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After teasing a selfie camera phone on social media for the past couple of weeks, Xiaomi has officially taken the wraps off the Redmi Y2 at a launch event in New Delhi. The device is basically arebranded Redmi S2, which was launched in China last month, and has been priced starting at Rs 9,999 in India. Also See: Redmi Y2 Hands-on Experience and First Impressions Thebase variant (3GB+32GB) variant of Redmi Y2 has been priced at Rs 9,999, which is a Rs 1,000 more than its predecessor....

Xiaomi ended the last month by launching the different versions of the Mi 8 and for June, there’s no stopping either. The company will beannouncing the Redmi 6 seriesat an event in Beijing, China on June 12. Within this series, Xiaomi could launch the affordable Redmi 6A, the Redmi 6, and a slightly more powered Redmi 6 Plus. While the company has no shared details about the devices it will be launching in theWeibo post, these speculations are based on recent spotting of Redmi devices on Chinese regulator TENAA....

Best iOS 12 Features for iPhones and iPads Note:The list is based on the Developer Beta 1 of iOS 12 running on iPhone X. New features might be introduced or removed before the stable launch in September. Last year’siOS 11 update was a horror story for Apple. It was so buggy that Apple spent the entire year patching and squashing those bugs. That’s why, it was expected that a big part of iOS 12 update will be solving the underlying problems so that users can enjoy a bug-free experience, something which iOS was always known for....

Amazon India recently completed its five-year-long journey in the country and CEO Jeff Bezos congratulated its customers and partners for making it a successful venture with anopen letter. With this, Amazon India has shared inspirational stories about how it has fulfilled the shopping and logistics needs of Indians. These stories come from thedifferent walks of Indian retail sector, which Amazon has catered to, to build a strong channel of partner seller platforms....

Alongside the 32-core monster, AMD also showcased a 24-core, 48-thread chip that will also be a part of the 2nd-gen Ryzen Threadripper lineup, and will use the same four-die CCX configuration as its big brother. The Threadripper 2 chips are based on the same 12nm Zen+ architecture that’s used for the current Ryzen 2000 lineup. The chips are going to feature the company’s 12nm Zeppelin dies, as well as better boost and faster caches....

In a press statement,Scott Herkelman, the vice president and general manager at AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group, said that the collaboration between AMD and Samsung will make ‘extra smooth gameplay visuals’ more accessible than ever before. According to him,“With Samsung’s FreeSync technology QLED TVs, extra smooth gameplay visuals have never been so accessible, and never in such a large and appealing format”. Passionate techie. Professional tech writer. Proud geek.

The card is built on the same 14nm FinFET node as the rest of the Vega 56/64 lineups. It has 8GB of HBM2 VRAM, a 150W TDP, and will likely come with 56 compute units like the full-fledged Vega 56 reference. With the smaller PCB though, it will only ship with a single fan instead of the triple-fan configuration found on the standard models. According toa prior leak, the card also sports standard power connectors for a RX Vega 56, including an 8-pin and a 6-pin....

Made from GlobalFoundries’ 7 nm (7LPP) process technology, AMD says that new GPU chips have been designed specifically for deep-learning algorithms, and will be used as part of the company’s Radeon Instinct series accelerators for AI, ML and similar applications. They come with as much as 32GB of HBM2 video memory, and according to the company, offers 35% more performance over the last generation chips that were based on the 14nm node....

As confirmed to TechCrunch,Apple is making the Airpods compatible with the “Live Listen” assistive hearing appon iOS 12. This app, which magically turns your iPhone into a directional microphone such that people with hearing disabilities, can help you hear sounds around you via the phone. The sound is directly sent to your hearing aid from the iPhone. We are excited to see the Live Listen become compatible with Apple Airpods is because it was previously limited to third-party hearing devices such as hearing aids or implants....

As announced via anofficial blog post, Facebook appears to have finally figured out a solution for unsolicited use of copyright music on its platform. And not just that, the social media giant has cloned a popular ‘Lip syncing to music’ feature from Musical.ly but added its own little twist to it. Facebook has been working with those in the music industry to cut deals and make the library of popular artists or songs accessible on its platform for quite some time....

At an event in China today, Honor hasannounced a slew of productsand the major highlight of the launch is Honor Play. With the new smartphone, Honor is looking to compete against gaming phones including the newAsus ROG Phone, Xiaomi’sBlack SharkandNubia Red Magic. Honor Play is following thenotch trendand features a6.3-inch FullHD+ displaywith an aspect ratio of 19:9. Honor said that the display occupies 89% of the area on the front, making the smartphone only as tall as a 5....

Once a popular phone maker, HTC may not be performing up to the mark right now but it hasn’t deterred the Taiwanese giant from launching new devices. HTC has launched today two mid-range devices, namely HTC Desire 12 and Desire 12+ in India, which werefirst unveiledback in March this year. TheHTC Desire 12 and Desire 12+ have been priced starting at Rs 15,800 and Rs 19,790. They will be available at the HTC India online store and other offline retail stores across the nation....

Alongside the all-new 8086K, the company also showcased a28-core single-socket CPUthat was running at5GHz on all cores, and apparently notched up an unreal 7334 in Cinebench R15, which is unmatched by any single-CPU system. Intel didn’t provide any further details about the chip, but Gregory Bryant, the SVP and GM of the company’s Client Computing Group, said that it would belaunched by the end of this year.According to AnandTech, the new processor runs in the LGA3647 socket, which is Intel’s Xeon enterprise socket with 3647 pins....