Technology is evolving faster than we expected. Not just in a good way, but in a weird way too. Who would’ve thought that we’d arrive in an age where we need an incognito mode for browsing the Play Store, or create a candy bar-shaped phone? Here are some of the latest news you need to know about Android that is not of the mundane. Google Play Store Incognito Mode Incognito mode has been a great help when browsing, well, secrets on Google Chrome. The feature doesn’t save browsing…
Samsung, one of the leading brands in the Smart TVs market, is all set to launch a new lineup of devices featuring bezel-less design. If the reports are to be believed, then the company will launch a new lineup of Smart TVs under “Zero Bezel” branding at CES 2020. Earlier this month, on 2nd October, Samsung Electronics registered a trademark with the EUIPO (European Union Intellectual Property Office) for the brand name ‘Zero Bezel’. The application was submitted by intermediary…
With all the crazy, high-tech specifications and features a smartphone can have nowadays, only one thing the majority of the population is most curious about – the front-facing camera. And, of course, the term created by Generation Z – selfie. This phenomenon has become a thing for millennials that manufacturers were forced to make it an important feature to their products. Now, selfie is one of the most notable features of a phone. They even got modes and filters for it just to satisfy…
Researchers at Google have located a new zero-day make the most in Android that has the attainable to infect thousands and thousands of devices. The vulnerability is placed in the kernel of the OS and has already been used by terrible actors in the wild. Here are the telephones recognized to be affected, which include fashions from Google, Samsung, and Huawei. Project Zero is a crew of Google safety analysts who specialize in finding zero-day vulnerabilities. As reported by TechRadar, the…
The recent controversy about Google using homeless people as test subjects to improve the Pixel phone face unlock feature seems to have not affected the company at all. Google continues the life as if nothing happened. In fact, it just started releasing new updates and even acquiring more companies. Here are some of the latest news you should know about Google and Android: Google to compete with TikTok via purchasing Firework TikTok is one of the fastest-growing social networks today.…
Microsoft's Surface recognition and the adoption of a once-rival platform receives the software titan again into the cell game. When Microsoft announced on Wednesday its return to making its very own smartphones, imparting its first take on the gadgets seeing that its $7 billion buys of Nokia went up in smoke 4 years ago, the software program giant said a lot of the things you would expect. It talked about how its new Surface Duo, wearing two 5.6-inch displays and coming subsequent year,…
We know we focus more on Android, but we also turn our attention to games which is rapidly rising in the mobile world. Talking about games, Google Stadia, when it launches this November 2019, is set to shake up the video game industry. Google Stadia will allow anyone to stream major PC and console games from Google’s cloud servers, up to 4K resolution and with almost no latency, as long as players have a Chromecast Ultra on a TV or a Chrome browser on tablets, laptops, desktops and Pixel…
It is the Chinese-owned quick video-sharing site that you may also no longer have heard of if you are over 30 and if you neither an iPhone or Android user. But on Tech Tent this week we discover why TikTok may want to be the largest threat to Facebook. We learned two vital things about TikTok this week - it is earning a stunning amount of money, and Mark Zuckerberg sees it as a serious rival. Figures obtained via the Reuters news organization showed that its proprietor ByteDance…
Earlier this year, Google publicly reported that they have conducted a so-called "field research" for its new face unlock feature for the anticipates Pixel 4 phone. The report stated that the company sends teams out to approach random people and offer them $5 gift cards in exchange for scanning their faces. The tests were done to help Google collect data for the purpose of training algorithms and make the face unlock feature as accurate as possible. It was sad to be carried out by temporary…
This year, foldable phones have started launching. Unfortunately, the hype was not as mind-blowing as expected. What truly blew our mind is the part that these phones are still technologies away from perfection. If you’re looking to buy a foldable phone today, you first need to consider the issues mentioned below: Royole Flexpai is the first foldable phones introduced to the smartphone market. It achieved the main feature a foldable phone needs to be called one – a foldable or…
