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The study, which was commissioned by BetVictor, was conducted on 32 good and expert players of four different FPS titles. The FPS titles included popular battle royale games like Apex Legends, Call of Duty Warzone, PUBG, and Valve’s tactical FPS title Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO). The researchers measured the heart rate and blood pressure of the players before and after playing the game of their choice. With the acquired data, they created a graphical representation of how the games affected the stress levels of the players....

If you’re someone who likes to jazz up your Android homescreen, then you would love to give it a Galaxy S21 feel with these pastel-colored wallpapers. The leak comes from a Twitter user, named Rydah, who shared the wallpapers on his personal website. While it is not a reputable or known leakster, these wallpapers are unmistakably from Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21+, and Galaxy S21 Ultra. We have already seen a couple of these in leaked renders....

The new service will enable gamers to access the entire EA Play library of more than 60 games, including some of its biggest and most popular titles, such as FIFA 20, Need for Speed Heat, Battlefield V, Titanfall 2, Mass Effect, The Sims and more. It will also include Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, which was released Windows, PS4 and Xbox One last year. On Android, gamers will only have access to seven titles, via Xbox Game Pass Ultimate....

Meta is the Worst Company of 2021: Survey According to a report by Yahoo Finance, out of the 1,541 respondents, most of the participants voted Meta as the “worst company of the year.“ The social media giant received 50 percent more votes than the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba, the first runner-up. It even received 8% of the write-in vote. Now, the reason for people’s hatred towards the social media giant isn’t hidden....

Solana Mobile’s Saga Introduced Solana Mobile has introduced the Saga smartphone, which is the first Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 phone. It has been developed in partnership with OSOM. It is also revealed that the OSOM’s OV1 smartphone (introduced last year) is now Solana’s Saga phone. Besides the latest Snapdragon chipset, the Saga phone comes with a 6.67-inch OLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate. It comes equipped with 512GB of storage and 12GB of RAM....

Blood Pressure Monitoring on Apple Watch The patent, dubbed as Stretchable Blood Pressure Cuff, was spotted in the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) database. It was filed on March 23 of this year and suggests that Apple is developing a stretchable watchband that will be able to measure the blood pressure of users. “A user may monitor one or more of their physiological parameters by attaching a monitoring device such as a blood pressure monitor to one of their limbs....

Called ‘The Next-gen Mobile Consumer’, the report also suggests that Fortnite (36%) and Battlelands Royale (34%) are the two other games that PUBG Mobile players in the country seem to prefer. Overall, mobile gaming in India is on the upswing, driven by people staying at home during the pandemic-induced lockdown. Interestingly, 15% of the gamers switched to paid mobile gaming apps during lockdown, with three out of every five gamers claiming that mobile gaming enabled them to overcome social isolation during the period....

Gboard to Soon Convert Text into Stickers According to a report by Android Police, Google is testing a new feature for Gboard that allows users to create customized stickers using simple phrases and emojis. The feature currently exists in the latest Gboard beta and might soon come to the stable version. The ability to create a sticker based on texts or phrases is similar to how one can choose the right emoji by typing in the description....

That doesn’t mean that the existing trash items will get deleted on October 13, though. The 30-day count starts on October 13 and files will remain until they hit this timeframe. “This change matches the policies of other G Suite products and services, such as Gmail. This will help ensure behavior is consistent and predictable for users across G Suite products, and will help make sure that items users trash are actually deleted as expected,” says Google....

Google Pixel 5a 5G vs Pixel 4a 5G vs Pixel 4a: How Do the Budget Pixels Compare? (2021) Google Pixel 5a’s launch comes at a time when the Pixel 6 flagship series with the in-house Google Tensor chip is right around the corner. Since these are in different price categories, Pixel 5a’s launch shouldn’t significantly affect the sales of the Pixel 6 series. If you are planning to purchase a budget Google phone, here are your options in 2021....

Google App’s Darker Dark Mode in Testing It is revealed that the Google app on Android has a new dark theme, which is darker than the current gray background but not similar to the pitch-black theme being tested on the web version. It is more like a switch to the dark gray color from a light gray hue. A report by 9To5Google suggests that the new Dark mode appears on Google Discover and the main Seach results page....

Google Search Dark Theme Test Confirmed Google has confirmed to The Verge that it is currently testing the feature with select users. There is no word on the official rollout just yet. The dark theme looks pretty similar to the one spotted last year. The Google logo is painted white while the page background is dark gray. It will look odd at first and take some getting used to, but it certainly looks good....

Android App Archiving Coming to Phones This Year In an official blog post, Google reveals that app archiving will help free up 60% of the space on a smartphone that apps can occupy. It will be done by temporarily removing parts of the apps from the phone instead of fully removing those apps. With this, Google will introduce a new Android package called archived APKs to save user data as long as an app is archived....

Apple Fitness+: Everything You Should Know We will be taking a deep look into Apple Fitness+ and discussing every aspect of the service. That means we will look at things like device compatibility, pricing, the types of workouts it offers, and a lot more. Since there will be a lot of stuff to talk about, I’m dividing this article into sections. You can use the table of contents below to skip ahead to any section that you need....

Enable COVID-19 Contact Tracing on iPhone in iOS 13.7 or Later How Does COVID-19 Contact Tracing Work on iPhone? Does Exposure Notifications Offer Essential Privacy? Is Exposure Notifications Available Everywhere? Turn On/Off Exposure Notifications on iPhone How Does COVID-19 Contact Tracing Work on iPhone? iPhone uses Bluetooth to store a log throughout the day. Once the Exposure Notifications is enabled, the device looks for other iOS and Android smartphones that have Exposure Notifications turned on....

Add Music to Instagram Feed Posts (2021) Add Music to Instagram Post Officially [Easiest Method] Instagram is currently testing music on feed posts in India, Brazil, and Turkey. Even if you are in one of these regions, you may not immediately see the change as it is a limited rollout, as also mentioned above. You can follow the steps below to check if you have the feature. Moreover, you can learn how to use it to add music to your Instagram posts....

Check Laptop Battery Health in Windows 11 (2021) Apart from the official method to check laptop battery health in Windows 11, we have included a ton more resources in this article. You will find a third-party battery health checker app, steps to monitor usage, and some handy tips to improve battery life on your Windows 11 laptop here. So without wasting any time, let’s jump right in. What is Battery Health in Windows 11?...

How to Reduce File Size of Photos on iPhone and iPad Having tried out a number of photo compression apps, I have found three apps up to the mark – both in terms of reducing the file size of images faster and getting the work done with the needed efficiency. Best Photo Compression Apps for iOS Photo Compress: Very few apps are able to compress images as proficiently as Photo Compress....

Turn on/off Autoplay iMessage Auto Effects on Apple Watch Ideally, it would have been better had the toggle to turn on/ off iMessage auto-effects on watchOS been located inside Messages app setting. Instead, it has gone inside the Accessibility setting (both on iOS and watchOS), which is why not many of us know how to stop them from playing automatically in the chat threads on Apple Watch. Not to mention, some of us keep wondering if there is an option to take control of these effects....

Turn Off Personalized Recommendations on Google TV (2021) To disable personalized recommendations on Google TV, move to the profile menu and open “Settings“. After that, open “Accounts and Sign-in” and then move to your account on the right side. You can press the right navigation key on the remote to jump to the right panel. Here, scroll down and enable the toggle for “Apps-only mode“. As the name suggests, Apps-only mode only displays apps and not personalized recommendations from Google....