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Microsoft at its event on Tuesday unveiled three new phones - the flagship Lumia 950 and the Lumia 950XL smartphones, and the affordable Lumia 550.

The new Microsoft Band, which allows users to monitor their fitness and exercise regime, will be priced at $249 when it becomes available on October 30.

The feature lets you use a 7 second clipping for your profile on mobile instead of a static picture.

Pew found 31 per cent of teens had sent flirtatious messages, 10 per cent had sent photos as part of flirting and seven per cent had made a video for potential partner.

The partnership could boost the prominence of Huawei, which has received media attention from US government allegations that the company is a security threat because of perceived close links to the Chinese government.

The film is scheduled for release in 2016. It will be directed by Richie Mehta and executive produced by Ridley Scott and Anurag Kashyap. R.Balki, Shekhar Kapur and Zoya Akhtar will serve as creative consultants.

The pilot project is slated to begin next year, with three "drone-port" buildings due for completion by 2020, enabling the drones to cover almost half of Rwanda's countryside.

LG Electronics has unveiled a new smartphone that has a few firsts to its credit and also packs in a number of other interesting features.

Reliance Communications, controlled by tycoon Anil Ambani, will partner with Reliance Industries' telecom subsidiary to launch fourth-generation (4G) mobile phone services by year-end, said the company's chairman.

Google has unveiled two new Nexus smartphones - the Nexus 6P and the Nexus 5X. The Nexus 5X and 6P come with fingerprint sensors.

Curiously, an hour after the post on the government's publicity web site denied Fadia's appointment, it was withdrawn.

Beginning with the “D-Wave Two” quantum computer, NASA’s QuAIL team is evaluating various quantum computing approaches to help address challenges faced by the US space agency.

Among the anticipated announcements, the next line of Nexus smartphones has garnered the most attention.

Japan's mobile phone giant SoftBank, which sells the Pepper robot, states in its user agreement that the policy owner must not perform any sexual act or other indecent behaviour.

Google will collaborate with Indian Railways to provide free WiFi services at 500 stations by next year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced as he visited the headquarters of the search engine giant here.

Customers are most excited by a more low-tech feature: the 'rose gold' finish, a new shade that Apple introduced with the current phone.