Did you really bought Mark Zuckerberg’s claims that privacy is respected when you joined Facebook? When, then you will have a hard time. According to EFF Staff Attorney Jennifer Lynch, the majority of American inhabitants are already in a face recognition database, one that may extend to include every single person on this planet. Although the plan can be considered at least ambitious, it seems that its makers have various sources of obtaining data and in the process, they may violate our privacy....

Design By far, the RealMe 1’s biggest highlight is its shiny exterior which might seem like glass but is made out of plastic and a polymer composite material. The Redmi Note 5 Pro and the Zenfone Max Pro (M1), on the contrary, feature a rather traditional aluminum shell. Clearly, the RealMe 1 is the one which will stand out in a crowd especially if you opt for the Diamond Black variant....

Although not something entirely new, the electric (not ‘smart’) toothbrush is one such appliance that received mixed reactions worldwide in the initial days, but over time is slowly getting the attention of new consumers each passing day. For the uninitiated, an electric toothbrush is an appliance that simplifies your brushing process by offering a more convenient approach and also ensures better cleaning. The one we are looking at today is the Realme M1 Sonic electric toothbrush....

While there are a range of different options, under different price brackets, available, the one we are looking at today comes from the smartphone brand — Realme — which recently announced a bunch of IoT products. Generically named Realme Smart Plug, the maiden attempt from Realme aims to give users a better way to interact and control their home appliances. We have been testing the Realme Smart Plug for some time now, and here is our review of the same....

Rediff RealTime News is currently in beta and is in invite-only mode. I was given a special invite to preview the service and there are lot of good stuff to talk about it. And yeah, I have some invites to give away, more about it later. First, let us take a look at the RealTime news page. Instant News Search Rediff RealTime News is much like Google News when considering the concept, but provides a much better experience....

Well, that might be changing. Redmi recently released a new ad to promote its latest Note flagship, the Note 9 Pro Max, and honestly, there is nothing ‘Note’, nothing ‘Pro’, and nothing ‘Max’ about it. Unreal Pro to the power of Max The minute-long ad is staged in a moving metro train. The train stops suddenly, which makes the phone (obviously a Redmi Note 9 Po Max) slip out of the hands of our protagonist....

Standard design and hardware In terms of design and features, the Redmi Watch tends to tick most boxes. You can read our impressions in detail in our first cut, but for those who have missed that, well, the Redmi Watch is mainly made of plastic but is very smart looking. It has a square-ish 1.4 inch LCD display (with rather large bezels around it, but we do not really think that is too much of a factor in watches), with a single button on the side....

As the name suggests, Oppo R7 Plus is the bigger size variant of the R7. The 6-inch screen has a 1080p FHD AMOLED display. Although Oppo has done well to cut down the bezels on the sides, the phone is still pretty wide to hold in one hand. Being metal clad, the R7 Plus weighs around 193g (exactly same as iPhone 6s Plus), but Oppo has done well to keep the weight below 200g despite the huge screen....

While the RingID boasts of quite a lot of new features, the deal maker for me was the ability to place voice and video calls over a congested sluggish network and also low speed connectivity. The app comes with a menu head that would allow you to navigate between Home, dial pad, contacts, call history and messages. Cranking it up Getting on board is pretty easy with a OTP verification setup, however once the initial setup is done, things can get a bit crazy....

The Samsung Galaxy J3 comes equipped with a 5-inch HD display offering a pixel density of 294 PPI. The phone is powered by a quad core SoC clocked at 1.2GHz and paired with a 1.5GB of RAM. The storage options include 8GB/16GB variants alongside an expandable microSD card slot that can accommodate up to 128GB. On the imaging front, the Galaxy J3 heralds with 8-Megapixel primary sensor and a 5-Megapixel secondary sensor....

Tall, dark and plastic that looks fantastic There was a time when the design of the budget segment smartphone was predictable but thanks to the cut-throat competition in the market, phone design in general, across segments, is becoming very predictable. Shiny glossy, glass back, gradient finish, tall, edge to edge display are just some the design features most smartphones share these days and the Samsung Galaxy M30 has not strayed too far away from that template....

But then, as we all know, the S20 Pro did not quite live up to its potential, being bugged by focusing issues (oh, the irony) and a few other issues. Can the S21 Ultra do better? Dem cameras, dat zoom…much wow! Well, it does do better. And by a colossal distance. So much so that we can confidently call the Galaxy S21 Ultra the best camera phone in Android, and that is including the much-vaunted Pixel range....

While the Flip has generally been targeted at those who want a phone with flaunt value (and have fond memories of the flipp-y bird that the Moto RAZR was), the Fold has been seen as the more “serious” foldable of the two. It is more functional than flashy and has a very strong productive side, with its ability to morph from a phone to a tablet and vice versa. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 continues this tradition, following in the footsteps of the very acclaimed Galaxy Z Fold 3....

We really wanted to save this till the end, but figured why not break the good news at the start! The Gear Fit 2 is truly a good successor to the original Gear Fit and we have fallen in love with it. The first thing that strikes you is that gorgeous AMOLED display coming at 1.5 inches packing 432 x 216 pixels that is curved just about right for convenience....

Ouch! While Gadot herself is trying to wash her hands off the Mate 10 Pro’s blood, she might feel better knowing that she is not the first one to have been caught cheating on an endorsed device with an iPhone. Here are seven instances where celebrities were endorsing one device but were “actually” caught using an iPhone: Alicia Keys – Ditching them BlackBerry keys for touch! When it launched BlackBerry 10 in 2013, the company announced that pop icon Alicia Keys was its new Global Creative Director....

Skype has assured that the feature will be available in the “coming weeks” and users can also try it out early by registering on the company’s tenth anniversary website. Skype was introduced for the mobile devices almost 6 years ago and ever since 750 million people have downloaded Skype on their phones and it is one of the most popular apps across the App Stores. Mistake not, Skype is definitely not the first one to start the group video chatting services....

The first thing that’s gonna strike into your eyes when you see the phone is its vivid colors! Comes in punchy Orange, Silver, Blue and Violet and it screams for your attention, and this may not be liked by many but then when one is buying a phone at an excess of Rs 20k, one is likely to get a case or a cover and thankfully that subtles down that colors punching out....

Pebble announced their upgrade for the watches in October but the trouble started brewing last year when the company was finding it difficult to stay afloat with debt funding, loans, traditional investor cash and probably other liabilities. Consequently, Pebble had to let go of 25 percent staff in March despite raising $28 million earlier this year in the form of debt and venture funding. In 2015 Citizen had approached Pebble in order to buy the company for $740 million, this deal failed to materialize as CEO Eric Migicovsky refused....

While the Snapdragon 660 was once regarded to be one of the most powerful mid-range chipsets and one had to spend Rs. 15-17k for a phone touting that chip, the ever-so-competitive Indian smartphone market made way for much more powerful Snapdragon 675 and Snapdragon 710 chips for that price, which offered staggering value for money. Now that premium mid-range chips were offered on affordable mid-range smartphones, chips like the Snapdragon 665, which undoubtedly offers immense power has moved its way down to the ultra-affordable segment and is undoubtedly a huge win for the end-user....

In case you are really looking to browse anonymously, you need to hide your true IP and in order to do that, here is a small but cool tool – Free Hide IP According to the developer – “Free Hide IP is a lightweight and useful software designed to protect your privacy when surfing the Internet by changing your IP address. The software will protect your Identity and Prevent tracking of your online activities....