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Google Partners with CBSE to Train Teachers; Help Improve E-Learning Experience Google today announced that it has partnered with CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) to help create a ‘blended learning experience’ with help from over 1 million teachers across 22,000 schools by the end of 2020. Under this program, Google aims to train over 1 million teachers to combine their old traditional methods of offline teaching with online learning. This will create a blended learning experience with the help of free tools, such as G Suite for Education, Google Classroom, YouTube, and more the company will provide them access to....

Google Teases Nest Product Announcement for Monday; Google Home Successor Expected We thought Google has given us asneak peekat new Nest hardware months ahead of its launch last week but the company is not wasting any time to officially announce it. Yeah, the official Nest Twitter account has teased a new product launch for 13th July (i.e. Monday or today). Over the weekend, Nest posted a short video with the caption‘take a deep breath and prepare’for the upcoming launch....

Google to Invest Rs. 75,000 Crore to Help Boost India’s Digital Economy At this year’s Google For India virtual event, the companyannouncedthat it has set up a new fund to help further our country’s digital economy. It is called the“Google for India Digitization Fund”and will see the company investing Rs. 75 crore (approx. $10 billion) over the next 5 to 7 years. Google has already made a number of investments in digital startups, including Dunzo, Aye Finance, and many others, in India over the past few years....

iQOO Smartphone With 120W Fast Charging to Launch in August Just about all smartphones brands from the BBK Electronics stable are set to bring their super-fast battery-charging technology to production devices this year. Following reports about Realme and Oppo working on their120Wand125Wcharging technologies, respectively,Vivo’s IQOO sub-brand has now showcased its own ultra-fast 120W FlashCharge technology that it says will be seen in a consumer smartphone in August. According to iQOO,the new technology will be able to fully charge a 4,000mAh battery in just 15 minutes....

Lenovo Teases 144Hz Display for the Legion Gaming Smartphone It’s no secret that Lenovo is about to launch a gaming smartphone. In fact, we know that the phone willlaunch on July 22, alongside theROG Phone 3. It is also one of the first phones to come with theSnapdragon 865 Plus, as announced by Qualcomm itself. However, as we approach the launch date for the phone, Lenovo is hyping us up with some teasers about the phone as well....

Linux Kernel Will Stop Using ‘Master/Slave’, and ‘Blacklist/Whitelist’ in Code AfterGoogleand several other tech companies, Linux kernel has now formulated anew policy that aims to replace racially sensitive terminologies with neutral alternatives. The following are the recommended replacements for ‘master / slave’: Similarly, therecommended alternatives for ‘blacklist / whitelist’ are ‘denylist / allowlist’ and ‘blocklist / passlist’. As you can see, Torvalds has given developers the choice to adopt any of the suggested ones....

Microsoft and Google Collab Makes It Easier to Publish PWAs on Play Store Microsoft has partnered with Google to enhance the quality and availability ofProgressive Web Apps(PWA) on Google Play Store. Over the weekend, the companies announced a collaboration between Microsoft’s PWABuilder and Google’s Bubblewrap to bring in new features. For the uninitiated, Microsoft’s PWABuilder is an open-source tool that helps developers build PWAs. Meanwhile, Google’s Bubblewrap is a command-line utility to generate and sign Google Play Store packages from Progressive Web Apps....