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Two-factor authentication — or two-step verification in Google parlance — is a minimum requirement for staying safe online. Google today revealed that it plans to automatically enroll users with “appropriately configured” accounts into 2SV methods, like the Google…
Latest Galaxy Watch 4 leak points to a slightly larger body for the likely Wear OS-powered watch
May 6, 2021
The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 series is likely only a couple of months away at this point, and as the launch gets closer, we’re learning more little tidbits about the device. This week, the model numbers for the entire lineup were uncovered and, alongside that, the size of…
The MIUI 12.5 update is still being pushed to Xiaomi smartphones, but the company is already planning the launch of the next version – MIUI 13. According to sources from China, it could be launched in the second quarter, just like every version in the past few years. This time the date is apparently set for June 25.
Xiaomi was known for supporting models that were on the cheaper side of the…
Samsung is expected to launch the Galaxy Tab S7 Lite soon in three variants – Wi-Fi only (SM-T730), 4G (SM-T735), and 5G (SM-T736B/SM-T736N). Last month, leaked renders of the 5G model showed us the Tab S7 Lite in Black color. Now a few more images have surfaced, which…
Honor has scheduled an event for tomorrow, May 7. The brand is expected to introduce a new laptop lineup, called MagicBook X, and it seems the new devices will be thinner and more compact than ever. The venue is scheduled for 14:30 Beijing time or 6:30 GMT.
The new…
Android tablets still exist, somehow. And people may still be buying them, for some reason. All of this in spite of Google’s best efforts to simply ignore the form factor completely for the past few years, and we don’t mean just by not releasing any more of its own tablets, but also in not adapting Android to the bigger screen sizes at all.
Today the search giant has suddenly…
As often happens, the open-source nature of Android has just confirmed something about the next Pixel. Just like we exclusively reported last month, a Googler has strongly hinted that Pixel 6 will be using the custom Whitechapel chipset.
Comments to a code change on AOSP…
After one year of testing, Twitter is finally launching its offensive tweet warning feature for all users to encourage people to pause and reconsider a potentially harmful or offensive reply before they hit send.
This feature is enabled for all accounts that have English…
Apple banned Shadow app after Microsoft used it as an example to get xCloud for iOS approved
May 6, 2021
Microsoft tried to launch its xCloud game streaming service on the App Store for iPhone and iPad users, but Apple rejected the app due to its strict guidelines. Now emails revealed in the Epic vs. Apple trial on Wednesday show that Apple even removed a similar app from the App Store after its existence was mentioned by Microsoft.
Microsoft began testing xCloud for iOS in February of last year in…
