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Disney+ was originally set to launch in India via Hotstar on March 29 but is now officially launching on April 3. The information comes from Hotstar's Twitter account. The Tweet reads, “This is not a drill! The biggest Super Heroes, magical stories for everyone, exclusive Disney+ Originals and all that you've been waiting for are (finally) landing on Disney+ Hotstar. 3rd April. Really.” According to TechCrunch, the subscription fee for the service will go up from Rs 999 per annum to Rs 1499 per annum. Hopefully, we will get to see a bump in the streaming quality as well, but that is something we will know when the service is publicly available.  TechCrunch goes on to say that there is a more affordable plan priced at Rs 399. This plan will include movies from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) along with live sporting events and a catalogue of movies and shows along with Hotstar originals. The 399 plan will not include Disney+ Originals. The Rs 1499 plan, however, will offer

Xiaomi smartphones are set to get more expensive, and the company is putting the blame on the Indian government for it. Manu Kumar Jain, Xiaomi MD announced on Twitter that because of the hike in GST in smartphones, the company has no choice but to hike the prices, keeping its 5% profit philosophy in mind. GST on mobile phones saw a 50 per cent hike from 12 per cent in the last financial year to 18 per cent from April 1, 2020, onward. With Xiaomi’s philosophy of only making a 5 per cent margin on its hardware, the company has had to increase the prices of Mi and Redmi smartphones, as explained by Manu Kumar Jain on Twitter. Mi fans, #GST on mobile phones has increased by 50% from 12% to 18%. After much deliberation & in keeping with #Xiaomi policy of maintaining from Latest Technology News https://ift.tt/2UzkDGX via IFTTT

Disney+ was originally set to launch in India via Hotstar on March 29 but is now officially launching on April 3. The information comes from Hotstar's Twitter account. The Tweet reads, “This is not a drill! The biggest Super Heroes, magical stories for everyone, exclusive Disney+ Originals and all that you've been waiting for are (finally) landing on Disney+ Hotstar. 3rd April. Really.” According to TechCrunch, the subscription fee for the service will go up from Rs 999 per annum to Rs 1499 per annum. Hopefully, we will get to see a bump in the streaming quality as well, but that is something we will know when the service is publicly available.  TechCrunch goes on to say that there is a more affordable plan priced at Rs 399. This plan will include movies from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) along with live sporting events and a catalogue of movies and shows along with Hotstar originals. The 399 plan will not include Disney+ Originals. The Rs 1499 plan, however, will offer

Xiaomi smartphones are set to get more expensive, and the company is putting the blame on the Indian government for it. Manu Kumar Jain, Xiaomi MD announced on Twitter that because of the hike in GST in smartphones, the company has no choice but to hike the prices, keeping its 5% profit philosophy in mind. GST on mobile phones saw a 50 per cent hike from 12 per cent in the last financial year to 18 per cent from April 1, 2020, onward. With Xiaomi’s philosophy of only making a 5 per cent margin on its hardware, the company has had to increase the prices of Mi and Redmi smartphones, as explained by Manu Kumar Jain on Twitter. Mi fans, #GST on mobile phones has increased by 50% from 12% to 18%. After much deliberation & in keeping with #Xiaomi policy of maintaining from Latest Technology News https://ift.tt/2UzkDGX via IFTTT

Ever since various countries, ours included went into lockdown, Houseparty, a video calling app shot through the roof in popularity. The app allows you to add contacts to your profile and as you video chat with someone, others on your friends list can join the conversation, without seeking permission. The app also offers games built-in that you can play with your friends during the video chat. Given the social distancing and isolation brought on by it, people turned to the app as a means of being digitally social. Now, the app has come under some serious fire for claims of stealing users banking details, trying to hack into their Netflix, Spotify accounts and more. Are these claims real? Where it all began Claims of Houseparty running rogue through the smartphone started early on Monday, with users taking to Twitter to report suspicious behaviour. Many tweets said “someone is trying to access my Uber account, two days after I installed Houseparty” and similar. Many users shared screen

Ever since various countries, ours included went into lockdown, Houseparty, a video calling app shot through the roof in popularity. The app allows you to add contacts to your profile and as you video chat with someone, others on your friends list can join the conversation, without seeking permission. The app also offers games built-in that you can play with your friends during the video chat. Given the social distancing and isolation brought on by it, people turned to the app as a means of being digitally social. Now, the app has come under some serious fire for claims of stealing users banking details, trying to hack into their Netflix, Spotify accounts and more. Are these claims real? Where it all began Claims of Houseparty running rogue through the smartphone started early on Monday, with users taking to Twitter to report suspicious behaviour. Many tweets said “someone is trying to access my Uber account, two days after I installed Houseparty” and similar. Many users shared screen

Redmi recently revealed the Redmi K30 Pro in China. Since Poco X2 was a rebranded Redmi K30, speculations were made that Poco F2 will be a rebranded Redmi K30 Pro. Further, an  XDA Developers member found some code which suggested that the Redmi K30 Pro may launch as a Poco branded phone, possibly the much-anticipated Poco F2. However, putting rumours to end, Poco GM has confirmed that Poco F2 won’t be a rebranded version of the Redmi K30 Pro. Poco GM, C Manmohan confirmed the latest development in an interactive Zoom meeting held with fans on March 30. He shared some new information, most important of which was that Poco F2 will be a new device and it won’t be a rebranded version of the Redmi K30 Pro. Moreover, he disclosed that the F2 is in the works. Further, those expecting a Poco F1 kind of surprise, he spilt some disappointing words as it will definitely not be priced around Rs 20,000 (~$265). In another development, the GM confirmed that the company is working on TWS earbuds.

Redmi recently revealed the Redmi K30 Pro in China. Since Poco X2 was a rebranded Redmi K30, speculations were made that Poco F2 will be a rebranded Redmi K30 Pro. Further, an  XDA Developers member found some code which suggested that the Redmi K30 Pro may launch as a Poco branded phone, possibly the much-anticipated Poco F2. However, putting rumours to end, Poco GM has confirmed that Poco F2 won’t be a rebranded version of the Redmi K30 Pro. Poco GM, C Manmohan confirmed the latest development in an interactive Zoom meeting held with fans on March 30. He shared some new information, most important of which was that Poco F2 will be a new device and it won’t be a rebranded version of the Redmi K30 Pro. Moreover, he disclosed that the F2 is in the works. Further, those expecting a Poco F1 kind of surprise, he spilt some disappointing words as it will definitely not be priced around Rs 20,000 (~$265). In another development, the GM confirmed that the company is working on TWS earbuds.

Bored during the lockdown? While the coronavirus-induced nation-wide lockdown is like a dream for introverts, the social butterflies may find it difficult not seeing the regular faces to talk to. Sure, your organisation has ramped up its infrastructure to support group video calls with its employees, but what about when you have to get together with your friends sitting at your home? We compiled a list of free group video calling apps that you can use to dial in and have a small party right on your phone’s screen. Here they are — Zoom Zoom has emerged as the undisputed champion among video calling apps during the lockdown. It has already surpassed TikTok and Instagram to become the most downloaded app in India with many organisations, colleges and schools relying on the app for business. You can also use it for your personal calls. 40 minutes chats on the app are free, post which you have to pay with plans starting from $14.99. The USP of the app is the number of people it can suppor

Bored during the lockdown? While the coronavirus-induced nation-wide lockdown is like a dream for introverts, the social butterflies may find it difficult not seeing the regular faces to talk to. Sure, your organisation has ramped up its infrastructure to support group video calls with its employees, but what about when you have to get together with your friends sitting at your home? We compiled a list of free group video calling apps that you can use to dial in and have a small party right on your phone’s screen. Here they are — Zoom Zoom has emerged as the undisputed champion among video calling apps during the lockdown. It has already surpassed TikTok and Instagram to become the most downloaded app in India with many organisations, colleges and schools relying on the app for business. You can also use it for your personal calls. 40 minutes chats on the app are free, post which you have to pay with plans starting from $14.99. The USP of the app is the number of people it can suppor

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic and the nationwide lockdown in India, people are working from home. When working from home, they are resorting to video conferencing apps to stay in touch with friends, family, and co-workers as well. One such app which has gained popularity is Zoom. To tell you the kind of popularity the service has gained, on the Google Play store it has been downloaded more than 100,000,000 times. To put things into perspective, on the Google Play Store, TikTok has been downloaded more than 500,000,000 times and WhatsApp has been downloaded more than 5,000,000,000 times.  Coming back to Zoom, it is a video conferencing app with the ability to have 100 people in a meeting. Since the app is used by business and consumers alike and is easy to use to set up conferences, it has become the go-to solution.  However, not everything was a bed of roses for the service. Turns out, the app was sending personal information back to Facebook, albeit unwittingly. After a massive up

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic and the nationwide lockdown in India, people are working from home. When working from home, they are resorting to video conferencing apps to stay in touch with friends, family, and co-workers as well. One such app which has gained popularity is Zoom. To tell you the kind of popularity the service has gained, on the Google Play store it has been downloaded more than 100,000,000 times. To put things into perspective, on the Google Play Store, TikTok has been downloaded more than 500,000,000 times and WhatsApp has been downloaded more than 5,000,000,000 times.  Coming back to Zoom, it is a video conferencing app with the ability to have 100 people in a meeting. Since the app is used by business and consumers alike and is easy to use to set up conferences, it has become the go-to solution.  However, not everything was a bed of roses for the service. Turns out, the app was sending personal information back to Facebook, albeit unwittingly. After a massive up

Motorola has pushed the sale date of the foldable Moto Razr from April 2 to April 15 in India. The sale has been postponed due to the nation-wide lockdown imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus. The lockdown also limits e-commerce portals to deliver only essential products at the moment. This is among multiple other steps the company has taken in adherence to the lockdown orders, including shutting its factories, offices and service centres. The lockdown imposed from March 23 will last till April 14. Post that, deliveries are expected to start normally. The foldable Moto Razr (first impressions) is priced Rs 1,24,999 and is set to be sold via Flipkart and in other offline stores. The phone comes with the Snapdragon 710 under the hood with 6GB RAM and 128GB storage. The highlight is, of course, the clamshell design borrowed from the older Moto Razr series, achieved through a bendable display measuring 6.2-inches when unfolded. There’s another screen on top of the body for notificat

Motorola has pushed the sale date of the foldable Moto Razr from April 2 to April 15 in India. The sale has been postponed due to the nation-wide lockdown imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus. The lockdown also limits e-commerce portals to deliver only essential products at the moment. This is among multiple other steps the company has taken in adherence to the lockdown orders, including shutting its factories, offices and service centres. The lockdown imposed from March 23 will last till April 14. Post that, deliveries are expected to start normally. The foldable Moto Razr (first impressions) is priced Rs 1,24,999 and is set to be sold via Flipkart and in other offline stores. The phone comes with the Snapdragon 710 under the hood with 6GB RAM and 128GB storage. The highlight is, of course, the clamshell design borrowed from the older Moto Razr series, achieved through a bendable display measuring 6.2-inches when unfolded. There’s another screen on top of the body for notificat

With two more weeks of the 21-day lockdown still left, there is surging demand in internet usage among Indians. This is also the time when a majority of people working from home could be exhausting their daily data limit before the day is over. As such, there is a need for additional data while people are working from home, and telecom companies are stepping up to cater to it. Majority of internet users in India rely on mobile data and wireless broadband for connectivity at home. The number, according to TRAI is at a whopping 642.90 million while a meagre 19.14 million use wired broadband connections. This means that a lot of professionals are using mobile data to work from home, and as a result, exhausting their data packs quickly. Telecom operators like Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea anyway offer additional data via top-up plans, but now the operators are raising the data limits in the main prepaid plans as well. Here we take a look at the most data-heavy and afford

With two more weeks of the 21-day lockdown still left, there is surging demand in internet usage among Indians. This is also the time when a majority of people working from home could be exhausting their daily data limit before the day is over. As such, there is a need for additional data while people are working from home, and telecom companies are stepping up to cater to it. Majority of internet users in India rely on mobile data and wireless broadband for connectivity at home. The number, according to TRAI is at a whopping 642.90 million while a meagre 19.14 million use wired broadband connections. This means that a lot of professionals are using mobile data to work from home, and as a result, exhausting their data packs quickly. Telecom operators like Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea anyway offer additional data via top-up plans, but now the operators are raising the data limits in the main prepaid plans as well. Here we take a look at the most data-heavy and afford

As the world grapples with social distancing, and India goes into what feels like its nth day of lockdown, YouTube has announced that they’re going to be changing the playback quality of the video playback to standard definition (SD) or more commonly known as 480p. The decision comes after Google observed a major uptake in the number of people streaming YouTube videos throughout the day. The move comes in the wake of the fact that more people are now stuck at home, whether working or not and hence, streaming more content as a means of passing the time. Across Europe, all streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime had reduced the default streaming quality as the infrastructure came under heavy load. Google says that the kind of uptake in traffic they’re seeing on YouTube “won't break the internet,” but the company is limiting the stream quality anyway to reduce the strain on ISP and telcos. In India, YouTube streaming has been capped at 480p, but only for mobile devices.

While all of Niantic’s games on smartphones encourage gamers to go outdoors and explore their world, the lockdown imposed upon various countries because of the coronavirus epidemic has made the game developer take a U-turn and introduce features that allow players to stay at home and play Niantic games. The game developer is behind two popular AR-based gaming titles — Pokemon GO and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. Both these titles are being adapted to support stay-at-home gaming since it’s no longer safe to venture outside and play these games. Some of the new features introduced to ensure you stay at home while playing includes the following — - Niantic’s Adventure Sync function will now track indoor steps like running on a treadmill, cleaning the house or making other indoor movements. - Niantic games will encourage in-game virtual meetups and let players stay in touch without having to meet in real life. - You can soon be able to team up with friends and take on raid battles in Pok

As the world grapples with social distancing, and India goes into what feels like its nth day of lockdown, YouTube has announced that they’re going to be changing the playback quality of the video playback to standard definition (SD) or more commonly known as 480p. The decision comes after Google observed a major uptake in the number of people streaming YouTube videos throughout the day. The move comes in the wake of the fact that more people are now stuck at home, whether working or not and hence, streaming more content as a means of passing the time. Across Europe, all streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime had reduced the default streaming quality as the infrastructure came under heavy load. Google says that the kind of uptake in traffic they’re seeing on YouTube “won't break the internet,” but the company is limiting the stream quality anyway to reduce the strain on ISP and telcos. In India, YouTube streaming has been capped at 480p, but only for mobile devices.

While all of Niantic’s games on smartphones encourage gamers to go outdoors and explore their world, the lockdown imposed upon various countries because of the coronavirus epidemic has made the game developer take a U-turn and introduce features that allow players to stay at home and play Niantic games. The game developer is behind two popular AR-based gaming titles — Pokemon GO and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. Both these titles are being adapted to support stay-at-home gaming since it’s no longer safe to venture outside and play these games. Some of the new features introduced to ensure you stay at home while playing includes the following — - Niantic’s Adventure Sync function will now track indoor steps like running on a treadmill, cleaning the house or making other indoor movements. - Niantic games will encourage in-game virtual meetups and let players stay in touch without having to meet in real life. - You can soon be able to team up with friends and take on raid battles in Pok

A leaked image has appeared online which shows the Oppo Reno Ace 2 sporting a quad-camera setup at the back. The rear cameras are aligned in a square (two on top and two below) but they are housed in a circular unit. If information circulating the internet is to be believed, then the smartphone will have a 48MP + 8MP + 2MP + 2MP rear camera setup. For the selfie camera, it will have a punch-hole camera with a 16MP sensor.  Coming to the specifications of the Oppo Reno Ace 2, the smartphone is speculated to have a 6.5-inch AMOLED display with an FHD+ resolution and 20:9 aspect ratio. Under the hood, the smartphone is speculated to have a Snapdragon 865 SoC coupled with up to 12GB RAM and 256GB storage.  The smartphone is speculated to have a 4000mAh battery and it seems the device will come with support for 40W wireless fast-charging and 65W fast charging when connected to the charger via a cable. The smartphone is expected to come in three colour options - Black, Blue, and Purple. I

After the launch of Huawei’s P40 series, it is the company’s sub-brand Honor’s turn to announce its upper mid-range device. Honor has announced the launch of the Honor 30S in China. The device is the first smartphone to use Huawei’s Kirin 820 chipset. The SoC out-performed the Snapdragon 855 in single-core tests on Geekbench 4. It also beats the Kirin 980 in both single-thread and multi-thread performance. Honor 30S features a  6.5-inch LCD display that supports 2400 x 1080 pixel resolution at 405 PPI. It offers an oleophobic layer on top of the screen. There’s no high refresh rate on this one though. It is powered by the newly-announced Huawei Kirin 820 5G chipset, paired with ARM Mali-G57MP6 GPU, 1 x NPU (Neural-network Processing Unit). The Kirin 820 5G has also visited the AnTuTu benchmark listing. It scored  375270 points.  On the optics front, the smartphone sports a quad rear camera setup: a 64MP camera with f/1.8 aperture + an 8MP ultra-wide-angle camera with an f/2.4 apertur

A leaked image has appeared online which shows the Oppo Reno Ace 2 sporting a quad-camera setup at the back. The rear cameras are aligned in a square (two on top and two below) but they are housed in a circular unit. If information circulating the internet is to be believed, then the smartphone will have a 48MP + 8MP + 2MP + 2MP rear camera setup. For the selfie camera, it will have a punch-hole camera with a 16MP sensor.  Coming to the specifications of the Oppo Reno Ace 2, the smartphone is speculated to have a 6.5-inch AMOLED display with an FHD+ resolution and 20:9 aspect ratio. Under the hood, the smartphone is speculated to have a Snapdragon 865 SoC coupled with up to 12GB RAM and 256GB storage.  The smartphone is speculated to have a 4000mAh battery and it seems the device will come with support for 40W wireless fast-charging and 65W fast charging when connected to the charger via a cable. The smartphone is expected to come in three colour options - Black, Blue, and Purple. I

After the launch of Huawei’s P40 series, it is the company’s sub-brand Honor’s turn to announce its upper mid-range device. Honor has announced the launch of the Honor 30S in China. The device is the first smartphone to use Huawei’s Kirin 820 chipset. The SoC out-performed the Snapdragon 855 in single-core tests on Geekbench 4. It also beats the Kirin 980 in both single-thread and multi-thread performance. Honor 30S features a  6.5-inch LCD display that supports 2400 x 1080 pixel resolution at 405 PPI. It offers an oleophobic layer on top of the screen. There’s no high refresh rate on this one though. It is powered by the newly-announced Huawei Kirin 820 5G chipset, paired with ARM Mali-G57MP6 GPU, 1 x NPU (Neural-network Processing Unit). The Kirin 820 5G has also visited the AnTuTu benchmark listing. It scored  375270 points.  On the optics front, the smartphone sports a quad rear camera setup: a 64MP camera with f/1.8 aperture + an 8MP ultra-wide-angle camera with an f/2.4 apertur

OnePlus will be launching its next smartphone, the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro on April 14. The launch event will be live-streamed through the OnePlus official website and YouTube. It will commence at 8:30 PM on April 14. However, ahead of the launch, a bunch of information about the two devices has leaked online. While there are still two weeks to go. we already know a lot about the duo. Here’s all we know about the two phones as of now. OnePlus 8 Pro specifications According to the tipster, OnePlus 8 Pro will sport a 6.78-inch Super AMOLED display with support for a 120Hz refresh rate. It will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 SoC. Further, the smartphone is likely to come with 8GB/12GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 128GB/256GB of UFS 3.0 internal storage.  As per previous leaks, OnePlus 8 Pro will feature a 48MP Sony IMX 689 primary sensor with an f/1.78 aperture + a 48MP Sony IMX ultra-wide-angle lens with an f/2.2 aperture and 120-degree field of view + an 8MP telephoto lens with 3

Reliance Jio has taken to Twitter to announce that Jio users can recharge their numbers from the nearest ATM. The telecom giant has tied up with nine banks for the same. The banks include State Bank of India, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Citi Bank, DCB Bank, AUF Bank, and Standard Chartered Bank. The following are the steps one can take to recharge their Jio number via an ATM.  Step 1: Insert your card in the machine. Step 2: Choose the “Recharge” option from the menu. Step 3: Enter the mobile number you want to recharge. Remember, it must be a Jio number. Step 4: Enter your ATM pin. Step 5: Enter the recharge amount.  Step 6: Confirm Step 7: You will see the confirmation message on the screen and the relevant amount will be deducted from your account.  Step 8: you will receive the message from Jio that your recharge is successful. The ability to recharge your Jio number via an ATM is another method to add convenience to users that want to recharge their smartphones. What isn’t

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has asked telecom service providers including Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and BSNL to extend the validity of prepaid plans amidst the Coronavirus lockdown in India. TRAI has asked telcos to ensure uninterrupted voice and data services for all users by increasing prepaid plan validity. In a letter dated March 29 to telecom companies, the telecom authority asked companies to take every measure to allow prepaid subscribers to continue enjoying unlimited services during the period of lockdown. TRAI has also asked for details from telecom providers on the measures they are taking to ensure service availability to customers on priority. More than 90 per cent of all subscribers in India use prepaid services. There are over 800 million active prepaid users. “Though the telecommunication services have been considered as essential services and thus granted an exception from closing down. However, lockdown may adversely affect the workin

Reliance Jio has taken to Twitter to announce that Jio users can recharge their numbers from the nearest ATM. The telecom giant has tied up with nine banks for the same. The banks include State Bank of India, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Citi Bank, DCB Bank, AUF Bank, and Standard Chartered Bank. The following are the steps one can take to recharge their Jio number via an ATM.  Step 1: Insert your card in the machine. Step 2: Choose the “Recharge” option from the menu. Step 3: Enter the mobile number you want to recharge. Remember, it must be a Jio number. Step 4: Enter your ATM pin. Step 5: Enter the recharge amount.  Step 6: Confirm Step 7: You will see the confirmation message on the screen and the relevant amount will be deducted from your account.  Step 8: you will receive the message from Jio that your recharge is successful. The ability to recharge your Jio number via an ATM is another method to add convenience to users that want to recharge their smartphones. What isn’t

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has asked telecom service providers including Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and BSNL to extend the validity of prepaid plans amidst the Coronavirus lockdown in India. TRAI has asked telcos to ensure uninterrupted voice and data services for all users by increasing prepaid plan validity. In a letter dated March 29 to telecom companies, the telecom authority asked companies to take every measure to allow prepaid subscribers to continue enjoying unlimited services during the period of lockdown. TRAI has also asked for details from telecom providers on the measures they are taking to ensure service availability to customers on priority. More than 90 per cent of all subscribers in India use prepaid services. There are over 800 million active prepaid users. “Though the telecommunication services have been considered as essential services and thus granted an exception from closing down. However, lockdown may adversely affect the workin

Realme 6 and Realme 6 Pro users will now be able to binge-watch Netflix in HD. The company’s CEO, Madhav Seth made the announcement via his Twitter account wherein he also noted that the new feature would be made available on both smartphones via an OTA update.  With the latest OTA updates, now you can make the most of your stay at home by enjoying Netflix in HD on #realme6 & #realme6Pro. Reply with what you guys are watching now. pic.twitter.com/3djRE0dbyA — Madhav @home (@MadhavSheth1) March 27, 2020 To recall, the Realme 6 and Realme 6 Pro smartphones were launched earlier this month with prices starting at Rs 12,999 and Rs 16,999 respectively. The Realme 6 features a 6.5-inch Full HD+ display with a resolution of 1080x2400p and a 90Hz refresh rate. The device is powered by a MediaTek Helio G90T SoC with 4GB, 6GB and 8GB RAM options. It is also available in two storage variants, namely 64GB and 128GB. Both can be expanded by up to 256GB via a microSD card.  In the camera depa

While there’s neither a vaccine nor a cocktail of antibiotics that can successfully cure a patient of COVID-19, it’s not entirely impossible to stop the Coronavirus epidemic. The key to curbing the contagion that has now infected 199 countries is to conduct extreme contact tracing. Health officials not only need to find and isolate infected patients, but also those who came in contact with that person. The Ebola virus outbreak that occurred in 2016 in Africa was contained using this method and experts believe, the novel Coronavirus can also be contained in a similar way. Tracing who the infected person came in contact with can get quite cumbersome, especially in a country like India with one of the highest population densities in the world. Officials may not be able find out the exact number of people who came in contact with an infected person by interviewing and interrogating. It’s also noted that nearly half the transmission occurs before the person even starts showing symptoms. Th

Realme 6 and Realme 6 Pro users will now be able to binge-watch Netflix in HD. The company’s CEO, Madhav Seth made the announcement via his Twitter account wherein he also noted that the new feature would be made available on both smartphones via an OTA update.  With the latest OTA updates, now you can make the most of your stay at home by enjoying Netflix in HD on #realme6 & #realme6Pro. Reply with what you guys are watching now. pic.twitter.com/3djRE0dbyA — Madhav @home (@MadhavSheth1) March 27, 2020 To recall, the Realme 6 and Realme 6 Pro smartphones were launched earlier this month with prices starting at Rs 12,999 and Rs 16,999 respectively. The Realme 6 features a 6.5-inch Full HD+ display with a resolution of 1080x2400p and a 90Hz refresh rate. The device is powered by a MediaTek Helio G90T SoC with 4GB, 6GB and 8GB RAM options. It is also available in two storage variants, namely 64GB and 128GB. Both can be expanded by up to 256GB via a microSD card.  In the camera depa

While there’s neither a vaccine nor a cocktail of antibiotics that can successfully cure a patient of COVID-19, it’s not entirely impossible to stop the Coronavirus epidemic. The key to curbing the contagion that has now infected 199 countries is to conduct extreme contact tracing. Health officials not only need to find and isolate infected patients, but also those who came in contact with that person. The Ebola virus outbreak that occurred in 2016 in Africa was contained using this method and experts believe, the novel Coronavirus can also be contained in a similar way. Tracing who the infected person came in contact with can get quite cumbersome, especially in a country like India with one of the highest population densities in the world. Officials may not be able find out the exact number of people who came in contact with an infected person by interviewing and interrogating. It’s also noted that nearly half the transmission occurs before the person even starts showing symptoms. Th

The time of lockdown has prompted people to turn to video conferencing as a means of conducting day-to-day business. Schools and business alike are using video conferencing in order to try and bring some semblance of normalcy to their operations and one app that has really come to the forefront is Zoom. However, as with everything that has ever been popular, people were quick to find problems with Zoom. Turns out, the app was sending personal information back to Facebook, albeit unwittingly. After a massive uproar, Zoom has removed the offending code. The issue started with Zoom using Facebook Login. The company said that they wanted to make it easy for users to log into the app, hence the Facebook login. The login feature is implemented using the Facebook SDK, which connects the users of the app to Facebook’s Graph API. Once users log in, the SDK can then share information with third parties, and it is this behaviour that has caused concern amongst users. Additionally, Zoom’s terms o

The time of lockdown has prompted people to turn to video conferencing as a means of conducting day-to-day business. Schools and business alike are using video conferencing in order to try and bring some semblance of normalcy to their operations and one app that has really come to the forefront is Zoom. However, as with everything that has ever been popular, people were quick to find problems with Zoom. Turns out, the app was sending personal information back to Facebook, albeit unwittingly. After a massive uproar, Zoom has removed the offending code. The issue started with Zoom using Facebook Login. The company said that they wanted to make it easy for users to log into the app, hence the Facebook login. The login feature is implemented using the Facebook SDK, which connects the users of the app to Facebook’s Graph API. Once users log in, the SDK can then share information with third parties, and it is this behaviour that has caused concern amongst users. Additionally, Zoom’s terms o

As the Coronavirus rips through India and with the entire country in a state of lockdown, major services and institutions remain closed or partially functioning. With a large number of people moving their work online, it was only natural that educational institutions also shifted their focus to a more flexible, digital platform. Academic institutions all over the country are making their way online, offering classes over the internet. Delhi University, among others, has now made the shift towards digital learning and even integrating Google Services to the University’s educational systems.  This shift in society has brought about the innovative use of technology as a way to communicate and learn. As we move towards an online-based society for the next two to three weeks, services like Zoom and Skype are also finding their way into the educational system, offering video-conferencing and other options to connect teachers with their students.  According to a report by NDTV, teachers in

As the Coronavirus rips through India and with the entire country in a state of lockdown, major services and institutions remain closed or partially functioning. With a large number of people moving their work online, it was only natural that educational institutions also shifted their focus to a more flexible, digital platform. Academic institutions all over the country are making their way online, offering classes over the internet. Delhi University, among others, has now made the shift towards digital learning and even integrating Google Services to the University’s educational systems.  This shift in society has brought about the innovative use of technology as a way to communicate and learn. As we move towards an online-based society for the next two to three weeks, services like Zoom and Skype are also finding their way into the educational system, offering video-conferencing and other options to connect teachers with their students.  According to a report by NDTV, teachers in