Now, to get down to business. What are the important aspects when browsing for a new monitor. I’ll try to explain what all of the technical gibberish means and what to look for and what to avoid when buying a new monitor. As with all buying guides, I’ll start with the 3 most important aspects: what will you use your monitor for? what features will you need on your monitor?...

I know, I know, the ecosystem has nothing to do with mundane, dumb paraphernalia like iPhone cables but hear me out. While, on the other hand, if you decide to buy the same type of smart microwave from a third-party company, you will be able most likely to talk to it with any of the three voice assistants. But most buyers don’t think that way. They’re in the market for a microwave and if they already own an Echo device, they wouldn’t mind saving a few bucks....

Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro: Display The Mi CC9 Pro features a 6.47-inch FHD+ OLED display with a 2340 x 1080 pixels screen resolution and a notch at the top to house the front-facing camera. The display curves on all four sides and is TUV certified for blue light filter. Being an OLED display, it also supports in-display optical fingerprint scanner. Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro: Performance At its core, the CC9 Pro is powered by an 8nm octa-core Snapdragon 730G processor with Adreno 618GPU, paired with 6GB/8GB of RAM and 64GB/128GB/256GB of internal storage....

The strategic partnership between Xiaomi and Naver will help bring newer and improved AI-based IoT products in the market. Currently, Xiaomi uses its own digital assistant in its product, but post the collaboration, we can expect to see new devices like lights bulbs, air purifiers, smart home kits coming with Naver’s proprietary Clova assistant. Moving forward, Xiaomi is said to incorporate Clova AI development with its own AI platform. With that said, Clova will still continue to retain its own identity....

LinkedIn has updated its services to shoe the commute time and the location of a particular business to the job seekers. This is something that is intended to help job seekers decide on whether or not they want to work in a particular company. The feature is called ‘Your Commute’ and is already rolled out globally on the LinkedIn smartphone app. LinkedIn already has access to the location information of the company’s and the feature will soon be rolled out for desktop as well....

If you thought the initial set of ads (wallpapers + videos + secret behind Zoozoos here) then the next set is even better. The bar keeps rising from one ad to the other. The stock alerts, facebook on Vodafone, Group call and the call divert ads are just hilarious. Now, since the secret behind Vodafone ads is known to all, it is time to know the real faces behind those egg-heads....

For actually, that is exactly what the Micromax Canvas Infinity is. An agent of chaos. At a time when a number of brands are trying to make the 18:9 aspect ratio display a premium offering, others are doggedly trying to make it available at lower prices. And while the likes of LG (with the Q6) and Honor (9i) have done well in this latter objective, nothing has yanked the new display into the mainstream as the Micromax Canvas Infinity has....

The Micromax Canvas Sliver 5 isn’t technically the slimmest smartphone, as we have seen phones smiler than 5mm in the past, but Micromax claims that they are misleading and not really that slim all over. At 97 grams, the Sliver 5 is also claimed to be the lightest smartphone in the world, making it the world’s slimmest and lightest 4G smartphone – something we reserve our judgment on. The Canvas Sliver 5 is made from aircraft grade aluminum....

“Seeing AI” fundamentally pushes forward how blind users interact with the environment and its objects. It can recognize almost everything from people to documents and read out to the person. In addition to that, it can detect and guess the strangers’ age, emotion and in some cases, what they are doing. For example, “a man sitting on a couch working on a laptop” or “a girl playing frisbee”. These, although, entirely depend on how clear the image is....

Simple Inglese? You get an image with washed out color because of too much light or the light seems to cover too much of the image, blurring out everything else in what seems like an explosion of light. A lot of people use a lens hood on cameras to dodge lens flare. And as per most photographers, lens flare is something that one should try to avoid, as it interferes with the image quality, blurring it....

The listing further reveals that the Moto G5 Plus will come under the model number XT1685 and also states that it should arrive in the market by March this year. The seller goes on to reveal the specs of the Moto G5. The device is expected to come fitted with a 5.5-inch FHD display and under the hood will be Snapdragon 625 paired with a generous 4GB of RAM. On the storage front, the device is expected to offer 32GB of internal memory and it is most likely that we might also get a 64GB version as well....

Rdio has confirmed in the blog post that it will be shutting the shops in coming weeks, till which the services will be uninterrupted. This is not the first time the Digital Music economy had to face the wrath of sketchy economics along with the issue of loyalties to the music labels. The chances are that someone other than Pandora might just come and buy the Rdio. The company said in a statement “While we are filing for bankruptcy, because the planned sale to Pandora is contingent on such a filing, by law Rdio is required to entertain competitive offers during the bankruptcy process that is being managed for us by Moelis & Company....

The Sacred Games is akin to a part thriller part true story that dissects into the world of organised crimes, corruptions, power games and political ordeals with the Indian context. The series is also expected to traverse through the story of how the rich and the ones that weave power will go to extreme extents for their personal gains. Sacred Games is not just restricted to the present day political liaisons but it also imbibes the themes from the rather gruesome violence of the 1947 partition....

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....

The Nokia 7 rocks the characteristic design that has been brought forward by the new HMD Global. Just like its other siblings, the Nokia 7 features an unibody built that has been achieved by using 7000 series aluminum. The rear features a 3D glass curvature and the edges sports diamond cut bevels. The mid-ranger comes in two color options – Gloss Black and Matte White. In terms of specs, the Nokia 7 comes with a 5....

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....

Developed by the OnBeep team, this little device will cost you $99, with limited quantities in the first production run. Onyx can be described as a personal communications device that pairs to a smartphone via Bluetooth and works where there is data service, either on Wi-Fi or cellular networks. So, while it’s similar to the Start Trek communicator, it still relies on the ubiquitous smartphone to work. So, wherever you go, you need to take your phone with you....

Earlier today, Oppo VP, Brian Shen, posted a short video on Weibo, with a notch-less smartphone lying on a desk, the camera on which, after being opened, shows a white circular ring around what could be the location of the front-facing camera under the display, followed by a live view of the room’s ceiling. Further, to increase the credibility, the demonstrator hovered their finger over the part of the smartphone where the front-camera is allegedly situated....

That apart, Paytm has also been instrumental in creating a space for mobile payments in India, a market that later attracted Samsung Pay, Google Tez and other payment companies to bring their services to India. Paytm is now all set to take on WhatsApp with its in-app messaging facility. The Paytm messaging service is called “Inbox” and is already available for iOS and Android users. How Does Paytm Inbox work?...

The plot twist comes in the form of a deal that Crystal‘s developer, Dean Murphy inked with Adblock Pro creator Eyeo. This is nothing new for AdBlock Pro, the top ad blocking software on desktops as it has previously dealt with whitelisting certain ads from ad networks, they approached Murphy and advised him to do the same, of course for a certain sum of money. The company likes to shroud the issue with a clean blanket and call them as ‘acceptable ads’ policy according to which “minimally intrusive” ads will be served to the users, but the question still remains the same – is ad-blocker more of a revenue-generating machine or it does have a utilitarian background to it....