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Amazonmay be the preeminent online retailer of anything and everything under the sun today, but the company started off with books, and it is one category that continues to remain close to heart of the company’sfounder and CEO, Jeff Bezos. While the retailer sells a variety of books in the US, the choice, especially in the textbook department, has always been somewhat limited in India. Now, however, that’s all set to change, with the retailer focusing on offering a larger portfolio of textbooks and reference books for schools, colleges and universities in the country....

AMD has bounced back in tremendous fashion in the hardware business,reporting a huge 53% rise in its revenue. The major credit for this goes to theirRyzen series of CPUsand APUs, along with the heavyweightThreadripperprocessors. While the company already has a total of 3 model motherboards to its name, namely the A320, B350, and the X370, the company has now launched the all-new B450 motherboards. The new AMD B450 chipset will support almost the entire range of AMD’s processors, including the Athlon Processor, the 7th-gen AMD A-Series APU, and both the 1st-gen and 2nd-gen AMD CPUs and APUs....

Global aircraft maker Boeing would provide its innovative platform to promote Indian start-ups in the aerospace sector with disruptive ideas, an official said here on Monday.“Boeing is providing a platform to promote innovation in India. Such platforms accelerate Start-up India and give impetus to Make in India and Skill India,”Niti Aayog Chief Executive Amitabh Kant said here. The US-basedaerospacemajor, in association with the Telangana state’s Hyderabad-based startup catalyst T-Hub, will initially help six start-ups take their innovative and disruptive ideas to the aerospace market....

When it comes to smartphones, running out of internal space is one of the most annoying problems which demands deletion of data, moving some of it to your cloud drive or another device and whatnot. In case you’ve been eyeing to purchase a high-capacity microSD card to solve the‘insufficient storage’problem once and for all, Amazon has an excellent deal for you on theSanDisk 128GB Class 10 microSDXC memory card, which is now available at hefty52% discountas part of a lightning deal....

Thedual-SIM iPhone rumorshave been getting stronger over time, and new reports now add further credence to earlier reports that Apple’s next-gen smartphones might actually come with support for multiple SIM cards. The feature, however, will most likely be geo-restricted, and will only be available in devices sold in certain parts of the world. According to 9to5Mac, the recently-releasediOS 12developer beta 5 includes several mentions of a secondary SIM, suggesting native support for dual-SIM mechanism in an iPhone for the first time....

In a sign that Google is up to something new in the gaming business, the search engine giant has hired Richard Marks, a former research engineer who helped create Sony’s PlayStation virtual reality (VR) headset and its PlayStation Move controllers, tech website VentureBeat reported. Marks has joined the Advanced Technology and Projects group (ATAP) at Google, the report on late Monday said.“ATAP is at the intersection of science and application where our goal is to solve significant problems and close the gap between what if and what is....

A homeless web-developer in the US is reportedly being flooded with job offers after a photo of him holding a ‘Homeless’ sign went viral on social media over the weekend. The photo shows 26-year-old web developer, David Casarez, holding up a sign that read‘Homeless, Hungry 4 Success, Take a Resume’. According to reports, Casarez on Friday stood at a busy street corner in Mountain View, California, with the cardboard sign and resumes in hand....

Huawei brand Honor has started the first flash sale of the Honor 9N on Flipkart. Starting atRs 13,999, the mid-range Honor 9N will be available in blue and black colours for the sale, according to a company statement. Honor says buyers can get Rs 2200 Cashback and 100 GB additional 4G Data and upto Rs 1200 Myntra vouchers with an exclusive Jio Offer for the Honor 9N. You can find details of this offeron Flipkart here....

Alongside theHonor Note 10, the Chinese giant has also unveiled two new variants of its MagicBook laptop at the launch event in Beijing. These new laptops are upgraded variants of Honor’s existing 14-inch MagicBook, which now come with a touch-screen in tow. Honor has made absolutely no changes to its laptop on the design front, but hands down a choice in the internals. You canpick between an AMD or Intel processordepending on your workload and budget....

At its launch event in Beijing today, Honor has finally put an end to our anticipations and taken the wraps off its latest flagship smartphone — Honor Note 10. The device has been priced starting at 2,799 yuan and will go on sale from August 1. TheHonor Note 10 sports a 6.95-inch Full-HD+ AMOLED display, with an 18.5:9 aspect ratio even though it doesn’t house a notch at the top. It also sports 2....

Reliance Jio is one operator which has single-handedly disrupted the country’s telecom sector by offering bundled voice and data packs at highly competitive prices. The company has now introduced another offer which provides 2GB of free 4G data to Jio subscribers. Dubbed the Jio Digital Pack, the new offer has been introduced as an add-on for active prepaid plans, and that too, at no more cost. However, the offer is only available to a select few Jio subscribers who use a specific prepaid plan....

Data consumption and feature phones are two things that are not usually interconnected or associated with each other, but when it comes to Reliance’sJioPhone, an exception has to be made. According to a report, JioPhone users are not only consuming a high amount of mobile data, but are also willing to pay more for recharge plans that offer more data. Anshuman Thakur, Head of Strategy and Planning at Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd....

Stung by itsdwindling market share and falling profits, Samsung Electronics is believed to be all set to introduce a number of premium features in its budget offerings next year. According to unnamed industry sourcesquoted by The Investor, the features are being tested on Galaxy A-series devices by Samsung’s global hardware development team that is responsible for developing the company’s lower-range phones. While the company is being rumored to include a ‘super-wide angle’ lens as part of its triple-cam setup on a next-gen Galaxy A device to improve landscape photography, the in-display fingerprint scanner that’s expected to be included in the device is said to be of the less-advanced ‘optical’ variety instead of the more advanced ‘ultrasonic’ unit that’s expected to find its way through to the Galaxy S10 devices....