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NEW DELHI: LG Electronics has expanded its laundry solution lineup with the launch of the company's new Dual Inverter Heat Pump Dryer. The LG Dual Inverter Heat Pump Dryer washing machine will be available with a starting price of Rs. 79,990. The latest dryer will be available across online and offline channels in India and LG brand stores. The new LG washing machine comes with LG’s Dual Inverter Technology and Smart ThinQ features. The company claims that the dryer is capable of drying clothes within a short period. The LG Dryer comes equipped with Eco Hybrid technology, in which consumers can choose to save time or energy. Designed with a finishing of Black Steel, LG Dual Inverter Heat Pump Dryer has the capacity to dry 9kg worth of laundry. In order to offer a user-friendly experience, the company has also incorporated a reversible door in the dryer. The company is also offering 10 years of warranty to the compressor and motor technology. Featuring LG’s … [Read more...] about LG Dual Inverter Heat Pump Dryer launched in India, price starts at Rs 79,990

PayPal's Rob Skinner is pretty happy with his five-year old prediction that we could all be using a digital wallet instead of a physical one by 2016, but his thoughts have already turned to what the next five years will bring. It was 2011 when Skinner and PayPal went public with the assertion that we could be using just our phone to pay for things within the next five years, and amid the arrival of payment systems from Apple and Google, you could indeed leave the house in many cities without picking up your faithful leather friend. Despite the obvious headlines , Skinner was never suggesting the death of the traditional wallet, just that the choice would be there. "That's the key point," he tells TechRadar in a conversation that coincides with the 10th anniversary of the first PayPal mobile transaction in the UK. "So much of what we do is about choice - whether that's letting people choose a different way of funding a Paypal payment or recognising that cash is … [Read more...] about Beyond the wallet: how will you be paying for things in 2021?

Amazon decided to open a second headquarters in Northern Virginia ahead of what was expected to be the award of a massive $10 billion contract from the Pentagon. However, Friday’s announcement that the contract would go to Microsoft instead is prompting questions about the company’s future. “Losing the bid is also a hit to the reputation of Amazon, which decided last year to open a large outpost in Northern Virginia that will eventually employ at least 25,000 people,” the New York Times reported on Friday. People recently employed at the new Amazon HQ2 in Virginia must be having lots of questions this morning. https://t.co/uUzM3RQ4tv — gubatron (@gubatron) October 26, 2019 Amazon is in the middle of planning to build a massive 22-story, two-tower office building with about 67,000 square feet of ground-floor retail, 2.1 million square feet of office space at Metropolitan Park in Pentagon City, and a roughly 12,500-square-foot daycare center, according to … [Read more...] about Pentagon Cloud Decision Raises Questions Over Amazon’s Future Plans

Tech support scams , which often arrive as a pop-up alert convincingly disguised using the names and branding of major tech companies, have become the top phishing threat to consumers, according to a new report . Tech support scams are expected to proliferate in the upcoming holiday season, as well as shopping and charity-related phishing attacks, it said. Norton LifeLock's global research team, Norton Labs, on Tuesday published its third quarterly Consumer Cyber Safety Pulse Report, detailing the top consumer cybersecurity insights and takeaways from July to September 2021. Norton said in a statement it blocked more than 12.3 million tech support URLs, which topped the list of phishing threats for 13 consecutive weeks between July and September. "The effectiveness of this type of scam has escalated during the pandemic due to consumers' increased reliance on their devices to manage hybrid work schedules and family activities", it said. Norton said it successfully … [Read more...] about phishing: Tech support scams are top phishing threat: Report