OnePlus will unveil the OnePlus 6T before the end of the month, giving the company a new phone to focus on. The Chinese brand is therefore probably keen to shift some units of its previous flagship phone — the OnePlus 6 — before it’s discontinued. This could be why it’s currently part of a splendid offer on Amazon India.
You’ll find the offer on the retailer’s website as part of the Great Indian Festival promotion, which kicked off yesterday.
Plex has been making a ton of progress on the cord cutting front recently. Back in June, the service introduced the ability to watch and record live TV right from your Media Server, though it was only available for Android TV and iOS devices at launch.
Today, Plex Live TV is finally expanding to Android devices.
Plex Live TV enables users to record shows, movies, and sports and watch Live TV and now Android owners can enjoy direct from their devices.
If you’ve ever been interested in developing web apps then today’s deal is right up your street. GitHub, Shopify, Airbnb, Twitch, SoundCloud, and Hulu were all build with Ruby on Rails. It’s huge in modern web app development, and given how much we live online these days it’s only getting bigger. If you want a piece of the action then the Ruby on Rails Coding Bootcamp is your guru.
If you’ve done the research you’ll know that Ruby on Rails is also one of the best ways into web development.
Looking for a low-cost 4K drone? Walmart has a sizeable discount on the Contixo F24 Pro 4K drone right now, offering it for just $232 instead of its usual $349 price tag.
The quadcopter has tons of features, like the ability to mark a take-off point via GPS and auto-hover modes. The drone can fly for up to 30 minutes on a single charge with the included battery. It is important to note that while the camera can take 4K still images, it can only take up to 2.
Turns out the Yahoo Google Now and/or Siri competitor for Android that was floating around earlier today didn’t come from Yahoo!, but it is a real prototype built by a startup called Robin Labs.
The actual story behind the app shown in the video is a bit complicated according to TechCrunch. Robin Labs, the company behind the app, specializes in speech recognition, natural language, and navigation, as shown in the leaked video.
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Wear OS 3 on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 introduces a host of new features to the series. Improved Google Maps, Messages, and Play Store apps, and the new YouTube Music app come with direct control on the watch. Some of these will also roll out to older smartwatches running Wear OS 2.0. The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 4 Classic come with impressive hardware, but it’s the all-new software experience that might be its biggest selling point.
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Smartphones have evolved to become way more than just devices for making and receiving phone calls. In fact, you could make a strong argument that phone calls aren’t the primary reason for having a smartphone in the first place. Between web browsing, texting, apps, multimedia consumption, and the camera, there are plenty of other uses.
Phone calls are nevertheless still expected today, but how do you react when you receive them?
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The April 2021 Sony PlayStation 5 update lands on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. The update’s most notable new feature is the ability to store PS5 games on an external drive. Cross-generation Share Play is also coming with the new update. Today, Sony announced the launch date of the first major software update to its latest console, the PlayStation 5. The update will start to roll out to those lucky enough to own a PS5 on Wednesday, April 14, 2021.
Amazon announced their Q4 2012 financial results yesterday. How much money did they make? $97 million. That doesn’t sound like a lot, but here’s a number that does sound pretty damn incredible: $21.27 billion. That’s how much money Amazon took in during the last three months of 2012. Some tech sites that we’re not going to mention seem to think that because Amazon doesn’t have high double digit margins like Apple, that they’re somehow screwed.
This week in Apple news we have some new rumors pertaining to the batch of 2020 iPhones. Apple could introduce the biggest iPhone lineup ever with a whopping five devices, including the iPhone 12 models shown in concept renders above. Read on for more info on that!
We also have some rumors about the batch of 2021 iPhones, the 2020 iPad Pro and MacBook Pro, Apple’s acquisition of Intel’s modem business, a lawsuit against Apple over its objectively-bad butterfly keyboard, and the first-ever Apple Music Awards.