On a humid evening in Bengaluru’s Indiranagar neighborhood, a delivery rider waits by the curb, helmet dangling from one hand. His scooter, sleek and almost silent, hums faintly as he nudges it forward. A passerby pauses, noticing the green license plate and the unusual quiet. “Is that the Ather?” he asks, pointing. The rider nods … Read more
On a sticky afternoon in Maharashtra’s sugar belt, the air smells faintly of molasses. Tanker trucks rumble past cane fields, headed toward a newly built distillery. “This,” a farmer named Vijay Shinde says, pointing at the trucks, “is our future. They say this will turn our cane into fuel for the nation.” He laughs, though … Read more
On a rainy Thursday morning in Manila, a group of teenagers crowded into a phone shop in Quiapo Market, their eyes fixed on a single device sitting in a plastic display case. The salesman, his shirt sleeves rolled to the elbow, lifted the phone like a rare artifact: the newly released Samsung A17. For most … Read more
On a humid evening in New Delhi, a small crowd gathered outside a Realme experience store, holding up their phones like lanterns. Some were livestreaming on Instagram, others clutching entry wristbands that read “15T Exclusive Preview.” For most of them, the device itself was almost secondary. What mattered was being part of the frenzy, a … Read more
On a damp August evening in London, a crowd formed outside a small, neon-lit storefront on Soho’s Broadwick Street. The people waiting in line were not the kind that usually camp out for gadgets. There were tattooed musicians, fashion students with film cameras hanging from their necks, and even a pair of middle-aged designers in … Read more
On a humid morning in Mumbai, just before the markets opened, a small group of retirees gathered at a brokerage office on Dadar’s busy arterial road. The ceiling fans whirred against the heavy air as screens on the wall flickered with the familiar green and red numbers of the National Stock Exchange. Most eyes were … Read more
At a pop-up event in San Francisco last week, a line of customers snaked around the block in the early morning chill. Some had been there since midnight, clutching blankets and portable chargers, waiting to get their hands on Samsung’s newest flagship, the Galaxy S26 Ultra. One man, a 24-year-old software engineer named Peter Martinez, … Read more
A Meme Born From a Fruit Earlier this summer, a tweet that looked like parody shot across the timelines of tech obsessives: “Nano Banana AI is coming. Smaller, smarter, greener.” The phrase sounded half like a Silicon Valley pitch, half like a meme born in some Reddit backwater. Yet within days, the phrase “nano banana … Read more
The Invitation That Stops Time When Apple’s invitation, a single shimmering image and three words, “Awe dropping,” arrived in late August, it did not just set calendars. It turned entire parts of the internet, and much of a country, into a collective wristwatch. For millions of buyers, journalists, and factory workers, a launch date is … Read more
Heat and Hype: India’s Coolest Phone (Literally) Arrives In a city where monsoon humidity can make a phone feel like a mini sauna, imagine a device that literally blows the heat away. Oppo’s newly unveiled K13 Turbo Pro 5G, arriving in India on August 11, 2025, promises just that. Marketing materials hint that this might … Read more