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The decision comes after Live views increased by over 70 percent in the US over the past month. Interestingly, Instagram also says that it is testing a method by which people can save live videos to IGTV, allowing them to be visible for more than the 24-hour limit. All of which seems to indicate that Instagram, which had started out as a mobile-only application is getting closer to delivering a near-complete desktop experience....

Finally, an iPhone that looks and feels different Love it or hate it – and in best iPhone tradition, the X too is deeply divisive (at the time of writing, there was already speculation that it would be discontinued in a few months) – there is no denying the fact that the iPhone X comes with the most distinct design that we have seen on an iPhone since, well, the slightly box-y iPhone 4....

The world’s most web-restricted country, North Korea is now hosting the highly controversial torrent website, The Pirate Bay. According to the press release by the site, which was posted on the blog as well as its Facebook page, claims that Kim-Jong Un, the North Korean premier invited the website to his country, following recent attempts to seize the servers in Sweden. The latest development comes a week after The Pirate Bay informed that they have moved their servers to Norway and Spain, owing to increase pressure from within Sweden....

The company claims that the Moto E manufacturing has already been started at the new factory located in Sriperumbur near Chennai. The new facility boasts of two separate manufacturing unit with the annual capacity totaling to 6 million units. In fact the Chennai plant will be the Lenovos first production facility outside China which will be producing both Motorola and Lenovo products. Lenovo said that “Motorola and Lenovo are completely integrated....

Recent reports suggested that Lenovo intends to pull a plug on its own smartphone sales, and rather sell them under the Moto brand name. With the launch of the Moto M, which went on sale in China yesterday it seems that the impending restructure is already in progress. The Chinese firm has now officially come out with a statement saying that they will no longer be marketing their smartphones under the Lenovo brand name, rather all subsequent phones will retail under the new Moto name....

In terms of design, the Lenovo Z6 Pro features a 3D glass design on the back and a 6.39-inch AMOLED display with HDR 10 and Corning Gorilla Glass protection on top. For performance, the device comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor with Adreno 640 GPU, paired with 6GB or 8GB of RAM and 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB of internal storage. It comes with a massive 4000mAh battery with 27W fast charging, OTG reverse charging and runs on ZenUI based on Android 9 Pie....

The light bulb from Philips was the first one to start this fashion, but it looks like it won’t be the only one on the market. Since 2012, when Philips started working on the idea of smart lighting, and it came up with the Hue collection, it became more and more popular. The SmartBulb by Samsung and the SmartLamp by LG are promising to offer even more. Let’s take a look at what each one of them has to offer!...

While Windows PCs are already benefiting from the new Kaby Lake chipsets from Intel, the last upgrade Apple’s Macbook Pro received was more than a year back. Moreover, the Mac Pro also hasn’t been refreshed in over three years which is quite bewildering given how advanced the market has gotten since. The overall PC market, in general, has been showing signs of decline for more than a year now. Worldwide PC shipments have fell by 5....

Sound issues on Mac are pretty common. You may run into them when you connect or unplug an audio accessory during playback, use an app that accidentally misconfigures sound settings in the background, update to a buggy macOS version, or sometimes, for no apparent reason at all. If you’re experiencing a sound glitch on your Mac, wherein there’s no audio from internal speakers and increasing/decreasing volume isn’t helping either, there are some really effective fixes that can help you fix the audio problem on your Mac....

Master Password is available for: iPhone, iPad and Mac users; for Windows desktop users, for Android and as a web app (still in beta). Master Password is said to be based on an ingenious password generation algorithm that guarantees your passwords can never be lost. This new service doesn’t save your passwords in an encrypted vault or in the cloud, being generated on-demand from your name, the site and your master password....

A lot of older hardware and software were not designed for Windows 7 (or even Vista for that matter), so they may require an update or new driver in order to operate correctly on Windows 7. The decision to provide a Windows 7 driver or update will lie with the developer/manufacturer of the product. The good thing is manufacturers are now releasing Windows 7 drivers for their products. Updating to the latest Windows 7 drivers may help keep your PC running at its best....

The Meizu PRO 5 continues the company’s tradition of releasing flagships without Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors. Much like OnePlus, Meizu has stuck to Full HD display on the PRO 5 without going for the QHD screens which have become a norm for flagships these days. The Meizu PRO 5 has an all metallic build like its predecessor, the MX 5. In the imaging department, the phone sports a 21 megapixel camera module at the rear with laser auto focus accompanied by a 5MP camera on the front front....

The Mi Band 4 features a 0.95-inch colored AMOLED display, which is around 39.9% bigger than the previous model, has a 2.5D glass on top and offers a 240 x 120 pixels screen resolution. It offers up to 5ATM (50 meters) of water resistance, and NFC support to allow users to make payments through AliPay and WeChat Pay. In terms of activity tracking, the band features 6-axis high-precision sensors that can easily recognize different types of swimming strokes including Freestyle, Backstroke, Butterfly stroke, and Medley, along with the ability to track 6 different sport modes like indoor running, outdoor running, exercise, swimming, cycling, and walking....

Mi NoteBook 14 Horizon Edition To begin with, the Horizon Edition Mi Notebook 14 comes with a metal chassis, built using aluminum and magnesium alloy, coming in at 17.15mm thin and weighing in at 1.35Kg. The laptop houses a 14-inch FHD panel with 3mm thick bezels surrounding the three sides. Xiaomi calls it the Horizon display, and thus, the name. The display boasts a 91% screen-to-body ratio and suggests a 178-degree viewing angle....

In theory, this should result in a performance boost of upwards of 30% as the new chip has six cores compared to 4 on the previous one. The notebook has a standard 15.6-inch FHD display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and a screen to body ratio of 81%. The IPS panel can accomplish a max brightness of 300 nits and is flanked by a 1MP web camera on the top with a 720p resolution....

The Surface Go sports a 10-inch PixelSense display with a resolution of 1800 x 1200 pixels, with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 for protection. Powering the device is Intel’s Pentium Gold 4415Y processor with Windows 10 operating system. The RAM and internal storage configuration can be picked up according to one’s requirements from either a 4GB/64GB configuration or an 8GB/128GB configuration. For connectivity, the Surface Go comes with a bunch of ports ranging from Microsoft’s Surface Connect: for charging, to USB-C: for transferring data, to MicroSD Card: for expansion, to the 3....

Use DroidStats to Monitor Your Carrier Data and Postpaid Calls DroidStats aims to help phone users to keep an eye on their data usage, phone calls, and sent SMSs. The app lets the Android fans know how much of the available data plan they used and how much the carrier will bill them every month. For instance, if the carrier contract allows 100 minutes of calls every month, 150 SMSs and 200 MB of data over 3G networks, the app alerts the user when he approaches the limit and how much the extra costs are....

As of now, the healing of a foldable OLED display has been a major setback. Motorola claims that this can be solved by introducing a heating element. This heating element heats up the place where the screen has been deformed and thus straightens it up without any visible damages. With this in place, Motorola would be able to design a flexible OLED which will bend both outwards and inwards and perhaps be hinged at more than one point....

Motorola is simply lending its brand name to Flipkart which is designing, manufacturing and marketing the TV. For the uninitiated, Flipkart already has its homegrown brand for electronic appliances called Marq which will continue to exist alongside Motorola TV. Design and Display The Motorola smart TVs come in a wide range of screen sizes and screen resolutions. Starting with the entry-level 32-inch HDR model to the 43-inch model available in both FHD and UHD to the 50-inch, 55-inch, and 65-inch models available in UHD resolutions....

Nest Mini The Nest Mini, apart from being a home assistant, is a speaker at its core and that’s exactly what Google has worked on and improved in this iteration. Google claims that original Google Home users have listened to billions of hours of music on the smart speaker and that is the primary use case in several houses. Hence, the emphasis on improving sound quality. The Nest Mini can output bass that’s twice as strong when compared to the last-gen Home Mini....