Netflix wanted to upheave India’s internet ecosystem. Market reality in the country left it with little choice but to adapt like most other Silicon Valley company. Manish Singh 7 hours At a conference in New Delhi early last year, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings was confronted with a question that his company has been asked many
You’ve noticed the retro gaming explosion—but what’s it all about? Why are retro consoles being re-released, often in smaller form factors? Retro t-shirts, games, collections for Xbox One and PS4, even the new on-demand retro gaming service Antstream… retro gaming is everywhere. In this week’s special show, Christian Cawley and Ben Stegner compare their own
Flipkart is hosting The Grand Gadget Sale from today. The sale will end on July 27 and categories like laptops, audio, gaming, cameras, smart home products, wearables, mobile accessories, power banks, data storage, tablets, computer peripherals, laptop accessories, and more are listed with deals and discounts. The e-commerce site has listed laptops with minimum 25
PUBG Mobile Lite is now available in India. Less than a month after PUBG Lite for PC beta version was launched for the Indian users, Tencent Games has released the lite version of its PUBG Mobile in the country. The India launch of the game comes almost a year after PUBG Mobile Lite made its
Redmi K20 Pro, Redmi K20, Redmi 7A, Realme X, and Realme 3i are set to go on sale in India today simultaneously for the first time. Flipkart will host its Super Flash Sunday sale to bring all these five phones for purchase in the country. Being a part of the flash sale, it is safe
Reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo from TF International Securities has released a new report, as Apple Insider spotted. I’ve read the report and it focuses specifically on keyboard suppliers that would potentially work with Apple . And the company should potentially replace the unreliable butterfly mechanism with a new scissor mechanism. The first laptop that should receive
Google parent Alphabet’s stock price leapt Thursday after reporting stronger-than-expected results in a quarterly update coming amid growing scrutiny of technology firms by antitrust regulators. The Internet giant said profits tripled in the second quarter from a year earlier to $9.9 billion (roughly Rs. 68,400 crores) while revenues increased 19 percent to $38.9 billion (roughly
When it was unveiled on stage, the Galaxy Fold was heralded as the next big thing. Samsung seeded units to reviews and prepared for launch. And then a funny thing happened on the way to a smartphone paradigm shift: it started breaking. Multiple review units were sent back to Samsung with busted screens. It was
Access to the internet plays an important role in our daily lives. So much so, that more people are beginning to see access to reliable, sufficiently fast internet as a human right. But why is internet access being promoted as a human right? And what happens when we don’t have the ability to connect? Here’s
Most people who get into fitness feel the need to buy a fitness wearable at some point. This may seem to be a pretty simple decision, but this product category is very confusing for multiple reasons. For starters, there’s no clear demarcation between different types of devices in this category. For instance, there are some
FIFA 20 retail pre-orders are now live in India via GamesTheShop, after going up for pre-orders globally last month. The latest instalment in the longstanding FIFA franchise by EA Sports, FIFA 2020 brings Football Intelligence that’s claimed to be a “complete gameplay rethink.” Also new is the Authentic Game Flow system, Decisive Moments, and a
Tech giant Microsoft has released a beta version of the updated Cortana app for Windows 10. The new experience features a brand-new chat-based UI that is aimed at giving the user the ability to type or speak natural language queries. The company is testing a new chat-based UI for Cortana on Windows 10 PCs. The
Thinking about what to do this weekend? Think no more. Doom, Doom II, and Doom 3 have all just appeared on the Switch, Xbox One, and PS4, giving you no excuse not to play these classics. All the time. Over and over. Rip and tear! The announcement was made at QuakeCon 2019, the annual gathering
German luxury camera-maker Leica this week launched its new camera – the V-Lux 5- with an OLED electronic viewfinder and a fully touchscreen rear panel for Rs. 98,000 in India. To recall, the Leica V-Lux 5 was launched globally earlier this month. In combination with the camera’s 20-megapixel, 1-inch sensor, the 9.1-146 mm lens of
WhatsApp Status lets you share photos and videos with people who use the messaging service that’s become a ubiquitous social media platform in India. WhatsApp used to be an app where you could just chat with people but a couple of years ago, it added a feature called WhatsApp Status. This is pretty similar to
Xiaomi is set to conclude its fifth edition of Mi Anniversary Sale later today. The three-day Mi sale that is hosted on Mi.com, online platform partners including Amazon and Flipkart, Mi Home stores, Mi Stores, and partner offline stores was started on Tuesday to offer deals, discounts, and offers on various Mi and Redmi smartphones
A Twitter user and software developer, Zusor, has unveiled a new add-on for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox that will let you use the old Twitter interface for desktop. It’s called GoodTwitter. Separately, a guide is available for users who don’t want to use the add-on to return to the old Twitter Web interface, but
Tinder has launched a new feature designed to help LGBTQ+ users stay safe when traveling abroad. Called Traveler Alert, the feature hides LGBTQ+ users’ profiles when they travel to a country where same-sex relationships are illegal. Countries Where It’s Criminal to Be LGBTQ+ In the vast majority of countries, the LGBTQ+ community is treated with
Apple allows Siri recordings to be heard by contractors as part of a process called “grading”, which improves the efficacy of the voice assistant, a report claims. This frequently includes confidential information, such as medical history, sexual interactions, and even drug deals, a whistleblower working for one of the contractors is cited to say. Apple
Black Shark 2 Pro will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 Plus SoC, the Chinese company on Saturday confirmed through a video teaser posted on Weibo. Multiple reports in the recent past speculated the presence of the latest Snapdragon chipset on the upcoming Black Shark gaming phone. The Snapdragon 855 Plus is designed as an
WhatsApp has amassed more than 400 million users in India, the instant messaging app confirmed today, reaffirming its gigantic reach in its biggest market. Amitabh Kant, CEO of highly-influential local think-tank Niti Aayog, revealed the new stat at a press conference held by WhatsApp in New Delhi on Thursday. A WhatsApp spokesperson confirmed that the
US President Donald Trump on Friday said his administration would not grant Apple any relief for tariffs on parts made in China for its Mac Pro computer and later added he thought the firm would build a plant in Texas. “Apple will not be given Tariff waiver, or relief, for Mac Pro parts that are
All hard drives die. It’s normal to purchase a new one every few years, either to replace an old hard drive or to use as additional backup drives. But which hard drive should you buy? What hard drive do I need?! Hard drive shopping doesn’t have to be difficult. In fact, there’s a lot of
Fossil is a well-known name when it comes to watches, but for the past several years, it’s also been one of the few traditional watch manufactures to consistently launch smartwatches based on Google’s Wear OS platform. The company’s latest model in India is the Fossil Sport, and one of the reasons we’re excited about it is
Tencent Games officially launched PUBG Mobile Lite in India today. It is a toned-down version of the massively popular PUBG Mobile that requires at least 2GB of RAM and 2GB of onboard storage to run the game. The publisher is aiming to capture even more players for the game by bringing PUBG Mobile Lite, which
Reliance Jio has surpassed Vodafone-Idea in terms of the number of subscribers in India, based on second quarter figures released individually by both telecom operators. In figures released on Friday, Vodafone-Idea said its user base had declined in Q2 to 320 million. On the other hand, Reliance Jio last week reported it had reached 331.3
Nestled among the many indistinguishable buildings of Microsoft’s Redmond campus, a multi-disciplinary team sharing an attention to detail that borders on fanatical is designing a keyboard… again and again and again. And one more time for good measure. Their dogged and ever-evolving dedication to “human factors” shows the amount of work that goes into making
The U.S. Department of Justice this morning gave the green light to T-Mobile US and Sprint for their proposed $26 billion merger. The deal, which would combine the nation’s third and fourth largest carriers (by subscriber number) has been greenlit on the condition that Sprint sell its prepaid assets (including Boost Mobile) to Dish Network.
File compression is a core part of how the web works. It allows us to transfer files that would otherwise take too much bandwidth and time. Whenever you access ZIP files or view JPEG images, you’re benefiting from file compression. Thus, at some point you’ve probably asked a question: how does file compression work? Here’s
An urban runner can feel the city’s heartbeat under his feet. He doesn’t run because it’s fun, and certainly not just because it keeps him fit. Running makes him feel alive and brings the kind of joy to his heart that nothing else can. Running shoes mean everything to someone who runs across a concrete