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Dubbed as “HideAMask”, this unique fashion-accessory is actually a baseball cap concealing a face-mask inside its bill. It is a first-of-its-kind accessory and the company raised almost 300% more than its target-fund on a Kickstarter campaign. Now, coming back to HideAMask, the accessory looks like a traditional cap from the outside. However, when you wear it, you will find a small pull-tab deep inside the bill of the cap. Pulling this tab will release and unfold a face mask right on your face to instantly cover it....

Twitter Tests New “Leave This Conversation” Feature Wong recently came across the new “Leave this conversation” feature that will let you untag yourself from a Twitter thread in which you have been tagged or mentioned. The reverse engineer took to Twitter to share a screenshot, showcasing the new onboarding screen for the feature. Twitter is working on an onboarding screen for “Leave this conversation” pic.twitter.com/cZYeOdo1pJ— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) February 18, 2022...

According to the lawsuit, Google has signed exclusive agreements that avoid the preinstallation of competing search engines on devices. The lawsuit also claims that the company is forcibly pre-installing Google’s search applications in mobile devices and making them unremovable. Notably, the lawsuit mentions how Google pays Apple to remain as the default search engine on the Safari browser, voice assistant Siri, and Spotlight search. As a result, Google pays approximately 12 billion dollars every year to Apple, which accounts for almost 20 percent of Apple’s net income....

WhatsApp’s Image Blur Tool in Testing A recent report by WABetaInfo reveals that WhatsApp is testing the image blur tool as part of its Desktop client’s beta version. The Blur tool will allow users to blur out an image or a portion of an image before sending it to a person. A shared screenshot shows the feature in action. While sending an image or a video, there will be an option to blur the media or select the portion to blur....

WhatsApp Testing Voice Status Feature A recent report by WABetaInfo reveals that the Meta-owned messaging platform is planning to introduce the option to upload voice notes as disappearing media. This is being tested as part of the new WhatsApp beta for Android, version 2.22.16.3 update. It is revealed that there will be a microphone icon in the Status section, which will allow you to upload audio as Status and this will be called a Voice Status....

First spotted by WinLatest, Windows 10X will arrive with Modern Standby support. It is a special standby mode where the PC does not completely go to sleep. The Windows 10X laptop will be able to use data to download updates, refresh all your social media apps, and more while your laptop is asleep. It can perform tasks in the background. Apart from downloading data, the Modern Standby feature will also enable mobile-like instant-on, always-on connected experience on ARM laptops....

With the latest Windows 11 Insider build 22489, you can navigate to Settings -> Accounts -> Your Microsoft Account to check out the new account Settings page on your Windows 1 PC. While the Beta Channel already has support for Android apps, users in the Dev Channel only get this redesigned account settings page as of now, despite its gets-features-first designation. However, worry not, as you can install and run Android apps on the Windows 11 Dev channel, as well as the stable version, using the linked workaround....

Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22526 Released The new version of Windows 11 Insider Preview doesn’t entail major features and changes, but there’s one specific addition that will catch a lot of people’s attention. Windows 11 Insider build 22526 supports wideband speech when using Apple’s AirPods, AirPods Pro, or AirPods Pro Max. This will improve the overall audio quality, especially during calls. The update will also show the Windows 11 ALT + TABs as windowed instead of going full-screen, as part of a new experiment....

Xiaomi 12S Series Coming Soon Xiaomi has revealed that the Xiaomi 12S series will launch globally at 7 pm GMT+8 (4:30 pm IST). The China time is also 7 pm. The series will consist of three smartphones called the Xiaomi 12S, the Xiaomi 12S Pro, and the Xiaomi 12S Ultra. All three phones will come with Leica-backed cameras, which will be a first for the company. After so much hard work, we can finally share our latest innovation, Xiaomi smartphones co-engineered with Leica, ushering in a new era in imagery technology....

Under the Mi Smart Upgrade program, Mi and Redmi phone users will get up to 70 percent SRP value (suggested retail price) any time after three months of owning the device. Even when the smartphone runs out of warranty, Xiaomi will offer you a modest 40 percent value for the next 3 months, i.e up to 15 months from the date of purchase. This means you can get 70% – 40% value for your devices between 4 to 15 months from the date of purchase....

Xiaomi Sound Charging Technology So, what exactly is Sound charging? According to the patent, the technology will apparently help charge devices through sound. The setup involves a sound charging device, an energy storage device, and an electronic device. The sound charging device consists of a sound collection device, multiple energy conversion devices, and a power conversion device. This sound collection device will seemingly convert the sound in the environment to mechanical vibration and conduct the mechanical vibration to the energy conversion device....

Xiaomi to Launch 120W Charging Smartphone in India The report comes from 91Mobiles and suggests that the new 120W charging smartphone might launch in India in December. Although, an exact date remains unknown. To recall, Xiaomi is also expected to launch the Xiaomi 12 in December, but in China. It is further revealed that the Redmi Note 11 Pro+ is likely to be rebranded as Xiaomi 11i HyperCharge for the India market....

Google has recently rolled out a server-side update for Android TV that lets users download and install apps on their smart TV sets using their Android smartphones. The feature was first spotted by a Redditor named u/avigi who took to the Android TV subreddit to share a screenshot showcasing the feature. In the screenshot, we can see that the Google Play Store on Android smartphones now allows users to install an app on an Android TV-powered device such as the Xiaomi MIBOX4....

Twitter Spaces Now Available on the Web For the unaware, ever since Twitter rolled out the Spaces feature on its platform, it has been available only on its iOS and Android apps. However, Twitter announced today that it’s rolling out the feature to its website as well. You can check out the tweet below. our focus areas:– infrastructure and listening UI that adapts to your screen size– setting reminders for scheduled spaces – accessibility and transcriptions pic....

— YouTube India (@YouTubeIndia) September 2, 2020 The company is making this change to make it easier for users to create videos on mobile. You can just tap on the create button to upload new videos or go live in the platform with your audience. To accommodate the create button, YouTube is shifting the position of the subscription and notification buttons. While the subscription button moves to the right, YouTube has entirely shifted the notifications to the top right corner in between cast and search buttons....

Zhiyun Smooth Q3 and Weebill 2 Gimbals Zhiyun Smooth Q3 is a three-axis gimbal with a rotatable fill light and 17 smart templates. It offers 4,300k warm-toned integrated fill light with three brightness adjustment levels. You get a touch button control for 180-degree front and rear lighting. The Smooth Q3 comes with gesture controls, and Smart Follow 3.0 Object Tracking. It also offers an instant Dolly Zoom and Magic Clone Panorama....

The Cloud TV app store comes with a whole host of partnered streaming apps, including Disney+ Hotstar, Zee5, SonyLIV, Voot, SunNXT, JioCinema, Eros Now, ALTBalaji, Hungama Play, Shemaroo, YuppTV, Movie Box, DocuBay, EpicOn, Bloomberg, The Quint, Home Veda, Aptoide and more. It also comes with a content discovery engine that the company claims can analyze and curate “thousands of hours of globally trending digital content like Movies, Trailers, TV shows, Documentaries, Music, Kids’ entertainment, Spiritual content and apps from legally licensed sources”....

Clearly mimicking the name of the film, “The Social Network”, that showed the creation of Facebook, “The Social Dilemma” is a docudrama (part documentary, part drama) directed by the Emmy Award-winning director, Jeff Orlowski. There are interviews with various significant individuals of the tech industry, spanning from the engineer who created YouTube’s recommendation algorithm to the author of “Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now”. Now, the film is very well made and shows the exact points in time in which social media became a nuisance instead of a way of communication....

5G Spectrum Auction in India on Schedule According to the PTI report, India’s Minister of Communications Ashwini Vaishnaw said that the 5G spectrum auction in India is on schedule and within the stipulated timeline. Speaking to reporters at the second national conference on cybercrime investigation and digital forensics, Vaishnaw said the 5G auction would “absolutely” be held as per the schedule. The development comes at a time when the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)’s recommendations for 5G spectrum pricing are facing a delay....

Now, it is worth mentioning that although Google released the YouTube Music app for Wear OS later, it is only compatible with Wear OS 3.0, which is currently exclusive to Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 series. So, a majority of the smartwatches that run Wear OS 2.0 did not get the YouTube Music app as such. Citing this major issue for Wear OS 2.0 users, Romania-based software developer Alexandru Pop tried to port the Android version of the YouTube Music app to Wear OS....