The India and South Asia head of Amazon.com's cloud division, Puneet Chandok, has resigned with effect from August 31, the company said on Friday.Chandok had taken the helm of Amazon Web Services in June 2019.Vaishali Kasture, currently head of the enterprise for mid-market and global businesses at AWS India and South Asia, would take on the role of interim leader of commercial business for the … [Read more...]

Redmi 12 is expected to launch soon as the successor to the Redmi 10 model that was released last year. A tipster shared that the phone was spotted on the Redmi's official Portugal website. The screengrab shared by the tipster suggests the design and the price of the upcoming handset. The leak suggests that the smartphone will likely be powered by an octa-core MediaTek Helio G88 SoC. The … [Read more...]

From brand-new hardware to interesting software updates, Apple will surely have plenty of surprises in store at its upcoming WWDC 2023 developer event. While the event has traditionally been about software (hence developers), Apple has surprised us in the past with hardware announcements like the new MacBook Air and Macbook Pro models that were announced last year. There's plenty to … [Read more...]

Android 14 could add support for a new feature that could give users insights into their device's battery health. New application programming interfaces (APIs) found on the latest Android 14 beta could show details such as the health of the phone's battery, the manufacturing date, when it was first used, how many charging cycles have been completed, and the charging policy. As these are provided … [Read more...]

Motorola launched its much-awaited Motorola Razr 40 Ultra and Razr 40 foldable flip phones in China yesterday (June 1). Now, the clamshell smartphones from the Lenovo-owned brand are gearing up for their arrival in India. Motorola shared a teaser on social media to offer clear hints about the launch of the Motorola Razr 40 series in the country. The teaser is shown with the hashtag … [Read more...]

Samsung hosted its first Galaxy Unpacked event of this year on February 1 in San Francisco. As we are inching closer towards the launch of the next-generation Galaxy Z foldable smartphone series, Lee Young-hee, President of Samsung DX's Global Marketing Center has reportedly confirmed the location of the next Unpacked event. The Suwon headquartered company would host its next major Galaxy Unpacked … [Read more...]

Nokia C300 and Nokia C110 were launched in the US on Thursday. The phones are the latest in HMD Global's, Nokia's parent firm, attempt to deliver accessible smartphones to the global market. Both the newly-launched models come with polycarbonate frames and backs. They run Android 12 out-of-the-box and flaunt displays with HD+ resolution. The C300 and the C110 are powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 … [Read more...]

Streaming giants Netflix, Amazon, and Disney on Friday privately discussed a possible legal challenge and other ways to stall India's new tobacco warning rules, amid fears they will need to edit millions of hours of existing web content, sources said. The pushback is the latest headache for streaming giants in India, a top growth market. Companies often face legal cases and police complaints their … [Read more...]

In a rather pro-Web3 move, Nike has struck a partnership with EA Sports hoping to be able to push elements of Web3 like cryptocurrencies and NFTs, deeper into the international gaming ecosystem. The shoes and athleisure brand Nike has been experimenting with digital collectibles or NFTs for quite some time now. As for EA Sports, the US-based game publisher behind world-famous titles like FIFA and … [Read more...]

The Motorola Edge 40 is the latest entrant in the list of smartphones under Rs. 30,000 in India, which currently seems to be the industry's hot segment as it has witnessed quite a number of new launches lately. It is also quite crowded with the likes of the Redmi Note 12 Pro+ 5G (Review), iQoo Neo 7 (Review) and the recently-launched Poco F5 5G (Review). While most smartphones around … [Read more...]

E-commerce platform Meesho has become the world's "fastest shopping app" to cross 500 million cumulative downloads across Google Play and iOS App Store, mobile data analytics provider has said.The company has achieved the 500 million download milestone in six years, data.ai, formerly known as App Annie, said in a statement.According to data.ai, over half of Meesho app downloads (274 million) came … [Read more...]

WhatsApp has resumed testing a feature that improves group chats on Android, as part of the latest beta release. The popular messaging app recently began beta testing the ability to show profile icons next to messages on group chats, but it was disabled on subsequent beta releases. Meanwhile, the Meta-owned app has also started rolling out the first version of its Updates tab for beta testers on … [Read more...]

Google has unveiled a slew of features for Android smartphones, tablets, and Wear OS smartwatches on Thursday. The latest improvements include three new widgets for Google Finance, Google TV, and Google New for customising the Android phone or tablet home screen. On top of that, Google's June feature update brings "Reading practice" mode on Google Play Books to improve the vocabulary and … [Read more...]

Infinix InBook X2 Slim was launched in India on Friday. The company announced that the laptop weighs 1.24 kilograms thanks to the lightweight aluminium alloy-based metal body. It is 14.8mm thick and features 4.7mm thin bezels. The 11th Gen Intel chips powering the laptop are offered in three processor variants - Intel Core i3, Intel Core i5, and Intel Core i7. The laptop comes with … [Read more...]

Crypto scammers are infamous on Twitter and are always on the lookout for unsuspecting victims and high-profile targets. In a latest development, crypto scammers have hacked the Twitter account of OpenAI CTO, Mira Murati. Soon after the hackers gained access to Maruti's account, promotional tweets around a fake crypto airdrop were posted via that account in the early hours of Friday, June 2. These … [Read more...]

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, out now in cinemas in India and globally, is among the biggest theatrical releases this year, and for good reason. The first film in this specific series, 2018's Into the Spider-Verse was a surprise package that far exceeded expectations and won various accolades including an Oscar, offering a fresh new take on the beloved web-slinger. Its sequel, Across … [Read more...]

A search for Wes Anderson on YouTube turns up trailers that the famed director with a distinctive style appears to have made for adaptations of 'Star Wars', 'Harry Potter' and 'The Lord of the Rings' featuring Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, and other stars. Artificial intelligence allowed people with no real actors and far smaller resources than major Hollywood studios to generate the fake movie … [Read more...]

Elon Musk's Neuralink received approval last week from the US Food and Drug Administration to conduct human clinical trials, which one former FDA official called “really a big deal.” I do not disagree, but I am skeptical that this technology will “change everything.” Not every profound technological advance has broad social and economic implications.With Neuralink's device, a robot surgically … [Read more...]

The much-talked-about Assassin's Creed VR game has been rebranded to Assassin's Creed Nexus VR, a virtual reality experience. Ubisoft made the announcement during the Meta Quest Games Showcase, held late Thursday, confirming that it will be out ‘by the end of the year,' with further updates being revealed during the Ubisoft Forward event on June 12. The showcase event was planned as a response to … [Read more...]

iQoo Neo 7 Pro 5G is expected to launch in India soon. The phone is likely to launch with an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC. iQoo India CEO Nipun Marya teased the launch of the purported iQoo Neo 7 series phone last month, which is expected to join the iQoo Neo 7 5G that was unveiled earlier this year in February. A tipster has now suggested the launch date, storage details, and … [Read more...]