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About 15,000 people have registered to attend global tech show CES in person in the past 10 days, the organiser said on Friday, in a sign of momentum for in-person events despite global fears about the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. In total, “tens of thousands” of people have registered so far for the show,

Xiaomi 12 series is expected to be announced as a successor to the Xiaomi 11 lineup of smartphones later this month. Various leaks and reports have hinted that the upcoming Xiaomi 12 series will comprise of four models. These rumoured handsets include Xiaomi 12, Xiaomi 12X, Xiaomi 12 Pro, and Xiaomi 12 Ultra. The launch

Samsung is believed to working on two sets of tablets – Galaxy Tab S8 and Galaxy Tab A8. These tablets are expected to be officially announced anytime during this month. A recent leak by a tipster has suggested the memory, storage, and colour options that might be available when the Galaxy Tab S8 series is

Oppo Find X4 is reportedly in the pipeline. Ahead of any official announcement from the Chinese smartphone giant, some specifications along with price details of the handset have been leaked by a tipster. Oppo Find X4 is tipped to come with 120Hz refresh rate and the latest Mediatek Dimensity 9000 SoC. Additionally, Oppo Find X4

Acer Aspire Vero has been launched in India, featuring a 30 percent post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic chassis to cut carbon emissions, which is also used on the screen’s bezel and the keyboard. The laptop runs on an 11th-Gen Intel Core processor under the hood. The laptop is equipped with 8GB of RAM and offers 512GB

The Game Awards 2021 is scheduled to be held on Thursday evening in the US / Friday morning in India. The awards will highlight the best game of the year, game direction, indie games, art direction, score and music, audio design, as well as the best games in various categories. There are a total of

Microsoft is offering 50 percent off its cloud-based Microsoft 356 Personal and Family subscriptions as part of the company’s efforts to turn software pirates into paying customers. The company is reportedly nudging users who have unlicensed versions of Microsoft Office installed on their computers to subscribe at a discounted price for the first year. Microsoft

Samsung Galaxy S21 FE has leaked multiple times in the past. Ahead of an official announcement from the South Korean smartphone brand, a new report now claims that the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE will debut with One UI 4.0 based on Google’s latest operating system Android 12. The phone was earlier speculated to launch this

Google on Wednesday released its 2021 Year in Search report to reveal the top search trends of the year in India and around the world. While cricket continued to top the charts this year with the ‘Indian Premier League’ and ‘ICC T20 World Cup’ emerging on the top spots in the overall list of leading

Worldwide consumer spending on apps is projected to reach $133 billion (roughly Rs. 10,03,835 crore) in 2021, the latest Sensor Tower report says. This suggests a 19.7 percent year-over-year (YoY) growth from $111.1 billion (roughly Rs. 8,38,475 crore) in 2020, nearly mirroring the 21 percent YoY growth consumer spending in 2019. TikTok will be the

The third-biggest Bitcoin holder on record has just made a whopping BTC 2,700 addition to their kitty — worth $137 million (roughly Rs. 1,033.63 crore) after the price of Bitcoin hit a critical support level of $50,000 (roughly Rs. 37.72 crore). Bitcoin whale accounts have been actively selling over the past week, especially since the

Realme GT 2 Pro announcement is taking place on Thursday, December 9, the Chinese company announced on Weibo on Tuesday. The new Realme phone is already confirmed to have Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC that was unveiled earlier this month. It is also claimed to be the company’s “first-ever ultra-premium flagship” that could be

Apple captured the top position as global shipments for wearables grew 9.9 percent year-on-year (YoY) during the third quarter of 2021 (3Q21) reaching a total of 138.4 million units, according to a new report by the International Data Corporation (IDC). The wearables category includes true wireless stereo (TWS) earphones as well as wrist-worn wearables like

Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra, Galaxy Tab S8+, and the vanilla Galaxy Tab S8 are expected to be the upcoming flagship tablets from the South Korean electronic giant. The official-looking renders of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 models have surfaced online, showing the design and a few specifications. In the leaked renders, Samsung Galaxy Tab

The Matrix Resurrections final trailer is here — in English, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu. The new trailer sets up how Keanu Reeves’ Neo and Carrie-Anne Moss’ Trinity — spoiler alert for an 18-year-old movie, both died in 2003’s The Matrix Revolutions — are back. It also confirms the role in place for Jonathan Groff (he’s

Audible has announced the launch of more than 100 audiobooks for free via Alexa, including English titles such as “A Selection of the Cases of Sherlock Holmes”, “A Tale of Two Cities”, “The Complete Chanakya Neeti”, “The Mystic Sinners”, and “On The Double”. Hindi audiobooks such as “21 Shreshth Kahaniyan Prem Chand”, and “Shiv Puran”

Traffic jams usually happen on roads meant for motorised vehicles. It’s unusual for a pedestrian sidewalk to get jammed by automated cars, simply because they are not meant to take the route. But this is exactly what has happened in Estonia. Heavy snowfall has led the pedestrian sidewalk to get crowded by a number of

Bitcoin shed a fifth of its value on Saturday as a combination of profit-taking and macro-economic concerns triggered nearly a billion dollars worth of selling across cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin was 12 percent down at 9:20 GMT at $47,495 (roughly Rs. 35.76 lakhs). It fell as low as $41,967.5 (roughly Rs. 31.60 lakhs) during the session, taking total