PEBBLE VOLT POWER BANK REVIEW

Pebble has introduced a new power bank ‘Volt’ with 10,000 mAh of capacity. The sleek power bank supports fast charging as well as has USB Type-C support. Pebble Volt has multiple ports to charge more than one device simultaneously.

Design and features

Pebble Volt has a solid body and comes in three different colors including – Black, White, and Blue. Volt is not only solid it looks stylish and has a sleek profile, enabling you to keep it in your pocket easily.

It features two USB power outputs, one Type-C, one micro-USB and an integrated LED indicator for the battery status. It supports DC 5V-2.1A USB output and DC 5V-2A micro-USB and Type-C input. Four LEDs indicate the power status of the power bank.

The Pebble Volt comes with 6 months replacement guarantee and weighs 220 grams. Packed with universal compatibility, Volt works well with all kinds of smartphones, tablets, and headphones. It also features 10way circuit protection, meaning safety against overcharging and overheating.

Performance

The Pebble Volt power bank takes more than 6 hours 32 minutes to be fully charged. The fully charged device can charge three devices simultaneously. Volt looks sleek but offers a power output of 10,00mAh with fast charging support.

During our test, we were able to charge 3 devices, OnePlus 6 (3300 mAh), Honor 9i (3000 mAh), and HTC Desire 12+ (2965 mAh) from completely drained to 100 per cent battery. The power bank offers more than 86 per cent conversion rate.

The fast charging feature lets us charge OnePlus 7T in only 40 minutes from 10 to 100 per cent.

Bottomline: The Pebble Volt is a perfect power bank with 10,000 mAh battery capacity, sleek design, and 10-way circuit protection, but comes at a little higher price point.

Attackers are taking advantage of the widespread discussion of Covid-19 in emails and across the web.Barracuda researchers have seen a steady increase in the number of coronavirus Covid-19-related email attacks since January, but they have observed a recent spike in this type of attack, up 667-percent since the end of February. Between March 1 and March 23, Barracuda Sentinel has detected 467,825 spear phishing email attacks, and 9,116 of those detections were related to COVID-19, representing about 2 percent of attacks. In comparison, a total of 1,188 coronavirus-related email attacks were detected in February, and just 137 were detected in January. Although the overall number of these attacks is still low compared to other threats, the threat is growing quickly.

With the country going into a lockdown, Exotel, has worked with several organisations over the last few weeks to move their customer call center to the cloud. Businesses have embraced remote working as a way to contain the pandemic. This has particularly impacted their customer facing teams like sales and support since they traditionally are not remote functions. Over the last few days, Exotel has worked with banks, broking firms, fintech companies, education startups, NGO, BPOs, etc. to move their call centers to the cloud. Even in the case of organisations that relied on on-premise solutions, the transition was done quickly and with minimal to no-disruption. With Exotel’s remote call center solution, calls from customer facing numbers can be forwarded to the agent’s mobile phone directly.

To bridge the learning gap during the pandemic, Geneo, an interactive digital platform by Schoolnet India Limited, has announced free live classes by Geneo Mentors for students of Class 6 to 10 on its learning platform. Under the social initiative #LearningNeverStops, Geneo is offering live classes for Maths, Science and English, based on the first term syllabus of the new academic year of CBSE schools and those schools following the NCERT textbooks. #LearningNeverStops has been launched following the advisory for schools to remain closed to safeguard the health of students. To ensure learning continues seamlessly at home, Geneo mentors will conduct topic-wise classes based on the school curriculum. Sessions will include access to learning videos and exploriments on the Geneo platform to achieve concept clarity.

Ookla released updates with India data to its ongoing article tracking the impact of Covid-19 on the performance and quality of global mobile and fixed broadband internet networks.Fixed broadband download speed in India increased very slightly between the weeks of March 2 and March 9, while mobile download speed remained flat. When comparing other Asian countries, Ookla found that the internet speeds on both mobile and fixed networks in China took a dive during the outbreak of Covid-19 in the country.

Microsoft offering its Healthcare Bot service powered by Microsoft Azure to organizations on the frontlines of the Covid-19 response to help screen patients for potential infection and care. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a Covid-19 assessment bot that can quickly assess the symptoms and risk factors for people worried about infection, provide information and suggest a next course of action, whether it is contacting a medical provider or managing the illness safely at home. The bot, which utilizes Microsoft’s Healthcare Bot service, will initially be available on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website.

In a joint paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence, researchers from Intel Labs and Cornell University demonstrated the ability of Intel’s neuromorphic research chip, Loihi, to learn and recognize hazardous chemicals in the presence of significant noise and occlusion. Loihi learned each odor with just a single sample, without disrupting its memory of previously learned scents. It demonstrated superior recognition accuracy compared with conventional state-of-the-art methods, including a deep learning solution that required 3,000 times more training samples per class to reach the same level of classification accuracy.

Nucleus Software announced the launch of the latest version of its transaction banking solution FinnAxia 7.0.With this launch, Nucleus Software introduces a sophisticated virtual account management ( VAM) solution designed to enable banks to open virtual accounts for their corporate customers - accounts that can replace real current accounts and instantly route payments and collections to a linked ‘master’ current account. Reducing the number of physical accounts helps streamline the corporate accounts receivable process, ensuring faster payee identification, error-free reconciliation, reduced days sales outstanding (DSO) and improved working capital management.

AVEVA announced that it has acquired production accounting software from South Korean based company MESEnter to complete AVEVA’s value chain optimization solution. MESEnter’s software offering, previously branded MES ENTER ErrorSolver and now rebranded AVEVA™ Production Accounting, has been proven and tested by major producers in the continuous process industries since 2005. It opens the opportunity to improve accuracy of planning models, manage operations performance, identify loss detection and faulty instrumentation and ultimately move operations towards a plant-wide reconciliation.

The newly added software will enable AVEVA to deliver a more robust offer that drives profitability across the value chain for its customers. AVEVA Production Accounting software furthers AVEVA’s commitment towards its Value Chain Optimization strategy to help customers eliminate information silos and integrate critical business processes across their operations.

ACI Worldwide launched its new Incremental Learning technology – an innovative industry-first approach to Machine Learning (ML) that will enhance fraud protection for financial institutions and their customers.ACI has filed a patent application for its ‘Incremental Learning’ technology, which is being implemented in machine learning models within ACI’s fraud prevention solutions, including Proactive Risk Manager, which delivers enterprise fraud management capabilities for financial institutions and intermediaries.

This represents a significant advancement over current ML models that need to be retrained as fraud patterns change.

Khatabook announced a strategic partnership with international cricketer and former India captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni. The legendary cricketer will not only invest in Khatabook but also become its brand ambassador.Dhoni’s decision to invest in Khatabook comes at a time when the firm has crossed 2 crore registered merchants on its app. The firm has set aggressive growth targets for expansion across smaller towns and villages. Khatabook is aiming to onboard another 2 crore merchants over the next 12 months. The firm plans to use proceeds from the latest equity investment to expand its product portfolio and double down on its technology and capabilities.