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Xiaomi to launch global Yeelight Aurora Devices, and Firmware Updates to Solve Bulb Flickering
Xiaomi recently announced a “coming soon” global launch of a new product called Yeelight Aurora Lightstrip Plus, set to be released on September 7th. Exact product details are a bit unclear, but the Yeelight Aurora Lightstrip Plus is described as being an “extendable AI smart light strip equipped with 16…
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Mozilla Firefox Announces a Change in their Approach to Anti-Tracking
In an announcement made through Mozilla blog, it was revealed that Mozilla developers will be changing their approach towards anti-tracking. This announcement came on August 30th, 2018 and stated that in the upcoming days, Firefox will be protecting its users from potential data breaches by default. Mozilla would achieve this…
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Sony Opens Pre-Orders For Its New Flagship 4K Android TV Lineup With Chromecast Built In
Sony commands a very respectable position in entertainment appliances, be it music systems, television sets or even the Playstation consoles. When it comes to televisions, Sony has always pushed boundaries, their Bravia image processors were very famous and were even used in their flagship phone lineups. Sony introduced their new…
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Amazon EKS Platform Version 2 Adds Support for Horizontal Pod Autoscaling with Custom Metrics
Amazon just released Version 2 for Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS). The recent update by Amazon adds support for horizontal pod auto scaling and the Kubernetes Metrics Server. Now it will be convenient for Amazon users to scale their Kubernetes workloads that are managed by Amazon EKS in response…
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Piriform Releases Updated CCleaner V5.46 with a ‘Smart Cleaning’ option
A new version 5.46 of CCleaner has been released by Piriform. The previous version has been revised with regards to the telemetry settings. A press release sent to Gunter Born had this information. Background of the Issue The CCleaner version 5.45 had been released by Security vendor AVAST, developed by…
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Google Play Store Game Demos Rolling Out Through “AppOnboard” Tech
One of the most requested Play Store features is finally being rolled out to hundreds of Play Store Apps. Thanks to “AppOnboard” technology, users will now be able to try the game without having to install them first. The instant app feature was available to Android users for a while but…
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Google Assistant Goes Bilingual, Several Indian Languages Coming Soon
Google is making sure every news that comes out of IFA 2018 is bang on. It has already announced integrations for many gadgets and now, we have news regarding Google Assistant. According to the latest from the company, Google Assistant is now bilingual. The highly requested feature finally made it…
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Soon Skipping YouTube Ads Will No Longer Be An Option
Update: Christopher Lawton from YouTube PR confirmed to us that YouTube isn’t moving away from TrueView. Both TrueView and unskippable ads would run parallel. Original Story: Viewers will not be able to skip YouTube adverts in the near future. According to a new report, YouTube is giving creators the option to…
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YouTube Explore Tab Replaces “Trending” for a More Personalized Touch
YouTube started testing the new Explore tab on Android back in July. Explore feature was in its early testing stage so only 1 percent of users had access to it at the time. But things have changed and while a final rollout is not in sight, for now, Google has introduced…
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Web Access for Windows 10 Desktops now Supported by Amazon WorkSpaces
WorkSpaces that are running Windows 10 now have availability of Amazon WorkSpaces Web Access that was previously available for Windows 7 only. Users can now access their Windows 10 WorkSpaces via Firefox or Chrome web browsers running on Mac OS, Windows, Linux or Chrome OS. With the availability of Web…
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Google Authenticator will soon allow users to sign into Windows 10 by using Google Account
Google is currently working on a solution for users through which they can sign up on Windows 10 through their Google Account. This move is aimed at the enterprise market where such an authenticator would be quite beneficial. Windows 10 offers a possible integration of Credential Provider for registering the…
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Huawei Commercial Caught Using Professional Camera Instead of Camera Phone
Its been recently discovered that a commercial in Egypt for the new Huawei Nova 3i utilized a professional DSLR camera when showing viewers the Nova 3i’s selfie camera “capabilities” – this isn’t a new practice to Huawei, who has been caught using such deceptive marketing tactics in the past, but…
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GIMP 2.10.6 Introduces Vertical Text, New Filters, and GIMP Extension Public Repo
A brand-new point release for popular photo editing software GIMP has been released today, bringing GIMP to version 2.10.6 – this update doesn’t bring a whole load of significant features, but there are some great improvements and new functionalities. For starters, GIMP 2.10.6 finally introduces support for vertical text (top…
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Qualcomm Reportedly Putting a Dedicated NPU Neural Processing Unit in Their Next SoCs
The US chip company Qualcomm has been moving its “artificial intelligence” research efforts more into the center of focus – which means Qualcomm has possibly been working on the integration of its neural technology into future SoCs (system on chips). The upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 855, which could probably come on…
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Mozilla brings back Stylish Add-on to Firefox after it was Banned Last Year
The Stylish add-on, with which you can give websites their very own style, is back for Firefox. This improvement has been welcomed by many users. The history of this Add-on is quite complicated as it was supposedly twice removed and added back before it was removed again. Now it has…
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VirtualBox 5.2.18 Maintenance Update fixed VM process termination on RDP client disconnect
Virtualbox developers released a maintenance update for virtualization solution on the 14th of August, 2018. The latest update raised the version of VirtualBox to 5.2.18. The improvements and additions have been welcomed by several users as it makes the virtualization product even more convenient to use. Virtualbox is a very…
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Quick Start for Amazon Aurora launched by AWS AppSync
AWS AppSync has today launched a new quick-start feature which walks the user through connecting AppSync to their Amazon Aurora database for creating a new blog application. AWS AppSync is basically a server-less backend service for mobile and web applications which support real-time synchronization of data and offline capabilities. AppSync…
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Blender 2.8 Alpha 2 Just Released, but Full Release Pushed to Early 2019
The free and open-source Blender 3D modeling software, a popular alternative to more expensive suites like Maya LT and 3DS Max, is facing a bit of a delay in their release schedule for Blender 2.80 – however, the developers intend to release it by early next year 2019. The devs…
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Casio G-Shock GBD-800 Series To Come With Bluetooth And Fitness Tracking Features
Smart watches are a very niche piece of tech. They haven’t really seen mass adoptibility due to their many glaring problems, battery life being the biggest of them. With current battery tech a Smart Watch with a good display hardly lasts for an entire day on full charge. Also charging…
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Amazon VPC Flow Logs can now be delivered to S3 and CloudWatch Logs through AWS CLI
According to Amazon’s official website, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs can be directly delivered to Amazon Simple Storage Service, also known as S3. This will be made possible by using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) or through Amazon EC2 or VPC console. VPC Flow Logs can now…
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Thunderbird 60.0 Brings Light and Dark themes and adds Supports for OAuth2 for Yahoo and AOLs
Mozilla developers have recently finalised version 60.0 of Thunderbird. This version has currently not been put up for distribution through update but can be directly downloaded from the official webpage by the users themselves. Users can now easily configure there Yahoo and AOL accounts using the OAuth2 authentication Additions, Improvements and…
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Thousands of Redditors Order Sennheiser Headphones after Employees-Only Coupon Leak
In probably one of the most hilarious tech-related stories we’ve covered, it seems that a coupon code intended for BestBuy employees to use on the Sennheiser website somehow leaked its way to Reddit over the weekend. Its unknown how the coupon code was leaked (theories abound), but what we do…
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Seagate Gears Up for AI & Edge Computing-driven Smart Storage Solutions
As people shift gears towards in-cloud storage solutions, servers supporting these clouds demand high-capacity storage devices way beyond their years. Luckily for us, alongside this demanding transition, edge computing and artificial intelligence (AI) are making a great pair in contributing towards the development of smart data storage technologies. This comes…
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Mozilla’s Things Gateway 0.5 offers Interactive Floorplan View and a Smart Assistant
Mozilla’s Things Gateway software just received a new update today in its version 0.5 and it offers several interesting features. These new features include support for custom devices and new protocols, safe authorisation of third party applications for accessing gateway, strengthened rules engine, an interactive floor plan view which lets…
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WhatsApp announces new features for its Business App
WhatsApp has announced a bunch of new features for its business app. The company launched its Business app last year as a way for businesses to communicate with clients. Following are the new features coming soon to WhatsApp Business app. Request helpful information: When you need a shipping confirmation or…