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It’s a common to seetech bigwigs exchange thoughts and ideas on social mediaand let’s face it, this is what makes Twitter so much fun. CEOs and company founders often wade into each other’s Twitter threads, but it’s an uncommon sight to see them making sales pitches to each other unabashedly. Uncommon, but not unheard of. And that’s what happened when Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma tweeted about his failing iPhone X today....

Skyrim has been ported to every popular console, and remastered for VR, and so many revisions have given birth to jokes about the developer porting it every possible computing device with a screen. But this time Bethesda is taking it to the next level and will let you play Skyrim even without a screen or handheld controller. At the E3 conference, Bethesda chuckled about porting the game toAmazon Echodevices and every device that runsAlexa, showing a commercial featuring comedian Keegan-Michael Key....

At itsXbox E3 press conferenceon Sunday, Microsoft’s Xbox head, Phil Spencer,announcedthat the company has acquired a number of game studios, including Ninja Theory, Playground Games, Undead Labs and Compulsion Games. He also announced the creation of a new studio called ‘The Initiative’, which will be led by the former head of studio at Crystal Dynamics, Darrell Gallagher. Taking a look at some of the companies acquired by Microsoft, Playground Games is the studio behind the popular Forza Horizon racing series and has been a long-time Xbox partner....

After rolling out theOnePlus 6OxygenOS 5.1.6 OTA (over-the-air) update for users in Europe and other countries, OnePlus has finally brought the update to India as well starting today. Te OTA update, which weighs in at 223MB,brings along portrait mode to the front camera, fixes dual-SIM stability issues, adds battery percentage icon to the status bar, and other performance improvements, which you can see below. The only India-centric upgrade here is the addition of Idea Cellular VoLTE service support....

The OnePlus 6 has started receiving anew OxygenOS updatein India that brings a ton of new features to the device, but headlining the list is portrait mode for the front camera. In the official changelog, OnePlus states that it hasnot just added a selfie portrait mode but the camera app itself has bagged a minor upgradeas well. OnePlus says you should get improved dynamic range and photo quality, along with faster focusing....

Just a few short weeks after thelaunch of the OnePlus 6, a cyber-security researcher discovered a major vulnerability that he claims could allow the device to boot into any arbitrarily modified image bypassing all bootloader protection measures, even though the device comes with a locked bootloader like most other Android smartphones. According to Jason Donenfeld, president of Edge Security LLC, the attacker won’t even need to enable USB debugging to hack into the device using this flaw, although, they would require physical access to the victim’s phone....

Microsoft partnered with a lot of gaming studios to showcase not just their own console exclusives, but also some of the other hot and upcoming titles from other studios. In fact, the whole presentation consisted of a total of 18 exclusives and 15 world premiers of games. So, without wasting any time, let’s get right into it: Halo Infinite According to 343 Industries, this new game will be “the next chapter of the legendary franchise,” and it will be available on both Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs....

Xiaomi hasreportedlytied-up with Dixon Technologies to start manufacturing its Mi TVs in India in an attempt to keep input costs in check and maintain margins. The two companies are planning to manufacture around 55,000 Mi TV units in the country every month as part of the government’s ‘Make in India’ scheme. Xiaomi already manufactures a vast majority of its made-for-India smartphones in the country through its manufacturing partners. It is worth noting here that the Chinese tech giantalready has a contractwith Foxconn to manufacture Mi TV sets in the country, but high demand for the product means that they are very often out-of-stock and unavailable for purchase....

Digital wallets like Paytm, PhonePe have majorly eased our pain with carrying cash everywhere we go, besides offering attractive cashbacks. But if you’ve ever wanted to transfer money from one wallet to another, you must know that it is not an easy process at all and requires multiple taxing steps. Not for long, as theReserve Bank of India(RBI) willsoon release guidelines to allow interoperability between digital wallets. National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has issued its recommendations on the matter and the RBI is “ironing out” a handful of issues, reports theEconomic Times....

Asphalt is one of the biggest names in mobile games and possibly the most popular racing franchise on smartphones. While our wait forAsphalt 9has been longer than we had expected, Gameloft is now adding exciting bits in the game which will keep you hooked on to the game for longer and will also let you win aOnePlus 6. Gameloft and OnePlus have together announced the Asphalt Cup is which gaming enthusiasts can sweat their palms and get achance to win prizes up to Rs 5 lakhand goodies such as thelatest OnePlus 6and the upcomingwireless Bullets headset....

Yes, thetussle between Apple and TRAI(Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) over spam reporting has finally come to an end as theCupertino giant has added native support for spam call and SMS reporting on iOS 12. It has alsoupdated its documentationon the developer website to reflect this change. For those unaware of the past details, TRAI has long been trying to persuade Apple to let its spam reporting ‘Do Not Disturb’ app to be listed on the App Store....

BSNL’s new broadband plan is called Fibro Combo ULD 777, and as the name clearly suggests, it ispriced at Rs. 777. The new plan offers a FUP of 500GB per month at 50Mbps, and once the FUP limit ends, data speed will drop to 2Mbps without any monthly download or upload limit. Users can choose to pay for the new broadband plan on a monthly basis, and can also subscribe to it for a span of 12 months at Rs....

Electronic Arts today announcedCommand & Conquer Rivals, which is coming out for Android and iOS later this year. Command & Conquer is one of the best-known franchises from the golden age of PC real-time strategy games, and it’s great to hear that the game is making its way to mobile screens to take on behemoths such as Clash of Clans and more. According to the studio, “Rivals delivers an RTS experience focused on competition, skill, and strategy....