PUBG Mobile is one of the most popular games in India. Recent reports however, hint that the game might be under the scanner from the government, and could potentially be banned in India. If you’re a PUBG Mobile fan who is worried by this, you’re not alone, but the good news is that there are
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has once again extended the six paisa cashback offer in the country. This cashback offer was announced last year, and since then it has seen multiple extensions. The last deadline that was reported was set at July 31, but the telco has now extended this cashback benefit till August 31.
Social media has become the target of a duelling attack ad campaign being waged online by the sitting US president and his election rival. They’re shooting the messenger while giving it lots of money. US President Donald Trump has bought hundreds of messages on Facebook to accuse its competitor, Twitter, of trying to stifle his
Telegram has announced a new update that lets you add videos to your profile — alongside your existing profile photos. The messenger service’s latest update also expanded the storage limit for sending media files from the existing 1.5GB to 2GB. It also carries a redesigned music player specifically for Android users. Additionally, Telegram users on
Black Shark 3S is set to launch on July 31. The upcoming gaming smartphone will be another off-shoot of the Black Shark 3, with slightly tweaked specifications. The Black Shark 3, along with the Black Shark 3 Pro, was launched in China in March this year. The Black Shark 3S phone looks to be another
Huawei Maimang 9 has launched with 5G support and a triple rear camera setup. The new smartphone by the Chinese company has a MediaTek Dimensity 800 SoC as well as a hole-punch display design. The Huawei Maimang 9 is the successor to the Maimang 8 that was launched in China back in June last year
If you’ve spent any time online, you will have seen a hashtag. In fact, you might have seen them in commercials on TV, on billboards, or spoken out loud too. Which may have prompted you to ask, what is a hashtag? If so, you’ve come to the right place. We’re going to explain what a
New phones are once again launching every week after taking a bit of a pause during the coronavirus related lockdowns meant to slow the spread of COVID-19. It’s not surprising because India is the world’s biggest market of smartphones after China, with a size of more than 50 crore users. It’s a market that has
Asus ROG Phone 3 has a secret 160Hz refresh rate that can be unlocked using the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) command-line tool. Launched in India last week, the flagship gaming phone comes with a refresh rate of 144Hz on paper. The Taiwanese tech giant has also confirmed the existence of the advanced refresh rate option,
Airtel is reportedly offering 1GB of high-speed data to select users for free of cost. This free data has been doled out on recharge of special plan, wherein users are getting more data than promised. This additional free data is not rolling out for all users, and Bharti Airtel is offering it to random users,
China’s top Internet watchdog will launch a new campaign to crack down on the social media accounts of independent news providers, it said Thursday. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) will target commercial websites and social media accounts that illegally write and edit news items, and repost news articles from non-compliant sources, the CAC said
Apple has released the third developer beta of iOS 14, which suggests the existence of a 5.4-inch iPhone model. The latest iOS 14 beta version includes a Display Zoom feature for the 5.8-inch iPhone models, including the iPhone X. This gives reason to speculate that one of the iPhone 2020 models may come with a
OnePlus 8T series may come with a 64-megapixel camera, a teardown of the OnePlus Camera app suggests. According to a new report, a string of code in the latest update for the OnePlus Camera app, version 5.4.23, hints at a 64-megapixel sensor. Now that the company has launched its flagship OnePlus 8 series and budget
Your work can go haywire if your laptop is plugged in but not charging. You obviously can’t use the computer once the battery is dead. But in many cases, you can figure out where the charging issue lies to correct it. We’ll show you what to do when your laptop battery isn’t charging while plugged
An Indian court has summoned Alibaba and its founder Jack Ma in a case in which a former employee in India says he was wrongfully fired after objecting to what he saw as censorship and fake news on company apps, documents seen by Reuters showed. The case comes weeks after India cited security concerns in
Microsoft on Wednesday reported rising revenues in the past quarter amid strong demand for cloud computing services from pandemic-hit businesses and consumers and big gains in its Xbox gaming operations. Profits in the quarter ending June 30 fell 15 percent to $11.2 billion (roughly Rs. 83,622 crores), the result of increased tax charges compared with
A congressional hearing on digital marketplace competition featuring the chief executives of four of the largest American tech companies has been rescheduled for Wednesday, a House subcommittee said on Saturday. The CEOs of Facebook, Amazon.com, Alphabet’s Google and Apple were to have testified on Monday before the House Antitrust Subcommittee. But the hearing was postponed
Garmin said Saturday that client data from the company’s smartwatch and GPS services — offline since Thursday — has not been compromised, despite fears of a ransomware attack. “Garmin has no indication that this outage has affected your data, including activity, payment or other personal information,” the company said on its website. It added: “Although
WhatsApp has released a new Android beta update and it reportedly leaks some of the upcoming features that the social giant may be working on. This latest WhatsApp v2.20.196.8 beta for Android gives us a glimpse on two anticipated features – advanced search mode and multiple device support. WhatsApp has been reported to be working
A highly anticipated antitrust hearing including top executives of four Big Tech firms, originally set for Monday, has been postponed. A notice filed by the House Judiciary Committee set no new date for the hearing titled “Examining the Dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.” Officials are discussing rescheduling the hearing for late next week
If you’re a fan of dark mode and your workflow involves using Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides, rejoice because Google has recently rolled out a new feature that brings dark theme support to its Docs, Sheets and Slides apps. A dark theme not only saves your device’s battery but is also easy on
For All Mankind season 2 trailer has flown in. At San Diego Comic-Con 2020 — known as Comic-Con@Home this year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic — co-creator Ronald D. Moore unveiled a teaser trailer for the sophomore run of his Apple TV+ series, which gives us a look at what to expect: armed American
Intel said on Thursday its new 7nm chip technology was six months behind schedule and it would consider farming out more work to outside semiconductor foundries, eroding a founding principle that manufacturing is key to its success. The setbacks will have little effect in the next few quarters, but will cause a years-long domino effect, delaying
Samsung Galaxy A42 may come with a 5,000mAh battery, a reported listing on China’s 3C website indicates. The phone is said to be the company’s first budget 5G offering and may debut next year. Now, the Galaxy A42 has allegedly made its way onto the certification website which hints at a 5,000mAh battery. The phone
iPhone 12 models may debut on September 8 according to a tipster on Twitter. The tipster claims that Apple is planning for an online event for September 8 where it will showcase the new 5G iPhone models, the new Apple Watch, and a couple other products. Additionally, the tipster also stated that the tech giant
PUBG for PC and consoles received its 8.1 update that brings a revamped Sanhok map, a loot truck, an updated Survivor Pass, and several other gameplay improvements. Sanhok, which is the smallest map in PUBG, has been revamped with terrain changes, reworked areas like Ruins, Gateway (previously Docks), and Airfield (previously Mongnai), along with several
When the National Basketball Association restarts its coronavirus-interrupted season on July 30 in its “bubble” in Orlando, Florida, the stands could have more than 300 fans – none of whom will actually be in the arena. Microsoft and the NBA said on Friday they have joined forces to put “virtual” fans in the stands of
TikTok unveiled plans for a $200 million (roughly Rs. 14.99 crores) “creator fund” to add content from emerging social media personalities to the fast-growing video-sharing app. The new US fund will “help support ambitious creators who are seeking opportunities to foster a livelihood through their innovative content,” said Vanessa Pappas, general manager of TikTok US.
Smartphone shipments in India declined by 51 percent year-over-year (YoY) to just over 1.8 crore units in the second quarter of 2020 due to the coronavirus-led lockdown, Counterpoint Research said on Friday. Xiaomi continued its leadership in the quarter despite facing supply constraints owing to COVID-19 pandemic and rising anti-China sentiment. However, Samsung is said
Google Meet competes against Zoom, Microsoft Teams, JioMeet and other video conferencing apps. Recently, Google began rolling out a feature that integrated the Google Meet button in the company’s mail app, Gmail. This allowed users to start a meeting on Google Meet by simply clicking a button right next to the Mail button in Gmail