(Photo : GettlyImages/ Astrid Stawiarz) Fossil OS wear Fossil Wear OS won’t be getting an upgrade. The company’s executives Steve Prokup and Greg McKelvey stated that the company’s existing Wear OS watches won’t get upgraded to the new combined Wear software platform from Samsung and Google. Instead, Fossil plans a premium watch that Prokup said would have major hardware upgrades, and existing watches will probably be discounted as budget options. Fossil Wear OS Excluded from Upgrade According to CNET, The Gen 6 watch from Fossil should have features similar to that of the upcoming watches from Google and Samsung, with better…
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The second baby for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex is officially here: Meghan gave birth to a healthy girl on Friday.A spokesperson for Prince Harry and Meghan said Sunday the couple welcomed their child Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. Their daughter weighed in at 7 lbs, 11 oz.Her first name, Lilibet, is a nod to Her Majesty The Queen’s nickname. Her middle name is in honor of her grandmother and Harry’s mother. The baby is the eighth in line to the British throne.No photos of the newborn or the Sussexes accompanied the announcement.The birth comes after Harry and Meghan’s explosive…
US vice-president Kamala Harris has been assigned a high-risk task by his boss, President Joe Biden, to lead the administration’s effort to protect voting rights. She has also been tasked with addressing the main cause behind immigration from Central America as the United States is witnessing a surge in refugees looking for asylum in the country. While both tasks are fraught with the high risk of failure, success could be highly rewarding for Harris, who is being dubbed as presidential-nominee-in-waiting.After Biden asked Harris to lead the administration’s effort to protect the voting rights for all Americans, the vice-president said in…
Huawei, the big-name Chinese tech company that seems to be a thorn in the U.S. government’s side, is on the headlines again, but not in the way people might think. A South China Morning Post report reveals that a lot of other developed countries don’t really consider Huawei as concerning. The Overseas Development Institute, a group based in London, notably stated that a certain policy involving Chinese investment in tech infrastructure isn’t yielding anything positive as of the moment, despite fears that the company’s infrastructure could pose a massive spying risk. (Photo : Kang Ping/China News Service via Getty Images)KUNMING, CHINA -…
Social media platforms are quite efficient when it comes to providing important information. Some companies, tech firms, and other organizations are using it to disseminate details about their new products and other innovations. (Photo : Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)A visual representation of the digital Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin alongside US Dollars on December 07, 2017 in London, England. Cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Lightcoin have seen unprecedented growth in 2017, despite remaining extremely volatile. While digital currencies across the board have divided opinion between financial institutions, and now have a market cap of around 175 Billion USD, the crypto sector coninues…
Republicans are fighting to seize control of Congress. Just don’t ask what they’d do if they win.Look no further for evidence of the GOP’s muddled governing agenda than battleground North Carolina, where party leaders packed into a convention hall Saturday night to cheer former President Donald Trump. Even with a high-stakes U.S. Senate election looming, the Republicans there were united not by any consistent set of conservative policies or principles, but by Trump’s groundless grievances about the 2020 election and his attacks against critics in both parties.The lack of a forward-looking agenda stands in stark contrast to successful midterm elections…
A decentralised international hacktivist group, Anonymous, has threatened Tesla CEO Elon Musk to “expect” them, saying the games played by the entrepreneur with crypto markets seemed to have destroyed lives. In a video posted on the Facebook page of Anonymous, the hackers said that the “carefully curated” image of Elon Musk is getting exposed, and people are “beginning to see [him] as nothing more than another narcissistic rich dude who is desperate for attention.”WATCH | Elon Musk threatened on video by ‘Anonymous’ over Tesla, Bitcoin, Mars plan “There are plenty of other companies working on space exploration and electric vehicles,…
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will call on fellow G7 leaders to make concrete commitments to vaccinate the entire world against coronavirus by the end of 2022 at the Leaders’ Summit in Cornwall, Downing Street has said.The meeting, starting on Friday, is the first between G7 leaders since the coronavirus pandemic and the UK as president of the summit has made vaccine supply and support for equitable access, tackling climate change and getting more children into school as central themes of the meeting of the world’s leading economies.India has been invited as a guest country, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
(Photo : Getty Image) In 2021’s International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), a team of skilled researchers hailing from the University of Maryland showcased an attack technique that could slow down deep learning models optimized to perform fast and sensitive operations. The attack is entitled “DeepSloth.” It aims to target adaptive and deep neural networks — a wide variety of deep learning architectures, specifically made to cut down computations, leading to a faster processing function. The Risk of Rushing Artificial Intelligence Systems The world has seen an increasing interest in deep learning and machine learning security over the last few years. With…
At least 14 people have been killed and 2,45,000 have been affected due to heavy rains in Sri Lanka, according to authorities.Out of the 14 killed, five deaths have been reported from Kegalle, located 88 kilometres away from capital Colombo, while three deaths have been reported from the Ratnapura District, Xinhua reported.Two people have been reported missing while two more have been injured.According to DMC statistics, 15,658 people have been moved to safer locations, while over 800 houses have been damaged.The Sri Lankan Meteorology Department, in its latest weather report, said that heavy falls of 150 mm could be expected…