Pixel 6 Doesn’t Hit 30W Fast Charging Speed According to the report, the Pixel 6 charging speed maxes out at 22W, instead of the 30W speed Google advertises. In addition, the charging speed further dropped to 15W in the second half of the charging cycle at around 62% battery capacity. It then falls to 12W around 75% capacity and goes as low as 2.5W right before the battery entirely fills up....

Groovy Discord Music Bot Is Shutting Down Now, if you have used Groovy, you might know that the bot pulled the music directly from YouTube videos to play them on the Discord servers. That is the primary reason for it shutting down. The Google-owned video streaming giant YouTube issued a cease-and-desist order to the developers of Groovy. As per Google, Groovy is violating YouTube’s terms of service by directly using its content for commercial purposes....

Now, for the unaware, the developers at 343 industries demoed the Halo Infinite title back in July last year. It was initially scheduled to release alongside the official launch of Xbox Series X/ S. However, due to the Coronavirus-led pandemic and poor gameplay visuals in the July demo, the developers had to push the release date to the fall of 2021. Today, however, the first gameplay trailer of the free-to-play multiplayer mode in Halo Infinite was shown off by Microsoft....

Create Transparent Home Screen Widgets on iPhone Let’s put a couple of fundamental questions out of the before navigating with the quick steps! So, Why Would You Make Invisible iPhone Home Screen Widgets? Well, if you want to let your wallpaper glow with a bit more freedom or place the app icons at the desired spots, the transparent widgets can have a definite role to play. By being invisible, they ensure the wallpaper can showcase its design....

HTC’s Metaverse Phone Coming Soon HTC has revealed that it will launch the ‘Viverse’ smartphone on June 28 in Taiwan. However, the company hasn’t revealed anything else about the smartphone. For all we know, it is highly expected to come with AR/VR features and lend support for the ‘metaverse’ functions. Plus, the phone could integrate HTC’s open-source metaverse platform called Viveverse. Given that the company has an arguably strong holding in the VR arena, we can expect the phone to come with intriguing metaverse features....

So, as per the study report, India sits comfortably in the second position with an Index score of 0.37, below Vietnam, as the rate of adoption of cryptocurrencies in the world went over 881% in the last year. The study by Chainalysis ranked the countries as per the total cryptocurrency received, the amount of cryptocurrency moved in transactions under $10,000, and peer-to-peer (P2P) trade volume. According to the report, India started gaining momentum in the cryptocurrency adoption rate following the Supreme Court rule that was passed back in March 2020....

The said report comes from the security research firm, Top10VPN and it states that the losses suffered by India due to internet shutdowns were more than double the combined amount of the next 20 countries on the list. This was mainly due to the political issues with India’s neighboring countries such as China and, especially Pakistan. However, user-surges in servers also posed an issue in the situation. As per the report, India shut down the internet and restricted access more than 75 times in the previous year....

“The time saved translates to time worth 44 additional working days in a year. People have realised that ability to work from home is possible without compromising on productivity. It was expected that in five years more people will either work from home or near home. COVID19 has fast tracked this,” said Awfis CEO Amit Ramani. According to the survey’s findings, almost 74 percent of the participants prefer working remotely, which is exactly what a separate Lenovo research in July found as well....

Instagram Shuts Down Boomerang and Hyperlapse Although Instagram did not mention it was going to kill the standalone Boomerang and Hyperlapse in its official blog post, the company reportedly shut down the apps on the same day as the IGTV app. According to data provided by Apptopia to Techcrunch, Boomerang and Hyperlapse’s last day was on March 1. Among the two standalone apps from Instagram, Boomerang was clearly more popular as it had over 300 million downloads, thanks to its presence on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store....

Intel Arc Pro A-Series GPUS: Details The new Intel Arc Pro A-series GPUs come with highlighting features like ray-tracing hardware and machine learning elements. They also support the industry-first AV1 hardware encoding acceleration. While the Intel Arc Pro A30M is meant for mobile form factors, the Arc Pro A40 (single slot) and the Arc Pro A50 (dual slot) are meant for small-form laptops. The Arc Pro A30M has 3.50 TFLOPs of peak performance, 4GB GDDR6 of RAM, and 35-50w peak power....

Apple released iOS 14 at last year’s WWDC, which included an array of customization features, support for widgets, and its new controversial feature App Tracking Transparency. Apple also debuted the subscription model for its Podcast app and the support for Hi-Res Lossless audio on Apple Music with a recent update. Now, as per recent data by Apple, there are only 10% of users with iPhones released in the past four years who are running older iOS versions....

Now Order iPhone 14 via Blinkit! Blinkit has collaborated with Apple reseller Unicorn Info Solutions to sell the iPhone 14 via its platform. The partnership will result in the delivery of the new iPhone 14 in just 8 minutes. From 🍎 to📱 https://t.co/VabHxHd6BR— Blinkit (@letsblinkit) September 16, 2022 Currently, this service is available in Delhi and Mumbai and only the iPhone 14 is listed. The iPhone 14 Plus will be available in October....

iQOO Neo 6: Specs and Features The iQOO Neo 6 has an iQOO 9 Pro-esque design but with a smaller rectangular camera island. While the Pink and Blues options go for a “lychee leather” finish, the Black Lord variant uses an AG glass at the back. The front sports a 6.62-inch OLED Samsung E4 HDR10+ display with a center-placed punch-hole cutout and a resolution of 2400 x 1080 pixels. The display supports a 120Hz refresh rate, 6 million: 1 contrast ratio, 1300 nits of peak brightness, and a fingerprint scanner too....

JioBook to Be an Affordable 4G Laptop! A report by Reuters reveals that the JioBook will be priced around Rs 15,000 (~ $184) and will come with support for 4G. The idea is to provide a laptop experience on a budget like the telco did with its affordable 4G-enabled JioPhone Next introduced last year. Sources close to the matter reveal that Jio has partnered with Qualcomm and Microsoft for the same....

For those unaware, with the release of BGMI in India earlier this year, Krafton enabled players, who played PUBG Mobile prior to its ban in India, to transfer their data, in-game items, and other information via Facebook to BGMI. Of course, this is considering players used the same account to log in to the new game that they used for the previous title. Now, due to a new policy change in Facebook’s software development kit (SDK), BGMI players will not be able to migrate their data from PUBG Mobile to their new BGMI accounts after September 28....

Leica L1 and L2 Wristwatches: Features The Leica L1 and Leica L2 are high-quality wristwatches that include several design elements that highlight the rich history of the company. These new Leica wristwatches work on an entirely new mechanical movement, involving manual winding. Hence, to showcase the intricate engineering, Leica made the back of the watches with transparent sapphire crystals that provides a clear view of the working of the watches while protecting them from scratches and cracks....

A user recently spotted a few images of a Lenovo-branded handheld gaming console on GBA Temp after searching for “Lenovo Handheld” on Google. Upon further investigation, it was discovered that Lenovo Germany and Japan uploaded the images of the console on their MWC 2021 webpages with the Lenovo Legion Play moniker. So, this means that the company had plans to launch the device earlier this year. However, it was presumably canceled for unknown reasons....

According to the forum post, LG is not on the list of companies that have placed orders from Qualcomm for the upcoming flagship SoC. The post also claims that LG has bulk ordered Snapdragon 765G‘s successor Snapdragon 775 instead. LG’s alleged plans to drift away from releasing a phone with Snapdragon 875 doesn’t come as a surprise, especially since the brand made a major change in its smartphone launch strategy last year by shutting down the G series....

The company added a new “configurator” for its cars on its official website following the unveiling of the “Lucid Air”. Their prototype car was kept as a concept for a long time. However, the company recently announced that it will bring its “Lucid Air” series of cars in 2021. And potential customers can design a 3D model of a “Lucid Air” of their choice using the company’s virtual-designing tool and view their model in VR at a Lucid dealership....

Microsoft Cancels Windows 10X Launch The Redmond giant recently published an official blog post, detailing the Windows 10 May 2021 update, which is now available to all users. In the post, apart from sharing how to get the latest Windows 10 update, Microsoft’s VP of Program Management, John Cable wrote that Microsoft is canceling the release of the Windows 10X OS. As per Cable, after developing the said software and interacting with customers for over a year, Microsoft came to the conclusion that Windows 10X “could be useful in more ways and serve more customers than [Microsoft] originally imagined”....