Microsoft won PC but lost mobile, what now?

Microsoft is bowing out of building its own phones for consumers. After dramatically scaling back its Lumia devices last year, Microsoft hammered the final nail in the coffin today with an additional $950 million write off and 1,850 more job losses. Microsoft's Lumia devices still account for more than 95 percent of all Windows phones sold, but a lack of new devices means sales and Windows Phone market share have declined sharply over the past year. Windows Phone is dead, and phone makers aren't

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6 big changes coming to Android phones

After A, I, V, and R (as in artificial intelligence and virtual reality), the next most important letter at Google’s just-concluded I/O conference here had to have been N.That’s the letter assigned to the next version of its Android operating system, the subject of a major part of the keynote Wednesday. Google will almost certainly name it  after a dessert beginning with “n,” in keeping with its habit of thinking with its sweet tooth when christening new Android releases. While we wait for a ruling from the Google officials on that, here’s what we do know is coming from Android N when it ships later this summer:

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Must Read, Ancient Egyptian spellbook revealed: Papyrus contains curses that claim to ‘burn the heart of a woman' and make men do exactly what you want

Recently translated texts dating back 1,700 years reveal the ancient spells that called upon both gods and demons in hopes to attain love, sex, and power. Researchers have uncovered numerous magical formulas which may once have been used in hopes to tamper with fate, requiring a person simply add the name of their target in order to lay a curse. The spells are just a small part of an expansive collection of Egyptian papyri discovered more than 100 years ago in the city Oxyrhynchus.

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India's mini space shuttle blasts off

India successfully launched its first model space shuttle on Monday, a top official said, as New Delhi joined the race to develop a reusable rocket to make space travel easier and cheaper. The winged shuttle blasted off on a rocket from the southeastern spaceport of Sriharikota at about 7:00am (0130 GMT), with television footage showing it streaming through a clear sky. 

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Buying a smartphone? Understand these features

If you’re shopping for a new smartphone, you might feel like you need a geek-to-English dictionary just to understand the lingo. Megapixel this, gigahertz that, terabyte this. It could make your head spin. Am I right?

If you’re one of the many looking to upgrade your smartphone this summer – but need a bit of help to understand what all the tech specs mean — look no further than this following

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Dinosaurs may have had lips, research suggests. But could they whistle?

The "Jurassic Park" image of a Tyrannosaurus rex baring a mouthful of ferocious teeth may be getting a facelift. New research suggests that theropods -- those "beast-footed" terrestrial carnivores -- had lips and gums that covered most of their teeth, challenging toothy ideas of what they looked like. University of Toronto vertebrate paleontologist Robert Reisz presented the findings Friday at the Canadian Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's annual meeting in Mississauga, Ontario. "In popular culture, we imagine dinosaurs as more ferocious-looking, but that is not the case," Reisz said in a news

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Your Dose Of Disruptive Tech For This Week !

As a part of the tech in Technology, we bring you the latest in the technology from around the world! This week we saw Microsoft building its own bot to rival Google and Viv and Google developing gigapixel camera for the art fans. We also saw Japanese developers reaching out to the public for their laughing robot and IMAX helping out big screen lovers go Virtual Reality. In case, if you’ve missed any of those, along with Google’s plan for saving the pedestrian accidents, don’t worry just keep reading !

Microsoft Is Building Its Own Bot To Rival Google Assistant And Viv

Conversational bots, which can understand complex voice commands and complete tasks for you, are quickly becoming the rage. Earlier this month,

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Samsung Galaxy Note 6 tipped to feature 6GB RAM

Samsung has launched a new 6GB DRAM chip, which adds weight to the rumour that the Galaxy Note 6 will feature a whopping 6GB RAM.

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Google Unveils Project Soli 2.0, Radar-Based Gesture Tracking for Wearables, IoT

Google's annual developer conference saw some huge announcements from the company on the three-day extravaganza which included Android N improvements, Daydream VR ecosystem, Android app support on Chrome OS, Allo and Duo, Google Home, Google Assistant, Android TV, Android Auto, and more. The search engine giant however had more in store for the last day of I/O 2016 where Google's ATAP (Advanced Technologies and Projects) took the stage and showed off improvements to its gesture tracking technology, Project Soli, and its touch-sensitive fabric technology, Project Jacquard.

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