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Microsoft has just unveiled the Xbox One, its next-generation console, joining the fight against the already announced Play Station 4, about which we don’t know all the details yet. What we have been shown at Redmond is a completely redesigned Xbox that looks just like a big rectangular gadget. The controller is somewhat similar to the previous version but comes with a rather elegant design. Xbox One has been shown as a horizontal box, so we’re not sure if it will “stand” in a vertical position as the previous version....

Xiaomi Mi 10 Design and Display In terms of design, the Mi 10 comes with an all-glass design with a curved back panel. The rear has a quad-camera setup, arranged in vertical alignment on the left-hand side, with an LED flash. Towards the front, the phone features a 6.67-inch OLED curved display with a punch-hole cutout on the top-left side to house the front-facing camera. The display offers a 90Hz refresh rate with a 180Hz touch response rate....

The Chinese company had already planned to introduce a larger version of that is Mi 5s and its larger sibling, The Mi 5s Plus. At an event in Beijing on Tuesday, Chinese company Xiaomi launched the Mi 5s and Mi 5s plus smartphones. As reported by Android Headlines, the most amazing part is that over 3 million people have already registered for the first sale in China after the phone was introduced less than 24 hours ago....

And then, it went quiet. Or relatively so. Xiaomi did launch its Make in India initiative and also MIUI 7 in the country, and also Prime versions of two devices, but by its own standards, the company that many had called the Apple of China, had no major releases. Interestingly, this very period saw a number of other Chinese brands enter the market with their own offerings, many of which adhered to Xiaomi’s own “amazing specs at an amazing price, sold only online” template....

The announcement on the YouTube Creator Blog didn’t mention a specific launch date. However, the details show a service that is similar to other live platforms, with the ability to allow live chat, make the stream public, notify subscribers. also proclaimed it would have an inherent superiority with its take on livestreaming thanks to its longsting ability to host most of the world’s online videos. The live broadcast feature is coming first to YouTube’s more popular creators before it’s made available to all, presumably to work out any issues before the masses can partake....

Word on the street has been rampant that the YouTube team is building its own subscription music service, going up against the likes of Spotify and Apple Music. Those initial rumors have bean leaning towards the service being called YouTube Remix, and the latest report suggested that the launch of that streaming platform would mean the ultimate demise of Google Play Music — Google’s own direct subscription music offering. While most of the rumors appear to be accurate, based on a new report this week from Recode, there are a few key, important differences....

While Snapchat brought Stories to the world, Facebook seems remarkably focused on bringing its own Stories-inspired feature to its apps. The next big addition for Facebook-owned products is WhatsApp, which has just announced that it is adding a new Stories feature, which will live in a new tab all to themselves. The new Stories feature in WhatsApp begins rolling out today, for the iPhone app, Android users, and even Windows Phone users, because why not....

Recently, it has introduced a new payment system that uses your existing UPI id to send payments. However, we have a piece of bad news for you. Like every other year, WhatsApp will stop working on some iPhones and Android smartphones from January 1, 2021. This is because WhatsApp support is ending for smartphones running on an outdated operating system. Some older device users can still access WhatsApp by updating to the latest software....

Wi-Fi stands central when it comes to making any decisions in our 21st century lives and it has become the driving force behind how we run our day-to-day schedules. Therefore, and quite naturally, it makes sense for consumers to be concerned about the security of their networks and to wonder how they can ensure secure setups of the networks they connect to most. Scheduling Your Online Life Wi-Fi based applications are taking over the consumer market due to an increased number of products now being digitized....

In most cases, the victim clicks on a malicious link, which leads to their device being infected. However, the largest known attack to date is happening right now worldwide, and you don’t even have to click a link to be impacted. What you need to know about the world’s largest ransomware attack What we’re talking about is a massive ransomware attack dubbed WannaCry, or WanaCrypt0r 2.0. It started spreading Friday, May 12 and has already locked computer systems in at least 150 countries worldwide....

Xiaomi has ensured that the QiCycle is a unique offering and it comes with features that will help it lure the prospective buyers. The QiCycle is extremely compact and is also pretty light at just 13.3KG. Further adding to its dimensional attributes is the fact that the QiCycle can be folded and stowed away. The main chassis of the Cycle is not welded to the rear bracket and instead hinged....

Xiaomi fans, there is good news for you! Xiaomi is about to host Mi Fan Festival on April 6, that is Thursday. The company is putting up lots of accessories on sale on the Mi.com site. Xiaomi will be offering some of its best products at a steal deal price. Xiaomi will host a Re 1 flash sale, which can give users an opportunity to buy the Redmi Note 4 for just Re 1....

To much fanfare, Xiaomi unveiled the Mi 5 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year. Despite the handset being primarily available in China and India, Xiaomi decided to unveil its flagship handset for the first half of 2016 at the biggest mobile event in the world to show off its engineering prowess. The Mi 5 sure impressed everyone when it was first launched with its sleek design and impressive specs....

The well-known Chinese smartphone manufacturer, of course, Xiaomi has one of the biggest slices of its business in smartphones. Although it has no large profit margin, it manages to sell its equipment at low prices, which has attracted many users. Last year, after several years of betting on its Android interface, MIUI, the well-known Chinese smartphone manufacturer, of course, Xiaomi allied with the tech giant Google simply to launch an Android One model, with Android Stock....

To enable the authentication on your WhatsApp, you need to make sure you are on the latest version of the app ie 2.19.20. For this, you need to head to the AppStore and update the app from there. Once done, open WhatsApp and go to Settings > Account > Privacy > Screen Lock and enable the option that says ‘Require Touch ID’. In the following screen, you get different options of time, which is basically the time after which the app would lock down itself....

The company has been asking members of the public to find flaws in its system since 2010. Recently, however, the company has increased its “bounties” for finding flaws. This isn’t a job for everyone. You have to have some mad coding skills. Even if that’s not you, we’ll tell you how you benefit from this bounty program every day. Find a Google flaw and get paid The Chrome Vulnerability Rewards Program provides cash rewards to security researchers and others who uncover and report vulnerabilities in Google code....

Facebook, mistress of WhatsApp since 2014, said at the time that no one, absolutely no one, without exception, not the Zuckerberg himself could break the encryption end to end of the message, which means that no person beyond sender and receiver should have access to the content of the conversations. But the site The Guardian has revealed that, willingly or unwillingly, the social media giant Facebook-owned WhatsApp has a back door that was still not allowed to be corrected....

While I tend to ignore most of the handsets that come out of China, mainly because they’ll never be sold outside of China, there is one particular device family that deserves some attention: ZTE’s Blade. The first Blade hit Europe in late 2010 and it was a hugely successful product. I remember seeing a ton of them in the hands of teenagers while riding Helsinki’s subway. It was one of the first sub 200 EUR smartphones worth buying....

Even if you have an excellent wireless provider, your phone can still get bogged down with too much stuff in storage, need updates or simply be an older model that’s past its prime. Luckily, we have a bunch of tips that can help speed up your phone or figure out what might be slowing it down in the first place, whether it’s your battery health, cache, internet connection or something else entirely....

But why is this the case? Simply put, businesses are reluctant to stop using email, because everyone uses it. As much of a truism as it sounds, this “we use it because everyone uses it” excuse is often used in business, particularly when it comes to technology. Organisational and human bad practices around email are so ingrained in existing work practices that changing it may seem an impossible task. The thought of turning the email tanker around can be so overwhelming, particularly for larger organisations, that the easier option is just to let it carry on....