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Samsung Electronics on Tuesday reported 0.1 percent dip in its second quarter net profit from a year earlier amid slower sales of its Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus smartphones. The company posted an operating profit of 14.87 trillion won ($13.4bn) in the April-June period, down 5.4 percent from the record 15.64 trillion won the company earned in the previous quarter. The results mark the company’s the first quarterly decline in operating profit after several quarters of record growth. Overall sales came in 58.48 trillion won, ($52.3 billion), which is also 4 percent lower than the company’s revenues of 60.56 trillion during the previous quarter. Net income, meanwhile, saw a slight increase, coming in 2 percent higher at 10.98 trillion won ($9.8 billion). The company had earned , from KRW 10.80 trillion a year earlier. Operating profit from the company’s mobile division fell to 2.67 trillion won from 4 trillion a year earlier due to weaker-than-expected sales of the Galaxy S9, with th...

In line with its efforts to curb abuse and harassment of users on its platform, Twitter has now selected two research projects that aim to develop metrics to measure the “health” of public conversation. “An update! We’ve selected 2 partners from 230 idea submissions. Our first goal is working to measure the ‘health’ of public conversation, and that measurement be open and defined by third parties (not by us),” Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said in a tweet on Monday. Earlier this year, the microblogging site said it would work to increase the collective health, openness, and civility of the dialogue on its service. As part of these efforts, Twitter initiated a programme to suspend millions of fake accounts and in June announced the acquisition of Smyte, a San Francisco-based technology company that specialises in safety, spam, and security issues. One of the two projects that the social network has now selected will be led by a political science professor at Leiden University in the Ne...

Global aircraft maker Boeing would provide its innovative platform to promote Indian start-ups in the aerospace sector with disruptive ideas, an official said here on Monday. “Boeing is providing a platform to promote innovation in India. Such platforms accelerate Start-up India and give impetus to Make in India and Skill India,” Niti Aayog Chief Executive Amitabh Kant said here. The US-based aerospace major, in association with the Telangana state’s Hyderabad-based startup catalyst T-Hub, will initially help six start-ups take their innovative and disruptive ideas to the aerospace market. Three start-ups — Huviair, Merxius and ZestIoT joined three teams from Boeing India Engineering & Technology Centre in showcasing disruptive ideas at the Boeing Horizonx India Innovative Challenge to prospective investors, customers and government stakeholders. “We will collaborate with the three start-ups to help their businesses. The ideas of our teams are under evaluation as potential comp...

Global cab-hailing platform Uber has stopped developing self-driving trucks as the programme was no longer competitive in the freight shipping industry, the company announced. Uber said on Monday that it wants to refocus on the self-driving car programme, which was halted following a crash in which a Uber autonomous car killed a pedestrian in Arizona in March, reports Xinhua news agency. Employees in the San Francisco-based self-driving truck division will be relocated to other internal units, including the Pittsburgh-based self-driving car programme. Despite the shutdown, Uber Freight, a business unit that helps match truck drivers with shipping companies, will not be affected. Uber ventured into driverless vehicles in early 2015. Controversy was aroused when it purchased Otto, a self-driving truck startup founded by a former Google engineer, in 2016.  Google later accused the engineer of stealing confidential files before he left the company. The shutting down of Uber...

Putting an end to months of anticipation, Xiaomi finally unveiled  its second Android One smartphone, the Mi A2 and Mi A2 Lite, at a global launch event in Spain last week. The Chinese giant is now launching the Mi A2 in India (not the lower-end Mi A2 Lite) on 8th August and it has now been revealed that it will be exclusive to Amazon. Yes, as opposed to its usual Flipkart exclusivity, Xiaomi now appears to have decided to go with Amazon India for the launch of Mi A2 in the country. You can head over to this link to check out the promotional page for the device on Amazon. As for why Xiaomi has gone with Amazon, there’s no reason stated. One factor could be the criticism from buyers about flash sales on Flipkart . Key Specs Coming to the specs, the Mi A2 sports a  5.99-inch Full HD+ display  with an 18:9 aspect ratio. This means it doesn’t have a notch and looks exactly the same as Mi 6X , which was recently launched in China. But that’s not all, it packs almos...

A homeless web-developer in the US is reportedly being flooded with job offers after a photo of him holding a ‘Homeless’ sign went viral on social media over the weekend. The photo shows 26-year-old web developer, David Casarez, holding up a sign that read ‘Homeless, Hungry 4 Success, Take a Resume’ . According to reports, Casarez on Friday stood at a busy street corner in Mountain View, California, with the cardboard sign and resumes in hand. He’d been apparently been standing for a couple of hours when a woman named Jasmine Scofield noticed his unusual plea and stopped to take his photo. She then uploaded the photo along with Casarez’s resume on Twitter , and the post soon went viral with tens of thousands of retweets by the end of the weekend. Today I saw this young homeless man asking for people to take a resume rather than asking for money. If anyone in the Silicon Valley could help him out, that would be amazing. Please RT so we can help David out! pic.twitter.com/ewoE3PKFx7 ...

Huawei brand Honor has started the first flash sale of the Honor 9N on Flipkart. Starting at  Rs 13,999 , the mid-range Honor 9N will be available in blue and black colours for the sale, according to a company statement. Honor says buyers can get Rs 2200 Cashback and 100 GB additional 4G Data and upto Rs 1200 Myntra vouchers with an exclusive Jio Offer for the Honor 9N. You can find details of this offer on Flipkart here . The smartphone comes in two storage variants i.e. 4GB RAM + 64GB at Rs 13,999 and 4GB RAM + 128GB at Rs 17,999. Here are the key specs of the phone: Display 5.84-inch, IPS LCD, 2280x1080 (19:9) Processor HiSilicon Kirin 659 RAM 3GB/4GB Storage 32GB/64GB/128GB Rear Camera 13MP+2MP Front Camera 16MP Battery 3000mAh OS EMUI 8 based on Android 8.0 Oreo The Honor 9N retains the Honor 9i (2018) hardware for the most part, and is powered by the Kirin 659 SoC, as expected. The device also features a 5.84-inch Full HD+ (2280×1080) d...