Xiaomi has created a new record. On Saturday, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun said on Chinese social media the company shipped more than 10 million phones in September alone, saying demand is so high that supply for some models remains tight.  More Xiaomi reads Xiaomi’s slick Mi A1 offers a pure Android experience Xiaomi’s move into brick-and-mortar stores …

As Myanmar’s Muslim minority escape a humanitarian crisis to Bangladesh, they’re finding new problems in their new home. The Bangladeshi government, citing security concerns, has banned its carriers from selling SIM cards to Rohingya refugees, reports AFP. Anyone flouting the rule will face a fine. The sales ban doesn’t apply only to the Rohingya. Bangladeshis without an official identity card …

It’s a meaningful day for iPhone fans around the world. Apple’s iPhone 8 and 8 Plus have arrived, and despite shorter lines and smaller crowds than previous launches, some die-hard fans have queued as long as 10 days to be among the first to lay their hands on the new phones. Enlarge Image A user posts photos taken outside the …

Opera is jumping onto the VR bandwagon. Opera Developer 49, the browser’s latest developer update, lets you watch all videos online using an embedded feature called the VR 360 player, the company said in a blogpost today. It works for VR headsets compatible with OpenVR, including the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, and will even work with 2D videos. More …

India’s Prime Minister shook up the country late last year when he killed 500-rupee and 1,000-rupee notes and coins (about $7 and $15). People quickly turned to digital payments, and now Google wants a piece of that action.    The search giant launched a new digital payment app called Google Tez for the Indian market on Monday. The app supports English and …

The new iPhones, Apple TV and Apple Watch are coming to Asia, and they will arrive the same time as in the US. If you’re living in Bahrain, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan, preorders for the iPhone X (as in “ten”) will begin on Oct. 27 and the device will arrive in stores Nov. 3. The iPhone 8 …

How do you express your love for a game? Name your child after it, of course. A baby girl in the Shaanxi province of China has been named Wang Zhe Rong Yao, or Honour of Kings, after the much-loved Chinese video game, reported local publication The Paper.  The game has garnered so much popularity in China that its developers, Tencent, …

Facebook Live came under fire earlier this year because too many violent videos were appearing on the platform. This time, however, it could be used to help fight crime. A man in Malaysia had his phone snatched by two thieves while he was broadcasting his neighbourhood’s Hari Raya Haji celebrations live on Facebook over the weekend, local publication New Straits …

VR may have become mainstream entertainment tech, but it’s slowly becoming a hit in the science field too.  Sea Hero Quest VR was launched yesterday for Samsung‘s Gear VR and Facebook’s Oculus Rift to collect and analyse data on dementia as part of the world’s largest research experiment on the disease, BBC reported. The game already exists as a mobile …

Fifty million people in India lost access to the internet for five days as the conviction of a cult leader plunged the northern states of Punjab and Haryana into a state of emergency. Local government cut off mobile internet and text messaging services on Thursday, Aug. 24, ahead of a verdict in the trial of cult leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim …