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Amazon Prime Day 2020 sale event in India will start from August 6. The 48-hour sale will offer discounts and offers on a large selection of products including smartphones, laptops, speakers, and more. Here's how you can find the best deals during the sale event.

Netflix now allows Android users to change playback speed, with the option to pick a speed between 0.5x (50 percent slower) and 1.5x (50 percent faster) in increments of 0.25. Netflix will soon begin testing it on iOS and the website.

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Caringo adds seamless disaster recovery service powered by Wasabi. Nasuni awarded a patent for cloud file storage. Supermicro and Scality partner on software defined storage. Quest KACE Unified Endpoint Management updated. Marvell launches new switches and PHY solutions. Dynatrace reaches FedRAMP Moderate Impact Level. Aerospike 5.1 announced. (more…)

Realme Buds 3 are set to launch as early as this month, revealed the company’s India CEO Madhav Sheth in the latest episode of his video session AskMadhav on YouTube. The new wired earbuds by the company will be the successor to the Realme Buds that were launched last year.

Microsoft could reenergise its advertising business with a huge supply of video if it follows through on acquiring TikTok's US operations from ByteDance.

This week on the podcast Brian sits down with Rob Hunsaker, from Dell Technologies. Rob talks about the Dell EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance, which may be one of the least known components available to Unity/Unity XT storage arrays. In fact, CTA goes way back, some VNX arrays out in the wild are still using the CTA. What's really interesting though is that most who are leveraging it are moving a lot of data and they're opting for Dell EMC ECS more often than the public cloud. (more…)

AWS announced that it has expanded its fairly new AWS Graviton2 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type. The original EC2 Graviton2 instances, M6g along with the later added C6g and R6g are all based on the AWS Graviton2 processors. Today they have added the M6gd, C6gd, and R6gd instance types that have locally attached NVMe SSD storage. (more…)

Microsoft’s new Edge browser reportedly started crashing for users who had selected Google as their default search engine. It has now been fixed.

Nvidia is in advanced talks to acquire ARM, the chip designer that SoftBank Group bought for $32 billion four years ago, according to people familiar with the matter.

TikTok has pledged to invest over $2 billion worldwide in the next three years to support its creators, as part of the TikTok Creator Fund. This comes in the wake of growing political pressure in the US from the Trump administration, and incoming competition from Instagram’s Reels, with Facebook said to be paying TikTok creators for exclusivity.