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Tech #19 Lets talk about eSim today. What's an eSIM, how it works and why it's important to you. In recent weeks Google and Apple brought the eSIM into the spotlight by including it within their latest product launches, the  Google Pixel 2 ,  Google Pixel 2 XL  and the  Apple Watch Series 3  with Cellular. The eSIM gives us an improved and more secure customer experience, better designed devices, opens up new market opportunities for operators and enables entire new categories of connected devices. Let's explore this baby in a little more detail. Please bear with us for the next few paragraphs, as we look back in time. SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) cards store network-specific information used to authenticate and identify subscribers on a cellular network and for the last 27 years have consisted of a physical card containing the chip which has to be inserted into the phone. You may or may not remember, but in 1991, the SIM card that you ...

Health Tip #1 6 Foods That Contain More Calcium Than a Glass of Milk When we talk about your daily  dose of calcium , what comes to your mind? A tall glass of milk, perhaps? But what if we told you that there are a whole lot of other healthy foods that contain copious amounts of calcium even more than a  glass of milk ? So, if you have been unwillingly chugging a glass of milk every day to get your calcium dose, you can try turning to these foods instead. You won't be disappointed. A regular glass of milk (250 ml) contains roughly about 300 mg of calcium as per the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Let's look at foods which can beat that. 1. Chickpeas:  As per the USDA, one and a half cup of  chickpeas  contains about 315 mg of calcium along with filling fiber and protein. You can roast them and eat them as a snack with lime, onions, and tomatoes or use them to make a wholesome soup.  2. Dark leafy greens:  There's a reason wh...

Tech#18 Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL specs and features leak ahead of launch tonight:  Everything we know so far There are no surprise anymore. Apple couldn't keep the iPhone X, one of its biggest products in years, a surprise ahead of the launch event. And Google surely can't keep away the Pixel 2 and the Pixel 2 XL from the leakers. The two phones, which are successor to last year's original Pixel phones, will be launched tonight at an event in San Francisco. They will come accompanied by a number of other Google products, most important of which are going to be three - the new Google Home Mini, the Pixelbook and a new Daydream VR headset. Of all, the most important - particular for our country of smartphone lovers - are going to be the Pixel 2 and the Pixel 2 XL. Almost everything important about these phones is now known. It the last few days their images along with key specifications and features have been leaked. There has been a talk of a mysterious phone ca...

Tech #17 Is Intel in Trouble if Apple Makes Its Own Chips? Intel Corp INTC 38.89 +2.13% Apple Inc. ( AAPL ) may be looking to reduce its reliance on chipmakers Intel Corp. ( INTC )  and Qualcomm Inc. ( QCOM )reportedly working on its own  semiconductors  for its MacBooks and iPhones. Apple Inc AAPL 153.42 -0.45% Qualcomm Inc QCOM 51.75 -0.17% Industry sources told the  Nikkei Review  that the Cupertino, Calif.-based company wants to lower its dependence on Intel for its notebook computer products and is looking to build one based on the ARM architecture. "Notebooks are becoming thinner, while consumers are demanding better mobility and longer battery life. That gives ARM's architecture, which is known for its power efficiency, a very good opportunity," a chip industry executive said in the report. (See more:  Report: Apple May Drop Intel Chips .) That could be a blow...

Tech #16 Everyone is calling the new iPhone X the 'Ecks' even though Apple says it's pronounced '10' With a massive screen behind him displaying the text,  "iPhone X"  Tim Cook hopped on the stage at the Steve Jobs Theater during  Apple's September 12 launch event  and proclaimed, "This is the iPhone ten." Apple consumers across the globe have been in a tizzy ever since, and not just over the souped-up phone, but over how on earth to pronounce its name.  The "X" refers to the Roman numeral 10, not the letter of the alphabet, and is supposed to mark the ten-year anniversary of the release of the  original iPhone  . But the diction dictate from Apple and its  mandarins   does not appear to be getting through to the masses.  Whether out of confusion, personal preference or mere stubbornness, many people, it seems, prefer to call the new iPhone the "Ecks." The $999 iPhone X doesn't  hit store shelves unt...