Redmi Note 8, Redmi 8 and Redmi 8A Dual Get Another Minor Price Hike in India Merely a month after the price hike because of theincreased GST tax rate, Xiaomi has once again hiked the price of three of its budget smartphones. The price of Redmi Note 8, Redmi 8, and Redmi 8A Dual has been hiked by up to Rs. 500 in India. Xiaomi has not officially announced the hike but theupdated price tagsare live on the company’s website....

Samsung Finance+ Lending Service Now Available at Your Doorstep Samsung is bringing its digital lending platform, ‘Samsung Finance+’ to the doorsteps of customers across India. The new service is part of the company’s plans to make it easier for people to buy Galaxy smartphones on monthly installments. The service is already available across 12,000 dealers in nearly 300 towns around the country, but customers had to walk-in at select dealerships to apply for a loan....

Samsung ‘Galaxy Fold Lite’ With Clamshell Design May be Launched at $1,100 Folding smartphones may not become super-affordable any time soon, but tech companies are trying to address a larger consumer base by targeting slightly lower price-points. According to latest reports, Samsung is working on a so-called ‘Galaxy Fold Lite‘ that might come with an $1,100 price-tag (around Rs. 83,000). It might have a few less bells and whistles as compared to theoriginal Galaxy Fold, but what’s most interesting is thatit will apparently have the clamshell form-factorof theGalaxy Z Flip....

Spotify Adds More Parental Controls to Its Kids App Popular music streaming platform Spotify has today added two new features to its ‘Spotify Kids‘ app in order to bring more control into parents’ hands. Starting today, parents can access their kids’ listening history, and control what content they are allowed to consume on the platform. The new features are available in the app’s “Grown Ups” section, where parents will be able toview a complete streaming history for the last three months....

Telegram Abandons TON Blockchain Platform Following Adverse Court Ruling Telegram LLC, the company behind the eponymous instant messaging app that claims to havemore than 400 million usersglobally, has announced that it is abandoning itsproposed blockchain network, TON, after a US court last month ordered the company to refrain from issuing its ‘Gram’ cryptocurrency next month as planned. The order was issued after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed for an injunction, asking the court to stop Telegram from issuing any cryptocurrency tokens....

This Programmer Hacked the Aarogya Setu App to Not Collect Location and Bluetooth Data In its attempts towards contact tracing for COVID-19 patients in the country, the Indian government launched the Aarogya Setu app. The app, which started off as a voluntary install was soon mademandatory by the governmentfor both public and private sector employees. Since its launch, the app has raised a lot ofprivacy related questionsabout its invasive collection of location data and Bluetooth information from devices....

Twitter Rolls out Quoted Retweet Counts on iOS Twitter started testing the ability toview quoted tweets with commentson iOS last month and now, the company has started rolling out the feature widely to iOS users. The company was testing two interface implementations for this feature, one which explicitly mentions the number of tweets with comments in the tweet and the other where the user has to tap on the number of tweets to view the quoted tweets....