With the increasing popularity of 4K content on the web especially in streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, HBO and even the company’s own YouTube, Google decided to roll out a slight modified version the Chromecast. Essentially this looks nearly similar to its predecessor except for some subtle changes here and there. The Google Chromecast Ultra comes in a flat round shape with the prominent G logo facing upwards. The company has also included an Ethernet port in the power cable of the Chromecast this time around....

The web app itself is pretty straightforward – you begin by loading up this site, and subsequently, it will ask a bunch of questions for evaluating a range of setups according to your needs. These queries include choosing from a couple of options such as whether you like monochromatic or multicolor, vibrant or muted environments, dark or light, warm or cool, geometric or organic, patterned or random, you get the idea....

What exactly is Honor Vision? Well, it’s basically a smart TV with some cool AI features and dedicated chipsets for display and network. It’s a 55-inch 4K UHD HDR panel with almost no bezels and 400-nits brightness. Honor claims a screen-to-body ratio of up to 94% and 87% NTSC color gamut. Apart from the superior looks, the Honor Vision boasts of a flagship-level trio of chipsets dedicated for display, camera, and Wi-Fi performance....

With this new update, users can now download and watch most of their favourite Shows and Movies offline, which is a good move from the company. However, a thing to note here is that not all of the premium content can be downloaded at the moment. As of now, Hotstar only allows a handful of Shows and Movies to be downloaded and watched offline. But the list is expected to grow more overtime, with more premium Shows and Movies available for download....

After all, taking pictures of the moon used to be a totally camera thing. You needed a big zoom, a tripod for stability, a lot of twiddling with settings before you could even think of pointing a camera at earth’s natural satellite. So how did we take the picture of the moon with the P30 Pro? Well, here is a step by step guide. Tripods? Settings? Duh, this is ONLY a phone camera, remember?...

1. Brave Brave is a free and open-source internet browser based on Chromium, and slowly, it is gaining popularity for its speed and privacy. Compared to Google Chrome, which is also based on Chromium, Brave offers less a cluttered experience with enhanced privacy-focused features and less power resource consumption. The browser is available across all major computer platforms: Linux, Mac, and Windows. On Linux From your desktop, right-click on the Brave shortcut and click Properties....

Today, users have a number of web browsers that they can use to access the Internet. The most used web browsers today are Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer and Apple’s Safari, and although each of them are pretty good, some users prefer to have more than one web browser, which gives rise to the question, how to change the default browser? We’ve been getting more and more emails for simple queries like this (simple for geeks or tech-savvy persons) and we hope this will help some of you non-geeks solve this tiny, but sometime annoying issue....

But like all good things, lithium-ion batteries have their downsides. Lithium-ion batteries lose their charge capacity when they are repeatedly recharged. Apart from losing their charge, a weakened battery will also lead to poor power output or dangerous situations such as bloated/swollen batteries, especially when used in a device such as your smartphone or laptop, both of which generate heat and lack proper battery cooling solutions normally found in EV battery packs....

More often than not, after windows start-up, my PC was getting too slow and unresponsive. When i saw the task manager, I noticed that there were quite a few instances of svchost.exe process and CPU usage was nearly 100% due to them. Svchost.exe is actually a system process belonging to the Microsoft Windows Operating System. It handles processes executed from DLLs. Off late, Microsoft started moving all of the functionality from internal Windows services into ....

Generating Google Maps Plus Codes The Plus Codes kind of work akin to the location sharing feature. Before this, the Google Maps allowed users to share locations by transmitting the GPS coordinates. In a bid to simplify and make this more efficient, Google now offers the Plus Codes. The feature is available for both Android and iOS. The best part of the Plus Codes is that you don’t need to remember the entire address or even the coordinates, instead, all one needs to do is jot down (or rather paste it on a notepad) the Plus Code....

Thankfully, there’s a method already available which lets you install and use Bixby’s homescreen feature on any Samsung phone running Android Nougat 7.0. If you do belong to that group, here’s how to get started. Disclaimer: This method is known to cause bootloops in some cases, hence proceed with caution as we’re not responsible for anything that happens with your phone. First off, head over to this link to download the S8 launcher app....

For adding a gesture-based navigation system on your Android phone, you’ll need to install an app called “Home Bar Gestures”. It’s mostly free of cost with in-app advertisements. But since you won’t be opening the application after the first boot, they won’t bother you. Get iPhone X and OnePlus 5T like Navigation Gestures on Any Android Phone Next, once the app is done installing, fire it up and grant the necessary accessibility permissions....

To give you some background, a package manager is essentially a utility that lets you automate the process of installing, updating, and removing softwares/packages on an operating system. The utility comprises of several softwares/packages and allows you to use the command-line utility (or terminal) to enter a bunch of commands that automatically pull up the package and download and install it on your system. While package manager is a common sight on Linux (and even macOS, for that matter), Windows users have been missing out on a native package manager all this time....

Computers have become the place where you hold pictures, documents, favorite music, and everything else in the same place. While storing may include regular data, random and even useless information, people may also keep important stuff, such as wedding photos, work documents, projects, and others. Have you ever thought about protecting critical data with a password? Taking into consideration that all information could be vulnerable to hackers or to unauthorized persons, this is a rather obvious procedure....

Since then, Web Clipper has proven to be a valuable addition to Notion and has managed to amass a large number of users who use it to capture web clippings into their workspace. In this guide, we will explain what Notion Web Clipper is and what you can do with it, along with the steps to use it effectively. What Is Notion Web Clipper? Notion Web Clipper is an extension to Notion that allows you to save any page on the web to your Notion workspace....

The HTC Desire 310 comes with a 4.5 inch display with a 480×854 resolution touchscreen, a quad-core 1.3GHz Mediatek processor and on the software side we find Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. This is not a clean, vanilla Android, but rather HTC’s own Sense skin which brings such features like the HTC Blinkfeed and Zoe. Inside the HTC Desire 310 we also find 1GB of RAM, only 4GB of internal storage, expandable up to 32GB via microSD card, a 5MP rear-facing camera, a VGA front-facing camera and a 2,000mAh battery....

That being said, Huawei is still dealing with strong competition in China and the decline in sales in the US. The US sales are expected to tank further once Washington’s plan for higher import tariffs on Chinese tech products in enforced. Speaking of numbers, Huawei’s net profit has grown to $7.3 Billion which is a remarkable comeback especially if one considers the 0.4 percent increase in net profit last year....

Fixed broadband, India: A need for speed The best way to measure fixed broadband penetration in India is to see the number of connection(s) present in India for every household. Every fixed broadband connection to a single household is usually shared among the family members of the household. Therefore ideally, in a fully penetrated market, there should be one fixed broadband connection for every household. As per the 2015 census data, there were 248....

The Instant Pot Duo 60 has a 3-ply bottom stainless steel design that makes the inner pot durable and has no health concerns with its non-stick coatings. To monitor the pressure and temperature of the cooker and keep the heating intensity and time under check, the cooker comes with an embedded microprocessor that does all the heavy lifting. As already mentioned, the Duo 60 us a 7-in-1 programmable cooker, which can perform multiple functions of a pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, steamer, sauté, yogurt maker and warmer....

Intel has been touting that the Skylake family of processors offers 10 percent better performance, 30 percent better graphics performance and also an extra hour of battery life while playing 1080p videos as opposed to the Broadwell chips, which was released last year. Core M family Intel has been striving to incorporate smaller and better performing chips to power up the ultrabooks and the Skylake seems to be the next piece in the puzzle....