Anki claims to have earned a revenue of over $100 million last year, but says that toys aren’t what it only aims to sell, indicating their seriousness towards bringing robotic devices into the mainstream market. Over a year after the release of Cozmo, Anki has now showcased a spiritual successor to it named Vector, which is slightly bigger in size than the Cozmo and has a grey tint to it....
In terms of specifications, the device comes with a 6.53-inch FHD+ LCD display, with 90.95% screen-to-body ratio and Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection, on top. Under the hood, it is powered by an Octa-Core MediaTek Helio P70 12nm processor with ARM Mali-G72 MP3 GPU, paired with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage (expandable up to 256GB using a microSD card). There is a fingerprint scanner on the device, mounted on the rear, for authentication....
The Vivo X20 Plus UD looks exactly similar to its predecessor. It features a large 6.43-inch Super AMOLED 18:9 FHD+ display. The Synaptics made in-display fingerprint sensor is placed right under the display. It’s capable of unlocking the smartphone under 6-7 ms. The sensor works using a photoelectric reflection technology for determining your finger. Apart from unlocking the smartphone users can use the in-display sensor for making payments through AliPay or WeChat....
To begin with, amongst the three devices, the X50 Pro+, as its name suggests, it the top-of-the-line model, while the X50 Pro and the vanilla X50 are more of a mid-range offering. The X50 Pro+ features a 6.56-inch FHD+ AMOLED panel with a hole-punch cutout to house the front-facing camera. As is the case with most flagships this year, the display on the X50 Pro+ gets support for a 120Hz refresh rate along with HDR10+....
“Stats don’t lie” is a popular belief and it is true specially when the data we have is comprehensive and accurate. The interests on the internet are dynamic and constantly change. Who, other than Google Trends, can help us look back and understand how the interests have fared and changed over the last few years? This is Part 1 of the two part series. Some of them are bound to take you by surprise, I am sure!...
WhatsApp has been testing many features in beta and most often new features keep popping up with every upgrade. Moving on, apart from the one to one conversations WhatsApp Groups is something that has clicked with the users. While most of us use WhatsApp group for the sake of being connected with their family and friend’s others use it as an official channel to communicate stuff regarding work. WhatsApp has now introduced the tagging feature that will let you tag the group members by adding ‘@’ before their name....
There are different versions of the meme, many of them are truly hilarious! Here are a couple of them I am including, which I am sure will tickle your funny bones! Impressed? Why don’t you try making a meme of your own? Download this template to get started! [via]sadanduseless
In 2013, Snapchat introduced something called “Stories” that enabled its wide audience to stitch multiple live (cannot be uploaded from storage unless it is captured within 24 hours) photos and videos together to generate a timeline which automatically disappeared after 24 hours. Now, Instagram has updated its application with a new addition titled “Stories” that lets users sew together live memories which will automatically disappear after hitting 24 hours on the clock....
Also, you should know the difference between Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows 8 Pro before you set sail onto this new journey. Because, if you’ll get a Windows RT device, such as the Surface tablet, you might be quite enfuriated that you won’t have the same user experience as someone with a Windows 8 tablet or hybrid. But let’s see what the first reviews can tell us about Windows 8....
The Xiaomi Mi A1 comes equipped with a 5.5-inch FHD display with 2.5D Corning Gorilla Glass and is powered by the Snapdragon 625 processor clocked at 2.0GHz and paired with 4GB of RAM. On the storage front, the phone offers 64GB of internal storage along with an expandable microSD card slot. As mentioned earlier the Mi A1 runs on Android One and it’s still not clear if one would be able to flash it with a MIUI ROM....
Re-Mixing the Mix, adding usability A year later, the sequel is here. And it is no more a concept phone. Xiaomi had enough time to work on whatever limitations that plagued the original Mix and refine the design further on the Mix 2. And it has done just that. Instead of a humongous 6.4-inch display, we have a more manageable 5.99-inch screen and a phone which is almost 24 grams lighter than its predecessor....
According to analyst Sun Changxu, Xiaomi’s upcoming flagship device could feature super specs, such as a 5.7-inch 2K display, a 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 SoC with the Adreno 430 GPU, and a 20.7MP camera. If you’ve been following the news, then you know the Meizu MX4 has the same camera. There’s been talk of fingerprint scanner for the Mi5, which is definitely not impossible, considering how popular this feature has become....
As far as specifications are concerned, the Redmi 4 comes with a 5-inch 720p display up front with 2.5D curved glass and flaunts the signature unibody metal body with three off-screen capacitive buttons and measures only 8.65mm in thickness. It does come with a protection on top of the display, but Xiaomi isn’t telling the name of that. Furthermore, it is powered by Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 435 octa-core chipset. There are two storage and RAM options available – 2GB RAM + 16GB onboard space or you can shed some extra for getting the 3GB + 32GB combo....
It was AOL and Yahoo Messenger which hooked me to the Internet almost two decades ago. Currently the market is crowded with hundreds of Messaging apps trying to make a place for themselves. Among these Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, Snapchat, Viber etc are ruling the roost. This time around, Yahoo claims that it has designed the app from ground up – something that was long pending. Let’s check out what the new Yahoo Messenger promises and if it delivers....
To enable the authentication on your WhatsApp, you need to make sure you are on the latest version of the app ie 2.19.20. For this, you need to head to the AppStore and update the app from there. Once done, open WhatsApp and go to Settings > Account > Privacy > Screen Lock and enable the option that says ‘Require Touch ID’. In the following screen, you get different options of time, which is basically the time after which the app would lock down itself....
It does tick the boxes in terms of specs – the rear camera is of 13.0 megapixels and is a Sony IMX 135 CMOS sensor, with a F/2.2 aperture, and is made using the five piece Largan Blue Lens Architecture. The front is a 5.0-megapixel affair. But all this is just so much jargon. How do those cameras actually perform? Well, we gave them both a go, sticking to auto mode....
https://youtu.be/305ryPvU6A8 Hey, Siri, dance me into a trippy trance! Titled “Welcome Home,” the ad is a four-minute affair directed by Spike Jonze (of “Knowing John Malkovich” fame), and features singer and dancer FKA Twigs dancing to a new track from Anderson Paak – oh, and of course, the HomePod itself. Jonze is known for his extremely off-beat approach to filmmaking and has a number of extremely unusual music videos (check out the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage”) and commercials to his credit....
https://youtu.be/Py0acqg1oKc One brand thinks differently. Of course, it would be Apple. The Cupertino giant has been talking about privacy and how it keeps what is on the iPhone private for quite a while and has now started to use it as a USP. It introduced ads in the past focusing on the issue and has done so again after the launch of the latest iPhones. An aerial journey “Privacy on iPhone– Simple as that” is about a minute long ad that shows an aerial view of a city at night....
What prompted you to write the book? I moved to India in early 2014 as the CNN bureau chief reporting in Delhi. One of the things that struck me when I moved here was that, on a lot of TV commercials that I saw here, the smartphone was dominating the advertising and commercials in some way or the other. All of the ads were either of smartphones or Internet companies....
Since then, there have been multiple updates to the OnePlus 7 Pro camera which has slowly, but surely, ensured that the camera isn’t anymore the Achilles Heel of the OnePlus 7 Pro. And that has been made possible thanks to Simon Liu and his team based out of Shenzhen and Taipei. Earlier this month, we had the unique opportunity to visit their new camera lab in Taipei, Taiwan and speak to the co-founder, Carl Pei as well as the Image Product Manager, Zake Zhang who works with Simon in the OnePlus camera team....
