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No Exynos SoCs for Galaxy S23 Series! This change is a result of a multi-year agreement between Samsung and Qualcomm, which will come into effect in 2023. It will be applicable to future Samsung Galaxy premium products, starting with the Galaxy S23 series that will launch in early 2023. It will also be extended to PCs, tablets, extended reality, and more. Qualcomm’s President and Chief Executive Officer Cristiano Amon, at the company’s recent earnings call, has also revealed that it has entered a seven-year extension of our patent license agreement with Samsung, which will be for 3G, 4G, 5G, and even 6G technologies....

Samsung M8 Smart Monitor: Specs and Features The new Samsung M8 Smart Monitor looks similar to its predecessors (and also the colorful iMac), although Samsung has reduced the bezels around the screen a lot. It is also quite thin, coming in at just 11.4mm. This gives the monitor a sleek and modern look, and it also comes with a height-adjustable stand (HAS) with tilt functionality. Samsung is offering the new smart monitor in a 32-inch option, featuring a UHD panel with a 16:9 aspect ratio, a 60Hz refresh rate, and support for HDR10+....

SHAREit Security Flaw Can Expose Sensitive Data According to a report by Trend Micro, SHAREit is a kind of app that requires the user to give permissions to several data and sensors on a smartphone. As a result, the app, as per the report, has access to a user’s entire storage including personal files, media, and other documents. It can even access your smartphone’s camera and microphone, create accounts, and set passwords....

iPhone Without a SIM Slot Was Envisioned Years Ago! As the former chief of iPod development at Apple, Tony Fadell, releases his new book “Build,” the industry veteran has been sharing many unknown stories about his life and his interaction with influential business executives like Jobs. In one such story during a recent interview at a special History Museum event, Fadell mentioned that Steve Jobs was against the idea of a SIM slot on the first iPhone....

Telegram Premium Subscription Now Available! The new Telegram Premium subscription comes with various member-exclusive features and functionalities that open up the full potential of the messaging platform. The Telegram Premium plan offers various features that are not available for free users. These include features such as 4GB uploads, Premium Badges, Premium App Icons, Animated Profile Photos, and more. There’s also the ability to connect up to 4 Telegram accounts in any app, pin 10 chats on the main list, reserve up to 20 t....

Telegram Rolls Out New Features Protected Content in Groups and Channels Starting with the protected content feature, it aims to help creators and channel admins protect their media and posts in groups and channels. With this feature, group and channel owners can now restrict their content to group or channel members only, prevent message forwarding and screenshots, and disable the ability to save media from posts. To enable the feature on a group or a channel, admins need to open the group or channel info page and go to the group/channel type....

The Last of Us Remake is Launching in September The remake of Naughty Dog’s one of the most celebrated games, The Last of Us is coming to PS5 on 2nd September 2022. Its PC version is in development for a later release. There is no official release date or even release year announcement for the PC version right now. But interestingly, the remake is titled as “The Last of Us Part 1“....

High Power Mode in 16-inch M1 Max MacBook Pro First spotted by MacRumors contributor Stever Mosser, the source code of the latest macOS Monterey beta includes references to the High Power mode. The report says that the feature will be limited to the 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M1 Max chip. It won’t be available on older-gen M1 or new M1 Pro MacBook Pro variants. The M1 Max 14-inch MacBook Pro is unlikely to have this setting....

World’s First MagSafe TWS Earbuds Dubbed as Snapods, these unique pair of earbuds come in a MagSafe-supported charging case that snaps on to the back of the iPhone 12 using magnets. This way, you can carry the earbuds at the back of your smartphone and take them out instantly when you need them. Snap-On Design This unique design of the device makes it the world’s first snap-on TWS earbuds which is readily available for users....

Xiaomi’s First Phone with 4K Display Going by the specifications, this could be Xiaomi’s first phone to feature a 4K display. According to the listing, the device will flaunt a 6.55-inch OLED display with 3840 x 2160 pixel resolution. If that’s indeed the case, we could be looking at a smartphone with the classic 16:9 aspect ratio. Display aside, you could expect a 2.4GHz octa-core chipset in the device. Moreover, the device could be available in 6, 8, 12, 16GB RAM and 64, 128, 256, 512GB storage variants....

Pure Paste on macOS Now Available Pure Paste is a free nifty app for macOS that is designed to run in the background and remove all the formatting from copied texts automatically. It allows a user to clean-paste texts every time without the need for special keyboard shortcuts or other ways to remove rich text formatting. The application sits in the menu bar of your macOS device and automatically removes all the formatting from texts when you copy them from a source....

LineageOS, if you don’t know, is a custom, open-source operating system based on Android. It is a wildly popular app amongst Android users who like to customize their devices and access nifty features. Dubbed as “hackable phones”, this website lists every Android smartphone in the market that supports the free operating software, LineageOS. It catalogs the devices according to various categories like “Best specs” devices and “Best compact” devices. Moreover, there is an “advanced search” tool that lets website visitors select various filters like vendor, release date, architecture, RAM, screen resolution, and more to find a particular device that supports the said OS....

Best Free IDM Alternatives in 2022 Here we have listed the best free alternatives for Internet Download Manager. The list contains both native apps and browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. You can check the entire list by using the table of content below and use it to navigate to specific apps if you want. 1. JDownloader 2 JDownloader 2 is a free download manager that has some of its parts open sourced....

As per recent reports, Twitter will now be considered as the editorial publisher of the content that is shared on its platform instead of being considered as an intermediary platform. This essentially means that if any unlawful content is discovered on Twitter, the Indian government will hold the company responsible instead of the user who shared the content. Now, for the unaware, Twitter has recently been facing a ton of issues with the Indian government following the establishment of the new IT Rules 2021....

What is “Jelly Scrolling” Issue in iPad mini 6? Now, for those unaware of what exactly is the “jelly scrolling” problem, let me give you a quick brief. On the iPad mini 6, when users scroll a screen with lots of text, the display seems to move a bit weirdly. As Dieter Bohn from The Verge explains in his initial report on Twitter, the issue causes one side of the screen to move faster than the other side, creating an unusual wobbly effect when scrolling....

While the Zee5 subscription is constant across all five plans, the other benefits on offer, including data, voice calls and validity, vary significantly. The first one on the list, for example, is data-only plan, while the other four are combo vouchers, offering offering both data and voice benefits. Vi customers recharging with any one of the five plans will receive their Zee5 activation link via SMS. The Zee5 Premium membership will give users access to Zee5’s catalogue across originals, shows and movies in 12 languages....

Android 12 Privacy Dashboard: Explained (2021) The Privacy Dashboard is currently available on Pixel phones running Android 12. If everything goes according to plan, we could expect the privacy feature to reach other Android 12 phones running OEM skins as well. So without further ado, here’s all you need to know about the privacy dashboard on Android. What is Privacy Dashboard in Android 12? Privacy Dashboard is a new feature on Android aimed to help users keep track of apps that access sensitive permissions....

How to Use Safari Landscape Tab Bar on iPhone What is Safari Landscape Tab Bar in iOS 15 and How It Works? The Landscape Tab Bar feature in iOS 15’s Safari browser is inspired by the macOS Safari tab bar. With this feature enabled, Safari shows a tab bar below the address bar at the top of the screen on iPhone. Using the Mac-style horizontal tab bar, you can swipe through all open tabs or tap and switch between them seamlessly – much like how you would do on your Mac....

The messaging giant started rolling out a new update for its app on KaiOS recently. Jio Phone and other KaiOS phone users can simply update WhatsApp to the latest version (v2.2110.41) to get the feature enabled. For the unaware, WhatsApp was released for KaiOS-based devices back in 2018. Since then, the app has been the top KaiOS non-system app with the highest monthly active users worldwide. While KaiOS users were able to send messages on WhatsApp, they couldn’t make audio calls via the app until today....

“As part of expanding our operations in India, we continue to work alongside government authorities to keep our users safe. We have appointed a Grievance Officer based in India, who can be contacted directly if a user has a concern about their WhatsApp experience and is unable to report it through other channels,” WhatsApp wrote on its website. Contact WhatsApp’s Grievance Officer WhatsApp has listed the name of the new grievance officer on its official Indian website....