Western Digital, popular manufacturers of digital storage solutions has announced the launch of their latest My Passport SSD that makes use of NVMe technology. It boasts an impressive read speeds and write speeds of 1050MB/s and 1000MB/s respectively, and comes in three capacities.
Google has been working a lot in the background to improve the user experience of notifications in their Chrome browser. Their latest Chrome 86 update has brought a new change which is an added enforcement for websites that have been detected to send abusive notification content.
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Intel’s 11th Gen Core CPUs are here and Acer has announced refreshes for all three series of their consumer laptops, namely the Swift, Spin and Aspire. All of them feature Intel’s latest Iris Xe integrated GPUs and up to NVIDIA’s GeForce MX450 GPUs, all within new thin and light designs.
Truecaller has pretty much become a default app in most smartphones these days, helping us identify callers and avoid spam numbers. Till now, the app could quickly tell us who is calling, and now, with the Call Reason feature, users can know why someone is calling them.
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One of India’s biggest streaming services, Netflix, is reportedly looking into announcing a new plan for their Indian customers, which is free access plan for a duration of a weekend. With it, Netflix hopes to entice more consumers into purchasing a subscription, as the company reported slow user-growth in Q3, 2020.
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This week the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) filed a pretty big civil antitrust lawsuit against Google, possibly marking the beginning on a long-drawn-out legal battle against the two. The lawsuit is targeting Google’s unlawful monopolistic behavior which include anticompetitive and exclusionary practices, which Google denies.
Xiaomi has come a long way since they released their first smartphone in India back in 2014. Now, they are known not just for their smartphone, but also for a wide range of products in the smart home market, such as the Home Security Camera 360°, Mi Air Purifier 3, the Mi Smart Water Purifier and many more. We reviewed the Mi Smart Water Purifier back in November 2019, explaining many of the features it offered. It has been nearly a year now since we started using the water purifier for our workplace and here is our long term review.
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Zebronics, popular manufacturers of computer peripherals, sound systems, etc. has announced the launch of a smart fitness band in India — the ZEB-FIT920CH. It features various sensors for heart rate monitoring, sleep monitoring, etc. customizable watch faces, 7 sports tracking and more.
One of the many tools offered with Facebook for Business is the Messenger API, which allows businesses to manage messages initiated by their customers and interact effectively. Facebook is now adding support for Instagram messaging to the API, expanding the ways a business can connect with their customers, and introducing tools to help increase interaction.
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Google is releasing a new update to their smart display experience, bringing multiple changes to the UI experience, such as new pages for media, home controls, along with the ability to have separate personal and work accounts signed and other features like a new dark theme, new sounds to relax to, and more.
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SK hynix, one of the world’s biggest manufacturer and supplier of NAND flash storage, is further expanding their business with the acquisition of Intel’s NAND memory and storage business. The agreement will cost SK hynix a total of $9 billion and is expected to close by March 2025.
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Back in CES 2019, LG revealed the world’s first roll-able OLED TV line — the SIGNATURE OLED R. The TV was supposed to go on sale last year however due to some issues that did not happen. LG is now launching the 65-inch SIGNATURE OLED R on sale in South Korea for a whopping price tag of KRW 100 million, which is approximately $87,000 or about 63.8 lakh rupees.
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The race to build a functional base on the moon is heating up as NASA recently announced $370 million in new contracts, given out to many private companies. Among them is a $14.1 million contract that was awarded to Nokia Bell Labs to build the first LTE/4G cellular communication network on the moon.
As we finally get close to Sony releasing their next-gen console to the general public, Sony has announced the price of the PlayStation 5 in India, starting at Rs. 39900. Sony will be selling both the PlayStation 5 and the PlayStation 5 digital edition, along its various accessories and a few launch titles.
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Paytm has announced yet another product entry into the Indian financial market with the launch of credit cards in partnership with various card issuers. Paytm plans to issue nearly 2 million of these co-branded cards in the next 12-18 months and the entire experience will be powered via their Paytm app.
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