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Corsair VOID RGB SE is a wireless gaming headphone primarily aimed at marathon gamers who will be wearing the headphones for really long time
If you ever built a PC on your own there is a fair chance that it had a Corsair power supply unit. Corsair has been building PC peripherals for more than a decade now and has of late started offering gaming peripherals.
A good gaming headphone need not do much, other than deliver the right combination of comfort and sound. A mix of great design will alway

Fossil Q Wander and Q Marshal are the latest Android Wear smartwatches with smaller watch case and optional silicone strap (Source: Fossil Group)
Fossil has announced two new smartwatches in its Android Wear lineup. The new watches are called Q Wander and Q Marshal and they follow the Q Founder launched late last year.
Both Q Wander and Q Marshal are powered by Android Wear and feature smaller watch case than Q Founder. The Q Wander has a 44mm watch case while the Q Marshal comes with a 46mm ca

Fossil Q Wander and Q Marshal are the latest Android Wear smartwatches with smaller watch case and optional silicone strap (Source: Fossil Group)
Fossil has announced two new smartwatches in its Android Wear lineup. The new watches are called Q Wander and Q Marshal and they follow the Q Founder launched late last year.
Both Q Wander and Q Marshal are powered by Android Wear and feature smaller watch case than Q Founder. The Q Wander has a 44mm watch case while the Q Marshal comes with a 46mm ca

Ricoh Theta S is a lightweight, portable camera which can capture images in 360 degrees At the time of writing this review, I have my Facebook Timeline open in another window. My timeline is dominated by photos and most of them are selfies. In fact, selfies are so popular that Facebook has learned to classify them, but photos are becoming a thing of the past and one of the best example of that has to be the video profiles on Facebook.
We are consuming more videos than ever before. So if we can

The Vibe X3 is fast, great-looking, and an all-around solid choice to watch movies and videos There might be numerous Chinese mobile phone handset makers in India, but devices from Lenovo Group, the world’s biggest personal computer maker, are making a big splash in the marketplace here. Of late, the brand become more alert and customer-centric; both Lenovo and Motorola have products that cover the entire spectrum, from premium to mid-range and entry-level products. Lenovo is also aggress

The Vibe X3 is fast, great-looking, and an all-around solid choice to watch movies and videos There might be numerous Chinese mobile phone handset makers in India, but devices from Lenovo Group, the world’s biggest personal computer maker, are making a big splash in the marketplace here. Of late, the brand become more alert and customer-centric; both Lenovo and Motorola have products that cover the entire spectrum, from premium to mid-range and entry-level products. Lenovo is also aggress

The Moto X Force is one of the best looking flagships around. It seems like a phone that will last and the meshed finish on the back gives a sense of reassurance seldom found in smartphones. But the design might appear a bit too manly for some users. There are very few smartphone users who haven’t suffered the heartbreak of a shattered screen. There are some of us who are so traumatised by the fall that we end up carrying the shattered screen as a testament of the time when time itself ca

The Moto X Force is one of the best looking flagships around. It seems like a phone that will last and the meshed finish on the back gives a sense of reassurance seldom found in smartphones. But the design might appear a bit too manly for some users. There are very few smartphone users who haven’t suffered the heartbreak of a shattered screen. There are some of us who are so traumatised by the fall that we end up carrying the shattered screen as a testament of the time when time itself ca

Companies that manufacture and innovate consumer electronics are on a roll again and there again you are on a lookout for newer products. It’s that time of the year again, when you expect trends of various sorts coming your way and then there are products that are here to stay. Companies that manufacture and innovate consumer electronics are on a roll again and there again you are on a lookout for newer products.
Wearable technology is being adapted vastly across the globe to fulfill the

Google Maps will now let you check for an Uber or Ola from within the Android app.
Google Maps will now let check out if an Uber or Ola is available in the vicinity from the app itself. Google announced the same on its official Maps blog, saying that the app will now show users “a dedicated tab with information for ride services—in addition to the existing car, transit, walking, or biking options.”
Google has tied up with Uber globally, and has added new providers across five c

Xiaomi Redmi Note 3’s next sale is now on March 23 on Amazon India and Mi.com. Here’s a quick look at top specs, review. 
Update: Xiaomi Redmi Note 3’s next sale is now on March 23 on Amazon India and Mi.com. Users will have to go the Amazon.co.in to register for this sale.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 goes on its second sale on Amazon India today at 2 pm. Xiaomi didn’t reveal any specific numbers for the last sale which took place on March 9, although the phone was sold

Once the user selects a service, they will be directed to the Uber or Ola app to request the ride with one tap.(Reuters) Tech giant Google today said it has partnered cab hailing apps Uber and Ola to allow users in India to check if a taxi is available in the vicinity from the Google Maps app.
“When you search for directions using the latest version of Google Maps on your mobile, we’ll show you a dedicated tab with information for cab services… you’ll be able to compare

The US founding fathers “would be appalled” by a Department of Justice request to unlock an encrypted iPhone, Apple Inc said on Tuesday in its final brief before a court showdown next week. Apple is fighting a court order obtained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation last month, which requires the company to write new software to disable passcode protection and allow access to the phone used by one of the San Bernardino, California shooters, Rizwan Farook.
Apple on Tuesday said Con

Facebook’s photo-sharing platform Instagram is testing a new feature for more personalised feed that would show posts according to the user’s interest.
The reorganised feed relies on an algorithm to sort images and videos based on what users are likely to be most interested in, resembling the feature of its parent company Facebook, The Verge reported on Tuesday.
The social media platform currently organises feeds from newest to oldest.
According to Instagram co-founder and chief exec

The Google Map app also supports Uber or Ola cab services in major cities in India.(Image Source: Screenshot) In a bid to make navigation around big cities easy, search engine giant Google on Wednesday updated its Google Maps app that now shows a dedicated tab with information for cab services in addition to the existing driving, public transport or walking options.
So next time when you leave work to meet a friend for dinner or to meet a client in a new city, you will be able to compare all th

Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 goes on sale at 2 pm today on Amazon India and Mi.com. Here’s a quick look at top specs, review.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 goes on its second sale on Amazon India today at 2 pm. Xiaomi didn’t reveal any specific numbers for the last sale which took place on March 9, although the phone was sold-out last time.
The Redmi Note 3 has received mostly positive reviews so far across the board, with the only exception being its camera, which doesn’t really work so well in

Sony PlayStation VR Headset will cost $399 and goes on sale in October 2016.
Sony PlayStation VR headset has been announced by the company at the annual Game Developers Conference. Sony has priced its VR headset at $399, and it will go on sale in October 2016.
The Sony PlayStation VR headset has a 5.7-inch full HD OLED display, a refresh rate of 120 Hz, 360 degrees sensor tracking, 9 LEDs, 100 degree field of view and a latency rate of less than 18ms.
Sony PlayStation VR headset will work

Instagram is making big changes to its News Feed. It will now show posts that a user will like on top compared to latest posts.
Instagram users could soon notice something different in their feeds: Instead of showing users the most recent posts first, the mobile photo-sharing app says it will give higher priority to posts that each user is likely to care about most.
If that sounds familiar, it’s because that’s how Facebook decides what to show users of its online social network. Fac

InFocus Bingo 50 costs Rs 7,499 and comes with Android M update. Here’s our review of the new smartphone.
American brand InFocus seems to have its eyes set on the budget phone segment as it rolled out two phones, under the Bingo series, back-to-back in February and March this year. The latest entrant, InFocus Bingo 5o, is the most expensive phone so far in this series. The budget phone market, already heavily fragmented by the influx of Chinese imports, has seen price brackets drop and sp

Apple has said that the US founding fathers would be appalled by the US government’s request in the San Bernandino iPhone encryption case.
The US founding fathers “would be appalled” by a Department of Justice request to unlock an encrypted iPhone, Apple Inc said on Tuesday in its final brief before a court showdown next week.
Apple is fighting a court order obtained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation last month, which requires the company to write new software to disable

As wearable devices grow and screens shrink, a team of Indian-origin researchers has developed a new sonar technology that allows you to interact with smarwatches by writing or gesturing on any nearby surface — a tabletop, a sheet of paper or even in mid-air.
Called FingerIO, it tracks fine-grained finger movements by turning a smartphone or smartwatch into an active sonar system using the device’s own microphones and speakers.
Because sound waves travel through fabric and do not req

Despite India saying no to Free Basics and going for net neutrality, the social networking giant eyes big growth in Asia than any other parts of the world, a top Facebook executive told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Tuesday.
According to Dan Neary, Facebook’s vice president for Asia Pacific, “the potential is greater in Asia-Pacific than it is in any other region because we’ve got two thirds of the world’s population, and it’s all mobile.”
Neary said that F

Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad.
AT A time when the Internet governance architecture is under transition, India’s push for a multi-stakeholder model that envisages a pivotal role for the government in managing cyberspace has found traction among other countries, especially in the backdrop of threats from terror groups, said Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad.
The role of the government as “a