YouTube 4K Videos Won’t Be Free? As per a post on Reddit (check out more links: 1, 2) and Twitter, YouTube is now attaching the “Premium” tag to the 2160p option, thus, requiring people to pay if they want to watch 4K videos. This option is appearing for a few people, although, I couldn’t spot it. So, after testing up to 12 ads on YouTube for non-Premium users, now some users reported that they also have to get a Premium account just to watch videos in 4K....

Get Google Assistant Integration on YouTube for Android If you are interested to try it out, tap on your profile picture in the top-right corner of the YouTube app and go to the ‘Your Premium benefits’ section. From the next page, press ‘Try new features’ to access the YouTube labs page. Here, locate ‘Do more with Assistant’ experiment and press the ‘Try it out’ button. Do note that you can only try one feature at a time....

With the latest Zoom update (version 5.3.52640.0920), you can now use one of the backgrounds offered by Zoom or choose an image from your gallery to step up your video calls. You can enable virtual backgrounds on Zoom by tapping on the ‘More’ option and choosing ‘Virtual Background’. As Android Police notes, the virtual background feature is limited to images for now. On other platforms, you can use either images or videos as backgrounds....

AirPods Pro 2 New Details Appear Mark Gurman, via his recent Power On newsletter, has revealed that the AirPods Pro 2 won’t come with health features like a heart rate monitor or a body temperature sensor. While these functionalities have been explored, they won’t be introduced with this year’s upgrade. Although, there’s a possibility of these being implemented in the future. To recall, it was previously suggested that the new AirPods Pro will come with the ability to track the heart rate and body temperature of the wearer....

Bharti Airtel has listed over 150 smartphones upon which customers can avail the “Mera Pehla Smartphone” cashback offer. It includes smartphones from reputed brands such as Samsung, Xiaomi, Vivo, Oppo, Realme, Lenovo, Motorola, and many more. Users can choose a device that costs up to Rs 12,000 to get the cashback. Furthermore, the company adds that the offer will also be available for smartphones valued at Rs 6,000. However, the customer will get the entire cashback over three years....

According to ThreatFabric researchers, the creator of Cerberus shared the source code of the malware in August after a failed attempt to sell it. Although Google’s Play Protect detected all samples of Cerberus, Alien malware was not affected since it was allegedly based on an older version of Cerberus. As a result, Alien malware is now taking the place of Cerberus. Alien malware is packed with malicious features and comes with a slew of capabilities....

“Amit Ji, Tell Me a Joke” Now, instead of summoning Alexa, Echo users would be able to command the Indian superstar Mr. Amitabh Bachchan to fulfill their digital needs. All you need to do is ask Alexa to introduce you to Amitabh Bachchan, but it comes at a price. You will need to pay an introductory annual subscription of Rs. 149 to add Big B’s celebrity voice to your Alexa-enabled devices and apps....

Ryzen 9 5950X and 5900X The top-of-the-line 5950X is the most powerful chip in the lineup with 16 cores and 32 threads. It has a base frequency of 3.4GHz, boost frequency of 4.9GHz and a TDP of 105W. It is priced at $799 (~Rs. 58,000) in the US. The other Ryzen 9 chip, the 5900X, is a 12-core unit with 24 threads and, ships with a base clock of 3.7GHz and a boost clock of 4....

For those unaware, Google stopped using dessert codenames to denote new Android releases for the public with Android 10 a couple of years ago. While it is a fun way to mark the new OS releases, a dessert name starting with the letter Q might have been difficult to pick. Thus, the Mountain View tech giant moved to a simple numeric nomenclature to streamline the branding globally. The dessert naming tradition, however, continues internally....

Apple 27-inch iMac Discontinued This is a surprising move by Apple as it last updated the 27-inch iMac with SSDs, Intel’s 10th-Gen processor, and a nano-texture display in 2020. However, it seems like Apple now wants to offer only M1-powered iMacs across the board as customers only have the option to get last year’s 24-inch M1 iMac or get the latest Mac Studio powered by its M1 Max or the latest M1 Ultra chipset....

The patent, “Folding Electronic Devices With Geared Hinges”, was recently filed by the iPhone-makers. This particular patent explains the use of advanced gears for the hinges of a foldable device. As per the description, this mechanism will allow a user to fold the display all the way to the back, making the foldable iPhone pretty similar to Microsoft’s Surface Duo, on paper. How Will It Work? The patent notes that the “first and second portions of an electronic device housing for the [foldable] device may be joined using a hinge”....

Apple Will No Longer Make iPods! Apple broke the news via an official blog post, emphasizing that there’s nothing to be sad about. The company goes on to say that it has safely integrated the iPod capabilities into other Apple products, ranging from an iPhone to a HomePod mini. Hence, it persuades people into looking at those options now. This is another indication of the fact that we may not really need a dedicated product to listen to music, considering that an iPhone or even an Android phone proves to suffice....

R. Rajhans, a retired pharma professional uses an Apple Watch Series 5, which was gifted by his son Siddharth. Siddharth was a student at Harvard University and has worked with several big tech companies in Silicon Valley. The watch was a gift to his father who was having irregular heartbeats. “Since Apple Watch allows the ECG Function, one can check it on a more regular basis. twice or thrice in the middle of the night, my father was getting arrhythmia signals or irregular heartbeats....

The image was shared by an anonymous tipster WHYLAB on Weibo. The leaker says that this is allegedly the ROG Phone 4’s “real machine photo” (read as live image) and surprisingly, there is the number “05” imprinted on its back panel. It means that the Taiwanese phone maker might skip the number 4 in the series (like OnePlus) and launch the ROG Phone 5 instead. Via: 91Mobiles Now, you might think that this is unusual but skipping the number 4 makes sense for Asus....

The German car-makers recently introduced a new kind of headlight-solution for its future cars. Dubbed as Digital Matrix LED headlights, these will be able to project animated images on a wall while the car is parked. Moreover, the additional sensors enable the headlights to adjust their light-beam according to the lighting conditions of the road and the position of the car. For instance, when the car is moving on a highway at night, it will automatically cast a very high-beam of light to cover a massive area of the road ahead....

Indian Wearable Market Grew in Q3 2022 The report reveals that the market saw shipments of 37.2 million units in the July-September quarter. The smartwatch category became the fastest growing with a YoY growth of 178.8%. Earwear accounted for 67.3%. Although, the average selling price (ASP) decreased by 13.6% YoY. boAt was in a dominating position with a 32.1% market share, all thanks to its audio products specifically the Airdopes 141 and Airdopes 131....

The research study was performed by Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg by using an AI-based language processing model. The researchers first took 100 Bollywood movies that were popular in the past seven decades. Then, for comparison, they selected 100 top-grossing Hollywood movies from the same time period. Following the compilation, the researchers applied Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to the subtitles of the films. This was to examine how much the movies have evolved over the years in terms of breaking social norms and eliminating social biases....

The Phone Hub feature was discovered as a flag on the Chromium Gerrit last year and it recently went live for some users running Chrome OS 90 on the Canary channel. So, as per earlier reports, the said feature lets users turn on/off the mobile hotspot, enable Do Not Disturb mode, locate their misplaced Android device, sync notifications and reply to them directly from their Chromebook. However, a recently discovered flag, dubbed #eche-swa, hints that the Phone Hub feature will let users cast the screen of their Android device directly on to ChromeOS....

In the tweet, CD Projekt Red says that an unidentified actor gained access to its internal network. The attackers managed to collect data belonging to the CD Projekt capital group. However, the company noted that it still has access to the backups. It is currently in the process of restoring data. The attackers have left a ransom note, where they claim to have copied the source codes for Cyberpunk 2077, Witcher 3, Gwent, and the unreleased version of Witcher 3....

The project is inspired by the early days of internet and lets you create canvases with images, GIFs, shapes, and text. Once you create a canvas on E.gg, you can generate it as a page. Thanks to the unique URL for canvases, you can share them with friends and family. Others with the URL can view your canvas on the web without the app. E.gg wants to create a ‘low-pressure space for the really unpolished and mismatched things’....