Apple has started selling its popular iPhone XR phones assembled in India, as it looks to expand its share in the world’s second-largest smartphone market where it has struggled against cheaper products from rivals. The phones are being assembled at Taipei-based contract manufacturer Foxconn’s India factory, helping the Cupertino, California-based company avoid high levies on the import
From deciding that you want to buy a new TV, to finally turning it on to watch your favourite movies, TV shows, sports, and the news, there are several steps in between. Some of them might be obvious, such as deciding what screen size you need, what kind of features you want, and what brand
Two senior US senators called for the government to study national security risks possibly posed by Chinese-owned video app TikTok, saying it could leave American users vulnerable to Beijing’s spying. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Senator Tom Cotton asked the Directorate of National Intelligence to “conduct an assessment of the national security risks”
Redmi 8 is all set go on sale once again via Flipkart, Mi.com, and Mi Home Stores today. The Xiaomi phone was launched in the country earlier this month and has since gone on sale a few times until now. The key highlights of Redmi 8 include Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 SoC, rear fingerprint sensor, a
Boeing engineers and test pilots considered before two fatal 737 Max crashes whether an anti-stall system should be redesigned after discussing how flawed data from a single sensor could trigger it repeatedly, US investigators have found. The so-called MCAS system, which relied on one sensor, has been linked in part to crashes of 737 Max
Reliance Jio and its new All-in-One plans for Jio Phone users as well as other subscribers dominated the conversation in a week that was relatively quiet on the technology news front. Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 8 and Redmi Note 8 Pro phones also went on sale for the first time this week and the company started rolling
Mi Pay, which comes preloaded on Xiaomi phones and was initially available for download through the Mi Apps store, has made its way to Google Play. The app is available for free on Android devices through Google Play and is designed to offer an integrated payment solution with UPI money transfers, recharges, and bill payments
Xiaomi has launched a new Mi Notebook Pro 15 Enhanced Edition in China, and it is an upgraded version of the Mi Notebook Pro (2019) model. It comes with dual fan system for temperature management, a similar aesthetic as the predecessor, a 1080p full-HD display, up to 1TB storage options, and Windows 10 operating system.
Realme C2 has started receiving a new software update in India. The latest Realme C2 update brings the October 2019 Android security patch. Realme has also offered a dedicated Dark Mode and an updated charging animation setting through the fresh update. The new update comes nearly a month after the Realme C2 received the software
US President Donald Trump is missing the home button on the newer iPhone models and he is not happy about it. To express his displeasure, he took to Twitter earlier today, like he does for most things, and called out Apple CEO Tim Cook. Trump wrote how home button was much better than the current
Motorola has brought a new 4K UHD Smart TV to the Indian market that packs a 75-inch display with Dolby Vision and HDR 10 support. The 75-inch Motorola smart TV joins the company’s current portfolio of TVs that starts with a 32-inch model with HD resolution and goes up to a 65-inch variant with 4K UHD
Hitting back at the US over accusations of censoring content to appease Beijing, Chinese short-video making platform TikTok has said it does not censor content critical of the Chinese government, and that none of its operations are subject to the Chinese law. Over the past several weeks, TikTok, owned by Beijing-based Bytedance, has been at
Social media has become mainly about validation. We feel better about ourselves when someone likes our posts or photos—and we feel terrible when our posts get negative reactions, or worse, completely ignored. If it happens more than once, it can get downright frustrating. You did your best to come up with a post and yet
Xiaomi hasn’t upgraded its Mi Note lineup in a long time. But it looks like the Chinese smartphone maker is preparing two distinct models that could debut soon with titles specifically the Mi Note 10 and Mi Note 10 Pro. While the company is yet to make a formal announcement, the Mi Note 10 and
Redmi K20 Pro, Redmi K20, Poco F1, Vivo Z1 Pro, Realme 5, Google Pixel 3a, Samsung Galaxy S9, iPhone 7 Plus, and several other smartphones have received discounts during the latest Festive Bonanza sale on Flipkart. The four-day long sale, which is live until Tuesday, October 29, also brings prepaid discount offers on popular models
Facebook’s artificial intelligence (AI) research team has developed a tool that tricks the facial recognition system to wrongly identify a person in a video, the media reported. The “de-identification” system, which also works in live videos, uses machine learning to change key facial features of a subject in a video, according to a report in
Does quantum computing really exist? It’s fitting that for decades this field has been haunted by the fundamental uncertainty of whether it would, eventually, prove to be a wild goose chase. But Google has collapsed this nagging superposition with research not just demonstrating what’s called “quantum supremacy,” but more importantly showing that this also is
Chipmaker Intel has filed an antitrust lawsuit against a SoftBank Group-owned investment company alleging the firm stockpiled patents to hold up technology companies with numerous lawsuits. The complaint filed late Monday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose alleged that Fortress Investment Group, which SoftBank bought in 2017 for
Huawei was understandably cautious in the lead to the Mate X. Watching Samsung’s Galaxy problems unfolding in what seemed like slow motion caused the company to rethink its strategy. Shortly after the Fold went back to the drawing board, Huawei announced it would be doing the same in order to dot all of its Is
Google CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledged the tech giant is struggling with how to deal with internal debate over controversial topics and the company defended hiring a former government official who backed the Trump administration’s travel ban, according to video of an all-hands meeting obtained by The Washington Post. At the closed-door meeting Thursday, a weekly
Subscription services – once the purview of the written word and cable television – have been slowly expanding to everything from music and movies to the clothes people wear and the food they eat. Now the multibillion-dollar mobile game industry is embracing that model and analysts, developers and service providers all believe it’s bound to
Amazon and Flipkart Diwali special sales have entered their last day today. Amazon’s Great Indian Festival Diwali Special sale and the Flipkart Big Diwali 2019 sale will end at midnight tonight. You still have a little less than 12 hours left to grab your favourite smartphones, TVs, electronics, and other products before Diwali, although there
Over the course of its 15 year history, Facebook has variously ignored news organizations while eating their advertising revenue, courted them for video projects it subsequently abandoned, and then largely cut their stories out of its newsfeeds . Now it plans to pay them for news headlines — reportedly millions of dollars in some cases.
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Netflix has been spotted testing an option to offer variable playback speed to let you consume a large part of your favourite series or movie in the shortest time possible. Multiple users have reported that the new feature is making way to the Netflix app for Android devices. However, it is unclear whether the company
Congress grilled Facebook’s CEO today, unleashing critiques of his approach to cryptocurrency, privacy, encryption, and running a giant corporation. Mark Zuckerberg tried to assuage their fears while stoking concerns that if Facebook doesn’t build Libra, then the world will end up using China’s version. Yet Facebook won’t stop shaking up society, with Zuckerberg saying its
Fortnite is massively popular, but to the chagrin of many, it is not available via the Google Play Store. If you’ve played Fortnite on an Android phone, you already know the drill. Download the Fortnite Installer on your phone from the Epic Games website, launch the app, and then download the game files. Well, the
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has announced that it will offer unlimited voice calling benefits to all its landline and broadband customers, for a limited period, as a part of its festive celebration. With the new development, BSNL customers will be able to make unlimited voice calls to any landline and mobile number across India,
NASA is looking for liquid gold on the Moon — not oil, but plain old water. If we’re going to have a permanent presence there, we’ll need it, so learning as much as we can about it is crucial. That’s why the agency is sending a rover called VIPER to the Moon’s south pole —
Jeffrey Katzenberg’s mobile-only streaming service Quibi hasn’t even launched, but it’s already sold out of its $150 million first-year advertising inventory, the company announced this morning. The service, which officially debuts in April 2020, added new advertisers Discover, General Mills, T-Mobile, and Taco Bell, who join Quibi’s existing lineup of ad partners, Procter & Gamble,