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Apple CEO Tim Cook signed an agreement with Chinese officials, estimated to be worth about $275 billion (roughly Rs. 20,75,700 crore), to placate threats that would have hobbled its devices and services in the country, The Information reported. Apple did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. The five-year agreement was made when

The third-biggest Bitcoin holder on record has just made a whopping BTC 2,700 addition to their kitty — worth $137 million (roughly Rs. 1,033.63 crore) after the price of Bitcoin hit a critical support level of $50,000 (roughly Rs. 37.72 crore). Bitcoin whale accounts have been actively selling over the past week, especially since the

Realme GT 2 Pro announcement is taking place on Thursday, December 9, the Chinese company announced on Weibo on Tuesday. The new Realme phone is already confirmed to have Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC that was unveiled earlier this month. It is also claimed to be the company’s “first-ever ultra-premium flagship” that could be

Israel said on Monday that countries interested in buying its cyber technologies would have to commit to using them to prevent only a limited list of terrorist acts and serious crimes. The move announced by Israel’s Defence Ministry was the latest step in enhancing its oversight following concern over possible abuses abroad of a hacking

The Matrix Resurrections final trailer is here — in English, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu. The new trailer sets up how Keanu Reeves’ Neo and Carrie-Anne Moss’ Trinity — spoiler alert for an 18-year-old movie, both died in 2003’s The Matrix Revolutions — are back. It also confirms the role in place for Jonathan Groff (he’s

Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra, Galaxy Tab S8+, and the vanilla Galaxy Tab S8 are expected to be the upcoming flagship tablets from the South Korean electronic giant. The official-looking renders of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 models have surfaced online, showing the design and a few specifications. In the leaked renders, Samsung Galaxy Tab

Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 1: Flipped is now live and it brings along a host of new changes. The first change is a new island that is literally an upside down version of the island from Chapter 2. The island has multiple weather systems — winters in the western half, tropical, and summers among others.

Traffic jams usually happen on roads meant for motorised vehicles. It’s unusual for a pedestrian sidewalk to get jammed by automated cars, simply because they are not meant to take the route. But this is exactly what has happened in Estonia. Heavy snowfall has led the pedestrian sidewalk to get crowded by a number of

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is not due to release for another 10 months, but in a surprise trailer reveal early on Sunday, Marvel and Sony Pictures gave us our first look at the sequel to the Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Officially, it’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One) — that’s a mouthful, I know

Meta has announced the arrival of a new Split Payments feature in Facebook Messenger. This feature, as the name suggests, will let you calculate and split expenses with others right from Facebook Messenger. This feature essentially looks to bring an easier method to share the cost of bills and expenses — for example, splitting a

Bitcoin shed a fifth of its value on Saturday as a combination of profit-taking and macro-economic concerns triggered nearly a billion dollars worth of selling across cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin was 12 percent down at 9:20 GMT at $47,495 (roughly Rs. 35.76 lakhs). It fell as low as $41,967.5 (roughly Rs. 31.60 lakhs) during the session, taking total

Unicode Consortium, the not-for-profit organisation responsible for digitising the world’s languages, has released data about the most frequently used emoji of 2021. ‘Face with tears of joy’ emoji comes first in the ranking, followed by ‘red heart’. The third sport is taken up by ‘rolling on the floor laughing’, followed by ‘thumbs up’, and the

British telecommunications giant Vodafone said Friday it had offered to settle a multi-billion-dollar tax dispute with India, after the government scrapped a law that saw it claim huge sums from multinational firms. The legislation, introduced in 2012, allowed New Delhi to claim back taxes from foreign companies that had bought assets of Indian firms in

Sportswear brand Adidas Originals has joined several other lifestyle labels to step into the metaverse. The company has partnered with two players of the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) space — Bored Ape Yacht Club, and Pixel Vaults Punks Comic, along with inking a deal with crypto investor Gmoney for its metaverse entry. The sportswear brand described

Apple Music is celebrating this Christmas season with its subscribers by giving them free songs from A-list artists including Mariah Carey, Coldplay, Alecia Keys, Elton John, DJ Khaled, and Nile Rodgers, among others. The new offering is available under the ‘From Apple Music With Love’ campaign that is currently live in India and around the

Meta (formerly Facebook) on Thursday announced a slew of steps to protect woman users on its platform, including the launch of StopNCII.org in India that aims to combat the spread of non-consensual intimate images (NCII). Meta has also launched the Women’s Safety Hub, which will be available in Hindi and 11 other Indian languages, that

Garrett Endicott, the sixth member of a hacking group called “The Community” has been sentenced to 10-month imprisonment as well as asked to pay a hefty fine of $120,000 (roughly Rs. 90 lakh) for a 2019 SIM hijacking case. Accessing the cryptocurrency accounts and emails of the victims via hacked SIMs, this group stole up to

OnePlus 9R users are now receiving a new OxygenOS update that brings along the November 2021 security patch. The update is rolling out in an incremental manner and it may take a while before all users get it. The update will reach a small percentage of users first, and a broader rollout will begin in