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Google Chrome is often criticised as a RAM hog and the problem is about to worsen. In an effort to mitigate any future security threats posed by the Spectre vulnerability, Google is implementing a technology that will increase Chrome’s RAM usage by over 10%, a number that is significant for many low-end systems. In an official blog post, Google has announced that it has implemented a new security feature calledSite Isolationthat will attenuate the risks posed byspeculative execution side-channel attacksthat are facilitated by vulnerabilities such as Spectre....

As per Gartner’s report, the global PC shipments grew by 1.4% on a YoY basis, with 62.1 million units shipped in the second quarter, with all regions recording an increase in shipment figures. However, a Gartner analyst predicts that the rise in shipments is not an assurance that the global PC market is back on road to a sustained growth. “India, Indonesia, Thailand and other emerging markets in Asia showed improvement in the commercial segment due to demand for replacing aging PCs and upgrading to Windows 10,” the report stated....

Google has also created a game for Android, iOS and PC, which acts as a training program and is claimed to help users learn how to communicate via Morse code in just under an hour. “We created this trainer to make the process of learning Morse code more fun and to encourage people to keep at it. Give it a try if you’ve set up Morse code for Gboard and are ready to learn Morse”, Google said in a blog post....

Back in February, new commits on the Chromium Gerrit that showed thatGoogle was all setto bring ‘Material Design 2’ to its Chrome web-browser. The company thenstarted testingthe new design language in April amidst reports that the new design philosophy will go live on the stable channel on Google Chrome’s birthday, September 2nd. Latest developments now show that the company may be on course to meet that time-frame. According to open-source Chromium evangelist,François Beaufort, the new design language is now being rolled out to the latest builds of Chrome on the Canary channel for Windows, Linux and Chrome OS....

Huawei’s online brand, Honor, has announced some offers and discounts on three of its popular smartphones as part of Amazon’s upcoming Prime Day sale on July 16 and 17. As part of the deal, theHonor 7C,Honor 7Xand Honor View 10 smartphones are not only being offered with discounts, but also with No Cost EMI and accompanying special offers on HDFC Bank debit and Credit cards. During the Prime Day sale, the Honor 7C will be available for Rs....

Reliance Jio’s competitively priced 4G plans have definitely played a key role in the increased adoption of 4G in India, providing high-speed mobile data at highly affordable price points. But on the flip side, the rapid adoption of Jio’s 4G services has also had a negative impact on the growth of broadband services and WiFi adoption in India. According to a report from OpenSignal, WiFi doesn’t get the same amount of importance by service providers in India, where telecom operators have jumped the 4G bandwagon and are competing fiercely to lure customers, which is one of the reasons why WiFi proliferation in India is very limited....

Microsoft 365, the company’s bundled productivity solution which includes Windows 10, Office 365 and the official Enterprise Mobility + Security suite, is now one year old and to mark its first anniversary, Microsoft has made a host of major announcements. The Redmond-giant has announced a free version of Teams, introduced AI capabilities in a host of Office 365 functionalities, a new Workplace Analytics solution and lastly, a Microsoft Whiteboard app for Windows 10....

Microsoft debuted Whiteboard, a digital collaboration platform for sharing creative ideas in the form of drawings in May last year, and later released a Preview version in December. The Whiteboard app is now finally out of its preview phase and is nowwidely available to all Windows 10 users. In an official blog post, Microsoft has announced that an iOS version of Whiteboard, as well as a web client, will also be released soon as a preview app, however, a definite release timeline has not been revealed as of yet....

OnePlusupdatedthe Gallery app in March which introduced a new design and features such as a ‘Recently Deleted Collection’ tab and a new re-ordering functionality. OnePlus has now begun the rollout of a new Gallery update, which brings video editing tools such as clip trimming, background music addition and a lot more, aside from bug fixes and some experience improvements. Just as the name suggests, this feature allows you to trim videos frame-by-frame and only save segments of a long clip....

The smartphone that is currently being touted to be the pinnacle of innovation, a device with almost negligible bezels, no cutouts either on the front or the rear, and a slide-out camera mechanism has finally landed in India. Yes, I’m talking about the Oppo Find X (Rs 59,990), which we got a chance to use at the launch. It had been a while since Oppo had a headline-grabbing flagship smartphone in India....

PUBGCorp has now revealed the identity of the 20 participating teams, who come from all around the world, including Europe, the US, Japan, China, Korea, South America, Thailand and more. The tournament will be divided in two parts, including a third-person perspective (TPP) mode and a first-person perspective mode.“Each perspective mode’s tournament is allocated a $1 million USD total prize pool and two teams will be crowned as world champions at the end of the festivities: one for TPP and another for FPP”, says the company in its press release....

The data compiled by Blancco in its report reveals thatSamsung is at the top of the list of failures among Android makers, with a failure rate of a whopping 27.4 percent. It is followed by Chinese giant Xiaomi, which didn’t see such high rates but still clocked in a morbidly high 14.2 percent, followed by Motorola at 9.6 percent. Blancco’s report further reveals thatSamsung is a ‘known’ resident of the failure list....

TheVivo NEXis one of the most exciting phones of the year, and it’s about tohit the Indian market on July 19, when it will reportedly go up for pre-order exclusively on Amazon. MySmartPriceclaims to have unearthed evidence that suggests the device will be launched as an Amazon-exclusive in India. It will also apparently be marketed in the country as‘NEX’and not‘NEX S’. To recall, theNEX S is the top-end variantthat comes in two different storage options, but the Chinese market also gets a base model dubbed the ‘NEX A’ that features more modest hardware and comes with a more pocket-friendly price-tag....