Multiplayer games are more fun when you get to play with the same crew regularly. Playing with the same people means better cooperation, deeper strategies and, if all goes well, more wins. But what if none of your friends play the game you want to play? Rune, a company out of Y Combinator’s Winter 2019
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Chinese handset maker Xiaomi on Saturday announced that it has achieved a record-breaking sale of over 5.3 million devices during the festive season sale period in India. These included smartphones, televisions, Mi Band wearables, earphones, power banks, security cameras, and Mi Ecosystem devices and accessory products that were sold across Mi.com and partner platforms such
Call of Duty: Mobile, the first-person shooter gamer developed by Tencent Games-owned TiMi Studios, has surpassed the mark of 35 million downloads on Android and iOS combined, publisher Activision has announced. The new downloads record follows the 20 million installs that were reported within two days of the launch of Call of Duty: Mobile that
Red Dead Redemption 2, the open-world Wild West gam, that debuted for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One back in October last year, is finally making its way to PC. Publisher Rockstar Games has underlined that Red Dead Redemption 2 will be the first title in the Red Dead Redemption series to feature on the
Google today announced Action Blocks, a new accessibility tool that allows you to create shortcuts for common multi-step tasks with the help of the Google Assistant. In that respect, Action Blocks isn’t all that different from Shortcuts on iOS, for example, but Google is specifically looking at this as an accessibility feature for people with
Following a premature leak, Intel has released information about its upcoming Cascade Lake-X generation of high-end desktop (HEDT) processors. While these CPUs are not yet officially listed, Intel has published information about their pricing and specifications. The four models that have been revealed feature between 10 and 18 cores, and are based on a revision
Tencent Holdings’ Call of Duty: Mobile has attracted 20 million gamers within the first two days of its worldwide debut, a big boost for the company’s ambition of adapting top-tier titles with global name recognition for smartphones. Based on Activision Blizzard’s marquee PC and console franchise, Call of Duty: Mobile generated a quick $2 million (roughly
Aiming to bring the next 200 million consumers to the e-commerce fold, Flipkart on Friday said that its Big Billion Days sale witnessed almost 50 percent growth in the number of new customers compared to last year, with 70 billion views in six days of the sale that began on September 29. Clocking record sales
Ahead of a Disrupt appearance, Yves Maitre talks mobile, VR and blockchain Brian Heater @bheater / 7 hours On September 17, HTC announced that cofounder Cher Wang would be stepping down as CEO. In her place, Yves Maitre stepped into the role of Chief Executive, after more than a decade at French telecom giant, Orange.
It’s been two years since Sony launched its flagship A9 full-frame mirrorless camera, which was already a beast of a performer. Now, the company has quietly introduced a follow-up to that model, unsurprisingly called the A9 II. The new version doesn’t add anything major over its predecessor but it does get some notable improvements in
Today is the last day of the first round of festive season sales on Amazon and Flipkart. Both Amazon Great Indian Festival 2019 sale and Big Billion Days 2019 sales will end at midnight tonight. Amazon and Flipkart have already claimed how their respective festive sales have broken their previous records. In case you’re joining
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the fifth richest person in the world, both questioned and defended the existence of billionaires like himself during a live-streamed company town hall on Thursday. “I don’t know if I have an exact threshold on what amount of money someone should have. At some level, no one deserves to have that
Instagram has launched a new tool called Restrict designed to help you beat bullies. As the name suggests, Restrict allows you to restrict the way certain people can interact and engage with you. However, the people being restricted won’t have a clue. In July 2019, Instagram launched new tools to combat bullying Instagram Launches New
YouTube Music app is set to get three new personalised playlist to compete better with Spotify. YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan confirmed in an onstage interview that the three new playlists are called Discover Mix, New Release Mix, and Your Mix. These new playlists will be rolled out to users sometime later this month
Google has discovered a security flaw in its Android OS’ kernel code that is not only affecting its Pixel phones, but also phones from Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, and others. A similar Android OS flaw was fixed in 2017, but it has now cropped up on newer software versions as well. This vulnerability has been given
Samsung has released a new exclusive Fortnite Glow outfit and Levitate emote that is now available for download via Fortnite for a select number of Galaxy devices. And these select Galaxy devices are not just this year’s Galaxy S and Galaxy Note flagships, but instead, the list of eligible devices are flagship smartphones from the
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has partnered with Paytm to offer a smart Wi-Fi onboarding feature in India. This feature will enable users to use BSNL provided public Wi-Fi in select areas. Paytm will send notifications to users whenever they are in a BSNL Wi-Fi hotspot location, and users can then select a plan, pay
In what will hopefully turn out to be just a mistake, the Amazon Prime Video app has disappeared from the Apple App Store, making it unavailable for new downloads or updates to users both on iOS and Apple TV. Twitter users began to tweet to Amazon for help about the problem on Friday morning, to
From questionable treatment of employees to poaching talent from rivals and more recently the huge lootbox fiasco, EA has been mired in controversies of varied types over the years. The company is now embroiled in a privacy scandal, negligently leaking user data to other users. The registration link provided by EA for the FIFA 20
Galaxy Home – Samsung’s Bixby-powered smart speaker that was unveiled over a year ago – won’t be making it to the drawing rooms of interested folks anytime soon. Back in June, a Samsung executive revealed that the Galaxy Home smart speaker will finally hit the market in 2019’s third quarter. Well, the ongoing year’s third
YouTube Music is preparing to better challenge Spotify and others with the launch of three new personalized playlists, Discover Mix, New Release Mix, and Your Mix, said YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan, in an on-stage interview this morning at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2019. Discover Mix, YouTube Music’s version of Spotify’s Discover Weekly, had already
HP’s new CEO has unveiled the company’s latest plan to streamline its operations — one that envisions cutting its workforce by as much as 16 percent over the next three years. The personal computer and printer maker says it expects to drop 7,000 to 9,000 people from its global workforce of about 55,000 by 2020. It
On their first week in class, a group of students is playing a first-person shooter video game in a sleek new digital studio. It’s their introduction to the degree in esports they’ve all enrolled in. The group clicking away on their mice are at the University of Staffordshire, one of several UK and US schools launching programs
Joker has gotten off to a $5.4 million (about Rs. 38.3 crores) start at the worldwide box office, thanks to openings in four markets and early previews. That includes $2.3 million (about Rs. 16.3 crores) in South Korea, $900,000 (about Rs. 6.4 crores) in India, $846,000 (about Rs. 6 crores) in Indonesia, and $170,000 (about
Today at its special hardware event, Microsoft unveiled the new Surface Pro 7. The new Surface Pro finally brings USB-C to the convertible laptop category of Microsoft hardware, which will be a welcome addition for fans who’ve been waiting for the company to adopt this now-prevalent connection technology. The latest generation Surface Pro starts at
Facebook plans to challenge Europe’s top court, which today ruled that EU countries can order Facebook to globally remove content that violates local laws. Facebook currently complies with proper legal requests to remove content that breaks a nation’s laws, but can leave it up for global viewers if the post doesn’t violate its Community Standards.
Xiaomi says that it has managed to sell more than 250,000 Mi TVs during the festive season sales on Amazon, Flipkart, and Mi.com. The company claims that the Mi TVs are the highest sold TVs on Amazon and Flipkart, and it has managed to sell 43 Mi TVs per minute during this period. This is
Facebook, Twitter, and Alphabet’s Google have failed to provide adequate transparency for global users around political advertising on their services, a privacy advocacy group said on Tuesday. A report from London-based charity Privacy International said that many users around the world lack meaningful insight into how ads are targeted on social media services. The group called
Social media is a place where people make new friends. But for some, it’s also the place where people leave old friends. Being unfriended or unfollowed by someone feels horrible. And while most social media platforms won’t inform you when someone leaves you, you might find out anyway when you notice no recent activity from
Truecaller Voice, the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) based voice calling service, has been updated with an integrated call waiting feature. The new update is aimed to offer “interruption-free” voice calling support to Truecaller users. Aside from the new update, Truecaller Voice has also been rolled out to iOS users all across the globe. The