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Virtual Assistants: making our life easy!

Hello folks! In this post we will have a look at various virtual assistants present around us. Virtual assistant is a software application that performs various tasks for user. Now a days "Chat-bot" is the well known name which is small version of virtual assistant for websites.  Such applications improve the user experience considerably and can understand natural language (different from computer language) and prove to be starting point in the world of Artificial Intelligence. Lets have a look at some famous virtual assistants. 1. Google Assistant This is developed by Google and primarily available in Android Smartphones, smart home devices and surprisingly a special edition of Google Assistant is available on Jio phone based on KaiOS. This technology is advanced version of 'Google Now', which was able to listen user and perform actions. Google assistant can detect natural voice of user and can give response. Also keyboard input is supported. Besides...

A look at budget Earphones

Hello Folks! In this post we are taking a look on budget earphones, which I have used. The good earphone is a must have accessory of a smartphone, and and as very few budget smartphones come with earphones in the box, and if any of them have that, the quality of earphones is questionable. So we tend to buy some good earphones, but the online shopping sites are full of misleading products too! Let's have a look at some good ones. 1) JBL C100si/C150si: These are budget oriented and nice quality earphones from the famous JBL brand. The main thing about them is the clarity of sound, they are very clear, with adequate bass, vocals and trouble. The silicon earbuds are so comfortable that you can were them for long time without any issue. they come with 3 size of earbuds. They also include mic and a button for call receiving or music playback control.  The availability of this product varies from site to site, its available on Amazon Flipkart, Paytm, Harman India.  Li...

Meltdown and Spectre : Backdoors in Modern Processor

In recent days, the technological world is roaming around two words "Meltdown" and "Spectre". They are not merely just simple words but are the vulnerabilities found in modern processors that run our computers, laptops, smartphones, wearables and many modern gadgets. These vulnerabilities allow programs to steal data, which is currently processed CPU(the heart of processor). Generally the memory used by processor is very secure and only kernel in operating system (main program that executes all the instructions) can access or modify this memory. No user program or software can access the memory directly. So the data remains secure while the CPU is processing it. This secure data can be saved passwords, encryption keys and critical documents. The devices that use processors can be affected by this kind of attacks! This means every smart device connected to any kind of network!  Meltdown and Spectre work on computers, Mobiles and Cloud. The matter of concern is tha...

Dual Camera: An in-depth look!

Hi Folks, hope you are having a good time. 2017, was the year of smartphones with dual camera and 18:9 ration display. In this article we are focusing on Dual Camera feature of them. The trend was started by LG and Huawei in Mobile World Congress 2016, to capture the market by introducing this hot new feature. After that almost every smartphone manufacturer jumped into this.  They provided various features that use these cameras like Portrait Shots a good try to mimic Bokeh effect that we get from professional cameras. So, is it a truly useful hardware feature that will produce results as promised by these companies? Lets have a look! There are three types of implementations found: 1) Monochrome(black and white)  camera and RGB (color) camera. 2) Wide angle lens camera and Telephoto lens camera. 2) Normal lens and Ultra Wide Angle lens camera Monochrome and RGB camera: This type of implementation is found in Moto G5S Plus and Huawei P9. Here one camera captures ...