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On February 2 (that’s next Monday), Motorola will be offering promo codes that will give you $140 off on purchases totalling $499 or higher made from its online store. The promo code will be given out on February 2 and will be valid until 10:59PM CT on February 14th. If your total bill amount is higher than $249.99, you will be eligible for a $50 discount. The discount is valid on all devices from Motorola, including the Moto X (2014), the Moto G (2014) and even the Moto 360....

Instagrammers will now be able to easily promote their accounts using the Nametags. I have seen many Instagram users put up their username alongside a follow request. With the Nametags in place, you can simply scan the image and follow the person. This feature is also likely to help the businesses and other prominent social media handles to promote their Instagram accounts. Perhaps they will print the Nametags on their merchandise....

NASA launched Perseverance in 2020, trailing the Curiosity rover by nine years, and landed it on the red planet on February 18, 2021 to explore and extract material from Mars’ Jezero Crater. NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter took snaps of the landing. Perseverance collected its first rock samples in September 2021 and these are now inside sealed sample tubes but are stuck on the fourth planet from the Sun. Whether these actually return to Earth is not a given and requires assistance from rovers by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA)....

This is indeed huge, Netflix users can now watch downloaded shows while traveling or even when they are stuck in a routine subway commute. The significance of this feature is only more pronounced in a country like India wherein reliable and high-speed internet in public places is yet to be realized. All you need to do to get the feature is to simply update the app from either the Playstore or the Apple Store....

OnePlus today released its second update to the community build of OxygenOS 3.5 for the OnePlus 3. Still based on Marshmallow, OxygenOS 3.5.2 comes with a number of new minor usability improvements and additions along with bug fixes. The update primarily adds minor new features that enhance the experience of using OxygenIS 3.5 further. A quick change-log of the update is as follows: Added “kill all background processes” button in recents menu...

Compact and feature packed The Nikon D5600 is one of the smaller DSLRs in the market – a trend we welcome given the “bulky” image that DSLRs have. It is slightly lighter than the D5500, which it replaces, and is much lighter and smaller than the Canon EOS 800D, which is one of its competitors. In spite of keeping it compact, Nikon has managed to squeeze in a 3.2-inch LCD touchscreen which is bigger than the usual 3-inch screen that many cameras offer....

As you can see in the picture above, the rear camera unit is circular in shape. The four camera lenses are arranged in such a way that it looks like Captain America’s shield. And this is the reason why the device is codenamed, Captain America. On the front, the device features a waterdrop notch display. That apart the remaining specifications of the device are kept under the wraps. However, Blass has specified that the device will offer 6GB of RAM and 64GB of storage....

The ll Street urnal reports that is rolling out an update today that will allow third-party apps to integrate directly with Now. Apps like Airbnb, eBay, ft, numerous others will directly deliver information without you having to actually open up the app. For instance, if you were previously searching for a charming bungalow on Airbnb, Now might later produce a card about that cute little place to remind you to book that weekend getaway you’ve been on the fence about....

Sony is going to hold a press conference on September 4th in Berlin where it’s widely believed that they’re going to announce their next flagship phone, the Xperia i1. The name is subject to change, of course, and you probably know it better by its codename: Honami. What’s going to make Honami special? It’s going to have a 20 megapixel camera. That combined with the latest Snapdragon 800 from Qualcomm and 2 GB of RAM mean it has a serious chance at being a photographer’s best friend....

The Ioniq-5 vehicles, developed by Motional atop a Hyundai platform, provide L4 autonomy and utilize a Continuous Learning Framework (CLF) designed to make the vehicles safer with every mile driven. Motional is a joint venture of Hyundai Motor Group and auto supplier Aptiv. “We will be deploying our robotaxis in major markets through our partnerships with ride-hailing networks,” Motional’s former VP of Engineering & Head Autonomy, Sammy Omari, told ZDNet earlier this year....

Your first instinct after calling the police may be to lock your house down like Fort Knox for the rest of your life, but what are you going to do about what was stolen? Most insurance companies won’t help you recover your valuables unless they’re already on file. And taking stock of your possessions after your house has been vandalized is like closing the barn door after the horse is out....

Recently the hackers hacked Facebook owner’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts and they seem to be openly posting the messages celebrating their victory. Mark Zuckerberg normally don’t tweet much, but an unexpected increase of twitter tweets makes people suspicious about unauthorized access. According to the sources, the team responsible for this hack named “OurMine” who claims to regain password of Mark Zuckerberg from the database of about 117 million passwords hacked from another social media network LinkedIn in the year 2012 and this enormous database were made public last week through which OurMine team got access to the database logins and used the similar password to get access to the twitter account....

Meet Google’s New Foldable Smartphone The tech giant Google has recently registered a patent for a foldable smartphone. Still, it does not have the pretension of turning it into a tablet, as it is only folded to become more petite than its original state. The curious thing is that the document shows that the device can be folded once or twice, further decreasing the phone’s overall size. The two modes are described as a V-shaped folding device that places the moving parts of the device in the middle, and in the second mode, it is Z-folded and thus inserts two areas that can be rotated in the machine....

However, the tech giant Microsoft has already shown hints of increased participation in this segment, with a deeper integration between Xbox and Windows, plus the next Windows 10 Creators Update is shaping up to improve this section further. And we have the first clues of it, as it has discovered a mysterious ‘Game Mode’ in a recently leaked build. WalkingCat (@h0x0d), who was the first to find the emulation of x86 applications on ARM64 within Windows 10, is again showing us something new unannounced for the next major update of Windows 10....

To begin with, the new Surface Pro 7 does away with the proprietary mini display port from the last generation and replaces it with the much-awaited USB Type-C port found on other surface machines including the affordable Surface Go. The Surface Pro 7 comes with updated internals making it faster than ever before. Other than hardware changes, Microsoft has optimized some software elements for the Surface Pro 7 like Microsoft Edge, Office apps etc....

All this is something that has acquired a special relevance especially these last weeks after the presentation of the most recent handset iPhone of Apple, with the Face ID that has been implemented in the new iPhone X that commemorates the 10 years of the popular smartphone. For many of these security systems based on biometrics are the future, others still have much to improve to become real alternatives to the conventional passwords that we all use....

But will its new pop-up ad strategy cost Roku TV customers? If you’re streaming TV content with commercials, get ready to see more ads with Roku TV — or rather, ads on top of ads if your Roku has the latest operating system. The new ads appear to have been introduced with version 9.2 of the Roku TV operating system. So far, they only appear during commercial breaks. We’ll tell you how the pop-up ads work and how you can put the kibosh to them....

COVID restrictions are being removed in most parts of the U.S. But that’s not the case globally. Many countries are still battling the pandemic and have stringent travel restrictions still in place. Here’s the backstory A few of the adventures include: Taste of Tokyo, Shop the streets of Melbourne, AustraliaHarvest a grape: A guided walking tour of an Argentine vineyardMaster flavorful vegan Paella with a Professional chef in BarcelonaThe infamous Berlin Wall: stories of the Death Strip and a divided city...

Starting with one of the highlights of the device, the Nokia 6.1 Plus both looks and feels GREAT to hold in the hand. It’s very important to understand this so let’s spend some extra time on the design. The glass back gives it a premium look, while the metallic sides give an assuring feel while using the device. But the most important thing is how easy it is to use the Nokia 6....

Now Get Paid For Using Microsoft’s Edge Browser The tech giant Microsoft is in a delicate position in the market for browsers. Now that Windows 10 is the only “domestic operating system active” in which the Edge has become the official browser. As the Internet, Explorer will no longer receive upgrades, but still, it is used by the 30% of computer users. Microsoft Edge is unique to Windows 10, which is already installed on 25% of all PCs....