Xiaomi Teases ‘Smarter Living’ Devices, Products For India Xiaomi is looking to expand its portfolio of smart home appliances and wearables in India by launching multiple new‘Smarter Living’products. The official @XiaomiIndia twitter handle posted a new tweet accompanied by a GIF yesterday, which indicates that the company is gearing up to launch 5 new products in India. The GIF contains 5 icons, each supposedly signifying a new product category set to arrive soon in India....

Xiaomi to Launch Two Mi 8 Variants on September 19 in China Xiaomihas beenteasing the launchof a new smartphone without revealing anything about the device or the exact launch date. The only thing the company had announced was that the event will be held in Chengdu, the capital of the Sichuan province, which is best known for being one of the major research centers for Giant Panda breeding in the country....

‘Amazon Pay EMI’ Now Rolling Out in India With Rs 60,000 Limit AmazonIndia has announced the launch of a new payment method for customers using Amazon Pay. According to new information seemingly available only on the company’s mobile app for now, buyers will now be able to pay via‘Amazon Pay EMI’that will enable eligible customers to pay via monthly installments using their debit cards without any upfront payment. EMIs will range from between 3 months to 6 months, and the company says it has tied-up with Capital Float for the purpose....

Asus Testing Android 9 Pie Update for the ZenFone 5Z When the Asus ZenFone 5Z waslaunched in India, it managed to gain a lot of hype, thanks to the fact that it was the most affordable smartphone with the flagship Snapdragon 845 chipset. While that has changed with thenew Poco F1, the ZenFone 5Z remains the flagship Asus smartphone in India and it’s a pretty nice smartphone for the price. However, unlike the ZenFone Max Pro, for which Asus promised the Android Pie update, there was no word on the same about the ZenFone 5Z, which wasn’t that surprising, considering the 5Z comes with the ZenUI custom skin....

Chrome on Android and Mac Gets Fingerprint Support in Latest Beta Earlier this month, Google celebrated the 10th anniversary of its widely used web browser Chrome with therelease of version 69that introduced a bunch of design changes, new features and other tweaks. The update also included an updated password manager, a more accurate auto-fill feature, a bunch of developer-centric changes and a number of security improvements. Now, according to a recentreportfrom9to5Google, the companyhas started rolling out a beta version of update 70 for Chrome on Android and Mac, which brings one of the most requested features to the browser....

Google Assistant Gets Improved Song Recognition Capabilities Google has now integrated its Sound Search function into its Now Playing music recognition feature in order to make song recognition faster and more accurate. The new Sound Search feature will build upon Google’s Now Playing music recognition feature which was released with the Pixel devices back in 2017. With the rollout of the new feature, users will be able to conduct more efficient song recognition on the Google Search app or using theGoogle Assistanton any Android device....

Google’s Prototype Search Engine for China Links Phone Numbers to Search History Google has developed a prototype of the censored search engine for China codenamed “Dragonfly” that links users’ search history to their personal phone numbers, the media reported. This means if security agencies were to obtain the search records from Google, individual people could easily be tracked and users seeking out information banned by the government could potentially be at risk of interrogation or detention, The Intercept reported on Saturday....