This week also saw Huawei launching its Honor Pad 2 tablet with an 8-inch display, Snapdragon 616 processor, and 3GB of RAM. The company also launched the Honor Watch S1 smartwatch, which is water resistant up to 50 meters under water. Google Assistant, the new AI on Pixel and Pixel XL, was in the news when several users who installed Google Assistant on non-Pixel phones reported major issues – from apps crashing to random reboots.

iOS 10 Jailbreak was in the news with reports about Pangu having already completed its work on iOS 10 jailbreak. Pangu’s demonstration of Cydia running on iOS 10 is a solid proof that the OS can be jailbroken. In a way, Pangu has completed its work and is waiting for Apple’s next move, which might be the release of iOS 10.1. This week also saw Internet going down due to DDoS attacks on Dyn Managed Infrastructure. It appears that the disruption was mainly due the attacks on some of the core infrastructure that keeps the internet alive. Twitter, SoundCloud, PayPal, Netflix Spotify, Shopify, Boston Globe, New York Times, Github, Freshbooks, Heroku, Box, Reddit, Vox Media Properties and many other websites faced internet outage issues.

As AI continues to make inroads in our day-to-day lives, Microsoft has created history with its new speech recognition software. The team of researchers and engineers at Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research have reported that they have successfully created a technology that recognizes the words in a conversation as well as a person does. The WER of 5.9% – which the team achieved- is the “lowest” ever recorded against the industry standard Switchboard speech recognition task.

We’ve compiled the list of all posts that more or less define the tech news in the week that went by –

Samsung Galaxy J3 (2017) Listed On Geekbench, Specs Include SD 430, 5-Inch AMOLED Display

Bluboo Picasso 4G Teased in New Video: Here’s All You Need To Know About Specs and Price

Honor Pad 2 Tablet, Honor Watch S1 Smartwatch Launched – Price, Specs, and More

Huawei Honor 6X – Price, Specs, Features – What to Expect for India Launch?

Google Assistant on Non-Pixel Phone? You May Run Into Major Issues

Samsung Galaxy C9 and C9 Pro Launching Today – Here’s What to Expect

iOS 10 Jailbreak Release Date Rumors: Pangu Already Have iOS 10 Jailbreak and Will Release After Next Major iOS Update?

Internet Is Down: Twitter, PayPal, Netflix, PSN, Reddit, Spotify, And Many Biggest Sites Are Down – DDoS Attack

Microsoft Creates History; Reports Speech Recognition System With Human-Level Accuracy

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