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A few tweets about FaceApp, an AI photo editor developed by a Russian company, sparked a privacy freakout among those who'd uploaded their selfies. However, security researchers say the concerns are overblown. Should you be afraid of FaceApp , the photo editor out of Russia accused of vacuuming up photos of millions of Americans? According to security researchers, we all need to calm down. The app isn't trying to invade your privacy and mass upload all the photos from your phone. "We have found nothing out of the ordinary in this app," Aviran Hazum , a researcher at the antivirus company Check Point, said in an email. Hazum is among the experts who've analyzed FaceApp and found no major privacy violations in the software's processes. "I must say that this app seems to be developed in a good fashion—no greedy permissions, and it does what they claim it does," he added. So why did the app suddenly raise alarms? FaceApp has actuall...

Realme has finally announced the sale dates for the Realme X Spider-Man: Far From Home Edition and Realme X Master Edition. The two special edition variants of the Realme X were unveiled alongside Realme X in the country but the company had not shared any details about their availability until now. Apart from a new coat of paint and other design tweaks, both Realme X Spider-Man: Far From Home Edition and Realme X Master Edition are pretty much the same phone as the regular Realme X. Additionally, Realme has also revealed that the regular Realme X will go on sale via offline retailers beginning August 3. Realme X : Spider-Man: Far From Home special edition price in India, availability Realme X Spider-Man: Far From Home edition will go on sale for the first time on July 30. The variant was launched alongside Realme X earlier this month. Priced at Rs. 20,999, the phone will be available offline via select stores beginning July 30. It will also be offered via Flipkart and the Realm...

WhatsApp turned ten years old in 2019, and that fact has not escaped the attention of cybercriminals looking to exploit the anniversary. Researchers from ESET have received a WhatsApp message offering 1000GB of free internet data by way of a WhatsApp birthday present to its users. That message, unsurprisingly, is neither from WhatsApp itself as it purported to be, nor is the offer of 1000GB of free internet data genuine. It is a scam, and not a very convincing one assuming you know what to look for that is. Unfortunately, given that this is the 10th anniversary year for WhatsApp and gifts to loyal members are not exactly unusual, it would be all too easy for the unwary user to get carried away by the fraudulent promotion. What does the message say? "WhatsApp Offers 1000GB Free Internet!" the message reads, with a link to click for more details. That link is the first real giveaway that all may not be as it seems; it isn't an official WhatsApp domain. Howev...

WhatsApp Status lets you share photos and videos with people who use the messaging service that's become a ubiquitous social media platform in India. WhatsApp used to be an app where you could just chat with people but a couple of years ago, it added a feature called WhatsApp Status. This is pretty similar to Snapchat and Instagram Stories, where the things you upload get removed after 24 hours. Creating a WhatsApp Status is very easy and if you want to view someone else's status then you can do that by going to the Status tab on WhatsApp. But what if you want to save WhatsApp Status? Well, if you own an Android smartphone, then you'll be delighted to know that you can save WhatsApp Status videos and photos by following these simple steps listed below.How to save WhatsApp Status video on Android The whole process requires a file manager on your Android smartphone. You can use any file manager of your choice but the steps may vary. To keep things simple, we used the G...

  Xiaomi entered the Indian market with a huge splash in 2014, selling its Mi 3 with the then-flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor at an extremely low price. However, the company has concentrated more on its entry-level and mid-budget Redmi models for a while now. The new Redmi K20 Pro builds on the popular Redmi name but takes Xiaomi back into high-end territory. Priced starting at Rs. 27,999 with its top-end Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor, this phone undercuts even OnePlus, which has been the go-to brand for affordable flagship phones for quite some time now. The Redmi K20 Pro offers many of the features and capabilities of the OnePlus 7 and even the higher priced OnePlus 7 Pro.Redmi K20 Pro design In the recent past we have seen that flagships have taken innovative approaches to design in order to achieve borderless, notchless displays. The Asus 6Z ₹ 31,999 (Review), for instance, has a rotating camera module, while the OnePlus 7 Pro ₹ 48,999 (Review) sports a pop...

Professional look, but gamer at heart. Lenovo wants to reshape its Legion series to appeal to a broader audience outside of just hardcore gamers. The Legion Y730 represents the first step in this new direction and it is subsequently the most balanced laptop in the family to date. The Lenovo Legion Y730 series directly succeeds the Legion Y720 series. Unlike the Y720, however, the Y730 includes both 15-inch and 17-inch screen sizes for a wider range of options than its immediate predecessor. We recommend reading our review on the 15-inch Legion Y530 as it shares a similar aesthetic design to our 17-inch Legion Y730 that we have here today. As of this writing, there are only two SKUs of the 17-inch Legion Y730 available distinguished by their processors. The first is equipped with a quad-core Core i5-8300H while the second uses a hexa-core i7-8750H. Otherwise, both have the same 1080 IPS matte display and GTX 1050 Ti GPU. Our review unit is the faster configuration retailing fo...

Huawei Y9 Prime 2019 is all set to launch in India soon. Amazon India has started teasing the arrival of the new phone, confirming that the phone will be sold on the e-commerce website whenever it launches. Huawei had first launched the phone in May revealing its design and specifications. The phone has a pop-up selfie camera setup that has been teased on Amazon India as well. It is also equipped with a triple rear camera setup at the back as well as a rear fingerprint sensor. The Huawei Y9 Prime 2019 is Amazon teaser poster reads ‘coming soon'. We weren't able to spot the teaser on the website, but the app teaser suggests that the phone will be available on the e-commerce site. Huawei Y9 2019 price (expected) The India pricing of the phone is currently a mystery. However, the phone is currently being sold in countries like Chile, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, and the phone's price in these countries is likely to offer some indication of what we can expect. The phone is...

FaceApp and its intrinsic terms and conditions: Time is still a constraint for the answers which only the future can be able to provide us. But, thanks to our technological advancements, we are now capable to figure out a few things through some recently developed branches of computer science and one of them is known as Artificial Intelligence (AI). So, in a recent viral trend, if you want to know how you will look like in your aged picture, then FaceApp’s AI is there to give you an answer. What is FaceApp? FaceApp, developed by a Russian company called Wireless Lab, allows its user through its fine-tuned AI engine to create their future picture. Launched in 2017, the app is the brainchild of a former Microsoft and Yandex engineer Yaroslav Goncharov. How can it show your aged picture? Using deep generative convolutional neural networks, the FaceApp’s algorithm takes the picture of your face as input and adjusts it on the basis of other imagery. Its neural engine can add...

Google and several Indian doctors are working together to use AI to detect diabetic retinopathy, a kind of nerve damage in eyes that, if not detected early, can lead to blindness. image:indiatoday.in Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the world and the number of people suffering from it is on a rise. There are over 415 million diabetes patients in world out of which 78.3 million people are in South-East Asia. All of these people stand at a risk of getting diabetic retinopathy, a complication arising from diabetes that can eventually lead to blindness if left untreated. While this condition is severe, what makes India particularly susceptible to the extreme effects of this disease is the lack of availability of eye specialists, which in turn leads to nearly 45 per cent patients suffering vision loss before diagnosis. Google, using AI, is hoping to help Indian doctors detect diabetic retinopathy early. So how exactly Google Helping  Google has developed ...

Amazon Prime Day is Coming Amazon has already announced that its upcoming Prime Day 2019 sale will feature over 1,000 new product launches. Now, the e-retail giant says that over 500 of these will be the products from small and medium businesses , women entrepreneurs, weavers, and startups that are a part of various Amazon initiatives like Kala Haat, Amazon Saheli, Amazon Launchpad, and Amazon Business. Amazon Prime Day 2019 sale opens July 15 and will continue through July 16.  As the name says , this is only available for those who've subscribed the Amazon Prime Subscription. The company says this will be the first year for Amazon Saheli and Kala Haat entrepreneurs in the Prime Day sale. The Amazon Prime subscribers can expect to see new hand-woven clothing, stationery, grocery, feminine hygiene products, grocery, apparel, handmade fashion accessories, mobile covers, and home & kitchen products from these entrepreneurs. In specific type of products, the Kala Haat ...