pTron Basspods P481: Specs and Features The pTron Basspods P481 comes with an in-ear design and has a small and lightweight structure. There’s also a portable and compact charging case. There’s support for the company’s signature noise-cancelation tech, which proves during calls. It has an advanced processor that can provide ENC functionality while ensuring enhanced audio quality and reduced noise distortion. The product has a dual HD mic setup. The earbuds come with 10mm dynamic drivers for deeper bass, clearer vocals, and enhanced treble output....

Dubsmash Shutting Down in a Few Months This news comes after Reddit acquired the video-creation platform just last year. The aim was to bring Dubsmash’s video tools to Reddit. It seems like the motive has been achieved. As a result, Reddit will now include new tools for people, especially the “Dubsmashers” to conveniently create short videos. An official blog post by Reddit says “the Dubsmash team has been accelerating Reddit’s video, so parts of Reddit will feel familiar to Dubsmashers....

Samsung Robots at CES 2021 Bot Handy Now, the Bot Handy is a pretty cute and efficient robot that has an extendable gripper-arm attached to its body that has a long display with a pair of eyes to convey various emotions. However, the extendable arm has three joints and hence, provides enough flexibility to grab and carry everyday items in your home. The machine uses artificial intelligence (AI) to detect objects of every shape and material composition....

Samsung Eco Remote Unveiled at CES 2022 Samsung introduced a new version of its solar-powered Eco remote during its presentation at this year’s CES. While the new Eco Remote comes with the same solar-charging capabilities, it packs a nifty trick up its sleeve. Other than gaining power from environmental solar energy, Samsung’s new SolarCell Eco Remote is able to convert radio frequencies from devices like a Wi-Fi router into electricity to charge itself....

Yes, you read that right. Several users have noticed that their Nord got factory reset without any warning while the device was in their pocket. Since users didn’t report such incidents when the phone was first launched, it is safe to assume that a recent OxygenOS update resulted in this bug. “Purchased OnePlus Nord 6 days back. It was in my pocket and suddenly I felt the phone warmed up so i checked phone and it was factory rested (sic) itself and on choose language window,” wrote a OnePlus Nord owner on OnePlus Forums....

Sony WF-C500 is Here to Compete with Nothing and OnePlus The Sony WF-C500 comes with Digital Sound Enhancement Engine (DSEE) for high-quality audio and calling experience. The sound can be adjusted via the Equalizer setting of the Headphones Connect app. The earbuds also support 5.8mm dynamic Neodymium audio drivers. The earbuds, which feature an in-ear design, are small and compact and come encased in a cylindrical charging case, which is also equally lightweight and portable....

Share Podcasts with Timestamps Podcasts are usually fairly long, and if you are listening to a podcast that you want someone you know to start listening to as well, you can simply share it with them. However, today, Spotify is bringing a new feature to sharing podcast episodes — timestamps. You can now share podcast episodes beginning at a particular timestamp. When you share a podcast with a timestamp, the receiver can simply open the link and it will take them directly to that particular spot in the episode, so they can hear the part you think they will appreciate the most....

Dubbed as Spotiplus, it is one of the most useful tools for Spotify playlist creators to design their very own, custom cover art for their playlists. It comes with an array of customizing options to create album covers or playlist covers from scratch. “I believe that Photoshop is an excellent design editor however it requires a huge learning curve to design a simple playlist cover. With that in mind, I tried to simplify the experience and make an easy-to-use editor that offers only the necessary tools to design the cover in no-time,” wrote the creator of the app....

A professor of Communications at Stanford University, James Bailenson has been teaching the University’s Virtual People course since 2003. However, he recently took a gamble when he decided to conduct the course entirely in VR, without knowing whether the technology required for it would be ready or not. Thankfully, the software, dubbed Engage, which was used to conduct the first-ever VR class was ready for Bailenson to use by the time of the summer session of the Virtual People Course....

So, according to recent reports, a man from Las Vegas named Simon Byrne acquired almost 80 Nvidia RTX 3080 graphics cards to build the ultimate crypto-mining rig. Byrne shared some pictures of his setup, named “Berta 2” (“Berta” was Byrne’s first crypto-mining rig), online and it spread around the internet in no time. In these pictures, one can see the array of GPUs set up on a massive, probably custom-made surface....

Reputable app reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) recently shared a tweet showcasing a new “Undo Send” feature that Twitter is developing. She included a GIF in her tweet, which shows a new timer-based undo button for sent tweets. You can check it out right here. — Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) March 5, 2021 So, as you can see, the new undo button appears after the user shares a tweet....

Back then, we knew that Samsung had partnered with ARM to bring the Cortex-X1 to its future Exynos chipsets, removing its Mongoose cores. However, it seems both Samsung and Qualcomm are going to use the Cortex-X1 high performance cores in their upcoming flagships. According to leaker IceUniverse, both the upcoming Exynos and Snapdragon flagships will use a 1+3+4 core configuration. This likely means that the processors will use a Cortex X1 core, three Cortex A78 cores and four Cortex A55 high efficiency cores....

With the introduction of the 4th-gen iPad Air, Apple revived the Touch-ID in a whole new way, integrated into the power button, which Apple execs state is “an incredible feat of engineering”. So, one ought to think that Apple might bring the Touch-ID back to the iPhone’s power button, right? Well, that’s not what unusual cryptic leaker on Twitter, @LOvetodream thinks. Known for his mysterious coded leaks, this anonymous leaker shares some really accurate leaks from time to time....

First up, Vivo has made it clear that the upcoming phone in its X series, presumably Vivo X60, will be the first phone to run OriginOS out of the box. Alongside, the company has listed over 30 Vivo and iQOO phones to receive the first public beta of OriginOS. The update will roll out in three batches – before January 31, 2021, before Chinese New Year that falls on February 12, 2021, and sometime in the second quarter of 2021....

Government Dismisses CoWIN Data Breach Claims The alleged CoWIN data leak includes name, phone number, Aadhaar ID, GPS, location, and state of citizens. However, in a press statement, the Indian government said that the reports of the CoWIN platform getting hacked are unfounded. In addition, the Computer Emergency Response Team of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MietY) has started an investigation on the claims. “We wish to state that Co-WIN stores all the vaccination data in a safe and secure digital environment....

New WhatsApp Features for Android and Desktop Starting with the new drawing tools, as per a recent report by reputable WhatsApp tipster WABetaInfo, the messaging giant is working on two new pencil tools for its image and video editor. The new pencil tools will allow users to choose the thickness of their drawings. You can check out an early preview of the feature in the screenshot below. As you can see in the image, there are two new options for the pencil tool in the image/ video editor on WhatsApp for Android....

In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Reed Hastings, the founder and the chairman of the digital streaming behemoth talked about the effects of working from home. He said that the concept of working from home is safe, but has a lot more negative effects compared to the positives. Upon asking about the benefits of working from home, the Netflix boss said, “No. I don’t see any positives....

As the name of this smart bulb suggests, the Mi Smart LED Bulb (B22) comes with a B22 socket as opposed to the E27 socket aboard the previous-gen Mi smart bulb. This means you can simply plug this bulb into the holder, without having to use a converter. Thus, Mi Smart LED Bulb (B22) is more convenient to use than its predecessor. Mi Smart LED Bulb (B22) has a power output of 9 watts, which is one watt lower than the power consumption of its predecessor....

Google Ends Support for Gingerbread Phones The new restriction goes live on September 27. Affected Android versions include: Android 1.0/ 1.1 Android 1.5 Cupcake Android 1.6 Donut Android 2.0/ 2.1 Eclair Android 2.2 – 2.2.3 Froyo Android 2.3 – 2.3.7 Gingerbread To put that in perspective, Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread was released back in September 2011. “As part of our ongoing efforts to keep our users safe, Google will no longer allow sign-in on Android devices that run Android 2....

YouTube Removes Dislike Counts YouTube is making dislike counts private to avoid targeted harassment or “dislike attacks”, as the company puts it. As mentioned above, the change won’t affect YouTube creators. Creators can continue seeing the exact dislike counts in YouTube Studio to know how their content is performing in the platform. The announcement comes after YouTube conducted an experiment to hide dislikes with limited users. During this experiment, the Google-owned streaming giant noticed a reduction in dislike attacking behavior....