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Networking firm Cisco Systems will add Microsoft’s Teams messaging app to its meeting devices, the two firms said on Wednesday, offering users an alternative to its own Webex video conferencing app. Cisco’s Jeetu Patel, head of Security & Collaboration, said the company aims to be the hardware platform for a wide range of conferencing software

Amazon Great Indian Festival 2022 sale has entered its third week in India in a new ‘Extra Happiness Days’ avatar. The yearly sale that started on September 23 brings discounts on a wide variety of smartphones, home appliances, and electronic items. Amazon has also associated with different banks to offer additional instant discounts on purchases

India’s government will push Apple, Samsung, and other mobile phone manufacturers to prioritise rolling out software upgrades to support 5G in the country, amid concerns that many of their models are not ready for the recently launched high-speed service. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched 5G services on October 1 amid much fanfare, with leading telecom operator

Watchmen creator Alan Moore believes that “infantile” love for comic book superheroes could be a precursor to fascism. In an interview with The Guardian, the legendary comic writer, regarded for his work on Batman: The Killing Joke and V for Vendetta, expressed concerns about our culture’s obsession with superheroes. Moore believes comic books were always

Star Trek: Picard season 3 trailer is here. Following a sneak peek last month on Star Trek Day, Paramount+ has now dropped a full-length trailer for the Patrick Stewart-led space franchise, as he leads The Next Generation crew on a final mission. Appropriately subtitled “The Final Season,” this new chapter comprises of a total of

Taiwanese semiconductor companies attach “great importance” to complying with the law, the island’s government said on Saturday, signalling they would comply with new US export controls that aim to hobble China’s chip industry. The rules announced Friday by President Joe Biden’s administration include a measure to cut China off from certain chips made anywhere in the

India vs South Africa’s second ODI will have millions of eyes glued to their TV screens, as the Blue army attempts to bounce back from Thursday’s crushing defeat — losing by merely nine runs in Lucknow. With Team India’s main squad having departed to Australia for the ICC T20 World Cup, the responsibility now falls

China on Saturday criticized the latest US decision to tighten export controls that would make it harder for China to obtain and manufacture advanced computing chips, calling it a violation of international economic and trade rules that will “isolate and backfire” on the US. “Out of the need to maintain its sci-tech hegemony, the US abuses export

The Biden administration on Friday published a sweeping set of export controls, including a measure to cut China off from certain semiconductor chips made anywhere in the world with US equipment, vastly expanding its reach in its bid to slow Beijing’s technological and military advances. The rules, some of which go into effect immediately, build on

The Competition Commission of India has ordered another detailed probe against Google for alleged unfair revenue sharing terms with respect to news content. The case will be clubbed with two other ongoing matters against the search engine major where the allegations are substantially same, according to the Competition Commission of India (CCI). The latest order

Samsung Electronics flagged a worse-than-expected 32 percent drop in quarterly operating earnings on Friday, as an economic downturn slashed demand for electronic devices and the memory chips that go in them. Samsung’s memory chip shipments likely came in below already downgraded expectations and prices could fall further this quarter, analysts said, as customers react to

Bharti Airtel on Thursday said its 5G services have gone live in eight cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Siliguri, Nagpur and Varanasi. The customer availing 5G services will have to pay as per their existing 4G plan, it said. “Airtel has been at the forefront of India’s telecom revolution for the last 27

Apollo Global Management and Sixth Street Partners, which were looking to provide financing to Elon Musk earlier this year for his proposed $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,60,300 crore) buyout of Twitter, are no longer in talks with the billionaire entrepreneur, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Earlier this year, Apollo was in talks to

Amazon has suspended at least 50 warehouse employees who refused to work their shifts following a trash compactor fire at one of its New York facilities, according to union organisers. The company suspended the workers, with pay, on Tuesday, a day after the fire disrupted operations at the Staten Island warehouse that voted to unionise

Xbox Game Pass is getting at least 11 new games — that includes four day-one releases — in October 2022, Microsoft announced on Tuesday. (As tends to be the case, we’ve previously known about some of them.) Amongst new launches, we have the stealth action-adventure sequel A Plague Tale: Requiem, which releases October 18 globally

Amazon Great Indian Festival 2022 has entered its second week in India in a new ‘Happiness Upgrade Days’ avatar. The yearly sale brings discounts on a wide variety of electronics and appliances. Amazon has also associated with different banks to offer additional instant discounts on purchases made using their cards. Besides this, the e-commerce giant

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 has reportedly begun filming in the UK. As per The Hollywood Reporter, production is now underway for the Middle-earth prequel series, at Bray Studios, just outside London. The sophomore run was first announced back in 2019, with a later confirmation from co-showrunner J.D. Payne,

Telegram Premium — the popular messaging app’s monthly subscription service — is now cheaper for users in India. The Dubai-based company has officially announced a change in pricing for India via its messaging service, and the revised cost is already reflected on the app. The reduction in pricing for users in India comes months after