Vivo S5 Expected to Launch with Snapdragon 712 SoC, Penta-camera Setup Vivo has beenteasingthe launch of a new smartphone over the past few weeks. Dubbed the Vivo S5, this will most likely be a mid-ranger and if the leaks are true, then it will be the first Vivo phone with a punch-hole AMOLED display and a penta-camera module. The entire specs sheet of this upcoming phone has seemingly made its way online prior to its launch, so let’s check it out....

Xerox May Enter PC Business by Acquiring HP for More Than $27 Billion Known best as the maker of industrial photocopiers for the better part of a century, Xerox Corp is now reportedly looking to get into the PC business by buying fellow American tech firm, HP Inc. According toThe Wall Street Journal(WSJ), Xerox is considering making a cash-and-stock deal that is expected to be worth more than HP’s current market value of around $27 billion....

Apple, Valve Jointly Developing AR Headset: Report According to industry sources quoted by Taiwanese publication,Digitimes, Apple has partnered with US-based gaming giant, Valve, to develop its much-rumored AR headset that’s said to launch next year. As per the report, Taiwaese ODMs, Quanta Computer and Pegatron, have been assigned to handle the assembly job, but there’s no word at this stage about what to expect from the device itself. Valve is fairly experienced in the consumer VR space, having already working with HTC on its Vive VR headset....

Edge Chromium to Launch January 15 on Windows, macOS, Confirms Microsoft During the ‘State of the Browser’ session at its Ignite 2019 conference in Orlando, Florida, Microsoft announced that its Chromium-based Edge browser will hit the stable channel on January 15 for Windows and macOS. It will also come to Linux later in the year, but there’s no specific ETA for that yet. The Edge Chromium is alsogetting an all-new logothat was revealed by the company earlier in the week....

Facebook Has a New Logo to Represent All Things Facebook Leave it to Facebook to be in trouble over issues such as user-privacy, selling personal data, and allowing election campaign ads full of lies (unlike Twitter), and still focus on designing a logo over everything else. That’s apparently exactly what the company has been working on, at least to some extent, as it has now unveiled a new logo for itself....

Flipkart Launches ‘MarQ TurboStream’ Streaming Stick for Rs 3,499 Flipkart on Tuesday launched a streaming stick under its private brand ‘MarQ by Flipkart’, foraying into a segment that is rapidly gaining traction with Indian consumers. Called theMarQ TurboStream, the device isavailable for purchaseon the retailer’s website with immediate effect, starting at Rs. 3,499. “With the Android operating system being so popular in the country, the user interface of our streaming device will be familiar and will help customers adapt to the new technology quickly”, Adarsh Menon, Senior Vice President – Private Brands, Electronics and Furniture, Flipkart, said in a statement....

Google Pay’s Scratch to Win Offer Violates Tamil Nadu’s Lottery Ban One of the most popular UPI payments app in India, Google Pay, may be in violation of Tamil Nadu state rules. Back in 2003, the state’s Chief Minister, J Jayalalithaa had issued a ban on all lotteries in the state, including online lotteries in an attempt to stop the spread of gambling in the state. Now, it turns out, Google Pay’s scratch to win offers that are available in the app, may be in violation of those rules, since it requires users to take a chance on whether or not they’ll win anything by scratching the cards within the app....