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This AI App Detects Internal Issues in Cars Just by Their Sounds Although modern carscome equippedwith all kinds ofadvanced technologies, I am pretty sure a strange sound coming out of your vehicle has worried you at least once, at some point in time. Oftentimes, general drivers cannot analyze the internal problems of automobiles with just a strange sound. And that makes the maintenance process for car owners quite a hassle. So, to help drivers instantlydetect internal problems of cars, Skoda has developed a new app that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to detect internal defects of a car just by listening to the sound of it....

This Headless Robot Is a Real-Life Mr. Tumnus & Can Carry Heavy Boxes up the Stairs As ourknowledge of roboticscontinues to grow, companies are working hard to build the perfect robotic assistant for humans. We’ve already seen Boston Dynamics’now-commercial robotic dog, Spot, performnumerous taskswith an aim toassist humansinday-to-day activities. Now, another robotics company has built a humanoid robot to run errands in your office and carry big boxes from one point to another....

This Is the Scariest Horror-Movie of All Time, Say Researchers If you are a fan of horror movies like me, then I am sure you always hunt for those which are the scariest. However, as fear can be subjective, it is almost impossible to find which, of all the horror flicks in the history of cinema, is the scariest. But when there is science, there is always a way to find answers....

Facebook Will Soon Start Charging for WhatsApp Business As part of its plans to generate more revenues fromWhatsApp, Facebook on Thursdayannouncedthat the app would start offering e-commerce options and hosting services for businesses that use the service to interact with their customers. The company also said that it will soon start chargingWhatsApp Businessusers to continue using the service. Overall, the Facebook-owned company proposed three revenue streams from the app going forward – Shopping, Facebook Hosting Services, and Business Sales....

Firefox Nightly Now Supports Pull-to-Refresh Gesture on Android Mozilla is quick to release new updates to improve its mobile browser on Android. Themajor UI overhaul in Julywas followed by the addition of several useful features such as a dedicateddownload page, download manager, andnew extensionsto name a few. The latest addition to Firefox for Android is the popular pull-to-refresh gesture. Firefox’s development team has managed toenable pull-to-refresh on the latest Nightly build....

Flipkart to Invest Rs. 1,500 Crore in Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail Flipkarthas today signed an agreement with Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Limited (ABFRL) toinvest Rs. 1,500 crorein the latter for a 7.8% stake. In a statement on Friday, the Birla Group company said that the agreement would involve the sale and distribution of various ABFRL brands, along with offering preemption rights and the right of first refusal to Flipkart for 1-5 years....

Google Chrome May Soon Add Shopping Ads on New Tab Page Google’s primary source of income, as you all might be aware, is through advertisements. In a move that could potentially scale up the company’s revenue, Google istesting the possibility of adding shopping ads right to the new tab page of Chrome browser. First spotted byTechdows, thefeature is not functional yetand currently exists behind aChrome flagin the latest Canary build. Once enabled, the feature will show shopping ads based on your Google activity on Chrome across Mac, Windows, Linux, and Chrome OS....