Microsoft has partnered with Meta in an effort to persuade businesses to operate in virtual settings. During Meta’s Connect conference this morning, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that Microsoft Teams will integrate with Quest devices and that Microsoft will provide a way to stream Windows apps to Meta’s headsets, TechCrunch reported. Nadella also revealed that
Month: October 2022
Spider-Man: Miles Morales is coming to PC next month, and with that, Sony has unveiled the new features and system requirements for the same. Developers Insomniac Games and Nixxes Software have partnered once again to bring the PlayStation-exclusive title to PC, on November 18, 2022. Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales on PC comes with Nvidia’s DLSS
Aadhaar enrolment for newborns along with birth certificates is expected to be available in all states in the next few months, expanding beyond 16 states currently offering the facility, government sources said. At present, 16 states have Aadhaar Linked Birth Registration. The process began more than one year ago, with various states getting added over
It took some evasive maneuvering to get us here — the building out of a small-scale hardware ecosystem, coupled with a couple big-ticket acquisitions and a partnership with one of its largest potential competitors. But suddenly, Google emerging as competitive in the smartwatch space doesn’t seem an altogether outlandish proposition. One can make a compelling
Uganda’s controversial Computer Misuse (Amendment) Bill 2022, which rights groups say will likely be used to silence dissenting voices online, has come into force after the country’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni signed it into law yesterday. The country’s legislators had passed amendments to the 2011 Computer Misuse Act in early September, limiting writing or sharing
Amazon Great Indian Festival 2022 sale began last month, and the e-commerce platform’s festive season sale is now in its ‘Extra Happiness Days’ phase, ahead of the upcoming festival of Diwali. Since the sale began, several products have gone on sale via the platform, available for purchase at deeply discounted prices. Amazon’s Echo smart speakers,
We often hear about the negative impacts of social media on our wellbeing, but we don’t usually think of it the other way round – whereby how we feel may impact how we use social media. In a recent study, my colleagues and I investigated the relationship between social media use and wellbeing in more
A Brazilian court on Thursday fined Apple BRL 100 million (Rs. 150 crore) and ruled that battery chargers must come with new iPhone models sold in the country. The Sao Paulo state court ruled against Apple in a lawsuit, filed by the association of borrowers, consumers and taxpayers, that argued that the company commits abusive
Redmi Pad is the company’s entry level tablet that was launched in India last week. This entry-level tablet is competitive when it comes to specifications and pricing. According to the company, the tablet is aimed at entertainment, e-learning, browsing, and gaming. On this week’s episode of the Orbital podcast, we note that not many manufacturers
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 1 chipset was announced on Tuesday, and the company’s latest chipset for wearables will power the newly unveiled Meta Quest Pro VR/MR headset. The chipmaker has offered more details about the new processor that is said to offer improved thermal performance and higher sustained power compared to the previous generation chipset
Computer gaming might create life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias in vulnerable youngsters whose tendency may have previously gone unreported, according to a new study. The researchers observed an uncommon yet distinct pattern in children who lose consciousness while playing video games. The findings of the study were published in the journal of the Heart Rhythm Society, the
Google Pixel 7 Pro powered by the second-generation Tensor G2 SoC was unveiled in India last week alongside the vanilla Pixel 7. Now, users are complaining about faulty scrolling on Google’s latest flagship smartphone. As per user reports on Reddit, the display on the flagship phone offers a “sticky” and inconsistent scrolling experience. Several customers
Samsung and Google announced a new partnership today that will allow easier setup for Matter-enabled devices on both Samsung SmartThings and Google Home systems. At the Samsung Developer Conference held in San Fransisco, the Korean tech giant said that it will update its SmartThings app in the coming months so that users can onboard Matter-enabled
Hi, friends! It’s time for another edition of Week in Review, the newsletter where we quickly recap the most read TechCrunch stories from the past seven days. Want it in your inbox every Saturday morning? Sign up here. most read LEGS: The company formerly known as Facebook held its Meta Connect conference this week, where
For decades, TVs were simply devices used to watch movies and TV shows. Over the last few years, the role of the TV in our lives has changed completely. As we spend more time indoors, technologies that once seemed ‘nice to have’ have now become a need. Samsung, the No. 1 global TV manufacturer for
Twitter is reportedly developing a feature that would allow users to control public mentions of their accounts on the platform. The social media platform allows users to tag and address public accounts by typing “@” followed by the unique username the user wishes to mention in their tweets, replies, or quote tweets on the platform.
Apple’s mixed reality headset has been in the news for quite some time now. The latest report now suggests that the rumoured mixed reality (MR) headset will use iris scanning for signing in and making payments. This would work like Apple’s fingerprint feature or Face ID authentication and could allow multiple people to use one
iQoo Neo 7 is all set to be launched on October 20. In the build-up to its imminent arrival in China, the Vivo sub-brand has revealed the key specifications of the gaming focussed device on Weibo. The upcoming iQoo Neo 7 is teased to feature a Samsung E5 AMOLED display. It will include a Pro+
TSMC shares jumped more than 4 percent on Friday morning, outperforming the broader market, after the Taiwanese chipmaker announced a forecast-beating third-quarter profit, though it struck a more cautious note on upcoming demand. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), a major Apple supplier and the world’s largest contract chipmaker, posted on Thursday an 80 percent on-year surge in profit for
A year after rebranding itself from Facebook into Meta, the social network titan is striving to make the metaverse a routine part of daily life, offering users new features and promoting new virtual reality gear. But analysts say the company has toned down the hype a bit as it struggles to reach its goal of
Ram Setu just got an official mobile game. In a partnership between nCore Games and Amazon Prime Video, the Akshay Kumar-led action-adventure movie has received an endless runner game. Ram Setu: The Run comes from Mumbai-based developer Dot9 Games, boasting local split-screen multiplayer, cinematic elements, and cinematic visuals inspired by the upcoming movie — releasing
The Crown season 5’s first look have been released by Netflix, featuring a brand new cast. The stills from the latest season depict a despondent-appearing Princess Diana (played by Elizabeth Debicki, who replaced Emma Corrin in the previous season), dressed in a sparkling gown and bowing her head as she enters a lavish evening engagement. In a different shot,
Around late-September/early-October each year, I get a Slack message from Greg asking whether I’m interested in writing a gift guide (or two). “Sure,” I say, never anticipating just how much of a slog the next two months are going to be for hardware news/reviews. Putting together a roundup like that has the decided benefit of
NBCUniversal’s Peacock is unveiling a new interactive video feature that will let Peacock Premium subscribers delve into extended clips, including extra footage and interviews, from within an episode of “The Real Housewives.” From October 14-16, BravoCon attendees will be able to preview the upcoming feature by watching an episode from season 2 of “The Real
Amazon Great Indian Festival 2022 sale is currently live in India with a new ‘Extra Happiness Days’ phase. The yearly sale ahead of Diwali brings discounts and offers on a wide variety of smartphones, home appliances, and electronic items from brands like OnePlus, iQoo, Boat, Xiaomi and more. The Amazon Great Indian Festival sale started
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the pleas by Meta Platforms, the parent company of social media platforms Facebook and WhatsApp, challenging the probe ordered by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) into WhatsApp’s updated privacy policy of 2021. A bench of Justices M R Shah and Sudhanshu Dhulia said CCI is an independent authority
In a world where even Android phones priced below Rs. 20,000 can do pretty much everything the average person might need, Apple’s Pro tier of iPhones, which all cost well over Rs. 1,00,000, have to push above and beyond. Each new model has to advance the state of the art, or has to at least
Realme Care+ was announced by the company on Friday as the company’s first after-sales service subscription for new and existing customers. The after-sales service system will provide users in the country with end-to-end customer support, according to the company. The premium customer support service will be available to users at a subscription fee. The ‘Privileged’
Amazon Great Indian Festival 2022 is currently underway and has brought us the ‘Extra Happiness Days Sale’. Axis Bank, Citi Bank, and ICICI Bank customers can avail of a 10 percent instant discount on their purchases made during this period. Here we have picked some of the best deals on electronic gadgets that should make
More than five billion of the estimated 16 billion mobile phones possessed worldwide will likely be discarded or stashed away in 2022, experts said Thursday, calling for more recycling of the often hazardous materials they contain. Stacked flat on top of each other, that many disused phones would rise 50,000 kilometres, more than a hundred
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