Rekognition Polly Lex Lightsail AWS Snowmobile (It’s not as exciting as it sounds) Commenting on the launch, AWS CEO Andy Jassy said on stage, “Moving an exabyte of data would take 26 years with a 10-GB-per-second connection. With the Snowmobile, it would take six months. And you wouldn’t believe how many companies have that much data.”

If you use an Android phone, it probably came preinstalled with an email app. If you own one of the Pixels, this is very likely Gmail. However, in most other devices, the stock email app is often inferior in functionality and lacks essential email management features. While you can find many email apps for your Android phone on the Play Store as an alternative to the stock email app, not all of them provide the best user experience....

Well, on Apple Arcade, you get these games in all their, ad-free glory, and are free to download, in a manner of speaking. Yes, you do have to shell out the Rs 99 per month (USD 4.99 in the US – yes, it is WAAAY more affordable in India), but that also opens the door to several other games on Apple Arcade, which you can play at no extra cost at all....

Seventh-Gen iPad Design The 10.2-inch iPad features a 10.2-inch Retina display that comes with 3.5 million pixels and a wide viewing angle to offer an immersive augmented reality (AR) experience. As mentioned above, the iPad comes with Apple Pencil support, and for the first time, also supports a full-size Smart Keyboard. Also, for the first time, the iPad features an enclosure made from 100% recycled aluminum, and weighs in at just one pound, making it ultra-portable....

The analytics firm notes that global smartphone shipments grew 30 percent annually to reach a record 1.3 billion units in 2014. Android has thus become the first ever smartphone operating system to ship more than 1 billion units in a single year. Speaking of billions, at its earnings conference call, Google said that Chromecast is now the number one streaming device in the U.S., as users have casted 1 billion times....

The upcoming Android M will include a Doze mode that will intelligently power down your phone or tablet when it’s idle, thus extending its battery life. So, in a time when OEMs try to release devices with monster batteries, Google wants to do what it can so that the software feeds as little as it can on the battery. Android L too came with some considerable improvements in battery life, and it will be interesting to see what’s going to be the impact of this new feature....

For, make no mistake about it, there is a lot to like about the Android One initiative. The whole idea of being able to provide devices that deliver a certain level of Android experience at relatively low prices and with assured updates to future versions is right out of Geek Utopialand. Indeed, one of our biggest gripes about Android has been the fact that unless you happened to own a Nexus device, the chances of your getting an update to the next version of the OS were about as good as being able to dig a hole in the Great Wall of China with a toothpick....

The company celebrated the tenth anniversary of Android with the newest Android Q. It also said that, currently, Android is running on more than 2.5B active Android devices, which is yet another milestone. With Android Q Beta 3, Google is opening doors to 15 partner devices from 12 OEMs (twice as many devices as last year) with the help of Project Treble. The device manufacturers who made it to the partner list include Huawei, Xiaomi, Nokia, Sony, Vivo, OPPO, OnePlus, ASUS, LGE, TECNO, Essential, and Realme....

“Our goal is to deliver the best experience for customers, which includes overall performance and prolonging the life of their devices. Lithium-ion batteries become less capable of supplying peak current demands when in cold conditions, have a low battery charge or as they age over time, which can result in the device unexpectedly shutting down to protect its electronic components.”, added an Apple spokesperson further. While the earlier Geekbench report mentioned about throttling performance, Apple claims that they don’t throttle, but only smoothen out the instantaneous peaks only during certain conditions to protect the electronics in the device and prevent the device from unexpectedly shutting down....

A new Chrome app, called Arc Welder, is available as a free download for everybody, and you can use it to test and run Android apps within the browser. The tool was designed with developers in mind, but there’s nothing stopping us from using to to package Android apps for Chrome. When you will download ARC Welder, it will automatically install the app runtime which is needed to make Android apps work, thus making it even easier to run Android apps....

Right from its design, which screamed “gaming” at us with its orange accents (https://techpp.com/2018/12/20/asus-rog-phone-design-opinion/), etched patterns on the backside and arrow-shaped camera unit and speakers; to its performance, which spurred by an overclocked Qualcomm Snapdragon 845, 8 GB RAM and a great AMOLED display with 90 MHz refresh rate and excellent sound, was among the best we have seen on any device, the ROG phone was anything but routine and predictable....

Asus ROG Smartphone Features Asus didn’t want to be left behind and has launched its new smartphone under the “Republic of Gamers” branding, aimed towards hardcore smartphone gamers. Republic of Gamers, commonly known as ROG is the branding that ASUS has been using for a while now for their gaming-centric PCs as well as accessories. The ROG smartphone from the Taiwanese tech-giant comes with Qualcomm’s top-of-the-line chip, the Snapdragon 845, speed-binned to achieve clock speeds of up to 2....

The Taiwanese PC maker has now upgraded everything ranging from its Zenbook lineup to the Transformer 2-in-1 Pro with the Kaby Lake chips. Among them, the most noteworthy is the new AsusPro B9440 laptop. Sporting a 14 inch Full HD (1920 x 1080p) display with thin bezels, the laptop is mainly intended for business and enterprise users. Asus claims that their laptop is in fact the ‘lightest business notebook in the world’ with a weight of 1....

I know it has happened to me many times, and it’s so frustrating. Luckily, our smartphones can give us a hand with making and remembering shopping lists. And, as you’ve probably guessed by now, the help comes in the form of apps, or to be more specific, shopping list apps (or grocery list apps). These little helpers will allow you to do your grocery shopping with ease and never forget anything again....

Samsung had received an overwhelming response to the Note 7 which was touted to have one of the best combination of hardware in the premium smartphone segment. In fact, Samsung has reportedly sold 2.5 million of the Note 7s which also translates that the recall is not going to be easy and very well be one of the largest product recall by the Korean company. This also comes down as an embarrassment for Samsung which has been closely competing with Apple’s iPhone and had been doing well so far....

Wi-Fi hotspots are places where many of us end up when roaming the city, and such, these places are getting more and more numerous by the day. Probably most of us have a favorite bar or another place that we go to, and we like for more than just the coffee; we enjoy the free Wi-Fi network. 4 useful apps to find Wi-Fi hotspots Although you might know lots of free Wi-Fi hotspots in your city, there are many others that you don’t know about, and for you to find them out, you can implement the help of a special kind of app: a Wi-Fi sniffer that searches for all the Wi-Fi hotspots near you and gives you their exact location....

Considering you plan to get yourself one of these devices, here are some of our recommendations for the best cases and covers for the Samsung Galaxy S20, S20 Plus, and S20 Ultra. Mind you, the design is largely similar for all three phones, so we are recommending cases which are available to all of them. Depending upon your usage pattern and requirements you can choose any of these Samsung Galaxy S20 cases....

Hola VPN is one of the most popular VPN services since it is a free VPN and has a P2P feature that allows peers to effortlessly transmit data without the use of intermediaries on websites that support it, such as torrent and others. Hola VPN, however, seems to lack in most of these areas. HolaVPN has many compromising practices, and since the main goal of using a VPN is to protect the customers’ data, this VPN service is not recommended....

BitTorrent Chat comes with the purpose of bringing more security to our online communications, so that it wouldn’t be so easy to intercept them, neither by governments or criminals. BitTorrent estimates that in 2013, which hasn’t even ended, more than six million people have been affected by data breaches. And we all know that the NSA is really curious about your messaging activity. As the BitTorrent Chat service is still in private alpha, this means you’ll have to request an email invite to see how the program works....