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OPPO Reno8 5G, Enco X2, Pad Air tab now on sale in India
The Reno8 5G sports a streamlined unibody design and will be available in two colours: Shimmer Gold and Shimmer Black. � The device packs a 4500mAh battery that provides up to one-and-half days of use on a single charge. Its 80W SUPERVOOC TM adaptor allows for a 50 per cent recharge with just an 11-minute recharge.�
Elon Musk had an affair with Google co-founder Sergey Brin's wife
According to The Wall Street Journal, the couple filed for divorce citing "irreconcilable differences". "Musk engaged in a brief affair last fall with the wife of Sergey Brin, prompting the Google co-founder to file for divorce earlier this year and ending the tech billionaires' long friendship," the report said late on Sunday, citing sources.
YouTube Music test feature to offer content based on listening behaviour
As per initial reports, YouTube Music will change the playback queue if users skip to a new track while still halfway through the current song. It is unclear if this feature is enabled by default, reports 9To5Google. These live updates are an alternative to a user becoming dissatisfied with a current radio and selecting an entirely different song to generate another queue, the report said.
Upcoming Samsung foldables may start at $1,103, Watch5 series at $264
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 may come at three internal storage variants -- 128GB, 256GB and 512GB -- for 1,080.90 euros, 1,158.89 euros and 1,275.89 euros, respectively. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 with 256GB and 512GB internal storage may come at 1,864 euros and 1,982 euros, respectively, GSMArena reported.
Google Meet allows users to livestream meetings on YouTube
According to the Google company, an admin can enable this by navigating to the meeting's Activities panel and selecting "Live Streaming". Users can then select their channel to begin streaming the meeting they are holding, reports AndroidCentral.
Hacker offers 5.4 mn Twitter account details for $30K: Report
According to AppleInsider, a hack of 5.4 million users is small compared to the 478 million T-Mobile customers affected in August 2021. It is even small compared to the 70 million users of AT&T affected later that same month. Yet, according to Restore Privacy, the hacked data now on sale comes from a vulnerability that was reported in January 2022.
Apple diversifies suppliers ahead of iPhone 14 launch
According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, components from SG Micro have passed quality certification for the high-end iPhone 14 models, indicating that the Chinese company has been greenlighted to supply components for the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. SG Micro specialises in integrated circuits, and Apple will use its power management integrated circuitry in the upcoming iPhones, reports MacRumors.
WhatsApp may let you keep disappearing messages even after they are dead
According to WABetaInfo report, the disappearing messages can be viewed within chat info in a new section called 'Kept messages', and all people in the conversation can open this section. When disappearing messages are turned on in a certain chat, they cannot be starred, but they can only be kept.
Elon Musk questions Twitter's 'monetizable' daily active user numbers
In 2019, Twitter for the first time used the word mDAU, saying it believes that monetizable DAU, and its related growth, "are the best ways to measure our success". Monetizable DAU are users who log in and access Twitter on any given day through twitter.com or our Twitter applications that are able to show ads.
Snapchat loses $10 billion as stock hits new 52-week low
The company's stock lost nearly 40 per cent of their value on Friday, after it reported a net loss of $422 million compared to $152 million in the prior year as the company "substantially" reduced hiring. "We face a number of very large and very sophisticated competitors (and) we're seeing the overall advertising pie grow at a slower rate amid the macro headwinds," CFO Derek Anderson told investors.
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