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In addition to releasing iOS 13, Apple on Thursday also rolled out the watchOS 6 update to select Apple Watch models. Apart from new apps like Noise and Voice Memos as well as features such as menstrual cycle tracking and the ability to install apps directly from the watch itself, the update brings new health-focussed

Google Pay, which has marked three times growth in the last 12 months to 67 million monthly active users driving transactions worth over $110 billion (roughly Rs. 7,82,993 crores) on an annualised basis, is set to grow bigger through an all-new effort called the Spot Platform. Google at the fifth edition of Google for India

Vodafone Idea continues its reign as the top telecom operator in India on the basis of the total number of subscribers, the latest data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) reveals. For a brief period between July-end and mid-August, Jio was said to be the top telecom operator in the country given

WhatsApp is rolling out the ability to hide muted status updates in the latest Android beta. The feature was spotted to be under development a few months ago, and now the feature is being enabled for testing. The Hide Muted Status Updates feature brings the ability to completely vanish all traces of muted updates from

Almost two years after Amazon introduced its Alexa voice assistant in India, the Seattle-based company has added the much-needed support for Hindi language as well as Hinglish to the voice assistant. Starting today, the Amazon Echo lineup users in the country will be able to set up Hindi as their default language. Amazon says Alexa

Amazon’s Great Indian Festival 2019 sale will kick off from midnight, September 29. The online retail giant has announced the sale dates for its first festive season sale of the year, a few days after teasing the sale. The Great Indian Festival 2019 sale will open early for Prime members from 12 noon on September

Chinese smartphone maker Huawei is expected to launch a new smartphones in its flagship Mate series late this week – the Huawei Mate 30 and Huawei Mate 30 Pro. The upcoming smartphones from the Mate series have leaked multiple times in the past and we have a fair idea of how the smartphones will turn

After teasing the arrival of Mi Band 4, Xiaomi has finally launched the wearable device in India, but under a different name. The Mi Smart Band 4, as Xiaomi calls it, is essentially the same wearable as the Mi Band 4 that was launched back in June, down to the design, internal hardware, and health-centric

Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has come to the rescue of the people who have their mobile phones lost or stolen. Minister for Communications Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday unveiled a portal in Mumbai which will help mobile phone users trace their stolen or lost mobile phones. A project called Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR) has been undertaken

Moto E6s was launched in India on Monday. The latest budget smartphone by Motorola, it is in fact a rebranded Moto E6 Plus for the Indian market. At its price point, the smartphone competes with other entry-level offerings from companies like Xiaomi and Realme – with such devices as the Redmi 7 and Realme 3i

Tata Sky recently reduced the prices of its SD set-top box and HD set-top box, and now the company is reportedly offering further discount to multi-TV users. The OTT provider is now reportedly offering the HD set-top box at a discounted price of Rs. 1,199 to multiple TV subscribers. Tata Sky offers a maximum on

Moto E6S is set to launch in India today. Unveiled at IFA 2019 as Moto E6 Plus this month, the new budget smartphone was recently teased on Flipkart. It comes with an HD+ display and is powered by an octa-core MediaTek processor. Other highlights of the Moto E6S include dual rear camera setup, 4GB of

Airtel Digital TV customers can now avail a range of HD and SD channels on their DTH connection by opting for the new “All Channels” pack that is available at Rs. 1,315 for one month. The new pack includes as many as 226 channels and covers all the major regional channels. While the monthly charge

After Asteroid 2006 QQ23 zipped by Earth last month and Asteroid 2010 CO1 flew past just a few hours ago, another asteroid is set to safely pass our planet this weekend. NASA has confirmed that the Asteroid 2000 QW7, will zip by Earth at 7:54pm EDT on September 14 (5:24am IST on September 15). The

Online video giant YouTube is introducing a major change to its music chart system after discovering that artists and labels were using growth hacks to inflate how many people were watching their videos. YouTube is no longer counting “advertising views” when it comes to the company calculating its music charts. Instead, ranking for top-watched music

Realme 5 has started receiving a new software update that brings Google’s Digital Wellbeing. The update also optmises the multi-finger touch experience and includes various camera improvements. Realme has additionally improved the preloaded HDR mode and portrait mode on the Realme 5 through the latest update. Similarly, the new software improves the overall system performance.

A US House of Representatives panel on Friday demanded internal emails, detailed financial information and other company records from top executives of Amazon.com, Facebook, Apple, and Alphabet’s Google, widening the antitrust probe of Big Tech. The letters seek by October 14 internal emails over the last decade from Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Facebook CEO

Xiaomi has released a new keyboard app in the Google Play Store for Android users. Dubbed as Mint Keyboard, the app joins the company’s growing list of Mint-branded apps that have a small footprint on the smartphones. Mint Keyboard supports a total of 27 languages, including English, Hindi, Nepali, Urdu, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Sanskrit,

US based search engine giant Google has finally started rolling out the dark mode update for its Play Store, after the release of Android 10. With the new update all apps on the Play Store are set to gradually get a dark mode of their own. A black-themed Play Store is being rolled out on

Realme XT launch event started with the company’s India CEO Madhav Sheth on the stage. Sheth began by talking about the Realme 5 and Realme 5 Pro sales so far. He revealed that the company has sold 1.2 lakh Realme 5 units and 1.3 lakh units of the Realme 5 Pro until now. He also said the

Spotify has acquired music production marketplace SoundBetter, the music streaming service said on Thursday, without disclosing terms of the transaction. New York-based SoundBetter will become part of the Spotify for Artists feature, which provides insights, profile management and promotion tools to artists and their teams, the Swedish company said. SoundBetter’s platform allows hiring of musicians,

Pixel 4 leak floodgates have opened. After the hands-on images of the Pixel 4 leaked and some of its features also surfaced online, the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL have now been caught on video. A review video of the Pixel 4 and hands-on video of the Pixel 4 XL in all its colour

In the dim, red light of an alien sun, scientists have found the first evidence for water in the atmosphere of a rocky planet – offering a tantalizing new target in the search for life in the universe. The intriguing world, which goes by the impersonal designation K2-18b, lies 110 light-years away in the constellation

Realme 5 is now available via offline retailers in India, as promised by Realme India CEO Madhav Sheth last month. Realme’s official Twitter account announced the news and notes that the phone can be purchased via Realme partner offline retailers. Realme 5 was launched alongside the Realme 5 Pro smartphone last month and has been

Xiaomi-backed Huami has today launched the Amazfit GTR smartwatch in India. It sports a 1.39-inch AMOLED display protected by a layer of Corning Gorilla Glass 3 and is claimed to deliver a battery backup of up to 24 days. The Amazfit GTR smartwatch comes in three material variants and is equipped with a PPG biological optical tracking

With the launch of the new iPhone 11 series, Apple has made revisions to the pricing of its older generation iPhone models in India. The new maximum retail prices (MRP) are now reflecting on the Apple India website, and most iPhone models are now reflecting new reduced price tags. The iPhone 7 is seen retailing

iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max smartphones were unveiled by Apple on Tuesday ahead of the lucrative holiday shopping season. With the new iPhone models, the Cupertino, California-based company will attempt to entice customers to upgrade their existing iPhone models or switch from Android as iPhone demand slows down and shipments as well

Samsung Galaxy Note 10, Samsung Galaxy Note 10+, Samsung Galaxy A50s, Samsung Galaxy A90 5G, and Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 are all receiving ARCore support. Google has renamed ARCore to ‘Google Play Services for AR’, and it is rolling out the support to the mentioned five Samsung devices. In addition, the changelog also says that

The Redmi 8 series has seen several leaks, with the base variant allegedly already spotted on TENAA and the US FCC. Now, the Redmi 8 and Redmi 8A phones have allegedly been spotted on Thailand certification site NBTC, hinting that launch may be near. The Redmi 8 specifications have already been tipped to include a

The Realme 5 will now be available for purchase in India on every Tuesday at 12pm (noon), the Chinese smartphone market announced via its official Twitter handle on Monday. The smartphone went on its first flash sale on 27 August, at 12pm (noon), and went on to sell over 120,000 units. The phone has since