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Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 and Le 1s are currently the best smartphone for those with budget under Rs 12,000
It was a fierce battle between Le 1s and Lenovo K4 Note for budget smartphone crown but Xiaomi is in no intention to let them win easily. Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 launched two days back at Rs 9,999 shows how an experienced player can continue to disrupt the market.
If numbers are anything to go by, Le 1s has already notched sales of over 2 lakh devices in just three flash sales before making it

Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 and Le 1s are currently the best smartphone for those with budget under Rs 12,000
It was a fierce battle between Le 1s and Lenovo K4 Note for budget smartphone crown but Xiaomi is in no intention to let them win easily. Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 launched two days back at Rs 9,999 shows how an experienced player can continue to disrupt the market.
If numbers are anything to go by, Le 1s has already notched sales of over 2 lakh devices in just three flash sales before making it

Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 and Le 1s are currently the best smartphone for those with budget under Rs 12,000
It was a fierce battle between Le 1s and Lenovo K4 Note for budget smartphone crown but Xiaomi is in no intention to let them win easily. Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 launched two days back at Rs 9,999 shows how an experienced player can continue to disrupt the market.
If numbers are anything to go by, Le 1s has already notched sales of over 2 lakh devices in just three flash sales before making it

THE way the Internet has penetrated our lives has led to unimaginable amounts of electronic data being created, stored and exchanged every day. Needless to say, there is extreme paranoia that this data may get lost or damaged. And yet, this happens on a daily basis, though most of the data is retrieved or ‘repaired’ through a variety of measures.
A common approach adopted by many firms to address the issue is to store a copy of every bit of data on three different hard disks. This wo

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is shown with flight engineer Sergey Volkov (R) from the International Space Station (Source: Reuters)
The view of rainbow-hued Himalayan lakes and steady work helped Scott Kelly stay sane during the 340 days he spent aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the NASA astronaut said days after returning to Earth from the record-setting mission.
Kelly and his Russian counterpart, Mikhail Kornienko, spent nearly a year on the ISS studying the effects of radiation, w

Freedom 251 mobile: Domestic feature phone brand Advantage Computers’ (Adcom) has said it may consider a legal action against Ringing Bells, the Noida-based start-up, which claimed to manufacture the world’s cheapest smartphone.
Adcom founder and chairman Sanjeev Bhatia said the manufacturer of Rs. 251 (less that USD 4) smartphone, distributed the Adcom handsets to the media during the launch last month.
“We are deeply grieved by this incident where our mobile phone has been pr

BlackBerry plans to revive BBM with new features and security after WhatsApp decides to end support at the end of 2016
BlackBerry is exploring alternatives to make working on BBM, its messaging platform, “more convenient and fun” to support users after rival WhatsApp announced to stop its support to Canadian firm’s operating system from later this year.
WhatsApp, which has over a billion users globally, had earlier this week said it will end support for BlackBerry phones and t

BlackBerry is working to make BBM, its messaging platform, “more convenient and fun” after WhatsApp ended support for BlackBerry 10 OS. Seen here is BBM on Apple Watch. (Source: BlackBerry blog)
BlackBerry is exploring alternatives to make working on BBM, its messaging platform, “more convenient and fun” to support users after rival WhatsApp announced to stop its support to Canadian firm’s operating system from later this year.
WhatsApp, which has over a billion us

Assassin’s Creed Identity feels as immersive as many of its editions do on consoles and PCs
Mobile devices and games might be far more popular, but for many people, the console remains the ultimate gaming device. Which is perhaps why we keep hearing about games on mobile devices with “console quality” graphics and sound — the iconic Infinity Blade series is a prime example of this. But while many games have tried to recapture the magic of console gaming, not many have be

Internet giant Google has confirmed that it would remove some search results from all of its sites starting next week within the European Union. The California-based tech giant confirmed that in response to discussions with regulators, the company would begin delisting from all sites, beginning next week, if Google detects that a search user is in the EU, the Verge reported.
“Starting next week, in addition to our existing practice, we will also use geolocation signals (like IP addresses)

Federal Law Enforcement officers have claimed in their filing in a court that some criminals are switching to Apple iPhones to escape from their wrongdoings due to Apple’s strong encryption policy.
The brief by the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association and two others also cited a jailhouse phone call intercepted by New York authorities in 2015, in which an inmate called Apple’s encrypted operating system a ‘gift from God’, Reuters reported.
Last week a federal judg

Location-based dating and social discovery application Tinder is encouraging users to share profiles with their friends.
The company is testing a button that lets the users share a link to a profile. The link expires after five clicks or 72 hours, the Verge reported.
Tinder was founded by Sean Rad, Jonathan Badeen, Justin Mateen, Joe Munoz, Whitney Wolfe, Dinesh Moorjani and Chris Gylczynski.
The app won TechCrunch’s Crunchie Award for ‘Best New Startup of 2013’.

Tech giant Microsoft is planning to unveil its universal Xbox apps by the end of March. The software giant is expected to launch the number of apps at the Build conference in San Francisco on March 30, the Verge reported.
“We will discuss our next steps with the Universal Windows Platform at //build later this month,” Xbox chief Phil Spencer tweeted.
“Windows has always been an open ecosystem welcoming the contributions of hardware and software partners, and will always continu

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly says gained 1 inch but lost it almost as soon as he stood on solid ground (Source: AP)
Fresh from a year in space, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly said Friday his muscles and joints ache. His skin is so sensitive it burns when he sits or walks. And he can’t sink a basketball shot.
He’s surprised not necessarily about his basketball skills, but everything else. After his previous half-year space station mission five years ago, he wasn’t nearly this tired o

SpaceX has another launch under its belt, but not another rocket landing (Source: SpaceX/Flickr)
SpaceX has another launch under its belt, but not another rocket landing.
The leftover first-stage booster hit the floating platform hard Friday, said SpaceX chief Elon Musk. The company never expected to nail this landing, he said, because of the faster speed of the booster that was required to deliver the satellite to an extra-high orbit.
SpaceX scored a rocket landing on the ground at Cape Canave

A security researcher has claimed that San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone 5c could have been used to infiltrate cyber pathogen in the county
A local prosecutor has offered an unusual justification for forcing Apple to help hack an iPhone used by a San Bernardino mass killer: The phone might have been “used as a weapon” to introduce malicious software to county computer systems. San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael Ramos acknowledged to The Associated Press that there&r

NASA’s New Horizons team has discovered a chain of exotic methane stretching across a dark expanse on Pluto (Source: NASA)
NASA’s New Horizons team has discovered a chain of exotic methane snowcapped mountains stretching across a dark expanse on Pluto.
One of Pluto’s most identifiable features, Cthulhu Regio stretches nearly halfway around Pluto’s equator, starting from the west of the great nitrogen ice plains known as Sputnik Planum.
Measuring about 3,000 kilometres lo

China plans to land a probe on Mars in 2021 to coincide with the 100th anniversary of founding of the ruling-Communist Party of China
China plans to land a probe on Mars in 2021 to coincide with the 100th anniversary of founding of the ruling-Communist Party of China and a decade after its first failed mission in 2011, after which India, US, Russia and EU stole the march.
“China is likely to launch a Mars probe in 2020. After months of flying, the probe is expected to land in Mars at the

China aims to become a world leader in advanced industries such as semiconductors and in the next generation of chip materials, robotics, aviation equipment and satellites (Source: Reuters)
China aims to become a world leader in advanced industries such as semiconductors and in the next generation of chip materials, robotics, aviation equipment and satellites, the government said in its blueprint for development between 2016 and 2020.
In its new draft five-year development plan unveiled on Satu

Assassin’s Creed Identity feels as immersive as many of its editions do on consoles and PCs
Mobile devices and games might be far more popular, but for many people, the console remains the ultimate gaming device. Which is perhaps why we keep hearing about games on mobile devices with “console quality” graphics and sound — the iconic Infinity Blade series is a prime example of this. But while many games have tried to recapture the magic of console gaming, not many have be

Apple plans to sell refurbished iPhones in India soon, seeks permission from the government
Tech giant Apple has sought permission from the government to import pre-owned iPhones for sale in India, Parliament was informed today.
“An application from Apple regarding import of certified pre-owned iPhones for sale in India and manufacturing certified pre-owned iPhones for sale in India has been received in the Ministry of Environment and Forests,” Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad s