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With the recommendations of the 28th GST Council meeting coming into effect from today, a range of products across many sectors of the economy are getting cheaper, including household appliances, handicrafts, food ingredients, fuel-cell vehicles etc. While the abolition ofGSTon sanitary pads is among the most notable recommendations of the panel, the prices of many electronic gadgets are also slated to come down, with the implementation of the new policy....

Average daily active users (DAU) increased 11 per cent (year-over-year) — compared to 10 per cent year-over-year growth in Q1, Twitter said in a statement.“Our second quarter results reflect the work we’re doing to ensure more people get value from Twitterevery day,”said Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey. “We want people to feel safe freely expressing themselves and have launched new tools to address problem behaviours that distort and distract from the public conversation,”he added....

Google Assistant got the custom routines featurein Maybut Google is now extending its functionality starting with the US. Google Assistant is getting Scheduled Routines to allow the users to set the time and day to trigger a set of defined actions. Google first introduced theability to use Routinesto invoke a number of actions with one command back in March, so being able to schedule a string of actions instead of manually invoking them seemed like the obvious next step....

Alto’s Odyssey, the hit endless runner snowboarding game which became a phenomenon ever since it landed on iOS, has finally arrived on Android and is now available to download from the Play Store. It was confirmed in June that the game will arrive on Android inJulyand pre-registration for the awesome game soon went live. Alto’s Odysseyisfree to download, however, there will bein-app purchases. On the contrary, the game is priced at $6....

As reported byThe Street,AMD has reported non-GAAP earnings of 14 cents per share on revenue that increased 53% year over year to $1.76 billion. Also, the shares of the company are up 8% in morning trading. With a total of $467 million in operating expenses, the chipmaker is still left with an operating income of $186 million and net income of $156 million. The current stock prices are considerably close to the predictions made earlier, with analysts expecting the company to report earnings of 13 cents per share on revenue of $1....

At the launch of its ZenFone 5Z flagship, Asus hadconfirmedthat the 6GB variant of the ZenFone Max Pro (M1) later in July. And the 6GB version is now available on Flipkart forRs 14,999. As with the earlier variants of the phone, this one too isa Flipkart exclusive. The 6GB variant of the Asus ZenFone Max Pro (M1) not only differs in the RAM and storage department but sports improved cameras as well....

Belkinhas expanded its product portfolio in India by launching a Lightning-to-3.5mm audio aux cable in the country. The device, which was launched in the US late May, allows iPhone users to connect directly to the car stereo or home speakers with a single cable. It comes with a built-in digital-to-analog converter that outputs high resolution audio. It is also certified by Apple’s MFi (Made For iPhone/iPad) program, which means users won’t have to worry about compatibility issues with their Apple devices....

Indians are not known to have a sense of humor, and the country’s courts are known to hand down bewildering verdicts from time to time, including bizarre rulings. Both are once again in focus now with the Delhi High Court passing an order, asking Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to delete thousands of posts because they happened to criticize the taste of Pepsico’s ‘Kurkure’ and ‘Lays’ brands of packaged snacks. You can see the full orderhere, which also includes links to some of the ‘offensive’ posts....

The social media giant late on Wednesday reported 2.23 billion monthly active users (MAUs) — an increase of 11 percent (year-over-year) which was its slowest growth in more than two years. Facebook reported revenue of $13.2 billion — a gain of 42 percent but missing analyst expectation of $13.3 billion. It ended the quarter with $42.3 billion in cash and equivalents. The social media platform earned $5.1 billion, or $1.74 per share, for the second quarter....

Facebook shares tumbled by more than 20 per cent after the social media network’s revenue and user growth fell short of investor expectations. The firm, which is facing backlash for its handling of fake news and privacy, said it had 2.23 billion monthly active users at the end of June, BBC reported on Thursday. Facebook said it expected revenue gains to slow, as people make use of new options to limit advertising and less profitable overseas markets drive growth....

Whether you are a concerned parent who wants to keep tabs on his or her child, or a manager who wants to make sure that the official smartphones are used properly, you know it is impossible to do that by just using the native tools provided by iOS or Android platforms. We really can’t blame either Apple or Google for this, as you can’t have an operating system be secure while having a backdoor which allows you to monitor system level information at the same time....

Fortnite’s popularity keeps skyrocketing with each passing day, all thanks to a devoted player base and celebrity fans alike, such asDrake, Chance the Rapper and FIFA World Cup winner, Antoine Griezmann. But popularity aside, the game has also been raking in an insane amount of money, and as per latest reports,Fortnite’s daily revenue has now crossed the $2 million mark.And those dollars come from the game’s mobile version only, and that too, solely on the iOS platform....

After unveiling its enterprise Cloud Services Platform on the first day of its Cloud Next conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA,Googleused Day 2 of the event to announce two new products that the company says will help customers“develop and deploy intelligent connected devices at scale”. The first,Edge TPU, is a new IoT-focused hardware chip for the edge environment, while the second,Cloud IoT Edge, is a software stack that extends Google Cloud’s AI capability to gateways and connected devices....