Google Pixel phones have started receiving the May 2020 Android security patch update. The update is rolling out for the Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL, Pixel 3a, Pixel 3a XL, Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL, Pixel 2, and Pixel 2 XL users. In its bulletin, Google notes that it has resolved 15 security issues dated
Month: May 2020
When trying to stay in touch with friends, you aren’t limited to video chats. You can actually spend time in the same room as your friends without seeing them in real life. Do you want to hang out with your friends in a virtual space? Then convince them to invest in a VR headset, and
Chipmaker Intel has bought Israeli public transit app maker Moovit for about $900 million (roughly Rs. 6,800 crores) to help it develop self-driving “robotaxis” that could take to the streets in early 2022, the company said on Monday. Moovit will remain independent while its technology and the data it collects from more than 800 million
Humidity can do more harm than you might imagine. This is especially true in naturally humid climates, and during the summer months. If you don’t have a dehumidifier, you could be subjecting yourself to a lot of unnecessary discomfort and health risks. In this article, we’ll guide you through the main benefits of dehumidification, what
Redmi Note 9 Pro will go on sale at 12pm (noon) today, for the first time after the government eased restrictions amid the nationwide lockdown that has been in force due to the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement of today’s sale was made by the Xiaomi India chief Manu Kumar Jain on Twitter on Monday, saying
Samsung has opened orders for various household electronics and announced cashbacks and no-cost EMI option on its Smart TV range, and digital appliance portfolio to encourage people to start shopping again as the COVID-19 lockdown tapers off. The company says that it has started taking pre-bookings on Samsung Shop online, and deliveries will begin as
Reddit is rolling out a new feature that lets users engage in private group chats with each other. Reddit is a discussion forum made up of many different communities called subreddits. The new feature, named “Start Chatting”, randomly sorts users from a subreddit into a private group chat, where they can, well, start chatting! Reddit
Realme has announced that the company is “taking orders” for its products starting today – after the central government eased restrictions on the delivery of non-essential goods in Orange and Green zones across India. The company is, however, not taking orders from areas that are marked as Red zones by the government. Currently, customers residing
JioFiber set-top box has finally introduced Amazon Prime Video support in its OTT apps offering list. Amazon Prime Video support has been missing since the JioFiber launch last year. The video-on-demand app now shows up in the list of OTT apps on JioFiber-enabled TV sets. In order to access Amazon Prime Video content, the JioFiber
Apple has upgraded its MacBook Pro lineup, launching the new 13-inch MacBook Pro model with the new Magic Keyboard instead of the earlier butterfly keyboard. The new MacBook Pro model also has 10th-generation Intel Core processors to deliver up to 80 percent faster experience over the previous 13-inch MacBook Pro model. The Cupertino company has
Oppo recently launched a new smartphone in its A-series lineup, dubbed the Oppo A52. Now the company has added another phone, called the Oppo A92, and launched it in Malaysia. The specifications of this new smartphone are identical to the rumoured Oppo A72 phone which was recently spotted online, suggesting that Oppo may launch the
Vivo has started a new initiative called ‘Vivo Smart Retail’ in India that is aimed at helping offline retailers get back in business and connect with customers. As the lockdown restrictions have been somewhat eased allowing standalone stores to open, Vivo will be leveraging its retail network including more than 20,000 retailers and 30,000 Vivo
Since June 2019, Skype has let you share your screen on mobile. This was a popular feature on desktop, which led Microsoft to add screen sharing to the Skype mobile app for Android and iOS as well. And in this article we’ll show you how to do it. Microsoft has allowed you to share your
Microsoft on Wednesday beat Wall Street sales and profit expectations, powered by sharp demand for its Teams chat and online meeting app and Xbox gaming services as the world shifted to working and playing from home because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The company’s shares, up over 12 percent this year, rose about 5 percent
More people stayed home in Brazil, Japan and Singapore in April as those countries’ novel coronavirus cases surged, while people in the United States and Australia returned to parks and jobs as infection rates flattened, data from Google show. The latest weekly update of aggregated travel patterns Google collected from its users’ phones pointed to
An iPad stolen from a FedEx truck, a Sam’s Club theft scheme, and more news from the brother of Pablo Escobar’s iPhone competitor. A man in handcuffs (image courtesy of Pixabay) The latest in a regularAppleInsider series looking at the world of Apple-related crime. $4,000 in Apple products stolen from Maryland Target Police are
Robots delivering meals, ghostly figures in hazmat suits and cameras pointed at front doors: China’s methods to enforce coronavirus quarantines have looked like a sci-fi dystopia for legions of people. Authorities have taken drastic steps to ensure that people do not break isolation rules after China largely tamed the virus that had paralysed the country
TikTok has been making continued efforts in the fight against coronavirus. It has donated medical equipment as well as money to help medical workers and curb the spread of the virus. Now, the video-sharing social networking service has introduced an enhanced in-app reporting feature to prevent the spread of misinformation in these trying times. TikTok
Global smartphone shipments fell 13 percent in the first quarter of 2020 due to coronavirus pandemic, a report by research firm Canalys claims. The report says that after several quarters of decline, the market had seen two consecutive quarters of growth in the third and fourth quarters of 2019. However, due to the lockdowns put
Samung Galaxy M21 has received a price cut from the company. The price of the phone now starts at Rs. 13,199 in the country. The phone had reportedly received a price hike due to the increase in tax on mobile phones from 12 percent to 18 percent. The phone was launched in India in March
The US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Friday called on Amazon.com Chief Executive and founder Jeff Bezos to testify to the panel about allegations that the online retailer uses data from its own third-party sellers to create competing products. In a letter to Bezos signed by Democratic and Republican members of the panel, the
OnePlus Z, which was earlier rumoured to come with a MediaTek processor, has now been tipped to be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 765 SoC with 5G support. It has been suggested that OnePlus Z will have the Qualcomm processor by the same tipster who previously said that OnePlus Z will be unveiled in July
For the uninitiated, Zoom is a video and audio conferencing tool. Its primary focus is on enterprise meetings, but it also works as a platform for catching up with family and friends. Advertisement While everyone knows how to simply sit and chat on Zoom, there are lots of other fun things to do with Zoom.
ARM, the British firm whose chip technologies power most smart phones, said on Wednesday it was easing fees for startup companies and providing free offerings to an incubator for early-stage chip firms. ARM, owned by Japan’s Softbank, licenses its intellectual property to companies like Qualcomm, Apple, and Samsung, which in turn use the technology in
There’s still plenty of time before we can actually buy next-gen gaming consoles but in the lead up to that, Sony and Microsoft have been leaving small breadcrumbs of what gamers can expect from these future machines. More than Sony, Microsoft has been more open so far about its upcoming Xbox Series X console’s details
Samsung Galaxy A50s price in India has been cut, making it cheaper by Rs. 2,471 for the base variant. The smartphone can now be purchased at a starting price of Rs. 18,599. This comes after the price of the phone had been increased by Samsung owing to an increase in tax rates in India. Galaxy
Xiaomi recently announced MIUI 12, which is the latest iteration of the company’s customised version of Android. The new software brings along a tonne of new features and improvements to the already feature-rich MIUI and in this article, we are going to talk about one of those new features in MIUI 12 — Super Wallpaper.
Reddit has “fully rolled back” the Start Chatting feature from subreddits that allowed users to engage in private group chats with each other. The announcement was made almost 24 hours after launching the feature. Reddit has indicated that the feature came with a major bug that made the Start Chatting button appear on subreddits where
Apple and Huawei each captured a higher share of China’s smartphone market in the first quarter, according to data from research firm Canalys released on Friday. Total smartphone shipments in the country in the three months that ended March fell 18 percent from a year earlier to 72.6 million, the data showed, as the coronavirus
Google Pixel 4a camera samples have surfaced online being compared with those from Redmi Note 7. The photos were released by Julio Lusson, a YouTuber who had previously shared an alleged review of the Pixel 4a on YouTube in March. Leaks around Google Pixel 4a have been coming out recently, with the last one suggesting