Sundar Pichai Meets Pentagon over Controversial AI Drone Project Facing PresidentDonald Trumpadministration’s ire over its censored Chine Search engine project, Google CEO Sundar Pichai met Pentagon officials during his trip to Washington last week and probably discussed the controversial project “Project Maven“, the media reported. According to a report in The Washington Post on Friday, Pichai met “a group of civilian and military leaders mostly from the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, the Defense Department directorate that oversees the Artificial Intelligence (AI) drone system known as ‘Project Maven'”....

Acer Predator RGB Mousepad Review: For Gamers Obsessed with RGB RGB is at the heart of everything gaming these days. There’s no such thing as“Too Much RGB”, which is why even hardware manufacturers have started sticking blinking lights in just about everything lately. The Acer Predator RGB Mousepad is a perfect example of that. It’s priced at$59.99and comes with, well, RGB. It’s right in the name. The mousepad will not hit India till later this year, or perhaps early next year, but we had a chance to play around with it just afterIFA 2018....

Apple Barring Third-Party iMac Pro, MacBook Pro Repairs With T2 Security Chip Apple already has total control over the design and production of its hardware, but the Cupertino giant is now looking to take full control of the repair of its popular devices as well. The company is said to haveintroduced proprietary software diagnostic toolsthat block third-party repairs of the2018 MacBook ProandiMac Pro, as per an internal Apple document distributed at authorized service facilities....

Apple, Amazon Deny Having China’s Spy Chips In Their Data Centers Apple and Amazon have strongly denied a media report that claimed a massive “supply chain attack” by Chinese spies planted chips in motherboards in data servers bought by these two giants among 30 tech companies. Bloomberg Businessweek on Thursday reported that malicious chips, as small as a sharpened pencil tip, were planted by a unit of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army to gain access to the supply chain of SuperMicro, often called the “Microsoft of the hardware world”....

Fake News Still Thriving on Twitter, Finds New Study Twitter still remains a hotbed foraccounts spreading fake news, suggests a new study that looked into how fake and conspiracy news flourished on the site both before and after the 2016 US presidential election. More than 80 percent of the Twitter accounts linked to spread of disinformation during the 2016 election are still active, said the study by the Knight Foundation. These accounts continue to publish more than a million tweets in a typical day, the study said....

Galaxy A7 Power Button Fingerprint Scanner and Face Unlock: How Well Do They Work? Samsung recently lifted the covers off its first smartphone with a triple camera setup – theGalaxy A7. Starting at a competitive price ofRs. 23,990, the all-new Galaxy A7 packs in an Exynos 7885 SoC, coupled with 4/6GB of RAM and 64/128GB of internal storage. As with most other modern smartphones these days, the Galaxy A7 also packs in a fingerprint sensor and a face unlock feature for biometric authentication....

Get Rs 5,000 Off On Asus Zenfone 5Z In Flipkart’s Big Billion Days Sale While Amazon is tempting users with ahard-to-ignore discounton theOnePlus 6for its upcomingsales festival, Flipkart is betting big on its competitor,Asus Zenfone 5Z. Asus has announced the‘flagship deal of the season’for the Flipkart The Big Billion Days sale, starting next week. As revealed via an official press release, all the variants of the Asus Zenfone 5Z will bediscounted by a flat Rs 5,000 during theFlipkart The Big Billion Days Salefrom October 10....