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OPPO Find N3 Flip India launch on October 12: Livestream, specifications

OPPO Find N3 Flip India launch on October 12: Livestream, specifications

by | Oct 12, 2023 | Technology



Chinese electronics maker OPPO is set to launch its second-generation flip-style foldable smartphone today, on October 12, at 7:00 pm (IST). Named the OPPO Find N3 Flip, the smartphone would bring upgrades with regard to regard displays, hinge, and camera. These upgrades are on top of seasonal refresh such as upgraded processor and charging. Below are the details:


OPPO Find N3 Flip: Specification


Main display


The OPPO Find N3 Flip would sport a 6.8-inch fullHD+ of 120Hz refresh rate. It would feature TUV Rheinland Intelligent Eye Care certification. OPPO said the display would feature a multi-layer screen protection, which reduces the crease besides smoothening the drop shape in a folded state.


Cover display


OPPO said the Find N3 Flip would sport a 3.26-inch vertical display on the cover with support for over 40 essential apps, including Gmail, Outlook, Uber, and Google Maps. The cover screen would be of 17:9 aspect ratio and feature a 0.3mm bezel. OPPO said the cover screen would be large enough to display a grid of 3×4 apps, and it would support one-touch replies, speech-to-text, emojis and typing via a full QWERTY keyboard. As for the customisation options, OPPO said the cover screen would be customisable with up to 20 styles and three quick access widgets, including Messages, Camera, Battery, Recorder, Timer, and To-dos. Besides, it would let users choose from eight digital pets with animated actions that react to users and their environment.


Design and Hinge


The Find N3 Flip would be offered in Cream Gold and Sleek Black colours. OPPO promises a slew of upgrades over the previous generation Find N2 Flip, including an improved Flexion hinge design. About the hinge in the Find N3 Flip, OPPO said it has upgraded it from the single friction plate of the previous generation to a dual friction plate structure to improve FlexForm stability. OPPO said it has used aircraft-grade high-strength steel at core load-bearing positions to improve durability and increase deformation resistance from drops by 25 per cent, compared with the Find N2 Flip.


As for the design, OPPO said the Find N3 Flip would sport a Gorilla Glass 7 cover back. When unfolded, OPPO said the Find N3 Flip would measure 7.79mm and it would weigh 198g. The Find N3 Flip would be the first OPPO smartphone to feature an alert slider similar to the one seen on the OnePlus smartphones.


Camera


With regard to imaging, OPPO said the Find N3 Flip would feature a triple-camera set-up in a circular module next to the cover screen. The device would feature a 50-megapixel (Sony IMX890) main camera paired with a telephoto portrait camera (32MP Sony IMX709 sensor). OPPO said it has fine-tuned its bokeh effects with inputs from Hasselblad for portrait photos. The third camera sensor is a 114-degree ultra-wide-angle camera (48MP Sony IMX581 sensor). On the display, the Find N3 Flip would sport a 32MP Sony IMX709 RGBW punch-hole camera for video calls, selfies, and 4K 30fps videos. 


As for the camera features, there would be Multi-Angle FlexForm Camera mode, FlexForm Interval Shooting, FlexForm Long Exposure, and FlexForm Time-Lapse. Besides, there would be a Dual Preview window for users to check the frame on both screens. OPPO said it has worked with Hasselblad to integrate the Hasselblad Natural Colour Solution into the camera system.


Processor


MediaTek Dimensity 9200 chipset would power the Find N3 Flip. Together with 12GB LPDDR5X RAM, the smartphone is said to deliver smooth performance.


Battery and charger


The Find N3 Flip would be powered by a 4,300mAh battery, supported by OPPO’s proprietary 44W SUPERVOOCTM fast-charging technology.


OPPO Find N3 Flip: Launch livestream



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Technologies like AI, quantum computing may alter global order: RBI Dy Guv

Technologies like AI, quantum computing may alter global order: RBI Dy Guv

by | Oct 12, 2023 | Technology



Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, robotics and synthetic biology have the potential to not just revolutionise human and social lives, but to also alter the global order, said Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governor T. Rabi Sankar on Wednesday night.


“We do not know the outcome of these technologies, (whether) good or bad. But there clearly are risks. And those risks are being highlighted openly and forcefully,” said Sankar at the grand finale of RBI global hackathon ‘Harbinger 2023’, which witnessed participation from many techies and startups to build innovative products and solutions for the banking and financial ecosystem. “As creators of such technological products and innovations, you entrepreneurs need to think about these issues. As regulators, our job is to provide some guidance on the direction in which the innovation should take place,” said Sankar.


He said the objective of the RBI is to guide innovation to maximise the financial well-being of people and the efficiency of the financial systems. Also, the aim is to anticipate and proactively try to contain and channel any undesirable effects of technologies.


Quoting AI company DeepMind Co-founder Mustafa Suleyman’s book ‘The Coming Wave’, Sankar said that ‘technology is an orchestra with no conductor’. Sankar said that what governments, regulators, and authorities all over the world are trying to do is act as some sort of conductor. “That is not going to be an easy job. But it needs to be done,” said Sankar.


Sankar said that RBI basically works on monetary policies, currency issues, banking regulation, and supervision. In the last couple of decades, it set up a number of important institutions, such as the National Payments Corporation of India (NCPI) and the Institute for Development & Research in Banking Technology (IDBRT).


Until recently technology issues were never on the radar for the RBI, apart from the fact that it also has an IT department, said Sankar. He said in the recent past RBI, central banks, governments, and other authorities have shown a lot of interest and involvement in technology.


“Why is the RBI involved in a hackathon? This is not something that we could have imagined five years ago,” said Sankar.  “Why this interest in technology? Two years back we set up a full-fledged department looking at addressing the issue of fintech. The reason lies in the nature or impact of technology.”


He said technology is not only facilitating human activities but also helping build orders in the world — economic order, social order, and political order. “All of us are familiar with fintech, which is transforming the financial system not just in India but across the world,” Sankar said.


Conducting a global hackathon like ‘Harbinger 2023’ is an initiative by RBI to create incentives for innovators. Sankar said the aim is to channel their energy to innovate to help support financial inclusions and other such objectives. This includes building financial products for the differently abled, enabling a wider reach of central bank digital currency (CBDC) through offline capabilities, scale-up technologies such as blockchain and facilitating regulatory compliances.


“All of them are issues that need immediate addressing and which have a very clear positive impact on the way the financial system operates,” said Sankar.


He said RBI will continue making efforts like the hackathon initiative to not only encourage targeted and responsible innovation but also to imbue a sense of social objectives. 



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Samsung’s profit slows in sign of semiconductor chip market bottom

Samsung’s profit slows in sign of semiconductor chip market bottom

by | Oct 11, 2023 | Technology



By Yoolim Lee




Samsung Electronics Co. reported a more modest slide in quarterly profit after staunching losses at its chip division, suggesting the global semiconductor market may have rounded a corner.

 


Samsung’s shares rose as much as 4.4%, their most in more than a month, with some investors saying a 78% decline in operating income was better than they’d feared. South Korea’s largest company has been struggling with an industry downturn alongside smaller rivals SK Hynix Inc. and Micron Technology Inc. Mainstay customers, including makers of personal computers and smartphones, have been cutting orders to deal with weak demand for gadgets and excess inventory of chips. 

 


Operating income fell to about 2.4 trillion won ($1.8 billion) on a 13% slide in sales in the three months to September, according to Samsung’s preliminary results. The numbers, in line with analyst estimates, reflect an improvement from the record 95% year-on-year plunge the previous quarter.

 


Expectations are rising that Samsung’s semiconductor business “has pretty much passed the bottom,” said Sanjeev Rana, head of Korea Research at CLSA. “And the recovery is underway in the fourth quarter.”

 


The news comes days after the US granted the company and Hynix an exemption to acquire the equipment they need to sustain and expand their chipmaking operations in China. That’s lifted some uncertainty hanging over the two memory leaders, allowing them to operate in the world’s biggest chip arena and make longer-term bets.

 


Samsung now seeks to position itself to benefit from a long-anticipated AI-related boom in tech spending, fueled by investor and consumer excitement over OpenAI’s ChatGPT debut last fall.

 


But in the development of tools needed to train AI, Samsung is playing catchup to smaller Hynix, the main supplier of next-generation DRAM to AI chipmaker Nvidia Corp. Samsung has said it plans to double its capacity to make high-bandwidth memory, which has the capacity needed to speed up AI training, by 2024.

 


Hynix’s shares have gained almost 60% this calendar year before Wednesday’s trading, compared with Samsung’s 20% rise.

 


Until AI-related demand translates into sales, however, Samsung and Hynix have said they will weather economic uncertainty by cutting output of NAND chips used in PCs and phones. That’s helped support prices of both DRAM and NAND, in a sign that the market may at long last be bottoming out.

 


Samsung, a bellwether for the tech industry because of its leading position in chips, electronics and smartphones, has also benefited from robust sales of its foldable phones. 

 


The world’s largest smartphone maker introduced the fifth generation of its foldable phones, pressing into a territory as yet untapped by rival products from Apple Inc. Its display sales are expected to have gotten a boost from smartphone users’ preference for bigger screens, such as those used in new iPhones by Apple, which is a customer as well as a competitor. 

 


Samsung will give a more comprehensive snapshot of its earnings later this month. The company previously said that it expected a recovery in sales in the second half of the year.

 


Investors will also gauge Samsung’s progress in the foundry business, where it trails Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Attention is on any shift in orders to Samsung as customers seek to lower their exposure to Taiwan, an island that China claims as its own, because of rising geopolitical tensions. Quarterly sales at TSMC fell less than feared, thanks to nascent demand from AI players. 

 


The market looks to the tech industry’s largest companies for hints of an AI-fueled recovery, but climbing inflation and geopolitical turbulence are clouding forecasts. 

 


Samsung is a stalwart of a memory sector that built capacity rapidly to meet pandemic-fueled demand. The company spent well into the downturn, saddling itself and its biggest customers with bulging inventories. 

 


“The result was better than expected,” said Lee Seung-Woo, an analyst at Eugene Investment & Securities. “The bottom for the memory chip industry is behind us and Samsung’s results showed that.”



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Govt, AWS working on Health IDs, will maintain digital health records

Govt, AWS working on Health IDs, will maintain digital health records

by | Oct 11, 2023 | Technology



Your complete patient record could soon be stored in one platform, thanks to an ambitious plan involving Amazon’s Cloud computing unit and the central government.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), which has earlier provided the Cloud infrastructure of major India Stack applications — from the digitisation service, DigiLocker, to the Covid-19 vaccine registration web portal, CoWIN — has now embarked upon initiatives that include creating digital health IDs and “longitudinal health records” of citizens.


These would be built as a part of repurposed CoWIN and Arogya Setu platforms, a senior executive said.


AWS has been a cloud computing partner for various state and central government agencies in India for scalable, on-demand services in the fields of education, transport, and farming. But when it comes to healthcare, the government is focusing on integrating the portals and platforms that have been operating in silos.


CoWIN, launched by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, has been repurposed into a universal vaccination platform called U-WIN. It may fulfil the vaccination needs of around 100 million people including children between zero and six years of age, pregnant women and lactating mothers.


The platform is already operational and offers 12 other vaccines including diphtheria, Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG), polio, and tetanus, said Pankaj Gupta, leader – public sector enterprises and government, AWS India. “From the moment a child is born, there is a longitudinal health record. We can call this database that maintains a health record that is cradle to grave. It is now also being integrated with platforms centred around maternal and child health. As far as health is concerned, the government of India is looking at a lot of policy intervention,”


A notable addition is the recently launched Poshan Tracker, a national initiative under the National Nutrition Mission. The platform monitors nutrition for the target group of 100 million, encompassing children, expectant women, and lactating mothers. Real-time data is currently sourced from around 1.4 million Anganwadi centres nationwide, Gupta said.


Apart from the health records, AWS is also working on the National Health Authority’s Unified Health Interface (UHI). Gupta said this would create a foundational layer for other app developers, similar to the UPI. The government wants to build a backbone for the public healthcare system through the UHI project.


“Arogya Setu is the first government app, which gives you the ability to create a 14-digit health ID. Users will be able to link all the existing and new health records along with a consent management framework. Today, when you go from one hospital to another, you have to carry all your physical health records. But now there will be no need because it will be all stored in a central repository, the way we had DigiLocker,” Gupta said.


The developments come days after the data governance of the CoWIN platform was under scrutiny due to an alleged leak of user information collected for the Covid-19 vaccination drive during the pandemic. Gupta said health records and repositories under the HealthLocker would work strictly based on user consent for processing their data.


As reported earlier, AWS plans to increase its total investment in India to $16.4 billion by 2030. Public sector business has been a key vertical for the global cloud giant.


Digital drive

– Government working on integration of digital healthcare platforms
 


– Arogya Setu to offer central repository of health records 

 


– Revamped CoWIN app now offers 12 more types of vaccinations

 


– 1.4 million Anganwadi centres recording real-time data for monitoring children, pregnant women



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90% firms experienced cyberattacks; 83% opted to pay attackers: Report

90% firms experienced cyberattacks; 83% opted to pay attackers: Report

by | Oct 11, 2023 | Technology



A Splunk Inc report highlighted the growing threat of ransomware attacks, with a staggering 90 per cent of organisations experiencing at least one disruptive cyber-attack in the past year. Alarmingly, 83 per cent of these organisations opted to pay the attackers following a ransomware incident, with over half of them shelling out a minimum of $100,000.


Vulnerable industries


The report found that vulnerable sectors included financial services (59 per cent), retail (59 per cent), and healthcare (52 per cent). Among these sectors, the retail industry emerged as the most likely sector to succumb to ransom demands, with 95 per cent of respondents admitting to making payments directly or through cyber insurance or a third party.


Increasing importance of CISOs and security funding in organisations


Forty-seven per cent of organisations revealed that CISOs now report directly to the CEO, indicating a more direct relationship with the C-Suite and governing boards. Governing boards have increasingly turned to CISOs for guidance in cybersecurity strategy, presenting an opportunity for CISOs to showcase their value and bridge communication gaps.


90 per cent of CISOs also stated that their governing boards now emphasise different key performance indicators (KPIs) and security metrics compared to two years ago. 


Despite economic challenges impacting various sectors, 93 per cent of CISOs expect an increase in their cybersecurity budgets in the coming year. However, 83 per cent noted that other areas of their organisations experienced budget cuts, reflecting the trade-offs made to bolster cybersecurity in the face of growing threats coinciding with economic downturns.


Generative AI: A game-changer


One of the report’s key findings is the growing significance of generative AI in cybersecurity. Eighty-six per cent of surveyed CISOs believed that generative AI could bridge the existing skills gaps and talent shortages within their security teams


Challenges of generative AI


However, 70 per cent of CISOs expressed concerns that this technology could potentially provide cyber adversaries with more opportunities to launch attacks. Yet, 35 per cent of the surveyed CISOs are already experimenting with generative AI for various cyber defense purposes, including malware analysis, workflow automation, and risk scoring.


Sectors like healthcare (88 per cent), manufacturing (76 per cent), and financial services (72 per cent) voiced the most significant fears regarding the advantages generative AI might offer to cyber adversaries. To mitigate these risks, 51 per cent of CISOs in financial services planned to implement specific cybersecurity controls to counter AI-related security risks. Furthermore, 93 per cent of CISOs have extensively or moderately implemented automation into their processes to bolster cybersecurity measures.


Upon the release of the 2023 CISO report, Splunk Inc’s CISO, Jason Lee said, “These relationships provide CISOs the opportunity to become champions who strengthen an organisation’s security culture and lead teams to become more cross-collaborative and resilient. By communicating key security metrics, CISOs can also guide boards on adopting emerging technologies, such as generative AI, to help improve cyber defence management and prepare for the future.”

 



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