World AIDS Day: Apple’s Critical Role in Pushing AIDS Programs With (PRODUCT)RED (Tech)

Apple’s arsenal of (PRODUCT)RED Special Edition iPhones and accessories give the AIDS programs a big push.

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“Alexa, Play Imagine Dragons on Apple Music”: Amazon Echo Speakers Will Play Apple Music Now (Tech)

Surprise! Apple Music Arrives on Amazon Echo Devices From 17 Dec. Competition from Spotify, the stagnant HomePod growth and a larger share of the user pie are some of the factors behind the move.

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Instagram Update: Now Share Stories With Close Friends (Tech)

It is a global roll-out and to add people to their list, users need to go to their profile and tap on "Close Friends" in the side menu.

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For The First Time Since 2013, Microsoft Office Icons Have Been Redesigned: Watch Video (Tech)

Microsoft has redesigned the Office icons to reflect the suite's recent plethora of new and continuously evolving features.

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Amazon India, OnePlus 6T Lucky Star Offer: Everything You Need To Know (Tech)

Customers buying OnePlus 6T between November 30 and December 2 will stand a chance to win gifts on Amazon.in while the ‘Lucky Star’ will be eligible to win an exciting range of gifts from the vast selection of products on Amazon.in.

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Amazon India, OnePlus Announces Lucky Star Offer on OnePlus 6T Purchases: Here Are The Details (Tech)

Customers buying OnePlus 6T between November 30 and December 2 will stand a chance to win gifts on Amazon.in while the ‘Lucky Star’ will be eligible to win an exciting range of gifts from the vast selection of products on Amazon.in.

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Facebook Enforces Political ad Transparency Feature in UK (Tech)

Facebook said only registered advertisers will be allowed to run a political ad on the platform.

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Nokia 7.1 With Snapdragon 636 Processor, Dual Rear Cameras Launched: Price, Specifications And More (Tech)

The Nokia 7.1 sports a 5.84-inch full HD+ display with PureDisplay screen technology for HDR10 quality experience.

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Tech Mahindra Launches New Business Unit For Video Services in 5G (Tech)

With the establishment of the new "Video Integration and Engineering" (VIE) platform, Tech Mahindra said it would aim to improve its strategic position with several video distribution companies in the US.

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IBM Teams up With IIT Delhi to Advance AI Research in India (Tech)

IBM researchers will collaborate with students and professors from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT-D to inculcate in AI systems some key traits like reasoning, comprehension and inferencing.

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ASUS Partners With Quantum Cloud to Help Gamers Earn Passive Income (Tech)

Quantum Cloud uses some of the user's graphics processing unit's (GPU) power to run powerful Cloud-based applications. These applications generate profit for the platform, and the users earn a cut based on the amount of GPU power provided.

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OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition to Have 10GB of RAM? Reports Suggest so (Tech)

OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition will have 10GB RAM and 256GB storage. If one goes by the information, this could be the first OnePlus smartphone to feature 10GB RAM.

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Oppo India MD Steps Down Amid Mounting Losses (Tech)

Oppo India's Managing Director Yi Wang has resigned from the company and the handset manufacturer has accepted his resignation.

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Before 5G Phones Hit The Market, Spirit And HTC Announce 5G Mobile Smart Hub (Tech)

Sprint and HTC announced their collaboration on a 5G mobile smart hub that could come to US customers as early as the first half of next year.

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New Zealand Says Huawei Ban Not Because It's Chinese (Tech)

New Zealand denied Thursday that telecommunications giant Huawei was banned from a 5G network rollout because it is Chinese, saying the problem it faced was a technological one.

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Facebook Invests $1 Million to Boost Computer Education Among Minority Communities (Tech)

CodePath.org is a US-based nonprofit that provides computer science education to female and minority students at universities around the country.

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NASA Chooses Lockheed Martin Among Nine Companies For The Next Moon Mission (Tech)

The US space agency on Thursday announced nine private companies, mostly start-ups, that will bid on $2.6 billion in contacts to build spacecraft to carry payloads to the Moon as early as 2019.

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Instagram Adds Features to Increase Platform Accessibility For The Visually Impaired (Tech)

The social network touts its object recognition technology as accurately identifying what is pictured in a post and automatically using this information to write alternative text.

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Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 Incoming? (Tech)

A second-generation version of Google Glass, aimed at enterprises, could be getting prepped for imminent launch, according to MySmartPrice.

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PUBG Mobile Revenue Surpasses Fortnite, For The First Time, on iOS (Tech)

According to Sensor Tower‘s Store Intelligence data, estimated worldwide player spending across both the App Store and Google Play was up 2.7x last week in comparison to the past seven days.

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Skullcandy Venue Review: You Wouldn’t Want to Lose These Headphones, And You Can’t (Tech)

The Venue indicates a new direction for the higher-end Skullcandy headphones, and we are impressed.

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Dell.com Resets All Customer Passwords After Cyber Attack: Statement (Tech)

Dell said in a statement that on Nov. 9 the company detected and stopped hackers who had breached its network and were attempting to steal customer data.

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Amazon's Latest Gadget is a Self-Driving Toy Car For Coders (Tech)

Customers can train and tweak machine learning models in an online simulator and then test drive them on vehicles one-eighteenth the size of a real race car.

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Honor 8C With Snapdragon 632, 4000mAh Battery Launched in India For Rs 11,999 (Tech)

The Honor 8C features a 6.26-inch FullView Display with HD+ resolution and the phone offers 86.6% screen-to-body ratio.

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Asus ROG Gaming Phone Launched For Rs 69,999; Does This Give You an Advantage on The PUBG Scoreboards? (Tech)

Asus ROG Phone features a 6-inch AMOLED display with HD+ resolution (1080×2160 pixels), 18:9 aspect ratio, 402ppi pixel density, with Wide color Gamut support, HDR support, and 90Hz refresh rate.

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Facebook Mulled Charging For Access to User Data (Tech)

The suit accuses Facebook of abusing its power over user data. Most of the documents filed in the case have been sealed by a California judge at Facebook's request.

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PUBG Mobile Star Challenge Global Finals Starts Today in Dubai: Here is How to Watch The Event (Tech)

PUBG Mobile Star Challenge, hosted by Tencent Games and PUBG Corporation and sponsored by Samsung Galaxy Note9 has announced that voting is now open to the public for their predictions on the winner of the three-day gaming event.

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Microsoft Wins $479.2 Million Contract From US Army (Tech)

Bloomberg, which earlier reported the deal, said the contract went though a bidding process with key tech companies including Magic Leap participating in the auction.

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai Set For US House Panel Hearing on Dec 5 (Tech)

Sundar Pichai in September had agreed to testify at a future date before the panel over Republican concerns that the company is biased against conservatives after it skipped a high-profile Senate hearing.

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Google Extends Telecom Service Fi to iPhones, OnePlus And Samsung Devices (Tech)

Google said Wednesday it was expanding its "virtual" telecommunication service that was limited to select Android-powered smartphones to a wider range of devices, including iPhones.

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McLaren Partners with OnePlus to Deliver 'Something Special' (Tech)

The launch of the first stage of this McLaren-OnePlus technology partnership is scheduled for December 11.

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New Zealand intelligence bans China's Huawei from 5G rollout (Tech)

New Zealand's largest telecoms carrier Spark said Wednesday that the country's intelligence agency had barred it from using equipment provided by China's Huawei in its 5G network as it posed "significant national security risks".

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Huawei to Open 100 Experience Zones in India by 2019 (Tech)

Huawei, which became the second largest smartphone seller in the world after Samsung in the second quarter of this year, considers India a tier-1 market.

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YouTube Officially Saying Goodbye to Video Annotations [Video] (Tech)

Back in May of 2017, Google discontinued the annotations editor due to creators putting an unreasonable amount of annotations on their video uploads.

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Is OnePlus Partnering With McLaren For Its Next Smartphone? Watch Video (Tech)

The legendary sports car manufacturer McLaren Automotive (in conjunction with McLaren Racing) and premium smartphone maker OnePlus announced their plan to collaborate on ‘something special.'

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Facebook to Expand Its Section For Local News 'Today In' (Tech)

Facebook announced Wednesday it was expanding its offerings of local news alerts to 400 US cities, and is now testing the feature in Australia.

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Xiaomi, Samsung, Realme Dominated Diwali Smartphone Sales: Counterpoint (Tech)

According to market research firm Counterpoint Research's "Market Pulse", this was driven by e-commerce platform Amazon India and Flipkart's series of online sales and OEM promotions (such as Mi.com).

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Apple's iPhone XR is Company's Best-Selling Model, Executive Says (Tech)

The iPhone XR, which costs $749, was announced alongside two other models, the iPhone XS and XS Max, which start at $999.

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Asus ROG Phone Set to Launch in India Today: Expected Price, Specifications And More (Tech)

The ROG Phone bears a 6-inch full-HD+ (1080x2160 pixels) AMOLED display with 90Hz refresh rate, 1ms response time, 108.6% DCI-P3 color gamut and 10000:1 contrast ratio.

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Honor 8C Along With Honor Band to Launch in India Today: Price, Specifications And More (Tech)

Honor 8C is already available in China at a price of CNY 1,099 (roughly Rs. 11,200) for the base 4GB RAM/ 32GB inbuilt storage model and CNY 1,399 (around Rs. 14,200) for the one with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage.

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Nike’s PlayStation Sneakers Land in The Same Week as PUBG And PS Classic (Tech)

It is a great week lined up for Sony PlayStation fans, with a much-awaited game, a modern take on a retro console and console inspired shoes, all landing globally.

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Amazon Cloud Arm Introduces Cheaper Server Chips (Tech)

To help Cloud customers who currently rely on Intel and AMD server chips, AWS Group Vice President of infrastructure Peter DeSantis introduced the "AWS Graviton Processor" as the company began its annual flagship Reinvent conference.

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Mobile Download Speeds Increasingly Outstrip WiFi (Tech)

The research found that in 33 of the 80 countries studied -- or 41% of countries -- smartphone download speeds were, on average, faster using mobile networks than WiFi.

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Pictures of Realme U1 With Helio P70 SoC, 25MP Front Camera (Tech)

The Realme U1 will be offered in two variants – 3GB RAM with 32GB storage for Rs 11,999, and 4GB RAM with 64GB storage for Rs 14,499.

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ViewSonic M1 Review: An Ultra-Portable Projector That is The Jack of All Trades (Tech)

The uniqueness is that the M1 is all about versatility and flexibility, as it fits well in a variety of usage scenarios.

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Realme U1 With MediaTek Helio P70 Processor Launched in India: Price, Specifications And More (Tech)

Realme U1 features a 6.3-inch IPS LCD display with the same resolution of 2340x1080. The display is protected by 2.5D Gorilla Glass and has a screen to body ratio of 90.8%.

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PUBG Vikendi Map Leaked Ahead of Official Launch: Watch Video (Tech)

A YouTube channel by the name of Allthenewsisgoodnews, has datamined and digitally recreated the map showcasing how it will look. The map has been uploaded to the server, which means that Tencent Games might soon make it live.

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Global Lawmakers Grill Facebook Exec; Zuckerberg’s a No-Show (Tech)

The rare “international grand committee” of lawmakers from nine countries gathered in London to get answers about Facebook’s handling of personal data and made a point of leaving an empty seat with Zuckerberg’s name tag.

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YouTube Shifts to Make New Exclusive Shows, Movies Free to Users to Counter Amazon Prime And Netflix (Tech)

The shift in strategy means that starting in 2020, a YouTube Premium subscription will no longer be the only way to watch most original programs, with all users having some access.

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Google Adds Support For Hashtags on Maps For Android Devices (Tech)

With this feature on Maps, users will also be able to add hashtags highlighting local attractions and accessibility features offered at the place, like a wheelchair ramp or an audio menu available.

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