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HMD Global has made Nokia phones available at all price segments, and that continues with the Nokia 6.2, which brings an HDR display and triple cameras to the budget segment.

The Nokia 6.2 made its global debut in September at IFA 2019, and was the first device in the third generation of Nokia products, alongside the Nokia 7.2. It retains Nokia’s signature built and design and brings updates to the display and cameras.

Nokia 6.2 specifications

The most significant change over its predecessor is the inclusion of an HDR10 display. It is a 6.3-inch LCD panel with a Full HD+ resolution, protected by Gorilla Glass 3. The front camera resides in the waterdrop notch on the top. The back is also covered by Gorilla Glass 3.

The back has a triple camera array, consisting of a 16MP f/1.8 primary camera, an 8MP ultrawide shooter with a 118-degree field-of-view, and a 5MP depth sensor. The front camera is an 8MP shooter.

Internal specifications are standard fare, with a Snapdragon 636 powering the Nokia 6.2, along with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of expandable storage.

The battery is rated at 3,500 mAh and supports 10W charging over USB Type-C. Nokia claims that the 6.2 should last two days on a single charge. 

As with all Nokia phones, the 6.2 is also a part of the Android One program. Currently running Android 9 Pie, it is soon expected to be updated to Android 10.

Nokia 6.2 price in India

The Nokia 6.2 is available in two colors, Ceramic Black and Ice and a single storage configuration. It is priced at Rs 15,999 and will be available starting October 11 from Nokia’s website and retail outlets.

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Australia bounced back in a big way from their defeat to Wales, by soundly beating Uruguay in their last match to get their 2019 Rugby World Cup campaign back on track.

A win today will cement the Aussies place in the quarter-finals, but they face a Georgia side that could still finish third in the pool should they pull off an unexpected win.

You can watch all the action live and in full, no matter where you are in the world, by following our Australia vs Georgia live stream guide below.

Australia have somewhat surprisingly named something of a second-string side for today’s encounter. Less of a shock is that 19-year-old Jordan Petaia has kept his place in the starting line-up following his impressive debut against Uruguay.

With Matt To’omua at fly-half and Nic White at scrum-half (a third pairing in four matches), Wallabies coach Michael Cheika clearly hasn’t settled on his favoured side for the later stages of the tournament, meaning today’s games provides one final chance for those on the fringes to make a claim.

Georgia have never beaten a top tier nation and come into today’s game off the back of a heavy 45-10 loss to Fiji. They make two changes to their starting line up today with Gela Aprasidze replacing Vasil Lobzhanidze and Beka Saginadze coming in for Giorgi Tkhilaishvili in the back row.

You can watch all the action from this crucial game from pretty much anywhere on Earth by following our Rugby World Cup Australia vs Georgia live stream guide below.

How to watch the 2019 Rugby World Cup from outside your country

If you’re abroad for any of the Rugby World Cup and don’t want to miss out on catching the coverage from your home country, you’ll inevitably find it geo-blocked when you try to stream online. But don’t sweat. With the option of a VPN, you can tune into those fixtures no matter where you are in the world without resorting to some dodgy feed on Reddit. And best of all, it’s really easy to do (or read on for details on how to stream coverage from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA).

How to watch the Wallabies game in Australia for free

How to stream Australia vs Georgia live in the UK 

How to watch Australia vs Georgia live in New Zealand

How to live stream Australia vs Georgia in the US

• Hulu with Live TV $40 per month – Hulu with Live TV includes CBS, Fox, NBC and ESPN.
• FuboTV $35 for the first month – FuboTV gives you the first month at a discounted rate but after that the price increases to $45 a month. The service includes CBS, Fox, NBC and the NFL Network but does not come with ESPN.
• DirecTV Now $50 per month – DirecTV Now includes CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN and for $5 extra you can add the NFL Network.
• YouTubeTV $40 per month – YouTubeTV gives you access to CBS, Fox, NBC and ESPN.

Live stream Australia vs Georgia in South Africa

Live stream Australia vs Georgia in Canada

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Virgin Media has outdone itself with its latest broadband deal, proving once again that you don’t need to wait until Black Friday to get great discounts and freebies. 

The company not only boasts having the fastest internet speed out of all big broadband providers, but it is coming in hot with its latest limited time offer. Virgin is offering you a free 12 months subscription to Amazon Prime on selected TV bundles. As if its bundles weren’t already filled with choice and offers, you now get £79 subscription to Amazon Prime free of charge.

In case you don’t already know, Amazon Prime includes a range of added perks to your shopping with the online retail behemoth. There’s free next-day and even same-day delivery available, access to Prime Video and its massive catalogue of TV shows and films, and when it gets to Prime Day you can take advantage of loads of exclusive discounts.

The deals that this is available on can be seen in full below, but the most affordable is the Big Bundle + drama pick with its rapid 100Mb+ broadband, 150-odd channels and unlimited calls to landlines.

Sneak a peek at all the eligible broadband and TV bundles below or call 0800 049 2102 to discuss your options. But if any of them look good then you’ll have to step on it as this deal is only available until Wednesday, November 13. 

Is Virgin fibre broadband available in my area?

Approximately 60% of UK households can get superfast Virgin broadband. It’s quite simply to find out of you’re part of this percentage – head over to our dedicated Virgin broadband deals page, enter your postcode where indicated (at the top of the page) and if deals show as available then .

If no results are returned, then head to our best broadband deals page instead and do exactly the same thing to see whether you can get superfast fibre broadband with another provider, such as BT Superfast.

Sorry, the Virgin website states that these limited time offers are for new customers only. However, there’s no harm in trying to get a slice of the pie, so if you’re already a Virgin broadband customer we suggest you get in touch with customer services before trying to place an order. 

Today’s best Virgin broadband deals

AMD’s Radeon drivers have actually had ray tracing-related code present in them for a few months now, it has emerged, leading to speculation that the GPU maker could introduce support for the technology sooner rather than later – perhaps even before the end of 2019.

The references to Microsoft’s DirectX Raytracing (DXR) were uncovered by some rifling through the Radeon Adrenalin Edition 19.7.2 driver, which was released back in July.

As PC GamesN reports, this is only coming to light now following an AMD partner event over in China, where it was also confirmed that new Radeon Software is to be released in December (which is as expected).

However, some folks are now trying to put two and two together, given the already existing DXR code being present in AMD’s drivers, to come to the conclusion that one of the new features in the fresh Radeon Software will be support for DXR ray tracing.

This speculation has been fired up by tech analyst Komachi on Twitter, who picked up on the DXR reference back in July, and given a tweet from yesterday, seems to believe ray tracing will be introduced by AMD in December.

DXRとHIP以外に何か目玉になりそうな新機能ってあるかな？ >今年のRadeon Software新機能。October 10, 2019

Although of course we have to treat that assertion with a very hefty serving of caution, to say the least. But the theory is that AMD could flick the switch to enable ray tracing for existing Navi graphics cards come the end of the year.

Risky business?

Except that would seemingly be something of a big risk – the last thing AMD would want to do is give their customers an inferior version of ray tracing compared to Nvidia, if the RX 5700 GPUs aren’t capable of delivering suitably palatable frame-rates with these sort of demanding bells and whistles turned on.

While it does indeed seem the case that ray tracing is incoming for Radeon cards – it’s been long rumored, and we’ve just discovered that the Navi-powered PS5 will have ray-tracing acceleration – it seems more likely that AMD would wait for the equally well-rumoured ‘Nvidia killer’ Navi GPU supposedly arriving around the middle of 2020.

It makes sense to wait for the higher-end models of Navi which will truly have the power to impress with DXR, rather than chancing an early move with perhaps less than optimal hardware as exists with Navi now.

What might be more likely to be revealed with the new Radeon Software come December, folks are theorizing, is integer scaling (as recently introduced by Nvidia, giving sharper upscaling in pixel art games like Hotline Miami) and/or the introduction of Radeon Image Sharpening for DX11 (which currently only works with DX12 games).

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IBM this week launched a new supply chain service based on its blockchain platform and open-source software from recently-acquired Red Hat that allows developers and third-party apps to integrate legacy corporate data systems onto a distributed ledger.

Through the use of open APIs, the new Sterling Supply Chain Suite allows distributors, manufacturers and retailers to integrate their own data and networks – as well as those of their suppliers – onto a Hyperledger-based blockchain to track and trace products and parts. Among the data that can be integrated are IoT sensor systems for real-time shipment position location.

“This is the first move from IBM in what we anticipate to be a significant investment in the reinvention of supply chains by global organizations in the coming decades,” an IBM spokesperson said via email.

Through APIs, the IBM Sterling Supply Chain Suite ties to legacy infrastructure such as Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), ERP systems, Order Management Systems  and commerce applications.

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Because the new suite falls under the “Sterling” Order Management (SOM) brand name, which IBM acquired from AT&T in 2010, it already has an existing user base of more than 7,000 customers who have an additional 500,000 trading partners, according to Inhi Cho Su, general manager of IBM’s Watson Customer Engagement business unit.

“The complex, global nature of our omni-channel operations presents a significant supply chain challenge that could be turned into a business opportunity if the right technology is applied,” said Juan Andres Pro Dios, CIO of El Corte Ingles, Europe’s largest department store conglomerate. “The IBM Sterling Supply Chain Suite provides open development capabilities that let us quickly tailor solutions to meet our unique business needs. This allows us to embrace operational complexity while optimizing … performance and improving omni-channel customer experiences.”

IBM integrated Watson’s AI capability to offer applications – among them, Order Optimizer and Supply Chain Insights – that can produce real-time alerts and recommendations through its Supply Chain Business Assistant (SCBA). SCBA, for example, can generate faster response times to anomalies like supply chain disruptions.

Simon Ellis, a research director for IDC, said IBM may not be alone in promoting a multi-tenant cloud network for supply chains, but it has advanced A.I. and blockchain as components of that service more than other vendors.

The new service, Ellis said, is a solid foray into the supply chain market.

“I think companies can leverage this with some other supply chain apps they already have so they don’t need to rip and replace stuff,” Ellis said. “The value of any blockchain will be square of the number of users it has, so how you make those connections [is] important, and this certainly moves it forward.”

Current IBM Sterling SOM clients include companies in distribution, industrial manufacturing, retail and financial services: Adidas, AmerisourceBergen, Fossil, Greenworks, Home Depot, Lenovo, Li & Fung, Misumi, Parker Hannifin, Scotiabank, and Whirlpool Corporation.

Outdoor sports retailer REI, for example, is using the Watson Order Optimizer for its supply chain to factor in the various goals it has throughout the year, such as product margin, shipping speed and fulfillment costs, and matches that to its inventory in its three distribution centers and 155 stores.

“For us, the one thing we discovered was in existing supply chain networks…the majority of the industry was on point-to-point interactions through EDI systems and paper,” Su said. “Clients want to digitize…and understand the state of where their goods and services might be across multiple parties…so we added a blockchain shared ledger capability on top of our existing network.

“So any customers and their partners in their broader ecosystem have visibility into transactions and interactions they have,” Su continued. “Those transactions could be around invoicing, shipping, delivery – and then the combination of that shared ledger allows you to have a trusted understanding of who those partners are.”

Once a customer is logged into the Sterling Supply Chain Suite service it has its own dashboard allowing it to search the status of a purchase order or product inventory. Users can also quickly onboard trading partners by choosing an “add new partner” icon and then filling out fields that include company name, contact communication protocol (email, for example), and what transactions and data sets they’re allowed to view.

“Then you click ‘OK’ and the other party gets a notice that they click on and they’re onboarded,” Su said. “It’s pretty fast.”

IBM had already launched supply chain network pilots for food, general cargo shipping and even the diamond trade to track products through its cloud-based Hyperledger blockchain platform. The new supply chain network will enable greater integration with existing enterprise ERP and database systems, Su said.

IBM, for example, has already created an SAP connection to the Sterling Supply Chain service.

“We also created an open framework for applications and ISVs to be able to connect into and expand,” Su said. “It’s live and in production.”

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While the Samsung Galaxy S8 has been succeeded by the Galaxy S9, Galaxy S10, and soon the Galaxy S11 too, it’s still a reliable smartphone – so make sure to put a Galaxy S8 case on your handset to keep it serving you well.

If you’re looking to protect your phone and your wallet, Black Friday 2019 and Cyber Monday 2019 are at the end of November, and the deals season that ensues will surely see all kinds of phone accessories discounted. That means your Samsung Galaxy S8 case might be even more affordable.

TechRadar is set to cover Black Friday in great detail, so we’ll bring you all the deals. When the November 29 date gets closer, check back to our Black Friday homepage (maybe bookmark it now) so you can find all the best deals and discounts.

One of the nicer features of the Galaxy S8 is its stunning edge-to-edge display that stretches over the phone’s sides. Naturally, that larger display is also more vulnerable to drops since the angled screen is more likely to make contact with the ground than other devices. A bad spill could doom your pristine screen.

These are products that we haven’t had in our test labs, but based on our experts’ opinion and knowledge of the most reputable brands around, we think these are worth looking at.

Our selections, ranked with newer additions at the top, take into account online reviews, brand reputation, product capability or unique features to help you pick through the maze of choices available to you.

Best Samsung Galaxy S8 cases at a glance:

• Spigen Tough Armor Galaxy S8 case
• Vena Samsung Galaxy S8 vCommute
• Samsung Galaxy S8 Super Thin case by Peel
• Samsung Galaxy S8 Clear View Standing Cover
• Samsung Galaxy S8 LED View Cover
• Samsung Silicone Cover
• Samsung Alacantara Cover
• Samsung Clear Cover
• Otterbox Defender and Commuter Cases
• Incipio Galaxy S8 cases
• Caseology Galaxy S8 cases
• Speck Galaxy S8 cases
• Casemate Galaxy S8 cases
• Lifeproof Galaxy S8 cases
• Tech21 Galaxy S8 cases
• Spigen Slim Armor CS case
• Caseowl 2-in-1 Wallet case
• Maxboost Wallet case
• Ocase leather flip wallet
• Zizo Bolt

Best Samsung Galaxy S8 cases at a glance:

Spigen Tough Armor Galaxy S8 case