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“Anna Assistant”, once installed, can be simply summoned by saying ‘Hey’ followed by the command. I was a bit skeptical about its accuracy and performance initially, however, the extension works surprisingly well even if you speak softly. As of now, Anna supports a dozen actions. These include searching on Google, closing a tab, weather, opening websites and more. It functions in the background. Hence you won’t ever face pop-ups or any other sort of animation at all....

Canonical’s CEO Jane Silber had a chat with The Verge in which she mentioned that The definitions of “specific form factors are increasingly arcane and outdated,”. “I think what’s happening in the industry is the blurring of those segments and the need for a consistent platform and user experience across those,” added Silber. Just like its previous devices, this time, too Canonical hasn’t moved much when it comes to the hardware....

In essence, the Timex IQ+ Move is aimed at users who want to wear a regular watch and at the same time also have access to the activity tracker features. The watch uses a traditional watch face and makes use of Bluetooth to connect with the smartphone and sync the data. The Timex IQ+ Move measures steps, distance, calories and sleep. Well, the best part of it all is that the Timex IQ+ Move runs on the traditional battery which needs no charging....

Hamlet: To Mi or not to Mi That is NOT the question Whether it is nobler for the hands to suffer The stretches and strains of a 6.44 inch display? Or to take in one’s palms a 5.5, aye, even a 5, inch one And by doing so, soothe them? Mark Antony: Friends, Indians, Countrymen Lend Mi your ears (or rather hands, such indeed are the times and the topic) I come here to propose the Mi Max Not to criticise the others....

Last week we talked about the Best Android apps for Kids, and as we’ve seen, they can prove to be quite useful tools in our kids development. Learning the alphabet, simple math or sounds is how they prepare to join this world, and with the use of such apps, they benefit from today’s advances in technologies. Our old animal cards are a far cry from today’s iPads and smartphones that use the power of the Internet to give them useful information and make the learning process simpler and much more fun....

Here are top 11 iPhone appcessories to make your iPhone look even more beautiful or, to add lots of fun to it! 1. AR Drone Parrot I think no one can argue that the AR Drone is the best wireless accessory for the iPhone. It’s the most fun you can have with your iPhone. The Parrot has lots of features that make it a fun app-cessory for anyone. It can be used both indoor or outdoor....

There are a tons of ways you can personalize your phone including wallpapers, messing up with the home-screen using widgets, themes if your phone supports and some more. But you can also change looks of the app icons by simply installing icon packs from the play store. Sometimes the manufacturers offer really ugly icons with their phones just to provide a unique look for their software and that’s exactly where these applications come in handy....

Related Read: How to Buy a Printer [Guide] Because the prices for 3D printers have dropped, they can now be found even in some homes, not only in university science labs. They have bigger resolutions, so they can “print” more complicated designs with much more fidelity, putting them, for the first time in the shopping list of average consumers. Of course, they are still complicated pieces of equipment, and also bigger and slower than most inkjet printers, but on the other hand, they’re about the size of a big, laser printer....

After teasing it for a few weeks, Truecaller is now rolling out a billing platform to its Android beta channel. The app has a new tab on the extreme right through which you can recharge and pay for various bills. At the time of this writing, a total of eight services were available including prepaid or postpaid mobile accounts, DTH, Datacard, Broadband, Electricity, Gas, and Landline. The billing feature is, of course, powered by Truecaller Pay which is designed in partnership with ICICI and plugs into your UPI account....

Now the Swedish company is making use of its huge base of users to launch Truemessenger, a new SMS replacement app for Android users which lets you verify the identify of those who send text messages. At the moment, the app is available exclusively for Indian users and we don’t know when it will roll out to international users, as well. So, if you ever received annoying SMSes from a stranger or just spam SMS from various sellers or companies who are aggressively promoting their services or products, then you will find great use in this app....

A company called Vtech has come up with Kidibuzz, a phone that is designed exclusively for kids. The KidiBuzz makes use of the KidiConnect app and lets children send texts, paintings, drawings, animates stickers and also voice messages. All of the websites available are clubbed under the “popular pre-approved websites.” The children can also access music and watch videos from these websites. That’s not all, the KidiBuzz features a rotating 180-degree camera that can be used with funny frames and photo effects....

Update: Apple iPad 2 – Specs, Price & release We are now sure about the iPad 2 launch on Wednesday, March 2, at the Yerba Buena Center for Arts Theater in San Francisco at 10 AM PT. The invites for the iPad 2 event was sent out earlier today and few of the tech & gadget blogs will be live blogging from the event. Apple fans have a huge expectations with iPad 2, specially after seeing some stiff competition from tablets like Motorola Xoom, HP Touchbook and BlackBerry Playbook....

The number of mobile subscribers has grown to 5.6 billion, which represents almost 80% of the world’s entire population. Almost everybody nowadays has a mobile phone. Recently, the subject of privacy has been debated a lot all over the world, with netizens, first of all, trying to fight all kind of laws that seem to be intented towards destroying our individual freedoms. A very interesting TED talk from Malte Spitz comes to shed a light on just how much and what kind of data do cell phone companies have on us....

Microsoft debuted the first version of PowerToys with Windows 95. A few years later, it released its second iteration with Windows XP, as a separate download. Later, after a lull for a few years, the company eventually released another update to PowerToys in 2019. With the latest release, Microsoft has made PowerToys open-source, opening the door for developers to collaborate and build better and more functional utilities for the platform....

WhatsApp Business, in addition to that, also features a bunch of tools to help businesses manage their customer base. For starters, it allows creating quick replies, automated messages for when the moderator is away and even set up a welcome message for when a user contacts it the first time. Moreover, there are a few statistics owners can look into such as how many people have read their messages, how many have been delivered, sent, what have you....

Making progress on that front, the company has introduced a new feature dubbed “Low Data Usage” on a recently released beta v2.12.5 of WhatsApp’s iOS app. The description of the feature confirms that enabling this option will lower the amount of bandwidth voice calls consume. “Enabling this option further lowers the amount of cellular or WiFi data used during a VoIP call,” the description reads. The feature, as of now, is only available on WhatsApp for iOS apps and is yet to show up on other clients....

First reported by ZDNet, the details at NewEgg.com reveals the following details – Windows 10 release date is on August 31st 2015, and the pricing for the OEM copy of Windows 10 Home is $109.99, while Windows 10 Pro is priced at $149.99! Update: Microsoft has announced that the Windows 10 free upgrade will be available starting July 29th! You can reserve your free Windows 10 upgrade right away....

Windows 8.1 will sort of bring back the start button that computer users have been asking for ever since Windows 8 was released. Apart from this update, Windows 8.1 will have a number of other upgrades, which shows that Microsoft has payed attention to the user’s demands. New features of Windows 8.1 Even though Windows 8.1 will still be optimized for touchscreen interfaces, as Steve Ballmer said – that this is the direction technology is moving, and Microsoft wants to be in the first line of this technical revolution – the update will make it more accessible for computer users....

Wordle Facts So if you too have been bitten by the Wordle bug (more than 3,00,000 have), here are ten facts about this game: 1. Wordle is actually named after its founder Well, it is actually a play on the name of the inventor of the game, Josh Wardle, who is a software engineer. It is about words, so the name fits beautifully. Incidentally, Wardle was also the man behind the collaborative art project called Place in 2007 and a project called Button at Reddit, where a button had to be pressed by anyone in the world within a minute....

Apart from that, the new Mi TV 4 smart TVs come in three sizes and resolutions — 55-inch 4K, 49-inch 1080p, and 32-inch 720p. All of them have 8GB of onboard storage, 20W stereo speakers (16W on Mi TV 4 Pro), an Amlogic quad-core chipset, three HDMI ports two USB A ports (one of which is 3.0 on the 55-inch model), minimal bezels around the sides, Ethernet, and Bluetooth 4....