Oppo Reno 7 5G, Reno 7 Pro 5G Price in India Surfaces Ahead of February 4 Launch

February 02, 2022

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Oppo Reno 7 5G and Reno 7 Pro 5G price in India have surfaced online once again ahead of their official launch. The vanilla Oppo Reno 7 5G is tipped to be a completely different phone from the China version of the Reno 7 and Reno 7 SE. It is said to have an octa-core MediaTek Dimensity 900 SoC and a 64-megapixel primary camera. The Oppo Reno 7 5G and Reno 7 Pro 5G are launching in the Indian market on Friday, February 7.

Oppo Reno 7 5G, Reno 7 Pro 5G price in India (expected)

Tipster Sudhanshu Ambhore has suggested the India pricing details of the Oppo Reno 7 5G and Reno 7 pro 5G.

Oppo Reno 7 5G price in India will be set at Rs. 29,990 for the lone 8GB RAM + 256GB storage variant, while the Oppo Reno 7 Pro 5G will be priced at Rs. 39,990 for the single 12GB + 256GB model, according to the tipster. The suggested pricing is different when compared with what was reported from a retailer's listing earlier. The Reno 7 5G was then claimed to coat Rs. 31,490 for the 8GB + 128GB version.

Oppo Reno 7 5G India variant specifications (expected)

Ambhore has also tweeted the purported specifications of the Oppo Reno 7 5G India variant, alongside posting some renders to suggest the design of the upcoming phone. The said specifications include a Media tek Dimensity 900 SoC, along with 8GB RAM and 5GB virtual RAM expansion. The chipset is different from the Snapdragon 778G available on the Reno 7 5G in China. The Indian variant is also reported to have a triple rear camera setup with the 64-megapixel OmniVision OV64B primary sensor, along with an 8-megapixel ultra-wide shooter and a 2-megapixel macro shooter.

The Oppo Reno 7 5G is said to have a 32-megapixel Sony IMX615 selfie camera sensor at the front. The selfie camera is also different from the Sony IMX709 sensor available on the Chinese variant.

Oppo is said to provide a 4,500mAh battery on the Reno 7 5G in India, with 65W SuperVOOC fast charging. The phone is said to have a USB Type-C port and a 3.5mm headphone jack and include an in-display fingerprint sensor. Further, the Oppo Reno 7 5G in India is said to be 7.81mm thick and have 173 grams of weight. The Chinese counterpart had 7.59mm of thickness and weighed 185 grams.

Previously, the Reno 7 5G in India was speculated to be a rebranded version of the Reno 7 SE 5G that was launched in China alongside the Reno 7 and Reno 7 Pro. The fresh specifications reported by Ambhore, though, suggest differences — mainly on the part of optics.

The Reno 7 SE 5G came with a triple rear camera setup that included a 48-megapixel Sony IMX581 primary sensor, along with a 2-megapixel macro shooter and a 2-megapixel depth sensor. The phone also had a 16-megapixel Sony IMX471 selfie camera sensor.

Oppo Reno 7 5G

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Display6.43-inch

ProcessorMediaTek Dimensity 900

Front Camera32-megapixel

Rear Camera50-megapixel + 8-megapixel + 2-megapixel

RAM8GB

Storage128GB

Battery Capacity4500mAh

OSAndroid 11

Resolution1080x2400 pixels

Oppo Reno 7 Pro 5G

• KEY SPECS
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Display6.40-inch

ProcessorMediaTek Dimensity 1200

Front Camera32-megapixel

Rear Camera50-megapixel + 8-megapixel + 2-megapixel

RAM8GB

Storage256GB

Battery Capacity4500mAh

OSAndroid 11

Resolution1080x2400 pixels

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Poco m4 pro and X4 pro on the way

February 02, 2022

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Poco has annonced the launch of 2 fones.

M4 (from m series) pro and X4(from x series) pro

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MSI Gaming Laptops With Up to 12th Gen Intel Core H-Series Processors, GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Available in India

February 02, 2022

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 MSI's new range of gaming laptops are now available for purchase in India. These laptops come equipped with up to 12th Gen Intel H-series processors, and up to Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPUs. The laptops, some of which were launched last month at CES 2022, feature Meta-ready logos (referring to the metaverse). They come with fourth generation Max-Q design technology, CPU Optimizer, Rapid Core Scaling, and Battery Boost 2.0 features for an enhanced efficiency, performance, and battery life. As per MSI, the new gaming laptops offer up to 45 percent increase in CPU performance over previous models.

The new MSI laptops belong to the Stealth GS series (Stealth GS77 12UHS, Stealth GS77 12UGS, and Stealth GS66 12UGS), Raider GE series (Raider GE76 and Raider GE66 12UHS), Vector GP series (Vector GP76 and Vector GP66 12UGS), Pulse GL series (Pulse GL76 and Pulse GL66), Crosshair 15 (Crosshair 15 B12UEZ, Crosshair 15 Rainbow Six Extraction Edition B12UGZ), and Katana GF series (Katana GF76 and Katana GF66).

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Lamborghini is still figuring out its first EV

February 02, 2022

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 Lamborghini Chairman and CEO Stephan Winkelmann has no time for celebration, despite being at the helm of an automaker that posted an all-time sales record for 2021 — a milestone driven by demand for its ultra luxury Urus SUV.

The leader of the Italian supercar maker has more pressing matters than basking in the glory of sales that grew more than 13% from the previous year or nearly selling out its entire 2022 production before January had wrapped up.

Instead, Winkelmann is focused on navigating the brand into the world of electrification — a move that seems at odds with a company that’s known more for bombastic engines than efficiencies.

Lamborghini has established some targets, notably that it will launch a hybrid vehicle in 2023. From there, however, the EV plan gets murky.

Lamborghini is still determining how it will propel its vehicles with electrons instead of gasoline and what the overall experience will be for its customers.

“We are looking a lot into the battery technologies and what type of engines you need on board to make a car ready for Lamborghini, but also ready for the decade,” Winkelmann told TechCrunch.

“We have the benefit that we don’t have to be the first ones adopting EVs,” Winkelmann said. That means keeping an eye on what’s out there and trying to figure out the future. It’s a tricky landscape, EV technology continues to evolve rapidly. “Maybe we are talking about things which nobody cares about in five years’ time,” the CEO admitted.

In its goal to be ahead of the pack, the CEO said that as an automaker they have to admit that they may be wrong on some things. That means making the right decision at the right time and not too far in advance.

“We might have a good idea, which turns out not to be right five, six, seven or eight years down the road,” he added.

The automaker does have an overall design plan at least.

According to Winkelmann, Lamborghini’s first EV will be available in the second half of the decade and will not be a pure supercar like the Aventador and Huracan. Instead, it will likely be a versatile, 2+2, four-seater, two-door coupe with more ground clearance than you would expect from a Lamborghini, not counting the Urus.

And of course, it will have the look and feel of a Lamborghini. If a non-supercar Lamborghini seems like blasphemy, this is where we remind you that the automaker sold the Lamborghini Espada GT, a two-door coupe, from 1968 until 1978.

Expect the design of the vehicle will be futuristic because it’s an electric car, but also very aligned with the DNA of Lamborghini, according to Winkelmann. The powertrain will also likely bring the performance that Lamborghini owners have associated with the brand, thanks to the awesome power of EV torque. But there’s one crucial element that will be missing. The roar of the engine.

“We have to see how this can be exchanged into a new view of what a supercar is all about,” Winkelmann said. Part of the appeal of the Lamborghini is its exhaust note. It’s part of the “look at me” bravado that comes with owning one of the automaker’s vehicles. They do have time to come up with something that fits the brand. But whether it’s an in-car only noise or an exterior sound is unknown.

As for the upcoming hybrid vehicles, the first will be the Aventador V12 plug-in hybrid. The adoption of a PHEV powertrain helps the automaker comply with growing regulations that require vehicles to have the ability to drive under electric power in certain cities.

On the combustion-only engines front, 2022 will be the last year in which the automaker introduces a non-electrified vehicle. It’s sort of fitting that the beginning of the automaker’s powertrain evolution will coincide with its 60th anniversary in 2023.

The automaker is hoping to manufacture the upcoming plug-in hybrids for as long as possible as a way to appease both regulations and its die-hard fans. If the promise of lower emission synthetic fuels pans out, it would allow supercars to continue to be introduced and produced into the 30s.

Eventually, though, Lamborghini and its CEO will have to make a decision about its first and subsequent EVs. “I’m proud in that I am able and honored to be part of this change,” Winkelmann said.

“On the other hand, I have a higher responsibility not only for our people here with their families and their future but also to ferry the boat of the brand and the new products into a safe haven and into enthusiastic hands of our customers waiting for us on the other side of the shore.”

So while it might be a bit premature to discuss some of the battery and powertrain technologies that’ll be in the upcoming all-electric Lamborghini, with a bit of bravado, he told Techcrunch that we should expect it to be “really incredible and very powerful and very true to the spirit of Lamborghini and we have enough time to do it. I’m very confident this will be a real Lamborghini when it comes out.”

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Facebook isn’t growing anymore?

February 02, 2022

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 The biggest social network in the world isn’t getting any bigger.

Meta posted its fourth quarter earnings Wednesday, sharing financials that disappointed Wall Street enough to send its stock into a nose dive. Shares of the company, still trading under the ticker symbol FB for now, plunged 20% as the numbers hit.

While Meta’s last quarter saw some expected trends play out, including Apple’s iOS privacy changes dampening its ad business, it also surfaced the novel fact that Facebook, Meta’s core app, is no longer attracting new users.

Facebook’s monthly active users (MAUs) remained flat from the third quarter of 2021 to the fourth at 2.9 billion. Worse, its daily active users (DAUs) fell from 1.93 to 1.929 billion in the same period — a first for Facebook, which is known for a growth-at-all-costs approach.

Some of this is intuitive. Facebook is a mature product (to put it gently) and there are only so many humans in markets around the world left for the company to sign up. And the company is putting more emphasis than ever on its “family” of apps, including WhatsApp and Instagram, fresher products that likely still have a ways to go to reach that kind of saturation.

The user growth slowdown came in the same quarter that the company formerly known as Facebook announced that it would rebrand as a “metaverse” company, complete with plans to steer its resources toward building immersive virtual experiences.

The good news for Meta is that it still owns the world’s biggest social graph. The bad news? Even if a user slowdown was expected, it’s just one more thing making Facebook — and consequently Facebook’s “Family of Apps,” as Meta calls it — look more like a relic from the past rather than a shining vision of the future.

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Twitter might launch a long-form format so users can write articles

February 02, 2022

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 Twitter could be working on a new features called articles. The format could allow users to create articles and long-form posts within the app, unburdened by Twitter's current 280-character limit.

The capability was noted on Twitter by Jane Manchun Wong, tech writer and spotter of upcoming Twitter features, on Wednesday. 

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Apple’s Face ID with a Mask works so well, it might end password purgatory

February 02, 2022

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Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, Apple has made face id useful again in iOS 15.4 by finally adding the ability to use the face unlock feature while wearing a face mask.

Review by the user: 

I’ve been testing out the new ios 15.4 beta for a few days, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how well Face ID works with a mask — in addition to simply enjoying being able to use my iPhone the way it was originally intended to work, instead of mashing in a six-digit passcode a dozen times whenever I leave the house. 

Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, apple has made face id useful again in iOS 15.4 by finally adding the ability to use the face unlock feature while wearing a face mask.

I’ve been testing out the new ios 15.4 beta for a few days, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how well Face ID works with a mask — in addition to simply enjoying being able to use my iPhone the way it was originally intended to work, instead of mashing in a six-digit passcode a dozen times whenever I leave the house.

iOS 15.4, though, aims to fix that by simply making Face ID work when wearing a mask, zeroing in on details on the top portion of people’s faces to identify them correctly and unlock the phone. It’s not Apple’s first attempt at solving the Face ID / mask issue: iOS 13.5 would recognize when you were wearing a mask and show the password prompt more quickly, and the company added a feature for automatically unlocking your iPhone when wearing an Apple Watch in last year's 14.5 update. But the new Face ID mask support is a much more streamlined solution that has the benefit of not requiring the purchase of additional Apple hardware.

Apple really wants to make sure that customers know that it’s adding the new Face ID option. After installing iOS 15.4 (at least in its current beta form), the first thing you’ll see is a splash screen asking if you’d like to enable Face ID with a mask. Setting up the feature is relatively simple, although you’ll have to re-register your face (presumably so Apple can dial in even further on the details around your eyes).

Once you’ve done that, though, Face ID with a mask — for the most part — works really well, which is to say that it works at unlocking your iPhone when you look at it, even when wearing a cloth face mask or more substantial N95.

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WhatsApp Banned more than 2 Million Accounts in india on December 2021

February 02, 2022

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Over 2 million Indian accounts were banned by WhatsApp, while 528 grievance reports were received by the messaging platform in December 2021, according to its compliance report.

In its latest report, Whatsapp said 20,79,000 Indian accounts were banned on WhatsApp during the said period.

An Indian account is identified via a +91 phone number, it added.

Previously, the Meta-owned company had stated that more than 95 percent of bans are due to the unauthorised use of automated or bulk messaging (spam).

Over 1.75 million Indian accounts were banned by WhatsApp, while 602 grievance reports were received by the messaging platform in November.

WhatsApp, in its latest report, said it has received 528 user reports spanning across account support (149), ban appeal (303), other support (29), product support (34) and safety (13) during December 2021.

During this period, 24 accounts were cumulatively "actioned" under the ban appeal category (23) and other support (1) based on the reports received.

WhatsApp explained that "Accounts Actioned" denotes reports where it took remedial action based on the report.

Taking action denotes either banning an account or a previously banned account being restored as a result of the complaint.

Also, reports may have been reviewed but not included as 'Actioned' for many reasons, including the user needing assistance to access their account or to use some features, user-requested restoration of a banned account and the request is denied, or if the reported account does not violate the laws of India or WhatsApp's Terms of Service.

The new IT rules — which came into effect in May last year — require large digital platforms (with over 5 million users) to publish compliance reports every month, mentioning the details of complaints received and action taken.

Previously, WhatsApp had emphasised that being an end-to-end encrypted platform, it has no visibility into the content of any messages.

Besides the behavioural signals from accounts, it relies on available unencrypted information, including user reports, profile photos, group photos and descriptions as well as advanced AI tools and resources to detect and prevent abuse on its platform, it had said.

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Realme 9 pro plus launching soon

February 02, 2022

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Realme 9 pro plus is said to be launched very soon globally. The images and specifications have leaked.

Specifications:-

Accoding to google:-

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Supermarket cameras to guess age of alcohol buyers

February 02, 2022

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 Major supermarket chains have begun testing an automated age-verification system, to avoid the wait for staff at self-checkouts when buying alcohol.

The trial will use cameras that can estimate each customer's age.

It is part of a Home Office test of technologies to assist with the selling of alcohol.

Asda, Co-op and Morrisons are installing the system in some shops. The same technology is already used in Aldi's checkout-free shop in London.

If customers consent, the camera will guess their age, using algorithms trained on a database of anonymous faces.

If it decides they are under 25, they will need to show ID to a member of staff.

"Waiting for age approval at the self-checkout is sometimes frustrating for shoppers," Robin Tombs, chief executive of Yoti, the company providing the technology, said.

"Our age-verification solutions are helping retailers like Asda meet the requirements of regulators worldwide and keep pace with consumer demands for fast and convenient services, while preserving people's privacy."

This is not facial recognition, Yoti is keen to stress, which tries to match individual faces to those on a database.

And the system will not retain the images it takes.

Tested on more than 125,000 faces aged six-60, the algorithm, on average, guessed their age to within 2.2 years - 1.5 among 16-20-year-olds.

Asda's senior director of retail innovation Geri Hebberd said the supermarket was excited to test the technology and "looked forward to seeing what our customers think".

"We know how time pressed some of our customers are, so we always want to make things quicker and easier for them when they shop with us," she added.

Privacy concerns were raised, in 2020, when 18 Co-op shops tested a facial-recognition system, from start-up Facewatch, that alerted staff to customers with a record of "theft or anti-social behaviour".

And meanwhile, Sainsbury's tested a hidden artificial-intelligence-enabled detector that sent video footage to security staff if customers pocketed an item.

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