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Redmi 8 will be available for purchase in India today. The budget phone will go on sale through Flipkart, Mi.com, and Mi Home stores. As the successor to the Redmi 7, the Redmi 8 packs a 5,000mAh battery and offers up to 4GB of RAM. The Redmi 8 also houses an HD+ display and sports

Huawei Nova 6 5G is all set to launch on December 5 in China, now ahead of the launch the phone has been listed on a company’s online retailer platform VMall.com in four colors and two memory options – 8GB/128GB and 8GB/256GB. The device is expected to come with the same 6.57-inch IPS LCD display

Facebook Inc. issued a disclaimer for the first time to a post that the Singapore government said was false, complying with an order under the country’s recently-enacted “fake news” law that critics said could be used to curb dissent. A government unit instructed Facebook on Friday to correct a States Times Review post accused of

Realme 5s is all set to go on sale on Flipkart today. The sale will begin at 12pm (noon) IST and interested buyers can register on the e-commerce site beforehand and fill in address and payment details to ensure smooth checkout. The Realme 5s was launched in India last week, and its key highlights include

Black Friday 2019 is here, which means deals are raining everywhere, including games. If you’ve been searching for discounts on games at places like Steam and the PlayStation Store, have a look at GOG, where some acclaimed titles are up for grabs with hefty price cuts in tow. We are talking about both fresh entries

Israeli researchers have developed bacteria fed only with carbon dioxide, the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) in central Israel reported on Wednesday. These bacteria, which build the entire biomass of their body from the carbon in the air, may help to develop future technologies to reduce greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere and in the

Realme 5s packing a quad rear camera setup will go on sale for the first time in India today. The phone, which is an upgraded version of the Realme 5, will be available via the official Realme India online store and Flipkart. Realme 5s’s quad rear camera setup is highlighted by a 48-megapixel primary camera.

Samsung is celebrating its 10th anniversary of Galaxy smartphones and for this, it’s offering discounts and special offers on a range of its smartphones. These include the Galaxy Note 10 series, Galaxy S10 series, and some Galaxy A series smartphones. These discounts will be valid from November 28, right up till December 31, 2019 on

Twitter has put its plan to delete inactive accounts on hold for now as the social media giant will first figure out a way to memorialise the accounts of the deceased users. Further, the company will also be working on broadening its inactive account policy in the future to comply with other regulations around the

Vivo U20 was launched in India late last week, and the smartphone is now ready to go on its maiden sale today. The Vivo U20 has been priced starting at Rs. 10,990 and is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 SoC. The Vivo U20 is available in two variants, the base variant gets 4GB RAM

Google has begun rolling out its Ambient Mode for Assistant — which turns an Android device into a smart display while it’s charging. The company says it will launch soon, beginning with a number of select devices that run Android 8.0 operating system (OS) or above. The company made the announcements in two separate tweets

Samsung is reportedly ending support for Bixby Voice on Android phones running Nougat or Oreo versions. Bixby Voice is the voice assistant part of the Samsung’s digital assistant that was launched in 2017. Bixby Voice isn’t available on all Samsung phones and tablets and many mid-range devices only include Bixby Home support. Additionally, Samsung is

Redmi Note 8 Pro will go on sale later today at 12pm noon in India, and will be available from the Mi online store and Amazon. The Redmi Note 8 Pro packs a quad rear camera setup that is highlighted by a 64-megapixel main camera, assisted by a wide-angle snapper and a dedicated macro lens.

Flipkart is hosting the Moto-Lenovo Days for the Chinese smartphone maker where a lot of its smartphones are available at a discount. The ongoing Moto-Lenovo Days started on November 24 and will continue till November 28. During this period, select Motorola and Lenovo smartphones will be made available to buyers at a discounted price. The

Xiaomi has launched the Mi Smart LED Desk Lamp 1S in India. The lamp comes with brightness control (2600-5000K), colour temperature control, and other smart features. It can be controlled via an app, and has cross-functional support across Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple HomeKit. The Mi Smart LED Desk Lamp 1S is foldable and

WhatsApp’s Android and iOS apps stack two stickers in a single line if they are sent in quick succession. Stacking two stickers saves on-screen space, and even though it is not functionally very useful, it is a neat addition nonetheless. The sticker stacking feature, or grouped stickers, is now reportedly rolling out to WhatsApp’s Web

AMD has announced a 64-core Ryzen Threadripper 3990X CPU model that will be launched in 2020. The news comes at the same time as its 32-core 3970X and 24-core 3960X models have gone on sale. Very few concrete details about this new flagship model are known at the moment, but AMD has no doubt timed

Apple has confirmed a second season of M. Night Shyamalan’s Servant ahead of its series premiere on November 28. The executive producer made the announcement on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, on Friday, Engadget reported. Directed by Shyamalan and created by Tony Basgallop, Servant follows a Philadelphia couple in mourning after an unspeakable tragedy

Google has brought Gmail’s Smart Compose feature to Docs and it is now available on its Web version. To give you a brief idea, Smart Compose relies on artificial intelligence to let users quickly compose documents by suggesting words and phrases that contextually extend or complete a sentence. Additionally, Google has announced that the grammar

Google employees demonstrated outside the company’s San Francisco office Friday to protest the internet giant’s recent decision to put two staff members on leave. The event is the latest sign of a growing rift between management and rank-and-file workers at Alphabet’s Google, which was once praised for its open corporate culture. Protesting staff believe the

Samsung Galaxy A51 is one of the most leaked smartphones these days. The new phone in the Galaxy A-series has already been spotted on Bluetooth and Wi-Fi certification sites with model number SM-A515F. Now, a media report claims that the Samsung Galaxy A51 will debut with a 5-megapixel macro-lens camera. Another Samsung phone has surfaced

India’s top telecom firms, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, have asked the Supreme Court to review a ruling forcing them to pay the bulk of outstanding government dues of $13 billion, media said on Saturday. Last month’s ruling gave telecom operators three months in which to pay overdue levies and interest, putting at risk the

Honor V30 and Honor V30 Pro are set to launch in China on Tuesday, November 26. But just days ahead of their formal launch, Huawei sub-brand Honor has confirmed that both new smartphones will come with HiSilicon Kirin 990 SoC and support 5G connectivity. Key specifications of the Honor V30 and Honor V30 Pro have

Truecaller has fixed a flaw that could allow attackers to use the service’s API to place a malicious link as the URL for their profile picture. The malicious link could be used to fetch IP addresses of other Truecaller users and perform attacks such as brute-force and distributed denial of service (DDoS), based on the obtained information.

Razorpay, the Bengaluru-based payments startup, has launched payment support for freelancers, consultants, and a whole bunch of people selling their products or services via social media platforms such as Instagram or Facebook. Razorpay says it supports payment for over 100 currencies, and makes it easy for freelancers to receive payments. Features such as collecting advance

Fossil this week launched its Gen 5 smartwatches in the Indian market. To recall, the series of Wear OS by Google smartwatches were launched globally in August this year. The smartwatches come with a heart rate monitor, accelerometer, gyroscope, altimeter, and an ambient light sensor. The series is supposedly designed to offer better functionality for

The first comic book produced by Marvel, the famed US publisher behind Spider-Man, X-Men and The Avengers, went under the hammer Thursday, fetching a record $1.26 million, Heritage Auctions said. “This is a historic copy of a historic comic book,” Ed Jaster, auction house senior vice president, said of the book, which was published in

Vivo U20 is all set to launch in India today, and the phone has been teased intensively running up to the launch. The phone’s key specifications have been detailed by the company, and its design has also been revealed. The Vivo U20 will sport a waterdrop-style notch, and a triple rear camera setup at the

Chaayos, a popular retail chain that serves a range of food and beverages, has augmented its one-time-password (OTP) method by deploying a facial recognition feature to fulfil orders from customers. The move eliminates the need for returning customers of the chain to enter OTPs for each order. While the new deployment by the company, owned

Amazon.com is preparing to open Amazon Go supermarkets and pop-up stores, an expansion of the company’s cashierless ambitions that includes the possibility of licensing the technology to other retailers. The new store formats and licensing initiative could launch as soon as the first quarter of 2020, according to a person familiar with the project. Amazon