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Black Friday 2019 is here, which means deals are raining everywhere, including games. If you’ve been searching for discounts on games at places like Steam and the PlayStation Store, have a look at GOG, where some acclaimed titles are up for grabs with hefty price cuts in tow. We are talking about both fresh entries

Apple has turned to a Chinese manufacturer to ramp up production of AirPods Pro and AirPods amid surging demand. This comes at a time when US President Donald Trump is preparing to slap more tariffs on Chinese imports. The Cupertino-headquartered firm has sent a memo to all its manufacturers and providers to ramp up production

Vivo is apparently gearing up to launch a new variant of the iQoo Neo flagship phone. After being spotted on TENAA carrying the model number V1936AL, the phone has now been listed on the Android Enterprise partner website as well, thereby confirming its existence and hinting at an imminent launch. The listing also gives us

Samsung is celebrating its 10th anniversary of Galaxy smartphones and for this, it’s offering discounts and special offers on a range of its smartphones. These include the Galaxy Note 10 series, Galaxy S10 series, and some Galaxy A series smartphones. These discounts will be valid from November 28, right up till December 31, 2019 on

Samsung Display will be the sole supplier of 2020 Apple iPhone line-up that will come with on-cell touch OLED panel, which is called aY-OCTA’ technology and is supplied to Samsung Electronics for its own smartphones. LG Display will supply film touch method-based OLED panels. According to Korean news site ETNews, it is understood that Samsung

The Irishman — the new Martin Scorsese film starring the likes of Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci among others — is out now on Netflix. With a reported production budget of $160 million (about Rs. 1,150 crores) and a runtime of nearly three and a half hours, it is arguably the biggest

Google has begun rolling out its Ambient Mode for Assistant — which turns an Android device into a smart display while it’s charging. The company says it will launch soon, beginning with a number of select devices that run Android 8.0 operating system (OS) or above. The company made the announcements in two separate tweets

Samsung was among a host of brands that committed to releasing the Android 10 update by the end of 2019, promising to do so last month, but it appears that those plans might not come to fruition. While the beta programme for Android 10-based One UI 2.0 is in full swing, the release schedule published

Flipkart is hosting the Moto-Lenovo Days for the Chinese smartphone maker where a lot of its smartphones are available at a discount. The ongoing Moto-Lenovo Days started on November 24 and will continue till November 28. During this period, select Motorola and Lenovo smartphones will be made available to buyers at a discounted price. The

Redmi Note 8 Cosmic Purple colour variant is due to launch in India soon, the company is teasing. To recall, the company launched a Nebula Purple colour variant in China earlier this month, and that colour matches what’s been teased in India so far. Ahead of the India launch of the Redmi Note 8 last

US online giant eBay agreed to sell its ticket marketplace StubHub to Swiss-based rival Viagogo for $4.05 billion in cash, the two firms announced Monday. The move will allow Viagogo, which already sells tickets for live sport, music and entertainment events, to boost its footprint to more than 70 countries around the world. The deal

AMD has announced a 64-core Ryzen Threadripper 3990X CPU model that will be launched in 2020. The news comes at the same time as its 32-core 3970X and 24-core 3960X models have gone on sale. Very few concrete details about this new flagship model are known at the moment, but AMD has no doubt timed

Snapdeal has crossed 100 million app downloads on Google Play Store, registering a gain of 37 percent over 73 million downloads a year ago, according to the e-commerce player on Monday. In October 2019, the monthly traffic to Snapdeal crossed 240 million visits, claimed the company, an all-time high for the platform. It witnessed 52 percent increase

Queen Elsa & Co. are ruling the world. Frozen 2 brought in an estimated $350.2 million (about Rs. X crores) in its opening weekend at the global box office, delivering the biggest opening for an animated movie of all time in the process. In doing so, Frozen 2 beat Disney’s own offerings: The Lion King

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi has patented a new a dual-display smartphone with quad rear cameras setup. According to the patent, the primary display is like any other phone with ultra-slim bezels and earpiece up top. Meanwhile, the secondary display on the new Xiaomi-patented phone is as small in size as the quad-camera housing on the

Google employees demonstrated outside the company’s San Francisco office Friday to protest the internet giant’s recent decision to put two staff members on leave. The event is the latest sign of a growing rift between management and rank-and-file workers at Alphabet’s Google, which was once praised for its open corporate culture. Protesting staff believe the

Samsung Galaxy A51 is one of the most leaked smartphones these days. The new phone in the Galaxy A-series has already been spotted on Bluetooth and Wi-Fi certification sites with model number SM-A515F. Now, a media report claims that the Samsung Galaxy A51 will debut with a 5-megapixel macro-lens camera. Another Samsung phone has surfaced

Honor V30 and Honor V30 Pro are set to launch in China on Tuesday, November 26. But just days ahead of their formal launch, Huawei sub-brand Honor has confirmed that both new smartphones will come with HiSilicon Kirin 990 SoC and support 5G connectivity. Key specifications of the Honor V30 and Honor V30 Pro have

India’s top telecom firms, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, have asked the Supreme Court to review a ruling forcing them to pay the bulk of outstanding government dues of $13 billion, media said on Saturday. Last month’s ruling gave telecom operators three months in which to pay overdue levies and interest, putting at risk the

Amazon on Friday cited comments by US President Donald Trump at a rally and to journalists as it pursues its challenge to the Pentagon’s surprise decision to award a lucrative contract to rival Microsoft last month. For the first time, Amazon directly linked comments by the president to the award of the Joint Enterprise Defense

Fossil this week launched its Gen 5 smartwatches in the Indian market. To recall, the series of Wear OS by Google smartwatches were launched globally in August this year. The smartwatches come with a heart rate monitor, accelerometer, gyroscope, altimeter, and an ambient light sensor. The series is supposedly designed to offer better functionality for

Fortnite Save The World mode is in the limelight again. Epic Games has added Dungeons, a new area for players to explore. Dungeons area in the game’s Save The World mode is riddled with traps and monsters that players need to take on in order to win rewards. A pair of new heroes with unique

Chaayos, a popular retail chain that serves a range of food and beverages, has augmented its one-time-password (OTP) method by deploying a facial recognition feature to fulfil orders from customers. The move eliminates the need for returning customers of the chain to enter OTPs for each order. While the new deployment by the company, owned

Vivo U20 is all set to launch in India today, and the phone has been teased intensively running up to the launch. The phone’s key specifications have been detailed by the company, and its design has also been revealed. The Vivo U20 will sport a waterdrop-style notch, and a triple rear camera setup at the

The biggest explosions since the Big Bang set the universe in motion some 13 billion years ago produced even more energy than first thought, scientists said Wednesday. In a study published in Nature, two international teams describe how they searched for the Gamma-ray Bursts (GRB) produced when neutron stars collide or giant suns collapse into

Oppo has revealed ColorOS 7, the latest iteration of Oppo’s custom Android skin that will be officially launched at an event in China on November 20, and later in India on November 26. Oppo has now announced that the first phones to run ColorOS 7 out of the box will fall under the Oppo Reno

Hotstar has jumped on the self-censorship bandwagon. The Disney-owned streaming service has cut out jokes that poked fun at its corporate overlord from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, HBO’s Emmy-winning half-hour news satire talk show. (Most HBO programming is available on Hotstar in India, owing to a long-term deal between the two.) In Hotstar’s

OnePlus recently launched the OnePlus 7T series in India a little over a month ago but it seems that the Chinese smartphone company is already working on a successor. Fresh leaks of the OnePlus 8 Pro have surfaced in the form of diagrams that tip the design of the alleged OnePlus 8 Pro. These diagrams

Redmi Note 8 Pro is set to be available for purchase in India today. The latest sale round for the Redmi phone will take place through Amazon India, Mi.com, and Mi Home stores. Xiaomi launched the Redmi Note 8 Pro as the successor to the Redmi Note 7 Pro last month. The smartphone features a

A day after Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea announced their decision to increase tariffs, Reliance Jio on Tuesday said that it will increase telecom service charges in the next few weeks, among other measures. The company in a statement said it would carry out an “appropriate” increase in tariffs which “does not adversely impact data