and Daimler Couples Up on Automated Driving Technology

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Self-driving cars have been one of the centres of interest of most of the tech giants, and now, BMW has announced a partnership with the manufacturers of Mercedes Daimler, to head in the same field. The two companies will be working together to develop various services under automotive technologies. These services will include the driver-assistance systems, smart cruise control, automated driving on highways as well as parking, and more.

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According to the announcement made by the two, these plan on building fully autonomous vehicles that would require no human intervention. The companies explained that these will be developing the technology of the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Level 4, such that the vehicles would not need any human support for driving. There may be some conditions in which there will be the obligation of human support, but normally, these vehicles would be self-driving. The SAE levels are set to determine the level of automation, a product can render, especially the transport vehicles.

The companies also revealed that these will be hiring over 1,200 technicians from the two German auto giants for the development work. This partnership is looking forward to bring robo-taxi technology for urban areas, and these vehicles will not be dependent on human support even for the motorway driving and parking.

The companies joined with nine other firms also published a whitepaper, titled, “Safety First for Automated Driving,” as the answers to the concerns of human safety while riding a self-driving car.

Though the two companies have partnered to work on a single technology, the two will be implementing the same on their own cars separately. The announcement has also revealed that the platform developed with this partnership will be open for other companies to implement on their vehicles as well. The vehicles embedded with this technology will be out around 2024 or later.

The two companies have already signed an agreement on autonomous technology in February, and they are also in partnership with other automobile companies for the same. In fact, BMW had joined its hands with companies like Intel and Mobileye NV to work on autonomous technology. With this partnership, BMW will be launching the level 3 iNext vehicle in 2021.

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Instagram Goes Down Again; Facebook, Whatsapp and Twitter Also Faces the Outage

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Reportedly, the major social media apps, including Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, and Twitter, went down for over an hour on Wednesday at 8:45 a.m. ET. The users of these apps around the world reported issues while downloading and sending images, audios, and videos for some time.

It has become quite common for Instagram to go down, in the past few months. But this time, the other three prime apps, FB, Twitter, and Whatsapp, were also facing the same issues at the same time.

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Every time the users were trying to see an Instagram post, it was showing the error, “Couldn’t refresh feed” or “Couldn’t load the image. Tap to retry”. Though, the app was able to load the caption under it. Same issues went with Whatsapp multimedia sending and downloading, whereas Facebook was unable to publish the posts.

Twitter users, on the other hand, were unable to direct message. It was showing notification of unread messages, even after the users read the message.

Facebook, while facing these issues, said on the behalf of all its apps in a report, “During one of our routine maintenance operations, we triggered an issue that is making it difficult for some people to upload or send photos and videos. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”

Where Facebook gave a proper explanation for its app going down, Twitter did not say anything on what caused the issue. But after resolving the issue, Twitter took it to its support handle and wrote, “almost at 100% resolved. There may be some residual effects for a small group of people, but overall your DMs should be working properly now. We appreciate your patience!”

Around 8 p.m. ET, Facebook also said, “The issue has since been resolved and we should be back at 100% for everyone.”

Instagram has been facing such troubles quite often. Last time, it was three weeks ago when the platform faced the interruptions, that too for two hours. Before the four apps went down yesterday, apps like OKCupid, Peloton, Feedly, Discord and DownDetector have also gone down the day before yesterday, after an outage at Cloudflare.

GeForce RTX Super

Nvidia Launches the Super GeForce RTX GPUs; Better Performance at Same Price

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Nvidia, the American technology company, is all set to launch the ‘super’ version of its gaming-focused graphics cards, GeForce RTX 2060, 2070, and 2080. The company will be bringing the RTX 2060 Super, 2070 Super, and 2080 Super, today, as an addition to its RTX graphic lineup, which according to Nvidia, are faster and better at the performance.

The much-awaited set of graphics cards from Nvidia have already been the topic of discussion, and the rumours have already been making the rounds about the features of these new desktop cards.

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The reports suggest that the GeForce RTX 2060 Super and the GeForce RTX 2070 Super will render 15 per cent faster performance than their counterpart, whereas the GeForce RTX 2080 Super is a high-end graphics card version, which will exhibit 20 to 25 per cent faster performance than RTX 2080 (non-super version). The GeForce RTX 2070 is now supporting additional CUDA cores, i.e., a total of 2560, at the higher base and boost clocks (1605MHz and 1770MHz, respectively). On the other hand, RTX 2060 Super at the higher base and boost clock, i.e. 1470MHz and 1650MHz, respectively, is supporting a total of 2176 CUDA cores. The high-end RTX 2080 Super will be coming with an additional 128 CUDA cores.

The three graphics cards have also been revamped, in the terms of memory, with a wider 256-bit GDDR6 memory interface and an additional 2GB of GDDR6 memory making it a total of 8GB memory.

“Dubbed the ‘graphics holy grail,’ real-time ray tracing brings cinematic quality lighting effects to interactive experiences for the first-time. The world’s most advanced GPU architecture, Turing fuses next-generation shaders with real-time ray tracing and all-new AI capabilities. Turing’s hybrid graphics capability represents the biggest generational leap ever in gaming GPUs, delivering up to 6x more performance than previous 10 Series Pascal GPUs”, the global head of marketing for the GeForce business at Nvidia, Matt Wuebbling, stated in a blog post.

The company has revealed that it will be shipping the GeForce RTX 2060 Super and the GeForce RTX 2070 Super starting from July 9, whereas the RTX 2080 will be dropped by the end of this month. The prices of all the three cards have been kept similar to their current versions. That means, the RTX 2060 Super will be available for $399, the price of the RTX 2060 is $499, and the RTX 2080 will be sold for $699.