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Google researchers turned existing headphones into Heart Rate Monitor
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Heart rate monitoring in smartwatches relies partially on photoplethysmography (PPG), which uses light pulses to measure blood activity

Now researchers at Google have successfully used audioplethysmography (APG), which utilizes ultrasound to measure heart rate, for cardiac monitoring with hearable devices WITHOUT adding extra sensors or compromising battery life.

They did it with off-the-shelf ANC earbuds & with just a software update.

The trick works by sending a low intensity ultrasound probing signal through an ANC headphone's speakers. This signal triggers echoes, which are received via on-board feedback microphones.

"We observe that the tiny ear canal skin displacement and heartbeat vibrations modulate these ultrasound echoes.
Ultrasound approach worked robustly even when music was playing & with bad earbuds sealed"

APG adheres to safety regulations with an 80dB margin below the limit

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Apple Watch BAN Issued by ITC in Masimo Patent Battle
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The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has ordered a BAN on Apple Watch imports into the country after finding that Apple infringed Masimo's patents relating to light-based technology for reading blood-oxygen levels.

Masimo accused Apple of having illegally poached Masimo employees and stole trade secrets when developing the Apple Watch.
The company is seeking over $1.8 billion in damages and co-ownership of 5 Apple pulse oximetry patents that's originally Masimo's tech

Apple might also face another Ban on Watch import in a separate patent court battle with AliveCor company.

The ban is now subject to presidential review, so it does NOT take effect immediately.
Apple can also take the ban to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit after the 60-day review period ends.

Apple said: "Masimo has wrongly attempted to use the ITC to keep a potentially lifesaving product from millions of U.S. consumers"
LOL Apple

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iQOO 12 Official teaser

iQOO has teased its upcoming flagships series , iQOO 12 series which is scheduled to launch on 7th November in China

Both iQOO 12 and iQOO 12 Pro will be powered by Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor and will also pack Q1 e-sports chip (dedicated display processor)

iQOO 12 will also be available in Red Plain leather color while the iQOO 12 Pro will come in Black and White color variant

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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 Retro Limited Edition phone announced
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Samsung has introduced Galaxy Z Flip5 Retro β€” a limited edition phone that draws inspiration from the SGH-E700, a retro flip phone that was released 20 years ago in 2003.
This was Samsung’s first to feature a built-in antenna

The Galaxy Z Flip5 Retro implements various distinctive features of the SGH-E700, such as the combination of indigo blue and silver colours, a UX design reinterpretation of 2000s pixel graphics and an exclusive animation on the Flex Window that portrays a cityscape with a touch of nostalgia.

The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 Retro is priced at 1,599,400 won (~1182$) for 512GB storage model
It will be available in Korea, the UK, Germany, Spain and Australia

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Really A Dead Brand. Remember when the launch of the last GT series was in India? It was on 29th April 2022 ft. GT Neo 3. 1.5 years later, we are yet to witness any GT series launching in India.

Meanwhile the current GT series are selling for deep discounts and Realmeme is currently clearing the stocks of the GT series. The next launch of the GT series in India? No news, probably dead and discontinued in India.

Reasons? Many.
1. Heavy politics within the company's people where several founding people who made Realme a true brand in India were forced to resign from the company.
2. Huge dependency on China. The employees of India were hardly given freedom of taking decisions, as was seen from the recent interview of Madhav Sheth, the Ex CEO and Global Marketing Head of Realme India. All the decision making and control was done from HQ in China with little to no freedom of Indian employees. And the irony was that they called themselves an Indian brand.
3. Heavy issues in devices and heavy ads and bloatwares even in the flagship devices. None were spared including the latest 11 Pro series that came pre-installed with almost 70+ applications.
4. Poor management of the Community. The Realme community India was once a peaceful place to be in. The management and handling of issues was top-notch with one of the best community specialists the company could ever have. But same politics forced them to resign and then were succeeded by some dumb clowns who hardly even know the true meaning of the community. The decision management is poor and irony is that they are focusing on banning several ex- community members instead of focusing on making the community better. The power is given by the admins in the hands of some bigger clowns who are filled with useless ego and only for childish and clownary things like trying to defame others and nothing else.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits Killing Windows Phone was a MISTAKE

Killing off Windows Phon
e was one of the hardest (and worst) decisions Microsoft ever made.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is the 3rd chief executive to admit that mistake

Satya Nadella became Microsoft CEO in 2014 & just after 1 year, he wrote off $7.6 billion related to Microsoft’s acquisition of the Nokia phone business.

Microsoft co-founder & CEO Bill Gates said his β€œgreatest mistake ever” was Microsoft losing to Android.
Google acquired Android in 2005 for $50 million & Google’s initial focus was beating Microsoft’s Windows phone.

Why did Microsoft kill Windows Phone?
A former head of the Windows Phone Developer at Microsoft responded.

Acc. to him, Microsoft was struggling to get carriers to feature the phones with the sales team. This, in turn, prompted Microsoft to buy Nokia.

But still it was an "uphill battle" as the sales personnel were more focused on the iOS hype. This negatively impacted the sales.

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Apple introduces M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max processors in its Scary Fast event

Apple announced M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max, ARM-based SoCs built on 3nm process for the Mac

β€’ 60% faster Neural Engine (16-core)
β€’ AV1 decoding
β€’ Rendering speeds are 2.5x faster than on the M1
β€’ Utilizes Half the power than M1

What's NEW in GPU:
β€’ Based on NEW Architecture
β€’ Mesh Shading
β€’ Hardware-accelerated Ray Tracing

Dynamic Caching: With this new technology, only the exact amount of memory needed is used for each task

Apple M3:
β€’ 25 billion transistors (5 billion more than M2)
β€’ 8-core CPU (4P + 4E)
β€’ 10-core GPU
β€’ 24GB unified memory
β€’ CPU 35% and GPU 65% faster than M1

M3 Pro:
β€’ 37 billion transistors
β€’ 12-core CPU (6P + 6E)
β€’ 18-core GPU
β€’ 36GB unified memory
β€’ CPU 30% faster in single-threaded than M1
β€’ GPU 40% faster than M1

M3 Max:
β€’ 2x Pro-Res Engines
β€’ 92 billion transistors
β€’ 16-core CPU (12P + 4E)
β€’ 40-core GPU
β€’ 128GB unified memory
β€’ GPU 50% & CPU 80% faster than M1 Max

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Apple updates 24β€³ iMac with M3 chip

Apple has updated its 24β€³ iMac with the new M3 chip features 8-core CPU, bringing a major upgrade to the SoC and GPU compared to its 2021 model with M1 chip

It features the same 4.5K Retina display but it gets faster Wi-Fi 6E.
The iMac now supports up to 24GB of unified LPDDR5 memory, and the next-generation GPU supports hardware-accelerated mesh shading and ray tracing.

Pricing:
β€’ 8GB+256GB (8 core GPU) : 1300$ OR Rs.1,34,900
β€’ 8GB+256GB (10 core GPU) = 1500$ OR Rs.1,54,900
β€’ 8GB+512GB (10 core GPU) = 1700$ OR Rs.1,74,900

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Apple updates MacBook Pro 14β€³ and 16β€³ with M3 series

Apple introduced the new MacBook Pro powered by new M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max processors.
The 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M3 is 60% faster than the 13‑inch MacBook Pro with M1

The 14" & 16-inch MacBook Pro with M3 Pro is 40% faster than 16‑inch model with M1 Pro.
With M3 Max, they are 2.5x faster than the 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Max.

ALL MacBook Pro models feature a Liquid Retina XDR display with 20% brighter SDR content at up to 600 nits, 1000 nits sustained & 1600 nits of peak brightness for HDR content.

It has Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, support for up to 4 external displays first time and 128GB LPDDR5 unified memory

The 14.2-inch and 16.2-inch models with Liquid Retina XDR mini-LED display, ProMotion technology with adaptive refresh rate up to 120Hz etc

However, the BASE model with the M3 chip still comes with 8GB RAM in 2023, costing 1600$. That's Apple

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Apple's "Scary fast" event was shot on iPhone 15 Pro Max

Apple claims that their 30-minute long M3 family chipset launch event was shot on an iPhone and edited on Mac
All presenters, locations and drone footage were shot on iPhone 15 Pro Max

However, Apple didn't reveal where they hide the mic, how much work was done for color grading & how much CGI was there but nevertheless it was very impressive

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Interesting things about Apple M3 Processors

Compared to M2, Apple has cut down on Memory Bandwidth on M3 series

M2 Pro was 200GB/s, M3 Pro is 150GB/s
M2 Max was 400GB/s, M3 Max is 400GB/s

M3 series NPU is 17 TOPS which is FAR less than Snapdragon X Elite with 45 TOPS

Also, Apple did NOT compare M3 series with M2 family chipset in their event. They just straightway compared it to 2yrs old M1.

M2 Pro β†’ M3 Pro
8 β†’ 6 P-cores
19 β†’ 18
GPU cores
256 β†’ 192 bit bus

So, Apple removed 2 P cores on the M3 Pro chip and gave it 2 more E cores. This led to M3 Pro having 37 billion transistors, which is a decrease from the M2 Pro's 40 billion

Also, M2 Pro was 16% faster than M1 Pro.
Apple says M3 Pro is 20% faster than M1 Pro

Plus, the cut-down model of the M3 Max (the one that now features a 30-core GPU vs 32 on the M2 Max) also gets downgraded to a 384 bit bus

14-inch MacBook Pro with M3 comes with Single Fan instead of 2.
The base model still comes with 8GB RAM after costing 1600$

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JioPhone Prima 4G feature phone launched in India

Specifications:
β€’ 2.4-inch (320Γ—240 px) TFT display
β€’ ARM Cortex-A53 processor
β€’ 512MB RAM for smooth performance
β€’ MicroSD Card Slot

Powered by KaiOS based on FireFox OS open-source project
Supports apps like YouTube, Google Apps, Facebook, WhatsApp etc

β€’ Front & Rear cameras
β€’ 1800mAh battery
β€’ 3.5mm headphone Jack; Bluetooth 5.0
β€’ Supports 23 Indian languages

Priced at just Rs.2,599 (~30$)

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Aadhaar details of 815 Million Indians leaked in India's β€˜biggest’ data breach
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Possibly the β€˜biggest' case of data leak in the country, personal details of more than 81.5 crore Indians, sourced allegedly from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), is now available for sale on Dark Web

The hacker claims to have extracted the information from the Covid-19 test details of the citizens registered with ICMR.

The leak was initially noticed by Resecurity, an American cyber security and intelligence agency

A β€˜threat actor’ with the alias β€˜pwn001’ posted a thread on Breach Forums saying: "enabling access to records of 815 million (81.5 crore) Indians"

Name, Passport number, Adhaar Number, Address, Phone number etc details are available in the breached data
CERT-In has informed that sample data, which is on sale, MATCHES with the actual data of ICMR

India’s entire population is just over 1486 Million people and 815 Million people data is already up for sale

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Huawei Nova 11 SE 4G launched in China

Specifications:
β€’ 6.67-inch FHD+ resolution OLED display
β€’ 90Hz refresh rate
β€’ 1.07 billion colors display
β€’ 100% DCI-P3 color gamut

β€’ Snapdragon 680 4G SoC
β€’ 32MP Front camera

β€’ 108MP main + 8MP UltraWide + 2MP useless triple rear camera
β€’ 4500mAh battery
β€’ 66W fast charging
β€’ Under-Display fingerprint sensor
β€’ NFC support
β€’ Powered by HarmonyOS 4
Colors: Green, Golden Black & snowy White

Prices:
β€’ 8GB+256GB : 1999 CNY (~$275)
β€’ 8GB+512GB : 2199 CNY (~$300)

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Behind The Scenes of Shooting Entire Apple's Scary Event on iPhone 15 Pro Max

The 30-minute long M3 family chipset launch event was shot on an iPhone and edited on a Mac
All presenters, locations, and drone footage were shot on iPhone 15 Pro Max

Apple has now published BTS of shooting the event on iPhone which required the help of a full suite of professional recording equipment costing tens of thousands of dollars and studio lighting

So, it’s not like everyday folks can recreate these kinds of results at home unless they happen to own a shedload of ludicrously expensive equipment.
But even if Apple had used a DSLR camera like in its previous events, the same equipment and lightning were still required.

This was a neat way to promote the recording quality of iPhones, unlike some brands that make youtube videos comparing their smartphone's capabilities with iPhones or they do in their launch event even after shamelessly copying everything from iPhone

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