Dell, makers of laptops, notebooks and consumer desktops, has announced new refreshes across their Inspiron series of laptops, including the Inspiron 13, 14 and 15 laptops and the Inspiron 2-in-1s.
Author: Milan Nair
YouTube finally brings Picture-in-Picture support for iOS and iPadOS
The YouTube app for iOS and iPadOS is finally getting an update that will enable support for Picture-in-Picture (PiP) when viewing content. The feature is first rolling out to customers of YouTube Premium, and will later come to all free YouTube users.
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Samsung and Vivo report fastest growth in 5G market smartphone shipments in Q1 2021: Report
The 5G smartphone has grown significantly since they first began appearing in the market 2 years ago. In the first quarter of 2021, Apple leads the market with 40.4 billion shipments, and Samsung and Vivo recorded the highest QoQ growth at 79% and 62% respectively.
Android 12 will update the Google Assistant “At a glance” feature to “Live Space”
With Android 12, Google will be introducing a lot of new updates to many features and functionalities, and while most of them are announced to the public, some of them may be hidden. One such possible hidden change is an update to the Google Assistant’s “At A Glance” feature, which may getting rebranded to “Live Space”.
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OnePlus ropes in Jasprit Bumrah as brand ambassador for its Wearables
OnePlus, the brand for their smartphones, entered the wearables market in India, with the OnePlus Buds, OnePlus Band and OnePlus Watch. The company has now brought in Indian Cricketer Jasprit Bumrah as the brand ambassador for OnePlus wearables.
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Google could be working on Android alternative to Apple’s Find My Network
When Apple launched their AirTags, one of the reasons for its success was the massive Find My network that utilized nearly every device in Apple’s ecosystem. Google is reportedly looking at developing their own version of the Apple’s network, by taking advantage of the Google Play Services app installed on Android smartphones.
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Facebook introduces Admins Home with new tools, settings and features for page admins
Facebook has introduced a bunch of updates for admins of Facebook pages that adds new features such as member summary, improved tools for comment moderation, options to slow down conversations, admin announcement notifications and more.
Amazon Audible Sleep Series now available for free on Amazon Echo, Fire TV and Alexa-enabled devices
Amazon’s audio-book and spoken word service, Audible, has introduced 5 new sleep and relaxation focused audio series for customers having an Amazon Echo, Fire TV and other Alexa enabled devices in India for free
Clubhouse-competitor “Spotify Greenroom” live audio app launches
Just a few months ago, Spotify acquired the Betty Labs, who were the developers of Lockeroom, which was an app for live-audio. Spotify has now launched their live-audio app called Spotify Greenroom for both iOS and Android.
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Facebook to support podcast streaming on its platform starting from June 22nd
Over the last few years, there has been an explosion in the popularity of audio-based content on the internet, whether it be audio-based chatrooms or podcasts. Now, Facebook has been revealed to be launching their own podcast streaming support on the platform from next week on June 22nd.
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Razer Blade 14 with up to AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU, up to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 laptop GPU announced
Razer has announced a new version of their very popular Razer Blade 14 laptop, this time powered by AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors and NVIDIA RTX 30 Series GPUs. This 14-inch laptop features up to a Quad HD 165Hz, per-key Razer Chroma RGB backlighting, THX Spatial Audio technology and more.
Google Pay adds tokenization support for SBI, IndusInd, HSBC and Federal Bank
Last year, Google Pay introduced a new feature called tokenization, that enabled direct card payments on the app via a Tap-to-pay feature for Axis Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank. The feature now has expanded support to 4 more banks – SBI, IndusInd, HSBC and Federal Bank.
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OnePlus announces ‘deeper integrations’ with OPPO
OnePlus has announced that the company will soon integrate more of their organizational resources with their parent company, OPPO, to streamline operations and produce better products. In a blog post, Pete Lau, CEO of OnePlus explained how the two companies will bring many teams within the companies together, and pool and share resources.
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Google adds Earthquake Alerts System, contextual Emoji Kitchen suggestions, ability to star messages and more
Google has announced a bunch of new updates that are coming to Android, bringing new features across the mobile OS. These includes updates to the Google Messages app, improvements to the Google Keyboard, Android Auto, Voice Access functionality and more.
Samsung Multichip Package combines LPDDR5 and UFS 3.1 offering flagship experience on mid-range phones
Samsung Electronics, one of the largest supplier of memory technology in the world, has begun mass production of their LPDDR5 UFS-based multichip package (uMCP) smartphone memory solution. These chips combine both LPDDR5 DRAM with the latest UFS 3.1 NAND flash, to provide improved memory performance for a wide-range of smartphones.