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Twitter ramps up fight against fake profiles before US midterm

Posted on October 2, 2018 by ujjwal pandit

Twitter said it’s expanding the methods of identifying fake accounts to include scrutiny of those with stock or stolen avatar photos, copied profile biographies and intentionally misleading profile information.

Twitter said it has been improving its algorithms to identify spam and automated accounts.

Twitter Inc is ramping up the fight against fake profiles and spam in an effort to clean up its platform ahead of the US November midterm elections. The company said it removed about 50 accounts in August that misrepresented themselves on the social-media site as members of various state Republican parties. It’s also taken action on Tweets sharing news about elections and political issues with misleading or incorrect party affiliation information, Twitter said Monday in a blog post.

Twitter said it’s expanding the methods of identifying fake accounts to include scrutiny of those with stock or stolen avatar photos, copied profile biographies and intentionally misleading profile information. Twitter, Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s YouTube have been escalating their efforts to fight foreign influence campaigns ahead of the November elections. The technology platforms were used in the 2016 campaign by overseas actors to meddle in American politics and broaden political divisions. During the presidential election, the Kremlin-backed Russian Internet Research Agency operated accounts masquerading as official political organizations and local American news sources.

Executives from the technology companies have appeared before congressional lawmakers several times over the past year to explain what they’ve been doing to combat political interference from countries including Russia and Iran. Twitter Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey told members of Congress in September that he was rethinking core parts of the company’s product to improve the health of conversation on the platform.

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Twitter said it has been improving its algorithms to identify spam and automated accounts. In the first half of September, the company said it challenged an average of 9.4 million accounts each week. As a result of greater efforts to ferret out false information, the number of spam-related reports from users has declined to an average of about 16,000 per day in September from 17,000 per day in May, Twitter said. During the past few months, the company rolled out a stricter registration process for developers requesting access to Twitter data, and is now suspending about 30,000 applications each month, according to the blog post.

Nokia 7.1 Plus, Nokia 7.1 India launch on October 11: Expected price, specifications

Posted on October 2, 2018 by ujjwal pandit

Nokia 7.1 Plus, Nokia 7.1 India launch on October 11: Expected price, specifications, features and everything else we know.

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Nokia 7.1 Plus or Nokia X7 along with Nokia 7.1 are expected to launch in India on October 11. HMD Global has sent out media invites for an event on this date, though the venue has not been confirmed yet. The smartphones are expected to make their global debut on October 4 on London. Nokia X7 might be rebranded as Nokia 7.1 Plus when it is launched globally. Ahead of launch, we are seeing more leaks around the device, which is expected to feature a notched display.

Nokia has previously put out official teaser image of its upcoming phone on its official Facebook page in Taiwan. Though the image does not clearly show whether Nokia 7.1 Plus will sport a notch on top of the screen, a second teaser confirms a tall display with 19:9 aspect ratio. Expected specifications and price have also been leaked. Here’s a look at everything we know about Nokia 7.1 Plus so far:

Nokia 7.1 Plus, Nokia 7.1: Expected price

Tipster Roland Quandt revealed on Twitter the estimated price of Nokia 7.1, said to sell at around 399 euros (Rs 33,680 approx.). This price is for 4GB RAM and 64GB internal storage option of the phone.

Nokia 7.1 Plus, Nokia 7.1: Design and Display

Nokia 7.1 Plus as well as Nokia 7.1 have been spotted in China’s TENAA certification website. As per image renders, posted by MySmartPrice, the ‘Plus’ variant will sport a design similar to that of Nokia X5 and Nokia X6 with bezel-less display, notch on top of the screen, and a thin chin with Nokia branding.

Also read: Nokia 7.1 Plus/X7 leaked images, reveal details about back and colour options

Nokia 7.1 Plus is said to feature a big 6.9-inch screen featuring 2,160 x 1,080 pixel resolution. Nokia 7.1 will reportedly have a regular non-notched display with 18:9 aspect ratio. Earlier this week, Nokia 7.1 Plus images surfaced online on Baidushowing silver and colour options for the device.

Nokia 7.1 Plus is expected to sport a glass back design with an aluminium chassis. It will have a protruding dual camera setup on the back paired with an LED flash. A circular fingerprint sensor will be placed below the rear camera module, like we saw on Nokia X6 and X5.

Nokia 7.1 Plus, Nokia 7.1: Camera

Both Nokia 7.1 Plus and Nokia 7.1 are expected to feature dual rear camera configurations with Zeiss lenses. The devices will have a single selfie camera, according to reports. The dual camera setup on Nokia 7.1 Plus could have a 13MP primary sensor and a 12MP secondary sensor. The front camera could be 20MP.

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HMD Global has sent out media invites for an event on October 11 in India, were it is expected to launch Nokia 7.1 and Nokia 7.1 Plus Andoid One phones.

Nokia 7.1 Plus, Nokia 7.1: Processor, battery, and memory

Nokia 7.1 Plus will be powered by the Snapdragon 710 processor. The phone could sport a type-C USB port at the bottom. Expected to come with 6GB RAM/128GB internal storage option, Nokia 7.1 Plus could also be support up to 18W fast charging. The battery could be a 3,400mAh one.

As for Nokia 7.1, Quandt has revealed that the phone could come with 4GB RAM/64GB internal memory. Both the phones are expected to run Android 9.0 Pie out-of-the-box.

Nokia 7.1 Plus, Nokia 7.1: Software

Nokia 7.1 Plus and Nokia 7.1 global variants are expected to run stock build of Android as the phones will be launched under Google’s Android One program. Both the devices are said to run Android 9.0 Pie out-of-the-box. The Chinese variant will run on a custom-built ROM for the Android operating system.

Some Huawei Mate 10 Pro units start receiving Android Pie

Posted on October 1, 2018 by ujjwal pandit

Huawei teased the new EMUI 9.0 last month, and we expected the user interface, based on Android Pie, to arrive with the Huawei Mate 20 in two weeks. Yet the company has delivered a pleasant surprise and is already pushing the update to some Huawei Mate 10 Pro units – BLA-L09 and BLA-L29 versions, sold mostly in Europe.

According to our source, EMUI 9.0 brings new gesture setup for multi-task switching between apps and a new improved 2.0 version of GPU Turbo. With Android Pie promoting digital health and wellbeing the Huawei UI offers the Android Dashboard in Settings.

Other novelties include Advanced Battery with AI Support, Notch Support, Adaptive Brightness, a slight redesign of the volume slider, and of course, security improvements. The package comes in two versions for the two models – BLA-L09C432E4R1P8B108 and BLA-L29C432E4R1P8B108. You need 2.2 GB free on your internal storage to download it.

Lenovo to release a phone with four rear cameras in October

Posted on October 1, 2018 by ujjwal pandit

The Lenovo Z5 Pro was officially teased by the VP a few weeks ago. It is expected to come with a bezel-less display like the OPPO Find X but will have a mechanical slider instead of a motor. So far, all the leaks of the device that have surfaced online have only shown the front of the phone and not its rear. This has led us to presume the Z5 Pro might be the phone with the quad-cameras

Microsoft ‘Robot OS’ is coming soon to Windows 10

Posted on October 1, 2018October 1, 2018 by ujjwal pandit

Microsoft has announced an experimental release of “Robot Operating System (ROS1)” for Windows as a next step in bringing features like Machine Learning (ML), computer vision, Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud services and other Microsoft technologies to home, education, commercial and industrial robots.

The announcement comes as part of the “ROSCon 2018” that is being in Madrid, Spain where Microsoft is demonstrating a “ROBOTIS Turtlebot 3” robot that recognises and steers towards the person closest to it and runs on the “Windows 10 IoT Enterprise” solution.

“This development will bring the manageability and security of ‘Windows 10 Internet of Things (IoT) Enterprise’ solutions to the ‘ROS’ ecosystem,” Lou Amadio, Principal Software Engineer, Windows IoT, Microsoft wrote in a blog-post late on Friday.

“ROS” is a set of libraries and tools that are used to build complex robots and “Windows 10 IoT Enterprise” delivers enterprise manageability and security solutions to industry based IoT devices used in retail, manufacturing, healthcare and other industries.

Microsoft has joined ROS Industrial Consortium –an open source project that extends the advanced capabilities of the ROS software to manufacturing.

The tech giant has joined the ROS Industrial Consortium –an open source project that extends the advanced capabilities of the ROS software to manufacturing — to extend and improve the productivity and return on investment of industrial robots.

“Windows has been a trusted partner of robotic and industrial systems for decades and we’re looking forward to bringing the intelligent edge to robotics by bringing more advanced features,” Amadio added.

With the advancements of robots, Microsoft plans to experiment into advanced development tools.

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Posted on September 30, 2018September 30, 2018 by ujjwal pandit

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