World’s First Thermal Battery Plant Inaugurated in Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh now holds the distinction of housing the world’s first thermal battery plant which was inaugurated on Monday by the state’s Chief Minister, N Chandrababu Naidu. The plant has been established under Bharat Energy Storage Technology Private Limited (BEST) and has been set-up with the goal of supplying energy for commercial applications while maintaining a low carbon footprint. Rather than relying on non-renewable, fossil fuel-based energy generation sources, the state-of-the-art thermal battery plant is aimed at producing energy in a more sustainable way....

Xiaomi Mi A2 Launched in India for Rs 16,999; 6GB RAM Variant Coming Soon At last, our wait for the most-anticipated smartphone of the year has finally come to an end as Xiaomi has today launched the Mi A2 (global variant of theMi 6X) in India. The Chinese giant unveiled the device at an event in Spain a couple of weeks ago, but it has now come to India at a starting price of Rs 16,999....

Xiaomi Starts Crowdfunding Campaign for Black Plus NFC Smartband After the success of the recently launched Mi Band 3, Xiaomi has now startedcrowdfundingthe Black Plus Smartband, which features a0.95-inch AMOLED touchscreenwith a resolution of 240×120. The display is capable of 24-bit true color, and has support for custom dial, caller ID and it can even display messages from popular services such as WeChat, QQ, Alipay, Weibo and Taobao directly onto the device....

Alexa Will Notify You When It Learns New Things Amazon’s voice-based digital assistant,Alexa, is all set to gain a new‘skill’called‘Answer Update‘ that will notify users when the AI software learns an answer it didn’t previously know. The tech giant reportedlytold TechCrunchthat the feature will start rolling out to users next week. According to anAmazonspokesperson quoted by the site,“TheAlexa service is getting smarterevery day, and Answer Updates is just another way we’re continuing to expand Alexa’s Knowledge Graph”....

Andhra Pradesh is the Hotbed of Aadhaar Data Leaks, And There’s No Stopping It Aadhaar has transformed from being the world’s largest biometric universal identity system to a privacy and securitynightmarefor the government as well as citizens. We recentlyhighlightedhow easy it was for criminals to commit crimes such asidentity theft, financial fraud, and property, but it appears that Andhra Pradesh is the hotbed of Aadhaar-related data leaks and the state government’s lackadaisical attitude to web security is to blame for it....

Android 9 Pie’s Digital Wellbeing Now Available in Beta For Google Pixel Google has officially released the Android 9 Pie build today and even though it does come with a ton of AI features, there’s one important piece of the puzzle missing from the equation. It is called‘Digital Wellbeing’and is now being made available for beta testing exclusively on Pixel devices. Digital Wellbeing, a dashboard that helps you track your real smartphone use, wasshown off at Google I/O 2018earlier in May but it’s not ready for prime time yet....

Android P Has A Name: Meet Android 9 Pie! AndroidPistachio Ice Creamor Pedha? Well, you no longer need to debate about the name of the much-awaited upcoming Android release as Google hasfinally revealedthat Android P will be officially calledAndroid 9 Pie. Yes, it’s as simple as that. Instead of beating around the bush and picking an awfully long name, Google has picked a dessert that was right in front of our eyes to represent its next major release of Android....