While I likedthe AirTags overall, they’re flawed. Despite this truth (and I’m sorry to tell you, but it is a truth), this is also a one-dimensional way of looking at Apple’s location trackers. Why? Because the product and the Find My service are ushering in a whole new Apple era. To understand why this is the case, we need to understand a few things. Specifically, why and how Apple has gone about releasing the AirTags....
WhenApple launched its AirTags in June, I got rather excited — finally, I could connect my iPhone with a device to track my keys and wallet. As someone who constantly looses their stuff (yes, I know, shame on me), I was easily sold. But did I ever stop to think whether someone could use an AirTag to steal my car? Nope, but apparently that’s a thing now. Last week, the Canadian policeannouncedthat criminals have been using a new method to track and steal high-end vehicles: yep,AirTags....
Airtel, one of the largest Indian mobile operator, has just launched a service request code based Facebook service, using which Airtel customers can access Facebook without the need of a data connection on their phone. Based on Fonetwish which has been developed by U2opia Mobile, a social and mobile applications provider, this service makes use of the menu-based USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) system, which acts as browser to pull content to the phone, instead of using a regular browser....
Bharti Airtel, the biggest telecommunications company in India, is all set to launch itsBroadband TVservice next week that would allow users to watch local television channels using the Internet, without the need for any external hardware. Airtel’s Broadband TV will require an Airtel broadband connection to be able to watch live television over the Internet. Broadband TV will also work on Wi-Fi networks and the consumer will not be charged for the data consumed in accessing the television content....
In 1953, a Harvard psychologist thought hediscovered pleasure– accidentally – within the cranium of a rat. With an electrode inserted into a specific area of its brain, the rat was allowed to pulse the implant by pulling a lever. It kept returning for more: insatiably, incessantly, lever-pulling. In fact, the rat didn’t seem to want to do anything else. Seemingly, the reward center of the brain had been located. More than 60 years later, in 2016, apairof artificial intelligence (AI)researcherswere training an AI to play video games....
