WASHINGTON — The upcoming Apple flagship iPhones may have a cinematic video feature that will automatically blur the backgrounds of footage as part of a new video portrait mode. The ‘cinematic video’ feature is one of the three central new camera features coming to this year’s iPhone series, which will likely be called iPhone 13. The […]

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean tech giant Samsung recently announced that a new processor Exynos W920 had been introduced for smartwatches and other wearables. The company said it’s the world’s first wearable-specific chip to be built on a 5nm process, helping improve performance and efficiency. The Exynos 920 has two Cortex-A55 cores and a Mali-G68 graphics processing unit […]

NEW DELHI — The Indian government on Aug. 10 informed the Delhi High Court that Twitter has, prima facie, appointed Chief Compliance Officer, Resident Grievance Officer, and Nodal Contact Person.  The appointments comply with recently amended Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 of the country. Additional Solicitor General Chetan Sharma, appearing for Centre, […]

BENGALURU, India — Indian IT service company Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS) has announced the sale of its healthcare services business to Baring Private Equity Asia for an enterprise value of $1.2 billion (INR 8,906 crore). Baring Private Equity Asia is one of Asia’s largest private alternative investment firms headquartered in Hong Kong and with assets under the […]

La tecnología inteligente actual ha marcado el comienzo de la Cuarta Revolución Industrial, una nueva era que integra las comunicaciones con las prácticas industriales automatizadas y la fabricación tradicional. En resumen, los dispositivos inteligentes pueden hacer innecesaria la intervención humana: las máquinas se comunican, se autodiagnostican y resuelven problemas. Si bien estos nuevos productos y […]

The Peres Center for Peace and Innovation has launched a first-of-its-kind tour about innovation from a female perspective, from the perspective of women who broke through glass ceilings in Israel and around the world. “Women Creating Innovation,” sponsored by Salesforce Israel, is part of the center’s Innovation Center. The launch event was attended by the Minister […]

NEW DELHI — The upper house of the Indian parliament, the Rajya Sabha, on Aug. 9 passed a bill, The Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill 2021, that seeks to do away with the retrospective tax provision—which has hit India’s prospects as an investment destination.  India modified its tax laws in 2012 to make them effective from 1962, […]

WASHINGTON — American video game developer Valve’s Steam VR software has announced that users can now add floating desktop windows inside Virtual Reality games. This feature will allow the users to watch other apps without leaving the virtual reality game. The new feature is a helpful addition, allowing players to keep an eye on anything from Discord to a […]