HIGHLIGHTS Xiaomi has partnered with Big Bazaar chain This festive season, Big Bazaar will be selling Note 4 and Redmi 4 phones Xiaomi is increasingly expanding its reach in the offline market of India You can now purchase some of your favourite Xiaomi smartphones from your neighbourhood Big Bazaar store. The Chinese smartphone maker has announced that it has partnered with Future Group’s supermarket ... Read More »
HIGHLIGHTS Facebook held Oculus Connect 4 event on Wednesday The company announced new Oculus Go headset It also announced a range of software improvements and features At its Oculus Connect 4 developer event in San Jose, Facebook unveiled the new portable VR headset called Oculus Go, an affordable VR headset that the company’s co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to bring to a billion ... Read More »
HIGHLIGHTS Pixel Buds were launched by Google on Wednesday They will work with other phones, but the translation feature won’t Google explained its rationale for limiting access to the feature Google Pixel Buds’ real-time translation feature, unveiled alongside the wireless headphones at Google’s hardware event on Wednesday, will be exclusive to Pixel smartphones. This bit of news was revealed by Google to Gadgets 360 ... Read More »
HIGHLIGHTS Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL ship with 18W USB-C charger The new devices support up to 27W charging from compliant chargers 27W USB-C charger will offer even faster charging time The all-new Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL smartphones support fast charging which isn’t exactly a new feature for a Pixel device. Though, this year Google has made it ... Read More »
HIGHLIGHTS Honor 9i priced at Rs. 17,999 It will be an online exclusive smartphone It packs four cameras Huawei-owned brand Honor has launched the Honor 9ismartphone with a bezel-less 5.9-inch display and four cameras in the Indian market. The Honor 9i price in India is Rs. 17,999, and the new smartphone will be available in the country starting October 14, exclusively ... Read More »
US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos came into the Education Department with a bold vision: that parents should be able to send their kids to school wherever they wanted, by way of government-funded vouchers. Nine months later, she’s made little progress on that goal. But her Education Department has made other, quieter changes that affect millions of students. Many of ... Read More »
New Delhi: A team of 600 people spread across nine states. One vision that binds them together—bringing quality to education. Room to Read, a non-profit for children’s literacy and girls’ education with a presence across Asia and Africa, believes that to bring change in the world, it is important to educate children. The organization says the quality of education imparted in ... Read More »
When he is struggling with a difficult class or having a challenging day, Marcus King thinks of a single word: Doctor. “That’s the goal,” King, a sophomore health and physical education major, says simply. Given his involvement in Project IMPACT (Increasing Male Practitioners and Classroom Teachers), King has every reason to believe he’ll reach the zenith of his educational endeavors. ... Read More »
HIGHLIGHTS Facebook said US people saw ads bought in Russia on president’s elections 44 percent of the ads were seen before the November 2016 election Russia has denied any involvement with the Facebook ads Some 10 million people in the United States saw politically divisive ads on Facebook that the company said were purchased in Russia in the months before and after ... Read More »
President Trump just tapped as the Education Department’s No. 2 official a former state superintendent of South Carolina who opposes the Common Core State Standards and who in 2016 called Jeb Bush “the only candidate” prepared to be president. Trump announced Tuesday night that he was nominating Mitchell Zais as deputy secretary of education, one of only a handful of ... Read More »
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