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Hardware Flaw or a Planned Move? Luz Sanchez, a resident of northern California, bought the Nintendo Switch for her 8-year old son back in December 2018. After using the hand-held console for a month, the kid started experiencing issues with his Joy-Con controller, and well, they became inoperable in no time. Sanchez then bought her son another pair of controllers to play his favorite games. Unfortunately, the second pair also suffered the same fate after only seven months....

Dizo Watch S: Specs and Features The Dizo Watch S features a curved metal body and a rectangular dial. It comes with a 1.57-inch large display with a peak brightness of 550 nits and has over 150 watch face options as well. As for the health monitoring features, there are tons of them. The list includes a heart rate sensor, a blood-oxygen monitor, and a menstrual cycle tracker. There’s also the ability to track calories, track sleep, and count steps....

Alienware’s 18-inch Gaming Laptop Coming Soon’ Alienware has released a short teaser video, which confirms the launch of an 18-inch gaming laptop, touted to be the ‘most powerful laptop yet.‘ The tease video shows a huge product (the laptop, of course) landing and leaving an impression on the grass that reads ’18.’ However, except for the laptop being a ‘Performance Juggernaut,‘ there’s no word on its details. The signs are all around you, something big is coming soon....

In an earnings call following the announcement of the results, Apple CEO, Tim Cook, said: “Geographically, we set September quarter records in the Americas, Europe and rest of Asia Pacific. We also set a September quarter record in India, thanks in part to a very strong reception to this quarter’s launch of our online store in the country”. The results are in line with a recent Canalys report which claimed that Apple had a stellar July-September quarter in India this year, shipping nearly 800,000 iPhones during this period....

iPhone 14 Will Now Be “Made in India” Apple has confirmed that it will start making the iPhone 14 at Foxconn’s manufacturing plant in the Sriperumbudur facility, Tamil Nadu. This will be the first time Apple will make the latest iPhones in India, the world’s second-largest smartphone market, as well as in China. This was earlier rumored to take shape before the iPhone 14 lineup became official. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo revealed that Apple will start manufacturing the iPhone 14 at the same time it plans to begin production in China....

In an official blog post, it has been revealed that the Apple TV app is coming to Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S consoles. This will give users access to Apple TV+ original TV shows and movies (I’m looking forward to the Tom Holland-starrer Cherry). You can also watch Apple TV channels, such as HBO, Showtime, and others, from the said app. Also, if you haven’t heard, the Apple TV app will also be available on the new PS5 (or PlayStation 5) on launch day – 12th November....

Yeah, you heard that right. The company will no lo bundle the traditional 5W power adapter with the Apple Watch. You will only get the magnetic charging cable that you can simply plug into an existing adapter or your PC’s USB port to charge your Apple Watch. Why has Apple decided to not offer a simple thing as a power adapter in the box? The company justifies its move of removing the power adapter from the Apple Watch box by saying that it will enable them to meet their environmental sustainability goals....

Apple recently filed a patent application titled “Electronic Devices Having Sliding Expandable Displays.” And according to this patent, the Cupertino-based tech giant is considering the use of flexible displays for its future devices. This will let users slide out an extended part of the display to get more screen real-estate when needed. “If care is not taken, a display may not offer sufficient screen real estate to display information of interest to a user....

Assassin’s Creed Mirage Takes Place in Baghdad The upcoming Assassin’s Creed Mirage will take place in 9th century Baghdad, the capital of modern-day Iraq. Here, we follow the story of Basim and uncover his journey from being a petty thief to becoming a part of the master class of assassins. If the protagonist’s name sounds familiar, it is because Basim is also a part of AC Valhalla. But AC Mirage takes place 20 years before Valhalla and in the eastern world of Arab regions rather than Valhalla’s Europe....

Now, if you are unaware of boAt, it is a homegrown brand that has become quite popular in the country since its launch in 2016. The company initially manufactured affordable audio accessories for smartphones and became the market leader in the TWS earphones sector last year. So, citing the rising COVID cases in the country and the shortage of oxygen supply, boAt has partnered with the non-profit organization SaveLIFE Foundation to deliver high-grade oxygen concentrators and other necessary medical supplies to the hospitals that need them the most....

boAt Launches Audio Products with Netflix boAt has introduced the new streaming edition range, which includes the boAt Nirvana 751ANC headphones, the Airdopes 411ANC TWS, and the Rockers 333 Pro neckband. All three audio products come engraved with the Netflix logo. The new limited-edition streaming range will help you get an immersive audio experience while watching movies, shows, and more on Netflix. For this, boAt has the ‘Made for India to Keep Watching’ campaign too, which features the company’s brand ambassadors, actor Kiara Advani, Indian cricketer Shreyas Iyer, fashion designer Masaba Gupta, and boAt co-founder Aman Gupta....

Microsoft Edge 91 Gets Sleeping Tabs and Startup Boost According to Microsoft, Edge will be the best-performing browser on Windows 10 after the upcoming Edge 91 release. Edge 91 is all set for release later this week. So, let’s get to the features Microsoft has added to make this bold claim. Sleeping Tabs If you are an Edge user, you might be wondering that the Redmond giant had already added sleeping tabs to the browser....

Eight years after the release of the last film of the trilogy, Warner Bros. published the BTS documentary just recently. In fact, the production house has been publishing behind-the-scenes documentaries for viewers to know more about films like Goodfellas and Joker and legendary filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick. The Fire Rises Similarly, “The Fire Rises” is the BTS documentary of the “Dark Knight” trilogy. It is a one-hour-long documentary including interviews of many of the crew members, many senior members of Warner Bros....

New Disney+ Plan in the Pipeline The new ad-supported Disney+ subscription plan will be first introduced in the US and will then be expanded to other markets by 2023. The plan will come with ads, hence, it means it will be much cheaper than its current plans, starting at $7.99/ month. For those who don’t know, Disney+ costs $8 a month and $80 a year. With Hulu and ESPN+, it is priced at $14....

Twitter DMs to Be End-to-End Encrypted After acquiring Twitter to make it a private organization, Elon Musk recently posted a tweet, which gives us a hint at an important change for direct messages on Twitter. Musk, in his recent tweet, wrote that direct messages on Twitter should be end-to-end encrypted to prevent anyone from reading them. The Tesla CEO also cited Signal, one of the most popular social messaging apps in the market, as an example....

Gamin Venu Sq 2: Specs and Features The Garmin Venu Sq 2 gets a 1.4-inch AMOLED display, which is considered 17% bigger than its predecessor. It comes with a 24×7 heart rate tracking and even provides alerts when the heart rate goes abnormal. There’s the ability to track sleep, body energy levels, Pulse Ox, the stress levels, calories, and more. Using the Garmin Connect, women can track their menstural cycle and pregnancy too....

3 Months of Free Spotify Premium for Visa Card Holders As is the case with most promotional Spotify offers, it’s worth mentioning that the offer is applicable only to users who have not used Spotify Premium in the past. However, you don’t need a new Spotify account for this. You can claim this offer with your existing Spotify account as long as you have never been a Spotify Premium member or claimed a Spotify Premium trial....

In a statement released earlier today, Purnima Kochikar, Director of Business Development of Games & Applications at Google Play, said: “(We’re) extending the time for developers in India to integrate with the Play billing system, to ensure they have enough time to implement UPI for (the) subscription payment option that will be made available on Google Play — for all apps that currently use an alternative payment system we set a timeline of 31st March 2022”....

Google announced the feature via an official post on its Workspace forum recently. The feature is essentially an extension of the existing live captions feature on the platform that adds captions to videos in real-time. However, instead of showing the captions in English only, the new feature translates them to show the captions in different languages. So, if any user connects with a person who does not speak English, they can use the live translation captions feature to eliminate the language barrier and communicate with ease....

Google’s new approach to handle OTPs might be more convenient than it seems. Typically, OTPs are useless once it expires and there is no key reason to hold on to them. By switching the OTP auto-delete toggle, you should, at least in theory, get a better and decluttered SMS Inbox. The changes were spotted in Google Messages v6.7.067 app’s code. The feature is not live as of this writing. Going by the report, there will be an option titled ‘Auto-delete OTPs after 24hrs’ in the app’s settings....