Let’s get the price out of the way first. The Mi LED Smart Bulb retails for Rs. 1,299 which is considerably higher than a generic LED bulb with a single color. However, this isn’t your regular lightbulb which you would use throughout your house. Instead, it can be used to replicate different scenes and moods and to add a modern touch to your lighting. The best example for this would be the “Movie” mode where the light gets dim and emits a soothing color which enhances your movie-watching experience by creating a suitable environment....

For starters, Ukulele is a guitar-like musical instrument that bears a Hawaiian origin. It, however, is smaller than a regular guitar and has lesser number of strings. The Mi Populele is made out of premium quality Indonesian rosewood and Italian Aquila nylon strings. It weighs up at 500 grams and a total of 72 LED light built into the fingerboard. Playing Ukulele, just like most other musical instruments comes with a steep learning curve....

As with most of the launchers, the main page displays the apps that are most frequently used blended with the contacts and a reminders screen, and another screen which shows my recent activities as well, slick indeed. The launcher also comes with quick toggles for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and these are the features mighty useful if your phone comes with stock Android. Another useful bit at least for my usage is the pop up, quick access drawer which brings shortcuts to the most essentially apps and contacts, and it also has an access to the launchers setting letting you fiddle with its appearance in a jiffy....

The new Surface Headphones are made out of soft, plastic materials and feature rotatable dials on both the sides. One of those can be rotated to adjust the level of noise cancellation and the other tweaks the volume. The ear cups are also touch-sensitive that lets you control the playback by tapping them. Microsoft has also bundled a host of smart assistant features such as hands-free voice commands which allows you to talk to Cortana by saying “Hey Cortana” and the headphones can automatically pause the music when you remove them from your ears....

The new Moto G5 abolishes the plastic shell build Motorola has been offering for four years, and instead, brings an aluminum unibody. It comes with a 5-inch Full HD panel up front and uses a water-repellent coating (P2i) for protection against occasional spills and splashes. For the hardware, Moto has decided to go for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 430 Octa-Core processor which is quite baffling given the Moto G4 is powered by a more capable Qualcomm 617 SoC....

For, the other foldable phones that we have seen thus far have tried to compress a tablet into a phone’s form factor. The idea has been to deliver a bigger display within a normal – or what passes for “normal” these days – smartphone’s frame. Whether it is the much talked of Galaxy Fold or the Huawei Mate X, the core idea has been – a normal smartphone when folded, a tablet when opened....

The Camera App While the P20 Pro’s camera muscle continues to impress, its camera app and post-processing algorithms have been a big letdown. For starters, the app will sometimes show a warning after you’ve clicked a picture which will say “sharpening the photo, please steady your device” and if God forbid, you move your phone in that two-second spell, you will be left with an unprocessed shot. That essentially means it will be undersaturated, contrast levels won’t be balanced, basically, you’ll have to try again....

Now the company wants to extend this program worldwide and has also set up new criteria for 2016. Netflix is expected to work glove in hand with the OEMs to optimize the Netflix performance. As of now, two of the manufacturers are already manufacturing such TVs including LG (for UHD TVs with webOS 3.0) and Sony (for Android 4K UHD TV’s). It is very likely that other manufacturers will jump on the bandwagon and the “Netflix Recommended” might as well become one of the important things to consider while looking out for a new TV....

The financial terms of the deal are yet to be revealed but it is likely that a generous exchange of equity was involved. Nextbit had earlier raised $18 million in funding from Accel, GV, and Dentsu along with another $1.36 million against the Kickstarter orders. In fact, Robin started out as a Kickstarter project and soon rose to fame. Razer will be onboarding 30 of Nextbit’s staff and intends to develop more products with the Nextbit brand as the cornerstone....

The Nokia 7.1 has a 5.84-inch 1080p screen and is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 636 octa-core chipset. In addition, the company says the LCD display is HDR10-compliant and has a Gorilla Glass 3 protection. As for the memory, there’s 3GB or 4GB of RAM, 32GB or 64GB of onboard storage which is expandable with a MicroSD card. Underneath, it runs on a 3060mAh battery which does support fast-charging that can top it up to 50% battery in about 30 minutes or so....

Just like most other Nubias, the Z18 Mini features an elegant yet ergonomic design. It features a clean aluminum alloy construction with a slab of 3D curved Gorilla Glass on the rear. The smartphone is just 7.6mm thick and come in a range of funky colors. These include Black, White, Pink, Blue and a special Lavender colored Provence Edition. The buttons are well placed too and also feature dedicated red colored textured voice assistant button....

One such bid — and a very recent one — is the introduction of the DNS over HTTPS (DoH) protocol, which promises to secure the DNS communication by transmitting it in an encrypted manner. While DoH looks promising in theory and manages to fix one of the issues with DNS, it inadvertently brings another concern into the light. To fix this, we now have another new protocol, called Oblivious DNS over HTTPS (ODoH), which has been co-developed by Cloudflare, Apple, and Fastly....

Sounds like a story we have all heard before, right? But the tech brand we are talking about here is not Apple and the two colleagues-cum-friends are not the two Steves, Jobs and Woz. This is actually a more recent, more modern day separation happening at one of the most popular brands in the market at the moment — OnePlus. The OnePlus phenomenon OnePlus was co-founded by Pete Lau and Carl Pei back in December 2013 and it wasn’t long before the brand became a very ‘unsettling’ competitor for the rest of the smartphone manufacturers in the game, living up to its “Never Settle” tagline....

However, this development has been criticized by many OnePlus users on various occasions. A recent example of this backlash was the announcement of OnePlus’ merger with Oppo for its business in India, the effects of which are already beginning to show. OnePlus 10R 5G, the latest smartphone from OnePlus in India, comes as a result of this merger. It’s essentially a rebadged Realme GT Neo 3 with practically the same specs but with Oxygen OS running on top....

Plus new design with same hardware muscle To be fair, OnePlus has tried to be different in design terms. The company has been tweaking the appearance of its device from the very outset – remember the Sandstone finish backs of the OnePlus One and 2 – and after a flirtation night with metal in the 3/3T and 5/5T, it now turns to glass, which seems to be the latest flagship favorite....

OnePlus 9 Starting with the design, the OnePlus 9 features what OnePlus calls a “burdenless design” with a curved back and a reinforced polymer frame. The phone comes in three colorways: Winder Mist, Arctic Sky, and Astral Black. Towards the front, it has is a 6.55-inch AMOLED display with HDR10+ certification and 1100 nits of brightness. And the display offers a 120Hz refresh rate, similar to the earlier OnePlus models....

The Nord 2 5G (hence referred to as the “Nord 2”) sings a rather different tune. It draws attention to its processor (CEO Pete Lau referred to it in his post on the OnePlus forum announcing the phone), its camera, and its blazingly fast charging. The first Nord did not seem to care about its spec sheet. The new Nord waves it proudly. If the first Nord was a great everyday phone, the Nord 2 claims to be “pushing the limits of a great everyday phone....

But this time around, the company has partnered with Bandai Namco to add a nostalgic, arcade-ial touch to the OnePlus Nord 2. In addition, it has launched a special edition of the OnePlus Nord 2 — the Pac-Man edition. Very visibly Pac-Man The special edition of the OnePlus Nord 2 is very visibly Pac-Man edition and hence distinctly different from the regular OnePlus Nord 2. The phone comes with a dual film back where the outermost layer carries the very eye-catchy and obviously Pac-Man-inspired design....

When it comes to tools and services that offer such services online, there are several options to choose from based on your requirements. However, one service that provides a comprehensive catalog of templates, along with the ability to create custom graphics, to help you with different advert themes for personal and business use is PosterMyWall. PosterMyWall One of the biggest hurdles with taking creative matters into your hands and stepping up to create graphics yourself is finding the right platform....

What is PrintNightmare vulnerability in Windows? The PrintNightmare vulnerability affects the Windows Print Spooler service, which then grants access to multiple users of a single printer. Researchers in May highlighted the issue, and they had accidentally published a how-to guide on exploiting the same. Although it was taken down shortly, the guide was reposted on several other sources on the internet, including Github. What does PrintNightmare do in Windows? PrintNightmare exploits parts of the Windows Print Spooler service, allowing multiple users to access a printer....