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Leaked images of the blue Google Pixel 2 on the left and the white and black Google Pixel 2 XL on the right, first published by technology site Droid Life.
Leaked images of the blue Google Pixel 2 on the left and the white and black Google Pixel 2 XL on the right, first published by technology site Droid Life. Photograph: Google
Two new Pixel phones and a competitor to Amazon’s Echo Dot are among the products expected to be unveiled today at an event held by Google.
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Many users have been reporting crackling noise ever since the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus came out. A colleague also noticed the same bug with two different phones.

At first, everybody believed it was a hardware issue because not all iPhones were affected. But Apple released the first beta version of iOS 11.1 last week and it fixed the issue with a simple software update. Apple expedited the bug fix and shipped a minor 11.0.2 bug fix update so that users don’t have to wait for iOS 11.1.
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Microsoft is getting ready to launch the next major update to Windows 10, the Fall Creators Update, on October 17. Part of this update includes full support for Windows Mixed Reality, the company’s name for the continuum between augmented reality and full virtual reality. After lining up support and headsets from partners like Acer, Dell HP and Lenovo, Microsoft also today announced that Samsung is bringing a virtual reality headset for room-scale VR to its platform.
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The iPhone 8 Plus’s reign as “the best smartphone camera” was a mighty short one. DxOMark, the testing outfit many look to for fair evaluations of cameras from DSLRs to phones, gave Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8 a 94, tying the iPhone and in some ways exceeding it.

While its video is merely great and its background-blur algorithms unreliable, the Samsung gained on its competition with its outstanding detail and color in everyday settings and super-fast autofocus. Its zoom also outperformed the iPhone’s.
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Technology has completely transformed the process of generating leads in order to sell a product or service. Lead generation can now be done faster than ever, on a larger scale than salespeople of the past could have ever imagined. There are seven main ways that tech has enhanced lead generation, and each enhancement allows for more leads in less time, which ultimately amounts to more profit. That’s never a bad thing!
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The Federal Government has granted a 3-year tax relief to the newly inaugurated Pay TV operator in the country, TStv Africa, as well as tax free dividends to all investors in the company. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced this on Sunday night in Abuja at a dinner to mark the official unveiling of the new company. TStv Africa is a wholly owned Nigerian Pay TV...
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Uber has added a new feature to its app this month to support its deaf and hard of hearing drivers, a group the company says number in the thousands across its service. Uber says that these drivers have together completed millions of trips, and while it has added a number of features to its app over the years to provide additional support for those with hearing impairments, it’s going a step further with a new feature launching at the end of Deaf Awareness Month, which takes place in September.

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A lot of users rely on Google’s Gmail for official purposes. Reading, organising emails can be a complex and time-taking process. While Gmail comes with its own set of tools to organise emails, it misses out on some key elements. The Google Chrome web browser comes with a bevy of extensions which can enhance the capabilities of Gmail. Here are some of the tools to consider.

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School’s back in session, which means homework’s back, too!

But don’t fret about those tests, there are plenty of apps to help make prepping easier.

TechCrunch tested out the study aids and here are our favorites

Some people are naturally great at math. Others need a little more assistance. Yet everybody could benefit from some practice. Photomath is an app for your math homework. Just point the camera toward a math problem and it will display the answer with step-by-step instructions with how they got there. It can also draw graphs. But don’t use this for cheating! This app will help you practice so you can learn how to do this stuff all by yourself. The app supports everything from basic arithmetic to more advanced levels of math like trigonometry. It’s a free app and is available for both iPhone and Android.
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O.J. Simpson has been released from prison after serving nine years for armed robbery and other charges.

Simpson was released at 12:08 a.m. local time Sunday from the Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada.

The overnight release was "in an effort to ensure public safety and reduce the potential for incident," the Nevada Department of Corrections said on its Facebook page.

A driver met Simpson as he left the prison, according to The Associated Press. But prison officials told the wire service they had no indication who it was who picked him up or where Simpson was headed.

Simpson told the parole board he had been a model prisoner during his time there.

Now 70 years old, Simpson rose to prominence as a Heisman Trophy winner in college and later NFL player, making the Hall of Fame. He became an actor, known for his goofy character in the Naked Gun movies, and appearances in commercials.

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Perhaps, that is one of the lessons President Muhammadu Buhari is coming to terms with as President and Commander-in-Chief. Apart from his frontal attack on corruption, virtually every other campaign promise has either been repudiated or has, unfortunately, not matured; and patience is running thin. But the question persists, even after 57years of independence: How do you make Nigerians happy? For a people whose desires are so basic and modest, it should not take so much to make Nigerians happy. But they are not. Buffeted by a cocktail of afflictions ranging from failed infrastructure, to illiteracy, communal clashes and tribalism, corruption, nepotism, indiscipline and ritual killings, just to mention a few, Nigerians have become more impoverished than they were at independence, for, as you look deep into the eyes of the average Nigerian, what you see is bewilderment.
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Samsung’s ambitions to introduce the world’s first foldable smartphone seem to be finally getting off the ground as the South Korean company has got its Galaxy X foldable smartphone certified in its home country. The South Korean certification body has certified Galaxy X (model number SM-G888N0), as per a report.

According to a report by LetsGoDigital, spotted by GSMArena, the National Radio Research Agency (NRRA) of the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) has given approval for radio connectivity on Samsung’s alleged foldable smartphone. As we said, the smartphone, which has been passed by the South Korean regulator equivalent to US FCC, bears a model name SM-G888N0, which doesn’t really shed any light on the what the final device will look like. However, the ‘N0’ part at the end of the model name suggests a Korean model.

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Without the iPhone X, the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus would have been hailed as the ultimate evolution of the iPhone design. With it in play the iPhone 8 family is seen as little more than some updated chips and hand-me down tech from the iPhone X.
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There is great news for those folks who held off from buying the 2017 refresh of the legendary Nokia 3310 due to its reliance on terribly slow 2.5G networks. HMD Global has now launched a 3G variant of the Nokia 3310. Finally, the diminutive little feature phone will be able to access faster mobile data speeds and give some competition to the JioPhone. Although the latter runs on 4G which is quite a bit faster than even 3G.

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