Technology

Popular gaming app and platform Roblox has been down since Friday night, and while there was initially some speculation about an external attack the company confirmed that the outage is due to an internal issue and that it is carrying out the necessary maintenance work to get Roblox up and running again. The company posted

Facebook has decided to move forward in the ever-growing world of Internet with ‘metaverse’ that is aimed to take virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) to new levels. As a major step in the new direction, the social media giant on Thursday changed its name to Meta. The company also teased to be working

Fitbit Sense and Fitbit Versa 3 users are getting a new software update that brings some new features to the wearables including status indicators. The Fitbit OS 5.3 update brings status indicators on the smartwatch that will let users know when the device’s battery is critically low right on the watch face. Users will also

Xiaomi led the Indian smartphone market shipments in Q3 2021 with 22 percent share, as per Counterpoint’s latest research. The total Indian smartphone shipments cross 52 million units in the third quarter, and while Xiaomi is on top, Apple was the fastest growing brand this quarter. Xiaomi’s top position was driven by the Redmi 9

Nokia brand licensee HMD Global has launched a number of smartphones and feature phones in India in 2021. Although the Finnish company continued its trend of delivering a pure software experience, it brought models such as the Nokia C20 Plus, Nokia 110 4G, and the newly launched Nokia XR20 that are aimed to attract young

Battlegrounds Mobile India developer Krafton has announced a partnership with Denis Villeneuve’s latest sci-fi movie Dune. With this collaboration, Battlegrounds Mobile India players will get special Dune-themed rewards. The Dune crossover will be live in the game till the second week of November and will be hosted in the game’s EvoGround mode. Earlier this week,

Instagram Link Stickers, which let users include hyperlinks in Stories in the form of stickers, will now be available to use for everyone on the popular photo-sharing platform. The Facebook-owned social media platform announced the news via Twitter on October 27. Instagram had started testing Link Stickers in June, but until now the feature has

Sony on Tuesday unveiled a new virtual reality (VR) headset called Xperia View along with launching the Sony Xperia Pro-I smartphone. Xperia’s first VR headset is not a standalone device and only works with Sony Xperia 1 II and Xperia 1 III smartphones. The audio device offers 120 degrees of horizontal vision to support the

Photoshop and Illustrator are getting greater interoperability and tons of new features to enhance your creativity, Adobe announced. It announced the updates to Photoshop and Illustrator at its Max 2021 virtual conference on Tuesday. Alongside Photoshop and Illustrator, Adobe updated Fresco with a Motion feature. Lightroom has also added premium preset packs, while After Effects

WhatsApp users on iOS will now be able to transfer their chat history to more Android devices. Earlier, this feature was only available for Samsung Galaxy smartphones and now is available for all Google Pixel smartphones. Google also mentions that this feature will also become available for smartphones that are launched with Android 12 out-of-the-box.

Battlegrounds Mobile India developer Krafton has announced new Diwali offers that bring in-game credit — UC — and other rewards for players. Players will get additional UC while purchasing in-game credit. They will also get additional benefits in the form of lucky spins, which will give them new outfits, helmets, emotes, and more. The UCs

Facebook employees have warned for years that as the company raced to become a global service it was failing to police abusive content in countries where such speech was likely to cause the most harm, according to interviews with five former employees and internal company documents viewed by Reuters. For over a decade, Facebook has

Huawei Watch Fit is teased to launch in India soon. The wearable was announced in United Arab Emirates last year and is now all set to launch in the Indian market. Amazon has started to tease the launch of the wearable in the Indian market and has also published its key specifications and features on

Fortnite creator Epic Games on Friday opposed Apple’s efforts to put on hold orders handed down in an antitrust trial as a potentially lengthy appeals process plays out. US district Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in September struck down some of the iPhone maker’s App Store rules, including a prohibition on developers directing their users to

Android 12 beta for the iQoo 7, iQoo 7 Legend, iQoo Z3, iQoo Z5, and the iQoo 3 is set to be rolled out in India starting this December, the Chinese company has announced. The new beta release will include the latest Android experience. We can also expect some tweaks and proprietary changes from the

PUBG: New State release date is set for November 11, publisher Krafton announced during its showcasing event on Friday. The South Korean company said that the new mobile game will be released on Android and iOS in more than 200 countries – including in India – following a final technical test in 28 countries that

A former Facebook worker reportedly told US authorities Friday the platform has put profits before stopping problematic content, weeks after another whistleblower helped stoke the firm’s latest crisis with similar claims. The unnamed new whistleblower filed a complaint with US financial regulator Securities and Exchange Commission that could add to the company’s distress, said a

What’s the best VR headset you can buy in 2021? Thanks to Covid, this is a question that many people have been asking, and as it turns out, your options are pretty limited. That led to my trying out the Oculus Quest 2, to see if I could figure out if this standalone VR headset