ACROSS 1 The reality that lay behind most of Google’s announcements at this year’s I/O. (9) 3 Question a Cupertino company asks and tries to answer in latest ad campaign. (3,6) 6 June 13 sees the return of the brand that many thought was more finished than Finnish! (5) 7 No Nougat perhaps for the second flagship killer? So much for Never Settling. (7) 11 Low cost Motorola device gets a soft launch?...

On that day, the audience had felt a little let down by the premium pricing of the OnePlus 7 Pro but had burst into spontaneous applause at the surprisingly affordable price tag of the OnePlus 7. Well, when Xiaomi India’s head Manu Jain announced the prices of the two Redmi K20 phones yesterday, the crowd was ecstatic over the pricing of the Redmi K20 Pro. But seemed a little surprised by the pricing of the lower-priced Redmi K20....

At the heart of Discord are servers, which are essentially communities organized into discrete collections of channels for people to hang out and discuss topics they find interesting. Discord has millions of servers staggered across a wide range of topics, ranging from movies, anime, and games to science, technology, and history. However, finding these can be a task. To simplify this, here’s a guide describing the top four sources to find Discord servers to join....

And frankly, it has marked its return with what can be called either courage or craziness, depending on whom you talk to. While all the talk in the build-up to the launch was about the Gimbal Camera system, all the talk AFTER the launch was about the pricing of the device. At Rs 49,990, the Vivo X50 Pro is not a token premium device (we have brands talking of premium experiences at Rs 25,000 for instance) but an all-out premium player....

The rumor about Apple holding a media event on October 4th is indeed true. Apple has just started to send out media invites which says “Let’s talk about iPhone” which is a clear indication that the event will be about iPhone and we are now almost certain about iPhone 5 release on Tuesday, October 4th 2011. Surprisingly, this iPhone 5 event will be held within the Apple campus at Cupertino, unlike before when they used to have it at Yerba Buena Center for Arts Theater in San Francisco....

The updated terms and policies mention their services are now owned by Facebook and documents their recent additions including end-to-end encryption, voice-calling and more. Although the main focus here is the part where they talk about businesses. WhatsApp will be, from now on, sharing personal details like individuals’ phone numbers with Facebook for refining social maps and friends’ suggestions. Additionally, this data will be utilized to improve ads that you see and through regular metrics analysis, fight spam on WhatsApp....

One hobby is quite common and and the possibility for getting fair compensation is quite high: photography. Be it digital photo manipulation or old school photography, those who have this hobby can sell their photos and make a pretty buck from it. Of course, your photos must be good if you want to sell them. What types of photos can you sell? Photo credits: Dmitriy Aseev Pretty much any type of digital media can be sold....

The Wileyfox Swift 2 is priced at £159 and it does improve on most of the quarters as opposed to its predecessor. For instance, the Swift 2 comes now comes dressed in a metal body alongside chamfered edges and prominent Wileyfox branding. Moving on, the main difference between the Swift 2 and the Swift 2 Plus is the bumped up 16-Megapixel primary sensor in the Swift 2 Plus as opposed to the 13-Megapixel one in the Swift 2....

MACE is designed to optimize mobile chips to support AI based tasks and has support for heterogeneous computing acceleration (CPU/GPU/DSP), TensorFlow/Caffe model, and multiple SoCs from well-known silicon manufacturers like Qualcomm and MediaTek. Currently, MACE is utilized to provide some AI based features like scene detection in the camera and portrait mode, to name a few, in Xiaomi devices. MIUI 10 also has some AI features like Xiaomi’s own voice assistant built-in which makes use of the MACE technology....

The leaked banner reveals that the Xiaomi Mi 5X comes with a 5.5-inch Full HD IPS display. It would be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 octa core processor and 4GB RAM. Rumors further suggest that Xiaomi will be launching a high-end variant of the Xiaomi Mi 5X. This will boast a newer Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 chip and a 6GB RAM. Besides, it will come with 64GB of native storage....

The Redmi 3 is fitted with a 5-inch HD display as opposed to the 4.7-inch in its predecessor and it is powered by the more powerful Snapdragon 616 Octa core chipset which is paired to 2GB of RAM. On the storage front, the phone offers 16GB of on board storage along with a microSD card slot that can accommodate another 128GB. Redmi 3, unlike other entry level Android handsets looks plush, thanks to the full body metal construction and also the engraved plaid design pattern on the back panel....

Looks better than the Note 5 Pro! The world of technology is now obsessed with two major things: a tall 18:9 aspect ratio display and set of dual cameras and guess what? The Redmi Y2 brings both to the table. The front of the smartphone is majorly covered by a 5.99-inch HD+ display with an 18:9 aspect ratio and screen resolution of 1440 x 720 pixels. Although the display of the smartphone is fairly bright and responsive, it looked a little washed out to us and the colors did not seem very deep....

Xiaomi takes back the number one mantle from Samsung A 13 percent year on year growth saw Xiaomi take back the number one slot in the Indian smartphone market from Samsung. Xiaomi had a 26 percent market share in the quarter, which the report attributes to strong performance from the Redmi 9 and the Redmi Note 9 series. But even though it got beaten down to number two, Samsung still had a decent quarter and actually recorded 30 percent year on year growth, thanks to its improved online presence and also the strong performance of its mid-tier devices in the M series and A series....

No, they aren’t animated characters. They are human beings who were made to wear body suits. To be specific, they are women theater artists from Mumbai Cape Town. The design of the characters is such that one gets fooled into thinking it is animation. This was achieved using special material wrinkle free cloth which made the body suites look smooth (like in animation) and the ads were shot at slower than normal frame rate so that the movements look swift but funny....

And it is no surprise that more players are coming into the video calling game and existing ones are adding more features to their apps. One such player in the video conferencing business is Google, with its Google Duo app. The app has been around for a while now but now Google has added new features to the app and has also released an ad highlighting the same. A minute of video calling, featuring cute animals Just like the world, video calling apps were also not ready for Covid-19 when it came knocking on our doors....

The LG Q7, on the front, has a 5.5-inch tall screen with a resolution of 1080p and an aspect ratio of 18:9. Underneath, it draws power from a MediaTek octa-core chipset and a 3000mAh battery which does support fast charging through a USB Type-C port. In addition, there’s a measly 3GB RAM and 32GB of onboard storage which can be expanded with a MicroSD card. LG has skipped the dual-camera trend and instead, the Q7 features a single 13-megapixel lens on the rear....

Microsoft had an year or so to keep using the Nokia brand for its mobile devices, and it’s understandable that Microsoft wants to disassociate from Nokia’s branding ASAP. But what’s more interesting is that the company is shying away from Windows Phone branding as well. Microsoft is planning not to use the Windows Phone logo in promotions and commercials, instead it will be replaced with just Windows. In fact, the change in branding has already started....

The app surprisingly has the same name as Instagram’s Hyperlapse app which the Facebook-owned company released last year. But the oddity goes a week further. Microsoft Research division had posted a teaser about this new technology a week before Instagram released this is as a standalone app. Before you install the app on your phone or computer, do note that Hyperlapse isn’t going to speed up your hour long shaky videos....

Nemo in a goldfish pond The budget range and the mid-range segment of the smartphone market are pretty much like a pond filled with goldfish – the majority of them look almost the same with little and sometimes hardly any difference at all. However, while you may get confused among other brands, Moto phones tend to be a very different kettle of (gold)fish. The Motos are the Nemo in this pond....

The future belongs to tablets, that’s for sure. That’s why Mozilla isn’t wasting a single moment and is trying to spread the fresh Firefox OS and sign as many partnerships as it can. We had our chance to get a feeling of Firefox OS devices at the MWC in Barcelona: the Geeksphone Peak and the ZTE Open. It was also then when we found out that Mozilla is closely working with Alcatel, LG Electronics, Huawei and even Samsung to bring Firefox OS devices later this year....