Samsung announced that Indian customers can reserve a pre-booking for its upcoming flagship smartphones by paying Rs. 2,000. Although it did not officially name the phones, Samsung will be launching its next generation foldable smartphones, the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3, on August 11 at its Galaxy unpacked virtual event. Fans
Month: August 2021
A monorail train displaying Google signage moves past a billboard advertising Apple iPhone security during the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple announced a system this week that will enable it to flag images of child exploitation uploaded to
Sony raised its earnings outlook on Wednesday after a record first-quarter operating profit helped by pandemic stay-at-home demand for PlayStation 5 consoles, TVs, music, and movies. Operating profit for the quarter ended June 30 rose to JPY 280.1 billion (roughly Rs. 18,970 crores) from JPY 221.7 billion (roughly Rs. 15,010 crores) a year earlier, topping the JPY
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Microsoft on Thursday joined the ranks of tech companies requiring returning workers to be vaccinated, as Amazon delayed its plan to reopen offices until next year. The earliest date for fully reopening Microsoft’s US facilities will be October 4, according to the computing giant based near Amazon in the state of Washington. “Starting in September,
Apple on Thursday said it’s introducing new child safety features in iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and macOS as part of its efforts to limit the spread of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) in the U.S. To that effect, the iPhone maker said it intends to begin client-side scanning of images shared via every Apple device for
The US Federal Trade Commission criticised Facebook on Thursday for making “misleading claims” to explain why it had disabled the accounts of researchers studying political advertisements on the social media platform. Facebook said on Tuesday it had cut off the personal accounts and access of the New York University researchers because of concerns about other users’
We adore NASA for stunning us with marvellous pictures from various nooks and crannies of the Universe. Be it amazing landscapes of Mars or dreamy nebula clouds, we won’t miss out on any of them if we keep a track of NASA’s social media handles. The latest feast for our eyes is this “false-colour mosaic”
Apple has delayed its plans to launch its first offline store in India due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the company has confirmed to Gadgets 360. CEO Tim Cook last year announced that the first physical Apple stores would open in the country starting 2021. The Cupertino company has been working to establish its native retail
Realme GT Explorer Master Edition may launch in India with a new colour variant — Suitcase Orange. Realme CEO Madhav Sheth confirmed that the Realme GT and a Realme GT Master Edition phone will launch in India on August 18. It looks like the Realme GT Explorer Master Edition will be the one launching in
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A mobile phone shows Huawei app interface. Huawei unveiled HarmonyOS, its own operating system in 2019. In June 2021, the company launched the operating system on a smartphone for the first time. Costfoto | Barcroft Media | Getty Images The chairman of Huawei said the Chinese technology company’s “aim is to survive” as revenue fell
Blaupunkt 50-inch CyberSound Ultra-HD Android TV (50CSA7007) with Dolby Digital Plus has debuted in India on Thursday, August 5. The smart TV is being pitched as the latest bezel-less display offering from the German tech giant. The 50-inch smart TV is made in collaboration with Super Plastronics (SPPL), an Indian TV manufacturing company. The Blaupunkt
Battlegrounds Mobile India is nearing 50 million downloads and developer Krafton has announced a rewards event leading up to the milestone. The game, which is the Indian avatar of PUBG Mobile, was officially launched on July 2 but was available to a lot of players from mid-June. The downloads have been increasing steadily and now
The Suicide Squad — out now in cinemas and on HBO Max — is a soft reboot of Suicide Squad, and it really pushes the boundaries of weird, in a good way. Funnily enough, the new DC movie exists because of Disney, and a Twitter campaign against writer-director James Gunn. A little over three years
Multiple unpatched security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Mitsubishi safety programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that could be exploited by an adversary to acquire legitimate user names registered in the module via a brute-force attack, unauthorizedly login to the CPU module, and even cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The security weaknesses, disclosed by Nozomi Networks, concern
A bipedal robot, designed at the Oregon State University (OSU), has created history after it completed 5km in just about 53 minutes. Cassie, the robot, has been developed under the supervision of robotics professor Jonathan Hurst and produced by Agility Robotics, which focuses on leg mobility. The robot was first introduced, in collaboration with artificial
Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 Classic is expected to launch later this month and alleged renders of the smartwatch have leaked showing two colour options. Samsung will likely launch the Galaxy Watch 4 and the Galaxy Watch 4 Classic on August 11 at its Galaxy Unpacked event. They will be the first Samsung smartwatch models to
Amazon and Flipkart are running their Independence Day special sales this week. Amazon Great Freedom Festival 2021 and Flipkart Big Saving Days sales both promise exciting deals on a large selection of electronics. The sales kicked off yesterday and will remain live until this coming Monday, August 9. We’ve handpicked the best deals and offers
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Jun.28 — George Zachary, CRV partner, Mohan Naidu, Oppenheimer managing director, and Bloomberg’s Bard Stone discuss Amazon.com Inc. buying online pharmacy PillPack for $1 billion. They speak with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang on “Bloomberg Technology.”
Multiple cybercriminal groups are leveraging a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) solution to distribute a wide range of malicious software distribution campaigns that result in the deployment of payloads such as Campo Loader, Hancitor, IcedID, QBot, Buer Loader, and SocGholish against individuals in Belgium as well as government agencies, companies, and corporations in the U.S. Dubbed “Prometheus” and
NASA has shared another stunning view of the Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) at night time. The image, glittering with stars right above the Southeast African coast, was captured by one of the ISS crew members while flying in the space station at an altitude of 423 km, the American space agency said.
Watching a video on a virtual reality device is a dramatic but sell-isolating experience. Facebook is now trying to make it less solitary. Its research lab has devised a way to project the VR headset wearer’s eyes onto the 3D screen in the front of the device so that they are able to see people
OnePlus 9 Pro may be getting a new colour finish soon. The company’s COO Liu Fengshuo has shared an image of the OnePlus 9 Pro donning a white finish, hinting at a new colour option. The phone was launched in March this year, alongside the OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9R. It was made available in
Steve Proehl | Corbis Unreleased | Getty Images Apple will report images of child exploitation uploaded to iCloud in the U.S. to law enforcement, the company said on Thursday. The new system will detect images called Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) using a process called hashing, where images are transformed into unique numbers that correspond
Xiaomi has launched some rather unique devices and gadgets in India over the years, including a robot vacuum-mop, air and water purifiers, and even a portable air compressor to inflate tyres. Although many of these devices serve very niche use-cases, they sit in categories where the competition is either minuscule or disorganised. This helps the
Japan’s Nintendo said on Thursday sales of its Switch console fell 22 percent in the first quarter as demand for the hit device fades in its fifth year on the market. Investors are watching gaming firms closely for signals that the COVID-19 pandemic sales boom may be running out of steam. Nintendo is highly dependent on
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Amazon Great Freedom Festival sale has started and is in full-swing with discounts and the best deals on the latest smartphones, televisions, laptops, and much more. The five-day sale that will run through August 9 promises numerous offers on a wide range of products, from across categories. Expect up to 40 percent off on mobiles