OnePlus, the popular Chinese smartphone manufacturer, on Wednesday hosted an online event to unveil its new high-end flagship smartphone, OnePlus 8T. This next-generation smartphone includes a newly calibrated 120Hz Fluid AMOLED display, and the company’s fastest charging solution ever – Warp Charge 65. “With the OnePlus 8T, we’re offering pro-level capabilities for even more users across our flagship smartphone portfolio. Featuring a class-leading 120Hz AMOLED display, our upgraded 65W fast charging technology, and fresh, bold software in OxygenOS 11, the OnePlus 8T offers an impressive overall package of powerful hardware and smooth software,” said Pete Lau, Founder and CEO of OnePlus....

OpenAI, the start-up behind ChatGPT, announced on Thursday that it is testing SearchGPT, a “temporary prototype” of new AI search features, to compete against Google Search and Microsoft Bing. “We’re testing SearchGPT, a prototype of new search features designed to combine the strength of our AI models with information from the web to give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources,” OpenAI wrote in an official blog post....

Multiple police social media pages on Facebook are warning parents to disable a new feature, “NameDrop,” that was rolled out in the iOS 17.1 update earlier this year. This new iPhone feature, which is enabled by default with the iOS 17.1 update, can automatically exchange contact information, including pictures, phone numbers, email addresses, and more, by just holding your iPhone next to another iPhone or Apple Watch close together. Over the weekend, the Middletown Division of Police in Ohio posted a warning on Facebook urging parents to turn off the “NameDrop” feature on their children’s iPhones to prevent the transfer of personal information, such as phone number or email address, and name, to keep them safe....

Meta on Tuesday unveiled a new optional feature called “Private Processing” to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into WhatsApp, its popular end-to-end encrypted messaging app. This initiative is part of Meta’s broader strategy to embed AI across its platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger, to enhance user experience without compromising privacy. “We’re sharing an early look into Private Processing, an optional capability that enables users to initiate a request to a confidential and secure environment and use AI for processing messages where no one — including Meta and WhatsApp — can access them,” Meta announced in a blog post on Tuesday....

The Ministry of Information and Technology of the Indian government has banned PUBG Mobile and other 117 Chinese apps. The 118 apps banned along with PUBG Mobile Ministry’s Official Statement on the matter The Saga of Ban Continues Will PUBG Mobile get unbanned? The 118 apps banned along with PUBG Mobile According to a tweet by a journalist from the Economic Times, these are the list of Chinese apps banned by the Indian government....

A security researcher claims that Apple is yet to fix multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in iOS 15 reported to them six months ago. These are now present in iOS 15 released on September 20th. The security researcher who goes by the pseudonym illusionofchaos in a detailed blog post on Friday claimed that he had submitted four zero-day vulnerabilities to Apple between March 10 and May 4, 2021, when iOS 15 was not yet in the middle....

Roblox is an online gaming platform that enables users to program games and play games created by other users. Roblox is blocked at work, Offices, Schools, Universities, and other places around the world. Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) makes it mandatory for Schools and Colleges to block certain sites and content including games. This is why Roblox is blocked at schools in the US. What if you want to get Roblox Unblocked on your school computer/Chromebook or PCs at the workplace?...

Now you can run Ubuntu with Xfce in a browsers How does the Icebergs’ offering works Now you can run Ubuntu with Xfce in a browsers Everyone is aware of the web browser, Linux particularly since the maker of Ubuntu Linux, Canonical has created an online tour of their computer operating system, which the users can always try at https://tour.ubuntu.com/en/ for free. However, there is new startup called Icebergs, which provides a new cloud-based service that runs a traditional Xfce desktop environment on top of Ubuntu Linux....

Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time, based on the Samurai Jack cartoon to hit gaming shelves on the 21st of August. The Samurai from feudal Japan kingdom returns to fight an old foe(Aku) in the game Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time , which will be available to play on Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Windows PC. After the announcement of the gaming title back in February, jointly produced by Adult Swim and Soleil game Studios, the fans have expressed their eagerness and liking to news of the release....

Seagate Technology, the world’s biggest hard-drive maker, has been imposed a $300 million civil penalty fine by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) to resolve alleged violations of U.S. export controls related to selling hard disk drives (HDDs) to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Huawei) in violation of the foreign direct product (FDP) rule. Further, in May 2020, BIS imposed controls over the sale of certain foreign-produced items made with U....

Snapchat Source Code Leaked Online, Posted On GitHub In response to a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown notice, Microsoft-owned repository GitHub took down a leaked source code of the popular social messaging app SnapChat, after it was posted publicly on the world’s largest platform for developers. The notice sent by Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, targets the unauthorized publication and distribution of Snapchat’s source code. “I am [redacted] at Snap inc....

If you are part of the Windows Insider Program, you are in for a treat, as the humble Snipping Tool has just gotten a major upgrade! Starting with version 11.2505.21.0, Microsoft is officially rolling out GIF export support in the Snipping Tool to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels of Windows 11, which allows users to save screen recordings as animated GIFs with just a few clicks. The Redmond giant says the GIF export feature is “designed to boost your productivity and turn quick captures into shareable moments....

Mobile telecommunication company T-Mobile US, Inc. is investigating an online forum post that claims to be selling personal data related to more than 100 million people. The compromised data includes details such as Social Security numbers, phone numbers, names, physical addresses, unique identifier numbers, and driver license information, according to U.S based digital media outlet Vice who first reported the news on Sunday. While the forum post doesn’t mention T-Mobile by name, the seller told Vice that the data was obtained from T-Mobile servers....

A Canadian Tesla owner claims he was locked out of his $140,000 CAD vehicle after the battery on his electric car died. The electric automaker told him that he would have to pay $26,000 in order to replace his car’s battery. Mario Zelaya, the owner of the 2013 Tesla Model S, who has a 34,000-strong following on the short video app, TikTok, posted a video with a caption that read, “$26K for a new battery....

Tesla on Thursday agreed to release a software update that will stop video games from being played on the electric car’s entertainment system while in motion. For those unaware, last year, the electric carmaker had added a “Passenger Play” feature on its electric vehicles that allowed car drivers to play video games available on the center touchscreen only when it was parked. However, Tesla later released a software update that allowed occupants to play video games while driving after a warning that it should only be used by passengers....

This man in Australia has been camping outside Apple Store for 10 days, wants to be the first to buy new iPhone X Apple fanboys have a reputation for being very, very loyal to Apple and iPhone . But do Apple fanboys really just buy anything Apple sells or they just make noise? Do they sing the praise of anything and everything Apple does? Apparently, the answer to all the above questions is yes....

‘Originull’ Bug Can Allow Anybody To Read All Your Facebook Messenger Chats Your Facebook Messenger chats can be read by anyone including potential hackers thanks to a critical vulnerability. A security researcher from BugSec and Cynet, Ysrael Gurt has discovered a critical bug in the Facebook Messenger which allows a potential hacker to read all your private conversation. To understand the enormity of this bug, you should know that Facebook Messenger is used by a billion+ users from the world over including businesses....

In January, during this year’s CES, Dell promised that it would be adding some new iOS integration features to its Mobile Connect app this spring to make it more iPhone-friendly. Staying true to its words , the PC maker has just updated its Dell Mobile Connect app, which now allows users to seamlessly integrate their iPhones to their Dell Windows 10 PCs. The update, which is rolling out now as part of Dell Mobile Connect version 3....

Truecaller, a global leader in caller ID and spam blocking software, on Monday announced that it has partnered with numerous world-leading global Android smartphone manufacturers in key markets such as India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Latin America so that they can reach more users. Over the next two years, the company expects the TrueCaller app to be pre-installed in more than 100 million new smartphones. Truecaller is platform agnostic and aims to work with as many smartphone makers as possible in the future....

In a move to curtail trolls and harassment, Twitter is reportedly testing a new feature that will allow users to easily leave a conversation giving them more control over those they want to interact with on the micro-blogging website. The “Leave this conversation” feature will allow you to untag your Twitter handle (@username) from the original tweet and all the replies, stop anyone in the Twitter thread from retagging you once you have left the conversation, and prevent you from receiving notifications from that Twitter thread....