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Facebook's advertising integrity head quits after 4 years
Leathern was the public face of Facebook's advertising policies, which banned political ads shortly before and following the 2020 US presidential election. "After almost 4 years, I made the difficult decision to leave Facebook. I've had a great experience in a difficult, fun, fast-growing and impactful role at the company working with amazing people," Leathern said in one of his tweets on Saturday.
Xiaomi Mi 11 gets an A+ from DisplayMate, with perfect colour accuracy
DisplayMate is an industry-standard for optimising, calibrating, testing, evaluating and comparing all types of displays, monitors and projectors. DisplayMate said, "Based on our extensive lab tests and measurements, the Xiaomi Mi 11 delivers uniformly consistent top-tier display performance and receives all green ratings in all DisplayMate lab test display performance and accuracy categories."
Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro spotted on official site ahead of launch
The upcoming Galaxy Buds Pro has been spotted on Samsung Canada's website with the SM-R190 model number that has already been a part of reports highlighting the existence of the new Galaxy Buds-series earbuds, reports SamMobile. The same model number is also available on the Samsung India website and earlier appeared on its Chinese and Korean counterparts.
LG Display to showcase 48-inch flexible sound-making display at CES 2021
LG Display said its 48-inch bendable cinematic sound OLED (CSO) will make its debut at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2021, which will be held online from January 11 to 14, reports Yonhap news agency. The world's top large-size OLED panel maker said the latest product is optimized for gaming.
Samsung Galaxy S21 series may not come with microSD slot
All three Galaxy S21 models could lack this microSD expansion capability. The absence of a microSD slot may be overcome by having larger internal storage in the devices, reports GizmoChina. This, not the first that the company is planning to launch smartphones without microSD card support. All of its 2015 premium models were without a MicroSD slot, with some models in 2019 and 2020 also lacking a microSD slot.
Sony ships 3.4mn PlayStation5 units plans 18mn for this year
The company has already announced to bring PS5 to the India market on February 2. The PlayStation maker shipped a record-breaking 3.4 million units of the PS5 within the first four weeks of its launch, reports DigiTimes,
Apple to let free MacOS Amphetamine app stay in App Store
According to Amphetamine's developer William C Gustafson, Apple told him to change the app's name and logo. In comments posted on Reddit and Github, Gustafson said that Apple had informed him he had two weeks to "remove all references to the word ‘amphetamine' and remove the pill from the icon."
Poco F2 with Snapdragon 732G SoC may launch in India soon
The smartphone maker has recently shared a new video on Twitter, showcasing its achievements in the last year and in the end the company mentioned Poco F2 in the video for a split second, hinting that it might be the company's first smartphone launch in 2021. Unlike the Poco F1, which was an affordable flagship phone powered by a flagship Snapdragon chipset, the new leak suggests the Poco F2 will be a mid-range phone.
Nokia 7.3 with 5,050mAh battery may launch soon
Fresh information came from the certification bureau TUV Rheinland Japan, on the website of which there were certificates for the batteries of two Nokia models, reports GizChina. One of them is Nokia 7.3, which appeared with a capacity of 5050mAh. Another device, presumably Nokia 6.3 (or 6.4), has a slightly lower capacity - 4470mAh.
WhatsApp users globally made 1.4 billion calls on New Year's Eve
As Covid-19 made meeting with friends and family tough, WhatsApp calling on New Year's Eve 2020 increased over 50 per cent compared to the same day last year, the company said on Friday. Video calling became arguably the most in-demand feature in 2020 as people turned to technology to stay in touch and get things done in the face of social distancing and stay-at-home mandates.
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