Microsoft’s Chief Product Officer Panos Panay, after showcasing the Focus Sessions feature coming to Windows 11, recently took to Twitter to showcase the new revamped Paint app. Panay shared a short video to show the various new tools that are coming to Paint soon. If you are eager, check out the tweet attached right below. — Panos Panay (@panos_panay) August 18, 2021 As you can see in the video, the new Paint app in Windows 11 looks more modern and sophisticated than the current version....

Surface Laptop 4 Launched: Specifications The Surface Laptop 4 features the same design as the Surface Laptop 3, which was unveiled back in 2019. Both the 13.5-inch and 15-inch variants pack a PixelSense touchscreen display with a 3:2 aspect ratio and 2256 x 1504-pixel resolution (201 PPI). The bezels are fairly slim and you have an HD camera, along with a studio microphone array, onboard. The Surface Laptop 4 now comes with either the latest 11th-gen Intel Core processor or AMD Ryzen 4000-series CPU....

Microsoft to Block VBA Macros in Office by Default Microsoft, via a blog post, announced that it will disable VBA macros obtained from the internet by default. It means that Office users will not be able to enable certain content on Office files with a simple click of a button. For those unaware, Microsoft Office has been supporting VBA macros, which allows users to run custom-generated functions with easy access, since the release of Excel 5....

Power Fx Powered by GPT-3 For the uninitiated, Power Fx is Microsoft’s open-source language for low code based on Microsoft Excel. It’s not entirely new as Microsoft announced Power Fx earlier this year. What’s new is the GPT-3 integration for natural language transformation to Power Fx code. Power Fx, part of Microsoft Power Apps, will make it possible for budding developers to use conversational language for programming. GPT-3 will help transform the natural language into a formula that Power Fx understands....

According to The Verge, Microsoft was trying to transform websites that you have pinned to the Start menu to noticeable tiles. In the process, Microsoft seems to have accidentally added Office web shortcuts as PWA apps. In fact, all this happened because Microsoft started adding Office web shortcuts to the Start Menu. The report mentions that the company has been doing this since May last year. From what it looks like, Microsoft probably planned to make these Office web apps more prominent and had to call it a bug since the media and Windows 10 users noticed it....

Moto Edge 30: Specs and Features The Moto Edge 30 is similar to the Moto Edge 30 Pro in many ways. However, Motorola had to cut some corners due to the lower price tag of the device, which is almost half the price of the Edge 30 Pro. So, instead of the 6.7-inch Full HD+ display on the Edge 30 Pro, the vanilla model comes with a smaller 6.5-inch Full HD+ AMOLED display....

First Look at Motorola Edge X30 Lenovo Mobile Business Group’s General Manager, Chen Jin (via a Weibo post) has revealed the front of the Edge X30 (purportedly called the X30 Ultra for other markets). The smartphone can be seen with a center-placed punch-hole display with flat edges. A dedicated Google Assistant button, which is a proprietary feature for Motorola phones, is also visible in the image above. The company has also confirmed a few details regarding the Edge X30’s display....

The scene is from the latest web series, A Suitable Boy, which is based on the classic novel of the same name written by one of India’s celebrated writer, Vikram Seth. It is directed by the Indian director, Mira Nair, and shows the quest of a girl, named Lata, to find a perfect husband in post-independence India. So, in one of the scenes, Lata, who is a girl from the Hindu community, kissed a Muslim boy who was her love interest in the series....

At the end of last year, following the ban of TikTok in India, we got the first look at Netflix’s “Fast Laughs” feature. The streaming giant was only testing it with select users in the US, the UK, and a few other countries back then. Today, Fast Laught is officially rolling out to the public in these countries. Fast Laughs is a TikTok-like vertical video feed that plays short clips from various comedy movies and TV shows available on the platform....

The system uses an electrode implant inside the brain of a paralyzed person to record their brain activity while they are trying to speak or answer a question. It then decodes the electrical signals from the brain to display full-formed sentences on a computer screen. Now, if you are wondering, it is not as easy as it sounds. To test out the system, the researchers at the UCSF surgically implanted a high-density electrode array inside the speech motor cortex of a paralyzed man who is referred to as BRAVO1....

Rockstar Games Introduces New GTA+ Subscription Rockstar Games recently shared an official blog post to announce the new GTA+ subscription service and detail the benefits that players will get. The service is currently exclusive to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S users, and players need to have an existing copy of GTA V to subscribe to the new monthly service. Coming to the benefits included in the GTA+ plan, players will get a monthly recurring deposit of GTA$500,000 in their Maze Bank account....

This new setup screen is being rolled out with the latest Windows 10 Insider preview build 20231 available in the Dev channel. As you can see in the screenshot above, you are offered six options – gaming, family, creativity, schoolwork, entertainment, and business. You can select more than one usage pattern if you will use your PC for, say both for gaming and video editing. Once Microsoft has a better understanding of how you plan to use your Windows 10 PC, then it will present you with slightly different setup options based on the options you selected on the startup screen....

What to Expect from Nothing phone (1) The Nothing phone (1) will be powered by a Snapdragon chipset (presently unknown) as part of the company’s collaboration with Qualcomm. This is something we all knew before. What was not known is the fact that the Nothing phone (1) will run the Nothing OS skin on top of Android. It is confirmed to provide a clean experience, which will include 40% lesser pre-installed apps and is said to be fast....

Nothing Ear (stick): Specs and Features The Nothing Ear (stick) comes in a cylindrical case, which was previously revealed during the London Fashion Week during Chet Lo’s Spring Summer 2023 show. The charging case boasts a transparent look and to me, resembles the asthma pump, as I pointed out earlier too. The earbuds, in question, look similar to the ear (1). There’s a semi-transparent finish to showcase the internals of the earbuds and the Ear (stick) branding....

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPUs Announced The two new flagship-grade laptop GPUs from Nvidia are here to offer desktop-class graphics performance on laptops. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti comes with 16GB of GDDR6 memory. This is, surprisingly, higher than the 12GB memory of the desktop version of the RTX 3080 Ti, which the company unveiled last year at Computex. Nvidia says that the new RTX 3080 Ti for laptops is capable of delivering 120 FPS at 1440p with Ultra Settings and is faster than the desktop Titan RTX variant from the previous generation....

Citing an insider source, the report reveals that the OnePlus 9 Lite will be a hand-me-down flagship. It will borrow a lot from the recently launched OnePlus 8T. The 9 Lite will be powered by the Snapdragon 865 as opposed to the latest Snapdragon 888. It will reportedly feature a 90Hz or 120Hz AMOLED display, and a quad-camera setup similar to the OnePlus 8T. It will even get super-fast 65W Warp Charge support....

In a surprise announcement, OnePlus has today confirmed that its next flagship killer device will be called Nord 2 5G. The official tweet does not reveal the launch date and only labels the device as “coming soon.” It is likely to arrive on July 22 globally. — OnePlus India (@OnePlus_IN) July 7, 2021 Now, some of you might be wondering – how does the MediaTek Dimensity 1200 AI chip differ from the standard Dimensity 1200?...

OnePlus Nord 2T: Specs and Features The OnePlus Nord 2T has been found listed on AliExpress and the listing showcases a Nord 2-like design but with bigger camera housings at the back. These are encased in a rectangular camera hump and there’s a punch-hole screen upfront. The listing reveals a 6.43-inch Fluid AMOLED display with a Full HD+ screen resolution and a 90Hz refresh rate. This is similar to the Nord 2....

Oppo Reno 8 Pro House of the Dragon Edition Arrives The Oppo Reno 8 Pro House of the Dragon limited edition phone comes in a Glazed black option and gets a collectible set to go by the theme. The box includes a special phone case, a dragon-shaped SIM ejector pin, a keychain, a phone holder, and a special Dragon Egg Collectible. There’s also a handwritten scroll by King Viserys I Targaryen....

Now, to jog your memory a bit, Oppo was one of the first companies to show off a foldable smartphone back in 2019. It was when Oppo’s VP Brian Shen shared real-world images of a prototype foldable device on Weibo a couple of years back. Since then, however, we have not heard about a foldable device from the Chinese giant, though we have seen Oppo file patents for foldable devices and showcase a rollable device as well....