Samsung to Launch New Smartphone With 4GB RAM, Infinity Display Next Week in India Aiming to grab a larger share of online smartphone market share, Samsung is set to launch a new Galaxy smartphone with “Infinity Display” in the country next week. The upcoming Galaxy device will be an online exclusive and feature super AMOLED display. It is likely to sport 4GB RAM and 64GB onboard storage, industry sources told IANS on Friday....

SC Slams Google, Facebook and Others for Failing to Prevent Fake News, Rumours The Supreme Court on Friday raised concern over irresponsible behaviour of search engines and social networking sites like Google, Facebook, WhatsApp and Yahoo in promoting objectionable material leading to lynching of people, and warned imposing Rs five lakh per day on them if they fail to develop a foolproof mechanism to prevent uploading of such material. A bench of Justice Madan B....

This AI Can Reveal Your Personality By Studying Eye Movements Researchers have developed anArtificial intelligence(AI)-based system that can reveal your personality type just by looking at your eye movements. The system uses Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to demonstrate a link between personality and eye movements. The findings showed that people’s eye movements reveal whether they are sociable, conscientious or curious, with the algorithm software reliably recognising four of the “Big Five” personality traits — neuroticism, extroversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness....

Trump Repeats False Claim Of Apple Building New Plants in US The US President Donald Trump has once again incorrectly claimed that Cupertino-based tech giant Apple is planning to build new manufacturing plants in the country. During a speech at the White House on Friday that focused on the state of US economy, Trump said: “Apple alone is bringing in $230 billion and they’re building new plants, they’re building a magnificent campus, they’re gonna be spending their money very wisely, but they’re spending it in our country, not in some other country”....

Tweets Could Be Used To Track Air Quality During Disasters A new study by scientists with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service suggests that what peopletweetin areas affected by wildfire can be a reliable indicator of air quality conditions. Tweets originating in California during the state’s 2015 wildfire season suggested that social media could improve predictions of air quality impacts from smoke resulting from wildfires and had the potential to improve rescue and relief efforts, according to the new research published recently by the International Conference on Social Media and Society....

UIDAI Wants to Monitor Social Media to ‘Neutralize Negative Sentiments’ About Aadhaar The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) last week put out aRequest for Proposal(RFP), calling media monitoring firms to track press coverage forAadhaarand submit regular reports to the authority, ostensibly, to gauge public sentiment about thecontroversial ID projectthat is yet to be accorded constitutional validity by the Supreme Court. Alarmingly enough, it has now emerged that the agency wants to track not only media reports, but also posts on Facebook and Twitter to identify ‘detractors’ and ‘influencers’ and run campaigns to ‘neutralize’ the ‘negative sentiments’ about Aadhaar....

US Move To Revoke Work Authorization For Spouses of H-1B Tech Workers Affects Indians In US As part ofDonald Trump‘s continued efforts to discourage immigrant workers from permanently settling down in the US, the country’s federal government is now looking to formally reverse the Obama-era rule called‘H4EAD’that allowed spouses of H-1B visa holders who were already awaiting green cards to apply for employment authorization in the country. Thousands of Indians work in the US under the H-1B visa, with a majority of them being employed in the technology sector....