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Fitbit Sense The all-new Fitbit Sense is claimed to be the company’s most advanced health monitoring smartwatch. In addition, the company also suggests that it is the world’s first smartwatch to come with an electrodermal activity (EDA) sensor, which helps in measuring the electrical changes on the skin to determine various aspects of a user’s health. The smartwatch, combined with the in-app utility, can help users get an idea about their physical and mental stress, which can, in turn, help them in better managing the stress....

1. New Phone Every Month Well, to be frank, I was skeptical of the monthly update and it seemed so much similar to what Nexus and the Cyanogen OS already get. But the thing is that updates for Fuel OS are much more than just security updates or bug fixes. They try to involve the users and use the interaction for the updates. Believe me, every time my Nexus 5X gets updated I rarely succeed in figuring out the changelog....

Here is a quick heads up on a way to get Half-Life 2 games for free! For a limited time (it’s been going on for more than an year now!), all ATI customers may receive a free copy of Half-Life 2 Lost Coast and Half-Life 2 Deathmatch by creating a Steam account! Very easy, as all you need to do is go to this URL and click the button to get the games....

The A1 Plus is all about being muscular and doesn’t even remotely make an attempt to be skinny or slim. Weighing a good 226 grams and 9.1 mm thick, the phone has a very premium look and feel to it, thanks to its metal unibody design. The big fella is hefty, but the rounded edges and frame plus the slightly curved back is an attempt to help one handle the phone better – the back of the phone is a tad slippery, and the heftiness would want to shake hands with gravity all the time....

According to a post by Google, their newest flagship, the Pixel 3 will soon expand eSIM support for more carriers across different countries. A December update, that rolled-out yesterday, will extend eSIM support for Sprint in the US, EE in the UK, Airtel and Reliance Jio in India, and Truphone and Gigsky in various countries. In addition to that, users in Germany will soon be able to get a Pixel 3 running eSIM from Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone, which are expected to tie-up with Google-Fi on this soon....

The new Home Mini also features four LEDs on the top for notifying you about stuff. In addition to that, it recognizes taps for playing/pausing music, snoozing reminders and a lot more. With the Home Mini, Google also debuts Voice Models. They are essentially representations of your voice’s characteristics that help the smart speaker to differentiate between various people. Voice calling is present as well, and you can use your phone number once verified....

The essence of the application lies in a machine learning algorithm which recognizes various paragraphs and images and lets users drag and down those sections to a document editor. Once the scanned article has been set up in the editor, one can just press the publish button and have it go online in a matter of seconds. In addition, Google says Navlekha can function offline and users can upload the content whenever they have a connection....

Here, we try to answer all these questions, by pointing to different resources around the web. What is Google Instant? Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type. It uses Google’s autocomplete technology to show predicted search terms in a drop-down box, and begins to display search results below the drop-down. They say it’s going to transform search forever—making it faster, better, stronger. As Gizmodo says, Google Instant is nothing but predictive search which will show a range of possible queries in grey to refine your options, all before you ever hit the “Search” button....

For a handful of people who are unaware of Project Fi, here’s a small description of the service from Google- Project Fi is an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) by Google, which essentially provides phone and data services using Wi-Fi and cellular network. These networks usually belong to either Sprint, T Mobile, Three and some other US network providers. The most distinctive features of Fi service include – its ability to switch networks automatically depending on the signal and strength, and the ability to switch different Wi-Fi hotspots while providing data encryption using VPNs....

While the new version of Android brings with it a handful of new features, the update is largely aimed at ironing out the bugs and provide other improvements. With Android M, Google is “going back to the basics,” focusing on polish and quality, the company said. Among the new features, the new version of Android will give users better control over app permissions, “you don’t have to agree to permissions that don’t make sense to you....

To jog your memory, a couple of months back, Google teased an image of the alleged Pixel 4 on Twitter, which gleamed light on the possibility of the presence of a Soli Chip on the device. For the uninitiated, Soli Chip is a part of Project Soli and comes from Google’s ATAP group. It uses radar to enable various types of touchless interactions and allow users to perform actions like change tracks, navigate screens, snooze alarms etc....

Fast forward to today, and things have changed radically, Forget downloading songs, people stream entire cricket matches on their smartphones without a hiccup. Buying online has become a habit for many of us – from not trusting online shopping experiences, people have gone to buying gold online. So much has changed and yet the companies that actually spurred many of these changes are slowly but surely becoming marginalized every passing day....

1. Quad Play/Triple Play Quad Play is something that has swept the whole of Europe in a big way. Quad Play is when a single company provides you cellular connectivity, TV, landline and fixed broadband. A lot of companies in Europe are adopting Quad Play or Triple Play strategies. The trend is dominant to such an extent, that stand alone mobile operators are having a tough time in Europe. Broadband and cellular companies in Europe are increasingly cross-selling each other’s offerings so as to provide a complete package....

“No matter where we work in the future, Microsoft will have a place in it.”, Satya Nadella mentioned in an interview with The Verge. And if you ponder upon that statement, you’ll realize how relevant that has become over the past year. Microsoft has made a place for their products and services everywhere, all the time. In a nutshell, that’s fundamentally what Nadella and his fellow comrades envision as the future of Microsoft and to be honest, their roadmap has been progressing astonishingly well, at least for now....

To help you with the same, here’s a guide with instructions to collaborate on Apple Pages, Numbers, and Keynotes on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad. Prerequisites All iWork office suite apps, including Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, come pre-installed on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. To be able to collaborate on any of these apps, be sure your iPhone and iPad are running at least iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, respectively, and your Mac is on macOS Big Sur or later....

Thankfully, on Android, you can opt out of personalized ads on applications. And no, you don’t need a rooted phone or command line knowledge. Google itself offers an option in settings for disabling this. For accessing it, head over to Settings, then Google, and tap “Ads” from the list. Here, enable the “Out out of Ads Personalisation” toggle and you’re all set. Furthermore, you can even reset your advertising ID in case you’d like to start from scratch....

Update: Reliance Jio Tariff Plans Announced; Free Jio SIM for Everyone; No Code Needed Yesterday, TelecomTalk had published a story mentioning that some Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 users are seeing “Get Jio Sim” screen on their smartphones. But then, when we tried, we didn’t see the same. Wondering why that’s the case, we tried around various methods and finally figured out that there’s an apparent bug on the MyJio app which lets you generate the coupon code required before going to a Reliance Digital store....

With both of them, you essential get a GUI-based app that you need to launch every time you wish to download a file online. Plus, they generally require good download speeds to work well. But what if your connection is slow, or you want to download files quickly and unattended? Wget is the answer to these (and several other) questions. It’s basically a computer program with the ability to retrieve files from web servers over HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, all while being quick and easy to use....

One of these features is the ability to silently leave WhatsApp groups without being noticed by other group members. WhatsApp has started rolling out this new feature on its beta channel. Here you can learn how to leave WhatsApp groups unnoticed. Leave WhatsApp Groups Silently: What does that mean? When you leave a WhatsApp group, WhatsApp creates a small pop-up in the chat that says “XYZ Left”, where XYZ is the name of the contact who left the group....

However, alongside that convenience, PDFs also accompany a few concerns. These concerns primarily revolve around who can access your PDF file and whether or not they can alter its content or take prints. Fortunately, there is a way to secure a PDF and prevent it from unauthorized access and modification. And that is to password-protect (encrypt) your PDF before you send it across to someone. That way, only the people who have the password to your PDF can access it and edit its content or take a printout of it....