Huawei Mate 8 passes through FCC

The Huawei Mate 8 was announced back in November for the Chinese market with promises for more details to come at CES. Today brings great new for US availability of the Mate 8 – the handset has already been certified by the FCC, which means its release on the US market is imminent and should follow shortly after the expo.

The documents in question don’t really detail much about the hardware of the unit, bearing the model number NXT-L09, but we can only expect specs to match up with the already announced Chinese version.

Packing an in-house Kirin 950 SoC, with four high-power Cortex-A72 cores, clocked at up to 2.3 GHz and an additional four power-saving Cortex-A53 ones, working at 1.8 GHz, the Huawei Mate 8 also offers a Mali T880MP4 GPU, pushing pixels on a spacious 6.0-inch FHD IPS display.

Memory options include 3GB/32GB, 4GB/64GB, and 4GB/128GB variants. The camera setup consists of Sony’s latest IMX298 16MP sensor at the back and an 8MP shooter on the front and a 4000 mAh battery is powering the show. The OEM’s industry-leading fingerprint tech is also on board.

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Huawei Mate 8 passes through FCC

Judge knocks Uber over latest attempt to bar drivers from class-actions

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SAN FRANCISCO—On Thursday, a federal judge admonished Uber over its questionable newly issued labor agreement. He also ruled that the new agreement does not affect members of the certified class of California drivers who are currently suing Uber over whether they should be considered employees.

Uber’s lawyer, Theodore Boutrous, said the company believed it was within its right to suddenly send out the new document last Friday, which drivers had to agree to in order to continue driving for the company.

“Whatever your intent, I’m going to tell you my intent, I had no intent to say go ahead and issue notices,” US District Court Judge Edward Chen said during the hearing in O’Connor v. Uber, which was over two hours long.

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'Dilwale' review: This Shah Rukh Khan-Kajol starrer is high on style, low on substance

Dilwale marks the return of the romantic pair of Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol to the silver screen after a gap of five years. Director Rohit Shetty, known for his action scenes and love for blowing up cars, is competing with Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Bajirao Mastani, the other big release of the week in India.

See also: ‘Bajirao Mastani’ review: A visually spectacular, star-crossed romance

The film begins with shots of Raj (Shah Rukh Khan) in a flashback, involved in a car chase and a gun battle. Cut to present, Raj owns a garage in Goa where his younger brother Veer (Varun Dhawan) and gang of other characters repair, modiy and make designer cars. Though he comes across as a simpleton, Raj has a past. The angry young man inside comes out when Veer is hit by goons one day. We also come to know he has another name — Kaali. …

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'Dilwale' review: This Shah Rukh Khan-Kajol starrer is high on style, low on substance

Xiaomi Mi 5 rumor review: specs, features, release date, everything we know so far

Despite unleashing a couple of top-end phones (Mi Note, Mi Note Pro, Mi 4i), Xiaomi did not release a flagship smartphone in 2015. Yes, we witnessed the arrival of the Xiaomi Mi 4i and the so-so Mi 4c, but the anticipated Mi 5 remained a mirage of sorts. Interestingly, the rumor mill never ceased to come up with possible release dates for the device; actually, there were a couple possible dates during each of the preceding months. However, Xiaomi kept mostly mum and unveiled no Mi 5.
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Dust doughnut around massive black hole is clumpy, study shows

Scientists have for the first time penetrated the doughnut shaped clouds of gas and dust that surround most of the massive black holes in the universe and come up with a surprising discovery. The cosmic doughnuts are not smooth but clumpy.

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Xiaomi smartphone sales could hit 73 million mark this year, fall short of initial forecast

Back in March this year, Xiaomi Chairman Lei Jun said that the company is aiming to sell somewhere between 80 to 100 million smartphone units in 2015. However, it now looks like the five-year-old firm will miss the target this year.

Jun has released a new statement saying that the final figure could be somewhere around 73 million. This came a day after he played down the 80 million target, saying that’s not the first priority for the company. “What we care about the most is the rate of customer satisfaction,” he had said.

Quarter-wise, the Chinese smartphone manufacturer sold 15 million units in Q1 2015, followed by 20 million and 18.5 million units in Q2 and Q3, respectively. This suggests that Q4 will see Xiaomi selling over 20 million handsets, making it the most successful quarter for the company.

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Xiaomi smartphone sales could hit 73 million mark this year, fall short of initial forecast

New Microsoft Translator update is aimed at making conversations more comfortable

Microsoft has released an update to its Translator app that brings along a new conversation feature which allows you to communicate across languages more comfortably by leveraging your phone as well as smartwatch.

This means that now you can enjoy a near-real-time conversation by letting the other party use your smartphone while you use your smartwatch, be it an Android Wear watch or an Apple Watch.

“Instead of two people having to bend over your phone, passing it back and forth, being far from the microphone (and picking up background noise), or being at an uncomfortably close distance with each other, you can now face each other more naturally and at a more comfortable distance, while talking to each other in your own language,” the software giant said in a blog post.

The new feature supports translation to and from seven different languages, including Chinese Mandarin, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

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$400 million: That's the H-1B visa fee hike bill for Indian IT

The US Congress has doubled the “outsourcing fee” imposed on highly-qualified Indian IT professionals to $4,000 — a move that could cost the IT industry close to $400 million.

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Apple Pay to debut in smartphone mecca China next year - CNET

Apple’s electronic-payments service breaks into Chinese market thanks to deal with China UnionPay.

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Randy Glein of DFJ Growth On Today’s Crazy Late-Stage Market

DFJ, the renowned Sand Hill Road Firm, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. At the same time, its low-flying, later-stage offshoot, DFJ Growth, is turning 10. This week, we caught up with DFJ Growth cofounder Randy Glein to understand how closely related or not the two remain, how the firm is feeling about the shaky late-stage market, and whether his team of five general… Read More

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Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 Pro review - CNET

The Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 Pro features a built-in rotatable pico projector, great speakers, long battery life and a built-in kickstand.

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Report: Google plans to use its self-driving cars to compete with Uber

Many have speculated whether Google will enter the automotive production fray, building and selling a car to consumers. Google has denied the accusations, insisting it has no interest in manufacturing cars.

Whether it aims to make them or not seems immaterial. That’s because a recent report suggests the tech giant is preparing to launch an Uber competitor backed by a fleet of self-driving cars.

See also: Proposed California law limits self-driving cars, ticks off Google

Google will start a new mobility service company under Alphabet Inc. corporate umbrella, according to Bloomberg.

Since Google started testing self-driving cars, like the one shown above, the company has logged over 1 million miles on the roads around San Francisco, California and Austin, Texas. These are likely the two pilot cities in which Google’s Uber competitor would launch. …

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Report: Apple developing holographic iPhone screen in Taiwan lab (VIDEO)

Just yesterday, we passed along a report suggesting that Apple was working on micro-LED screens in a secret lab located in Taiwan. These displays do not require backlighting, and as a result iPhones made with micro-LED screens will be thinner and lighter. They also offer higher resolution for users. A new report published today has a more exciting story to offer. According to this version of events, Apple is secretly working on a holographic display for the iPhone that will not require the use of special glasses to view.

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