Lava Yuva 2 announced with 90Hz LCD and 5,000 mAh battery

Lava Mobiles introduced its latest Yuva phone today with the Yuva 2. The device comes with entry-level specs and an INR 6,999 ($85) introductory price and is available from Lava’s retail network starting today. Lava Yuva 2 is built around a 6.5-inch LCD with HD+ resolution and a 90Hz refresh rate. The panel sports a waterdrop notch cutout on the top for the 5MP front-facing camera. The back is made from glass and houses a 13MP main cam alongside an auxiliary VGA module. Lava Yuva 2 in Blue, Green and Lavender Yuva 2 is equipped with an Unisoc T606 chipset paired with 3GB...

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Redmi is holding a launch event tomorrow alongside MediaTek and Pixelworks

Redmi is holding a launch event tomorrow at 2PM Beijing time (6AM UTC) where we’ll likely get more information on the upcoming Redmi K60 Ultra including its launch date. MediaTek and Pixelworks are also confirmed to be part of tomorrow’s event which would indicate that the K60 Ultra will feature a Dimensity 9200+ chipset as seen in a recent Geekbench listing. The device will also likely come with a Pixelworks display chip for improved visuals. Redmi posted for tomorrow's event Redmi K60 Ultra is rumored to launch with a 6.67-inch OLED display with 1.5K resolution and a 144Hz...

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Elon Musk-owned X renames TweetDeck to XPro

Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, has renamed TweetDeck to XPro in an ongoing rebranding exercise of the social media service.

The company has adopted the @Pro handle instead of @TweetDeck for the tool. However, many parts of the tool, including the help page, still have “Twitter” and “TweetDeck” mentions.

The renaming is not surprising given Musk had hinted about the change last week. At that time, he had added that XPro will come with “a wide range of psy op plugins.” As it is the case with many of Musk’s posts, there were no details about what kind of plugins those might be.

Name is changing to XPro. Will come with a wide range of psy op plugins.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 28, 2023

Early last month, after many users were unable to access parts of TweetDeck, the company started pushing them to the new version of the tool. Later, it also announced that in 30 days, only verified users would be able to access TweetDeck. Since this announcement was made on July 4, X will expectedly make XPro/TweetDeck a paid-only feature in the next few days.

We have just launched a new, improved version of TweetDeck. All users can continue to access their saved searches & workflows via https://t.co/2WwL3hNVR2 by selecting “Try the new TweetDeck” in the bottom left menu.

Some notes on getting started and the future of the product…

— Support (@Support) July 3, 2023

Musk & Co. has been busy with the site’s rebranding, but it hasn’t been smooth sailing. The company took over the @X handle from the previous owner without any compensation or prior notice. Additionally, Apple seemingly granted an exception to the social media company to use a single character as the app name. Typically, the iPhone maker prohibits developers from using a single-character app name on the App Store. Musk-owned company was also asked to remove the flashing ‘X’ sign from its office building after The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection received complaints about it over the weekend.

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Oppo Find N3 certification confirms 100W charging support

The Oppo Find N3 is inching closer to a launch, and it was just certified at 3C. The listing revealed the phone with model number PHN110 will come with 100W charging support, faster than any other foldable out there. The phone will be shipped with SuperVOOC VCB7CACH charger with dual USB-A/USB-C plugs. According to sources, the adapter will support 100W for eligible devices, but each port will also offer 50W. We hope this charger will support charging of multiple gadgets, unlike Huawei’s design where one plugged USB cable blocked the other port. Huawei's dual-port...

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How SaaS architecture impacts pricing and profitability

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Ratnesh Singh Parihar is principal architect at Talentica Software who has expertise in architecture and design, scaling and handling large systems, solving complex engineering problems, and modernizing legacy applications.

Having worked as a solution architect and designed multiple SaaS applications, I believe many companies have struggled to choose the right SaaS architecture for their product offering. In this article, I will share my learnings to help companies that are building SaaS applications make a pragmatic decision about product architecture, while considering its impact on pricing and profits.

The pay-as-you-go pricing model has gained popularity because of the increased flexibility for customers. However, to enable pay-as-you-go, you need the right product architecture to support it, such as tracking the use of services and offering customers the flexibility of managing infrastructure as per their requirements.

A poorly designed SaaS architecture creates limitations in setting the pricing strategy for the offerings and impacts new customer acquisition. Conversely, a good architecture sets the appropriate pricing model and accommodates special architecture-design requirements, while enabling scalability and customizability.

Before setting up a SaaS architecture, it’s important to answer these questions first:

• How would the customers pay?
• For what services (computation and values) would the customers pay?
• How will the usage be measured and invoices be created for the customers?

In a SaaS setup, costs incurred in managing operations impact profitability to a large extent. Operational expense optimization involved in managing the SaaS model depends on three crucial factors — infrastructure cost, IT administration cost, and licensing cost.

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However, the bigger question is: How do you ensure that these costs are well-optimized and priced correctly? Here are a few examples:

Salesforce Online: Salesforce provides a lead management system for enterprise sales and marketing teams. The online version uses the cloud to reduce the hassles of hardware and IT procurement. It also charges customers based on the size of sales and marketing teams to stop the payment of one-time high license costs.

Azure SQL: As the RDBMS (relational database management system) leader, the SQL server provides a hosted solution where customers pay a high license cost and hire a DBA (database administrator) for regulating backup, geographical replication, and disaster recovery. But Azure SQL is a cloud-based system that is accessible online and you pay only for storage and IOPS (input/output operations), with the rest taken care of by Azure.

WordPress: WordPress provides an online platform with white-labeled solutions, customization, and multiple integrations for its customers. Moreover, it collects customer usage data and charges on that bases.

Why is it important to pick the right SaaS type?

This is a common question. Let me explain why with two different examples.

Example 1

A company introduces isolated application VMs (virtual machines) for all its customers. In the majority of cases, these boxes will remain underutilized. If customers pay only for utilization, the company could end up with huge losses.

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Tecno Pova 5 Pro brings a more powerful Dimensity 6080 chipset, LED lights on its back

The Tecno Pova 5 Pro arrives and upgrades the Mecha design with colorful RGB lights on the back panel. And if the Free Fire special edition wasn’t enough of a clue, you should know that the Pova 5 series has a passion for gaming, which is even more pronounced on the Pro model. The Pova 5 Pro brings more compute power to the table with a Dimensity 6080, a 6nm chip (TSMC) with 2x Cortex-A76 (2.2GHz) and 6x A55 (2.0GHz) and a Mali-G57 MC2.This replaces the Helio G99, which has an identical CPU but a weaker Mali-G52 MC2 GPU. Of course, the Dimensity also enables high-bandwidth, low-latency 5G...

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Ola’s Aggarwal sets eyes on AI, semiconductor design

Indian entrepreneur Bhavish Aggarwal, co-founder of ride-hailing firm Ola and electric vehicle startup Ola Electric, is venturing into fresh terrain as he navigates his businesses towards initial public offerings.

He has set up an AI startup that seeks to develop a large language model and is currently scouting two U.S.-headquartered AI startups for a potential acquisition, people familiar with the matter said. Aggarwal is also in talks to raise over $50 million for the new AI venture, the people said.

The entrepreneur, who founded Ola over a decade ago, has also floated the idea of setting up a semiconductor design firm, one person said, requesting anonymity as the details are not public. It’s unclear whether the semiconductor design firm will be part of the same AI venture.

A spokesperson for Aggarwal declined to comment Monday.

AI and semiconductor designing are the latest of a long-list of areas that Aggarwal has explored in the past decade. Ola leads the Indian ride-hailing market whereas Ola Electric has assumed a leader position in India’s electric scooter market with nearly 250,000 vehicles sold in the past year and a half, according to Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles.

He told Bloomberg last month that Ola had turned profitable whereas Ola Electric had “grown and matured faster” than initial plans, prompting him to advance the timeline for the EV startup’s initial public offering.

The recent surge in AI interest has prompted a boost to the tech economy, delivering a rally in tech stocks and generating a flurry of startup activity. OpenAI’s unveiling of ChatGPT has been a key trigger for the enthusiasm, leading investors to deploy over $20 billion into AI startups in the past quarters. However, India, despite being one of the most significant startup ecosystems, appears to be lagging in this race.

“Normally science enables technologies. AI technology will enable significant acceleration of scientific progress. Science today is still experimental, empirical and relies on the time and creativity of the scientist,” he tweeted last week. “AI will give the scientist significant creative and intelligence leverage. Can we in India become a leading science ecosystem by adopting AI across scientific domains?”

On the other hand, Aggarwal’s assertive expansion into new and often unrelated sectors and their subsequent corporate structures have previously rattled some of his investors. Many backers of Ola, for instance, have expressed concerns about not getting a stake in Ola Electric, which spun out of the ride-hailing firm, people familiar with the matter said.

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