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When Huawei had launched, they were known as a brand that mostly dealt with budget smartphones and even their flagships were not up to the standards that people expected at that time. However, times have now changed and leading the innovation front nowadays is Huawei. A few of their flagships in the recent year or so have been nothing short of impressive but this year’s Mate 10 line up has changed the brand image forever and consumers now know that Huawei is a serious market player and should not be taken lightly. We’ve already reviewed the  Mate 10 Lite and there was a lot to like about that phone. Today we have with us the most expensive one of the bunch, the Mate 10 Pro. For a more in-depth review and understanding of various Mate 10 Pro features, do watch the video review linked below. Design Like most of the flagships in the industry, Huawei also makes use of some premium material on the Mate 10 Pro. You have curved Gorilla Glass on the front and back and where th...

Huawei loves dual rear camera systems so much that it has been adding this arrangement in all of its flagships and mid-rangers for quite a while. The Chinese smartphone giant is planning to take things to a whole new level by introducing a smartphone with 3 cameras on the back for taking 40MP pictures. A digital artist who has been working for one of the company’s creative agencies has revealed some information about the upcoming Huawei’s P-series through promotional materials. Most probably, the successor of Huawei P10, the Huawei P11 will feature three cameras on the rear. It is surprising to see the company moving to a three lens camera system. This triple camera setup will be capable of taking 40MP photos and will feature 5x hybrid zooming. Furthermore, selfies won’t be forgotten, the upcoming smartphone will feature 24MP shots even under low light conditions, the feature which is already available in Vivo V7. The new camera setup will be capable of capturing ...

Various users have spotted what could be Apple's autonomous vehicle PHOTO: TWITTER Since most companies are exploring the idea of self-driving cars, it seems Apple too is secretly working on its own version of the technology. A few months ago, news had leaked that Apple was granted permission to develop autonomous cars. Since then, the tech giant  has managed to avoid the spotlight and no real development was reported in terms of any vehicles coming out,  The Verge   reports. Recently, however, a keen observer named MacAllister Higgins, spotted what looks like the Apple equivalent of a self-driving vehicle. In a video posted on Twitter, a Lexus SUV rode the streets what could be one of Apple’s “Project Titan” self-driving cars. Higgins believes the car is the same type of vehicle Apple approved to use for tests on public roads. Higgins isn’t your typical Apple fan who happened to find an Apple car roaming the streets. He’s a robot...

FILE PHOTO: The Apple logo is pictured inside the newly opened Omotesando Apple store at a shopping district in Tokyo June 26, 2014. PHOTO: REUTERS Apple and General Electric released app-making tools on Thursday tailored to GE’s Predix platform for connecting power plants, jet engines and other industrial equipment to the internet. The software development kit marks the first tangible result of a partnership the companies announced last week. This is what Apple’s ‘self-driving car’ looks like It extends Predix’s industrial internet capabilities to iPads and iPhones, so factory workers, pilots or service technicians can use familiar devices to do more sophisticated tasks. Apple will be tapping into the growing demand for industrial internet capabilities, which can improve the performance of factory machines, predict when wind turbines will fail and help technicians fix machinery, making Apple’s devices relevant in the industrial arena. While GE will gain access ...

People are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the picture of various currencies of money in this illustration taken April 4, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS Apple said none of its operations were moved from Ireland and that changes made to its corporate structure in 2015 were specially designed to preserve tax payments to the United States, and not to reduce taxes anywhere else. The  statement   on Monday from Apple comes following criticism of its tax affairs after reports based on the “Paradise Papers” showed that the iPhone maker shifted key parts of its business to Jersey as an offshore tax haven in a move to maintain a low tax rate. The “Paradise Papers” are a trove of financial documents leaked mostly from Appleby, a prominent offshore law firm. The documents were obtained by Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and some media outlets. Reuters has not independently verif...

The audience assembles before the start of Apple's annual developer conference in San Jose, California, US June 5, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS Research by Apple computer scientists on how self-driving cars can better spot cyclists and pedestrians while using fewer sensors has been posted online, in what appears to be the company’s first publicly disclosed paper on autonomous vehicles. The paper by Yin Zhou and Oncel Tuzel, submitted on November 17 to independent online journal arXiv, is significant because Apple’s famed corporate secrecy around future products has been seen as a drawback among artificial intelligence and machine learning researchers. The scientists proposed a new software approach called “VoxelNet” for helping computers detect three-dimensional objects. Apple declined to comment. Academics are used to freely sharing their work with peers at other organizations. Yielding to that dynamic, Apple in July established the Apple Machine Learning Journal for...

Apple CEO Tim Cook arrives before the fourth World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, China, December 2, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook said developers using its platform in China number 1.8 million and have earned a total $16.93 billion, representing roughly a quarter of total global App Store earnings. Cook shared the data on Sunday during a speech at China’s top public cyber policy forum, organized by the Cybersecurity Administration of China (CAC), which oversees internet regulation including censorship. Earlier this year, Apple said that developers had earned roughly $70 billion in total revenue through the store. Apple is facing criticism from local users and rights groups for bowing to pressure from Beijing cyber regulators after it decided to remove hundreds of apps from its Chinese store this year, including messaging apps and virtual private network (VPN) services, which help users subvert China’s Great Firewall. App...

An attendee uses a new iPhone X during a presentation for the media in Beijing, China October 31, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS Shares in several of Apple Asian suppliers fell for a second straight day on Tuesday, hurt by a report from Taiwan’s Economic Daily and some analysts saying that iPhone X demand could come in below expectations in the first quarter. Apple will slash its sales forecast for the iPhone X in the quarter to 30 million units, the Taiwanese newspaper said on Monday, citing unidentified sources – down from what it said was an initial plan of 50 million units. Apple has not publicly disclosed quarterly sales targets for the iPhone X, which went on sale in November. Some analysts have also flagged disappointing demand. US-based JL Warren Capital is predicting shipments of just 25 million units as consumers balk at the “high price point and a lack of interesting innovations”. Chinese broker Sinolink Securities said it expects the model’s price would dampen c...

Apple has confirmed that it has acquired Shazam. PHOTO: SHAZAM Apple on Monday confirmed it had reached a deal to acquire Shazam Entertainment, the UK-based app that lets users identify songs by pointing a smartphone at the audio source. Apple did not give a price for the acquisition. Technology news website TechCrunch reported the deal on Friday with a price of as much as $400 million, far short of the most recent $1 billion valuation for privately held Shazam. Apple’s CEO says developers have earned $17 billion from China App Store Apple said Shazam would be a “natural fit” with its Apple Music streaming service and it would help users discover new songs. Apple Music has 27 million users and competes against Spotify, which has 60 million users. Apple said Shazam’s team would be joining the Cupertino company. In a statement, Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr said Shazam “is used by hundreds of millions of people around the world, across multiple platforms. … We...

The logo of Apple is seen in Los Angeles, California, United States, April 22, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS Apple said on Wednesday it would invest $390 million in Finisar, which it will use to build out a plant in Texas to make chips that power popular iPhone features such as face ID, animojis, and portrait-mode selfies. Apple’s CEO says developers have earned $17 billion from China App Store The award will be part of Apple’s $1 billion “Advanced Manufacturing Fund” to foster innovation and create jobs, Apple said in a statement. Finisar will use the funds to transform a shuttered, 700,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Texas to a facility developing vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) chips. Shares of Finisar were up nearly 17 percent at $22.50 in premarket trading, while Apple shares were flat.

Cancer cell spreading among healthy cell stem cells  Getty Infrared light-emitting nanoparticles can home in on, and reveal, microscopic tumours around the body that would be invisible to other scans and allow them to be treated, scientists have found. The technology could detect these cancers, known as  micro-metastases,  months before they could be seen with  magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ). This could improve survival rates by catching cancer cells that have spread around the body before they can become a harmful tumour. Lead scientist Dr Steven  Libutti , director of Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey in the US, said: "The Achilles' heel of surgical management for cancer is the presence of micro-metastases. "This is also a problem for proper staging or treatment planning. "The nanoprobes described in this paper will go a long way to solving these problems." Each injected nanoparticle acts as a microscopic optical device that emits...

This fall saw ever-rising estimates of the number of people reached by Russian-backed troll accounts — just shy of 150 million at last count . Now the social network has at last released the tool it promised last month allowing users to see if they liked or followed one of the many pages or pieces of content put online during the sketchy attempt at mass manipulation. Far from shouting the availability of this tool from the rooftops, Facebook waited until the Friday before Christmas, a traditional dumping-ground for items companies would rather go unnoticed, and then stuck the tool deep in the help pages. Nice try, Facebook! To its credit, though, the tool is remarkably simple to use. Just go to this page and it should display any of the accounts created by Russia’s Internet Research Agency that you might have liked or followed. If you log into your Instagram account, it’ll show that info too. If you followed some of the shady acc...

Sponsored Content: Samsung Solid State Drives Power Gaming Championships In Beijing — And High-End Gaming At Home Having the best hardware is crucial to not falling behind in high-end gaming. The stakes were high at the 2017 League of Legends (LoL) Finals in Beijing in November — $2.25 million in prize money, to be exact. In the final moments, as fans in the 80,000-seat arena built for the 2008 Olympics watched, team Samsung Galaxy surged ahead to destroy SK Telecom T1. The winners gathered on stage to receive the Summoner's Cup, confetti rained down, and thousands of screaming fans waved glowing neon signs. "Samsung has looked pretty untouchable," raved a commentator on the live feed from the stadium. While SKT has been finding new strategies and figuring things out as they go, Samsung has "been so good at controlling the game, at limiting their opponents' opportunities and more importantly, limiting their mistakes....