1. Canon has launched the EOS M50, its latest interchangeable lens mirrorless camera that’s geared towards entry-level users. It also happens to be Canon’s first M series camera to feature 4K video recording.
2. Scientists have developed a smart contact lens that can monitor blood sugar levels from tears in the eye in patients with diabetes, spelling an end for painful needle pricks.
3. India's largest telecom operator Bharti Airtel today said it has joined a new global collaboration to bring high-speed and uninterrupted in-flight data connectivity to mobile customers.
4. Micromax Informatics on Monday announced a partnership with KaiOS Technologies in order to create a unique mobile experience for the former's customers in Sri Lanka and Middle East.
5. The two most-awaited Android smartphones of 2018 were unveiled by South Korean tech giant Samsung yesterday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ are the latest flagship devices from Samsung’s stable.
6. Financial technology firm Revolut has become the first of a new breed of digital banks in Britain to break even on a monthly basis after a swelling user base and a suite of new products helped it bolster revenues in December.
7. The latest entry in the long-running Yakuza franchise — Yakuza 6: The Song of Life is getting a demo before its full release. It’s the first time we’re seeing a Yakuza game built ground up for the PS4 and PS4 Pro alone.
8. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday emphasised on participation of more and more women in building 'New India' and urged the scientific community to deliberate on how 'Artificial Intelligence' (AI) could help the country in helping differently abled persons, tackling natural disasters, extending health services and assisting farmers.
9. Chipmaker MediaTek on Monday unveiled Helio P60 system-on-chip (SoC) with dual 4G VoLTE and the company's "NeuroPilot" Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology at the ongoing Mobile World Congress 2018 (MWC).
10. Qualcomm urged peer Broadcom to enter into direct negotiations on a price for merging the two companies and said they had made progress on regulatory and other deal certainty issues at a meeting last week.
11. The popular dating app Tinder, which is supposed to help people form new relationships, is increasingly helping youngsters cheat on their romantic partners, a study claims. Scientists from the Texas Tech University in the US showed that a significant number of college students are using Tinder to meet what they called ‘extradyadic partners’ — that is, a partner outside of and in addition to the partner in a committed, romantic relationship.
12. Taking on Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio, Vodafone India is now reportedly in plans to launch two new monthly prepaid packs of Rs. 549 and Rs. 799 with 3.5GB and 4.5GB data per day, respectively.
13. According to Ming-Chi Kuo, the most famous analyst with KGI Securities when it comes to Apple, the Cupertino-headquartered giant is set to debut a branded high-end, over-ear headphone with an 'all new' design to add to its growing audio accessory line-up.
14. Years before tech visionaries such as Bill Gates and Elon Musk sounded warnings about artificial intelligence (AI), Stephen Wozniak, the cofounder of Apple, had raised an alarm over its increasing use and possible threat to humankind. But the grizzled, soft-spoken Wozniak, 67, popularly known as the Woz, is not too concerned anymore. "I believe in the A–artificial — of AI but not in the I–intelligence," he said.
15. If you are planning to buy the anniversary edition Apple iPhone X then here is an opportunity for you. All ICICI Bank credit card holders can get cashback of Rs 10,000 and free screen replacement for the period of 6 months on the purchase of iPhone X.
16. With one of the largest delegations at the Mobile World Congress, India plans to highlight its readiness for 5G services and technology leadership including its numero uno position globally in terms of mobile data usage.
17. Samsung on Monday announced the launch of its latest 3-stack ISOCELL Fast 2L3 CMOS image sensor in South Korea. Currently in mass production, the image sensor has size of 1.4-microns and a 12-megapixel resolution. It has integrated two-gigabit LPDDR4 Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) that claims to deliver fast data readout speeds helping capture images in super-slow motion as well as images with less noise and distortion.
18. The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), which represents all major telcos, ruled out any apologies to Reliance Jio Infocomm (Jio), despite the company demanding one in its defamation notice.
19. Nokia 3 has received its Android 8.0 Oreo beta update. HMD Global Chief Product Officer Juho Sarvikas at the company's pre-MWC 2018 press conference on Sunday revealed the arrival of the new update alongside mentioning the release of Android Oreo beta update for the Nokia 2.
20. Ericsson on Monday unveiled at Mobile World Congress a report that lays out a roadmap for operators to unlock the revenue potential of 5G-enabled industry digitalisation.
21. Cisco Systems said on Sunday it aims to disrupt the wireless radio access market led by Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia by backing challengers who make more flexible software versions of traditional mobile gear.
22. Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is planning to usher in an age of high-speed internet connectivity in the country with the launch of heavy-duty communication satellites.
23. Jolla has now brought Sailfish 3 as the third version of its mobile platform that it touts as the world's only alternative mobile operating system. The new operating system is - instead of focusing on smartphones - targeted at feature phones. Jolla during its press conference at the MWC also announced Sailfish OS support for new devices, including the Sony Xperia XA2, Gemini PDA, INOI T8, and INOI T10.
24. Online payments major Paytm plans to apply for a licence to operate as a life and general insurer. Paytm, which has set up two separate entities named Paytm Life Insurance and Paytm General Insurance, will file an application with IRDAI. Paytm’s move to aggressively chase the overall consumer finance sector is aimed at accelerating growth in its non-payments business.
25. Mobile data will be used in Ghana to track and control epidemics, helping prevent a repeat of the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, in a pioneering programme announced by Vodafone Foundation on Monday.
26. State owned telecom firm BSNL today signed a pact with Finnish telecom gear maker Nokia to roll out 4G services in 10 telecom circles covering western and southern regions in India.
27. Russian military spies hacked several hundred computers used by authorities at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, according to US intelligence.
28. Flipkart now sells more than half the smartphones online, taking a bigger lead over Amazon in the crucial category. Flipkart grew its market share of online smartphone shipments to 51% in 2017, from 44% the year before, while Amazon's increased marginally to 33% in 2017 from 31%, according to a report by Counterpoint Research.
29. The smartphone industry is bound to consolidate as the heavy investments required to remain competitive mean that, in the long-run, only a handful of firms can make money, the consumer chief of China's Huawei Technologies said on Sunday.
30. Major telecom operators are accelerating their timelines for adopting next-generation 5G networks by up to a year, boosting Nokia's confidence of an uplift for its own business later in 2018, Chief Executive Rajeev Suri said on Sunday.
31. Lenovo has unveiled two three new laptop models is its 2-in-1 Yoga series. It launched Yoga 730 laptop in 13-inch and 15-inch variants alongside an all-new 14-inch Yoga 530 laptop.
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