Apex Legends Mobile Launch Date In a recent earnings call, EA confirmed that Apex Legends Mobile is currently under development. The company plans to soft-launch the mobile game in the next 3 to 4 months. The stable release will come sometime next year, as per the developer. More details for Apex Legends Mobile have since been shared online. A recent IGN India report revealed that the mobile game development is being helmed by China’s Tencent....

WWDC 2021 from June 7 At the virtual event, Apple is expected to announce updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. The event will be free to all developers. We could expect Apple to announce and share details on iOS 15, iPadOS 15, macOS 12, tvOS 15, and watchOS 8 at WWDC 2021. While there’s no concrete info on hardware launches at the event, Apple has been working on new Apple Silicon Macs....

As per recent claims by Kuo, Apple will likely adopt a punch-hole display design for its iPhone models, starting from 2022. Although the analyst says that the company will release the iPhone 14 models with the notch, Apple might adopt a punch-hole design from the iPhone 14 Pro models. We have already gotten our first look at the notchless punch-hole-laden iPhone 14, thanks to the popular tipster Jon Prosser. Moreover, Kuo has already stated that Apple will discontinue the iPhone mini model from next year due to low demand....

Apple May Launch Larger iPads Before you keep your hopes up, the newsletter clearly mentions that the larger iPads in question are unlikely to go on sale next year. The earliest timeline is in a couple of years, assuming Apple doesn’t decide to drop the plan. There’s a solid chance that this large iPad may never see the light of day, so take this piece of information with a grain of salt....

Apple TestFlight Can Spread Malicious Apps on iOS Apple, as you might know, distributes pre-production apps and games for beta testing by directly inviting users via links for people to test via the TestFlight app. TestFlight can be used by developers to invite up to 10,000 users to beta test an app or a game. Now, a recent report from security firm Sophos suggests scammers are using the same app to distribute their malicious apps to iPhone and iPad users, and it is through Apple’s beta testing platform TestFlight....

Now, if you are unaware, Apple launched its first-ever item tracker to rival Samsung’s SmartTag devices and other alternatives. The AirTag introduced many new privacy-focused features that were hailed as revolutionary by Apple. However, many users and critics discovered that it is pretty easy to use an AirTag to stalk people without their knowledge. It is especially easier when someone, who is being tracked, has an Android device instead of an iPhone....

Asus Zephyrus S17 The Zephyrus S17 is the higher-end option of the two laptops. It comes in a quintessentially ‘Zephyrus-like’ design, and has a rising keyboard that helps with air-flow and cooling. As the name suggests, the laptop packs in a 17-inch display that’s available in two configurations — a QHD DDS panel with 165Hz refresh rate and a UHD panel with 120Hz refresh rate. Under the hood, the laptop comes with either an 11th-gen Intel Core i7-11800H or Intel Core i9-11900H processor paired with up to 48GB 3200MHz DDR4 RAM....

Asus Zenbook 14 Flip OLED: Specs and Features The Asus Zenbook 14 Flip is a convertible laptop, and hence, features a 360-degree ErgoLift hinge design for people to flip it in any way possible. It has an aluminum alloy chassis and is slim and lightweight too. The 14-inch display has a 4-sided NanoEdge design for an edge-to-edge experience. The OLED touch screen display supports a 90Hz refresh rate, HDR 10, a screen resolution of 2,880 x 1,800 pixels, 500 nits of peak brightness, and a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio....

Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) iOS Launch Soon Going by a new teaser posted on Battlegrounds Mobile India’s official Instagram handle, the company is working to bring BGMI soon to iPhones. “We thought you missed it earlier. So, just wanted to let you know ? Stay tuned for more!,” reads the caption of the teaser post. You can check out the BGMI iOS teaser below: Although the teaser doesn’t include the BGMI iOS release date, it’s a sign that Krafton is gearing up to bring the game to interested players with iPhones....

The tequila, dubbed as “Teslaquila” (just Elon things), actually started out as an April Fools joke among the employees of Tesla back in 2018. Since then, Musk had shared several images on Twitter (below), referencing its new tequila brand. Following these images, he filed a trademark for the name and said that it is coming soon for Tesla lovers. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 12, 2018 Now, the company is taking orders for Teslaquila, and consumers in the States can order up to two bottles for themselves from its official website....

The biometric authentication feature for Incognito tabs is rolling out with the latest Chrome Beta update (version 89.0.4389.48) on iOS. The changelog (via The Verge’s Tom Warren) reads as follows – “You can add more security to your Incognito tabs with Touch ID or Face ID. When you return to the Chrome app, your Incognito tabs will be blurred until you confirm it’s you.” — Tom Warren (@tomwarren) February 11, 2021 This feature isn’t enabled by default....

DIZO Buds Z TWS Earbuds: Specifications DIZO Buds Z is lightweight and each earbud weighs 3.7 grams. The company says it has used ‘Natural Light Design’ that offers four reflective layers to give the earbuds a dazzling effect. It comes in Onyx, Leaf, and Pearl color variants. The Buds Z features Environment Noise Cancellation (ENC) to block out external noise to an extent. Moreover, there’s a Game Mode that brings down the latency to 88ms while you’re playing games....

With that in mind, the latest poll conducted by Elon Musk asks users whether he should step down as head of Twitter. So, in whose favor do you think the scales are turning? Let’s find out! Elon Musk Might Quit Being Twitter CEO After getting severe backlash on a critical change to Twitter’s link sharing policy, which has since been reversed, Musk tweeted out a poll that asked a simple yet tough question — “Should I step down as head of Twitter?...

The e-commerce giant has offered its own wallet and PhonePe UPI payment services at checkout to date. You could also use other UPI apps to complete payments. Flipkart is now taking aim at new users, who might feel at home with Paytm as a payment option, with this new integration. If you add a product to your cart and head to the payments page, you will be able to see the new Paytm integration live under the ‘Wallets’ and ‘UPI’ options....

God of War Ragnarok is Releasing in November Keeping its promise of a late 2022 release window, the God of War Ragnarok officially has a release date of November 9th, 2022. The game will be released on PS4 and PS5 simultaneously. We are yet to get details about gameplay changes and plot from Santa Monica Studio but you can expect the marketing team to drop us some hints in the upcoming weeks....

In a recent virtual interview with select reporters, Pichai confirmed that Google continues to engage with Reliance Jio to work on their planned initiative. The companies are to make affordable 5G-supported smartphones to help boost the adoption of 5G technology in the country. “We are focused on building an affordable phone… we are committed to making progress on the project and we are working with them (Jio),” said the Google CEO....

Privacy Sandbox Details At a Glance Currently, Google has just announced Privacy Sandbox, which will limit data sharing with third parties and will provide a way to “operate without cross-app identifiers, including advertising ID.” However, Google hasn’t really revealed how it will achieve this. For those who don’t know, Privacy Sandbox is not a new initiative by Google. It has only been extended to Android users after being available for Google Search for the longest time....

Dubbed Lyra, this AI-based audio-compression technology is designed to help users make video calls on weaker network connections. It compresses the audio quality to the point where it can run using as low as 3kbps of data. Google announced the technology in a short explanatory video shared on Twitter. You can see the tweet attached below: — Android (@Android) March 2, 2021 Jamieson Brettle, Product Manager of Google Chrome, says that they developed the technology to focus on countries like India and Brazil where a massive chunk of the population, particularly in rural areas, still uses 2G network connections....

The change was reportedly spotted in the Chrome OS canary by Android Police who reports that Google is basically making the screen capture tool easier to find, and adding a screen recorder to it. The new toolbar follows Google’s material design guidelines, which is great, and offers support for most of the common screen capture features you might be looking for. You can take a screenshot of the entire screen, or a partial screenshot as well if you need that....

So, this feature will allow you to revisit your memory in a way in which you’ll feel as if you have been taken back to the very moment when you clicked the picture. In simple words, it will showcase a regular picture from your gallery in 3D even if the actual picture does not have any depth information on it. It will use machine learning to envisage an image’s depth and create a 3D representation of the scene....