Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 and Mi 5 to be available sans registrations in India starting June 1

Xiaomi has announced that its Redmi Note 3 and Mi 5 smartphones will be available for purchase without any registrations in India starting next month. The announcement was made by the Chinese company’s India head on Twitter.

Good news Mi Fans: #RedmiNote3 will be available via open sale starting 1st June 10am, on Mi. com, @amazonIN, @Flipkart & @snapdeal. :)— Manu Kumar Jain (@manukumarjain) May 30, 2016

#Mi5 – from 1st June 10 am onwards, Mi 5 will be available via open sale on Mi. com. No registrations required, buy anytime 🙂 @XiaomiIndia— Manu Kumar Jain (@manukumarjain) May 30,…

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Transformer 3, Pro and Mini are the latest 2-in-1 PCs from ASUS

The new line-up of ASUS Transformer 3 2-in-1 PCs are in. The company made the Transformer 3 Pro, Transformer 3 and Transformer 3 Mini official today, each covering a certain price range.

Transformer 3 Pro

The Transformer 3 Pro is the most powerful of the three and features a 12.6″ display with a 2880 x 1920 resolution and 275 ppi pixel density. Under the hood, there’s an Intel Core i7 processor and up to 1TB PCIe SSD and 16GB of 2133MHz RAM, similarly to the ZenBook 3.

ASUS Transformer 3 Pro

At the back, there’s a 13MP camera in addition to a fingerprint sensor. The body…

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Cortex-A73 will improve flagship battery life, mid-range performance

ARM introduced a new CPU design – Cortex-A73 (aka Artemis), a small but important upgrade over the current A72 found in most flagship and upper mid-range smartphones and tablets.

Perhaps the key change is size – the new design is physically 25% smaller than the one it replaces. This will allow chipset makers to create hexa-core designs (2x A73 + 4x A53) that are the same size as an octa-core A53 processor.

This means you get a huge single-core performance boost at the same cost (the cost of silicon chips is proportional to their size). Basically, ARM sees chipsets like the Snapdragon…

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ASUS ZenBook 3 is a serious threat to the MacBook with a 11.9mm thin body

Prepare to start hating your laptop, as ASUS has just unveiled the ZenBook 3. The company is calling it “the world’s most prestigious laptop” and it certainly looks the part judging from the photos.

The hardware is packed in an 11.9mm aerospace-grade aluminum alloy chassis, which weighs just 910 grams. With a 12.5″ 1080p screen, the ZenBook 3 is the company’s highest screen-to-body ratio of its laptop line-up with 82%. It’s also covered in Gorilla Glass 4 for extra protection.

Asus accents that the ZenBook 3 is thinner and lighter than the MacBook Air and the MacBook. You can spec…

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ASUS announces ZenFone 3, ZenFone 3 Deluxe, and ZenFone 3 Ultra

ASUS has announced the new ZenFone 3, ZenFone 3 Deluxe, and ZenFone 3 Ultra at Computex 2016.

The ZenFone 3 is the most basic model of the three. It has an aluminum frame body with 2.5D Corning Gorilla Glass on the front and back. On the front is a 5.5-inch 1080p Super IPS+ display with up to 500 nits brightness and 77.3% screen to body ratio. The phone also has a 16 megapixel camera on the back with ASUS TriTech autofocus that combines second generation laser autofocus, phase detection autofocus and contrast detection autofocus to achieve focus in 0.03 seconds. The phone runs on…

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Best Apps and Games of the Week

Adobe Spark

Adobe Spark lets you create animated multimedia content in minutes. There is Adobe Spark Page that lets you create newsletters, web pages, invitations, presentations, reports, portfolios, etc. Then there is Adobe Spark Post that lets you create animated photo or video posts that can be shared as videos or Live Photos. Lastly, there is Adobe Spark Video, that lets you create animated videos with your voice and visual effects. All three apps come with a bunch of templates and fonts to make designing something beautiful extremely easy.

Adobe Spark Page

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Update brings ‘Tell Me’ feature to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Android

Microsoft has updated its Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps on Android with a new feature. Dubbed Tell Me, the functionality helps you find what you’re looking for – it could be a feature of the application or any action that you want to perform.

Image credit: Android Police

It’s worth mentioning that Tell Me isn’t exactly a new feature (it’s been part of Office Online for a couple of years), just that the Android apps are getting it now. You can use it by tapping the light bulb icon in the upper right corner.

Aside from the helper feature, the update to Microsoft Word and Excel…

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Toyota in advanced talks to buy Google-owned Boston Dynamics

If you recall, back in March this year, there were reports that the Google-owned robotics engineering firm Boston Dynamics has been put up for sale. At that time Toyota and Amazon were named as possible buyers.

Now, it is being reported that Toyota is in advanced talks with Google over a possible deal, with the report saying that the “ink is nearly dry.” The financial details aren’t yet known though.

The report notes that Toyota plans to make Boston Dynamics part of the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), a recently-announced division (based in Silicon Valley) that focuses on…

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Asus ZenFone 3 series specs leak ahead of today’s announcement

We already know that Asus will unveil the ZenFone 3 series today (May 30), and it will consist of three devices namely the ZenFone 3, ZenFone 3 Deluxe, and ZenFone 3 Max. But before that happens, some key specs of these devices have been leaked.

The leak comes in the form of an alleged internal document which was shared by tipster Roland Quandt on Twitter.

The doc reveals that the Zenfone 3 is powered by a Snapdragon 625 SoC, and sports a 5.5-inch full HD display. RAM is 3GB, while the camera department is handled by a 16MP rear unit and an 8MP front shooter. The phone packs in a…

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Microsoft offering discounts of up to $150 on Xbox One, bundling second free controller as well

Microsoft has slashed prices of select Xbox One console bundles, offering discounts ranging from $50 to $150. Not only this, the Redmond, Washington-based company is also offering a second free controller as well as a free game with most of the bundles.

Specifically, the Xbox One Kinect Bundle has received a $150 price cut, bringing its cost down from $499 to $349. The 1TB Xbox One bundles, on the other hand, have received a $80 price cut, while the 500GB bundles have been discounted by $50.

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