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Online taxi-hailing service Uber will give Saudi Arabian women lifts to polling stations for free on Saturday to help boost female participation at the first elections in the deeply conservative Islamic kingdom open to female voters. Saudi Arabian women are both running for election and voting for the first time in local elections in what is viewed as a pigeon step towards gender equality in the autocratic nation where women are still legally barred from driving. The free service to take women to vote is a joint effort between US-based tech company Uber and Al-Nahda Philanthropic Society for Women, a Saudi women's empowerment group. Uber has proved popular with women in the wealthy desert state to get around amid limited public transportation and general unease about the safety of taxis, said Al-Nahda's Chief Executive Rasha Alturki. "We needed to play a role because we found this really empowering to women," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "With reg...

After Zuckerberg, Google's Sundar Pichai Comes Out in Support of Muslims After Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has come out in support of Muslims, saying that we must support Muslim and other minority communities in the US and around the world. Responding to a recent wave of prejudice against Muslims - especially in the wake of US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump asking for a ban on Muslims entering the US - the Indian-born top Google executive reiterated his own experience and said let us not let fear defeat our values. "I came to the US from India 22 years ago. I was fortunate enough to gain entry to a university here, and time after time, I saw that hard work opened other doors. I have built a career and a family and a life here. And I've felt as much a part of this country, as I felt growing up in India," he posted on the social message platform Medium on Saturday. "My experience is obviously not unique. It's been ...

2016 might be the year that virtual reality finally takes hold in the tech world. Sony, Microsoft and Oculus VR are all planning to launch their own hardware before the end of next year, with tons of developers already hard at work on games, apps and other software to ensure that VR hits the ground running. But if you don’t want to wait until next year to see what VR has to offer, you can take a sneak peek at the innovations today without putting a strain on your wallet. The first and most obvious way is to acquire a Google Cardboard viewer, which should run you about $20 (if you can’t find one available for free somewhere). As the name implies, the viewer isn’t an especially advanced piece of hardware, but it’s all you need to try out a whole ecosystem of VR apps with your smartphone. If cardboard isn’t your preferred VR viewer material, you can spend a few extra dollars and pick up the Mattel View-Master for $25 instead. Cardboard works fine, but if y...

Xiaomi is reportedly working on a new smartphone. A smartphone codenamed as Xiaomi Kenzo has surfaced on benchmarking website GeekBench revealing some of  its specifications. The device is expected to be Xiaomi Redmi 3 smartphone. As per the listing, the Kenzo is powered by a Qualcomm MSM8952 Snapdragon 617 chipset coupled with 2GB of RAM. The listing shows that the processor has six core CPU clocked at 1.4GHz while actually this processor comes with eight cores with clock speed of 1.5GHz. On software front, it runs Android 5.1.1 Lollipop operating system. As for benchmark scores, the Kenzo scored 1561 and 4541 points in single-core and multi-core tests respectively. Rest of the specifications of the phone are scarce as of now and are likely to surface in the coming days. This information should be taken with a pinch of salt since Xiaomi has not revealed any details about the smartphone officially yet. Rumored Specifications & Features Of...

10 Tips: How To Keep Your Smartphone Secure We use our smartphones for numerous tasks such as browsing social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter etc, sending and receiving e-mails, capturing and sharing images, making audio and video calls, making online payments and so on. For accomplishing all these tasks we enter some crucial information on our devices like our e-mail id’s, passwords, credit card details etc. What if this crucial information is leaked or hacked? What if our phone is stolen and all the information is misused by someone. In order to protect the data on our devices, we need to take some security measures. In this post, we have listed few simple tips on how to keep your smartphone secure. Follow these precautions to protect your smartphone as well as the data you store in it. How To Keep Your Smartphone Secure Try these simple tips to keep your Android, iPhone, BlackBerry or Windows Phone safe. 1. Use a PIN or Pattern To Lock Your Smartphone Put a screen lo...

A South Korean court on Friday acquitted a senior LG Electronics executive on charges of sabotaging rival Samsung washing machines at a trade fair in Germany last year. The Seoul Central District Court dismissed the case against Jo Seong-Jin, the president of LG's home appliance division, citing a lack of compelling evidence. The two South Korean tech giants have been fierce competitors for years, and the washing machine spat broke out after Samsung claimed surveillance video footage from the September 2014 fair in Berlin showed LG executives, including Jo, destroying door hinges on its washers. The court ruled the prosecution failed to prove Jo actually broke the washers or had intended to do so. In March this year, the two companies decided to end all their legal disputes, but Jo's trial went ahed because the criminal case had already been launched. Bitter competitors in home appliance and TV markets both at home and abroad, Samsung and LG have lock...

Updated on 11th December 2015 It seems that leaks around Xiaomi’s upcoming flagship smartphone, Mi 5 won’t stop coming. Now a new leaked image of the device has surfaced online. The image that has surfaced on Weibo, shows thin bezels and a physical home button. The bezels are super slim and the device seems to feature 2.5D curved glass over the display. The physical home button below the display is expected to house fingerprint scanner. The image is blurry but earpiece above the display is also visible. Read on to find more details on rumored specifications and features of Xiaomi’s upcoming Mi 5 smartphone. Rumored Specifications Of Upcoming Xiaomi Mi 5 •Processor: 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 •Display: 5.2-inch full HD •RAM: 4GB •ROM: 16GB/32GB (expandable via microSD card) •Rear Camera: 16 mega pixel •Front Camera: 8 mega pixel •Battery: 3030 mAh All this information should be taken with a grain of salt since these details have not bee...