Daily Archives: September 27, 2015

Hundreds of Indian train stations will get high-speed public Wi-Fi from Google

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Google announced plans to deliver high-speed public Wi-Fi in 400 train station across India. The announcement marks the visit of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the search giant’s headquarters in the United States.

The CEO of Google Sundar Pichai delivered the news via a dedicated blog post. One hundred of India’s busiest rail stations will go online by the end of next year, thus giving access to free high-speed internet to over 10 million people that pass though them daily.

In order to make its project a reality, Google will team up with Indian Railways and RailTel. The latter operates a vast fiber network alongside the railway lines.

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Microsoft Lumia 950 XL measures revealed in leaked factory render

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The physical measures of the upcoming Microsoft Lumia 950 XL got fully revealed by a leaked factory CAD render. Typically, factory renders are used in a device’s manufacturing process.

Microsoft Lumia 950 XL will measure 151.9 x 78.4 x 7.8 mm. The device’s thickest point at its camera hump will measure 9.9 mm thick. There is no word on the weight of the handset just yet.

This means that Microsoft Lumia 950 XL will be slightly shorter and wider than Samsung Galaxy Note5. For comparison, the Korean giant’s flagship phablet measures 153.2 x 76.1 x 7.6 mm.

Recently leaked presentation slides confirmed that Microsoft Lumia 950 XL will pack a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 chipset, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of expandable memory, and 5.7″ QHD display. The rest of the device’s lengthy spec sheet includes 20MP PureView camera, 3,300mah battery, USB Type-C port, and support for Qi wireless charging.

The Redmond giant’s next-generation flagship smartphone will debut in a little over a week, on October 6 in New York City. Microsoft Lumia 950 and Lumia 550 will also debut alongside the Lumia 950 XL.

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Pebble Should Forget Fighting The Apple Watch

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What does Pebble hope to achieve? This week’s launch of the Pebble Time Round gave the Palo-Alto based company its third major product line in 2015, but coverage had a huge elephant in the room. An Apple Elephant. How can the smartwatch start-up fight the Apple Watch? The answer is that it doesn’t have to. The real fight is with Android Wear.

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Unexpected Musical Collaborations Made The Global Citizen Festival A Social Media Powerhouse

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Yesterday, 60,000 people gathered on the lawn in Central Park for the annual Global Citizen Festival, one of the biggest music events in New York City. Headlined by Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran, Coldplay, and Pearl Jam, the show also brought out movie stars, politicians, and the CEOs of multi-billion dollar companies all to hype up the crowd and educate them on the organization, its goals, and how everybody can be a part of making this world a better place.

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