As the smartphone is meant specifically for gamers, there are some cool additional perks that you get including a special liquid cooling mechanism, a gaming mode that will overclock the CPU, a dedicated controller attachment and what not. Performance being the criteria of utmost importance, the Black Shark 2 opts for the Snapdragon 855 SoC which is currently the best that Qualcomm has to offer for smartphones. Paired with it is up to 12GB of RAM and up to 256GB of onboard storage....

Capitan is a new such app that is touted as the first smart shopping list that that learns as you use it and saves you time and money. Currently available for iOS and Android users, the comes with the bold purpose of helping you never forget anything at the store, thus preventing you from taking this annoying extra trips. The concept is very simple – you create and share shopping lists with friends or family very easy....

Educational and entertainment gadgets are part of the day-to-day life of most college students. While you are probably familiar with popular gadgets such as the iPad, iPod, iPhone, and Xbox, there are other, less familiar gadgets worthy of your consideration. Livescribe’s 4 BG Echo Smartpen This handy device records everything you hear and write, including the delightful snoring sounds of your classmates! Easily find what you’re looking for in your messy notebooks by tapping on a word....

I have been using Cortana ever since it was released and it has been a neat experience till date. The digital assistant is intuitive and it has started to blend with most of the third party Windows app as of now. Microsoft seems to be hugely backing on the Cortana and trying to develop it as a standalone application across various platforms, just like how it did with Here Maps, which was initially a Windows exclusive feature....

Well, the folks at Chromativity clearly tread a different path, with a little help from renowned football pundit Andy Gray. For their take on football is definitely off the beaten track. Yes, you still have to pass, plan and shoot. But hey, there are no teams here, no celebrity players to muck around in, and to be honest, not too many fancy ball tricks either. So what you might wonder, IS there in the game that makes us yak about it here?...

Considering that you have your Dropbox installed head over to System Preferences> Security & Privacy>Accessibility tab. Now have you noticed the “lock” icon circled on the image, does this really mean that you have given permission for the app earlier to control the computer? The folks at applehelpwriter who tried this out say that Dropbox has never asked them for the access control yet somehow it has control over the computer....

However, as soon as you pick the digital path for information curation, the other block — a rather major one — is about the app choice. You see, there are numerous services out there, depending on the platform, which, by and large, offer you all the essential features to better manage all your information. Of these, two of the most popular services are Evernote and Notion. While Evernote is a veteran in the note-taking space, it has evolved over the years into a (somewhat) complete solution for personal information management....

This pretty much has been the story of all our lives this year. Many of us were excited to make 2020 our year, travel around the world, see new places, and so on. Little did we know that even stepping outside to get groceries, let alone traveling to another country or city would feel like entering a war zone. All of us have been staying inside as much as possible to save ourselves and others from getting infected but there is still a way in which you can travel around the world....

The problem of images not loading on Facebook can be fixed in several ways. In this guide, we’ll explain the possible reasons for this problem and how you can fix it. Why Pictures on Facebook Are Not Loading? There are several reasons why images do not load on Facebook. The following are some of the main reasons: Poor internet connection: If the internet connection you are connected to is unstable or slow, the Facebook images may not load....

The Factitious game will test your ability to spot fake news and when you play it displays an article card along with a source. If you feel its a fake news you need to hit the “Cross” button or if you find the news to be authenticated, hit the “Tick” button. The best part is that the game will pop up cards explaining why your answer is right or wrong....

Canvas Fingerprinting and its Repercussion Ideally, the websites identify your browser by referring to the cookie, which is a temporary token like element with your recent browsing trends. However, the Canvas fingerprinting tracks and identifies visitors by using HTML5 canvas element instead of the traditional browser cookies. The websites are made to extract data from the HTML elements without the explicit permissions of the users. Firefox 58 is the first major browser to have incorporated a feature that will explicitly ask users for consent before identifying their browsers....

Now the same gaming studio is back, which by the way now consists of six members including Nguyen, with another painful mobile free-to-play game, Swing Copters 2. The concept all around remains identical, players are asked to move around the same pixelated creature wearing the good old loved propeller hat through a tiny space between two swinging hammers. Like before, it is endless but getting to a score of 2 is still a challenge....

We have yet another freebie making rounds – Avanquest PowerDesk pro 7 which is a premium, professional, powerful and easy-to-use File manager software which is designed to manage the files, photos, MP3s and web images on your Windows PC, combining 6 comprehensive file utilities into a single package – FTP, Sync Manager, Size Manager, Dialog Helper, Archive Manager and File Finder. PowerDisk Pro 7 comes with Advanced File Finder, Multi-Pane File Viewer and Easy FTP Utility & Support....

VPN tool is a relatively smaller piece of software that uses Windows default networking tools. Following are the features of VPN Tool. Protect your computer from internet attacks and intrusions. * Prevents from unauthorized access your computers from internet. * Filter network spam by our servers firewall system. * Anonymize and secure all your Internet traffic and replace your ip address. * Works with VOIP software, web browsing, e-mail, p2p, ftp, instant messaging, streaming, games etc....

It was two minutes of a rather clever ranting and raving, the sort that will make most observers smile. Even my mum had a laugh at it, going, “he sounds just like A***b,” although she was a little curious as to why “he is mispronouncing ‘opposition.’ His English seems so good otherwise.” Well, that pronunciation (mis- or otherwise) was perhaps the feature of the ad that most tech observers seem to have latched on to....

A strong first quarter, COVID-19 notwithstanding Unlike smartphones which have experienced a dip in sales in the first quarter of the year, smartwatches did very well. Global shipments for the period stood at 13.7 million, up 20 percent from 11.4 million in Q1 2019. The report says that even with the Covid-19 situation, smartwatches have continued to sell well online, with many users using the devices to track health and fitness in these times....

The Optical Character Recognition feature has been available in in Google Drive for a while now, but maybe the reason you didn’t use it yet is because your language wasn’t supported. But now Google has announced a major update, letting upload scanned documents in more than 200 languages and 25 writing styles. The same update has been issued for the Google Drive app for Android users, as well. Making use of the OCR feature is very easy, and you just need to follow these steps: Google also points out that the OCR feature currently works best on cleanly scanned, high-resolution documents in the most commonly used typefaces....

The new changes introduced to the Google Photos app at the I/O developer conference today makes it a lot easier for the average users to fix their photos. The AI built into the new app suggest fixes and various tweaks that include but not limited to rotations, brightness, corrections, adding pops of color. Google believe that idea of adding AI to the Photos app will have a major impact on how end consumers use the app....

For starters, the new Pixel 2 XL flaunts an all-aluminum frame and a massive 6-inch Quad HD (2880 x 1440 pixels) OLED panel up front. Since the bezels on the sides have been waived off dramatically here, the LG-made handset isn’t as gigantic as other 6-inch phones. It also features an aspect ratio of 16:9 like a few recent phones such as Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and LG’s G6. This change, more importantly, should push developers and entertainment services further to add compatible content....

The answer to that question will perhaps end up determining whether you will invest in Google’s Pixel a series of devices. We have been using the larger of those, the Pixel 3a XL for a while now, and whenever someone has asked us if it was worth buying, we have replied with the very question at the beginning of this review. For the camera is really the star of the Pixel 3a XL show....