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OnePlus is already witnessing bombastic sales for its latest flagship, the OnePlus 6, but the Chinese giant is now looking to sweeten the offer for students going back to school after a long summer vacation. OnePlus has todayannounced “Back to School” offers for studentswho look forward to buying a OnePlus 6,starting at Rs 34,999. This offer runs from July 23 to July 30 and is specifically targeted towards college students, who the Chinese giant terms it their prime audience....

OnePlus’ conducts Open Ear seminars aimed at listening to the opinions and suggestions from its fans worldwide. Recently,India’s first Open Ears event took place in Goaand the company hashighlighted six key takeawaysfrom the session that it will focus on in order to improve the performance of not just the latest flagship OnePlus 6, but also older phones. OnePlus introduced a nifty feature called FileDash which is a peer-to-peer file transfer system that uses Wi-Fi....

Oppo is a fairly successful company in India, especially when it comes to offline sales. But its experiment with a new brand identity appears to have played out well with the RealMe 1 having a good record of sales in the country. Oppo has announced that the RealMe 1 has done surprisingly well andsold 400,000 units in 40 days– that’s 10,000 units being sold per day. It is a great feat considering that RealMe – although owned by Oppo – is marketed as a new brand....

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds or PUBG has seen itself losing out on the top spot of the Battle Royale genre, thanks to Fortnite’s success, but also due to the fact that PUBG Corp. hasn’t been rolling out a lot of content. Luckily for players, the team seems to have realized that. After rolling out the Update #18 for the game, the team has also announced the return of one of PUBG’s most beloved Event Modes....

The special bundle includes a fully customizedAmazing Red 1TB PS4 Pro consolefeaturing theiconic Marvel’s Spider-Man spider and a matching DualShock 4 wireless controller. Also, as expected, the bundlealso packs in the Marvel’s Spider-Man game on Blu-ray disc, along with some digital content. While the color scheme might seem a bit weird, for some reason, it just works and manages to capture the essence of the Spidey character. That being said,the placement of the Spider logo on top of the console is kind of absurd, considering it is placed in a direction that will not be visible to the user while actually operating the console....

A new case of breach of data privacy in India has surfaced in which the data of the applicants of a medical entrance exam is being sold blatantly online. Business Standard reports that a website (Nari Technologies) which offers career counseling has hoarded data of more than 250,000 appearing in National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) and thisdata is put up for sale for a price of Rs. 1,00,000. As per the report, this database contains critical information such as name, examination roll number, all-India rank, and their mobile numbers....

The Facebook-owned messaging giant WhatsApp had earlier received a notice from the Indian Government to control and check the spread of fake and provocative content on its platform. While the messaging giant has been working hard on that,there were talks of the government sending a second notice as well. Recent reports suggest that a second notice has now already been issued. As reported byFinancial Express,the government on Thursday has sent a second notice to WhatsApp asking it to come out with more effective methods to check the spread of fake and provocative contentas the company’s efforts so far have not helped check incidents of violence due to the spread of such messages....

WhatsApp has been embroiled in a bitter back-and-forth with the Indian government for allegedly acting as a channel for spreading fake news leading to violence and deplorable acts such as lynching. It now appears that WhatsApp is now willing to take a proactive approach to curb the fake news issue, as the company is now testing a new feature that will impose a limit on users’ ability to forward messages....

WhatsApp has been teasing its Payments service in India for a long time and if you’re wondering why the feature hasn’t moved past the beta channels, it is because theIndian government is not fully convincedabout how the service stores and uses data of users. As a result, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has sought additional details from WhatsApp and its partner banks on the issue. This means that the roll-out of the feature, which was expected to take place in the first week of June,will be delayed yet again....

In response to a second notice for taking steps to curb fake news on its platform,WhatsApp senior executives from its US headquarters and India operations have met the Election Commission for its effort to prevent misuse of the platform in India’s coming election cycle. Speaking about the verification model,WhatsApp intends to bring the Verificado model to India.Verificado was a collective fact-checking exercise deployed by WhatsApp during recent Mexican elections. The messaging service is undertaking a similar exercise in Brazil, where 24 media outlets have come together to fact-check viral content and rumors....

WhatsApp is widely abused by spam and misinforming forwarded messages. Often many of these forwards contain malicious links and in an effort of sensitizing users, WhatsApp has introduced a new feature which it wasearlier seen testing. With the latest beta update, WhatsApp willinform users when they receive a link that is potentially malicious, suggesting them to not open the link. To alert users, WhatsApp will add a red label saying “SUSPICIOUS LINK” at the top of the link preview....

Amazonrecountsthat the most popular electronics products globally were theFire TV Stick with Voice Remoteand theEcho Dot. Without providing exact numbers, the internet bigwig said that “millions” of Fire TV devices were sold. In India, too, these two were the best-selling Amazon devices. Overall, the two of the top three highest-sold products in India were from Xiaomi. These include theRedmi Y232GB (golden variant) and Mi 10,000mAh Power bank 2i. Meanwhile, the other product which made to the list of top-3 was Tata Salt....

Google’s messaging app, Android Messages is about to get a lot more useful and appealing with new features such as integration with Chrome OS, a Material Theme-based redesign, and adark theme. While the dark theme has already been added in this update (but not activated for all users), the other two features are expected to make their way to the app soon. These features were discovered byXDA Developersthrough an APK teardown of Android Messages....