Blizzard to Unveil Overwatch 2 on June 16 While Blizzard continues to pivot into the mobile gaming sector with its recent Warcraft title Arclight Rumble and its upcoming Diablo Immortal for mobile, the company also aims to focus on its upcoming Overwatch 2 title for PC and console gamers. Blizzard has already tested the game with a one-week-long Technical Beta program, which recently ended. Now, the company has announced an official event to share its plans and reveal the dates of the next PvP Beta of Overwatch 2....

Bose QuietComfort Earbuds The Bose Quitecomfort Earbuds feature an in-ear true wireless design. They come in a compact form factor, with each bud measuring a little over an inch. As evident from the name, the buds ship with Bose’s proprietary noise cancellation technology to reduce ambient noise. It does so by using multiple microphones, tiny transducers and a new algorithm. Bose also claims a battery life of up to six hours for the buds themselves and an additional twelve hours with the case....

Another Samsung Budget 5G Phone Launched Samsung Galaxy A13 5G has a design identical to the current Galaxy A-series phones. There are three rear cameras arranged vertically in separated housings, along with a waterdrop notched display on the front. The smartphone comes with a 6.5-inch HD+ LCD Infinity-V display with support for a 90Hz refresh rate. It is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 700 chipset, which is also found on the Galaxy A22 5G in India, the Poco M3 Pro 5G, the Realme 8 5G, and more....

MX3D – World’s First 3D-Printed Bridge Dubbed the MX3D bridge, the structure was recently installed and opened for public use in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was inaugurated by Queen Maxima of the Netherlands and is the world’s first 3D printed stainless steel bridge. The bridge is 12-meter in length and was built by four commercially available industrial robots. It took six months for the robots to construct the bridge and over 4,500 kgs of stainless was used....

Despite all the technological advancements, server downtimes are still a thing in 2020 and it even affects tech giants like Google. This is where Cloudflare’s Always Online service comes to the scene. It offers a static backup copy of web pages so that users can continue viewing pages. The partnership benefits both Cloudflare and The Internet Archive. On one hand, The Internet Archive’s mission is to archive as many web pages as possible and through this partnership, web pages that enable Cloudflare’s Always Online service will automatically get archived....

Cloudflare Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood As per Cloudflare, a user spends at least 32 seconds to complete a CAPTCHA challenge. Assuming that a user comes across a CAPTCHA once every 10 days, that’s roughly 500 human years wasted every single day. To avoid this, the company is proposing what it calls ‘Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood’. In a recent blog post, Cloudflare has detailed how the technology works. According to the company, users can plug in a hardware security key after clicking on the ‘I am a human’ prompt on supported websites....

Fireside App on Android and iOS “The fireside app is a social networking app that lets you follow, and form connections with like-minded individuals. It lets you share your thoughts and synergize on enriching ideas. Empower yourself with worldwide connections that will add value to your professional, and personal life,” explains the company. As you can see in the image below, you can use Fireside to discover relevant groups that cater to your interests....

Realme C30: Specs and Features The Realme C30 comes with an attractive design despite being a budget phone. It flaunts an ultra-slim vertical stripe design and is touted to be the lightest and the slimmest in its segment. It comes in three color options, namely, Lake Blue, Bamboo Green, and Denim Black. The phone gets a 6.5-inch HD+ display with a screen-to-body ratio of 88.7% and a waterdrop notch. It is powered by the Unisoc T612 SoC, coupled with up to 3GB of RAM and 32GB of UFS 2....

Meta Canceled but IFA Didn’t Meta, via a recent blog post, has revealed that it will skip out on the F8 conference this year, and it isn’t due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The reason is for the company to focus on its current core idea: Metaverse. And it doesn’t appear surprising given that the company just rebranded to take ahead the concept of Metaverse. For the same, Meta has confirmed other events for 2022 like the inaugural business messaging event, Conversations on May 19, the Connect event later this year, and more....

Facebook Messenger Gains Shortcut Support Meta’s Messenger team recently shared an official blog post to announce the new shortcuts for the messaging app. The shortcuts let users input simple commands to add custom notifications for messages, GIFs, and even the OG shrug emoji (¯_(ツ)/¯). Starting with two shortcuts, Messenger currently has the @everyone and /silent shortcuts available for Android and iOS users. Now, you might already know that you can add profile links of other users or mention them in a group using the “@” symbol in Messenger....

Ford Develops “Javier” Robot to Operate 3D Printers Ford has developed a special interface that allows machines from different suppliers to interact with each other and help in the production process. The company has deployed a KUKA-built, wheeled robot, dubbed “Javier,” in its Advanced Manufacturing Center that can operate a 3D printer to produce small custom car components all by itself. This is the first time that a robot is able to interact with a Carbon 3D printer....

For instance, you can now say “Hey Google, turn on the lights in five minutes” or “Hey Google, turn on the lights at 10 AM” to conveniently switch on the lights. You can also choose to specify an action to take place at an exact time of the day within the upcoming week. You can also say something like “Hey Google, turn on the lights for five minutes”. This way, you don’t have to worry about switching the lights off, and undoubtedly, it is my favorite command of the bunch....

Guest Mode for Google Assistant As the name suggests, Google will not sync your Assistant interactions with your Google account when you’re using guest mode. More importantly, the searches done when you’re using guest mode will not be personalized based on your account. Google says that you can enable/disable guest mode using a simple voice command. According to the company, the new guest mode will roll out on home devices in the coming weeks....

Google Photos Locked Folder Reaches More Android Users A report by Android Police suggests that the Locked Folder can now be found in the Google Photos app on non-Pixel devices. The feature can be spotted on a few Samsung, OnePlus, and Oppo phones, as further suggested by 9To5Mac. We too were able to find the new feature in our Google Photos app on a OnePlus Nord. Sadly, iPhones still lack it....

The latest tip comes from reputable tipster Jon Prosser, who recently shared a report on the same. The tipster states that he was skeptical about the September 13 launch date that was previously leaked by the Weibo account Bald Panda. So, Prosser promised to look into it and double-check the information with his sources. After getting in touch with a few of his reliable sources, Prosser discovered that the Mountain View giant will not release the Pixel 6 models on September 13....

Pixel Watch to Include a Really Old Exynos Chip A recent report by 9to5Google corroborates the previous leak and reveals that the Pixel Watch will be powered by an Exynos chip. But, it is slated to be the Exynos 9110 chip, which was seen on the Galaxy Watch back in 2018. It was also seen on the Galaxy Watch Active, Active 2, and even the Galaxy Watch 3. This comes as a surprise for many as the Exynos chipset in question in leaks was supposedly the Exynos W920, which powers the newest Galaxy Watch 4....

Google researchers have decided to fix this accessibility issue by building a real-time sign language detection engine. It can detect when a person in a video call is trying to communicate using sign language and bring the spotlight on them. The engine will be able to tell when a person starts signing and make them the active speaker. This model was presented by Google researchers at ECCV 2020. The research paper titled Real-Time Sign Language Detection using Human Pose Estimation talks about how a ‘plug and play’ detection engine was created for video conferencing apps....

Samsung made the announcement via an official blog post. In the post, the company boasted about its proprietary multi-layered security technology dubbed Samsung Knox. This is the same technology that powers the latest Samsung Kiosk which the company launched in Korea recently. It protects user-data both on software as well as hardware level. “Thanks to the latest technology advancements, we’re committing to securing Galaxy devices for even longer, so that everything that should be kept protected stays protected,” said Seungwon Shin, the VP and Head of Security Team at Mobile Communications Department of Samsung....

Now Delete Last 15 Minutes of Google Search History on Android The search giant confirmed the rollout of the feature to The Verge last weekend and it started reaching users across the world earlier this week. The company stated that the “delete last 15 minutes of search history” feature will be available for all Android users in the next few weeks with an update to the Google Search app. “We’re currently rolling this feature out on the Google app for Android and expect it to be available to everyone using the app in the next few weeks,” a Google spokesperson told The Verge....

Remove Language Switcher from Windows 11 Taskbar (2022) To remove the language switcher option from the Taskbar on Windows 11, you need to follow a few simple steps. We have added multiple methods below in case the initial method does not work. Here is how to go about it. Ensure You Have Just One Primary Language First, make sure that only one language is added to your Windows 11 PC. Press the “Windows + I” keyboard shortcut on Windows 11 to open Settings....