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The announcement of this new environment-friendly Eco remote came recently from the Korean company and according to its claims, this will “reduce tons of plastic waste per year”. The remote is designed to last for up to seven years which is the average life cycle of a single TV set. Now, from the front, the Eco remote looks like any other remote controller of a smart TV. However, flipping it around, you will notice that there is a long integrated solar panel at the back that juices up the internal rechargeable battery without any power source....

SENS Edyson 1, Einsteyn 1: Specs and Features The Edyson 1 smartwatch has a zinc alloy metal body and comes with a square dial. It has a 1.7-inch IPS LCD display with support for over 150 watch faces (even cloud-based). It also supports Bluetooth Calling and AI Voice Assistant. There’s support for a heart rate monitor, a SpO2 sensor, Menstrual Cycle tracking, Relax mode, and more. The watch has the ability to track steps, calories, sleep, and more....

Spider-Man Remastered is Coming in August 2022 The first modern-day Spider-Man game was released in 2018 exclusively for PS4 and PS5. It has sold over 33 million copies globally, as of May 2022. And now that number is about to break records with a remastered version of the game scheduled to release on PC on August 12, 2022. The announcement was made at the State of Play 2022 along with a short trailer....

Tesla Design Chief Criticizes Apple’s Design Choices In a recent podcast interview with Spike Feresten of Spike’s Car Radio, the chief of design at Tesla, Franz von Holzhausen bashed Apple’s design choices and stated that there is nothing “to look forward to” when it comes to their products. Holzhausen further mentioned that Apple’s devices are “just a continuation” of its previous product designs and come with slight refinements. “The sad part about Apple products now, there’s nothing to look forward to....

The MAS is controlled by an “AI captain” and can sail through the waters autonomously, without a crew or anyone on board. It is designed to explore and collect various environmental data from the sea for researchers to better understand major environmental issues like global warming and ocean pollution. According to reports, the MAS is to spend the next six months in the middle of the sea collecting the data....

xScreen: An External Display for the Xbox Series S Developed by a company called UPspec Gaming, the xScreen is essentially an external display that can directly attach to an Xbox Series S console for a plug-n-play experience. So, with the xScreen, Xbox Series S users can easily transform their gaming console into a gaming laptop-like device. The xScreen features an 11.6-inch IPS LCD panel with support for a 60Hz refresh rate....

Beware of This New WhatsApp-Call Scam! According to a recent report by Gizchina, citing cybersecurity firm CloudSEK, a new scam currently targeting random WhatsApp users lets an attacker completely take control of their WhatsApp account with only a phone call. Once an attacker takes hold of a WhatsApp account, they can demand money from the user’s WhatsApp contacts. The new scam was recently discovered by Rahul Sasi, who is the founder and CEO of CloudSEK....

As spotted by Twitter user Star Simpson and reported by The Verge, Twitter’s compose feature behaved in a way that led Twitter users to believe that the company is working on implementing an edit-like feature. The incident happens just a month after an ‘Undo Send’ button was spotted in Twitter survey as part of its subscription model. Here’s how the bug functioned: When a Twitter user replied to a tweet and deleted it immediately, the tweet composer automatically brought back the full text from the previously deleted tweet....

Uber Wants to Ensure a Driver Doesn’t Cancel on You! Uber has revealed that it will now start showing the destination details to a driver before the ride is accepted. This will allow the drivers to make an informed decision and can further curb the issue of rides being canceled by them. It is said that drivers who will meet the “predefined trip acceptance threshold” will be able to get access to this functionality....

The Steam Deck Compatibility program is an essential step for Valve to let potential customers know which games in the Steam catalog will run on its handheld console running Linux. The company has divided the games into four distinct categories for compatibility. The highest level in the compatibility program is a green-colored tickmark that will appear beside Steam Deck-verified games. These, as per Valve, will work “great on Steam Deck, right out of the box....

As per the Geekbench listing, the ‘Vivo V2056A‘ will come with the ‘Lahaina’ SoC, which is Qualcomm’s internal codename for the Snapdragon 888 and is expected to power the tentatively-named Galaxy S21. The listing also reveals that the device will ship with 12GB of RAM and run Android 11 out-of-the-box. In terms of benchmark scores, the device notched up 1,135 points in single-core tests and 3,681 in the multi-core index, showing decent performance gains over devices running the Snapdragon 865....

Vivo V20 Pro Specifications Vivo V20 Pro features the exact same design as the standard variant. The only way to differentiate between the two is the bigger notch on the front here. The 44MP eye-tracking auto-focus camera present on the V20 is now accompanied by an 8MP ultra-wide lens for added versatility. You can now easily capture some amazing group selfies. You can see the eye-tracking auto-focus feature in action right here:...

WhatsApp Beta UWP Update Details The WhatsApp Beta UWP app, since its release in late 2021, has been using buttons and menus that reflect the design language of Windows 10. However, with a recent update, WhatsApp has changed the entire look of the app by adding new buttons, UIs, and dialog boxes that are in sync with the design features of Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 desktop OS. The update brings support for WinUI 2....

WhatsApp Testing Message Reaction Previews The latest report by WABetaInfo reveals that WhatsApp is testing reaction previews as part of the WhatsApp beta for Android 2.2.16.6 (some are also getting it on the version, 2.22.16.5). The new feature will show a text preview when a message of a chat gets a reaction. It is revealed that a chat list will now show up a preview of a message reaction at the top to notify you of the latest reaction to a message....

YouTuber Makes Waterproof USB-C iPhone Modder Gernot Jöbstl is the creator of the new USB-C iPhone in question. In case you’re wondering, Jöbstl has added the USB-C port to an iPhone X. One major difference between Ken Pillonel’s first USB-C iPhone and this one is the presence of waterproofing. Jöbstl claims that he has done changes to the charging port to make his iPhone X USB-C mod waterproof (read: water-resistant). Gernot Jöbstl has shared a proof-of-concept video of the USB-C iPhone on YouTube....

According to a recent report by Business Standard (paywalled), Apple is looking to shift around 7-10% of its production capacity from China to India. In the process, the company will start the production of the iPhone 12 in India this year. It will be at its Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn) facility based in Tamil Nadu. It is the same manufacturing unit that started producing the iPhone 11 in India back in 2020....

New MacBook Pro Models Incoming! Gurman’s latest Power On newsletter reveals that Apple is already working on launching the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro with the upcoming M2 Pro and M2 Max chips. These will succeed the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros with M1 Pro and M1 Max chips that were launched last year. It is revealed that the new MacBook Pro models will be more or less identical to the current ones with the added goodness of better performance than the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips....

Acer Chromebook Spin 513 Specifications This Chromebook includes an aluminum top cover and a 360-degree hinge that will enable you to use the device in four modes – clamshell, display, tablet, and tent. The Spin 513 is also quite lightweight and thin. It weighs just 1.2kgs and is 15.5mm thick respectively. You will find a 13.3-inch Full-HD IPS touchscreen display with narrow bezels, a 78% screen-to-body ratio, and Gorilla Glass protection....

Android 13 Is Now Available! Google has started rolling out Android 13 to the Pixel 6, the Pixel 6 Pro, the Pixel 6a, the Pixel 5, the Pixel 5a, the Pixel 4, the Pixel 4 XL, and the Pixel 4a (both 4G and 5G). In addition, it is now a part of AOSP (Android Open Source Project), which means its source code is now open to third parties. It is also revealed that Android 13 will hit phones from OEMs like Samsung, HMD Global, Asus, iQOO, Motorola, Oppo, Xiaomi, Realme, Vivo, Sharp, Sony, Tecno, and more later this year....

Now, for those unaware, the whole anti-trust lawsuit started when Epic Games violated Apple’s App Store policies by offering its Fortnite players to buy V-bucks (Fortnite’s in-game currency) through its own payment system instead of Apple’s. Following this violation, Apple removed Fortnite from its App Store, which in turn led Epic to file the lawsuit in 2020. Since then, a lot has escalated between the two tech giants, with Apple terminating Epic’s developer account and then Epic getting back at Apple....