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While everyone was expecting Apple to introduce its new colourful iPhone 5c as a “lower-cost” option, Nokia today announced a truly low-cost device with its new $29 Nokia 108. Compare that with the $29 Apple is charging for just the case-– the one no one seems to like— for its low-cost offering. iLounge got theirs a little early and described it: Nokia’s camera phone does calls, text, video capture, and also includes an up to 32GB of memory, an MP3 player, FM radio, Snake the game, and battery life up to 31 days on standby....

Nuance has just announced the next major version of its Mac dictation software, Dragon Dictate 4. The new version improves recognition accuracy as well as several new features, including the ability to machine transcribe from a pre-recorded audio file. You no longer have to be recording a voice live to get transcription. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRfbZ0h4yBo] We’ve had a quick play with the software and the accuracy is almost scary good compared to older versions of the software....

Powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chip, the Nubia Z11 falls in the league of the OnePlus 3, Asus ZenFone 3 and ZUK Z2 Pro. Incidentally, the Nubia Z11 is yet another smartphone from a Chinese OEM that comes with a 6GB RAM variant. The existing smartphones that boast of such a huge RAM under the hood include ZUK Z2 Pro, LeEco Le Max 2, OnePlus 3 among others. It’s worth noting that the Nubia Z11 comes with a 4GB RAM/64GB memory variant too apart from the 6GB RAM/128GB option....

A film about DC hero Nightwing was announced just a few days ago, and already the enthusiasm and anticipation is enormous. Nightwing is the hero name taken on by Dick Grayson, who started his hero career as the first Robin to fight alongside Batman. Grayson, who became the ward of Bruce Wayne after his parents were murdered, grew up fighting alongside his adoptive father in Gotham City. A former circus acrobat, his physical abilities and endurance are formidable....

No Voice Chat in Crucible Game: How to Fix? The game’s developers have designed Crucible in such a way that players would be familiar with the game yet still feel as if it has never been played before. The multi-shooter game is set with a low entry barrier and fairly high skill ceiling. After several years of delayed launches, Crucible has finally been released. It is safe to say that there are definitely a few things that need to be looked into....

Nokia 5.4 smartphone was launched in the year 2020 with Android 10 out of the box. The device is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 processor. In this guide, we will show you the real image of the ISP pinout and test point for the Nokia 5.4 (TA-1333, TA-1340, TA-1337, TA-1325). By using the ISP PinOUT, you can easily restore the stock ROM, bypass FRP lock, or reset user data on your device via UFi Box....

Well, these three phones from Nokia are mid-end and users are still expecting an high-end smartphone from Nokia. There are lots of rumors regarding Nokia 9 making rounds on the internet now. Nokia 9 is going to be a premium phone from Nokia and it will pack some awesome features like Nokia OZO audio which Nokia claims as “Advanced psychoacoustic technology” that “allows sound to be captured and played back just like it would in real life”....

Many people look forward to Prime Day every year. Next to Black Friday, it is one of the annual shopping occasions to score some huge bargains — if you know all the tips and tricks. Here are the details on Prime Speculation aside, the annual event will most likely take place at the end of June. That still leaves you with ample time to grab a Prime membership and get familiar with what it offers....

The New York Times is weighing in on Apple’s imminent iPhone event, corroborating past information as well as adding some new tidbits about Apple’s newest iPhones (the ‘iPhone 6’) and its brand new wearable (dubbed ‘iWatch’). The NYT report also corroborates almost every detail of the iPhone 6 leaks; two models, 4.7 and 5.5 inch, tapered edges. This is the design that has been observed in mockup videos for months now....

In a statement, Nokia claims that Apple accepted in 2011 a license covering some patents of Finns, but did not want to negotiate the payment of other intellectual properties that are used in Apple products. There are 32 patents at stake, covering technologies such as “display, user interface, software, antenna, chipsets and video encoding”. Nokia says it has invested 115 billion euros in research and development over the past 20 years and has “tens of thousands of patents covering many important technologies used in smartphones, tablets, PCs and similar devices....

Normalizer is an active transformation, used to convert a single row into multiple rows and vice versa. It is a smart way of representing your data in more organized manner. If in a single row there is repeating data in multiple columns, then it can be split into multiple rows. Sometimes we have data in multiple occurring columns. For example In this case, the class score column is repeating in four columns....

Note to Self I’ve gone back and forth on this topic for the last five years or so, so I was glad when one of my favorite podcasts tackled the subject. It was covered in a recent episode of WNYC’s Note to Self (formerly known as “New Tech City”). Note to Self has a listener mailbag installment, and in this one, a listener asked the question: To answer the listener’s question, the host Manoush Zomorodi assembled a pretty excellent panel of herself, her executive producer Jen Poyant, and Hillary Frank of the Longest Shortest Time fame....

During local elections last month, an unknown number of voters were unable to cast a vote due to the state’s iVote online voting system suffering a failure for a portion of the voting period. In the immediate aftermath, the NSWEC attributed the iVote online voting system failure to a higher-than-expected elector load, with around 650,000 people using the system during the local elections last month. “Almost triple the number of voters have used iVote at these elections than any previous election,” NSWEC said at the time....

Nurse Jackie season 6 finally saw the title character hit rock bottom. Nurse Jackie was Edie Falco’s follow-up to The Sopranos, and the show follows Jackie Peyton, a drug-addicted nurse working in a New York City hospital. The show ran for seven seasons, where Jackie tried to balance her personal life with her addictions, and while the show could be darkly funny it was also a gripping drama. Falco was perfectly cast and Nurse Jackie also featured a talented line-of supporting actors like Peter Facinelli, Eve Best, Merritt Wever, and Paul Schulze (24)....

NVIDIA is currently hosting an event called the “GPU Technology Conference”. It’s a silly name when you think about it, because there are plenty of other graphics players, but I digress. At this conference, the company talked about the two chips that are going to come after the Tegra 4. While they didn’t exactly say “Tegra 5” and “Tegra 6” as I implied in my headline, it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that that’s what the final products will end up being named....

Demand for RTX has grown significantly over the past year, Bob Pette, VP of Nvidia’s Professional Visualization business unit, said to reporters this week ahead of Nvidia’s spring Graphics Technology Conference (GTC). There are more and more applications taking advantage of RTX features, as well as more use cases in data science and AI. On top of that, Pette said, “The new normal of hybrid work” means “companies buying multiple and more capable systems to ensure their workers are productive from wherever they’re working....

Former star of The Bachelor Nick Viall is making the career move from reality TV star to actor, but he isn’t too concerned because he feels people aren’t expecting much from his acting skills. Fans are much more accustomed to seeing the 39 yr old star in a reality tv setting. Viall first came to the public attention when he appeared as a contestant on The Bachelorette in 2014. He had remained in the public eye ever since....

A British university study in 2019 indicated that Night Shift doesn’t work when it comes to helping you sleep, and that has been confirmed by a new study carried out in the US. Apple says the Night Shift feature “may” aid sleep by gradually reducing the amount of blue light in the display and increasing the amount of yellow light… This is intended to mimic the natural shift in color temperature seen in daylight as the sun gets lower in the sky....

It looks like, HMD Global is about to expand the portfolio, even more, this year. The recent reports from MySmartPrice website claim that the newly updated camera app of Nokia 5 has revealed Nokia 1, Nokia 4 and Nokia 7 Plus smartphones. Well, the name of the upcoming smartphones were revealed via .png files in the Camera app of Nokia 5. The .apk file of Nokia’s camera app also revealed the Nokia 9....

Here are some cool things about the Nokia Power Earbuds — The Nokia Power Earbuds comes with a true-wireless form factor design that gets rid of the dangling connecting wires. It has an IPX7 waterproof rating, which means they can be submerged in up to 1 metre of water for up to 30 minutes. The earbuds have 6mm graphene drivers for high-quality audio. Bluetooth 5.0 for faster connectivity, better and improved range, and power efficiency....