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Google Home and Home Mini Smart Speakers Launched in India. #MakeGoogleDoIt

Finally, the wait is over, Google has launched its Google Home and Google Home Mini smart speakers in India on April 10, Tuesday at an event in New Delhi. As per the announcement, the Google Home and Google Home Mini will be exclusively available to buy online via Flipkart, and will also be made available in 750 retail offline stores. As of now, the speakers will support Google Play Music, YouTube, Netflix, Gaana, and Saavn. The Google Home has been priced in India at Rs 9,999 while Home Mini costs Rs 4,499. Like any other Google services, this device can be activated by saying ‘Ok Google’. The Google Home is now only available in Chalk fabric base and Google Home Mini is available in Chalk and Charcoal fabric colors. Now if we look back we will find that Amazon has already launched their own Amazon Echo smart speakers which are powered by Alexa voice virtual assistance in India last year and surprisingly the price tag of both the devices are same. Customers who are buying the Googl...

Apple iPad 2018 (6th Gen) Impressions

Let’s say you want to buy a tablet and you don’t want to spend much, well the obvious option is to get the sixth-generation iPad that Apple just announced. I guess there’s a Windows tablet, but at this price point, they are not good. Android tablets, they’re basically dead, they don’t exist anymore. There’s only one Chromos tablet and who knows if it’s any good, I don’t think it will be that good. Amazon tablets are basically only good for watching Amazon Prime and reading Kindle books. So the iPad which starts at $329 isn’t just the obvious option, it’s basically the only option. Thank God it’s so good. So here is the deal with the new iPad, Apple announced it in an educational event so you might think it’s an educational only iPad, but it’s basically just the new iPad. Everything about this iPad is almost exactly the same as last year’s iPad. It has the same very good screen, but it isn’t laminated which means theirs is a tiny little air gap from the glass to the screen. Unless yo...

Do cellphones cause cancer?

You’ve probably heard that cell phones could cause cancer. Are we developing cancer from cellphones? The world health organization labeled phone radiation possibly carcinogenic in 2011. A current understanding of radio waves says that generally, phones shouldn’t give you cancer but we are still doing research to find out if it’s true in practice.  The radiation sounds really scary but you shouldn’t necessarily be scared by it. The FM radio waves that are being generated that’s also radiation, visible lights are also radiation. Phone radiation is similar, the problem is there is a second type of radiation that actually does harm people that are known as ionizing radiation. So things like X-rays and some Ultraviolet light, ionizing radiation can damage your DNA which can eventually lead to cancer according to the theory of the American Cancer Society. Phone radiation is non-ionizing, meaning it does not damage your DNA. So if it does cause cancer then it’s through some mec...