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World's thinnest phone

Micromax unveiled today the Canvas Sliver 5, the world's thinnest phone without any bumps, with a waistline measuring only 5.1mm. True, the Oppo R5 and vivo X5Max are slimmer, but so much so that engineers couldn't fit the entire camera module inside.

The Canvas Sliver 5 comes with a 4.8-inch AMOLED display of 720p resolution with Gorilla Glass 3, and the company was keen to stress how that has helped bring thickness down compared to IPS panels and Gorilla Glass 2.
The new smartphone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 chipset with a quad-core processor and 2GB of RAM. Internal storage is 16GB, and that's all you get, as there's no microSD slot for expansion.
The primary camera, which designers have managed to make flush with the back, employs an 8MP Sony IMX219 sensor. On the front there's a 5MP selfie shooter as well.
The phone is not only thin, but very light too, at a mere 97g. It still packs a 2,000mAh battery, which may not sound like much, but given the design priorities, it's good to see that Micromax hasn't gone lower. That said, the 0.3mm thinner X5Max has 2,300mAh battery.
We had the opportunity to spend a few brief moments with the phone and shot some live images.

Micromax Canvas Sliver 5 in the flesh

The smartphone comes in a single-SIM configuration only, but it does support LTE and boots Android Lollipop. Priced at INR 17,999 (~$280), the Micromax Canvas Sliver 5 will be available for purchase starting next month, both online and in physical stores.

Mark Zuckerberg made a donation of $5 million to a college fund for undocumented immigrants.

     The Facebook CEO and his wife, Priscilla Chan, gave the money to the "I'm In" campaign launched by TheDream.us, a national scholarship fund for undocumented immigrants.

The fund targets students who came to the U.S. as children and received Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival status, an immigration policy started by President Obama that gives them exemption from deportation and allows them to work.
Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page that he sees the fund's efforts as an important step in educating marginalized youth in America.
"America was founded as a nation of immigrants," he says. "We ought to welcome smart and hardworking young people from every nation, and to help everyone in our society achieve their full potential."
Zuckerberg said his donation will go to more than 400 undocumented immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area over the next five years.

Official Narendra Modi App Launched. Here Is Everything You Can Do With It

                        Stepping up his digital governance initiatives and for improving his interactions with the Indian citizens, the PM Narendra Modi has launched his own official app for Android users in the country.
The apps’ features are based on a select few suggestions chosen out of more than 9,500 suggestions received from all parts of the country. This app appears to be different from the PMO Mobile app announced by MyGov (a citizen-engagement platform) in partnership with Google.
                         According to the app description on Google Play, the app will bring the latest news and updates to the users whenever they are.
The users can receive messages and can interact via emails directly with the PM.
The app also has a section for the famous PM’s Mann Ki Baat session where the users can listen live to whenever the session is happening and can also browse the playlist of previously recorded sessions.
The app also has a section for To-do tasks, where users can contribute to the earn points and badges. Points can be earned by sharing stuff like e-books on PM’s various tours or by answering simple questions.
The app also has a ‘Social Buzz’ section where the users can stay connected with the PM via his Facebook and Twitter feeds. The ‘Blogs’ section of the app takes the users to blog posts about PM’s activities.
The ‘Speeches’ section is where the users can read the speech given by the honorable PM in the national language by default.
                      Other interesting sections of the app include Interviews, Biography, Governance, Global Recognition, Infographics, Media coverage, and most importantly a Feedback section.

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Glassdoor’s annual CEO awards.

Glassdoor, the jobs site, has released the results of its third annual Employees’ Choice Awards. The survey honors the highest-rated CEOs of large companies (those with more than 1,000 employees) that are based in the U.S.
                       So who took the No. 1 spot? Google GOOG 0.97% cofounder and CEO Larry Page (also Fortune‘s 2014 Businessperson of the Year), who earned a 97% approval rating from Google employees. Mark Parker, the innovation-hungry CEO of Nike NKE 0.83% , tied Page with a 97% approval, although Glassdoor separates the two leaders, giving Parker second place.
                                  Who rounded out the top five? The top execs at some big companies you know, and some you may not: Charles C. Butt of Texas-based H.E.B. Grocery Stores (it stands for founder Howard E. Butt as well as the slogan “Here Everything’s Better”) took third; Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook FB 0.71% (ever heard of it?) got fourth; and Scott Scherr, CEO of Florida-based cloud software company Ultimate Software, got fifth.