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India’s premier defence research institute DRDO has set up eight advanced technology centres to carry out research on futuristic military applications, the government said on Saturday. Minister of State for Defence Shripad Naik, replying to a question in Rajya Sabha, said these centres will also provide support to academia to undertake research on new technologies

Look who is not freaking out. Since July, TikTok users have braced for a threatened ban of the ultra-popular short-form video app in the United States, with some opening accounts on rival platforms and encouraging friends to do the same. Then early on Friday Reuters broke the news that the US government was preparing to block

India pre-orders for Xbox Series X and Series S will go live at 9am IST on Tuesday, September 22, Microsoft India has announced. Both Series X and Series S will be available on Amazon, Flipkart, and Reliance Digital’s online store. No offline stores have been announced. India is one of 37 countries where the new

Realme UI 2.0, the company’s proprietary Android 11-based skin, will be unveiled on September 21. The release will coincide with the launch of Realme Narzo 20 series of smartphones on the date. Realme X50 Pro users have already received an Android 11 preview release that will now be rolled out to the Realme Narzo 20

Moto E7 Plus will be launched in India on September 23 at 12pm (noon). The phone was originally unveiled in Brazil last week through an official listing on the company website. Now, it has got a dedicated Flipkart page with the date and time for the unveiling. While the Flipkart page does not reveal the

ZEB-Juke Bar 9700 Pro Dolby Atmos soundbar has been launched by Zebronics in India. Zebronics says this soundbar offers a hi-fidelity immersive sound experience. The ZEB-Juke Bar 9700 Pro Dolby Atmos offers multiple connectivity options and a simple setup process. It also comes with a remote for easy operation. Zebronics Juke Bar 9700 Pro also

WhatsApp has teamed up with Common Services Centers (CSC) to launch a chatbot for citizens to receive digital literacy services and resources in the country. The aim of this initiative is to bridge the digital divide and spur rural entrepreneurship. Programmes such as the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA) and the Digital Beti

PS5 is huge — alongside the international pricing and launch date reveal, Sony has finally given us the dimensions of the PS5 and PS5 Digital Edition. The PlayStation 5 is 390mm (15.35 inches) tall, 260mm (10.23 inches) deep, and 104mm (4.09 inches) wide, which arguably makes it the biggest video gaming console ever. Its cousin,

PlayStation 5 games will cost up to $69.99 (about Rs. 5,200), Sony has revealed. Alongside pricing and launch date for the PS5 and PS5 Digital Edition, Sony announced that its first-party launch titles will cost between $49.99 (about Rs. 3,700) and $69.99 (about Rs. 5,200), confirming the dreaded $10 increase that had been incessantly discussed

GoPro Hero 9 Black has been launched. It’s GoPro’s flagship action camera for 2020 and features a higher resolution sensor, larger battery, removable lens cover, and a front-facing colour LCD display. The new camera takes the top place in GoPro’s lineup, while the existing Hero 8 Black should eventually move down in price, followed by

Infinix Note 7 has been launched in India. It is a budget-friendly smartphone that boasts of impressive specifications such as a large battery, quad rear camera setup, and an octa-core processor. The Infinix Note 7 comes in a single RAM + storage configuration and three colour options. It has slim bezels all around and a

Apple has updated the iPad Air with an all-new design, larger display, and powerful new processor. The new iPad Air (4th Gen) borrows heavily from the iPad Pro line but incorporates some new improvements and achieves a more approachable price point, between the iPad Pros and entry-level iPad. The new iPad Air is available in

The Apple event that’s an annual affair every September, is scheduled to begin at 10.30pm IST on September 15. This year’s Apple event is expected to be slightly different because it’s a virtual event due to the ongoing pandemic, and the iPhone 12 launch is not expected during this event, based on information revealed by

Realme Narzo 20, Realme Narzo 20 Pro, and Realme Narzo 20A smartphones will be powered by different processors, a tipster has claimed. The tipster says that one of the phones will have Qualcomm Snapdragon 6-series SoC while the other two will come equipped with MediaTek Helio chipsets. In a related development, the company has also

YouTube Shorts, a short video feature from YouTube that allows you to share 15 second videos, was launched by Google on Tuesday. Sound familiar? Yes, we have yet another TikTok competitor, this time from Google, after Instagram expanded Reels from the US to India as well. Which is a market Google seems to be eyeing for YouTube Shorts,

HMD Global is hosting a launch event on September 22. This event, like all the other recent ones, is going to be held virtually. The event will be live streamed via Nokia Mobile YouTube channel. HMD Global hasn’t announced the name of the phones arriving next week. It is largely expected that the company may

Realme Narzo 20, Realme Narzo 20 Pro, Realme Narzo 20A smartphones are all set to be launched in India on September 21. The three phones are the successors of the Realme Narzo 10 series that was launched earlier this year. The company introduced the new ‘Narzo’ range in March and the launch event saw several

Nvidia is close to a deal to buy British chip designer Arm Holdings from SoftBank Group for more than $40 billion (roughly Rs. 2,93,817 crores) in a deal which would create a giant in the chip industry, according to two people familiar with the matter. A cash and stock deal for Arm could be announced

Dark matter, mysterious invisible stuff that makes up most of the mass of galaxies including our own Milky Way, is confounding scientists again, with new observations of distant galaxies conflicting with the current understanding of its nature. Research published this week revealed an unexpected discrepancy between observations of dark matter concentrations in three massive clusters

A Delhi Assembly panel has issued a notice to Facebook India Vice President and Managing Director Ajit Mohan asking him to appear before it on September 15 in connection with complaints about the social media platform’s alleged deliberate and intentional inaction to contain hateful content in the country. “Summon was issued on the basis of

Wonder Woman 1984’s release has been delayed yet again, with the sequel to 2017’s Wonder Woman now set to debut on Christmas day, December 25. The movie was originally scheduled to release in December last year, but was postponed a month to accommodate Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Then, it was pushed to June

Flipkart Big Saving Days sale will start from September 18 and will go on till September 20. The e-commerce platform is offering several discounts and attractive offers on electronics including mobiles, tablets, TV, accessories, and other electronics. Flipkart is also offering a chance for customers to pre-book whatever they want to purchase during the sale

Amazon’s private label appliances and electronics that carry the branding of AmazonBasics have been found to catch fire, melt, or explode, according to a report. The private label that was launched back in 2009 has over 5,000 products on the online marketplace. Most of those products are often listed as “Amazon’s Choice” and visible on

Huawei FreeBuds Pro true wireless earphones and FreeLace Pro neckband earphones were announced at the company’s ‘Seamless Ai Life’ event, among many other products. The FreeBuds Pro are said to be the world’s first true wireless stereo (TWS) earphones to support intelligent dynamic noise cancellation. The Huawei FreeLace Pro feature 14mm drivers and noise cancellation

Apple’s unified “Apple One” subscription that will bundle its services together, as previously reported, has been spotted in Apple Music’s latest beta version for Android, through strings of code, by 9to5Google. The bundles are expected to have a tiered approach, with Apple Music and Apple TV+ in the cheapest tier, and Apple Arcade, Apple News+,

Zomato is preparing to go public. In an email to employees that has been seen by business daily Mint, Zomato founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal said that the restaurant aggregator and food delivery app was aiming to file and float an IPO (initial public offering) by mid-2021. This comes in the wake of Zomato raising

Realme C17, an unannounced Realme phone, has been spotted on Geekbench. Realme has been launching new smartphones at a rather fast pace in the budget segment. The company recently launched the Realme C12 and the Realme C15 as a part of its budget-friendly C series. With the recent spotting of the Realme C17 on Geekbench,

Moto G9 Plus and Moto E7 Plus pricing and specifications have leaked once again. Motorola just announced its second-generation foldable, Motorola Razr 5G, as its premium offering, but there are a couple of budget friendly smartphones in its pipeline as well. The rumoured Moto G9 Plus is expected to be powered by the Snapdragon 730G

Dune trailer is here. As promised, Warner Bros. has unveiled the first proper look at its next big sci-fi franchise — Dune — an adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 magnum opus by the director of Arrival and Blade Runner 2049, Denis Villeneuve. The Dune trailer introduces the desert world of Arrakis, home to the most

Samsung Galaxy S20 FE was briefly listed on the Samsung official site in Philippines ahead of official launch. The phone is rumoured to launch sometime around the end of September or October, and this accidental listing indicates that the launch is not very far. The brief listing outed the images of the phone, along with