Hyderabad: Science and Tech stories of the week.
Realme unveils new silver colour variant of realme Watch S
Realme has introduced a new Silver colour variant of its realme Watch S. The realme Watch S, Silver will go on sale from June 07 on realme.com and Flipkart. realme Watch S features a 3.3cm (1.3-inch) colour touchscreen and its body is made of 6063 aluminium alloy with high strength and low density, making it both sturdy and lightweight. Read More
NASA’s Juno to Get a Close Look at Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
NASA’s Juno spacecraft will come within 645 miles (1,038 kilometres) of the surface of Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede. The flyby will be the closest a spacecraft has come to the solar system’s largest natural satellite since NASA’s Galileo spacecraft made its penultimate close approach back on May 20, 2000. Along with striking imagery, the solar-powered spacecraft’s flyby will yield insights into the moon’s composition, ionosphere, magnetosphere, and ice shell. Juno’s measurements of the radiation environment near the moon will also benefit future missions to the Jovian system. Read More
WhatsApp to soon let you access account from 4 linked devices
WhatsApp users will be able to access their accounts from up to four linked devices in the coming months. Another feature ‘View Once' will be rolled out soon, so the recipient can only open your photos and videos once before they disappear from the chat. Read More
OnePlus Nord CE 5G to be launched with Snapdragon 750G chipset
OnePlus is going to launch a new smartphone Nord CE 5G in India on June 10. The Nord CE 5G is said to feature a 6.43-inch 90Hz AMOLED touchscreen with an in-display fingerprint sensor, the Snapdragon 750G chipset at the helm and a 4,500 mAh battery with 30W fast charging. Read More
Chrome for Android adds built-in screenshot tool
After introducing a custom share menu to replace the system default, Google's mobile browser Chrome for Android is now adding a built-in screenshot tool. Read More
Instagram tweaks algorithm after 'censoring' pro-Palestinian content
After workers accused the company of censoring pro-Palestine content, Facebook-owned Instagram has tweaked its algorithms that will begin ranking original and re-shared content equally. Read More
AMD announces fastest Radeon RX 6000M series GPUs for laptops
American chip-maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) unveiled new AMD Radeon RX 6000M Series Mobile GPUs, including the top-of-stack Radeon RX 6800M which is touted as the fastest AMD Radeon GPU for laptops. Read More
Samsung introduces new Galaxy Book Go laptops
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics unveiled the Galaxy Book Go and Galaxy Book Go 5G laptops, powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon compute platform. The Galaxy Book Go 5G is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8CXGen-2 5G platform, while the LTA version is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7C Generation 2 system. Read More
NASA Selects 2 Missions to Study ‘Lost Habitable’ World of Venus
NASA has selected two new missions to Venus, Earth’s nearest planetary neighbour. Part of NASA’s Discovery Program, the missions aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world when it has so many other characteristics similar to ours – and may have been the first habitable world in the solar system, complete with an ocean and Earth-like climate. Read More
Climate change caused 1/3rd of heat deaths: Study
The study, published in Nature Climate Change, used information on heat deaths and temperature readings to build computer models that calculated how many deaths could be attributed to climate change. The World Health Organization estimated about 166,000 people died of heat-related deaths between 1998 and 2017. Read More
LG to launch new 32-inch gaming monitor
LG has launched a new gaming monitor, 32GP850. LG's latest 32-inch UltraGear monitor, 32GP850, will hit local shelves Tuesday with a price tag of 799,000 won ($720). The new monitor comes with Nano IPS display supporting quad high definition (QHD) resolution of 2,560x1,440 pixels and a 180Hz refresh rate. Read More
