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At the time of the OnePlus 6’s launch in India, the Chinese manufacturer had announced that it willopen multiple new Experience Storesacross major cities in the country. Now, the promise is coming to fruition and the company has now announced that itwill be opening three new offline retail stores on July 28. Bangalore, Mumbai, and Kolkata will be the three cities where these stores will be opened. With this, OnePlus has also announced special early-bird offers for customers while thefirst 100 customers will also get free merchandiseincluding a Marvel Iron Man Case as well as a free OnePlus-branded T-shirt....

Expanding its plans to make deeper inroads into the highly competitive Indian TV market, Xiaomi today announced that it has appointed Eshwar Chandrasekaran, former head of online business, Lenovo-Motorola, to lead its Mi TV business in the country. “Excited that Eshwar has joined @XiaomiIndia! He will be leading our #MiTV business,” Manu Jain, Vice President, Xiaomi, and Managing Director, Xiaomi India, tweeted. “Eshwar was heading online sales for Lenovo+Motorola, prior to joining #Xiaomi,” Jain added....

Over 1.9 billion users are logging into Google-owned YouTube each month and on average, users now watch over 180 million hours ofYouTubeon TV screens every day, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has said. “Our overall interactions, such as likes, commentsandchats, grew by more than 60percentyear over year. More and more creators are building their businesses and discovering that they can shape the global conversation with just a phone and an Internet connection,”Wojcicki said in a mid-year update over the weekend....

Emoji have become acritical part of our conversationsso much so that despite their distant looks, it is easy to personify them. The Emoji Movie was a sheer and unapologetic example of this, but if you thought that’s the farthest human imagination could possibly go to, you should know about aBroadway musical around the lives of emojiwhich is being staged as part of the New York Musical Festival. “Emojiland” is the aptly named Broadway musical which speaks volumes about the emoji personalities, and theexistential crisis they suffer from....

For the past two years, Google Translate has been using machine learning to provide more accurate translations. But the algorithm is now attempting to translate phrases or even random combination of words that do not make any sense into meaningful, and somewhat scary messages. The flaw caughtMotherboard‘s eye, which reports thatGoogle Translate is converting nonsensical words into well-structured sentences. Some examples include multiple repetitions of words like “dog” and “ag” which Google Translate recognizes as coming from certain foreign languages....

NASA has achieved many amazing feats over the past few decades, exploring space and stepping foot on the moon. However, the biggest star of our solar system, the Sun, has been largely unexplored and the space agency now intends to get as close as possible to this ball of heat. NASA is currently prepping to send a probe,dubbed the Parker Solar Probe, closer to the Sun than any other man-made spacecraft has ever travelled....

With his first step on the surface of the moon, Neil Armstrong kindled a new hope for space exploration (and also set the stage for one of thebiggest controversiesin the history of humankind). But for enthusiasts of space exploration and fans of the astronaut, hispersonal belongings will be set up for an auction, marking the 49th anniversary of first human step on the moon. The items in the collection include the U....

The PlayStation 4 is Sony’s latest gaming console, so scoring PS4 games at a discounted price point can be a tough task. However, if you’ve been looking to buy some PS4 games in your wishlist, right now is the right time to head to the PlayStation Store, where some of the most acclaimed and popular games are available at hefty discounts. We bring you 10 of the best deals on the PS4 games you can score on the PlayStation Store that are worth every penny....

Back in the day, playing games would often refer to board games in general. However, with the modern-day technology, a lot of people have been missing out on the concept. Well, with Alexa, you will finally be able to experience board games with a cool spin to them. Sensible Object has debuted its new game,When in Rome,which is a family board game that pits two teams against each other in a race to travel the world....

If you’re a regular Twitter user, you must have been faced with typos and that’s annoying because there’s no way to edit tweets on the platform. And there has never been one. Users have been begging Twitter’s chiefs to bring the edit feature for several years, but in vain. However, there’s now a developer who identifies with our daily pains andhas built a Chrome extension to put an end to our embarrassing typosand endless deleted tweets....

After facing investigations into user data usage,Facebook is reportedly scrutinizing Crimson Hexagon, a Boston-based analytics firm over its contracts with government agencies. As per the report,apps from the firm Crimson Hexagon have been suspended from Facebook and Instagramwhile Facebook investigates whether the firm may have violated any of its developer policies. Prior to the suspension,the apps would pull public user data from social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram in order to get aggregate insights into consumer behavior....

Samsung’s next Note-series flagship, the Galaxy Note 9, is all set to beunveiledon August 9, but just a few weeks before its official announcement, alleged live images of the Galaxy Note 9 have been leaked. The Galaxy Note 9’s live images were shared by a tipster with the usernamelajotatechon Instagram, and they show the design of the upcoming Note flagship from the rear as well as the front side. The Galaxy Note 9’s leaked live images show the device sporting a familiar dual glass design with curved edges, a dual rear camera set-up and a fingerprint sensor placed below it....

Apple’s battle with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is taking a serious turn and might end up in a court soon, as the company is reportedly contemplating legal action against TRAI over the mandatory installation of an anti-spam app. TRAI wants Apple to list a DND app on the App Store which allows users to report spam calls and messages, but Apple has refused to do so on the grounds of privacy....