Opening the Gates to coding when young Unlike most people now who study coding in higher schools and colleges, Gates was a boss at it from quite an early age. He wrote his first computer program on a General Electric computer when he was just a teen at Lakeside Prep School. It was kind of like a version of tic-tac-toe where one had to play against the machine (and I probably was still eating dirt when I was a teen… just saying)....

Nokia would be coming back to one of its most popular markets, India. And its devices would hit the stands in June, in all probability. And HMD Global (the company that owns the Nokia brand for phones) and its executives made it abundantly clear that just like in the past, Nokia would not be slugging it out on tech specs, but would be looking to score on old-fashioned values: design, camera, battery life, but really design most of all....

NordVPN has decided to address this issue by offering a new app that is tailor-made for Android TV. This is also useful if you are out of the country and the shows or live sports that you want to watch are not available in the country that you are currently residing in. The new app by NordVPN will be compatible with Android smart TV and Android Set Top boxes as well....

This means people will be able to store videos in the YouTube app on Android phones and tablets when they are on WiFi and watch them later. Currently, the mobile data plans are quite expensive in India, and usually don’t offer great video streaming experience. Hence, the move to allow offline watching if YouTube will help millions of Android consumers in India. According to Google, around 40 per cent of traffic on YouTube now comes from mobile phones and tablets in India....

The Nubia N2 comes equipped with a 5.5-inch HD AMOLED display with 2.5D Glass. Under the hood lies an Octa-Core MediaTek MT6750 paired with 4GB of RAM. On the storage front, the device offers 64GB of onboard memory along with a microSD slot that can further accommodate 128GB. The Nubia N2 runs on Nubia UI 4.0 based on the Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Camera features on the Nubia N2 include 13-Megapixel front Sony IMX 258 sensor with f/2....

OnePlus’ co-founder Carl Pei was telling me about the launch of the next OnePlus device. The company had decided to do away with the conventional launch approach and make the device’s launch totally online. Not many thought that it would succeed. But it totally was in line with the company’s motto of Never Settle. “It is not really regular, is it?” I remarked. Carl laughed in his typically boyish manner and said, “Hey, we are OnePlus....

Camera interface: Plain Jane When we think of the OnePlus UI, the first thing that comes to our mind is Stock Android. While OnePlus has a layer of its own OS called Oxygen over Android Nougat 7.1 on the OnePlus 5, it will be safe to say that the Oxygen is pretty subtle. And the same thing reflects in its camera UI. Unlike many Chinese brands that offer you a range of features, filters, and modes in the camera app, OnePlus has decided to go the same stock Android-ish way with things....

Starting with the design, first, the OnePlus Watch features a circular dial that comes in at 46mm. It is made out of stainless steel and has a glossy pattern on the display bezel. The watch comes with an IP68 (5ATM) dust and water resistance and is available in two colorways: Silver and Black. On to the front, the OnePlus Watch has a 1.39-inch AMOLED display. The display is covered in a 2....

The Oppo K1 sports a 6.41-inch full-HD+ display with an aspect ratio of 19.5:9. Oppo is using an AMOLED panel for its panel with Gorilla Glass 5 on top to increase its durability. It features a waterdrop notch at the top and an in-display fingerprint sensor, along with Face Unlock to authenticate users. Under the hood, the device is powered by a 2.2GHz Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 processor with Adreno 512 GPU, along with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage, expandable up to 256GB via a microSD card....

This has been there for a while but seems to have picked up lots of steam over the last few weeks. Several Facebook groups have been started with an aim to scare and fool people that Facebook will start charging soon. When I searched for “Facebook charging” term in Facebook, I was shocked to see thousands of Facebook groups in the search results! There are millions of Facebookers who have fallen prey to these scam groups which include some of my Facebook friends as well....

Depending on how much you are willing to spend, it has now become easier to find a pair of wireless earphones under different price brackets — thanks to a wide range of options available in the market. A big reason for this has to do with the growing competition among brands that pushes some of the bigger players in the space to price their products competitively. To add to that, there are also new and upcoming brands, which add to the competition by introducing fairly decent and compelling offerings for consumers on a budget....

AnchorFree’s Hotspot Shield has to be one of the most popular Free VPN services in the world right now, so much so that country-specific web services like Hulu & BBC iPlayer ensure to block Hotspot Shield’s IPs from their network. Yet, it is still one of the most widely used free VPN on desktops, and now, it is available for iOS devices too. Ironically, it’s not a free app! Hotspot Shield was always available on iPhones, but users had to manually set it up....

Realme 6i: Design and Display In terms of design, the Realme 6i comes with a gradient finish design on the back with a plastic back that features a unique painting pattern (with vertical lines). Towards the front, there is a 6.5-inch min-drop display (with a small notch), protected with Corning’s Gorilla Glass 3+ protection on top. The display offers an HD+ resolution with an 89.8% screen-to-body ratio and a 20:9 aspect ratio....

Standard design and hardware In terms of design and features, the Redmi Watch tends to tick most boxes. You can read our impressions in detail in our first cut, but for those who have missed that, well, the Redmi Watch is mainly made of plastic but is very smart looking. It has a square-ish 1.4 inch LCD display (with rather large bezels around it, but we do not really think that is too much of a factor in watches), with a single button on the side....

Samsung Galaxy A21s: Design and Display In terms of design, the Galaxy A21s comes with a 3D glastic design on the rear and comes in three colorways: Black, White, and Blue. Towards the front, it features a 6.5-inch Infinity-O TFT display with a cutout on the top left to house the front-facing camera. The panel offers an HD+ resolution and comes in with a 20:9 aspect ratio. It’s little baffling to find an HD+ TFT display at this price range in 2020....

Unabashedly big and bulky Yes, it does come with other gifts too. As we observed in our first cut, the phone is neither super slim (9.7 mm) nor lightweight (211 grams), but it is built on excellent lines. The kind of solidity that makes you worry about the surface it landed on rather than the phone itself when it takes a fall. It is susceptible to dust and water, though, so we would recommend being a little careful in that regard....

The Samsung Galaxy Note 9, first and foremost, is well, big. It has a 6.4-inch OLED screen which has a resolution of an impressive 2960×1440 pixels. The design itself is largely the same as the last year’s Note 8. There’s glass on both the front and back with rounded corners as well as curved edges. Another feature which nearly every phone under the Note series is known for is the battery and the Note 9 is no different....

The listing has been removed since then, but you can see in the above screenshot the cached page. It’s quite weird that the device has first popped up at a place where one would usually expect camera equipment to be up for sale. The listing describes the Galaxy View as Samsung’s biggest Android tablet & movable media display, which speaks about its destined use. Here are some more details from its description: The slate is priced at $600 for the 32GB version, which is apparently WiFi only....

So, if it can happen to a well-known security company whose job is to protect customers from all over the world, then this means we are exposed to the danger in any moment. Of course, this only means that tech companies need to beat the hackers at their own game and seriously improve their current protection technology. But until that happens, we have another fresh report which talks about a major security breach in Apple’s yard....

In terms of design, the all-new Push seemingly has a smaller footprint, compared to most of the other truly-wireless earbuds and features an ear gel design that provides a snug fit in the ear. It comes with a charging case that appears to be quite handy and offers an additional six hours of battery, on top of six hours of battery life of the earbuds alone. For connectivity, the Push uses Bluetooth 4....