Google’s Pichai, Sergey Brin Abandon Internal Meeting about China After Twitter Leaks In a closed-door meeting with employees, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and co-founder Sergey Brin yesterdayaddressed concerns about the company succumbing to the censorship regime of Chinato make a return to the country. This was in response to a petition signed by more than 1,400 Googlers asking about the validity of the news. Pichai clarified that the development of a China-specific search engine wasin its early stageand it “is very unclear” if Google would get to the necessary permission from the Chinese authorities....

HMD Slashes Nokia 6.1 Price in India Ahead of Nokia 6.1 Plus Launch HMD Global hasscheduled a launch eventfor August 21 in New Delhi, where it’s expected to launch the much-awaitedNokia 6.1 Plus, the global variant of the Nokia X6. And if you need any more confirmations, it has now slashed the price of theoriginal Nokia 6.1in the country. Nokia hasdiscounted both variants of the original modelto deplete the surmounting stocks and make way for its next offering....

HP Omen 15 Review: Thin, Light, and Extremely Powerful Gaming laptops can be a complicated sort of beast to opine upon considering the immensely huge variations in configurations at different price ranges. So when we first got the HP Omen 15 at our office, and I got the chance to use it, I was expecting a similarly difficult task ahead. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the HP Omen in almost every single way possible....

Huawei’s Kirin 980 Chip to Debut in October with Mate 20 Series In an official release to South African media, Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei detailed its plans to launch its next flagship chipset, the Kirin 980, alongside its upcoming Mate 20 series in October this year. According to a recentreportfromGearburn, which had access to the official release, the much awaitedMate 20series will be powered by the Kirin 980 chipset which is expected to be powered by an octa-core CPU comprising of four A76 cores and four A55 cores....

Intel’s 9th-Gen Coffee Lake Refresh Detailed; Unlocked Core i9, Core i7 Octa-Core CPUs Incoming Earlier this week it was revealed that Intel wasplanning to launch its 9th Gen processors on October 1and now detailed specifications of the new CPUs have surfaced online. According to a recentreportfromVideocardz, Intel will launch three SKUs of the 9th Gen chips, including the Core i9-9900K, the Core i7-9700K, and the Core i5-9600K.Image: Videocardz The information was revealed in official documents shared with the publications anonymously which state that thenew 8 core processors will have a soldered IHS design....

JioPhone 2’s Next Flash Sale Is on August 30 The first flash sale of Reliance’s JioPhone 2 kicked off on August 16 at 12:00 Noon on Jio.com, and as expected, the device quickly went out of stock. For those unlucky folks who could not purchase the device in its first flash sale, there is some good news. Reliance has announced that the next flash sale of the JioPhone 2 will start at 12 Noonon August 30....

Kerala Floods Rescue: Here’s How You Can Contribute to The Relief Effort As the situation of floods in Kerala worsens, many individuals and organizations have come forward to extend relief in their own congenial and harmonious ways. To help the people of Kerala stand strong against one of the most devastating floods in Indian history, service sector companies are also contributing their bit. Millions ofKerala residentsare stranded due to the heavy 2088 mm rainfall since June, an increase of 30 percent over the expected rainfall....