Based on the weather conditions and time outside, the connected Hue bulb will turn the light settings within a room to make it more realistic. Although it was removed after a couple of hours, it went live and may come officially to all. Natural Light in Philips Hue App Out of the many smart bulbs we have today, offerings from Philips are slightly costly. But they justify the pricing with exciting features that aid us every day....

Anyone who plays online games, especially shooters and MMORPGs, know a great deal about how users are evicted from games when they are suspected of engaging in cheating. Getting you to account back after it has been banned is an arduous ordeal. In new spurge of illegal affairs on Reddit, scammers are calling themselves Elder Scrolls Online developers and scaring users by popping messages that the account violates the game’s Terms of Service or asking for bank account details....

Upon adoption, the malware of ransomware groups is tuned to encrypt only parts of targeted files, thereby reducing the encrypting time – while also making the files useless with half corruption and decryptable only with a specific key. With several advantages, researchers warn that more ransomware groups may adopt them for better operations. Intermittent Encryption Technique With the antivirus software upping their technology to detect malicious activities better, threat actors, especially the ransomware groups, are enhancing themselves too in the game....

The Razer Theme Store is the house for all custom themes made for Razer phones that give a big visual overhaul to the device. Now, since it’s shutting down, Razer urged users to download whatever themes they like and set them up. End of Razer Theme Store One of the few brands we have in the gaming smartphone segment is Razer – a company that dipped its feet into the smartphone business after acquiring Nextbit – a smartphone maker....

The new content includes TV shows like Top Gear, Law & Order Special Victims Unit, NCIS, and Chicago Fire. Alongside, there are two exclusive channels – Ride or Drive and Samsung Showcase to the TV Plus. Further, the company said it plans to increase its video-on-demand library with new partnerships soon. New Content on Samsung TV Plus One of the best things Samsung provides to its community is the TV Plus service – a free streaming package it bundles with all of its devices, like the Smart TVs and Galaxy smartphones....

Spotify Will Now Let You Play Local Music The Swedish audio player has grown so big that it became a regular target for hackers in recent times and fighting over fake premium account providers. Though it’s popular enough to be suggested by some pirate sites, it hasn’t had one of the important features a user would expect – Offline Playback. This doesn’t just mean the songs downloaded in Spotify to be playable offline, but also the local music stored on the device....

Alongside, Telegram also said that their initial tests of privacy-focused ads in public channels were successful, paving for yet another revenue stream. With no update on how much the paid version of Telegram would be, the platform’s CEO said it’ll be rolled out later this month. Paid Version of Telegram Telegram is already a full-packed platform for all types of communication. With the addition of bots and large broadcasting channels, the platform is even used for small business purposes....

TikTok hopes this new requirement will keep vulnerable kids away from online predators, just like most legal authorities ask. Also, TikTok will send suggestions to the creators while filtering out keywords. These new policies will be rolling from late November this year. TikTok New Policy For Live Video Though it’s the most popular platform when it comes to short videos, TikTok doesn’t rest from developing itself regularly. The platform is regularly adding new features to keep up with the fiery competition from rivals while maintaining user safety simultaneously....

The Initial Backlash After the Indian youth fought over YouTube vs TikTok virtual war earlier this month, a similar app called Mitron raised seeking strong attention. Mitron was initially called to be an Indian origin, we a student from IIT Roorkee has made this TikTok spin-off for Indians. Further, as India’s Prime Minister advised to use the local products for boosting the domestic economy, netizens have turned to Mitron which satisfies both situations as migrating from Chinese TikTok and being Indian....

ByteDance is Focusing on Expanding Their Business in Music World This app will have two types of services- free and premium. The free service will have ads and the premium will provide interruption-free music for the users. This isn’t the first time ByteDance is involving with the music industry, the company is already working with so many music labels across the world. It gets a license from the music labels and uses the music on its popular app “TikTok....

China Continues Cracking Down Cryptocurrencies While the technology underlying cryptocurrencies – blockchain seems to have a value, not every byproduct of it – cryptocurrency carries a value. Some are made out of a joke, like the Dogecoin and Shiba Inu, and used for nothing more than general transactions. Moreover, their high volatility nature thwarts governments and businesses from using them as a payment form. The very same reason along with others like the inability to track some cryptocurrency transactions forced several countries to ban them altogether....

Twitter Spaces For Android Has Come As the craze around Clubhouse grew, Twitter is pushing its Spaces to the public at large quicker. It started by rolling Spaces to iOS users initially in December and Android users earlier this month. While the iOS version has all the essential features of making and engaging in an audio chat, the Android version is limited. Users in Twitter Android are allowed to participate in other’s chats but not allowed to make their own rooms....

OTTs vs. Pay TV The same report records consumers’ shift from regular Pay TV to OTT platforms in recent years. And with Pay-TV subscribers spending less (reduced 8% last year) gradually, we may see the closure of that chapter soon. Also, analysts reported this surpassing breakthrough would occur for the first time in 2024. Consumers’ spending on Pay TV is expected to reduce to $74.5 billion in 2024, whereas the spending on OTTs will be increased to $76....

WhatsApp Postponed its New Terms Since last week, WhatsApp is facing the wrath of its users since it openly called for sharing the metadata of users’ chats with other companies. While it pressed on end-to-end encryption for chats and voice/video communications, users aren’t satisfied with the service anyhow and are looking for alternatives. These reactions kicked Signal and Telegram, where both of the platforms have seen a significant rise in new registrations....

The messenger has previously introduced a similar feature called Disappearing Messages in beta version 2.19.282, but it’s just working on that development. Now, it has renamed this development into Delete Messages and is expected to roll out soon, maybe in the next update. This leak was first announced by WABetaInfo, a fan site which stands early to reveal and test new WhatsApp features. It revealed in its post as, this feature is released in next update, can be enabled in Contact Info or Group Settings....

Apart from this, it’s also found that the platform is working on animations to different colored heart emojis. Further, there are new notification settings for iOS users to set which notifications they wanted to receive. And finally, there are new tools coming to edit photos and videos within the app. WhatsApp New Features The ever-reliable WhatsApp reporter, WaBetaInfo found in-app chat support from WhatsApp guys, to help users in case they need something....

Though this upgrade was unveiled last year, it didn’t seem to adoptable by common citizens sooner in future. But the usage of this new Wi-Fi standard by numerous exhibitors in the recent CES event makes us believe that’s inevitable and soon. The New Wi-Fi 6 The new standard unveiled is capable of transmitting gigabits of data with huge bandwidth over farther distances than current systems. Other improved features as better security, low latency, increased efficiency, the low power consumption etc are usual and expected....

Display Glitches in Windows 10 After all these months, it has become a routine for Windows 10 users not to expect any bugs in the updates. Though Microsoft is quick in resolving anything spotted, it’s still a routine for everyone. Lately, Windows 10 users running on 2004, 20H2, and 21H1 versions have reported display issues in Taskbar, where the icons overlap. This issue is prevalent among those who have updated to the latest KB5003214 update – which is an optional update meant for businesses and personal users to try out the fixes available in June’s patch update....

Windows 10X Tool for Regular Windows 10 Windows 10X: what started as a side project for powering dual-screen devices and foldable, has taken a dramatic turn due to pandemic and is almost ready for empowering the regular PCs. While we’re still months away from getting a stable version of it, a leaked pre-RTM build of Windows 10X is already making rounds in the community. — Albacore (@thebookisclosed) February 1, 2021 Those who downloaded and experienced say it’s cool since it’s a complete design revamp from the existing Windows 10....

Insecure Communication in WinZip WinZip is a popular tool for managing zip files in Windows and Android. Used extensively for archiving and unpacking the zip files, old versions of this tool follow an insecure path while communicating with its server for updates. This is reported by Martin Rakhmanov of Trustwave SpiderLabs, who demonstrated by scrapping the traffic between a vulnerable WinZip version to its server, which displayed important details to be hijacked....