Honor, the sub brand of Huawei and once a popular player in the smartphone market, is set to go beyond smartphones and launch its laptops in India soon. The Chinese brand has its MagicBook family of Windows 10-based laptops that debuted in China back in April 2018. Alongside the laptops, Honor is set to bring
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Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the lights on at MakeUseOf. Read more. Gateron, a top-tier manufacturer of mechanical switches for keyboards, announced their newest and greatest products for 2020: a range of colored switches which include magnetic, low-profile, waterproof, tactile, linear, and clicky options. Most are simply upgrades of
Fortnite is well known for its in-game crossover events with pop culture franchises like Star Wars and Stranger Things. But Epic Games’ hot property often ropes in celebrities for some exclusive new content as well. Remember the Marshmello skin that hit the game recently? The studio has now collaborated with another personality who is arguably
Facebook has announced to match up to $1 million (Australian dollars) (roughly Rs. 4.9 crores) in donations made to non-profit organisation GlobalGiving and donating $250,000 (roughly Rs. 1.2 crores) to the Australian Red Cross towards bushfires relief efforts. Currently, Facebook Disaster Maps in Australia are being used by a range of national and international relief, response,
Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the lights on at MakeUseOf. Read more. While unlocked phones dominate the market in developing countries, many people in the US and UK are used to buying carrier-locked devices. But this results in them missing out on the benefits of unlocked phones. So what
It has been five and a half years since Xiaomi entered the India market back in July 2014. The Chinese company started its journey with the Mi 3, but with the passage of time, it shifted significantly to the Redmi brand. Till date, Xiaomi launched over 40 smartphones in the country under the Mi, Redmi,
Amazon said Tuesday it was bringing back FedEx for deliveries of some of its Prime orders sold through third parties after banning the freight service during the holiday period. The online retail giant said FedEx, which had been suspended amid concerns over its performance, could now be used by third-party merchants for Prime orders. FedEx
Samsung Galaxy S20 is yet to be unveiled officially. But ahead of the formal announcement next month, a purported hands-on video has surfaced online. The new Samsung flagship phone is rumoured to have a 120Hz display with 20:9 aspect ratio, while retaining the ultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensor that we saw on the Galaxy S10 models
In a new catalogue compiled by researchers, nine sources of extremely high-energy gamma rays have been identified. All nine sources produce gamma rays with energies over 56 trillion electron volts (TeV) — more than eight times the energy of the most powerful proton beams produced at particle accelerators on Earth — and three emit gamma
Indian television manufacturer Vu has always been a formidable name in the segment, largely thanks to affordability and features. With a strong hold on the affordable feature-filled segment, Vu has launched its latest product range to go up against manufacturers such as Xiaomi, OnePlus, Samsung, and LG. The Vu Cinema TV range, launched today, is
Twitter is considering a feature that would allow users to tip one another – in Bitcoins though. The Information reports that the micro-blogging platform is working on implementing a new payment feature to let people send money to each other. It is not yet clear whether the Twitter tipping feature would integrate with Jack Dorsey’s
Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the lights on at MakeUseOf. Read more. Reddit has banned impersonation unless it’s for parody and satire. This includes deepfakes and other forms of manipulated content that’s presented to mislead people. So, Redditors are on notice that Reddit will be cracking down on the
Apple and the US government are at loggerheads for the second time in four years over unlocking iPhones connected to a mass shooting, reviving debate over law enforcement access to encrypted devices. Attorney General Bill Barr said Monday that Apple failed to provide “substantive assistance” in unlocking two iPhones in the investigation into the December
Honor 9X was launched in India on Tuesday, and is a model that’s significantly different from the Honor 9X that launched in China in mid-2019. The smartphone is priced starting at Rs. 13,999 in India, and that pits it against popular smartphones like the Redmi Note 8 Pro and the Realme 5 Pro. Both those
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has discovered a major security flaw in Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system that could let hackers intercept seemingly secure communications. But rather than exploit the flaw for its own intelligence needs, the NSA tipped off Microsoft so that it can fix the system for everyone. Microsoft released a free
Honor 9X, Honor Magic Watch 2, and Honor Band 5i were launched in India on Tuesday. The Honor 9X launched in India is the phone’s global variant and has a different set of specifications compared to the Honor 9X phone that went official in China back in July last year. It is very similar to
Amazon is investing fresh $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,089 crores) in India, CEO Jeff Bezos announced while speaking at the small and medium businesses (SMBs) focussed Amazon Smbhav event in New Delhi on Wednesday. The US e-commerce giant has also revealed that it is set to export $10 billion (roughly Rs. 70,890 crores) of India-manufactured
Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the lights on at MakeUseOf. Read more. Cloud gaming is an interesting idea. Instead of buying a games console or a gaming PC, you buy a subscription to a cloud gaming service. You stream PC games to your monitor or TV instead of installing
Honor has today launched a trio of new products in India – the Honor 9X phone, the Honor Magic Watch 2 smartwatch, and the Honor Band 5i fitness band. The Honor 9X launched in India is the phone’s global variant and has a different set of specifications compared to the Honor 9X phone that went
Chinese handset maker Vivo is set to show off its third-generation Apex concept smartphone at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2020 in Barcelona between February 23 and 24, promoting the concept phone with the slogan “Empower the Next”, as per an invite sent to the press. This makes it the third year that the smartphone
Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the lights on at MakeUseOf. Read more. So, you’ve got a new Amazon Fire Stick. It’s ready for you to enjoy Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, Netflix, and more. But what if you want to install other apps on it? To do that, you’ll need
Xiaomi on Tuesday announced that it sold over 1 million devices in a single day in the offline market on January 10, 2020 which coincides with the anniversary of the beginning of the company’s offline expansion, which started in Q1 2017. Sold devices include smartphones, Mi TVs, Mi ecosystem and accessory products, of which smartphones
Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi has reportedly patented a smartphone with a display that almost completely covers the smartphone body. As with all patents, it is uncertain whether the concept will make its way to a commercial product – we’ll have to wait and see. The newer device could follow the same philosophy as the Mi
Although once considered in the same league as brands such as Sony, Samsung, and LG, Japanese electronics brand Panasonic remains at the top of its game. The company is still among the better brands available when it comes to televisions and audio products, and has launched new products in both of these segments at CES
Microsoft’s LinkedIn became the latest technology company to establish a new campus in Dublin on Friday when it signed a 25-year lease to add three adjacent office blocks to its new European headquarters. The social network for professionals said last June that it would increase its Irish-based workforce to 2,000 from 1,200 over the next
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A new patent that surfaced in the US Patent and Trademark Office suggests that Apple is working on the next version of its fancy stylus, the 3rd gen Apple Pencil with more advanced gestures. Apple Pencil could come with support for more gestures beyond the double-tap input that the 2nd gen Pencil offers, AppleInsider reported
Honor 9X has finally gone official in India. Positioned in one of the most hotly contested price brackets, the Honor 9X tries to stand out with its eye-catching design and a pop-up selfie camera. This phone is your typical mid-range affair, with a triple rear camera setup and a sufficiently large battery. The Honor 9X
With a 23.8 percent market share Lenovo dominated the worldwide PC shipments that totalled 70.6 million units in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2019, a 2.3 percent increase from Q4 of 2018, a report by Gartner said on Tuesday. For the year 2019, PC shipments surpassed 261 million units, showing a 0.6 percent growth from
Honor 9X is set to launch in India today. Huawei sub-brand Honor is hosting the launch event at 12:30pm (noon) IST in New Delhi. Alongside the Honor 9X, the brand is launching the Honor Magic Watch 2 and Honor Band 5i at the venue. The Honor 9X was launched in China alongside the Honor 9X