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The Control Center you see on iOS 13 came into existence when Apple ditched its page-like Control Center design for a neatly organized array of control icons with iOS 11. And then, after a few improvements and updates with iOS 12, finally offered more granular control with Control Center controls on the newly-released iOS 13. Some of these options include the ability to Force Touch on different controls like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to connect to devices directly, brightness control to activate Night Shift or Dark Mode, and more....

It’s that time of the year when it rains awards! The 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards will take place in Los Angeles at Staples Center on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011, and will air live on the CBS Television Network from 8 to 11:30 p.m. (ET/PT). Grammy will honor the year’s best and brightest in the music industry as voted on by The Recording Academy’s membership of music professionals. Grammy awards are the music equivalent to the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for the stage, and the Academy Awards for movies....

1. The QHD Display in cahoots with VR Honor 8 Pro offers a 5.7-inch QHD Display with Gorilla Glass 3. The display is crisp, and the viewing angles are equally commendable. However, one region where this shines is the VR application. Instead of bundling a separate VR headset Honor has designed the packaging box in such a way that it doubles up as a VR headset. Just pop in the lens as shown below, with the convex part of the lens inwards and install the Jaunt VR app....

Snapping Windows Being a Windows user for so long, one of the first few shortcomings of MacOS I came across is its limited multitasking abilities. Unlike Windows which lets you simply snap windows anywhere, in any size, MacOS takes a more restricted approach and requires you to hold down a key. In addition to that, the split-screen features function as individual, separate workstations. While that does prove helpful at times, I found myself coveting Windows’ straightforward and versatile functionality more often than not....

Like its predecessor, though, the new Acer Swift 7 has a few tradeoffs as well. The most critical one is the webcam which now pops up from the keyboard, similar to the Huawei MateBook X. That change has allowed Acer to achieve an impressive screen-to-body ratio of 92 percent. In addition, the Acer Swift 7 only has three ports — two USB Type-C and a standard headphone jack. Apart from that, the Swift 7 comes with a 14-inch 1080p screen, Intel’s latest 8th Gen Core i7-8500Y Amber Lake processor, 256GB or 512GB of PCIe SSD storage, 8GB or 16GB of LPDDR3 RAM, a backlit keyboard, and a Windows Hello fingerprint reader embedded under the power key....

To start with, the all-new Google Chromecast features a pebble-like design with a USB-C port on one end — to charge, and an HDMI cable emerging out of the side. There is also a reset button on the back. At its core, the device runs on the Amlogic S905X2 chipset, which is a 12nm chip with four ARM Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.8GHz and the ARM Mali-G31 GPU for graphics processing....

1. The market leader in India is…Boat! In what might come as a huge surprise to many people, the market leader in the Indian smart personal audio market is an Indian brand, Boat. The brand finished ahead of the likes of Samsung, Realme, Sony, and Xiaomi, and had a 20 percent market share, representing a staggering year on year growth of 168 percent. This would be approximately 0.75 million units, given that the Indian market in this period shipped about 3....

While the update brought a few new features of Android 8.1 to the device, the major bug was that once the system was updated, it would wipe your entire SMS history and would continue to wipe it every time you swipe the app to close it in the recent apps menu. Another major letdown was a bug that causes the OS to fail Google’s SafetyNet check. SafetyNet is a service which provides APIs to allow developers to check whether a device is tampered with, runs a custom ROM, or is infected with low-level malware....

If you are an iPhone or an iPad user, chances are you run into the requirement for data management utilities at some point. Be it backing up / restoring data, moving data between iDevices, transferring music, creating custom ringtones, transferring WhatsApp data, and whatnot, data management software help simplify user interaction and make such operations convenient. However, of the several solutions available out there, not every one of them offers the right set of utilities that serve your requirements....

Apple has quietly released a new version of the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, adding Force Touch to the device (introduced to the 13-inch MacBook last month). Force Touch can detect the pressure applied on the pad, thus allow for unique input via a secondary, deeper click, and the classic “taptic” feedback. Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, said the following: According to the information on Apple’s website, the laptop is shipping within a day for a starting price of $1,999....

But now Apple has partnered with mobile connectivity company GigSky in order to expand Apple SIM cellular data plans to over 90 countries and territories around the world (check the entire list on Apple’s website). Thus, from now on, iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 users with an Apple SIM can make use of short-term data plans in their travels. Ravi Rishy-Maharaj, Founder and CEO of GigSky, said the following: Thus, you can now purchase an Apple SIM iat Apple Retail Stores in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States....

Schiller isn’t new to Apple keynotes after having taken the stage in quite a few events in the past. In an exclusive interview with the leading British newspaper, Independent, Phil stated that the Apple MacBook Pro range for 2016 has received more pre-orders on their online store than any Pro series notebooks that were launched before. Well, this is a statement that should probably silence some of the critics out there....

While we wait for the official announcement to happen tomorrow where we get to know more details about its pricing, we had an opportunity to play around with the device a few days back. Based on that brief hands-on, here are 15 cool things about the all-new Asus ROG Phone 2. The Asus ROG Phone 2, for the most part, features an almost similar design as the previous model. Except for the inclusion of all-metal frame design, compared to the plastic one on the original ROG Phone....

With the ROG Phone 3, Asus wants to ride on the success of the ROG Phone 2 but in a different price segment this time, thanks to 5G chips from Qualcomm being expensive, increase in GST rates, and the fluctuating dollar value. At Rs. 49,999, the ROG Phone 3 is arguably the most spec’d-out phone one can purchase. But the bigger question is if those numbers on paper actually translate to a good real-world experience....

Design and Form Factor If there’s one word to describe how the Zenbook 14 feels in the hand, it’s exquisite. Right from the signature concentric circles design to the solid metal construction all over, the Zenbook 14 screams premium. There’s a nice heft to it and there’s no flex while typing or when pressure is applied on the top surface. Asus has nailed the build on the Zenbook 14. Oh yeah, apart from feeling extremely sturdy in the hand, it’s also an attention seeker....

Features of Avira Antivr Premium Edition AntiVir protection against viruses, worms and Trojans 2. AntiDialer protection against expensive dialers 3. AntiRootkit protection against hidden rootkits 4. Faster Scanning up to 20% faster 5. New User Interface 6. AntiPhishing protection against phishing 7. AntiSpyware protection against spyware and adware 8. WebGuard protection against malicious websites 9. AntiDrive-by stops malware downloads while surfing 10. RescueSystem creates a bootable rescue CD 11. Enhanced email protection for POP3 and SMTP 12....

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....

Designed by experts at IIT, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, the device was unveiled on Thursday by Indian HRD Minister, Kapil Sibal. This low-cost computing device is designed for students and the government has started talks with global manufacturers to start mass production. It looks like an iPad, only it’s just 1/14th the cost. It is truly wrong to compare this unnamed device with iPad, so let us just look at the specs....