Twitter Testing Home Button to Switch Tweet Order (Tech)

The micro-blogging platform said a small number of iOS users will soon see a button on the home screen that allows them to switch between a display of tweets.

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Talk to Google Home Smart Speaker in Hindi Now (Tech)

Already available on smartphones in Hindi, people can now talk to Google Assistant smart speaker in the language, the company said in a statement.

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Jio Effect: Airtel Brings a New Prepaid Recharge of Rs 119 Bundling 2GB Data And Unlimited Voice (Tech)

This new Rs 119 prepaid plan is a segmented offer and the benefits vary with every user.

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Flipkart Big Diwali Sale: Discount on Google Pixel 3, Pixel 3XL, Xiaomi Poco F1, Honor 9N And More (Tech)

Here’s a look at the top offers and discounts available on smartphones during Flipkart’s ‘Big Diwali Sale’.

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Google Employees Plan Walk-Out Against Workplace Harassment (Tech)

According to a report in The New York Times, more than 1,500 -- most of them women -- plan to walk out of almost two dozen company offices around the world to protest Google's handling of sexual harassment and its workplace culture.

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Red Dead Redemption 2 Second Only to GTA V, Says Studio (Tech)

The late October release of Wild West video game "Red Dead Redemption 2" resulted in the second-biggest entertainment launch of all time, according to studio network Rockstar Games.

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Apple Users Still Waiting on AirPower, Macbook And iMac Updates And More (Tech)

AirPods have been a hit since their release in 2016, so it's surprising that a new version didn't debut yesterday, especially given the number of reports hinting at their 2018 release.

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WhatsApp to Soon Show Ads in Status Feature, Confirms VP Chris Daniels (Tech)

According to media reports, the advertisements would be powered by Facebook's native advertising system and would be aimed at helping users understand and participate in businesses using the messaging app.

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Google Executive Leaves Company Without Exit Package Over MeToo Allegation (Tech)

Pichai said he has heard from many employees on the subject of inappropriate behavior at work and was "deeply sorry for the past actions and the pain they have caused employees."

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Not Seeking Decryption, But Location, Identity of Those Sending Provocative Msgs: Govt to WhatsApp (Tech)

The Facebook-owned company has been under pressure for months now to put in place a mechanism to curb fake messages on its platform.

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Nokia 6.1 is Now Receiving Android 9.0 Pie: Everything You Need to Know (Tech)

Android Pie brings a range of useful new features such as adaptive battery, tweaked navigation and improved notifications.

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Samsung Reports 3rd-Quarter Profit Surge on Demand For Chips (Tech)

The South Korean technology giant on Wednesday said its operating profit during the July-September quarter grew at nearly a 21 percent annual pace to 17.6 trillion won ($15.4 billion).

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Facebook Plans Sprawling Office Near Microsoft Headquarters (Tech)

The company's massive project is currently being referred to as "Building X" project. Facebook approached the city with plans for a 650,000-square-foot campus, the Puget Sound Business Journal reported late on Tuesday.

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Hawking's Signed Thesis, Wheelchair Auctioned in London (Tech)

A copy of Stephen Hawking's doctorate thesis signed in a shaky hand was unveiled Tuesday as the highlight of a new auction of the British physicist's personal items in London.

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Huawei to Bring Wireless Charging With Mate 20 Pro in India (Tech)

The wireless charger is developed on the Qi standard for universal compatibility, thus, allowing it to identify smartphones, earbuds and other devices and adjust output power automatically to charge them safely.

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NASA Retires Its Planet Hunter, The Kepler Space Telescope (Tech)

The telescope laid bare the diversity of planets that reside in our Milky Way galaxy, with findings indicating that distant star systems are populated with billions of planets, and even helped pinpoint the first moon known outside our solar system.

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Apple Spruces up Macs, iPad Pros And Raises Prices (Tech)

A new version of the Mac Book Air, originally released in 2011, will feature a higher-resolution display and thinner bezels and start at $1,199, up from $999.

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Elon Musk Shakes up SpaceX in Race to Make Satellite Launch Window: Sources (Tech)

Known for pushing aggressive deadlines, Musk quickly brought in new managers from SpaceX headquarters in California to replace a number of the managers he fired recently.

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OnePlus 6T With In-Display Fingerprint Scanner And A smaller Notch Launched at Rs 37,999 in India (Tech)

OnePlus 6T be available in midnight black and mirror black colours in 8GM RAM + 128GB storage and 8GB RAM + 256GB storage variants for Rs 41,999 and Rs 45,999, respectively.

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Apple MacBook Air, iPad Pro Price in India Revealed: Here Are The Details (Tech)

The 12.9-inch iPad Pro starts at Rs 89,900 (Wi-Fi model) and Rs 103,900 for the Wi-Fi+ Cellular model. The second-generation Apple Pencil for the new iPad Pro will be available for Rs 10,900.

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First Look: The New Apple iPad Pros Are Now Considered as Genuine Laptop Replacements (Tech)

If you look carefully, the fact that the new iPads now have USB-C connectors, brings them at par with the latest MacBooks.

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First Look: The Rs1,14,900 MacBook Air is Perplexing, And Price Isnt It’s Only Shortcoming (Tech)

The MacBook Air has risen from the ashes. The reports of its demise, over the years, were greatly exaggerated. But its position within the existing MacBook hierarchy raises more questions than it answers.

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Apple MacBook Air (2018) With Retina Display, Touch ID Launched For 1199 USD: Everything You Need to Know (Tech)

The new Apple MacBook Air features an 8th generation Intel Core i5 processor, Intel UHD Graphics and faster system memory up to 16GB.

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Apple MacBook Air With Retina Display, Touch ID Launched For 1199 USD: Everything You Need to Know (Tech)

The new Apple MacBook Air features an 8th generation Intel Core i5 processor, Intel UHD Graphics and faster system memory up to 16GB.

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Apple MacBook Air, Mac Mini And All New iPad Pro Launched: Price, Specifications And More (Tech)

While the MacBook Pro 13 and the MacBook Pro 15 got their updates earlier in the year, expected on the menu now are the updates for the iPad Pro line-up, the iMac, the Mac Pro and the much-awaited reboots of the MacBook Air and the Mac Mini.

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Apple Event Live Updates: New MacBook Air 2, Mac Mini, iPad Pro And More Expected to Launch (Tech)

While the MacBook Pro 13 and the MacBook Pro 15 got their updates earlier in the year, expected on the menu now are the updates for the iPad Pro line-up, the iMac, the Mac Pro and the much-awaited reboots of the MacBook Air and the Mac Mini.

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Huawei Teases New AI Speaker: Unoriginal Design, Unbeatable Price (Tech)

At the Mate 20 event, Huawei teased their version of an AI speaker, which at least from the outside, looks almost exactly like the Apple HomePod -- with buttons.

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Samsung Mobile Ranked India's Most Popular Brand: Report (Tech)

The latest entrant in the Indian telecom scenario, Reliance Jio, which hit the existing telecom firms with unprecedented low tariffs, has been ranked eighth in the list of top 10 brands in the country, the Brand Asia Survey 2018 said.

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Beats Celebrates 90th Anniversary of Mickey Mouse (Tech)

Beats has joined forces with Disney to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the world's most famous mouse with a special edition of the Solo3 wireless headphones featuring images of the Disney mascot.

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A Refresh Could Give The Mac Mini a More Pro Personality (Tech)

The market that used to exist for a just-about-powerful Mac Mini doesn’t exist anymore, but there are very enticing prospects up the price band.

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Breaks Record For Coming Closest to Sun (Tech)

The spacecraft passed the current record of 26.55 million miles from the Sun's surface on October 29, as calculated by the Parker Solar Probe team, NASA said in a statement .

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Closest Ever to Sun (Tech)

The spacecraft passed the current record of 26.55 million miles from the Sun's surface on October 29, as calculated by the Parker Solar Probe team, NASA said in a statement .

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Cryptocurrency Bitcoin Marks 10 Years: Everything You Need to Know (Tech)

October 31, 2008 marked the birth of bitcoin. Ten years on, the world's first cryptocurrency is at the forefront of a complex financial system viewed warily by markets and investors.

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Micromax Bharat 5 Infinity Edition, Bharat 4 Diwali Edition Launched: Price, Specifications And More (Tech)

The devices will be sold offline at a price of Rs 5,899 (Micromax Bharat 5 Infinity Edition) and at Rs 4,249 (Micromax Bharat 4 Diwali Edition).

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Apple Investigating China Report of Illegal Student Labor Used to Assemble Apple Watches (Tech)

In a report last week, Hong Kong labor rights group said Quanta was "using significant numbers of student workers aged 16-19 years" to assemble the Apple Watch.

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Apple Investigating Report of Illegal Student Labor Used to Assemble Apple Watches in China (Tech)

In a report last week, Hong Kong labor rights group said Quanta was "using significant numbers of student workers aged 16-19 years" to assemble the Apple Watch.

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India on Way to Becoming 3rd Richest Country, Lead 4th Industrial Revolution: Mukesh Ambani (Tech)

Speaking at the 24th MobiCom conference here, Ambani, who heads the oil-to-telecom conglomerate Reliance Industries, said India's digital transformation is "unmatch and unprecedented" after it took leadership position from being 155th in wireless broadband technology adoption in just 24 months.

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Xiaomi Most Preferred Brand in Rs 10,000-Rs 15,000 Segment in India: Counterpoint (Tech)

While two in three users are planning to buy a mid or high-end phone in India, four in five users are satisfied with their current smartphones, said "Consumer Lens", a global research programme by Counterpoint Research.

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Jio Unlock The Speed Offer: Get Instant cashback of Rs 5,400 on OnePlus 6T (Tech)

With its upcoming flagship device, OnePlus 6T, the brand will bring to cutomers a never-before Jio-OnePlus 6T Unlock The Speed Offer designed to deliver disproportionate value to all OnePlus 6T and Jio users.

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Intel Says More Women, Blacks in Workforce After Diversity Push (Tech)

Overall, women comprised 26.8 percent of Intel's U.S. workforce in 2018, up from 24.7 percent in 2015. Women in leadership positions grew to 20.7 percent from 17.7 percent.

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Apple iOS 12.1 Brings Group FaceTime And New Emoji to iPhone And iPad (Tech)

iOS 12.1 also brings Depth Control in real-time preview and Dual SIM support to iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR customers.

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Twitter Considers Killing Off The Like Button in Bid to Improve Healthy Conversation (Tech)

After The Telegraph first reported about this on Monday, the micro-blogging platform said they were rethinking about the 'Like' button but it will not "happen soon".

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Snapchat to Run Out of Steam as User Growth Stalls (Tech)

Snapchat lost nearly 2 million daily active users in the third quarter this year and now has 186 million daily users.

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Will a Apple MacBook Air Reboot Put it in Competition With The iPad Pro? (Tech)

There are many things that Apple can do as a part of the potential MacBook Air refresh. But one thing that will remain as critical as ever, is the price.

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Armed Drones, Iris Scanners: China's High-Tech Security Gadgets (Tech)

From virtual reality police training programmes to gun-toting drones and iris scanners, a public security expo in China showed the range of increasingly high-tech tools available to the country's police.

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OnePlus 6T Review: Everything is Better Than Before, But Familiarity Remains Strong (Tech)

The OnePlus 6 was already a great phone to own, and the subtle changes make the OnePlus 6T even better in many respects. However, it does so without feeling too different from the phone it succeeds.

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OnePlus 6T With Qualcomm Snapdragon 845, 8GB RAM Launched: Everything You Need to Know (Tech)

OnePlus 6T will be available in two variants and comes with the latest Android 9 Pie operating system out of the box.

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OnePlus 6T Launch Live Updates: In-display Fingerprint Sensor, Smaller Notch Unveiled (Tech)

Even before OnePlus officially unveils the 6T today at simultaneous events globally, the reports on the world wide web have been rife with speculated specifications, what it’ll look like and how it is different from its predecessor, the OnePlus 6.

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China's OnePlus, Backed by Qualcomm And T-Mobile, Launches Smartphone in US (Tech)

The phone to be unveiled Monday, called the 6T, will sell for a price above $500 but packs features that are typically present only in pricier handsets.

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Jio-OnePlus 6T Unlock The Speed Offer: Get an Instant Cashback of Rs 5,400 on The first Prepaid Recharge (Tech)

With its upcoming flagship device, OnePlus 6T, the brand will bring to cutomers a never-before Jio-OnePlus 6T Unlock The Speed Offer designed to deliver disproportionate value to all OnePlus 6T and Jio users.

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