Google announced that Public data explorer tool will help people find reliable data and statistics on a variety of subjects. Yet again, Google has analyzed anonymous search logs to find patterns in the kinds of searches people are doing in order to prioritize which data sets to include in their public data search feature. There are more than 80 most popular data and statistics search topics like School comparisons, unemployment, population, salaries etc....

At the ongoing Recode conference in San Francisco, Sergey Brin, the Google co-founder who heads the Google X group announced this new version of their driverless cars. He says that the program is currently in a prototype phase, but that it plans to build around 100 early versions of the vehicles for testing this summer. The car looks like a modified version of Tata Nano, and will initially include manual controls in case something goes wrong....

All the Nokia phones will be offered with a dual SIM feature in India and on the connectivity front will also offer 4G VoLTE across all the relevant bands. The Nokia 5 and the Nokia 3 fall in the budget segment category. Among the two, the Nokia 5 is primarily a compact version of the original Nokia 6. It comes with a 5.2-inch HD (1,280 x 720) Laminated IPS LCD display....

Honor MagicBook 15: Design and Display The Honor MagicBook 15 features an aluminum body with Chamfer beveled edge design and weighs in at 1.53Kg. On the front, it features a 15.6-inch FullView display that offers a 1920 x 1080 pixels screen resolution and comes with TÜV Rheinland certification. The laptop comes in two color options: pace Gray and Mystic Silver. Honor MagicBook 15: Hardware Talking about performance, the MagicBook 15 runs on the AMD Ryzen 5 3500U processor with Radeon Vega 8 graphics....

Apple is currently facing flak from different corners for shipping their half-baked Maps with iOS 6. The major issue here is that the Apple Maps are absolutely unusable in most places, specially outside US. Many people believe that Apple has let down its customers by forcing upon a crappy app in order to satiate their ego. Why did Apple get into Maps? No, it’s not just to beat Google in their own game....

Shabaam is a free Android app that essentially allows you add a custom voice recording to just about any favorite GIF file. The app’s home screen holds an endless grid of trending GIFs from the internet. You can choose any one of these for your project or head over to the tab on the right for browsing particular categories such as animals, art, anime, food, gaming and a whole lot more....

You see, depending on what system you use, the screen capture method is different across the board. However, what remains the same is the file format in which it is saved. By default, a screenshot is captured in the PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format, primarily because it is a lossless format, which does not affect the image quality of the captured image, unlike the standard image format JPEG / JPG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)....

Since much of the fitness and health information you track using your Fitbit wearable is sensitive, you don’t want it to be compromised and disclosed to unauthorized people. Thankfully, Fitbit now lets you enable 2FA on your Fitbit account to add an extra layer of security to it and prevent its unauthorized access. Follow along as we list down the steps to enable two-factor authentication on your Fitbit account....

In the current situation across the world, where a large number of people are working from home, PDFs are the obvious choice to share documents conveniently across the internet. However, since these PDFs go through the internet, there are some risks and concerns attached to their security. Mostly because when you share an unencrypted, open PDF, anyone can access it freely. Not just that, if permissions aren’t restricted, anyone can make changes to the PDF and take prints....

While the Shazam Control Center control works without a hitch, it has one major flaw: the songs you identify from the Control Center aren’t saved to the Shazam app. Hence, you can’t find them under the Shazams tab on the app, as you usually do when you identify a song from the Shazam app. Fortunately, there’s a way around this that lets you access your Shazam history. Follow along as demonstrate the steps to this on your iPhone and iPad....

For instance, you can use the split-screen setup to have a browser window on one half of the screen and your note-taking app on the other to take notes more efficiently. Or you can open documentation and text editor side-by-side while writing code to save yourself from the multitasking hassle. Most operating systems, including the popular ones, such as Linux, macOS, and Windows, include split-screen as part of their screen management functionality....

As a result, if you’ve recently switched phones, you might be wondering how to capture screenshots on it. If it’s a OnePlus smartphone, there are multiple ways to do this. Follow along as we list down all the different methods to take a screenshot on a OnePlus smartphone. Method 1: Take a Screenshot on a OnePlus Phone Using Hardware Keys One of the most common methods of capturing a screenshot on Android devices is to use the hardware keys....

Fortunately, Microsoft has a built-in tool on the Windows operating system (Windows 7, 8, and 10) called System Restore that provides restore points to help you revert your PC to the previous functional system state and fix most of its problems that may arise due to various system issues. The following is a guide detailing what System Restore is, how it functions, and how to use it to fix your computer problems....

Recently the web has been abuzz with rumors and leaks related to an upcoming smartphone, which is currently known as HTC Aero. And what makes this current leak significant is that it shows a clear look at how the device is going to look like. So, as we can see, this is yet another smartphone maker that has decided to adopt the design language of the iPhone 6. In my humble opinion, this is a desperate measure and could help HTC only with momentary increases in sales, but on the long run, it won’t help the company differentiate itself from the rest....

In terms of design, the Huawei Nova 4e comes with a 6.15-inch Full HD+ curved glass display, with a water-drop notch on the top, and a glass back on the rear, with a gradient finish available on the Blue color version. Talking about specifications, the device sports an Octa-Core 12nm Kirin 710 chipset with Mali-G51 MP4 GPU, along with 4GB or 6GB of RAM, and 128GB of internal storage, expandable up to 512GB using a microSD card....

Huawei P40 Pro Expected Specifications The Huawei P40 Pro is the higher-end variant of the two, which is, of course, evident with the Pro moniker. However, there’s even a Huawei P40 Pro+ that’s expected to come out but there’s not much about that phone yet, so let’s take a look at the P40 Pro for now. The Huawei P40 Pro will be powered by the Kirin 990 5G chip and will sport a 6....

So without further ado, here are the main takeaways of IDC’s report on the Indian smartphone market in Q3 2020: A record quarter it is Like Canalys and Counterpoint, IDC also reported a record quarter for the Indian smartphone market, with a massive 54.3 million units being shipped in this period. This represents a massive 17 percent year on year growth. The report attributed this growth to pent-up demand formed over the previous quarter, which had witnessed a lockdown....

Earlier today, Economic Times reported that the Indian government has penned-down a list of 275 Chinese apps that it will put close tabs on to determine any violation of national security and user privacy — indirectly hinting at the possibility of these apps being banned in the country. As per the report, the list includes popular apps like PUBG, AliExpress, Resso, and many more — all of which are allegedly suspected for “violation of data sharing and privacy concerns“....

The result: the Indian smartphone market dipped by 48 percent in the second quarter of this year. There were some interesting developments even in this slowdown, though. Here are some of the highlights of the report (as the shipment numbers were very low as compared to Q2 2019, with the markets having being closed, we have focused more on change in market shares than on actual volumes sold): A big dip With the economy largely shut down from the beginning of the quarter till mid-May, smartphone brands in India had a really rough time....

That fine equation, however, has got a little unbalanced of late, with MacBook Air prices rising steeply. So much so that even a reasonably older variant will set you back by close to Rs 80,000. Fortunately, there is an alternative around. Several weeks of using the iPad Air (5th generation, and hereafter referred to simply as ‘iPad Air’) have given us ample reason to believe that unless you are looking to really throw yourself at heavy-duty desktop apps (which most of us would not anyway even on a MacBook Air – that’s why the Pros exist!...