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Yeah, we won’t get to see YouTube Rewind 2020 as it is cancelled due to how bad the year has been. The company kicked off this tradition back in 2010 and has released a compilation video, which has gotten crazier and bigger in terms of production, at the end of each year. YouTube revealed that Rewind 2020 is not happening in an official statement over on Twitter last night. The company says that the essence of the Rewind video is to offer “a look back at the year’s most impactful creators, videos, and trends, and it is always meant to be a celebration of you....

Illustrator on iPad will come with special support for Apple Pencil, so if you’re using an Apple Pencil with your iPads, you will be able to use it with Illustrator to get more fine-tuned control over your designs. Moreover, the software will come with well known features from its desktop counterpart including things like radial, grid, and mirror repeat. Users will also be able to use simple pinch gestures to zoom in and out, tap objects to select them, and more....

Discovered by South Korea’s CERT, a zero-day vulnerability has been discovered on Adobe’s Flash player, that could allow Remote Code Execution (RCE) on various platforms. What makes it worse is that the loophole is already being exploited against Windows users, although on a limited scale. The exploit is carried out by embedding a Flash SWF file in a Microsoft Excel document. Once you open the document, it allows the Flash object to download the ROKRAT payload from malicious websites....

Wendy’s Announces Wendyverse: Details Wendy’s recently shared an official blog post to announce the launch of the Wendyverse in Horizon Worlds, which is a virtual environment for Meta’s Quest 2 and Rift S users to explore, play, and interact with other users. With Wendyverse, the company aims to provide “all-new 3D opportunities to virtually interact with each other and the brand.” So, in the Wendyverse, players will be able to interact with other players, meet up with friends, and have some fun playing various games in the virtual world....

iPhone SE+ 5G Launch Timeline Leaked Analyst Ross Young, who recently hinted at the iPhone SE+ 5G name, has now suggested that the device will launch in either April or May. The phone is expected to go into production in March and the shipments might start in late April or early May. This is slightly late than the expected March launch timeline but falls in line with previous rumors that tipped at an early 2022 launch....

Amazfit GTS 4: Specs and Features The Amazfit GTS 4 looks different than the GTR 4 and comes with a square dial being more fashion-focused. The watch has an aluminum frame. It has a 1.75-inch HD AMOLED display with the Always-on-Display (AOD) feature, a screen resolution of 390×450 pixels, and more than 150 watch faces. For the Bluetooth Calling feature, there’s a microphone and a speaker onboard. You can get phone call notifications too....

You can browse the current “climate pledge friendly” product categories from here. “With 18 external certification programs and our own compact by design certification we’re incentivizing selling partners to create sustainable products that help protect the planet for future generations,” Jeff Bezos said. Well, as we know that this pandemic only accelerated the company’s operations all over the world as now the world really needs everything at their doorstep. So it does make a lot of sense for them to be investing so much in an environmental program....

Google introduced a smart text selection feature in Android back in 2017. It enables the user to highlight text and easily execute actions in other apps. This means if you select a phone number, you will see a Phone app prompt and if you select an address, you can directly jump into Google Maps. The unit conversion feature is the newest addition to the tool and was first spotted by Android Police....

Apex Legends Soft Launch Happening Soon Respawn, the developer behind Apex Legends, recently took to Twitter to announce that the soft launch for Apex Legends Mobile is coming soon to various countries. The tweet does not reveal an exact date for the soft launch, but we can expect the rollout to start on February 8th, which is when Season 12 for Apex Legends releases on PC and consoles. The Soft Launch for Apex Mobile is coming!...

The patent, “Electronic devices having keys with coherent fiber bundles”, suggests that future Apple keyboards might feature dynamically reconfigurable keys that can be configured as per user needs. It sounds more like the touch bar, but for keys. This feature will allow you to customize certain keys on your keyboard as per your needs. This way, users will be able to reconfigure their keyboards to support a secondary language or create a custom layout for gaming setups....

Apple Rolls Out iOS 15.4.1 to Fix Battery Drainage Both the new iOS 15.4.1 and iPadOS 15.4.1 updates are minor ones with fixes and are primarily meant to sort out the battery drainage issue after several complaints and reports. To recall, After Apple rolled out iOS 15.4, numerous iPhone users complained about battery drainage issues after the update. The users took to Twitter to report the issue that reduced the battery percentage of their devices quickly without much usage....

Top 100 Hummed Songs of 2020 The first track on the list will not come as a surprise to anyone. It is, of course, the viral TikTok hit ‘Old Town Road’ by Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus. The second one, however, is an absolute surprise, one that I’m proud of. It is Rick Astley’s 1987 classic track ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’. If you are a netizen who keeps a close track of pop culture, you might be aware of how Rick Astley became an internet sensation after people across the world started a prank called ‘rickrolling‘ to trick others into watching the music video of this song....

The German automobile-makers recently released a video showcasing the wingsuit. In the video, three professional wingsuit operators jumped off from a chopper and flew around the Alps in Australia using these wingsuits. Amongst these, Peter Salzmann, a professional skydiver was able to use BMW’s electrified wingsuit to get a boost and remain in the sky for longer than usual before opening his parachute. You can check out the video, which is pretty cool by the way, right below....

Razer x Fossil Gen 6 Smartwatch Launched Now, right off the bat, you should know that the Razer x Fossil Gen 6 smartwatch is not a gamers’ smartwatch, per se. It is a Razer-ized version of Fossil’s existing Gen 6 smartwatch that was launched last year. Although it comes with the same features as the original Gen 6 model, the Razer x Fossil model packs a few extra Razer-branded stuff. For starters, the Razer x Fossil Gen 6 comes with an additional watch strap in Razer’s signature neon green color, along with the standard black one....

The web-based interactive map is available in a basic free version and a premium paid version. To access the premium features, you need to spend $5.99 (~Rs. 440) for an instant upgrade. The creators recently announced it via a tweet and explained the various features it offers. You can check it out right below. — Piggyback (@PiggybackGuides) December 16, 2020 Cyberpunk 2077 Interactive Map Now, Piggyback’s Cyberpunk map features a satellite view of Night City in which you can find various fast travel locations, vendors, stores, food joints, weapon shops, and more....

Clownfish Wallpaper Coming Back? For the uninitiated, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs used the clownfish wallpaper while unveiling the original iPhone back in 2007. However, this particular wallpaper never made it to the iPhone models that went on sale. Now, 15 years later, the wallpaper is making a comeback in the latest iOS 16.3 developer beta. As first spotted by Twitter users and highlighted by Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman, some users are seeing the clownfish wallpaper in the latest developer build....

Instead of making people sing comforting operatic songs, the Blob Opera makes four multi-colored blobs (yes, blobs!) sing like the pros. You can drag them up and down, forward and backward to change the pitch and the vowel sounds respectively to create your own festive song. This interactive opera is an experimental project by David Li in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture. It essentially lets you create a festive song from scratch and record it to share with the world....

The DMRC said that it has introduced the free high-speed Wi-Fi facility in all the metro stations that fall under the Yellow Line or Line-2. This includes 37 stations, connecting Samaypur Badli and HUDA City Centre. As per the DMRC, this will help the students traveling to and from the North Delhi Campus of Delhi University access the internet on the go, without extra charges. The metro transportation authority, in partnership with a Tech Consortium led by M/S Techno Sat, installed 330 high-speed Wi-Fi access points in the stations....

Dell XPS 13 9315: Specs and Features The Dell XPS 13 9315 has a low-carbon aluminum chassis and a thickness of just 13.99mm. It also weighs 1.17 kg, which makes it the lightest 13-inch XPS laptop. It has a 13.4-inch 4-sided InfinityEdge display with a Full HD+ screen resolution, a 16:10 aspect ratio, 90% DCI P3 color gamut, 500 nits of brightness, and Eyesafe technology. Under the hood, there’s support for up to 12th Generation Intel Core i7-1250U processor, along with up to 1GGB of LPDDR5 RAM and 512GB of PCIe 4....

The promotional offer was first shared on Twitter by actor Sonu Sood and was spotted by Gadgets 360. Other actors and cricketers including Rana Daggubati and Yuvraj Singh followed the lead. To avail this offer, you should visit this specific link and purchase Disney+ Hotstar VIP membership. If you’re interested, all you have to do is click on the link above, login to your Disney+ Hotstar account, choose the payment method, and complete the transaction....