Qualcomm introduced its new Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 flagship chipset and makers are now rushing to refresh their performance-oriented devices. Xiaomi already unveiled the 12S series, and it’s also about to give us a Redmi phone with the new top chip. The brand chief Lu Weibing, also known as William Lu, revealed on Weibo there…
Before Andrew Tate became social media famous, he was a professional kickboxer. He started kickboxing at 17 years old and he was champion at 23. He retired from kickboxing at 28 but came back to the ring later and got a bad poke in the eye. According to Andrew, fighting is difficult because you have…
Google is expanding its photo and canvas prints service to Europe and Canada. Google has offered printed photo books in the U.S. since 2017, a service that started rolling out in Europe the following year. And then in 2019, Google started offering photo prints and canvas prints in the U.S. Starting today, these two additional…
Xiaomi said on Wednesday it has shipped over 200 million smartphones in India to date, demonstrating just how large of a presence it has marked in the world’s second largest phone market in just eight years. The Chinese giant, which began selling smartphones in India in 2014, revealed the figure at a media conference on…
Conversational commerce isn’t exactly a new phenomenon, with countless companies using live chats, messaging apps, chatbots, voice assistants and more to encourage consumers to part with their cash. As part of that broader movement, the mighty WhatsApp, a dominant force in the messaging world, has been pushing deeper into the business arena with myriad tools…
Do you like ads? It’s not a real question. No one likes ads. If you can stomach them, though, an ad-supported subscription plan for Netflix could be good if it’s significantly cheaper than the regular plans. But unfortunately, the inclusion of ads won’t be the only bad thing about this plan. Talking on Netflix’s earnings…
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Getty Images Putin warns natural-gas flows to Europe via Nord Stream 1 could fall more due to equipment issues. The pipeline is shut and due to come back online on Thursday after scheduled maintenance. Russia has already cut gas flows to Europe via Nord Stream 1 before the shutdown, citing an…
Samsung has confirmed it will hold an event on 10 August where it is expected to announce the Galaxy Z Fold 4, Galaxy Z Flip 4 and Galaxy Watch 5 models. The company only announced the event officially on 19 July, though the date had leaked prior to that and the leaks are showing no…
The much-vaunted Netflix ad-funded tier won’t grant access to all of the company’s content library, it’s been revealed, as it posted another massive subscriber loss. Company co-CEO Ted Sarandos admitted during the company’s Q2 2022 earnings call that while “the vast majority of what people watch on Netflix, we can include in the ad-supported tier”,…
An industry group representing several tech giants has requested the Indian government to make a series of changes to the proposed amendments to the country’s new IT rules, warning those amendments “negate” the government’s commitment to ease of doing business. India last month proposed a number of changes to the IT rules including creation of…