Dell Venue 8 Pro 5000 Tablet With Windows 10, USB Type-C Launched

Dell has refreshed one of its popular Windows tablets to stuff more processing power in it and upgrade the software. The company on Monday announced the launch of its latest Dell Venue 8 Pro 5000 tablet, the Dell Venue 8 Pro 5855. The improvements compared to the old Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet include a full-HD display, cellular connectivity support, and Windows 10 operating system out-of-the-box.

The company is currently selling its latest Dell Venue 8 Pro 5000 Series tablet from its official website, where the starting price is listed as $449 (roughly Rs. 30,300).

The original Dell Venue 8 Pro was launched back in 2014, and has since seen several iterations. The Dell Venue 8 Pro 5000 (2016) sports an 8-inch full-HD (1920x1080 pixels) display - a nice improvement over the HD (1280x800 pixels) display its predecessor shipped with.

The new Dell Venue 8 Pro is powered by a quad-core Intel Atom x5-Z8500 SoC clocked at 1.44GHz (up to 2.24GHz), coupled with 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of eMMC internal storage. It also supports microSD card, which you can use to add up to 128GB storage to the device.

The Venue 8 Pro 5855 also comes equipped with a USB Type-C connector, and has a Micro-SIM card slot. Other features of the new Dell Venue 8 Pro includes a 2-megapixel front-facing camera and a 5-megapixel rear shooter. The new Dell Venue 8 Pro also offers support for NFC, Wi-Fi 2×2 802.11ac with Miracast, and Bluetooth 4.0. There's a 19.5WHr Lithium Ion battery, and on the software front, the new Venue 8 Pro runs 64-bit Windows 10 Home or Pro.

Flexible Camera Developed That Can Be Wrapped Around Objects

A team led by an Indian-origin professor at Columbia University has created a novel sheet camera that can be wrapped around everyday objects to capture images that cannot be taken with one or more conventional cameras. "Cameras today capture the world from essentially a single point in space. While the camera industry has made remarkable progress in shrinking the camera to a tiny device with ever increasing imaging quality, we are exploring a radically different approach to imaging," said Shree K Nayar, computer science professor at Columbia University. "We believe there are numerous applications for cameras that are large in format but very thin and highly flexible," added Nayar who graduated from the Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, in 1984. Nayar's team designed and fabricated a flexible lens array that adapts its optical properties when the sheet camera is bent. This optical adaptation enables the device to produce high quality images over a wide ...

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo back Apple in its fight over encryption with FBI

The nation's leading tech companies joined security experts, independent programmers and civil liberties advocates who filed court papers backing Apple in its fight with the FBI over an encrypted iPhone used by an extremist killer. Several law enforcement groups, meanwhile, filed briefs in support of federal authorities who are seeking Apple's help in hacking an encrypted iPhone used by Syed Farook, one of the San Bernardino mass shooters. These "friend of the court" briefs come in advance of a March 22 hearing in which Apple is asking U.S. Magistrate Sheri Pym to reverse an order requiring Apple to create a software program that overrides iPhone security features. That program would let authorities try to unlock Farook's phone by guessing its passcode; Apple says it would make all other iPhones more vulnerable to future attacks. Relatives of five people who were killed, along with one survivor of the December 2 attack, also filed a brief saying the FBI's ...

Samsung Galaxy S7: 5 Features That Stand Out

Klutzes of the world should rejoice Friday, as Samsung officially starts sales of its new water-resistant Samsung Galaxy S7 and Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. The phones, which the company first unveiled last month, are now widely available in all their dunkable glory. The latest two Samsung's high-end smartphones are supposed to be able to withstand submersion up to five feet for as long as 30 minutes. So you're in luck if you drop your phone in the drink - as long as you fish it out reasonably fast. Samsung provided me with a review unit of the Galaxy S7, a 5.1-inch smartphone. Once I opened the box, I duly dropped the high-performance, expensive phone into my sink while doing the dishes. Apart from the mild palpitations I gave myself, there was no damage at all. The phone's touchscreen didn't work under water, but it continued on without a hiccup and was unharmed and still working perfectly when I pulled it out. It was just as impressively zippy as ever and no worse for ...

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