Mi Smart Band 7 and Redmi Buds 4 Pro were launched in China on Tuesday. The new fitness band comes in two models: Standard Version and NFC Version. It carries a bigger AMOLED touch display as compared to the Mi Band 6. Xiaomi has also bundled the band with various health monitoring features including heart
Microsoft’s Imagine Cup is something I look forward to every year. The students and young entrepreneurs who submit their extremely early-stage projects to this global competition are like the seeds of future startups and potentially world-changing projects. This year’s winner, V Bionic, created a robotic glove to help patients with neurological damage recover faster at
Dating platform Bumble is looking to enhance its non-dating social features with a further investment into its Bumble BFF feature, first launched in 2016. This friend-finding feature currently uses the same swiped-based mechanics to connect people looking for platonic relationships, but will soon expand to include social networking groups where users can connect with one
Xiaomi TV ES Pro 86-inch has been launched as the company’s latest premium-tier smart TV. The new Xiaomi TV model comes with a 1,000-level backlight that is paired with a 4096-level precision dimming technology and 1,000 nits brightness. The TV also includes a dedicated light sensor to automatically adjust screen brightness after sensing the intensity
Meta on Tuesday launched 3D avatars on Instagram stories and direct messages (DMs) in India. The Facebook parent company has also unveiled updated avatars for Facebook and Messenger with options for customisation. The avatars have new facial shapes that let users replace their appearance on these platforms with virtual characters. The updated avatars also include
Apple iPhone 14 is expected to arrive later this year with some major front camera upgrades. As per a latest report, the Cupertino giant has boarded a new supplier for installing high-end front-facing cameras on the iPhone 14. Apple has reportedly selected South Korean supplier LG Innotek to install the new selfie camera on the
Realme Pad X specifications have been confirmed ahead of its launch in China. The tablet was recently confirmed to launching in China on May 26 along with a few specifications and design teasers. Now, a company executive has confirmed a few specifications regarding the display and battery of the upcoming tablet. The Realme Pad X
Apple has told some of its contract manufacturers that it wants to increase production outside China, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. India and Vietnam, which are already sites of Apple production, are among the countries short-listed by the company as alternatives, the report added. Apple last month forecast bigger
Assassin’s Creed Origins and For Honor: Marching Fire Edition were coming to Xbox Game Pass, we knew, but now we have the exact dates. The games were spotted under the ‘Coming Soon’ tab in Xbox Game Pass app with their debut dates. While Assassin’s Creed Origins will be available for play on June 6, the
Mi Band 7 is currently available for reservation on Xiaomi’s storefront at JD.com, just ahead of its launch in China. There are two versions available for the wearable, regular and NFC. Recently, the Chinese company confirmed the launch date of the health band as May 24 and also provided some of its specifications. The company
If I were to make a list of things that I didn’t think needed to get smarter, bike pedals would be somewhere near the top of the list. And yet, when Redshift Sports showed me its shiny (literally!) new pedals, I had one of those “omg this makes so much sense” moments. In a nutshell,
Epic Games isn’t just fighting the app stores over the right to process its own in-app payments in its popular game Fortnite, it’s also taken up its antitrust legal battle with the tech giants via Bandcamp, the internet music company Epic acquired in March. The following month, Epic filed an injunction asking for the right
Chipmaker Broadcom is in talks to acquire cloud service provider VMware, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Negotiations between Broadcom and VMware are ongoing and a deal is not imminent, the sources said. The deal terms under discussion could not be learned. The acquisition would further diversify Broadcom’s business away from semiconductors and into
Facebook owner Meta Platforms will share more data on targeting choices made by advertisers running political and social-issue ads in its public ad database, it said on Monday. Meta said it would also include detailed targeting information for these individual ads in its “Facebook Open Research and Transparency” database used by academic researchers, in an
After working wonders in macOS devices, Apple’s in-house M1 SoC replaced its A-series processors in the high-end iPad Pro models last year, and they got a big performance bump thanks to that. This year, the same SoC has trickled down to the Apple iPad Air (2022), making it the most affordable iPad with the M1 SoC. In terms
Motorola has confirmed the launch of a new smartphone in China in July. This Motorola smartphone is said to be powered by the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC and will have a 200-megapixel camera. It could be a new flagship model by the Lenovo-owned company, which is said to be called the Motorola Edge X30
Corsair Voyager a1600 AMD advantage edition has been unveiled at Computex 2022 as the company’s first-ever gaming and streaming laptop. The Voyager a1600 gaming laptop will be equipped with AMD Ryzen 6000-series processors and AMD Radeon RX 6800M GPU. The company says that this laptop also comes with Corsair and Elgato’s vast ecosystem of exclusive
Canada on Thursday said it plans to ban the use of China’s Huawei and ZTE 5G gear to protect national security, joining the rest of the so-called Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network. “We intend to exclude Huawei and ZTE from our 5G networks,” Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne told reporters in Ottawa. “Providers who already have this equipment installed
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout will be a free-to-play game from June 21 onwards, its developer Mediatonic has announced. The battle royale game will also be making its debut on Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and the Epic Games Store on the same date. It has also been revealed that there will also be a PlayStation 5 version
NASA is planning to make another attempt at testing the Artemis 1 SLS rocket in early June for the last time before launching it into space. The space agency said it will bring the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft to the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida in early June
A little bright spot in a market that was already struggling with declining sales well before a global pandemic, supply chain crisis and inflation concerns struck. The North American market saw a small – but hopeful – 4% increase in shipments over the same time last year, per new numbers from Canalys. The primary driver
WhatsApp has reportedly started rolling out a beta update that lets users request their account information on WhatsApp desktop. The feature was initially introduced on Android and iOS to comply with EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Request Account Info feature is said to only be available after updating your WhatsApp desktop to the
Apple delayed a plan to require workers to come back to the office three days a week, citing a resurgence in COVID-19 cases, marking the latest setback in its efforts to return to normal. The company informed employees Tuesday that it’s delaying the requirement, which had been slated to go into effect on May 23,
OnePlus, Realme, and Asus have announced the launch of smartphones equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC, just a day after the flagship chipset was launched by Qualcomm. Asus will be bringing out the ROG Phone 6 gaming smartphone powered by the latest chipset from Qualcomm while the handset from OnePlus featuring the Snapdragon
Qualcomm on Friday unveiled the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 SoCs as its latest mobile platforms. While the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 is an upgrade to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 platform, the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 is the successor to the Snapdragon 778G SoC. Qualcomm claimed that the Snapdragon 8+
Epic Games Store Mega Sale 2022 went live on Thursday and will last till June 16 at 11am ET / 8:30pm IST. There are discounts of up to 75 percent on over 1,600 games and add-ons. You will also get limitless Epic Games Store Mega coupons throughout the duration of this sale that will provide
Scientists have long tried to create new allotropes (forms) of carbon because of their versatility and usefulness for the industry. But only limited success was achieved so far. That is set to change now. In a major breakthrough, researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, US, have successfully synthesised the long-hypothesised “next-generation wonder material” graphyne.
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro called Elon Musk’s proposed takeover of Twitter a “breath of hope” as the two met in Brazil on Friday, adding he hoped the US billionaire would help end the “lies” about his widely criticised stewardship of the Amazon rainforest. Bolsonaro and Musk, the CEO of electric carmaker Tesla and rocket company SpaceX,
The North American smartphone market has witnessed a small 4 percent increase in shipments in the first quarter of 2022, as per a report by market research firm Canalys. Apple became the primary driver in this case, which grew 19 percent to achieve a 51 percent market share in Q1 2022, while Samsung secured the