In a big move towards making India plastic-free, Railway minister Piyush Goyal announced that tea will now be sold in environment-friendly ‘Kulhads’ (earthen cups) in place of plastic cups at all railway stations across India. Goyal said that tea will now be sold in environment-friendly kulhads in place of plastic cups at every railway station …

A ship management company is negotiating to free three Greek sailors kidnapped by pirates off the Nigerian coast, Athens’ Merchant Navy Ministry said as per a report in AFP. Three were snatched from the vessel Stelios K after pirates attacked it on November 16.  Now Royal Ship Management, the owner, is in talks to get the hostages released, the ministry …

Donald Trump has lost and it seems only he does not realise it. It’s been almost a month since Joe Biden beat him in the US Presidential Election and will be sworn in as the country’s leader on January 20, 2021.  While Trump has agreed to the transition, albeit unhappily, he still has not conceded. To him, he won the …

This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Black Friday may be over, but you can still get great deals on gaming chairs as we head into Cyber Monday. Whether you’re playing on a PC, on the PlayStation 5 or on the Xbox Series X or S — if you were fortunate enough to get one — …

This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. While many of the biggest Black Friday deals have ended there are still a number of steals to be had. The actual day has passed, but many of these Black Friday discounts continue and will simply be re-dubbed Cyber Monday sales on Nov. 30.  Inventory issues have been …

This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. The Xbox Game Pass Ultimate was already a great deal to begin with, but Black Friday kicked it up a notch, and the deal is holding strong going into Cyber Monday. Regularly priced at $15 per month, Target is currently offering a three-month subscription for $20, which …

Online spending on Black Friday notched a record $9 billion this year, according to data from Adobe Analytics, as the pandemic forced deal-hungry consumers to avoid crowded stores on busy shopping day. Consumer spending on the internet surged 21.6% on the day after Thanksgiving, turning in the second-largest day for online spending in US history, behind last year’s Cyber Monday, …

This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Black Friday sales are morphing into Cyber Monday sales, and prices are fluctuating wildly. But if you’re quick, at the time of this writing, you can score the AirPods Pro for $230, or an Apple Watch Series 6 for $330 at Amazon. At the Apple …

This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Just a couple of days ago, we featured these headphones as a Black Friday special. They immediately sold out, but now they’re back as an early Cyber Monday deal. We’re talking about the Mpow X3 true-wireless earbuds, which sound shockingly good for the price. There’s …

Ports have been a fixture on mobile phones since their inception — dating all the way from the iPhone 12 back to “dumb phones” from decades before. But even when it comes to ports, Apple has done things its own way. In 2012, the company made its own accessories obsolete when it switched from a 30-pin connector to a proprietary …

I’ve used Google Pixels and Apple iPhones for my daily smartphone photography needs for years. I’ve mostly relied on Pixels because of Google’s pioneering computational photography software, which wrings superior image quality out of limited hardware. My current iPhone, the XS Max, has been relegated to occasions when I’ve needed a telephoto lens. But two recent smartphone launches — of Google’s …

For photographers, almost every new iPhone has a little something special, and one of Apple‘s newest devices, the iPhone 12 Pro, is no exception. It brings a few seemingly simple, but entirely effective, upgrades that I think shutterbugs are going to love.  This week, I took the iPhone 12 Pro on a short trip to a beautiful place, Lake Tahoe, and …

This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Black Friday may be over, but since tomorrow is Cyber Monday, Amazon is still handing out major savings on all kinds of devices. All of Amazon’s Fire tablets are still on sale, some at prices even better than the Prime Day deals from October. Here’s …

With good sound quality, excellent active noise canceling and a compact design, Apple’s AirPods Pro set the tone for premium wireless earbuds. But Samsung may be giving its rival a run for its money. It takes Apple head-on with the Galaxy Buds Live, which have similar features like noise canceling and a truly wireless design, at a significantly cheaper price. …

Apple Arcade on Friday added Warp Drive, a new game from UK indie developer Supergonk, to its growing catalog of over 140 games. You can try your hand at the new futuristic racing game over Thanksgiving weekend across iPhone, iPad, Mac, iPod Touch and Apple TV.  See at App Store Warp Drive isn’t an average racing game, it ups the ante …