If you’ve ever needed to check the time in a different time zone, chances are that you’ve heard of UTC. But what is this standard, why do we use it, and how does it come into play with computers? Let’s dive into UTC so you can understand more about it and how it ties into
Month: April 2021
German startup Vivid Money has raised a new $73 million Series B funding round (€60 million) led by Greenoaks with existing investor Ribbit Capital also participating. Following today’s funding round, Vivid Money has reached a valuation of $436 million (€360 million). Vivid Money could be considered as a Revolut competitor designed specifically for the Eurozone.
Among Us developer InnerSloth, along with Sony, has announced that Among Us is coming to PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 later this year. However, there has been no confirmation when the social deduction game will be released on the consoles. InnerSloth had earlier announced that Among Us will also be available on Xbox consoles as
Samsung Galaxy M42 5G will go on sale in India for the first time starting 12am (midnight). Launched earlier this week, Samsung says that the handset is its first mid-segment and most affordable 5G smartphone. It is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G SoC and sports a quad rear camera setup that is highlighted by
Global demand for tablets and Chromebooks saw a massive surge in Q1 2021, as per a report by International Data Corporation (IDC). While tablets registered a year-on-year (YoY) growth of 55.2 percent with a total of 39.9 million units shipped, Chromebook shipments grew by a massive 357.1 percent to 13 million in Q1 2021, as
Instagram owner Facebook is clearly feeling threatened by Clubhouse, because you can now disable both your video and audio feeds when you broadcast an Instagram Live stream. Instagram Introduces Camera and Mic Disabling Option For those of you who use Instagram Live, it may please you to know that you no longer have to run
Realme Watch 2 was launched in Malaysia on Friday. A successor to Realme Watch, which was launched in India in May, the Realme Watch 2 gets the same squarish dial as the first-generation smartwatch. As per Realme, the wearable offers a 12-day battery life and 90 sports modes. The smartwatch can also serve as a
More good news from a smartphone market currently rebounding from the far reaching impacts of the pandemic. New numbers from Canalys put global shipments for Q1 2021 at 27% above where they were the same time last year. The industry was hit early and hit hard by Covid-19. The first quarter saw company running into
Microsoft will cut its charges for video game developers who publish games in its online store, starting August, the New York Times reported on Thursday. According to the report, developers can now keep 88 percent of the revenue that they make from their games, up from 70 percent earlier, making Microsoft’s store more attractive to
Flipkart Big Saving Days sale is set to go live from Sunday, May 2. The six-day sale, which will last until Friday May 7, will bring discounts and offers on various mobile phones, laptops, wearables, and other gadgets. The Flipkart sale will also offer deals and discounts on smart TVs, tablets, and audio devices such
Netflix’s shuffle play “Play Something” button on TV is now here for everyone. On Wednesday, Netflix announced — with the help of Will Arnett voicing a remote tired of its buttons being pushed — that it was rolling out Play Something to all its members globally, over nine months after it first began testing the
Telegram voice chat feature will soon get video support that will essentially pit the instant messaging app against the likes of Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet. The app’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov shared a message on his Telegram channel in which he said that the new functionality will be added in May, and
WhatsApp has already provided an option to let you mute notifications of individual chats and group messages forever on its platform since October last year. However, that option is not useful when you are mentioned by someone in a group chat for which you have already muted notifications. You will continue to receive notifications if
The Mi 11X from Xiaomi is the most affordable of three new models in the Mi 11 family. It’s priced a bit lower than the Mi 10T but offers plenty of updated features, most notably its Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 SoC which is only one step below the current flagship level. Priced starting at Rs. 29,999,
PreShow Interactive is giving gamers a new way to earn in-game currency in exchange for watching ads — a concept that’s become familiar in mobile games but hasn’t really made much headway on PCs or consoles. The startup is led by MoviePass’ founding CEO Stacy Spikes. When I spoke to Spikes about PreShow two years
Samsung Galaxy Book Flex 2 Alpha laptop has been launched in the US. The South Korean technology company has directly listed the laptop on its US website for pre-orders without talking about it during the Galaxy Unpacked event in which it launched Galaxy Book, Galaxy Book Pro, Galaxy Book Pro 360, and Galaxy Book Odyssey.
AppleInsider has rounded up the best preorder deals on the new M1 iPad Pro, iMac 24-inch and Apple TV 4K. Save up to $167 this Friday, with discounts on individual devices and AppleCare. Preorder deals on new iMacs, iPads The iPad Pro, Apple TV 4K and iMac sale starts tomorrow at 8 a.m. Eastern at
PUBG Lite developers announced last month that the game will be reaching end of service today, April 29. In a termination schedule shared by the developers on March 30, the team announced that the first step in the termination process will be shutting down the lite.pubg.com webpage followed by end of service on April 29.
Realme Buds Q2 true wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds have been launched in Pakistan. These succeed the Realme Buds Q that were launched last year and come with a kaleidoscope-like finish to give it a unique design. The earbuds come with up to 20 hours of total playback with the charging case and supports environmental noise
Cryptocurrency trading has become increasingly popular in recent years, culminating in the asset class reaching a valuation of $2 trillion. Considering that most digital currencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, pride themselves upon being decentralized, it’s surprising that their trading ecosystems are anything but that. The vast majority of cryptocurrency trading today takes place on centralized
R.I.P. Madefire, a startup that recruited high-profile artists to reinvent comics for new formats and platforms. An announcement on the Madefire website states the company entered into “an assignment of benefit for creditors” (explained as “a state-level insolvency proceeding similar to bankruptcy”) earlier this month, which was then reported this morning in The Beat. As
Among Us developer InnerSloth has released an update to its popular video game. The update will bring features like an enhanced art style, new meeting screen, new colours, along with various bug fixes and improvements. The developer also mentioned that it hasn’t fixed all the reported bugs yet and will continue to resolve them with
Microsoft is adding five new fonts to its Office Suite. The Redmond-based technology giant is planning to replace Calibri as its default font for the first time since 2007 when it changed it from Times New Roman. Microsoft also announced that one of the five new fonts — Bierstadt, Grandview, Seaford, Skeena, and Tenorite —
iPad Pro, iMac, and Apple TV 4K received upgrades at Apple’s Spring Loaded event last week. The Cupertino tech giant launched iMac (2021) with an all-new avatar, while iPad Pro was refreshed with Apple M1 SoC, mini-LED display, and 5G support. Apple announced that both the products will be up for pre-orders starting tomorrow, but
Telegram is finally rolling out its long-awaited group video conferencing feature. The app is known for providing secure messaging and calling services, and the new group video call feature will be no different. Secure Group Video Calls Are Coming to Telegram In a post on Telegram, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced that group video calls
Huawei’s smartphone rivals in China are quickly divvying up the market share it has lost over the past year. 92.4 million units of smartphones were shipped in China during the first quarter, with Vivo claiming the crown with a 23% share and its sister company Oppo following closely behind with 22%, according to market research
Facebook announced last week an expanded partnership with streaming music service Spotify that would bring a new way to listen to music or podcasts directly within Facebook’s app, which it called Project Boombox. Today, the companies are rolling out this integration via a new “miniplayer” experience that will allow Facebook users to stream from Spotify
PlayStation Plus subscribers will get their hands on an World War II epic, a challenging survival adventure, and a high-on-adrenaline racing title as part of their free games lineup for the coming month. Battlefield V, Stranded Deep, and Wreckfest will be available free to all users with an active PS Plus subscription. While the first
Slayy Point, a YouTube channel run by Abhyudaya Mohan and Gautami Kawale, on April 25, hosted a charity stream for COVID-19 relief efforts on Mythpat’s channel, which lasted over seven hours during which the channel raised Rs. 50 lakh that will be donated to the Hemkunt Foundation. India’s YouTube community, including some famous names such as
Doctors and nurses don’t have easy jobs. It takes years of training to prepare for the medical field fully and then lots of ups and downs to establish yourself as a reliable professional. Fortunately, there are some incredible virtual reality (VR) innovations that can help out. Many aim to comfort patients, too, even by just showing how
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