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.
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Verizon is offering up to a year of free Apple Arcade or Google Play Pass service. The offer begins May 26 and is available for new and existing Verizon customers. The services are normally priced at $4.99 a month. Verizon is giving its wireless customers even more value for their hard-earned bucks. Today, the carrier announced it will offer up to a year of free Apple Arcade or Google Play Pass access for its new and existing customers.
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.
A new Android stability bug has surfaced online as users are reporting random app freezes and UI lockups (h/t: Android Police). The issue appears to affect Google Pixel devices mainly, but a few users with OnePlus and Xiaomi devices have reported the problem too, suggesting it could be more widespread.
A OnePlus user tried to highlight the bug in a screen recording. Check out the video they posted on Twitter:
The new Bluetooth 4.2 specification aims to assist small Bluetooth powered devices in easily connecting to the world wide web. This standard could usher in a new wave of cost effective, web ready Internet of Things devices.
Currently, Bluetooth devices are often dependent on another host device for their internet access, be that your smartphone, computer or some other hub. This isn’t ideal if you want the device to grab data from the internet for itself.
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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.
As reliable as a Mac can be, there will likely be a moment when an app stops responding due to a bug, crash, or some other hard-to-predict glitch. Thankfully, you won’t necessarily have to restart your Mac to solve the problem. We’ll show you how to force quit an app on a Mac so that you can reload it — or at least, finish everything else you were doing.
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