THIS WEEK’S PROGRESS IN THE GIZMO lAND
Apple celebrates Earth Day
In celebration of Earth Day 2017, Apple has released a new video series featuring candid interviews with employees leading Apples efforts to address climate change, conserve resources and pioneer safer materials.
The new video series that the tech titan posted on its page features yaks, breathing buildings and making one-half gallon of artificial sweat every day.
As a part of the celebration, Apple told about its new headquarters based in Cupertino, California.
‘Apple Park’, which opened for its employees earlier in April, is the world's largest naturally ventilated building, projected to require no heating or air conditioning for nine months of the year.
Apple’s new headquarters replaced five million square feet of asphalt and concrete with grassy fields and over 9,000 native, drought-resistant trees, and is powered by 100 per cent renewable energy, the company said.
With 17 MW of rooftop solar, Apple Park will run one of the largest on-site solar energy installations in the world.
According to the ‘2017 Environmental Responsibility Report’ Apple was now powering 96 per cent of its operations with renewable energy in the company's offices, retail stores and product distribution centres.
Apple is now 100 per cent renewable in 24 countries, including all of its data centres.
In the report, Apple also set an aim to help put an end to mining on earth and said it is planning to use 100 per cent recycled material to manufacture its products.
In 2016, Apple launched liam, the experimental automated technology that disassembles iPhone 6 for recycling.
Google set to deploy next-gen machine learning for Indian languages
itel Mobile launches ‘Wish A21’
itel Mobile, part of Chinese mobile manufacturer Transsion Holdings, on Friday launched a new smartphone “Wish A21” at Rs5,390.
“The device offers specifications and capabilities superior to basic entry-level 4G smartphones within similar price points,” said Sudhir Kumar, itel Mobile India CEO, in a statement.
The 4G/VolTE and VilTE-enabled (Video over lTE-enabled) smartphone operates on Android 6.0 Marshmallow and offers 1GB RAM and 1.3 GHz quad core processor along with 8GB storage space which is expandable up to 32GB.
“We are certain that ‘Wish A21’ will redefine established standards set by its predecessors in the ‘Wish’ series,” added Kumar.
logitech introduces 4K-enabled webcam
Mobile accessories provider logitech on Friday launched BRIO, a 4K pro webcam designed for businesses, home office users and YouTubers.
Priced at Rs24,995, BRIO comes packed with logitech Rightlight 3 with HDR, 4K ultra-HD video quality, 5X zoom plus support for Windows Hello and other secure infrared-based facial recognition applications.
“The logitech BRIO is a feature-packed product that is shaped for an audience who want impeccable video quality,” said Ashok Jangra, logitech Cluster Category Manager for India and South West Asia.
logitech BRIO works with all popular business applications, including Skype for business and Cisco-compatible certifications, as well as with BlueJeans, BroadSoft, Vidyo and Zoom.
“BRIO users can select between 65-degree, 78-degree and 90-degree field of view (FOV) to help ensure their camera is focused only on the area they want others to see,” the company added.