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Xiaomi SonicCharge 2.0 Cable was launched in India on Wednesday. The cable is not exactly new as it comes bundled with the Mi 33W SonicCharge 2.0 charger, but it is now being sold separately too. The 100cm (1 metre) long cable supports 33W fast charging and fast data transfer. The Xiaomi SonicCharge 2.0 Cable is said to have a tangle-free and durable design. Furthermore, it features multi-layer protection. Xiaomi launched the Mi 33W SonicCharge 2.0 charger in November 2020. Xiaomi SonicCharge 2.0 Cable price in India The Xiaomi SonicCharge 2.0 Cable is priced at Rs. 249. Xiaomi mentions in a tweet that the cable's first sale will happen soon and it will be available to purchase through Mi.com, Mi Home, Mi Store, Mi Studios, and other offline stores. The SonicCharge 2.0 cable is available in a single White colour option with Orange accents. Xiaomi is offering 6 months of limited warranty with the purchase. Xiaomi SonicCharge 2.0 Cable specifications Xiaomi SonicCharge 2.0 Cable supports 33W fast charging. The USB Type-C cable also supports fast data transfer speeds of up to 480Mbps. As mentioned, the cable is 100cm (1 metre) in length and has a tangle-free and durable design. The cable has a USB Type-A connector on one end and a USB Type-C connector on the other. Xiaomi says the SonicCharge 2.0 Cable has gone through multiple quality tests and has a multi-layer protection. In July, Xiaomi launched the Mi 67W SonicCharge 3.0 Charger Combo with Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 support. The 67W charger is priced at Rs. 1,999 and is offered in a sole White colour option. As the name suggests, it supports up to 67W fast charging. It comes with a USB Type-A port on one end and a USB Type-C port on the other.
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The Oculus Go felt like an experiment in standalone VR when it first launched in 2018, a tentative first step towards tether-free VR gaming. It succeeded in proving a point, though: that standalone headsets had potential. Nowadays, Oculus is primarily a standalone headset brand with the po[CENSORED]r Quest 2. It all happened rather quickly, too, and the Go swiftly became outgunned in just a couple of years. So what do you do with your ageing Oculus kit? In part thanks to Id Software founder John Carmack, who is currently consulting CTO of Oculus VR, you can now do whatever you want with it. This opens up the ability to repurpose the hardware for more things today, and means that a randomly discovered shrink wrapped headset twenty years from now will be able to update to the final software version, long after over-the-air update servers have been shut down.September 24, 2021 Oculus is now offering full root access to the Oculus Go system software. This new unlocked OS build allows any Go user to install whatever they want on their headset and ultimately repurpose it to their own needs. Once the unlocked OS is installed you will no longer be able to receive any official updates from Oculus. That means you'll not receive any security updates or bug fixes on the headset through 2022. That said, from 2023 onwards, Facebook will no longer support the Oculus or maintain the system software, which means from then on you're not missing out on much by keeping the locked OS installed. You're not missing out on much today, either. Facebook has already put an end to any new apps or features coming to the Oculus Go through official means, so this newly unlocked OS is your best bet for safely installing new stuff on your Go headset. If you want to install the new unlocked OS, just grab the build and follow the steps laid out on the official download page. Just bear in mind, if you b0rk your headset bootloading some dodgy app, that's on you. So be careful with your tinkering and installs if you want your Go to retire gracefully. Opening up the software side of the Oculus Go is a step in the right direction, that's for sure. This headset could quite as easily have been left to rot after its manufacturer set the expiry date, but instead, it could receive a second-wind from savvy developers and programmers—one less device sent to an early grave in the e-waste scrap heap.
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Noise Sense Bluetooth neckband-style earphones were launched in India on Friday. The in-ear Bluetooth earphones are offered in two different colour options and come with 10mm drivers. Noise Sense feature voice assistance control and provide a vibration alert when the user gets a call on the paired smartphone. The wireless earphones are IPX5-rated for water resistance. Noise Sense Bluetooth earphones feature the company's proprietary fast charging technology that is claimed to provide up to eight hours of battery life with just eight minutes of charging. Noise Sense price in India, availability Noise Sense earphones are priced at Rs. 1,099, which is a discounted price from its original cost of Rs. 2,499. The company didn't disclose how long the discounted price will be available for. The pair is offered in Black and Blue colours. The neckband-style earphones are available for purchase via Amazon and Noise website. Noise Sense specifications, features Noise Sense neckband-style earphones are powered by 10mm drivers and feature an inbuilt mic for calls. The earphones come with touch controls for answering or rejecting calls, adjusting the volume, controlling music tracks, and more. The New Noise audio device have magnetic earbuds with fin tips that stick together when hanging around the neck. The earphones have voice assistance control as well. As per the listing on Amazon, the Noise Sense earphones support dual pairing with two devices at the same time. The earphones feature Bluetooth v5 for connectivity. The neckband-style earphones are IPX5 rated for sweat- and water-resistance. The earphones come with a USB Type-C port for charging as well. In terms of battery life, Noise claims that an eight-minute charge can give the earphones up to eight hours of battery life, thanks to the proprietary Instacharge fast charging technology. The earphones can offer a total playtime of 25 hours on full charge. Noise Sense earphones weigh 30 grams.
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If a game has mapping tools, the wisdom goes, you can be sure someone, somewhere, has remade Counter-Strike's Dust2 using them. That's how, after 14 years as one of the most enduring console shooters ever made, Master Chief can finally hold Bombsite B against Covenant invaders. Last week, 343 released official modding tools for Halo 2 and 3, letting players completely rework maps, AI, gametypes and more using a suite of development tools. Given their similarity to existing tools for the original Halo, it wasn't long before folks figured out how to import custom map geometry, allowing for entirely new and original takes on Halo 3's arenas. Or, as Redditor peakforeverthing proved, they could bring one of the most famous PC FPS arenas of all time to the flagship console shooter. It's an early attempt, of course. But having spent much of the last week poking through the mod tools myself, I'm confident in saying the hard part (importing custom BSP) has been sorted, and I'm keen on seeing if peak will continue tweaking props, lights, skies and weapon placement to make Dust2 a fully playable Slayer map. While most custom maps so far are porting maps from other Halos into Halo 3 (or vice versa), a long history of Halo 1 modding has me excited for what's to come. Some of that game's best maps came from the moddable Custom Edition, including labyrinthine jeep rollercoaster Yoyorast Island—a map I maintain stands firmly among the best Halo arenas of all time. Elsewhere in Halo modding, developers are finding ways to take the venerable shooter in entirely new directions. One's even managed to create a VR-friendly version of the final escape run, a first-person road trip that looks as stunning as it does nauseating.
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The best website builder for portfolios will make it easy to publish and manage your photographs and other artwork online. Creating a new website is a lot easier than it used to be – rather than learning HTML and CSS, you can just click and drag with your mouse and have something very professional-looking on the internet in minutes, and portfolio website builders are no different. The increased use of this software online means you've got a selection of the website builders for portfolios to choose from. However, with so many great selection of tools to choose from, it can be difficult to pick out the best portfolio website builders from a crowd of so many. To help you narrow down your choice, we've picked five portfolio website builders that offer a good balance of price points and features. All of these website builders for portfolios offer simple ways of customizing your pages once they're online, so you can regularly change the look of your work, and make sure your talents are always being well promoted on the web. Top 3 website builder services overall Once you get a taste for building your own site you may decide you're looking for more of an all rounder website builder. We've reviewed all the best website builders and here's the best three overall. They all offer top-class easy to use website builder services that could transform your online presence, giving you the freedom to create any type of website you need.
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Intel hasn't unveiled the exact Intel Alder Lake release date, but it's probably November 4. It's soon enough that some PC builders have received their chips already. Whoops. What's more, a listing spotted today at Micro Center also gives us an idea on pricing for the top gaming chips. Let's start with the fancy 12th Gen package that lucky Reddit user Seby9123 received in the mail. Not only does it include an Intel Core i9 12900K, it's stored safely inside a fancy fake faux gold wafer case. Very neat. What's not so neat is the lack of compatible Z690 motherboards available to run it today. But not long to wait for those, it seems. Over to Microcenter, and while the listings are no longer live, leaker momomo_us managed to catch the Core i9 12900K and Core i7 12700K product pages before they disappeared. The Core i9 12900K is listed for $669.99, which is $120.99 or so more than the recommended customer price of the Core i9 11900K ($409). The Core i7 12700K is listed for $469.99, which is $60.99 more than the recommended customer price of the Core i7 11700K.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59008000 Lyft, the US taxi-hailing app, has said that 4,158 incidents of sexual assault were reported to the firm between 2017 and 2019. In its first-ever safety report, Lyft also detailed the number of motor vehicle deaths and fatal physical assaults during the period. Those instances were far outweighed by the volume of sexual attacks reported over the three years. Lyft said "over 99% of trips occurred without any reported safety incident". But it said: "Behind every number, there is a person who experienced that incident. Put simply, even one of these incidents is too many. "That is what drives our relentless work to continuously improve safety for riders and drivers." Legal action over Uber facial verification 'bias' Uber and Lyft to swap data on banned drivers Lyft, alongside its larger US rival Uber, had pledged in 2018 to release data on serious safety incidents and abuse. The following year, Uber disclosed 5,981 reports of sexual assault involving passengers and drivers between 2017 and 2018. Lyft has failed to publish figures until now. Looming lawsuits Of the 4,158 incidents of sexual assaults disclosed by Lyft, 360 were reports of rape. Between the beginning of 2017 and the end of 2019, Lyft said it had recorded 105 motor vehicle fatalities and 10 deaths involving physical assaults. Lyft is facing a number of US lawsuits from passengers over alleged sexual assault and the first trial is scheduled to take place in 2022. Uber is also being sued in the US over similar claims. In its safety report, Lyft said the data was based on when an incident was reported to the company and not necessarily when the incident occurred. It said: "We recognize that sexual assault is chronically underreported, and it can sometimes be months or years before a survivor is ready to come forward and report what happened - if they choose to do so at all. "Knowing this, Lyft included any incident reported in 2017, 2018 and 2019, regardless of when the incident was reported to have occurred." The company said that 52% of reports of sexual assault were made by passengers, 38% came from drivers and the remaining 10% were made through third parties such as law enforcement. Lyft said also said "individuals who are accused of committing the types of incidents detailed in this report will be permanently removed from the Lyft community, preventing them from riding or driving in the future".
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59004426 The Queen spent Wednesday night in hospital for preliminary medical checks and is now back at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace has said. The 95-year-old monarch returned from the private hospital in central London at lunchtime on Thursday and is "in good spirits", the palace added. The Queen had cancelled a visit to Northern Ireland on Wednesday. She was given medical advice to rest for a few days after a busy schedule of public engagements. In a statement on Thursday night, Buckingham Palace said: "Following medical advice to rest for a few days, the Queen attended hospital on Wednesday afternoon for some preliminary investigations, returning to Windsor Castle at lunchtime today, and remains in good spirits." In pictures: The Queen's busy October schedule Royal Family tree Queen cancels Northern Ireland trip on medical advice Queen declines Oldie of the Year award The Queen travelled by car to the King Edward VII's Hospital in Marylebone, about 19 miles (32km) from Windsor, where she was seen by specialists. Her admittance is understood not to be related to coronavirus. The overnight stay was said to be for practical reasons and the Queen was back at her desk undertaking light duties on Thursday afternoon. It is the first time the Queen has stayed in hospital since 2013, when she suffered symptoms of gastroenteritis. The King Edward VII's is a private hospital used by senior royals - including the Queen's husband, the late Duke of Edinburgh, who received treatment there earlier this year. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's official spokesman said: "The prime minister's best wishes have been passed on to Her Majesty." The news on Wednesday that the Queen would have to cancel a trip to Northern Ireland was always going to cause concern. Despite looking very well and happy at the numerous events she has attended over the past week, it cannot be forgotten that she is 95 years old. It is a tricky balance for the palace to release enough details about the Queen's health to keep the public informed while maintaining the privacy to which she is entitled. It was for this reason that the news that she had been taken to hospital for tests was not announced, until a report on the Sun newspaper's front page forced the palace's hand. People will be concerned, but the reassuring guidance remains that she is in "good spirits" on her return from hospital and is well enough to undertake some light duties. It has been a busy period of official engagements for the Queen. An official record of the Queen's diary showed at least 16 formal events during October, and there had been the plans for her to embark on the two-day trip to Northern Ireland this week. She was pictured hosting a Global Investment Summit at Windsor Castle on Tuesday evening alongside Mr Johnson. However, on Wednesday a Buckingham Palace spokesman said the monarch had "reluctantly accepted medical advice to rest for the next few days". He said the Queen was "disappointed that she will no longer be able to visit Northern Ireland" - which would have involved an overnight stay. The Queen's October engagements The Queen began the month in Scotland, planting a tree with the Prince of Wales at the Balmoral Estate on 1 October and attending the opening of the sixth session of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh the following day. The following week, she met members of the Canadian military at Windsor Castle on 6 October and attended the launch of the Commonwealth Games baton relay at Buckingham Palace on 7 October. Last week, on 12 October, she attended a church service to mark the centenary of The Royal British Legion at Westminster Abbey. She then travelled to Wales to open the sixth term of the Senedd on Thursday. By Saturday she was back in England - attending Champions Day at Ascot racecourse in Berkshire. And on Tuesday evening she was back at Windsor Castle hosting a Global Investment Summit. The Queen is expected to lead a royal delegation to the Glasgow COP26 climate change summit in two weeks' time. In reported remarks overheard at an event last week, she appeared to suggest she was irritated by people who "talk" but "don't do" when it came to protecting the environment. Earlier this week, the Queen declined a magazine's award of Oldie of the Year, saying "you are only as old as you feel". She "politely but firmly" turned down the award, but sent the Oldie magazine a message with her "warmest best wishes".
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Musician Name: Rohail Hyatt Birthday / Location: 4 December 1966 (age 54) Rawalpindi, Punjab Province, Pakistan Main instrument: Keyboard instrument | Electronic keyboard | Synthesizer Musician Picture: Musician Awards & Nominations: ---- Best Performance: -- Other Information: Rohail Hyatt (Urdu: رحیل حیات) is a Pakistani record producer, keyboardist, and composer.[1] As record producer Hyatt is largely credited with helping shape and pioneer Western-style rock and pop genres in Pakistan's music industry.[2] In 1987, Hyatt founded the Vital Signs and released its commercially hit and critically acclaimed album, Vital Signs 1. The first album included the international number-one single "Dil Dil Pakistan", and "Tum Mil Gaye", which was composed by Hyatt.[3] The big commercial success of Vital Signs' first album helped rise and shape the rock music industry of Pakistan.[3] In 1991, Hyatt produced and released the band's second album, Vital Signs 2, distributed by the EMI Studios Pakistan, though it had mixed reviews.[3] From the period, 1993–95, Hyatt gained public fame and critical acclaims for composing the two best-selling albums which improved the recognition of his work in the music industry.[3] In 1998, Hyatt discontinued the band after facing various issues, leaving Junaid Jamshed focused on his solo career. Hyatt later founded Pyramid Productions which subsequently emerged as one of the most prominent music producing companies of Pakistan, and produced the first Ghazal album, featuring Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.[2] In 2007, he composed the music of highly critical acclaimed and internationally successful film, Khuda Kay Liye which helped in shaping his image and work in the international community.[2] In 2008, he founded the international music outlet, Coke Studio and is credited with featuring Pakistan's notable and new artists, whom are broadcast each season.[2]
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Artist: Sahir Ali Bagga Real Name: Sahir Ali Bagga Birth Date /Place: 10 April 1980 Lahore, Pakistan Age: 41 Social status (Single / Married): Married Artist Picture: Musical Genres: Rock, sufi, pop, R&B and Pakistani film music, Pakistan Television music Awards: 10 Top 3 Songs (Names): bharosa pyar tera , mumkin to nahi , aye dil tu bata Other Information: Sahir Ali Bagga (born 10 April 1980) is a Pakistani singer, music director and composer from Lahore, who composes music for Lollywood and other independent singers. Recently he has composed music for the Pakistani movie, Zinda Bhaag (2013). He also worked on the soundtrack of Pakistani movies, Hijrat (2016) and Tamanna (2014), contributing two songs to the latter; Koi Dil Mein and Chell Oi.[3] He has also composed music of Hum TV's Ishq-e-Benaam. He gained some added recognition by appearing on Coke Studio (Pakistan). "Yeh mumkin tou nahi", "Malang", "Baazi","Rab Waaris", "Roye Roye " ,"Dhola" and "Badnamiyan" are his famous sound tracks.
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Nvidia has announced a premium third tier of membership for its cloud streaming service, GeForce Now. With the RTX 3080 membership, for $99 every six months, subscribers will have effective access to their own virtual GeForce RTX 3080 gaming PC. This means you can take a low-spec desktop or work laptop and turn it into a high-end gaming PC via the cloud. Powering these virtual machines are Nvidia's new supercomputers called the GeForce Now Superpod. They match AMD Threadripper CPUs with Nvidia Ampere GPUs and these technical beasts can deliver 39,200 Teraflops, 11,477,760 CUDA Cores, and 8,960 CPU Cores each. Your membership reserves a chunk of those cores for your virtual PC, which will then stream your games directly to practically any one of your existing devices. According to Nvidia, this service can deliver up to 120 fps (so long as your display supports at least 120Hz), and the super low latency of 56ms. If it rings true in the final live analysis, that makes GeForce Now nearly four times as fast as xCloud and, even more suprising, about two-thirds the latency of gaming on an Xbox Series X at 60 fps. That's a game-streaming service promising to deliver lower latency, over an internet connection, than playing on a physically connected console. Of course, your mileage will vary depending on your internet connection and geographically how far you are from one of its new Superpod servers. Nvidia is using Adaptive Sync to ensure these lower latency streams, and it's almost directly analogous to the feature used on PCs to ensure the GPU and monitor synchronize to ensure a smooth delivery of images. Here Adaptive Sync synchronizes the frame output of the server to the frame delivery of the screen connected to the end client. The result is low latency, and reduced stutter, because it's eliminating dropped and repeated frames. The RTX 3080 membership will cost $99.99 (£89.99) every six months, and will give you exclusive access to the RTX 3080 servers, ray-tracing, and supports up to 1440p resolutions at 120 fps. Shield TV users will also get a boost in performance with 4K HDR support (at 60 fps) finally making its way to the streaming device. If you only access GeForce Now on a browser, this membership supports Chome, Safari, and Edge. Most Macbook users will be able to stream at 1600p and the new Macbook Pros powered by that fancy M1 chip will be able to stream natively at 120 fps. Android gamers can also enjoy 120 fps gaming so long as their device has a 120Hz display. Existing Founders and Priority members will get the first crack at Early Access preordering for the new RTX 3080 memberships, starting today, with availability for everyone else starting on November 21st. In a time where trying to find a physical RTX 3080 GPU is near impossible, a virtual one might be the next best thing. Assuming it all works as advertised, anyway. At just $200 to upgrade practically any device to an RTX 3080 powered PC, that's got to be pretty tempting for anyone who was looking to upgrade their current rig. Though there are obvious caveats. As we've already stated it's totally reliant on both how reliable your current internet service is, and how close you are to one of the new Superpods. That said, Nvidia maintains that you only need a 35 Mbps connection to achieve 1440p gaming at 120Hz, and 40 Mbps for 4K HDR at 60Hz. While GeForce Now does plug into your existing Steam and Epic accounts, there is still the issue that not all the games in your various libraries will be accessible via Nvidia's streaming service. Though you may own the games themselves, a bunch of publishers and devs are still trying to figure out a way to get their hands on a slice of the streaming monies, and so some aren't available. But games are getting added all the time, especially the latest titles, so there is still plenty of fun to be had now and in the future. Potentially as evidenced by the GeForce Now prospective games leak from a while back; from that we now know God of War is coming to PC and that Valve is getting Half-Life 2 updated, potentially for a Steam Deck launch. We'll be getting our hands on the new RTX 3080 streaming service soon to give it a good going over ourselves.
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Seeing your calendar swamped by meetings should soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new Google Workspace update. The productivity tool suite is introducing a new "Focus time" feature in Google Calendar that will allow users to block out periods of time where they can avoid meetings and get their heads down for actual work. Most importantly, setting such a marker in your Google Calendar will also allow you to automatically decline meetings, meaning no last-minute rush to finish off work. Focus time Focus time will be included as a new entry type for Google Calendar, similar to when setting an event or Out of Office marker, giving your co-workers a clear indication that you need some time to concentrate and get some work done. The ability to automatically decline meetings is unticked as a default, so you'll need to make sure it's selected if you truly want some peace. When finalized, the blocked-out time will appear in your Google Calendar with a headphones icon included, showing your contacts exactly how long you need to focus for. Users can alos set a new color for Focus time blocks in order to have a different visibility from your events and other meetings, and any scheduled focus time will also be tracked in your Time Insights. "With the changes to our working environments in the past year, having more chats and meetings make it more difficult for people to carve out time for their core individual work," Google noted in a blog post announcing the update. "With the new focus time feature, we hope to make it easier to create dedicated time for thinking and core work." The feature is rolling out to most Google Workspace users now, and should be arriving to Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Teaching & Learning Upgrade, Education Standard, Education Plus, and Nonprofits customers by the end of October 2021. However it won't be available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Enterprise Essentials, and Frontline and as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers. The launch is the latest in a list of Google Calendar features as the company looks to help workers re-adjust to office life. It recently announced an integration with Google Chat that will mean calendar markers now give users the option to quickly message other attendees in the run-up to a meeting, provided they work for the same organization.
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Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 4 Classic are getting a new software update that brings many new features to the smartwatches including a Fall Detection feature. The update brings with four new watch faces alongside support for GIFs on My Photo+ watch face. New animations are also added to expand Samsung's watch face collection. The latest update also brings gesture controls that enable users to do more with the wearables using simple hand movements. The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 4 Classic were unveiled at the Galaxy Unpacked event in August this year, and both devices are now receiving their first major update. Samsung announced the release of its first update for the Galaxy Watch 4 and the Galaxy Watch 4 Classic smartwatches on Wednesday. The update will be available through the Galaxy Wearable app. Samsung Galaxy Watch 4, Galaxy Watch 4 Classic update changelog With the new update, Samsung has added an ‘Info Brick' watch face that displays heart rate, stress, and daily activity status, along with a watch face that shows an in-depth weather forecast. Users can also choose from a basic dashboard or live wallpapers inspired by Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3. All these come with an option for customisation. Users can mix and match up to four complications like battery life, reminder, messages, and step count to display on the Animals watch face. The latest update also brings support for displaying moving GIFs on My Photo+ watch face. The changelog for Galaxy Watch 4 series features interesting animations on the Steps Challenge watch face. With this, an animated bear will follow the Galaxy Watch 4 user for every step of the competition. Samsung has bundled the latest Galaxy Watch 4 update with a gesture control feature. With this, a 'knock, knock' motion with the wrist can let users to do a number of things, such as open a pre-selected app, open the list of workouts, create a reminder, or turn on the light. Additionally, calls can be received by just moving the forearm up and down twice. Lastly, the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and the Galaxy Watch 4 Classic get a Fall Detection feature with the new update. The wearables can detect hard falls and activate an alert as well as send out an SOS notification to up to four pre-selected contacts. Galaxy Watch users who install the new update can also avail of a 60-day free Strava subscription with the Strava app. The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 4 Classic update has started rolling out from Wednesday, October 20. Samsung says the availability is likely to vary by market and operator. The update will come to Bluetooth versions of the Galaxy Watch 4 series first, with the LTE versions scheduled to get it soon after. Is OnePlus 9R old wine in a new bottle — or something more? We discussed this on Orbital, the Gadgets 360 podcast. Later (starting at 23:00), we talk about the new OnePlus Watch. Orbital is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts.
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PlayStation 3 emulation has come a long way since the developers of emulator RPCS3 began their journey in 2011. Now, a decade later, the team has announced that every game ever released for the Sony console will now boot on PC. Spotted by Kotaku, the PRCS3 team announced yesterday that there are now zero games that straight-up won't boot in the emulator. That's a major milestone cleared, though it doesn't mean your favourite PS3 classics are all completely playable quite yet. As per RPCS3's tweet, the emulator rates games based on how far it's able to run them. What today's announcement means is that there are zero games that flat-out won't initialise at all, though there are still around 6 games that only display a black screen. On the upside, just over 2,000 games (around 63.5%) are marked as "playable", which means they should be working as intended. Sony has been historically very reluctant to bring its catalogue to PC, and huge swathes of the PS3's catalogue never made it over to desktop. But that's an approach Sony has slowly been turning around, with prestige PlayStation titles like Horizon: Zero Dawn and Death Stranding making their way to PC in recent years. This week, Sony that even announced that God of War will be making its way over next January. That said, with the exception of maybe Uncharted, it's hard to imagine Sony reaching as far back as the PS3 for PC ports. Whether you're looking to revisit the original Demon's Souls or simply have an unexplainable need to see PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale running on your desktop, emulation's probably your best bet.
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Blizzard is renaming another World of Warcraft character, following the re-emergence of homophobic comments made by its real-life inspiration. Gorge the Corpsegrinder was added back in 2008 as a nod to Cannibal Corpse vocalist George 'Corpsegrinder' Fisher (thanks, Metal Hammer). The artist was a self-proclaimed "pathetic nerd" for WoW, talking in length about his passion for the game and his Horde characters in a 2007 interview. But things took a turn when Fisher began ranting about his hatred for the Alliance, using homophobic slurs and telling those who play the faction to kill themselves. "I don't play no homo-Alliance either, I don't play no [CENSORED] night elves or gnomes," Fisher said. "It's [CENSORED] orcs and undead. [CENSORED] the Alliance, [CENSORED] die you [CENSORED] emo cocksuckers." His Alliance rant persists for a few more minutes, before saying "you ever see in World of Warcraft, the undead have a dance and they do the metal sign and bang their head, playing guitar. Yeah, go [CENSORED] cry in a river and tell me how you're gonna slit your wrists you night elf The interview clip above was shown at BlizzCon in 2011, albeit in a heavily censored format, as part of a musical performance at the event. Blizzard senior art director Sam Didier introduced Fisher to the audience as "the unofficial ambassador to the mighty Horde." The appearance of the video prompted an apology from former Blizzard president Mike Morhaime at the time, calling the decision to show it "shortsighted and insensitive." The character remained in the game though, until now. A tweet from Wowhead shows that recent changes to patch 9.1.5 on the PTR has changed the NPC's name to Annihilator Grek'lor. Blizzard has been gradually pruning the game's character names and quest dialogue, having already removed references to Blizzard employees accused of sexual harassment earlier this year. The company has also said it'll no longer be naming future characters after employees or prominent figures across all its games. Aside from WoW, Overwatch hero McCree is also facing a name change sometime in the future.
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Xiaomi Mi Smart Camera 2 PTZ was launched in China on Wednesday. The smart home product features a 4-megapixel sensor with a 2,560x1,440 pixels resolution, an f/1.4 aperture lens, and 3.6mm of focal length. Xiaomi Mi Smart Camera 2 PTZ also has dual-band Wi-Fi support for 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. Furthermore, the smart camera has a 360-degrees panoramic view and can be accessed remotely via a smartphone. It also supports two-way real-time voice calls with a pick up distance of up to 5 metres. Xiaomi Mi Smart Camera 2 PTZ price The Xiaomi Mi Smart Camera 2 PTZ is priced at CNY 249 (roughly Rs. 2,900). The smart camera from Xiaomi is currently available for pre-order for CNY 229 (roughly Rs. 2,700) on JD.com and deliveries will begin from November 3. It will be offered in a sole White colour option. Xiaomi Mi Smart Camera 2 PTZ specifications Xiaomi Mi Smart Camera 2 PTZ features a 4-megapixel sensor with a 2.5k (2,5660x1,440 pixels) resolution. Furthermore, it has an f/1.4 aperture lens with 3.6mm of focal length. The smart camera from Xiaomi also comes with a 6p lens that reduces the rate of light loss. It also gets super low light sensors and 940nm of built-in infrared fill light that is said to not disturb the user's sleep. The smart camera from Xiaomi adopts a Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) design that lets the Mi Smart Camera 2 PTZ to rotate 360-degrees horizontally and 108 degrees vertically. This will help the users get a panoramic view of the room the camera is kept in. It supports real-time voice calls where users — connected through a smartphone via the Mijia app — can talk to people in front of the camera and vice versa. The in-built microphones support intelligent noise reduction to deliver a clear voice output. Other features on the Xiaomi Mi Smart Camera 2 PTZ include an AI-humanoid detection feature that can recognise human silhouettes quicker. It can also automatically detect and lock-on to the human shape, reducing the chances of false alarms. Connectivity options include dual-band Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. For security it gets a Mijia MJA1 security chip that is said to have a financial level of data protection. Each chip holder has a unique private key and certificate that enables the data communication and storage to be secured properly. The Xiaomi Mi Smart Camera 2 PTZ can store data using a microSD card (up to 256GB). Furthermore, users will get free, unlimited cloud storage.
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It's not a laptop, nor is it your usual desktop. It's Project Cielo from Aorus, and it really does look a lot like a high-end Roomba with all the bells and whistles. Sans vacuum, of course, and any powers of self-determination. Instead, this stacked gaming PC is modular, mobile, and totally wireless. You're probably wondering why this thing comes in three parts, but Aorus says there's a good reason for it. Each section serves a specific purpose: there's the gaming PC module, the battery pack module, and the speaker module. You can combine these in various ways depending on your needs at the time. With mains power, you can plug just the gaming PC into the speaker module. Or add in the battery pack if, for some reason, you prefer this to a gaming laptop and want to head out on the move. You can also plug the battery pack right into the speaker and leave the gaming PC at home, turning this instead into a sizeable speaker for your other devices. On top of that modularity, Project Cielo comes with a built-in 5G antenna, which the Aorus team says is key to the PC's portability and flexibility. Again, it feels like a gaming laptop kind of delivers all you could want in portability—for one there's no built-in screen on Project Cielo—but this is only a fun concept, so I won't sweat the small stuff right this second. Though all it would need is a projector module as a fourth option and that would take care of the imaging. Something like those portable AndroidTV-powered projectors, such as the XGIMI Halo, would add either full mobile gaming PC or mobile cinema functionality. You can have that one for free, Gigabyte. TIPS AND ADVICE The Nvidia RTX 3070 and AMD RX 6700 XT side by side on a colourful background Still, it's great to see someone roll the dice on a new design, and to see where one major PC manufacturer envisages PC gaming going next.
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Microsoft is working on a couple of updates for its productivity suite that will help businesses keep closer tabs on the ways their employees are using the web. As per a new entry in the company’s product roadmap, the Microsoft 365 compliance center (a service for IT administrators) will soon provide “increased visibility of risky activity using browsers and associated insider risk policy templates”. A second entry, meanwhile, suggests Microsoft will deploy new machine learning (ML) techniques to more accurately detect potential threats and “uncover hidden insider risks”. In a break from the norm, Microsoft has simply marked these roadmap items as “in development”, without providing more specific timelines. Microsoft 365 tackles insider threat Although businesses face a wide range of threats from external actors, the security risk created by employees (either intentionally or otherwise) is also significant. According to projections from security firm Mandiant, for example, insider threat will account for a third of all incidents this year. To help businesses combat this challenge, Microsoft 365 compliance center has long provided administrators with ways to configure alerts that trigger when employees perform certain actions online. “Web browsers are often used to access both sensitive and non-sensitive files within an organization. Insider risk management allows your organization to detect and act on browser exfiltration signals for all non-executable files viewed in Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome,” a Microsoft guide explains. Under this system, administrators can choose to be alerted when a member of staff copies files to personal cloud storage or a USB flash drive, for example, or when files are transferred to an insecure network share. Although the new roadmap entries are rather vague, the suggestion is that the upgrades will provide admins with an increased level of visibility over employee behavior online (perhaps at an interface level), as well improving the likelihood that these kinds of risky activities are detected.