Author: Kavish

Snapdragon India on Wednesday announced that it will soon launch new Snapdragon X CPUs in India. First unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025 last month, the chipsets aim to compete with affordable offerings from other companies such as Intel and AMD. Similar to their global counterparts, the Snapdragon X CPUs are likely to offer support for artificial intelligence (AI) features, leveraging a dedicated neural processing unit (NPU). The company expects its new platform to power laptops priced under $600 (roughly Rs. 51,400) globally, and a similar strategy could also be adopted for the Indian markets.Qualcomm Snapdragon X CPUs…

General Motors was the first company to offer a hands-off driving assistant, beating Ford to the punch. Yet Ford has quickly surpassed GM in terms of how many hands-free capable vehicles are on the roads. A lot of this comes down to how widely available each company makes its technology. General Motors beat Ford to the punch, offering a hands-free driving assistant years before the Blue Oval could match that capability. First to market doesn’t mean first place, though, as Ford proved Wednesday. The company announced that it has 675,000 BlueCruise-enabled vehicles on the road today. That’s nearly double the number…

Pokemon TCG Pocket introduced a new Special Condition with the Space-Time Smackdown expansion: Confused. Special Conditions are debuffs that affect the opponent’s Active Pokemon, causing them to lose HP or restricting certain actions for them like retreating or attacking. Naturally, many Pokemon Pocket players are curious about how the new Confusion effect will work—will it follow the physical Pokemon TCG’s mechanics, or will it be reworked? Here’s everything you need to know. Related Pokemon Pocket: Pokemon Tools, Explained Pokemon Tools are the latest addition to Pokemon TCG Pocket, and this guide explains how they differ from their counterparts in the…

“OpenAI is looking for ways to expand its India presence, which is a natural process since India is one of the biggest developer ecosystems for the company. With multiple competitors within the US itself, and now coupled with the emergence of China as a force to reckon with, the company is in process of doubling down on its India presence. It has already begun discussing ways to localize its Indian citizens’ data in domestic data centres, in anticipation of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. The move to localize data operations is likely to commence soon,” one of the…

Xiaomi 15 Ultra is all set to launch later this month. Xiaomi’s founder via the Chinese social media website has confirmed the arrival of the much-awaited Xiaomi 15 series smartphone in its home country on Wednesday.  The camera-centric flagship phone will be unveiled alongside Xiaomi’s latest electric SUV. The Xiaomi 15 Ultra is anticipated to run on the Snapdragon 8 Elite processor and could pack a 50-megapixel quad rear camera unit.Lei Jun, the Chief Executive Officer at Xiaomi, took to Weibo to announce the arrival of the Xiaomi 15 Ultra in its home country. The flagship phone will be unveiled sometime in…

Extended-range electric vehicles (EREVs) are a step between hybrids and EVs, with internal combustion motors that act as generators on longer trips. The technology may help Ford get around an “unsolveable” economics problem with large EV trucks: Consumers won’t pay for the super-sized batteries they require. Ram, Scout and General Motors are also betting on EREVs. Extended-range electric vehicles will be essential to the American market, Ford CEO Jim Farley said on the company’s earnings call Wednesday. The reason is simple: “Americans love their big cars. They love their big trucks,” he said. An extended-range EV, or EREV, is a…

Summary Gooding describes Scream 7’s Ghostface as brutal with gruesome effects, hinting at gorier kills. Previous actors have noted Ghostface’s increasing violence, raising expectations for the upcoming sequel. Anticipation is high for Scream 7 to deliver creative and shocking kills to revitalize the slasher franchise. For some horror fans, a slasher franchise is only as good as its most shocking kills. For others, there has to be a balance between character development and a truly unsettling villain. I’m more invested in well-drawn characters than blood and gore, but my love of slasher movie tropes keeps me watching this horror subgenre.…

Apple has expressed serious concerns regarding the introduction of an adult content app,Hot Tub, now available on iPhones in the EU, warning that new digital competition laws could put users’ safety at risk and erode consumer confidence, reported AP.The app was launched this week by AltStore PAL, a rival app marketplace that has become accessible to EU-based iPhone users due to European competition rules implemented in 2023.In a social media post, AltStore hailedHot Tub as “the world’s first Apple-approved porn app”. However, Apple swiftly rejected this claim, clarifying that it would never allow such an app in its own App…

Google Photos for Android is receiving a new feature that offers users greater control over their grid view preferences. Previously, users could adjust the layout density by selecting between “Day,” “Month,” or a “Comfortable” view, and they also had the option to stack similar photos. Tapping on a stacked image tile allowed them to swipe through related photos in a carousel. With the new update, users can now further refine their experience by choosing to show or hide photos, GIFs, and videos from other apps.Google Photos Adds New Customisations to Reduce ClutterGoogle Photos for Android now offers new customisation options to…

Ford CEO Jim Farley did not mince words while explaining some of the drawbacks of fully electric large SUVs and trucks. During Ford’s Q4 2024 earnings call on Wednesday, the automaker shared its electrification roadmap, reiterating that it would focus on small and medium-sized EVs that are more economically viable instead of going all guns blazing with battery-electric models across all segments. “For larger retail, electric utilities, the economics are unresolvable,” Farley said. “These customers have very demanding use cases for an electric vehicle. They tow, they go off-road, they take long road trips. These vehicles have worse aerodynamics and…