WhatsApp has a new feature in the works in its latest attempts to offer consumer-focused features and to compete with the likes of Telegram. For one, Channels is one of the features that makes WhatsApp lag a bit behind Telegram, and now, Android Police reports the company is working on catching up. WhatsApp working on … Read more
On Call Welcome once again, dear reader, to On Call, The Register’s weekly reader-contributed tales of tortuous tech support traumas and triumphs. This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Leif” who, back in the day, was given quite a challenge: a vendor’s European office expanded into an adjacent office building, but the move would … Read more
Vivo V29 Lite 5G has been launched in the Czech Republic. The new Vivo V series smartphone has an AMOLED display with 120Hz refresh rate and it runs on Snapdragon 695 SoC, coupled with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of onboard storage. It comes with an extended RAM 3.0 feature that utilises free storage as … Read more
Vivo V29 Lite 5G has been launched in the Czech Republic. The new Vivo V series smartphone has an AMOLED display with 120Hz refresh rate and it runs on Snapdragon 695 SoC, coupled with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of onboard storage. It comes with an extended RAM 3.0 feature that utilises free storage as … Read more
PropTech firm Aurum is acquiring NestAway, a once high-flying Indian startup operating in the same space, for up to $10.9 million, in a deal that marks a near complete erosion in value for the startup’s investors. Eight-year-old NestAway raised $115 million over the years and was valued at $227 million in a funding round in … Read more
We are now just mere days before Apple officially announced iOS 17 during WWDC on June 5. Now, Apple has published the most recent statistics about the adoption of iOS 16, and the numbers are looking quite good – now 81% of all iPhones are running iOS 16, which is an improvement from 72% in … Read more
It’s been far too long and yet you’re going to have to wait a bit longer. After years of impatient waiting, the U.S. version of the Volkswagen ID.Buzz finally made its debut Thursday in Huntington Beach, California. When pitted against the European spec bus — which is already on sale — everything about this version … Read more
Researchers recently uncovered the following novel attack on the Python Package Index (PyPI). ReversingLabs detected a Python package in April that mixed malware with compiled code as a way to evade detection by security tools that only check source code files and not compiled output. “It may be the first supply chain attack to take … Read more
Redmi K50i is now available at a discounted price in India. The smartphone with MediaTek Dimensity 8100 SoC was launched in the country in July 2022. It sports a 6.6-inch full-HD+ (2460 x 1080 pixels) LCD display with a refresh rate of 144Hz. The handset runs Android 12-based MIUI 13 and is backed by a 5,080mAh battery … Read more
Redmi K50i is now available at a discounted price in India. The smartphone with MediaTek Dimensity 8100 SoC was launched in the country in July 2022. It sports a 6.6-inch full-HD+ (2460 x 1080 pixels) LCD display with a refresh rate of 144Hz. The handset runs Android 12-based MIUI 13 and is backed by a 5,080mAh battery … Read more