1. Online retailer Amazon has decided not to sell any of the new products from Google's smart home division Nest, once its current stock runs out.
2. Reliance Jio's live television app JioTV has bagged the exclusive India digital rights for the ensuing T20 cricket series Nidahas Trophy.
3. Due to climate change, the Earth is experiencing earlier springs, but nowhere so much and so fast as at high latitudes. "Yes, spring is arriving earlier, and the Arctic is experiencing greater advances of spring than lower latitudes," said lead author Eric Post from University of California, Davis.
4. HTC is said to be working on its next flagship smartphone, the U12. The handset is codenamed as ‘Imagine’. The smartphone is expected to come with a 5.99-inch QHD+ display same as the U11+. The device is said to be powered by Qualcomm’s flagship processor Snapdragon 845 and run Android 8.1 Oreo operating system topped with the Sense UI of the company.
5. Global automakers are rolling out more electric vehicles at the Geneva International Motor Show as they try to challenge Tesla and get ahead of a disruptive shift in transportation toward lower-emission and autonomous vehicles.
6. The coveted Oscar trophy is coated in the same gold that helps telescopes glimpse distant galaxies, ensuring that the hard-earned prize never loses its shine, according to NASA. US-based Epner Technology, which has been working with NASA since the 1970s and improved its electroplating technique doing aerospace work in the 1990s, claims that its gold would never flake off.
7. With 27% market share, Reliance Retail's mobile handset brand LYF topped India's overall mobile handset leader board in January 2018, followed by Samsung at 12 per cent, and Itel at third with eight percent.
8. Apple's AirPods earphones have been a surprise hit. The Cupertino, California-based technology giant is working on noise-cancelling, over-ear headphones that rival headsets from market leaders like Bose and even the company's own Beats by Dre brand.
9. Smartphones and data centres will be the most damaging information and communications technologies to the environment by 2040. Researchers from the McMaster University in Canada studied the carbon footprint of consumer devices such as smartphones, laptops, tablets, desktops as well as data centres and communication networks as early as 2005.
10. Kakao Corp, South Korea's largest messaging app operator, said on Monday it is planning to establish a unit focusing on blockchain technology.
11. Amazon India is hosting the Samsung Carnival sale from March 5-8 with up to Rs. 8,000 cashback on purchase of select Samsung devices in the form of Amazon Pay balance.
12. A new scam in the name of Pizza Hut is now doing the rounds of internet and if you receive such message then don’t fall for it. The message that is being received on WhatsApp reads, “Pizza Hut is Giving-away 4 FREE Large Pizza to everyone on its 60th Anniversary. Get your 4 free Pizza at : http://pizza.iixi.win/.” Once you will click on the list then it will open the link in the bowser and will ask you to answer a simple question. Then in order to win the fake prize it will ask you to nominate 7 of your friends and key in their details.
13. LG Electronics on Monday announced the launch of its 2018 TV lineup with new OLED and Super Ultra HD models at an event in South Korea. These new TVs feature LG's ThinQ artificial intelligence (AI) technology and the company's α (Alpha) processor.
14. Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi launched its Redmi Note 5 and Redmi Note 5 Pro smartphones in India recently. The company has now announced that Rose Gold and Lake Blue variants of Redmi Note 5 and Redmi Note 5 Pro will go on sale in India on March 7.
15. Blade Runner 2049 has won the Oscar for Best Cinematography at the 90th Academy Awards, besting the other Oscars 2018 nominees, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Mudbound, and The Shape of Water. But more importantly, the film’s cinematographer Roger Deakins has finally won his first Oscar after 14 nominations.
16. Apple is reportedly planning to launch a more affordable variant of the 13-inch MacBook Air in the second quarter of 2018.
17. Samsung has slashed the price of its budget smartphones Galaxy J7 Max and Galaxy J7 Pro smartphones. The company launched the Galaxy J7 Max and Galaxy J7 Pro at Rs 17,900 and Rs 20,900, respectively. The Samsung Galaxy J7 Max is selling at Rs 14,900 after the price cut of Rs 3,000, while the Galaxy J7 Pro is available at Rs 18,900 after the price drop of Rs 2,000.
18. The Jio TV app, in particular, has been a hit across the country as it provides them access to live TV channels without any extra subscription costs. Now, Jio is providing customers additional 10GB data that is earmarked just to stream content on its live TV app.
19. Volkswagen's sports car maker Porsche could develop a flying passenger vehicle to compete with rivals in a possible market for urban air taxis and ride-sharing services.
20. A 3D-printed artificial intelligence system - described by its creators as a "flying brain" - will soon join the crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to assist astronauts.
21. Disney-Pixar’s Coco has won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film at the 90th Academy Awards, a highly predicted win given the strength of the slate.
22. Google, for the last few years, has started giving developers a glimpse of its upcoming Android OS version a few months before its official unveiling at Google IO 2018 conference in May. This time too the Mountain View firm is said to follow the same tradition by rolling out the first developer version of Android P beforehand. According to smartphone tipster Evan Blass, the first developer preview is expected to arrive by mid-March.
23. Indian Railways will now digitise the submission of bills by vendors for payment and issue of inspection certificates by inspecting agencies with the aim of achieving complete digitisation of its contract management.
24. A US national security panel on Sunday ordered Qualcomm to put off its March 6 annual shareholder meeting, delaying a long-awaited showdown in the company's attempt to see off a takeover bid by Broadcom.
25. The UIDAI has directed all telecom operators to enable a facility that will allow subscribers to check the mobile SIMs which are linked to their Aadhaar number.
26. Samsung is now geared up to unveil a fresh line-up of QLED TVs. The "first look" event is slated to take place at the American Stock Exchange in New York on Tuesday.
27. The Centre on Monday constituted a committee headed by the Economic Affairs Secretary to consider ways for further development of the financial technology (Fintech) sector in India.
28. The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has demanded an apology from Reliance Jio for making false allegations that, it says, have tarnished the industry body’s reputation, and warned the new telco not to threaten it with legal action without basis, escalating a bitter public spat between the two sides over the regulator’s predatory pricing tariff order.
29. Volkswagen managers discussed changing the corporate structure of its trucks business last week, a step needed for an eventual separate listing. The trucks board debated whether to turn the legal structure into a Societas Europea (SE) or a German stock corporation (AG), but no decision had been taken.
30. The Madras High Court today issued notice to the telecom ministry and TRAI on a PIL seeking a direction for resumption of mobile provider Aircel's services at the earliest.
31. China aims to get its home-grown, overseas-listed companies to float on the domestic exchanges through the depositary receipts route.
32. Indian Embassy telephone lines have been spoofed by fraudsters in the US to cheat people for money. The Indian Embassy here has informed the US Government about it and launched its own internal investigation.
33. Panasonic India on Monday made available its hitherto online-exclusive smartphones -- including the recently-launched P-100 (2GB variant) -- across leading retail outlets in the country.
34. Big Data analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are among the top technologies employed by healthcare and life sciences firms across the world, a report by global software major Infosys said on Monday. "Cyber security (77%), Big Data analytics (72%) and AI (59%) are the three digital technologies most utilised by healthcare firms currently."
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