People born with an innate interest in how the world’s building blocks work can consider themselves lucky: The job field best suited to their passions pays highly. Engineering has consistently been ranked as among the most lucrative career options in the world, so the average engineer likely makes more than enough money to fund all
Month: October 2019
Google ended today’s hardware event by going deep on the photo technology in its new Pixel 4, and brought out someone who’s actually been using the camera — legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz. The company announced that it’s working with Leibovitz back in October 2018. Today, she spoke about the experience of working with the Pixel 3
This is the Pixel 4, the handset that literally everyone saw coming. Even by Google’s standards, the handset leaked like crazy. Some was almost certainly by design as the company looked to hype up its new flagship amid slowing smartphone sales. That said, showing up for preorder on two different sites in the past few
After the onstage presentation at Made by Google 2019, we got our hands on a Pixel 4. In this video, you can watch us do a quick run-through of the major new features — like Motion Sense, which provides gesture controls that don’t require you to touch your phone, and improved Night Sight, which allows
Live Caption, Google’s automatic captioning system first introduced at its I/O developer conference this May, is now officially available, alongside the launch of the new Pixel 4. But unlike some of the other technologies highlighted at the company’s Pixel hardware event yesterday, Live Caption won’t be limited to Google’s new smartphone alone. After the initial
DoNotPay helps you get out of parking tickets, cancel forgotten subscriptions, and now it can call you when it’s your turn in a customer service phone queue. The app today is launching “Skip Waiting On Hold”. Just type in the company you need to talk to, and DoNotPay calls for you using tricks to get
YouTube is partnering with Merchbar on a new integration that will allow artists to sell their official merchandise to their worldwide fans from a shelf just below the video. The addition is the latest deal focused on helping video creators make more money from their videos, beyond the revenue brought in through advertisements and subscriptions.
Galaxy S10 users should be turn on some alternative security features as Samsung works to address a major flaw with the device’s in-screen fingerprint sensor. The consumer electronics giant noted the issue today after a British user reported the ability to unlock her device with unregistered fingerprints. The flaw was discovered after placing a $3.50
Since it was founded by journalist Jessica Lessin in 2013, The Information has stood out in the tech news landscape for its focus on an ad-free, subscription-driven business model (a focus that seems increasingly prescient). Now, the upcoming launch of an app called Ticker suggests that the company is looking to expand its audience while
India has a huge spam call problem and anyone who has a SIM card in India probably gets a few unsolicited calls from people trying to sell credit cards, offering personal loans, or even promising outlandish returns if you invest in the stock market. If you’ve faced this issue, you’ll be happy to know about
Many of the world’s most popular messaging apps such as WhatsApp allow people to set their display name and a profile picture. This feature was missing on iMessage until the arrival of iOS 13. If you’d been missing this feature on iMessage, here’s your chance to set a custom name and profile photo. The latest iOS
Ever wanted to take a screenshot of a long article on any website? Until iOS 12, your best bet was to take multiple screenshots and stitch them together using another app. With iOS 13, you can screenshot an entire webpage easily as long as you’re using Safari. We’ve already seen long screenshots on some flavours
iOS 13 is loaded with a tonne of new features, and one of those new features is now available for the stock iOS keyboard. Apple calls this feature QuickPath and it allows you to swipe across the iPhone keyboard to type. While certain keyboard apps for iOS, such as Gboard and Swiftkey, already support this
First announced at WWDC in June, iOS 13 is the next big update of Apple’s mobile operating system, and it’s now out for compatible iPhone models. For the first time, iPad users will not get this update, as Apple has announced iPadOS, a new operating system for iPads. While iOS 13 is out now, iPadOS
There have been some big gaming-related updates to iOS 13. Apple Arcade is the most prominent of these changes, but that’s not the only one. Now the Dualshock 4 controller for PS4 and some official Xbox controllers are also supported on iOS 13. Controller support has been available on iOS for a few years now, but
iOS 13 adds a few much-needed features to the Files app and one of these is the ability to open ZIP and other compressed files, as well as the ability to create such files on your device. Now that this feature is baked into Files app on iOS 13, it is much closer to how
One of the prime areas of focus with every iOS release is better security and privacy. And with the release of iOS 13, Apple wants to take this a step further and give users the option to disable Bluetooth access for apps if necessary via a new permission setting. This will present itself in the
With the introduction of iOS 13, Apple has added a new feature to the Safari browser that now lets you automatically close inactive tabs after a set duration. So, if you are the type of person who opens up a dozen tabs, but never closes them, this feature will be really useful. You can choose to
Over the years, iOS has slowly but steadily been moving towards becoming a desktop-class operating system. Several features added with recent versions of iOS have been pointing towards this and with iOS 13 — as well as iPadOS 13 — they only cement the view that one day iOS devices will be able to do
Samsung Display plans to spend KRW 13.1 trillion ($11 billion) developing and building next-generation displays, responding to a flood of supply and price pressure from fast-moving Chinese rivals. In an announcement event attended by South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Samsung Electronics Vice-Chairman Jay Lee, the investment was presented as a move to reorganize the
Xiaomi has brought its ‘Diwali With Mi’ sale back in India just days after concluding its first round last week. The six-day sale, which lasts until Thursday, October 17, brings discounts on smartphones such as the Redmi Note 7 Pro, Poco F1, Redmi K20 Pro, Redmi K20, Redmi Y3, Redmi Note 7S, and Redmi 7A,
Amazon and Flipkart returned with fresh sales this week as the festive season gets underway. While Flipkart Big Diwali Sale kicked off Saturday, Amazon Big Billion Days: Celebration Special started earlier today. In other news, OnePlus 7T Pro and OnePlus 7T Pro McLaren Edition made their debut at an event in London. Also, Xiaomi launched
Honor Vision was unveiled at the Indian Mobile Congress (IMC) that kicked off today in New Delhi. The smart television was first globally unveiled in August, alongside the pop-up camera bearing Honor Vision Pro model. The move represented the first televisions by the Huawei brand, and the two models went on sale in China in
OnePlus has listed a host of offers for its OnePlus TV Q1 and OnePlus TV Q1 Pro televisions on Amazon India. The offers include no-cost EMI options, exchange discounts, and bank offers. The company says that these offers are applicable only till October 17 on the e-commerce site. The most interesting offers include an exchange
Vu 100 Super TV has been launched in India as its 100-inch 4K television. The new Vu TV will go on sale in the country starting next week. It comes with 120GB of onboard storage and is designed to serve consumers as an entertainment powerhouse. The Vu 100 Super TV comes as an upgraded version
China’s Xiaomi is shedding its image as a budget brand by widening its India product portfolio to include pricier, high-spec smartphones and smart TVs, a senior company executive said on Monday. Xiaomi, which began selling devices in India in 2014, has outflanked South Korea’s Samsung Electronics as India’s top smartphone player, according to tech research firm
Flipkart is set to host its Big Diwali Sale back on Monday, October 21, after ending its first round on Wednesday. The five-day sale, which will conclude on October 25, will bring deals and discounts on various smartphones, including the Redmi Note 7 Pro, Redmi Note 7S, Realme 5, and Vivo Z1 Pro. Flipkart will
Amazon’s Diwali special sale, Great Indian Festival 2019 sale, has now entered its last day. In case you were busy throughout this week, you’ve got a little less than 12 hours to grab a new smartphone, laptop, TV, Amazon device, and other electronics. Amazon has tied up with ICICI Bank to offer 10 percent instant
Visa and Mastercard on Friday announced their departure from Facebook’s Libra project, a major setback to the social network’s plan for a worldwide digital currency. Along with the two payment giants, several other large companies have said they’re exiting Libra. Payment processing company Stripe is stepping back, as well as e-commerce company eBay. PayPal was
Facebook-owned WhatsApp on Saturday confirmed that the app was now back on the Google Play store after its sudden disappearance. New users can download the app on Android phones by just typing WhatsApp on the search box of Google Play Store. Unfortunately, the reason for the short absence remains unclear. Users on Friday reported that