Battlegrounds Mobile India has just released on iOS after being available to Android users for two months now. The game is the Indian avatar of PUBG Mobile that was banned in India back in September last year but was highly popular on both Android and iOS platforms. After two months of waiting, iPhone and iPad
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Online dating app Tinder will soon be making its ID Verification option available to all users around the world. Tinder said on Monday that it will make its ID Verification feature available to all members around the world “in the coming quarters.” The feature which has already been live in Japan since 2019, will allow
Fitbit Charge 5’s alleged design has surfaced online via official-looking renders that shows that the soon-to-be-launched wearable could come in three colour options. The leak also shows that the upcoming Fitbit Charge 5 may come with a colour display that may be a first for the Fitbit Charge lineup. There is no official confirmation regarding
Space Jam: A New Legacy — the LeBron James-led family comedy that serves as a follow-up to the Michael Jordan-starrer original — is going straight to video-on-demand in India, despite cinemas now open in most parts of the country. That’s a first for any Hollywood studio in India; the Scarlett Johansson-led Black Widow is set
Mi 11T and Redmi K40 Ultra may launch soon as some of their key specifications have surfaced online. Both smartphones are expected to come with similar specifications barring the camera setup. The upcoming Mi 11T is touted to be launched in India and other global markets while Redmi K40 Ultra may only launch in the
Battlegrounds Mobile India is celebrating Independence Day with an in-game event titled ‘Independence Day Mahotsav’. It is currently underway and will run through August 20 with daily rewards. The game has crossed 49 million downloads since it became playable in mid-June, another step towards its 50 million downloads goal. Additionally, developer Krafton has once again
After a week of criticism over its planned new system for detecting images of child sex abuse, Apple said on Friday that it will hunt only for pictures that have been flagged by clearinghouses in multiple countries. That shift and others intended to reassure privacy advocates were detailed to reporters in an unprecedented fourth background
After Twitter, apex child rights body NCPCR on Friday asked Facebook to take action against the Instagram profile of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for posting a photo of the family of the nine-year-old girl who was allegedly raped and murdered in southwest Delhi, saying it violated the law. On August 4, the National Commission for
Honor Watch GS 3 was unveiled at the company’s mega event on Thursday, August 12. The new smartwatch is the first in the series to carry an eight-channel photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor, which is claimed to offer more accurate heart rate monitoring. Alongside the Honor Watch GS 3, the company at its launch event brought the
Apple has released a big update for macOS but it doesn’t seem to have brought many changes. The update has already started reaching users and is around 2.5GB to 2.9GB in size. Apple has not shared a changelog for the update either and it just claims to include bug fixes. macOS Big Sur 11.5 introduced
Realme Narzo 10 is receiving the Android 11 update in India. The Android 11-based Realme UI 2.0 update comes with the firmware version RMX2040_11_A.47 and the rollout is being carried out in a phased manner. The Realme Narzo 10 was launched last year in May. It ran on Android 10 software out of the box.
Battlegrounds Mobile India has banned over 336,000 players for using illegal programmes to gain advantage in some form. Krafton shared the development on the game’s official website and said that it has investigated cases between July 30 and August 5. Additionally, the game has crossed 48 million downloads, which is the first phase of its
As Klarna’s billionaire founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski prepares to stage one of the biggest-ever European fintech company listings, a feast of capitalism, he credits an unlikely backer for his runaway success: the Swedish welfare state. In particular, the 39-year-old pinpoints a late-1990s government policy to put a computer in every home. “Computers were inaccessible for low-income
Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 series will be powered by an Exynos W920 SoC, which is Samsung’s latest chipset for its next-generation of wearables. The South Korean tech giant just announced the new SoC and says it offers “high performance, efficiency, and LTE connectivity, packed in the industry’s smallest form factor”. Samsung also claims it is
Apple on Monday said that iPhone users’ entire photo libraries will be checked for known child abuse images if they are stored in the online iCloud service. The disclosure came in a series of media briefings in which Apple is seeking to dispel alarm over its announcement last week that it will scan users’ phones,
Poco F1 was the first smartphone to bear the Poco brand in India. It offered excellent value for money and was an easy pick for those purely looking for performance, particularly for gaming. While Poco has become an independent company and launched multiple series of smartphones since then, the Poco F1 has not had a
An anonymous buyer has paid $2 million (roughly Rs. 14.84 crores) to buy an unopened copy of Super Mario Bros, a game that had become wildly popular at the turn of this century and still commands a dedicated following. The astonishing sale price of the 1985 game intended for Nintendo’s original console broke a record
Elaine Thompson-Herah — the Jamaican sprinter who created history by winning gold in both 100m and 200m event at two consecutive Summer Olympics (2016 Rio de Janeiro and 2020 Tokyo) — was temporarily blocked from posting anything on Instagram on Tuesday afternoon. The ‘fastest woman alive’ had shared a video of her Olympic races after