Thanks to Twitter user, Hikari Calyx, who published the images of running unit of Microsoft’s Xbox-branded smartwatch (spotted by Windows Central) show that the device supported four basic apps at that point in time: ‘Workout,’ ‘GPS,’ ‘Settings’ and a USB debugger meant for developers. Designed by part of the Xbox hardware team, the cancelled Xbox Watch had a square 1.5-inch color display and was set to feature a heart rate monitor and a battery life of two days....

Only, last week Marc Rogers, a Lenovo user and security researcher updated his blog with the detailed analysis of the Superfish MiTm adware on Lenovo’s models such as G Series, U Series, Y Series, Z Series, S Series, Flex, Miix, Yoga and E Series. This stirred up a strong reaction from the customers who were using the Lenovo models for most of their business purposes. Later in the day, Lenovo admitted to having pre installed the Superfish adware, but only to help their customers find similar products at a lower price....

LG has announced the Puricare Wearable Air Purifier their battery-powered air-purifying mask that aims to filter the inlet flow of air. The Tech Behind The Mask The homemade mask often has issues of inconsistency and quality. LG has put in two HEPA 13 filters, the same ones which are used in LG’s line of air purifiers. Furthermore, the mask is equipped with UV-LED lights to kills the inflowing germs in the air....

Some are moving for indoor TV antennas while others are opting for modernized outdoor TV antennas to watch movies, free news, free local channels and a long list of HD channels. Indoor TV antennas are amongst the latest buzz in the technology advancement in the antennas segment. To supersede the phenomenon of indoor antennas, hybrid antennas by the name of LiveWave has flooded the market. The biggest USP offered by LiveWave is that the customers do not require a massive antenna to be hooked on the attic or inside the room....

OnePlus Founder Carl Pei confirmed replying to a Twitter query that OnePlus One has already been accepted by the Google on Friday and this why the device is just days away to get the update. OnePlus has Recently developed its own forked version of Android called the Oxygen OS. “By creating our own operating system, we can quickly respond to user feedback and make it easier for you to continue playing a fundamental role in the future of OnePlus,” said OnePlus....

The Micromax Unite 3 is powered by a 1.3GHz MediaTek MT6582M quad-core processor for experiencing the thrill of a powerful performance and comes with 1 GB RAM. It features a 4.7-inch WVGA display IPS display with 480X800 screen resolution and 16.7M Colour Depth. It also comes with a Dual-SIM and runs Android 5.0 Lollipop. It has a 8GB in-built storage that can be expanded up to 32GB via microSD card....

Most of the devices will be able to get the upgrade facility depending upon the hardware and software requirements, he said. Since now, Microsoft has been charging for every OS, this will be the first time when a present Windows 7,8/8.1 user will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 for a year for free. Though not the latest but Windows 7 is currently the most popular operating system leaving behind the current Microsoft’s Windows 8 which many users find a bit radical in approach and are still hesitating to upgrade too....

While Microsoft Teams web app had dropped support for IE 11 on November 30, 2020, the rest of the Microsoft 365 apps and services have also dropped for support IE 11 effective August 17, 2021. “Users may have a degraded experience, or be unable to connect to, those apps and services. These apps and services will phase out over weeks and months to ensure a smooth end of support, with each app and service phasing out on independent schedules,” Microsoft says in one of its blog posts....

In April this year, Microsoft Edge surpassed Mozilla’s Firefox to become the second most used desktop browser with a 7.59% market share. The Redmond giant has now retained this spot but with even more market share. According to the latest statistics from the market analysis firm, Netmarketshare, Google Chrome continues to dominate the list with 71% of the market share. Microsoft’s Edge takes the second spot with its share in the browser market increasing from 8....

According to Mark Marron, Microsoft’s computer scientist and chief developer of the language, the key design features of the language provide ways to eliminate “accidental complexity” in the development and coding process. It does so by embracing algebraic operations and by breaking nearly 50 years of existing programming models. The company says that the language “derives from a combination of TypeScript inspired syntax and types plus ML and Node/JavaScript inspired semantics”....

The latest Windows 10 build includes a preview version of the new browser. This means that the browser will be a stripped down version. Microsoft said that the browser was an internal testing version and it may contain bugs and issues. The all new Spartan browser will give users the following features : Cortana is built-in and ready to assist: Cortana in Project Spartan is a personal assistant that helps make Web browsing easier for you, with whatever you’re trying to get done....

One of the spokesperson of Microsoft on has confirmed to The Verge that “the company is no longer manufacturing Nokia Lumia 2520; however, those who still want to buy Nokia Lumia 2520 can visit Microsoft Retail Stores,MicrosoftStore.com, third-party retailers and resellers for the latest availability.” This confirmation came just after a week of Microsoft stopping production of Surface 2, another Windows RT powered tablet. Slowing tablet sales have affected all the major manufacturers like Lenovo, Asus, Samsung, and Dell after some boom in 2014....

These days, social networking platforms have become the ideal places to vent out some of your steam, and this is exactly what Muhammad Zakir Khan did. On Twitter, as you can in the images below, along with the image showing that he was blocked from a video game, Khan composed several tweets, detailing the discriminatory behavior of the developing studio. It could very well be a protocol that the programmer had not changed prior to releasing the beta, but it will definitely result in a severe outcry....

You receive an email; Your phone number has been changed, then another one your password has been changed and then final last one reading your email address has been changed — all 3 in less than a minute. Now what? Acceptance! Your account has been compromised, and you obviously can’t log in into it since the email address and password used for the logging in purpose has already been changed....

The Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) contract will design propulsion systems for the robotic portion of NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) as well as missions to Mars. AEPS contract is a 36-month cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with a performance incentive and total value of $67 million. Work performed under the contract could potentially increase spaceflight transportation fuel efficiency by 10 times over current chemical propulsion technology, and more than double thrust capability compared to current electric propulsion systems....

OTP’s VPN exploit team assigned its members to branches to specifically focus on regional teams, including a “Cross-Target Support Branch” and a custom development team for building targeted VPN exploits. At the regional level, the VPN team acted as liaisons to analysts, providing information on new VPN attacks while also gathering requirements for specific targets to be used in developing new ones. Some VPN mechanisms —specifically, the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPTP)—have previously been isolated and identified as being vulnerable to attack because of the key exchange at the beginning of a VPN session, while others have generally been assumed to be safer from scrutiny....

According to the company, TITAN RTX is “the world’s most powerful desktop GPU” that offers massive performance for AI research, data science, and creative applications. The TITAN RTX, which NVIDIA has dubbed T-Rex, is driven by the new NVIDIA Turing architecture. It can deliver 130 Teraflops of deep learning performance and 11 GigaRays of ray-tracing performance to world’s most demanding users. “Turing is NVIDIA’s biggest advance in a decade – fusing shaders, ray tracing, and deep learning to reinvent the GPU....

It is not known how the account was hacked, but a rogue app or phishing website could be the reason behind the hack.