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Apple is hosting Apple Days on Amazon, offering discounts and deals on varied products including the latest iPhone, iPad, MacBook, and Apple Watch. The sale went live on Tuesday and will continue till March 21. Additionally, customers can enjoy offers such as no-cost EMI and extra discounts using HDFC Bank Debit and Credit Cards on

Flipkart’s Big Shopping Days sale is making a comeback this week. The Walmart-owned online marketplace will run its Big Shopping Days 2020 sale from March 19 to March 22. Flipkart’s big sale will include discounts and bundled offers on smartphones, laptops, TVs, wearables, speakers, smart home products, and more. Flipkart has tied up with State

Microsoft has cancelled its flagship developer conference ‘Build 2020’ in-person, scheduled to take place from May 19-21. The Microsoft ‘Build’ will now be a digital-only event this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. New coronavirus cases in Washington State have surged to 457, including 31 deaths. “In light of the health safety recommendations for Washington State,

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates leaves board Microsoft on Friday announced that co-founder Bill Gates has left its board of directors to devote more time to philanthropy. The 64-year-old stopped being involved in day-to-day operations at the firm more than a decade ago, turning his attention to the foundation he launched with his wife, Melinda. Gates

Microsoft has released a Windows patch for a security vulnerability that enabled attackers to transfer malicious code from one machine to another if they had the vulnerability without the knowledge of the users. The fix is available as KB4551762, an update for Windows 10, versions 1903 and 1909, and Windows Server 2019, versions 1903 and

Known Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has claimed that the iPhone maker is planning to release new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models with scissor keyboards in the second quarter of 2020. Kuo did not comment on the size of the new MacBook Pro, but he is possibly referring to the 14-inch model that he has

Terry Gou, founder of Apple’s major manufacturing partner Foxconn, said on Thursday the resumption of production at its factories in China had “exceeded expectations” after a prolonged halt due to a coronavirus outbreak that had disrupted supply chains. Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, has most of its production in China, where many of

iPhone 9, Apple’s rumoured budget smartphone, is expected to support Touch ID and the latest iOS 14, an online report has indicated. The smartphone that is also commonly referred to as iPhone SE 2 is likely to come out by June this year and will enable Express Transit, the report added. Although it was earlier

Computer scientists at Belgium’s leading higher education and research university KU Leuven have once again exposed a security flaw in Intel processors that could allow an attacker to acquire sensitive information, such as the victim’s fingerprints or passwords. In the past couple of years, Intel had had to issue quite a few patches for vulnerabilities

iPadOS 14 could introduce full mouse cursor functionality for some or all iPads when it is released later this year. The latest rumours suggest that full system-wide support will be added for a cursor that can be controlled with a mouse and trackpad. This will greatly improve the basic mouse functionality that iPadOS 13 offers,

Apple will replace the existing 13-inch MacBook Pro with a 14.1-inch model, according to an investor note reportedly shared by reputed analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The new MacBook Pro is said to debut alongside five other new “mini-LED” devices by the Cupertino, California-based company later this year. The mini-LED equipped devices are believed to be “unaffected”

iPhone 12 Pro is months away from its official launch but thanks to a host of leaks, we have some idea of what to expect on Apple’s next flagship smartphone. Now rumours are suggesting that the iPhone 12 Pro that is expected to release alongside the iPhone 12, will have a 64-megapixel camera and 4400mAh

Microsoft on Wednesday joined the growing number of US companies asking employees to work from home in order to limit exposure to the spreading coronavirus outbreak, as it responded to cases near its Seattle headquarters and in California. Microsoft asked many of its employees in the Seattle region near its headquarters and the San Francisco Bay

HP on Thursday rejected Xerox Holdings’s raised takeover bid of about $35 billion, saying it undervalued the personal computer maker. The US printer maker last month increased its offer by $2 to $24 per share, after its previous buyout offers were rejected by the PC maker for the same reason. Chip Bergh, chair of HP’s board, said

Apple is reportedly planning to launch a 12.9-inch iPad Pro and multiple notebook models with Mini-LED backlit displays by the end of 2020. The report claimed that the iPhone maker would also adopt Mini-LED backlighting for “a few models of LCD monitors”, but it was unclear if that referred to the iMac/iMac Pro or standalone

Researchers have discovered a major new security flaw inside processors made by US multinational corporation and chip making giant Intel for the past five years. The flaw allow exploits to defeat hardware-based encryption and DRM protections. According to security company Positive Technologies, the security bug could break apart a chain of trust for important technology

Apple on Friday asked employees at its Silicon Valley headquarters to work from home if possible as a “precaution,” a spokesman confirmed to Reuters. Officials in Santa Clara County, where Apple’s 12,000-person Apple Park campus is located, had earlier asked large companies to consider asking employees to telecommute and find other ways of limiting close

AMD has made a number of announcements related to its research and development efforts, and has publicly disclosed brand new roadmap updates at its Financial Analyst Day event. While light on product-specific news, we now know a lot about how the next few generations of CPUs and GPUs will shape up, and how AMD plans to

In a lively Muslim quarter of Nanchang city, a sprawling Chinese factory turns out computer screens, cameras, and fingerprint scanners for a supplier to international tech giants such as Apple and Lenovo. Throughout the neighbourhood, women in headscarves stroll through the streets, and Arabic signs advertise halal supermarkets and noodle shops. Yet the mostly Muslim

US manufacturing and technology group Honeywell said Tuesday it will bring to market “the world’s most powerful quantum computer” aimed at tackling complex scientific and business challenges. The company said it had achieved a breakthrough in quantum computing, which uses subatomic particles to speed up processing, and would launch the new computers within three months.

The new coronavirus (COVID-19) has derailed more flagship tech summits as Google and Microsoft on Tuesday announced the cancellation of their upcoming US events. Google’s Cloud Next in San Francisco in April and Microsoft’s MVP Summit in Seattle in March now stand cancelled and both companies have made those events ‘digital-first’. “We are transforming the

Samsung has launched its latest Galaxy laptops in China, the Samsung Galaxy Book Ion. First announced last year, the laptops are currently up for pre-orders in the country, and will go on sale from March 18. The Samsung Galaxy Book Ion is the company’s premium laptop, and its 13.3-inch model weighs just 970 grams. Samsung

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to back stricter deadlines for workers to sue retirement plans over alleged mismanagement, ruling Intel Corp cannot avoid a suit accusing it of unlawfully making high-risk investments that cost retirement plan beneficiaries hundreds of millions of dollars. The justices unanimously upheld a lower court decision that revived the proposed

Microsoft on Wednesday lowered its revenue estimates for the current quarter, saying it will feel the impact of the coronavirus epidemic with lower sales of Windows software and Surface devices. The US tech giant became the latest global firm to warn of a financial hit from the global outbreak of the disease which has killed

Samsung launched the Galaxy Tab S6 in India in October 2019 and we liked the tablet when we reviewed it. The Galaxy Tab S6 was a flagship device and was priced quite high at Rs. 59,900 putting it out of the reach of a lot of people. It seems that Samsung has taken note of

Apple loves having its products — the iPhone, the iPad, or the MacBook — in movies and TV shows, but it won’t let villains or bad guys be seen with them, according to Rian Johnson, the writer-director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Knives Out. Johnson let slip the crucial bit of information during

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Wednesday discussed on a range of issues including data sovereignty and Digital India with Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. Speaking to reporters here after his meeting with Nadella, IT Minister Prasad said that it was a courtesy meeting which went “very good”. “We talked on issue of data sovereignty

Apple is reportedly working on a new refreshed iPad Pro and some photos for its suspected case have surfaced on Twitter which gives an idea of what the refreshed iPad Pro will look like. The images show a square cut out on the back where the cameras would be, similar to the iPhone 11 Pro.

Lenovo has added nine new laptops to its ThinkPad series and all the upcoming laptops will either use the AMD Ryzen Pro 4000 processors or 10th Gen Intel Core vPro processors, the company announced in a note Monday. Around the same time last year, the company unveiled its last line of ThinkPad-series products which ran

Huawei MatePad Pro 5G has been unveiled as the company’s answer to the iPad Pro. Announced during a live stream that was scheduled after Huawei cancelled the launch event in Barcelona, the latest tablet by the Chinese company comes along with a magnetic Smart Keyboard and a stylus called the Huawei M-Pencil. Yes, you can