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Avatar: The Way of Water’s box office collection is close to hitting the $1 billion (about Rs. 8,285 crore) mark. As of late Tuesday, James Cameron’s much-delayed sequel has raked in an outstanding $955 million (about Rs. 7,909 crore) at the global box office, climbing to the third position among 2022’s highest-grossing movies — tied

Avatar: The Way of Water is now part of the billion-dollar movie club. In just 14 days since its release, the James Cameron-directed Avatar sequel has become the fastest to cross that global box office threshold this year, after Spider-Man: No Way Home’s record in 2021. The latter managed the feat in just 12 days,

PlayStation Plus’ monthly free games for January 2023 — the new year — have been announced. The three titles will be available to members of PS Plus Essential, Extra, and Deluxe/ Premium plans, starting next week. From January 3 onwards, PS Plus subscribers gain access to the galaxy-spanning adventure Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, the

One97 Communications (OCL), which owns Paytm, on Wednesday announced the release of Paytm 2022 Recap, highlighting the interesting trends of transactions made through Paytm in the last year. Paytm UPI is one of the most preferred payment methods for Indians, with its superfast and secure payments. Users can also check their individual payments journey with

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, director Rian Johnson’s latest whodunnit, is now Netflix’s sixth-biggest movie debut, in terms of watch time. The streamer rankings for the period December 19–25 saw the Daniel Craig-led mystery follow-up topping the charts for an English-language film, recording 82.1 million hours watched during its debut week. Glass Onion dropped

Five digital platforms — cab aggregators Ola and Uber, grocery delivery app Dunzo, pharmacy platform PharmEasy and Amazon Flex — have the lowest scores in a rating of digital platforms on the basis of providing fair working conditions for gig workers. The rating of 12 digital platforms was done by a Fairwork India team in

Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday launched a host of new initiatives, including the right to repair portal and an NTH mobile app and opened new premises of National Consumer Helpline centre in the national capital. A memorandum of understanding was also signed between the Consumer Affairs Department and IIT (BHU), Varanasi

Google’s anti-competitive activities are harming Indian consumers and the economy by stifling “swadeshi” (indigenous) competitors, a top official of home-grown navigation firm MapMyIndia said. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) in October slapped a steep penalty of Rs. 1,337.76 crore on internet giant Google for abusing its dominant position in multiple markets in relation to

Flipkart and PhonePe have completed their separation and both entities will continue to operate under US-based retail giant Walmart, a joint statement said on Friday. PhonePe was acquired by Flipkart Group in 2016. “As part of this transaction, existing Flipkart Singapore and PhonePe Singapore shareholders, led by Walmart, have purchased shares directly in PhonePe India.

Avatar: The Way of Water has now grossed $609.7 million (about Rs. 5,052 crore) at the worldwide box office. This represents commercial figures for the new Avatar movie through Thursday, reflecting strong mid-week play, following its sizeable $435 million (about Rs. 3,604 crore) collected during the opening weekend. Roughly $427 million (about Rs. 3,540 crore)

Google is reportedly working on making Android’s root store updatable via Google Play Store on Android 14. The search giant’s current mechanism updates root certificates only as part of full system updates, which could potentially render devices running on older Android versions unable to connect to the internet when the expired root certificates not being

As Avatar: The Way of Water rides waves across theatres, director James Cameron has now coined a new phrase called “the Stranger Things effect.” Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the filmmaker claimed that certain footage for Avatar 3 and Avatar 4 was shot in tandem with the second Avatar film, in order to avoid the child

A new Avatar animated series, introducing an earthbender, is reportedly in the works at Avatar Studios and Paramount. As per Avatar News, the series serves as a follow-up to The Legend of Korra, which in itself is a sequel to the original The Last Airbender series, and is slated to drop on Paramount+ in 2025.

Google has approached the appellate tribunal NCLAT challenging the CCI’s order on unfair business practices in Android mobile device ecosystem, the company spokesperson said on Friday. The Competition Commission in October slapped a steep penalty of Rs. 1,337.76 crore on internet giant Google for abusing its dominant position in multiple markets in relation to Android

Google has announced a new release schedule for the Google Chrome updates. The updated schedule will also include an “early stable” release, which would make the latest version of Google Chrome available to select users a week ahead of the fully stable launch. Currently, the search giant has been following a pattern that introduces Google

Airtel on Thursday announced the launch of its 5G services in Visakhapatnam. The New Delhi-headquartered firm said Airtel 5G Plus services would be available to customers in a phased manner as the company continues to construct its network and complete the rollout. Customers with 5G-enabled devices will enjoy high-speed Airtel 5G Plus network at no

Germany’s antitrust regulator said Wednesday it had shelved an investigation into Google’s News Showcase service, after the tech giant made “important adjustments” to ease competition concerns. The decision comes after Google earlier this year made a major concession by offering to exclude “Google News Showcase” content from its general search results. “Google has responded to

Varun Dhawan will lead the Indian instalment of the big-budget spy series Citadel, making his streaming debut with Amazon Prime Video. Amazon made the announcement on Tuesday, with producers Anthony and Joe Russo — collectively called the Russo Brothers — welcoming the Bollywood actor to the Citadel universe in a tweet. The Citadel India spin-off

Instagram has rolled out a new 2022 Recap template for Reels, allowing you to share some of your best moments throughout the year. The template is already live on the app and can be found at the top of your feed. Other online services like Spotify and BeReal also offer similar ways to look back

WhatsApp has announced that it is rolling out a new feature that could come in handy when users accidentally press Delete for Me instead of Delete for Everyone on the app. The Meta-owned messaging service’s new ‘accidental delete’ feature initiates a 5-second window for users to reverse their action of deleting the message for themselves