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Indian Space Research Organisation and location and navigation technology solutions provider MapmyIndia announced an initiative to partner together to offer India’s best, and fully indigenous, mapping portal, and geospatial services. It combines the power of MapmyIndia’s digital maps and technologies with ISRO’s catalogue of satellite imagery and earth observation data, according to MapmyIndia’s CEO and

Amazon is set to integrate its Pantry services within its Fresh store in India. Until now, Amazon Pantry and Amazon Fresh were two separate sections within the app or the website. While the former encompassed mostly dry groceries, bulk-buy items, and super-saver packs, the latter comprised items that could be delivered to a customer within

In a move that will give chills to fans of the dystopian movie The Matrix, scientists have developed a wearable device that could use the human body to replace batteries. Echoing world-domineering robots’ use of enslaved humans in the 1999 cyberpunk movie, US researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have created an environmentally-friendly gadget that

For All Mankind now has an AR experience. Apple and series co-creator Ronald D. Moore have unveiled For All Mankind Time Capsule, an augmented reality app — now available on iPhone and iPad — that explores the decade-long gap between seasons one and two of the Apple TV+ show. Season 1 ended in 1974, and

Global notebook shipments grew 54 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to a market research firm report. The growth came on the back of increased adoption of remote working and e-learning across major markets worldwide fuelled by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the report. It said that gaming and remote work drove

Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian) and Bella Ramsey (Game of Thrones) have been cast in HBO’s The Last of Us series adaptation, in the respective lead roles of Joel and Ellie. The Last of Us is set in a post-apocalyptic world where a pandemic results in the creation of the Infected, who are zombies all but

Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama have begun voting on whether to form the first American union at the e-commerce giant, an effort that could pave the way for further unionisation in the United States at one of the world’s most powerful companies. Amazon is the second-largest employer in the US with an 800,000-strong

Micromax 5G phone is set to debut in India “very soon”, Co-Founder Rahul Sharma revealed in a video session with users. The executive also hinted at imminent launch of Micromax’s true wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds. Micromax made its comeback in the smartphone market last year with the launch of the Micromax In Note 1 and

Jared Leto’s Joker is returning in Zack Snyder’s Justice League — out in March globally — and we now have our first look at this new avatar of Joker, courtesy of Snyder. Leto looks completely different than he did in his first go-round with 2016’s Suicide Squad from director David Ayer: there’s no green hair,

WhatsApp appears to have not been able to convince more users to utilise its payments feature as the app received negative growth in terms of UPI transactions in January, according to the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) data released by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). However, PhonePe continued to lead UPI apps with a

Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings Ltd has become the target of a fresh anti-monopoly complaint to regulators, this time from a supplier of smart vehicle technology and a General Motors China venture. The supplier, Shanghai PATEO, in a statement accused Tencent of abusing its messaging app’s dominant market position to restrict sales of its products.

US video game powerhouse Electronic Arts on Monday announced a $2.1 billion (roughly Rs. 15,300 crores) deal to by smartphone-focused game studio Glu Mobile. The acquisition came with Glu’s library of titles including MLB Tap Sports Baseball and was described as part of a move by EA to significantly beef up its offerings on smartphones

The Delhi High Court on Monday stayed its single judge direction to Future Retail (FRL) and various statutory authorities to maintain status quo with regard to the Rs. 24,713 crore deal with Reliance Retail. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh passed in the interim direction on FRL’s appeal challenging the

Mi 11 was launched globally on Monday through a virtual event. The Mi flagship phone that was unveiled in China in late December comes with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC. It also features a hole-punch design and a 2K display. Mi 11 also offers up to 256GB of onboard storage. It also sports curved edges

F9 — the next Fast & Furious movie — received a new trailer at the Super Bowl, with the studio Universal Pictures seemingly holding onto the hope that it can still release the film on May 28 globally. At the same time, Universal is being pragmatic about the fact that a delay is very likely

Jio, Airtel, and Vi (Vodafone Idea) are the three biggest telecom operators in the country. As of November 2020, the data from Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) showed these three operators account for about 90 percent of the total wireless subscribers in India with Jio leading at 35.34 percent, Airtel following at 28.97 percent,

Jio, Airtel, and Vodafone Idea (Vi) are the three largest telecom providers in India, taking up about 90 percent of the total market share when it comes to wireless subscribers, as per data from Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). All three operators offer a host of prepaid and postpaid plans that come in all

Facebook provides its users a host of privacy options, including the ability to lock your profile. Locking a user’s profile shows only a limited view of the profile to people who are not on the friends list on Facebook. A locked profile will show photos and posts on the timeline, profile picture and cover photo,