Call of Duty: Modern Warfare launched for PC, PS4, and the Xbox One last week. And while there were much hype and anticipation around the launch of the popular title, some Xbox One owners have come across a serious bug that leads to frequent crashing of the video game on Microsoft’s popular gaming console. But
Month: October 2019
Apple has launched AirPods Pro, an upgraded version of the AirPods that feature active noise cancellation, sweat and water resistance, and an in-ear design. AirPods Pro price in India is Rs. 24,900 ($249 in the US) and they’ll be available in the US from October 30. Apple says AirPods Pro will be coming to India
As robots and gadgets continue to pervade our everyday lives, they increasingly need to see in 3D — but as evidenced by the notch in your iPhone, depth-sensing cameras are still pretty bulky. A new approach inspired by how some spiders sense the distance to their prey could change that. Jumping spiders don’t have room
Submit campaign ads to fact checking, limit microtargeting, cap spending, observe silence periods, or at least warn users. These are the solutions Facebook employees put forward in an open letter pleading with CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company leadership to address misinformation in political ads. The letter, obtained by the New York Times’ Mike Isaac, insists
Diwali 2019 is just around the corner and to mark the occasion, Flipkart is back with its Big Diwali Sale this week. The Flipkart Big Diwali 2019 sale will run until October 25. The sale will offer yet another chance to grab your favourite smartphone, laptop, big-screen TV, and other electronics at a discount. Flipkart
A lot of new wearable devices have launched in the recent weeks, including new models from popular brands in this space such as Lenovo, Xiaomi, and Honor. The Honor Band 5 is one such product, and it is the latest iteration in the popular Honor Band series. This new fitness tracker packs in an AMOLED
Before the millions of players, before the billions in revenue, before the esports tournaments that topped 100 million spectators, League of Legends was more of an idea than a game. And the game that did exist in the year-long lead up to its release wasn’t very good. “The game really sucked for a long time,” said
Amazon Prime Student deal gave new users GBP 5 (roughly Rs. 450) off their first purchase with a code called ‘Welcome5’ but students quickly got on to the fact that it could be reused multiple times. Soon, the word spread like wildfire across the UK’s campuses and students began stock-piling products as toilet rolls and
NVIDIA has a new family of Android TV-based streaming devices, as tipped early via a couple of leaks from online stores. The new NVIDIA Shield TV ($149) and Shield TV Pro ($199) replace the existing Shield TV generation of hardware, which debuted in 2017. Both new Shields offer new Tegra X1+ processors, which outperform the
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
China’s largely rubber stamp parliament has passed a new law on cryptography as the country gears up to launch its own digital currency, state media reported late on Saturday. China’s central bank set up a research team in 2014 to explore launching its own digital currency to cut the costs of circulating traditional paper money
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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