Tecno Phantom 8 Key features OS: Android 7.0 Nougat with HiOS 3.0 SIM Type: Dual SIM (Micro) 4G LTE: YES, LTE Screen Size : 5.7 Inches FHD IPS Touchscreen Screen Resolution: 1080 x 1920 pixels (403 PPI) Processor Type: Octa-core 2.60 GHz Cortex, Mediatek chipset RAM: 6GB Internal Storage: 64GB. External Storage: microSD, up to 2TB Back / Rear Camera: 12MP + 13MP camera & LED Flash Front...

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Facebook’s tests of an alternative News Feed dubbed the explore feed have progressed to a full rollout, the company now confirms. Previously available on mobile devices in the main navigation, Facebook’s new Explore Feed is now appearing for users on the desktop, as well. Facebook tells TechCrunch this is the beginning of the official rollout of the Explore feed. On the desktop, the explore feed...
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Once upon a time, Microsoft had a whole line of gaming hardware under the Sidewinder brand, and while they never really put much of a dent in Razer or Logitech, they put out some decent mice (the X3 “might serve as a good introduction to multiple DPI settings for your mom or dad,” I wrote in 2010). I’m glad to see they’re returning to that advanced-mousing heritage with the Surface Precision...
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Pinterest began rolling out targeted ads based on searches for its partners earlier this year, giving it another moment in time to catch potential customers as they try to sniff out new things they might buy — and now everyone else will get a piece of that. The company said it is adding search ads to its Ads manager today, letting businesses target customers searching for potential products...
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Sharing your current location with someone is a great way to passive-aggressively explain that you’re on your way when they ask where you are. But it also has other uses, and WhatsApp has now joined rivals Facebook Messenger and iMessage in offering the feature (with its own somewhat unique twist). The new feature will be available on both Android and iPhone soon, and it’s accessed the same way...
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The early 2000s were the era of user-generated content. Companies like Associated Content and Shareasale rewarded content producers richly – one friend of mine made millions on YouTube in 2004 because he was one of the few serial content producers on the platform. The future was going to be broadcast in all of its gritty glory. Bloggers would win forever and ever. The voices of the Internet masses would be heard through the Twitter and Facebook megaphone.
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Samsung has something worth your time if you like to keep tabs on kids, pets or other cherished items, using monitor tags. The Korea electronics giant just announced Connect Tag, a small internet-enabled device that tracks location and lasts a week between charges.

In other words, this is a similar offering to existing electronic tagging devices used as monitor tags from the likes of Tile, the U.S. startup that pulled in $25 million earlier this year and has picked up nearly $60 million from investors to date.
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Facebook just nabbed a popular new teen app called tbh. Teens have been flocking to the app — named after the acronym frequently used in texts, “to be honest” — to participate in anonymous polls and give feedback to friends. The app creators control the content of the polls, like “Best person to go on a roadtrip with.” It’s a measure that’s meant to...
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Facebook has often been accused of copying Snapchat. Now Snapchat may be taking a page from Facebook. Snap (SNAP), the parent company of Snapchat, announced a new feature called Context Cards on Tuesday that lets users book Uber rides and restaurant reservations directly through the messaging app. On certain Snapchat posts, users will now be able to swipe up for more related information...
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Elon Musk predicts rockets will one day be able to fly people from New York to Shanghai in just 39 minutes. Musk’s company, SpaceX, is developing a huge spacecraft to colonize Mars. It could also be used much closer to home. Speaking at a space conference in Australia on Friday, Musk said the company had looked into applying the technology to whizzing people to different places on Earth in...
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The blockchain has long been seen as a method to quicken (and cheapen) cross-border payments, and now that movement — which includes a number of startups making moves privately — just got its highest profile advocate after IBM announced its own solution focused on banks.

The computing giant has teamed up with blockchain startup Stellar and payment company Kickex to launch a cross-border payment system for banks which uses the blockchain to “reduce the settlement time and lower the cost of completing global payments for businesses and consumers.
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In computing, data recovery is a process of salvaging (retrieving) inaccessible, lost, corrupted, damaged or formatted data from secondary storage, removable media or files, when the data stored in them cannot be accessed in a normal way. The data is most often salvaged from storage media such as internal or external hard disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs), USB flash drives, magnetic...
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Open the Watch app on the iPhone, and make sure you’re in the My Watch tab (the lefthand icon from the menu along the bottom of the screen). Go to General, then scroll down and tap Reset at the bottom of the list.

Now tap ‘Erase Apple Watch Content and Settings’, the top option. You’ll be given a chance to change your mind; if you don’t want to, tap ‘Erase All Content and Settings’ to confirm.
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Put a child in the same room as an iPad or an iPhone and they will instinctively reach for it. Perhaps it’s the bright colours and the feel of using a touchscreen; the simplicity of the iOS interface also plays a part. But kids love messing with smartphones and tablets. (Although that does raise another question: Are iPads safe for young children? ) Here, we bring you our pick of the best kids apps.
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With every new trend comes a counter-trend. And so despite the current excitement over the wonders of artificial intelligence, one company is betting that human intelligence can still deliver solutions for businesses that AI cannot hope to match. Article One Partners (AOP) is a crowdsourced network of over 42,000 researchers in 170 countries — 42% of whom have graduate degrees in a variety of...
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It’s a battle that has raged across time and space. Two sides with sworn armies of loyalists, locked eternally in a struggle for dominance. We’ve seen it played out so many times: Android vs iOS, Xbox vs PlayStation, Canon vs Nikon, FIFA vs Pro Evo, ZX Spectrum vs Commodore 64, but today we look not upon those minor conflicts. Instead, our eyes turn to the thunderous colossuses of Mac vs PC...
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This morning, the price of bitcoin shot past $5,000, and is now hovering around $5,300 — up nearly 10 percent from yesterday. It’s the first time the price of bitcoin has confidently shot past $5,000. Some exchanges saw the price hit $5,000 for a few minutes in September, but it only lasted for about 10 minutes, making today the first sustained movement past the historic milestone. YTD chart of...
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iOS 11 brought with it a number of new features including a customisable control centre, a brand-new Files app and drag-and-drop capabilities, but there’s one new addition that hasn’t garnered as much interest; ARKit. ARKit is arguably one of the biggest features of iOS 11, allowing iOS developers to integrate high-end augmented reality experiences into their app with little effort...
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It’s a battle that has raged across time and space. Two sides with sworn armies of loyalists, locked eternally in a struggle for dominance. We’ve seen it played out so many times: Android vs iOS, Xbox vs PlayStation, Canon vs Nikon, FIFA vs Pro Evo, ZX Spectrum vs Commodore 64, but today we look not upon those minor conflicts. Instead, our eyes turn to the thunderous colossuses of Mac vs PC...
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Hi guys, welcome to our best 6GB RAM phone for August. Check it out and tell us what you think! Nokia 8 Lately, there has been a report that makes us as well as smartphone lovers feel so excited. Specifically, it said that Nokia had started sending out invites for an August 16 event where their new Nokia 8 launch would be conducted officially. Apparently, this will be the first Nokia flagship in...
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The GTX 1070 is over a year old now and it seems that Nvidia is about to announce a faster Ti version at the end of October rather than wait until it launches the next-gen Volta cards.
Whether or not this interim card is specifically to compete with AMD’s recent Vega 56 is pure speculation, but the rumour mill is now running at full tilt.
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Microsoft has recently launched Windows 10 S, which is a Chrome OS rival. Currrently it’s found on the new Surface Laptop, though that laptop is very expensive, unlike the Chromebooks reviewed here.

Chrome OS offers pretty much the same experience as using the popular Chrome web browser, which you might well already use on a Windows PC or laptop, but with a few extra features added to the mix.
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There are plenty of things to look for in a respectable gaming laptop. You need a capable CPU, a graphics chip that is strong enough to deliver your games as the developers intended them, enough system RAM to keep applications stored in memory, sizeable and fast storage drives to holding games and other files, a sizeable and decent-resolution screen to view the action on, and a good chassis to bear all these components.
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It’s time to say goodbye for real this time. Windows Phone’s death has been slow and painful, but, as CNET spotted, the head of Microsoft’s Windows division finally admitted you shouldn’t expect anything more when it comes to Windows Phone. Microsoft doesn’t plan to let existing Windows Phone users down — there will be security updates. But don’t expect anything new. Joe Belfiore admitted that...
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The new BlackBerry Motion. BlackBerry BlackBerry has a new flagship phone called the “Motion,” and for the first time since Chinese electronics giant TCL took over the firm’s smartphone businesslate last year, it doesn’t have a physical keyboard (we first saw the news via AndroidPolice). The company announced the phone at Dubai’s GITEX Technology Week, but is...
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EPrice RRP: 64GB: $699, 256GB: $849 iPhone 8 vs Pixel 2 Apple and Google are behind the two most popular mobile operating systems in the world: iOS and Android. They also have their own hardware on which to showcase these digital realms. On the Apple side of the fence there’s the iPhone 8, which comes with the best iOS 11 has to offer (at least until the iPhone X arrives in November). While...
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EXPERT’S RATING PRICE WHEN REVIEWED 64GB: $699, 256GB: $849 IPHONE 8 REVIEW It’s autumn so that means a wave of new tech products for the build up to Christmas and as usual that includes new iPhones. This year’s looks mostly similar but has some new features. Find out what in our iPhone 8 review. Apple’s new line-up is unusual for 2017 because there are three new phones...
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That’s according to several analysts speaking to USA Today. The most optimistic of them is Gene Munster, a tech investor and analyst with Loup Ventures, but even he reckons the iPhone X won’t be in stock until January at the earliest.

Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies said it will be “a good three-four months until the X is in wide supply,” and Jan Dawson, an analyst with Jackdaw Research, claims you’ll be able to find the iPhone X in stores “sometime in the first quarter” – a period which runs until the end of March.
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Every new iPhone poses the same question: Are the improvements awesome enough to warrant an upgrade? Well, there are tons of reasons to upgrade, but for this article we’re just comparing cameras. Specifically, I put the iPhone 8 Plus against last year’s model, the 7 Plus, to see how much Apple has improved its camera game. On the surface there are many similarities between the iPhone 8 Plus’s...
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A handful of users in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan posted images of the devices online which showed the screens pulled away from the body. This damage was supposedly caused by an expanding battery, which brings to mind the disastrous Samsung Galaxy Note 7 that had to be recalled after units began to catch fire.

Should iPhone users be worried that their shiny new devices are a potential danger? We investigate.
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At a special event today in San Francisco, Microsoft announced that it has acquired social VR app AltspaceVR.

The virtual reality social networking app allows users across headset and web platforms to join 3D chat rooms to play games, watch videos and attend events.

In July, the startup announced it was shutting down after a new funding round had fallen through at the last minute, leaving the startup out of runway. Just weeks later, the company announced that it was keeping the lights on after help from a “third party.”

We now know that third party to be Microsoft.
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