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Win Star Trek Beyond Tickets and Merchandise

It’s the finale of our Star Trek Beyond giveaway. Just answer a simple question via the contest widget below and you’ll be entered in the contest. Five lucky winners will win Star Trek merchandise, while two others will walk away with Star Trek Beyond ticket vouchers. You can increase your chances of winning the contest by doing other activities listed ... Read More »

The Best Marvel and DC Trailers From Comic Con You Absolutely Need to See

HIGHLIGHTS Comic Con is an annual celebration of pop culture Superhero movies have come to dominate Comic Con The coolest reveal this year is the Justice League trailer Over the years, Comic Con has come to be about so much more than just comics, becoming a place for all things pop-culture. These days, that usually translates into superheroes, and this ... Read More »

Intex Aqua Fish With Sailfish 2.0 OS Launched in India: Price, Specs, and More

HIGHLIGHTS The partnership was announced at MWC Shanghai last year Aqua Fish is claimed to be the first licenced Sailfish OS phone Notably, Sailfish 2.0 OS can run Android apps Intex on Friday launched the Aqua Fish smartphone, said to be the first licenced Sailfish OS device in the world. Running Jolla’s Sailfish 2.0 OS, the smartphone will initially be ... Read More »

Five Facebook Messenger Bots You Absolutely Need to Try

HIGHLIGHTS There are lots of free Messenger chatbots you can talk to These bots let you quickly get information on a number of topics We found bots for finding books, when your flight lands, and more There’s a lot of buzz around the idea of chat bots ever since Facebook built out bots for Messenger, some of it more successful ... Read More »

Lenovo Ideapad 110 15.6-Inch Windows 10 Laptop Launched Starting Rs. 20,490

HIGHLIGHTS The laptop has a 15.6-inch HD display It comes with 4GB of RAM, upgradeable to 8GB It notably also features an optical drive Lenovo India on Wednesday launched the Ideapad 110 budget laptop, targeted at the first-time personal computer (PC) buyers in India. The Windows 10-based Ideapad 110 laptop will be available at a starting price of Rs. 20,490, ... Read More »

Best Battery Life Smartphones Under Rs. 15,000

HIGHLIGHTS You don’t need to buy a flagship to get great battery life. Some specialised models trade thickness for battery. The mAh rating of a phone is only a rough guide to its battery life. The first question a lot of people ask us when buying a smartphone is – what’s the battery like? That’s a pretty reasonable question because ... Read More »

Creo Mark 1 Gets July Fuel OS Update With Focus on Privacy Features

HIGHLIGHTS The Creo Mark 1 runs the India-developed Android-based Fuel OS Creo promises a ‘new phone every month’ with OS updates This is the third update Creo has rolled out since April Creo, the maker of the Mark 1 smartphone, on Wednesday announced the July update to its indigenously-developed Android custom ROM ‘Fuel OS’. To recall, the Creo Mark 1 ... Read More »

Asus ROG GX700 Launched in India, the ‘World’s First Liquid-Cooled Laptop’

HIGHLIGHTS The ROG GX700 comes with a liquid cooling module It can be used with traditional cooling as well The ROG Strix GL502 was also launched in India Taiwan-based technology major Asus on Wednesday announced the launch of world’s first liquid-cooled laptop in India, the ROG GX700, priced at Rs. 4,12,990. The company also launched the ROG Strix GL502 gaming ... Read More »

Facebook’s 13,000 Employees to Shift to Microsoft’s Office 365

HIGHLIGHTS Facebook to announce shifting to Office 365 next week Facebook will use emails and calendar features Facebook at Work will be used for collaboration Facebook next week is expected to announce that its 13,000 employees will shift to Microsoft’s Office 365. The social giant has “signed a deal” to use Microsoft’s Web-based productivity suite. WSJ reports that Facebook’s 13,000 ... Read More »

German Police Launch Mass Raids Over Online Hate Speech

German police on Wednesday launched nationwide raids targeting social media users who posted racial hatred on Facebook and other online networks. Police swooped on the homes of some 60 suspects across 14 of Germany’s 16 states, the BKA federal crime bureau said, in a crackdown on “verbal radicalism” and related criminal offences. No arrests were made but computer equipment, cameras ... Read More »