The Discover page on the Google app on Android and iOS is a place where you can view articles across a range of topics from the web. Google is now adding a visual element to the Discover page with a feature called Web Stories, which functions very similarly to Instagram Stories and Snapchat.
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Tack One, a Singaporean-based designer and manufacturer of IoT smart devices, has announced the launch of their location tracker device — the Tack GPS tracker. It features multiple location tracking technologies, a long battery life, water and dustproof, and has a relatively affordable price.
Bose, renowned maker of audio electronics, has announced the launch of three new products in India – Bose QC Earbuds, Sport Earbuds, and three models of their Frames. The QC earbuds and Sport Earbuds come in two and three colours respectively and they feature Bose’s StayHear Max Tips. The Bose Frames come in three designs – Tempo Sport, Soprano and Tenor.
RAEGR, an Indian consumer electronics brand, has announced their newest Ergonomic 2-in-1 Wireless Charger Stand with adjustable height and angles. It features two 10W capable charging coils and will charge Qi-compatible smartphones, AirPods and wearables.
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Fossil has announced their new Gen 5E smartwatches that come in two sizes — 42mm and 44mm. These smartwatches are less expensive versions of the Fossil Gen 5 smartwatch that was released last year, sharing many of its features such as fitness tracking, sleep tracking, heart rate monitoring, etc.
Clicking Night Mode photos has been one of Google’s primary strengths ever since they entered the smartphone photography game with the Pixel devices. However, this feature has usually only been present in premium and mid-range smartphones. Google is now bringing Night Mode photography to entry level smartphones with an update to their Camera Go app, starting with the Nokia 1.3.
Sony has announced the launch of their first 8K smart TV in India, the ZH8 series. The TV features Sony’s X1 Ultimate picture processor, their TRILUMINOS display with Full array LED, 8K X-tended Dynamic Range Pro with 14X XDR contrast, S-Force Front Surround Sound and more.
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Google has announced a small but meaningful change to their Camera app that involves providing the user with a better experience with face retouching filters. The app will now have these filters turned off by default, and if the user does wish to use it, Google will now provide more information as to what changes the app will attempt to make.
Paytm, one of India’s leading digital wallet and payment solutions, is introducing a new feature in its app called Mini apps, along with its own accompanying Android Mini App store. These “Mini apps” will be distributed from inside the Paytm app and can use a variety of payment solutions like Paytm Wallet, Paytm Payments Bank, UPI, etc.
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Lenovo has announced new laptops in their premium ThinkPad series and ThinkBook series of laptops. In the ThinkPad series, the newly announced ThinkPad X1 Nano is their thinnest laptop ever, weighing in at less than a kg, and is powered by Intel’s latest 11th gen Core CPUs. The ThinkBook series has been expanded with three new laptops — ThinkBook 13 Gen 2 i, ThinkBook 15 Gen 2 i and the ThinkBook 14s Yoga i.
Xiaomi’s portfolio of TVs have grown significantly over the past few years, and the latest to join the family is the Mi TV 4A Horizon Edition that was launched on September 7th. The 4A Horizon Edition product line comes in two sizes: a 32-inch HD ready model and 43-inch FullHD model. Today, with us, we have the 43-inch variant of the Mi TV 4A Horizon Edition and here are our first impressions.
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The Surface Pro X launched last year as Microsoft attempt at producing a product with all of the promises of ARM based computing. Microsoft has announced a refresh for the thin-and-light device, offering an updated custom designed Microsoft SQ 2 processors, and a longer battery life of 15 hours.
Telegram has released a new update to its app, bringing the version to 7.1.0. With it, Telegram is adding a few new features for its chats, which include filters for its Search function, anonymous group admins, Channel comments, new animations and of course, more animated emoji.
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Apple released The iOS 14.2 Beta 2 is out for developers today, and as expected, the beta reveals many of the new emoji that Apple is planning to release to iOS soon. Apple previewed a few emoji previously, but now with the update, we can see loads more such as the smiling face with tear, Disguised face, gender variations of people wearing a veil or tuxedo and more.
Google has integrated its powerful voice recognition software and its Google Assistant in many of their apps and software, such as Call Screen, which is a solution to reduce the possibility of picking up spam calls. Now, Google has added yet another feature — Hold For Me, where the Google Assistant will monitor your call on hold and notify the user when the operator on the other end returns.
