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Tech Tonic | The notifications on our phones are an overwhelming mess

India, April 13 -- There was a day, not too long ago (pre-Covid, as modern-day timelines are often defined) when I felt the watch on my wrist buzz. A gentle suggestion that someone had sent a message ... Read More


Up and atom: How exactly does a 'forever' battery work?

India, April 13 -- How the world changes. The technology that powered the nuclear bomb may soon be so tamed, it will sit in palms and laps, powering phone and laptop batteries so effectively that they... Read More


Samsung's refined 'Solve For Tomorrow' banks on teen energy for innovative ideas

India, April 12 -- An automated cleaning robot that carefully patrols our beautiful beaches, picking up litter such as plastic bottles that people often carelessly leave behind. A neckband-shaped cool... Read More


Blinkit is selling the Sony PlayStation 5 because we've changed how we shop

India, April 11 -- Do you really need a PlayStation 5 in 10 minutes? Perhaps 10 minutes isn't etched in stone (it may even be 20 minutes or so), but you get the idea. Just before heading into the week... Read More


Are you backing up your smartphone, beyond the cloud, to a physical storage?

India, April 11 -- It is surprising how little attention we pay to backing up data on our smartphones, even though that's where our important messages, photos and videos, emails, documents and apps li... Read More


Motorola Edge 50 Pro is a very workable mix of style with substance, and value

India, April 8 -- It has been in process for a few years and not for the lack of trying, Motorola's attempts to carve a prominent place for itself in India's smartphone market haven't exactly given th... Read More


Music's complicated tryst with generative AI tools, is only just beginning

India, April 4 -- 'A trance track, ideal for a Scandinavia night, looking at the northern lights'. That's the prompt we punched into Stability AI's new Stable Audio 2.0 generative artificial intellige... Read More


Tech Tonic | Are we irreparably conditioned to give up privacy, on apps we love?

India, April 4 -- Those headlines simply write themselves. If you claim to be concerned about data privacy and still largely relying on web services by tech giants (that's Google, Microsoft, Apple, Fa... Read More


Turf wars: OnePlus Nord CE4 counters Nothing's pitch for new-age rRs.r25k phones

India, April 3 -- Some of you may remember the very first OnePlus Nord phone, in 2020, one that had the company set off in search of the true north. It had a design element that's so far remained rare... Read More


Is Android USB-C cable, charger completely compatible with iPhone too?

India, April 3 -- The USB-C simplification began with the European Union guidelines a couple of years ago. Late last year, with the iPhone 15 series, Apple made the transition from Lightning ports to ... Read More