The over-the-air update will bring a series of Moto-specific additions including a new Moto action through which you can swipe to shrink the screen and a setting for locking the screen by touching the fingerprint scanner up front. The latter is, of course, available only for the Moto G Plus as it comes with a fingerprint sensor. Along with these, you will obviously get the usual Nougat goodies Google has included such as multi-window support, quick app switch, better and redesigned notifications, under-the-hood Doze improvements, a dedicated JIT compiler which will make apps as well as update installations quicker, direct replies, and a whole lot more....

Fast forward to today, and Apple’s AirPods are no longer just a product but a brand in their own right with millions of units sold over the last five years. Since the launch of the OG AirPods, Apple did release an updated version of the classic buds, the AirPods 2 that had the exact same design as the original AirPods. Then there were the AirPods Pro which were basically AirPods on steroids....

Two minutes, two worlds The two-minute-long ad, “Snap” features a woman moving hastily through a crowded city space. She then takes her AirPods Pro out, puts them on and the music starts playing. At this moment, both ambient city noise and her music are present simultaneously in the ad. The woman then holds and presses the Force Sensor on the tiny stem of the bud and is suddenly transported to an extremely colorful city which is exactly like the one she is walking through....

Mac Pro At the heart of the Mac Pro is a beastly 28-core Intel Xenon processor with 300W of power, a massive heat sink (od course), 6 channel ECC memory allowing up to 1.5TB of system memory and 8 PCIe slots. The dedicated I/O card onboard sports 2 full-sized USB 3.0 ports, 2 USB-C Thunderbolt 3 ports and a 3.5mm audio jack. For graphics, there’s wither a Radeon Pro 590X or Radeon Pro Vega 2 with the option of dual-GPU of up to 128GB vRAM....

Here’s all you need to know about the all-new Apple HomePod mini. HomePod mini The HomePod mini features a mesh fabric design, much like the original HomePod. Standing at 3.3 inches, the speaker comes in a small spherical shape and offers touch controls on top for quick and easy access to different functionalities like play/pause music, adjust volume, skip tracks, and trigger Siri. On the inside, the smart speaker has the Apple S5 chip, which according to Apple, utilizes advanced software to analyze unique characteristics of music and applies tuning models to optimize the loudness and the dynamic range....

We used the laptop for the better part of two weeks which should be good enough to tell you everything about it and whether you should buy the Asus Zephyrus G14 2021 or not. Spoiler alert, we enjoyed using the laptop mainly due to its form factor and some cool tricks that it has up its sleeve, like the Anime Matrix which we will discuss in detail. The SKU sent to us for review is quite pricey, though, at Rs....

A to-do list or reminder app, in simple words, is a task management program. It lets you create lists for tasks you want to perform and set notifications for those tasks, so you’re alerted when they are due and don’t forget them. Here’s a list of the best to-do and reminder apps you can use on your Android or iOS device to stay on top of your tasks. 1. Google Tasks Google, the search-engine giant, offers a variety of apps to cater to the varied needs of a large number of users....

(Alcatel) Idol 4 worship? BlackBerry no longer makes its own smartphones. That task has been handed out to Chinese company TCL, the company which also makes Alcatel devices. So it is hardly surprising that the DTEK 50 comes infused with design touches that are more Alcatel than BlackBerry – or the Alcatel Idol 4 to be exact. In fact, apart from the fact that it is slightly thicker (7.4 mm to 7....

Boat, a brand that is well known in India for selling quality smartphone accessories, especially audio equipment like speakers and headphones, has had a go at a pair of pocket-friendly TWS options. They are called the Boat Airdopes 441 and they retail for a price of Rs. 2,499. We have been using them for about two weeks now, so here’s everything you need to know about the Boat Airdopes 441 before investing your money....

After all, our car should be the biggest gadget that we have, right? Then it only makes sense for it to be smart, too. But until the car-makers themselves take the next step, it’s the smart engineers out there who come up with various ideas. Carvi is one of them, a smart driving assistant made from a smart dashboard camera and your own smartphone. The device uses vision based safety features to gather data from your smartphone and a single lens camera that’s installed on the car....

This can make selecting the right TWS a real challenge because there are so many options in the market at the moment and each pair is completely different from the other. And of course, many of them come with their own sets of headaches and shortcomings (check our piece). So, if you are someone who has not boarded the TWS train yet and needs some help in selecting the right pair, here are eight things you should keep in mind....

Although the issue was submitted to the Microsoft Security Research Center, it seems that they are not interested in fixing the problem, and it remains unresolved. This vulnerability is especially dangerous to those using virtual keyboards to enter credit card details or phone numbers. How could this affect users of IE? Even those who are using virtual keyboards for the purpose of bypassing any keyloggers are not safe, this is because the exploit tracks the movement and clicks of your mouse even when Internet Explorer is minimized....

That pretty much summed up the sentiment of a few US and UK based colleagues who saw Xiaomi’s global Vice President launch the Xiaomi Mi5 at Barcelona yesterday. For, while the product presentation did go off smoothly, it had not the element of insane magic that many had heard so much about (for the record, it is true – we wrote about how Barra channeled Steve Jobs at the launch of the Mi 4i in India last year)....

By requiring US Internet service providers, advertising networks, Internet payment gateway providers and search engines to blacklist copyright violators, the pending Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) seeks to bring The Pirate Bay and other similar foreign sites into their knees. Met by strong opposition from liberty advocates and internet giants like Google, Facebook and Youtube, SOPA will authorize the Department of Justice to seek court order and require ISPs and search engines to blacklist infringing websites or web pages....

Google Pack is offering a free edition of Norton Security Scan, better known as the striped down version of Norton AntiVirus 2009. Visit the official website and download the Free Norton AntiVirus – Google Pack. The only drawback for the free edition of Norton Security Scan is the lack of real time protection. You can over come this by manually (right click and select ‘scan with norton antivirus’) scan any files you think that are suspicious, for your information it is only available in both Windows XP and Windows Vista....

The app is called DSCO (yes, it pronounced “disco”) and it comes from photography-focused startup Visual Supply Co., the makers of the popular camera app VSCO. The new DSCO app is entirely exclusive to iOS and is briefly described as a quick and easy way to make animated GIFs on your iPhone. This isn’t the first nor the last app with this functionality, but it stands out from the crowd thanks to its association with VSCO....

To use Apple Maps as its default, DuckDuckGo is utilizing the MapKit JS library, announced last year at the WWDC. MapKit JS is a JavaScript library that can be used by anyone to put Apple Maps on the web. As of now, it is available in beta, so only registered Apple developers can use it to integrate maps on the web. Until now, DuckDuckGo used OpenStreetMap for results, with a drop-down box that used other map services like Bing, Google, Here maps, etc....

The European Commission has backed their claim with evidence that shows Google promoting its own Google Shopping services as a result of which the highest-ranked competitor usually ended up appearing on page 4. This according to the commission is a direct abuse of Google’s dominant position in the Search.

There are plenty of security engineers working at Facebook to ensure that its users are being protected and the company is also partnering with Kaspersky Lab to fight against malicious software. Thus, from now on, if it detects that an account is behaving suspiciously and appears to be infected, Facebook will recommend a free anti-malware scan, a technology provided by the Russian security company. Facebook is also a major target for phishers, with Kaspersky saying that 1 in 5 phishing scams target Facebook notifications....

Facebook’s Messenger mobile app is one of the most popular instant messaging apps out there. Connecting over 600 million users every month, the app allows users to text to their friends and other people on the social network, as well as make free voice calls. But what many don’t know is that the app was also constantly sharing information about their whereabouts. Previously the messaging client, by default, would share location information of users, and this data was available to all of their friends and members of the groups they are part of....