Huawei’s sub-brand Honor has released a new smartphone in its home market China with an inbuilt infrared temperature sensor. The phone can be able to read your body temperature by being held in front of your face or wrist in a snap – just like the normal body temperature sensors. Odd as it sounds, a temperature sensor is not a common smartphone feature. But, damn, we are in the middle of a pandemic, and this proves as a handy tool for the current situation. The phone, according to Honor, can read temperatures between -20 degrees Celsius and 100 degrees Celsius…
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Alvin Wanjala
Alvin Wanjala has been writing about technology for over 2 years(and counting). He writes about different topics in the consumer tech space. He loves streaming music, programming, and gaming during downtimes.
Microsoft has started rolling out the stable Chromium-based Edge to all Windows 10 users via Windows update. The company began rolling out Chromium-based Edge in January, but Windows 10 users had to manually download it by themselves. With the new changes, all of Windows 10 users can receive the new and improved Edge which is based on the Chromium code. This means greater compatibility with extensions and websites across the board – just like Google Chrome. “Additionally, this new version provides great support for the latest rendering capabilities, modern web applications, and powerful developer tools across all supported OS platforms,”…
Google accidentally shipped Android 11 Beta 1 to some Pixel owners tipping on a bunch of new features
Times change and people grow. The entire process is seamless but not in the current social media era. Whatever you posted online some time ago while in high school might still haunt you in the future. Facebook acknowledges this and they want to help you clear your history easily via their new Manage Activity tool. “Whether you’re entering the job market after college or moving on from an old relationship, we know things change in people’s lives, and we want to make it easy for you to curate your presence on Facebook to more accurately reflect who you are today,”…
Vivo has unveiled its X50 flagship series with 5G support. The X50 is Vivo’s frontier into the flagship smartphone segment after teasing the Vivo APEX 2020 Concept Phone a few months ago. The APEX 2020 concept phone builds on the company’s breakthrough technology in the camera department and that’s what the X50 flagship series family brings to the consumer market. The X50 series features the groundbreaking gimbal-based OIS system for better stability while shooting in motion plus a bunch of software tricks tucked inside the camera app. The Gimbal Camera System is also capable of X50’s major focus lies in…
Google has cancelled Android 11 beta launch event that was to be held on June 3rd
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Google’s video platform YouTube is finally availing Chapters a new feature aimed at easing navigation within videos. Announcing the availability of the feature, the platform took it on Twitter confirming that Video Chapters are here to stay starting May 28th. We first got wind of the trials in February, and YouTube has been testing the feature till yesterday. Now that its been rolled out, Chapters are available on YouTube across the web, Android and iOS. Chapters ease the YouTube navigation hassle by giving you an easy way to jump to the exact topic discussed in the video. Creators will be…
Twitter for web now lets you schedule tweets directly and even save drafts
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