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Reliance Jio has joined hands with Star India to broadcast all fixtures of India’s national cricket team on the JioTV app as well as Hotstar. The telecom operator has inked a 5 year deal with the media conglomerate that will include the broadcasting rights to all T20, One Day International (ODI) and international test matches of the Indian cricket team. The ambit of the Reliance Jio-Star India partnership will also include premier domestic competitions organized by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the country’s apex governing body for cricket....

Instagram has rolled out a new feature which allows users to share GIFs from Giphy in Instagram Direct conversations. Giphy is one of the largest and most popular databases of GIFs on the internet and its integration in Instagram Direct is a neat addition that will certainly make conversations more interesting. The feature has begun rolling out on Instagram for iOS and Android. Following the update, the text bar now shows a ‘GIF’ button, which can be tapped to open a carousel of GIFs from Giphy’s database....

Remember the Fortnite Cube? If you’ve been playing the game in the last few weeks, you’ve probably seen the Cube around the map, leaving runes imprinted on the ground, and creating low-gravity zones (one of which caused a rather weird situation at the Summer Skirmish finale at PAX West. Anyway, the Cube has long been rumored to be headed to the Loot Lake, and it has finally done that. The Fortnite Cube aka ‘Kevin’ apparentlyheaded over to the Loot Lake earlier today, and has since turned the lake purple....

Samsung has today announced theGalaxy A7, the company’s first smartphone to feature a triple rear camera set-up. The Galaxy A7 flaunts a dual glass design with a side mounted fingerprint sensor and comes with features such as Bixby, Samsung Pay, Samsung Health and Dolby Atmos audio among others. The Galaxy A7 packs a6-inch Super AMOLED Infinity displayand is powered by an octa-core processor clocked at 2.0GHz. However, Samsung has not specified whether the device packs a Snapdragon processor or an Exynos SoC, and also, the processor powering the device will vary depending on the market....

Samsung may have launched Fortnite alongside theGalaxy Note 9, but its exclusivity for the Korean giant’s compatible devices was short-lived. However, Samsung is now giving Galaxy Note 9 users a chance to win big, including a chance to jump in a game with thebiggest Fortnite streamerNinja, under its ‘Galaxy Squad’ contest. Yes, Samsung has partnered with Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins for this contest to give its users a chance tograb a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play and stream Fortnitewith one of the best players on the face of this Earth....

Apple’s brand new line up of iPhones — theiPhone XSandiPhone XS Maxare finally going on pre-order tonight. If you’re interested in buying the new iPhones, here’s how you can pre-order your iPhone XS at the earliest. The new phones will start shipping on September 28 in India. Buy iPhone XS From Airtel Online Store Pre-orders for the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max will be going live tonight at midnight on the Airtel online store....

The JioPhone has given millions of citizens in India an affordable means to communicate and access the Internet. It’s a smart feature phone and the ecosystem of apps has been expanding steadily with the release of popular apps likeWhatsApp, Facebook, andjust recentlyYouTube. The latest addition to this roster could be well-known caller ID and dialer app Truecaller. JioPhone (or more specifically KaiOS) could join Android, iOS and the web as a source for new users and crowd-sourced data for the company....

SpaceX and Elon Musk finally revealed the identity of the first Big Falcon Rocket’s passenger to the moonyesterday. In case you missed the news, Space X’s first lunar orbit tourist will be Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese businessman who made a name for himself in the fashion and lifestyle business. Yusaku Maezawa is a 42-year old Japanese billionaire who specializes in online fashion retail. He founded an Indie rock bank in high school and started collecting CDs and albums of his favored bands instead of going to high-school....

The Indian IT Ministry aims to develop an AI-powered voice bot similar to Siri and Cortana for theUmange-governance app. The officials seek to expand the reach of Umang’s services beyond the urban populace and aim to extend its benefits to a wider base of users who live in rural areas via the app’s voice capabilities and regional language support. The IT Ministry’s National e-Governance Division (NeGD) is set to meet technology vendors on October 4th to discuss the idea of creating the AI assistant which can converse in regional languages and help people easily avail services such as utility bill payment, filing income tax, checking fund details and a lot more....

Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus is gearing up to launch its brand new flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 6T sometime in October. In the last few weeks we’ve seen plenty of leaks about the device, and OnePlus has confirmed the presence of anin-display fingerprint scanner, and theabsence of a headphone jack(that still hurts), and now the OnePlus 6T page has gone live on Amazon India. The page doesn’t show off much, other than the fact that the phone is “coming soon” along with a banner showing the new OnePlus Type-C Bullets earphones that will be bundled with the OnePlus 6T....

With the global smartphone market slowing down, gaming is the new niche that Android manufacturers hope will improve sales and increase profit margins. The trend that was started last year by theRazer Phone, and has since been picked up by Xiaomi, Asus, ZTE and others with devices such as theBlackShark,ROG Phone,Honor PlayandNubia Red Magic. Now, it is the turn of HMD Global to be prepping the launch of a gaming-centric phone of its own....

Starting today, gaming has a new home on YouTube where you’ll be able to easily find gaming content and creators. You can find the new YouTube Gaming destination athttps://t.co/0cH3jofTcE.pic.twitter.com/7IE3c0oBWN YouTube, however, says that the change is not the result of low demand for gaming-related videos on the platform. In fact, the company’s Global Head of Gaming, Ryan Wyatt, claimed that the amount of gaming-related content on the platform has grown exponentially over the past year....

Apple’srecently unveilediPhone lineup and the newApple Watch Series 4are great, however, the company’s much-awaited wireless charging mat, AirPower, wasstill a no-show. It’s not just us who asked Apple about the AirPower mat, and the answer is that the company is finding it hard to keep temperatures under control. As per a report inDaring Fireball, which has also beencorroboratedby Sonny Dickson, Apple is still said to befacing three problems with the wireless charging mat....