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Amazon Cloud Cam update enables ceiling installation, app audio shutoff and night vision controls

Amazon Cloud Cam. Post updated below with correct information about the new audio features. Amazon is releasing the first major software update for its Cloud Cam today, addressing some of the biggest user complaints about its new indoor security camera. The app update will start rolling out today via the Cloud Cam app for iPhone and Android. It will let users disable Read More


Freedom 251 Maker Resurfaces, Still Upbeat on Delivering Handsets

HIGHLIGHTS Mohit Goel said that had govt been supportive, he’d have delivered units Freedom 251 maker’s MD was arrested in February this year He was later granted bail by the court Mohit Goel, the maker of the controversial Freedom 251 smartphone which became the talk of the town last year, resurfaced on Sunday, saying that if he gets support from the government, Read More


Samsung to Chase Big M&A Deals on Three Fronts, Says Strategy Chief

Samsung Electronics’ $8 billion purchase of automotive and audio electronics company Harman has given the technology conglomerate confidence to chase more big deals, its strategy chief said on Friday. Young Sohn, the South Korean company’s Silicon Valley-based president and chief strategy officer, said he was keen for world’s top maker of memory chips, smartphones and televisions to expand in automotive markets, digital health Read More


OnePlus 5T Star Wars Limited Edition Announced, Goes on Sale

HIGHLIGHTS OnePlus 5T Star Wars Limited Edition announced for India New Limited Edition to go on sale in the country on December 15 It’s expected to sport specifications identical to original OnePlus 5T Celebrating its third anniversary in India, OnePlus on Monday announced the OnePlus 5T Star Wars Limited Edition in association with Star Wars: The Last Jedi that is due to Read More


Stephen Hawking’s Doctoral Thesis Published Online, Crashes Cambridge University Website

HIGHLIGHTS Stephen Hawking’s thesis has been made available online now The Cambridge University website is hosting the thesis It got a huge traffic, so much so that the website crashed Demand for acclaimed British physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking’s PhD thesis intermittently crashed part of Cambridge University’s website as physics enthusiasts flocked to read his work, the media reported on Tuesday. Hawking’s Read More


New Supercapacitor Tech May Help Charge Your Smartphone in Seconds: Study

HIGHLIGHTS It can majorly improve energy-storage devices called supercapacitors The design doubles the amount of electrical energy the device can hold Supercapacitors are a promising, green alternative to regular batteries You may soon be able to charge your smartphone within seconds, thanks to a novel technology developed by researchers that can significantly improve energy-storage devices known as supercapacitors. The design Read More


iPhone-Based Ultrasound Machine Can Detect Cancer

A novel iPhone-based portable ultrasound machine that can help detect cancer easily at home has been developed by US researchers. The device called Butterfly IQ is a scanner of the size of an electric razor that can display black-and-white imagery of the body, when paired with an iPhone. Developed by Connecticut-based start-up Butterfly Network, the pocket sized device works by Read More


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Motherhood reduces effect of education on young UK women’s career prospects

Young women with higher education qualifications are just as likely to be out of work as young men who have no qualifications, often due to the impact of having children, poor mental health or a lack of suitable jobs, a major new study has reported. Motherhood has a greater impact on a woman’s career prospects than her level of education, Read More


Making others’ voices heard through education and journalism

Before senior Drew Bent began his undergraduate studies at MIT, he considered his interests in education to be “side projects.” He had worked at the educational platform Khan Academy and at Sony Ericsson while he was a high school student, employing what he had considered his main skill set since he was a child: programming. “Basically, programming is all I Read More


Education, Not Condemnation, Key to End Gender Violence, Say Local Women Leaders

Sally Mboumien remembers the day she pressed a steaming hot stone against her chest. In Bawock, the rural community of western Cameroon where she grew up, young girls often had their young, sprouting breasts flattened with a hot iron or a hammer or spatulas that had been heated over burning coals. This was good for the girls because it would Read More