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New WhatsApp Hacking Scam Discovered by writer and speaker Alexis Conran (tweet), a new WhatsApp scam is currently spreading on the platform, and it hacks user accounts using their contacts. Confused? Well, let me clear it out for you. How Does It Work? Here is how the new WhatsApp scam works. First, you will receive an SMS stating a random log-in OTP from WhatsApp. Now, if you did not know, WhatsApp does not use passwords or PINs for user logins....

BGMI Issues After July Update So, after BGMI players updated their game to the latest version (v1.5.0), they started facing in-game issues. Not long after, Krafton acknowledged the issues and said that it is working to fix them as soon as possible. Amongst others, one of the issues resulted in players being stuck on the loading screen when they equipped the Unicorn set outfit in the game. Krafton has already addressed the issue but has not been able to fix it yet....

India’s own Digital Currency Introduced The Digital Rupee or the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is another step in the Digital India initiative and is aimed to make the currency management system more streamlined and inexpensive. During the Union Budget 2022 session, Sitharaman said, “Digital currency will also lead to a more efficient and cheaper currency management system. It is therefore proposed to introduce digital rupee using blockchain and other technology to be issued by the Reserve Bank of India starting, 2022 and 2023....

The images of the Intel Arc GPUs were recently shared by the YouTube channel Moore’s Law is Dead (MLID). The YouTuber also revealed some key details about both the high-end Intel Arc Alchemist GPU, which is the 512 EU (Execution Units) model, as well as the entry-level 128 EU model. You can check out the images of the front and back of the high-end model attached below. The above images reportedly showcase the final shroud design of the Intel Arc Alchemist GPU....

Before taking a look at the list of last year’s most-shipped smartphones, it is worth mentioning the winner of 2019. Apple’s iPhone XR was crowned as the most-shipped smartphone of 2019. The company sold over 46.3 million units globally. The runner-up was another Apple device – the iPhone 11, with over 37.3 million units shipped in 2019. Apple’s Flagships Dominated the Market Last year, it was the runner-up of 2019 who took home the title for the most-shipped smartphone of 2020....

iOS 15 Supported iPhones (Confirmed) Mostly, Apple offers software updates to old iPhones for up to 5 to 6 years. This year is no different. Apple is supporting some pretty old iPhones for iOS 15. Read on to find out the complete list of iOS 15 supported iPhones. This year, Apple is supporting iOS 15 on a whole slew of iPhones. Basically if your iPhone can run iOS 14, it will get iOS 15 as well....

So, in this story, we are going to provide the wallpapers for you to download and rock them on your device. There are four new wallpapers for the iPhone 13 Pro models and five new ones for the standard iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini. Taking a look at the iPhone 13 wallpapers, they are pretty punchy and unique. There are two kinds of designs for these wallpapers. You can check out the preview right below: Turning to the standard iPhone 13 Pro wallpapers, they look similar to one of the designs of the standard wallpapers....

The company has been working on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) technologies for quite some time now. Facebook even recently shared its 10-year vision of a contextually-aware, AI-powered interface for its upcoming AR glasses. However, to make such a technology standard in the market, Facebook says that it needs a lot of development. As a result, the company recently announced a toned-down version of the technology that uses a wrist-based device to interact with AR interfaces in the real world....

Chip Shortage to Last Until 2023: Intel CEO During a recent interview with CNBC, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger discussed the repercussions that the company faced due to the ongoing chip shortage. Gelsinger revealed that the global shortage has affected its PC chip business in the third quarter of 2021. He also revealed that the company saw an 8% decrease in its stock value during the said quarter. “We’re in the worst of it now, every quarter next year we’ll get incrementally better, but they’re not going to have supply-demand balance until 2023,” said Gelsinger during the interview....

Entertainment Space on Android Tablets As the name tells, Entertainment Space is essentially a one-stop solution for all your favorite movies, TV shows, games, and books. Google aims to remove the friction of switching between apps to watch the next episode of Office to jumping into a Call of Duty Mobile match with your friends. “Once you sign in to your subscription apps, Entertainment Space will show you your content in one place and tailored for you,” says James Bender, Product Manager, Google Play in the official blog post....

For the uninitiated, personal playlists refer to the playlists that users create as per their music preference. While it is a basic feature that you would assume to work by default on any music streaming service, YouTube Music didn’t support it through Assistant so far. Although delayed, it is good to see the feature making its way to YouTube Music now. To test if this feature is available for you, you can try saying “Hey Google, play playlist”....

WearOS 3.0 First Look Revealed Google recently shared a new Wear OS 3.0 emulator image for developers and Reddit user u/amoledwatchfaces has shared screenshots to show off what the new UI will look like. While the screenshots don’t hint at a major design change (it looks similar to the current Wear OS version), there are a few changes that feel refreshing. It is shown that the Settings menu now has more toggles next to the various options with a gradient design....

Google Hangouts Is Dying! Google has revealed that Hangouts users will now start seeing an in-app notification asking them to move to Google Chat either in Gmail or the standalone Chat app. Those using Hangouts’ Chrome extension will also get a notification to switch to the Chat web app or Chat on the web. In July, people using Hangouts in Gmail will automatically be updated to Chat. Hangouts on the web will continue to work until this fall....

As you can see in the image below, Google Maps is indeed rolling out the dark theme along with support for the map interface. The UI elements have gained a mix of different shades of gray. From the image, it is evident that the implementation is quite neat and pleasing to the eyes while preserving much-needed details. Image: u/BrokenFuckenArm / Reddit According to user reports on Reddit, Google Maps is gaining dark mode along with a dedicated option to change the UI to light, dark, or respect Android’s system-wide theme....

As spotted by XDA’s Mishaal Rahman, Android 11’s source code released on AOSP hints at a new audio stream for virtual assistants such as Google Assistant and Bixby. Once enabled, you will be able to tweak the volume level of the virtual assistant of your choice. This happens irrespective of other media volume settings. — Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) September 8, 2020 “New stream type: AUDIO_STREAM_ASSISTANT. This is intended to be used by a virtual assistant like Google Assistant, Bixby, etc....

You Can Now Use Google Pay in Hinglish Hinglish on Google Pay comes in addition to the existing Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Hinglish, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu languages. With the option enabled, some options on the app will be shown in Hinglish. So, “New Payment” will become “Naya Payment,” “Show transaction history” will become “Transaction History Dekhein,” and so on. This language option can easily be opted for and doesn’t require a lot of steps....

Google Pixel Foldable Release Timeline Last night, WinFuture’s Roland Quandt tweeted about the Pixel foldable missing in action during the Pixel 7 series launch. To this, DSCC (Display Supply Chain Consultants) analyst Ross Young responded with a Pixel foldable release timeline. Young said that foldable panel shipments to Google will start in January 2023, and the foldable should arrive sometime in Q1 2023. Q1— Ross Young (@DSCCRoss) October 6, 2022...

According to Android Police, the change is live in Hangouts version 36.0.340725045. Once you update to this version, you will find a banner at the top that reads, “Video calls in Hangouts now use Google Meet. This gives you live captions, screen sharing, and more.” While the update completely removes the old video calling experience for groups, it still works on personal one-on-one chats. If you open the calling interface on personal chats, you will see three options – Share a Meet video call link [New], Call [person] with video, and Call [person] with audio-only....

If you’re using a Chromebook as your main computer, you are likely to see an error message that reads “This device will no longer receive the latest software updates. Please consider upgrading” when it reaches end of life. Since Google Chrome is deeply integrated with Chrome OS, this means that you will not receive updates once your Chromebook gets deprecated. This is quite unacceptable since the user should get browser updates to stay safe from vulnerabilities....

The feat was achieved by a YouTuber and GTA V speedrunner who goes by the name UnNameD. The player used a GTA 5 mod called One-Hit Knockout that sets the health points (HP) of the player to 1. And if you thought that it was difficult for UnNameD to end the game with that HP, I don’t know how you’d feel when I say that he completed the title in only 9 hours, which is simply nuts....