2016 was one hell of a year for Myst-alikes, eh? Straight from the source, from Cyan itself, you had official spiritual successor Obduction—a game which crept onto our Games of the Year list. Then there was The Eyes of Ara, which utilized the same sort of puzzles although in quite a different sort of setting. But I wish I’d gotten around to playing Quern – Undying Thoughts. I don’t know why I didn’t, although it certainly wasn’t helped by a late November release nor its impenetrable title. Ads by Kiosked Quern – Undying ThoughtsI recently delved into Quern’s world though—nothing…
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It was speculated that the LG G6 will use a Snapdragon 820 chipset as Samsung bought up all of the initial S835 supply. Now there’s some shaky evidence to support that speculation – an LG H871 has entered the GeekBench database with a S820 chipset and 4GB of RAM. Of course, we don’t know for sure that the H871 is indeed the G6, it could be one of the trademarked G6 Lite and G6 Compact. Now, the chipset is a slightly newer revision than the Snapdragon 820s found in 2016 phones but that’s still a fairly minor upgrade over the…
The Gionee F5 has just been unveiled and it’s already available in China. The mid-range smartphone leaked last December courtesy of TENAA, so we knew what to expect, but Gionee still managed to surprise us. The F5 is now available in gold and rose gold paintjobs in China. The phone packs a 5.3″ IPS display of 720p resolution and runs on the dated MT6750 chipset with an octa-core Cortex-A53 processor, Mali-T860MP2 GPU, and 4GB of RAM. The Gionee F5 comes with a pretty standard imaging department – there is a 13MP main camera with a LED flash and an 8MP…
Google Maps is becoming more and more driving-friendly with latest updates. Lately we told you about some updates that brought parking availability on Android and Popular Times’ evolution into real-time data on iOS. But now this information will be even more accessible for you – Google is placing the Transit and Traffic buttons on a bottom bar, instead of the menu that has to be pulled from the left side. You can swipe up for more information. Places Tab • Traffic Tab • Transit Tab Under the places tab you see lists of places around to eat and drink, based…
NEW DELHI: India’s defence budget has been hiked by a measly 6% to Rs 2,74,114 crore ($40.42 billion), dashing the hopes for any major jump in military modernization this year despite heightened tensions with Pakistan and the ever-expanding military capabilitiesof China. The defence outlay works out to just 1.63% of the projected GDP for 2017-18, the lowest such figure since the 1962 war with China. Though this figure has been steadily declining in percentage terms as the economy expands, military experts contend it should be over 2.5% to ensure the armed forces are capable of tackling the “collusive threat” from…
Representative photo BENGALURU: Paytm Payments Bank has received Rs 218 crore in fresh capital as it prepares to start operations this month from Uttar Pradesh. Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder and CEO of Paytm who holds the payments bank licence has infused Rs 111 crore, while One97 Communications and One97 India Communications, the parent of Paytm, put in the rest of the amount, as per latest regulatory filings sourced via business research platform Tofler. Earlier in January , Sharma said he had managed to get the final nod from RBI to kick-start the bank. Paytm Payments Bank has issued 2,18,000,000 shares…
LUCKNOW: Airtel Payments Bank India’s first payments bank announced that it has opened over one lakh saving accounts in Uttar Pradesh within the first 2 weeks of its launch. Approximately 60% of these accounts have been opened in rural areas, underlining the massive scope for serving customers particularly in unbanked and under-banked pockets of the state, especially in rural areas. Airtel Payments Bank, a fully digital and paperless bank, aims to take basic banking services to the doorstep of every Indian by leveraging Airtel’s vast retail network. In UP, over 12,000 neighborhood Airtel retails stores also act at banking points,…
Representative photo JAIPUR: GST will not only ease the process of taxation, but bring in transparency, say experts. At an interactive awareness programme for start-ups here, the experts said the government is expected to resolve the queries of entrepreneurs regarding GST. “GST will not only ease the process, but also bring transparency as all the invoices needed to be uploaded by sellers are visible to the buyer every month,” said Manish Ojha, Development Head of KDK Softwares Pvt. CEO Mohit Bhambani said many startups are into e-commerce and their logistic costs go up, with 11 categories of taxes levied on…
A survey conducted by a group of students came across that 76 per cent of students from Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) suffer problems in English language skills. 76% students from this University suffer problems in basic English language skills RELATED STORIES School kids offer roses to two-wheeler riders. Here’s why Two Indian engineers amaze US by developing coding app India to build multi-ethnic school in Sri Lanka No fellowship to non-NET candidates: UGC CBSE won’t apply its 3 Indian language plan for Class 10 Board exam till 2020 A survey conducted by a group of students came across the fact…
The step was taken so that the government can better advise these students in times of need. The Students Registration Module on the Indian students studying in various countries has been placed within the ministry’s MADAD portal (the Consular Services Management System RELATED STORIES India to build multi-ethnic school in Sri Lanka No fellowship to non-NET candidates: UGC CBSE won’t apply its 3 Indian language plan for Class 10 Board exam till 2020 CBSE: Physical education to be made compulsory for Class 10 students Neighbourhood criteria, not a new concept: DoE The process for registration of Indian students studying abroad…