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Now, Microsoft has managed to score a point back against the hackers with their latest update to WAT – KB971033, which aims to detect more than 70 activation exploits. KB971033 update for WAT is now live and helps detect validation errors, activation exploits, and any tampering attempts made to important Windows 7 system files. When this update is installed, it performs a validation process for the copy of Windows that is running on your computer....

The schedule points out the Demo session towards the end of the event which again indicates the possibility of Chrome OS netbook launch today. Watch Chrome OS Event online In case you would like to get the first hand information of what Google Chrome event will unveil today, you can tune into http://www.youtube.com/googlechrome, the official Google Chrome Youtube channel or http://www.youtube.com/google and catch the event live. Of course you can rely on us to report the even in greater detail later on in the day....

What is a Disposable Email? Disposable emails. Yes, you can create email addresses with a click of a button that come with no strings attached and let you join various services without spamming your primary account. Once when you are done, you can easily dump them as well. Some of them can be configured to remain permanent and some of them are designed solely for the purpose of accessing a bit of information that requires a user account....

Although the service is now in closed beta, it won’t be long until anyone will be able to create their own video broadcasts. Although, impatient users can sign up for beta testing right now and hope for the best. What is BitTorrent Live? In short, BitTorrent Live is a P2P (peer-to-peer) live video streaming system that allows users to broadcast a video feed from a webcam or from a third party app....

A large part of processing and making video streams less bandwidth and storage hogging is dependent on the video codec standard used, which, just as it sounds, compresses-decompresses video files to reduce the file size. Even though the current standard, H.265, aka High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), is fairly promising in this regard with its high efficacy when it comes to offering better compression without adversely affecting the quality, we now have a new video codec called H....

What is Dynamic Email? Dynamic Emails are essentially built on AMP standards to allow users to get updated messages on-the-fly, without having to refresh or go to another webpage. The embedded content present in email changes or updates itself automatically, as soon as it receives an update or requires a user to take an action. Say, you are working on a document on Google Docs with your team, and you get a message from a team member....

The world knows Carl Pei as the person behind OnePlus. But tell us, how on earth did he get into technology in general and mobile phones, in particular? I got interested in technology relatively late. In 1998, my family got our first computer, a Dell laptop, and it was my first encounter with the internet. I remember being gifted Warcraft II but was too scared (or young) to actually play it....

Those comments came from a colleague who was seeing the recently released OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition. And one could see where he was coming from – in design terms, the McLaren flavour of the OnePlus 6T was not too different from the original edition of the device, that papaya orange touch on the frame and a touch of carbon fibre notwithstanding. Yes, there was 10 GB RAM below the hood, and an extra burst of speed to the already epic Dash Charge, but by and large this was pretty much the OnePlus 6T that we saw a little over a month ago....

For starters, the Redmi 4X comes with a 5-inch 720p display up front with 2.5D curved glass and flaunts a rather slim unibody metal body measuring only 8.65mm in thickness. Furthermore, it is powered by Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 435 octa-core chipset. There are two storage and RAM options available – 2GB RAM + 16GB onboard space or you can shed some extra for getting the 3GB + 32GB combo....

In most conferences, this would be the signal for someone (generally a young lady) to walk to the person and hand him or her a microphone to ask their question. A mike was duly carried to the questioner this time too, but carrying it was the very person for whom the question was intended, Xiaomi’s Global Vice President, Hugo Barra. Unusual? You bet. Say what you will of Hugo Barra, the man behind the Nexus devices at Google and now for many the face of Xiaomi, one thing that you cannot deny is his knack of being able to do just the right thing at the right time, topped off with a dollop of charm that takes the winds out of the sails of the sternest interrogator....

This move seems to be fuelled by the fact that most of the users will migrate in the wake of recent hacking incidents and also the fact that 500 million user accounts were compromised in 2014. Last week, it came to light that Yahoo has covertly built a custom software program that aimed at searching all of its customer’s incoming emails and match it against specific information given by the U....

Yeelight Smart LED Bulb The Yeelight Smart LED Bulb is available in two variants — color and tunable white. Both of them are WiFi-enabled so that you don’t need a dedicated hub to control them from your phone. In addition to switching them, dim their brightness and change their colors, the bulbs can be also commended through voice assistants like Google Assistant remotely. The color temperature is adjustable as well and you can even program them to turn on or off automatically at a specific period....

Not much between first and second gen…and that’s ok When Apple first launched the AirPods in 2016, many dismissed them just by the looks of these totally wireless earphones (“EarPods with the wires snipped off,” some sneered) but the AirPods actually turned out to be quite a bit of a hit. And that legacy continued even with the AirPods 2, the ones that are now the base model of the range officially available out there in the market....

Feels the same, sounds different We have used the Apple Pencil on the iPad Pro to draw, to scribble notes, and create designs, and the experience has been pretty smooth. The stylus is very well crafted and not only holds and feels like a real pen/pencil but also reads the level of pressure you are putting on the screen with the tip and the angle in which you are using it, which helps it work almost like its non-tech counterpart, given the fact that the Apple Pencil experience on the iPad Pro has been pretty remarkable which leaves the new iPad with huge shoes to fill when it comes to the stylus experience....

Currently available only for iOS devices, Drops First Aid comes at a $1.99 price, almost nothing when you compare it with the benefits that it offers. By using this application, you will be much more prepared if an ill-fated event occurs, be it a car crash, someone who’s just had a stroke or other unhappy scenarios. Drops First Aid teaches people emergency behaviour In the past, we’ve talked about medical apps for iOS and for Android; and even about medical gadgets....

Mentioned to death. Everyone knows. It is out there. Yes. We know. Many attribute this success of the brand to the popular Note series but while the Note is the star performer, there is a relatively less-hyped series from the brand that also brings in the big numbers. The Redmi A series, where “A” is suffixed to the name of the phone. A, as seen in the Redmi 6A, which is already one of the top five selling phones of the year globally....

Worry not; as it turns out, fixing your web browser to reshape it to get the maximum out of it isn’t a tough nut to crack. Here are some add-ons and other tools that will help you fix your gateway to the internet. Clear the cache Before even getting into it, let’s clear your browser’s cache, shall we? Every browser that you use stores some files in your browser. Well, the cache isn’t really a vestigial thing per se....

Couple of months back, Google finally launched Google Play Gift Cards in India. But, there was a catch. They were only available in “select” outlets, only in a couple of metro cities in India. Google had partnered with chain stores like Vijay Sales to carry them out. But it wasn’t clear which showrooms would carry the cards. When I went to the Vijay Sales outlet closest to my home, there were no Google Play Gift Cards in sight....

There are going to some gasps of horror at its Rs 6,999 (USD 99.99) price tag, especially when you consider that Xiaomi offers a 20000 mAh power bank at a much lower price (Rs 1499 at the time of writing). Hold your horses of horror, though. We are not saying that the Anker PowerCore Speed 20000 PD is a super affordable proposition. It isn’t. But it does bring some serious charging muscle for those extra bucks it charges....

Highest ever shipments, big growth The Indian wearables market witnessed 11.8 million units shipped in Q3 2020. This is the highest number of wearables ever shipped in a quarter and also represented a staggering 165.1 percent year on year growth. Earwear comprised 85.2 percent of wearables, wristbands 8.2 percent, and smartwatches 6.6 percent. Earwear and smartwatches are the star performers The main drivers for this growth were what IDC chooses to term “earwear” and smartwatches....