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The rivalry between Amazon Echo and Google Home continues, and Amazon is offering a great deal for Father’s Day on the Echo Dot and Echo speaker, which makes its smart speakers a shade cheaper than the Google Home devices. Thesmaller Echo Dot is now available forRs 3,499(discounted by Rs 1,000) andthe bigger Echo is taking on Google Home atRs 8,499(discounted by Rs 1,500). Amazon Echo is a smart speaker that you can control via your voice....

When it comes to Bluetooth speakers, buyers tend to gravitate towards brands like JBL, Sony, and Bose, which offer an excellent audio output and a pleasing music experience, but they are not as pleasing on the pockets as they are on the ears. On the other hand, going for a budget speaker often means sacrificing audio quality on one or the other parameters, but there are a few options out there which offer a good value for money....

One of the biggest beneficiaries of Apple’s feud with Qualcomm has been Intel, which bagged the modem chip orders for iPhones just a few years ago and has since strengthened its business ties with Apple. Now, Intel has begun the production of the XMM 7560 modem chips for Apple’s new line-up of iPhones set to arrive later this year. “XMM 7560 [modem chips are] now in the process of being deployed… It is in trial and mass production”, Intel’s VP of Technology, Systems Architecture and Client Group, Asha Keddy, was quoted as saying by Nikkei Asian Review in an interview....

Xiaomi announced theglobal variantofMIUI 10at an event last week and quickly began recruitingbetatesters after revealing that the release of beta updates would begin starting the second half of June. Making good on its promise, Xiaomi has now begun the rollout of the MIUI 10 Global Beta ROM to users who registered for the beta testing program across the world. Xiaomi announced via a post on the official MIUI forum that the latest MIUI 10 Global Beta update (Build No....

Fake news is one of the most troubling aspects of today’s hyperconnected world with its focus on social media. It has led to all sorts of troubles ranging from swaying the opinion of people during elections to inciting violence. In a bid to tackle the menace of fake news, the creator of Adblock Plus extension has developed a new browser extension which leverages blockchain technology to spot fake news and warn users about the same....

Even as everyone’s waiting to see howAirtelcounters the latest ‘Double Dhamaka‘ salvo fromReliance Jio, the leading Indian carrier has tweaked its popular Rs 99 prepaid pack to offer 2GB of daily data instead of 1GB to match Jio’s Rs. 98 plan which offers the same amount of data. Both the vouchers come with a validity period of 28 days. The Airtel STV also offers unlimited local and national voice calls like Jio, but it isn’t immediately clear whether the offer also extends to roaming....

Every now and then, we come across lucrative discount offers on Apple products available online as well as at retail store chains. These discount offers undoubtedly attract buyers and have certainly helped the company boost thesalesof its devices in India and also pocket hugeprofits. Apple now wants to further maximize these profits by changing its business strategy, however, the company is going in a direction that will soon make discounts on Apple devices a thing of past....

Among the major new changes are new design elements such as the thin fonts with the bold headers, white capsule sections on a gray background and command buttons which now automatically align at the bottom of the screen. Moreover, the positioning of tools in previous ResearchKit versions has been replaced with a card-like interface in the updated build. ResearchKit 2.0 has also introduced support for a host of new tests that allow developers to collect more medical information using different tools....

Asus has started rolling out a new FOTA (firmware-over-the-air) update for their Redmi Note 5 rivalZenFone Max Pro M1, which primarily focuses on performance improvement and brings a couple odd new features in tow. This update alsobrings along last month’s May Android security patch(even though we have now started receiving the June security patches), while optimizing the fingerprint and camera performance at the same time. This only means that your device will unlock faster and using it will become a bit more intuitive after this update....

Telecom giant AT&Tannouncedlast evening that it has finally completed the acquisition of Time Warner for a whopping $85.4 billion to create an astonishing media and technology giant. Speaking on the formation of a multi-billion dollar behemoth, AT&T chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson in the official blog post said, The content and creative talent at Warner Bros., HBO and Turner are first-rate. Combine all that with AT&T’s strengths in direct-to-consumer distribution, and we offer customers a differentiated, high-quality, mobile-first entertainment experience....

According to South Korean news outletETNews, the carrier recently stumbled across an unsold lot of sealed and unused 3GS units lying in a warehouse near Seoul, and is now planning to offer them for sale with all the original accessories for 44,000 won (around $41) apiece. The company, however, is planning to open all the packages to test the devices before putting them on the market, just to make sure the almost decade-old devices function as expected....

Facebook begantesting a peer-to-peer payments feature within the Messengerapp in India this April. It was limited to mobile recharges but Messenger has now been spotted endorsing an option to “send and receive money“, besides sending messages and video calling. This message can be seenwhen you try to add a new contactin Facebook Messenger, giving an indication thatFacebookhas been buckling up to roll the P2P payments feature out here in India, as can be seen in the screenshots below....

Apple is adding a new Chinese supplier to its roster this year for a stable supply of sensors forFace ID, a sophisticated 3D facial recognition system that was introduced last year with the iPhone X, butwill be available on all three iPhone modelsto be launched this year. The Cupertino giant’s decision is expected to ensure a stable supply of the key parts after supply constraints delayed the iPhone X’s launch last year....