Why it matters: India is growing its efforts to turn into a full-blown manufacturing hub as the local government wants to make the country completely self-reliant and increase its exports of consumer electronics. India has a 500 billion rupees ($6.65 billion) plan to bring more electronics manufacturing to the country in the coming years, taking advantage of changing conditions in the global supply chain and a growing opportunity to use the US-China trade war to further its national interests.

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In context: Elite Dangerous is one of the most well-known multiplayer space sims out there today. While it never obtained quite the tremendous following that some of its competitors have -- No Man's Sky and Star Citizen, to be specific -- that's not necessarily a bad thing. Instead of making promises they can't keep, Elite: Dangerous' developers decided to start small and slowly expand the game over time.

These days, Elite Dangerous ever-expanding feature set boasts rover-based

The big question: Are you tired of using Google Assistant to call up your favorite BBC podcasts? Now you can use the BBC's "public service" voice assistant instead. The question is, is it really necessary? Do consumers want independent specialized voice assistants for isolated services like the BBC network? We shall soon see.

The BBC announced last year that it was working on a voice assistant called "Beeb." On Wednesday, developers moved the software to the beta phase. The testing will be semi-

Something to look forward to: CES 2021 is still more than six months out and truth be told, nobody knows what the world will look like by then as it relates to Covid-19. Many companies have already canceled in-person events through the first half of 2021 but eh, someone has to be first. Could CES be the first major trade show to resume out of the pandemic? And even if it does happen, what will public perception look like at that time

Why it matters: Amazon may be planning to push back its annual Prime Day sale this year as Covid-19 still lingers but shoppers will apparently have plenty of opportunity to buy goods on the e-commerce platform in the coming weeks.

As outlined in a document sent to sellers this week that was seen by CNBC , Amazon is preparing to host a summer sales event that’ll start on June 22 and last between seven to 10 days. Participation in the event is by “invitation only,”

Why it matters: It’s been almost five months since Windows 7 reached the end of its extended support period, meaning that the only users to receive extended security updates (ESUs) are businesses and education customers willing to pay for them. Despite this, the venerable OS is still the second most popular operating system behind Windows 10, taking a near 25 percent share of the market.

Hard as it is to believe, Windows 7 released way back in 2009. It exited mainstream support and

The big picture: Even after years of hammering home the importance of online account security, some users still aren’t taking the matter seriously. In a small-scale study of real-world data, researchers found that some are failing to update breached passwords in a timely manner and continuing to both utilize weak passwords and recycle them between services.

Few things would seemingly convince someone to change their password

WTF?! It’s getting to the point where we can ask: is there anything with a screen that can’t play Doom? The latest unlikely device to run id Software’s FPS classic is the Playdate, an upcoming retro-style handheld that features a crank controller.

Back in May last year, a company called Panic, which makes web development apps for smartphones and publishes games such as Firewatch and Untitled Goose Game, unveiled the Playdate . It measures just 74mm  ×  76mm  ×

In context: An Indian startup called OneTouch AppLabs recently rose to prominence for its "Remove China Apps" Android app that scanned devices for Chinese-made apps and let users manually uninstall them from the resulting list. The software amassed over five million local downloads on the Google Play Store within two weeks from launch and has now been pulled from the marketplace for violating Google's deceptive behavior policy.

OneTouch AppLabs' viral app had a hit-or-miss reputation with detecting Chinese apps on devices, but it soon received