Mumbai- and Mountain View, California-based CleverTap, which develops cloud-based customer management and engagement tracking tools, today revealed that it recently closed a $35 million series C funding round at a valuation of $385 million — over double its previous valuation of $150 million. Tiger Global Management and Sequoia India co-led the raise, which brings the startup’s total raised to…
Google Stadia launches on November 19th
October 15, 2019
Google’s Stadia game streaming service will launch on November 19th, the company’s Rick Osterloh announced today at the company’s fall hardware event. In a separate blog post published during the keynote, Google added that servers will open to the public at…
I’d so far given the iPhone 11 Pro camera a very high bar to meet: Could it be good enough that it would be the only camera I’d need while travelling? The answer to that question was a resounding no, even after double-checking.
But that’s mostly because I demand very…
MIT CSAIL fights fake news with AI
October 15, 2019
Fake news — loosely defined as a type of propaganda consisting of deliberate disinformation spread via traditional outlets or social media — is a menace. A December 2016 survey by the Pew Research Center suggests that 23% of U.S. adults have shared fake news, knowingly or unknowingly, with friends and others. It’s begun to erode trust in major television and newspaper outlets, studies show…
'Fortnite' Chapter 2 is the fresh start the game needed
October 15, 2019
I’ve played Fortnite for over 1,400 hours, but never quite like this. While exploring today’s release of Chapter 2, I swam through crystal-clear rivers, carried a downed teammate and ate a flopper fish while waiting for a speedboat to pick me up. After over a…
We’re now less than an hour away from the Made by Google event, and we’re already fairly confident in what devices Google will be announcing. This morning, four of those products, the Google Pixel 4 (and 4 XL), Nest Mini, Nest WiFi Router and Nest WiFi Point, have all…
Back in August, Microsoft teased that it was working on Dark Mode support for its full Office suite for iOS and as it rolled out support for the feature with Outlook. The plan was to have Office Dark Mode support in time for the launch of iOS 13. Even though it’s coming about a month later, it’s great to now see system-wide Dark Mode support arrive for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and…
OnePlus 7T series arrives in China
October 15, 2019
The OnePlus 7T, 7T Pro, and 7T Pro McLaren Edition have made their way to China. The 7T is priced at CNY2,999 ($425/€385) for the 8GB/128GB version, and for CNY200 ($30/€25) more you get double storage.
The 7T Pro, on the other hand, comes in a single 8GB/256GB…
OnePlus looks to add a one-handed mode to future OxygenOS build
October 15, 2019
OxygenOS is one of the most frequently updated versions of Android but while it has tons of new features, it still lacks a true one-handed accessibility mode.
That is set to change after an AMA over on the official OnePlus forums confirmed that work is already underway to…
Xiaomi launches JoyUI 11 for Black Shark devices
October 15, 2019
Xiaomi announced the new MIUI 11 alongside the Mi 9 Pro and Mi Mix Alpha with a more polished design and some key feature expansions. However, the Black Shark smartphones that are running MIUI 10 will instead get an upgrade to JoyUI 11 – a refined gaming-focused interface that uses only the core structure of the original MIUI.
The new interface is aiming to provide better gaming…
