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Acer Nitro 5 gaming laptop with 11th Gen Intel Core H-series processor launched

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Taiwanese PC brand Acer today unveiled its newest gaming laptop, Acer Nitro 5, powered by the latest 11th Gen Intel Core H-series processor, which is claimed to be designed for ultraportable gaming. The laptop is available from Rs 69,999 on Acer Exclusive store, Acer Online Store and Amazon.

The new Nitro 5 brings together thin bezel design, CoolBoost technology, industry-leading CPU performance, immersive graphics, amazing AI acceleration, and best-in-class wired and wireless connectivity to help users focus, create, and connect at new levels, Acer said in a statement.

The laptop features DTS: X Ultra dual 2W speakers, delivers outstanding audio, powerful graphics performance with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 graphics, blur-free gameplay with a 144Hz refresh rate, and a 3ms response time to make each experience superior. The best of all is the all-day battery life, feature best-in-class wireless, and wired connectivity with Thunderbolt 4 and Killer Wi-Fi 6 AX 1650i.

“Acer Nitro series gaming comes with a rich legacy of offering powerful gaming performance and latest technology and patented cooling technology at value price points. The latest Nitro 5 comes with the latest 11th generation Intel Core H35 series gaming processors which offers truly outstanding performance for the price and shows our deep collaboration with Intel to deliver the best for Indian gamers,” said Sudhir Goel, Chief Business Officer, Acer India.

“Intel’s new line of 11th Gen Intel Core H-series mobile processors deliver a powerful combination of mobility and enthusiast-level gaming. The demand for laptops that enable work, collaboration, creation and play in ultraportable form factors continues to grow. The Intel-powered Acer Nitro 5 packs responsiveness and performance in a sleek design that allows users to do everything from anywhere,” said Rahul Malhotra, Director – Consumer Sales, Intel India.

In terms of other specs, the Acer Nitro 5 features a 15.6-inch FHD IPS display. Gamers can enjoy smooth, blur-free gameplay with a 144Hz refresh rate and a 3ms response time with a screen-to-body ratio of 80% with narrow 7.02mm bezels.

Nitro 5 allows gamers to configure their laptops for maximum speed and massive storage with two slots for M.2 PCIe SSDs, up to 2TB HDD, and up to 32GB of DDR4 RAM. When heavy use requires an added boost, chill out with twin fans, Acer CoolBoost technology, and quad exhaust port design to keep the Nitro 5 cool under heavy load and get consistent performance.

TikTok, Facebook most downloaded non-gaming apps worldwide in March

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Even though it is banned in India, short video platform TikTok emerged as the most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide for March this year, with more than 58 million installs last month. It was revealed by app analytics platform Sensor Tower in its latest data.

Facebook became the second most installed non-gaming app after TikTok last month, with more than 56 million installs.

The countries with the largest number of TikTok installs were from Douyin in China at 11 per cent, followed by the United States at 10 per cent.

The countries with the largest number of Facebook installs were from India at 25 per cent, followed by the US at 8 per cent.

Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger rounded out the top five most installed non-gaming apps worldwide for the month.

Xiaomi, Oppo coming up with their own 5G chips

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Chinese handset makers Xiaomi and Oppo are reportedly working on their own custom 5G system on chip (SoC), which could be ready by the end of 2021 or early 2022. The chips will come with support for sub-6GHz 5G, as per reports.

Xiaomi recently confirmed that it will be launching a new SoC soon, although it didn’t mention any tentative launch date for the same. Interestingly, this isn’t the first Xiaomi in-house chipset either. Back in 2017, the maker revealed the Surge S1 chip, built on the 28nm process and powering the Xiaomi Mi 5c smartphone, said reports.

Apart from Chinese players, US-headquartered Google is also working on its own chipset codenamed Whitechapel that will power its upcoming Pixel 6 device. According to a report by 9To5Google, the company refers to the chip as “GS101,” with “GS” potentially being short for “Google Silicon.” This upcoming chip could also end up inside of Chromebooks if powerful enough. The Whitechapel SoC is apparently being co-developed by Google with Samsung.

Unisoc, a Shanghai-based budget chipset maker, is also working on SoC with support for next-gen connectivity, according to reports.

Google to bid adieu to its shopping app for mobile

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Tech giant Google is shutting down its mobile shopping app for both iOS and Android devices by June this year, it announced. The application, however, will be available on the desktop (web) version. The company confirmed the decision to 9to5Google on Sunday, as per reports.

“Within the next few weeks, we’ll no longer be supporting the Shopping app. All of the functionality the app offered users is available on the Shopping tab,” Google said in a statement. “We’ll continue building features within the Shopping tab and other Google surfaces, including the Google app, that make it easy for people to discover and shop for the products they love,” it noted.

The mobile shopping app allowed users to choose from among thousands of online stores and make purchases using their Google accounts.

According to reports, Google has been expanding shopping functionality in Search, Image Search and YouTube, while increasingly leveraging augmented reality.

Samsung Galaxy M42 with 5G support to launch in India soon

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South Korean handset major Samsung is geared up to introduce its first mid-range 5G smartphone called Galaxy M42 later this month in India. According to reports quoting industry sources, the device will be priced between Rs 20,000-Rs 25,000.

The first Galaxy M-series smartphone with 5G connectivity is seen as Samsung’s big foray in the mid-segment, where the company has a large market share in India.

Samsung recently launched a number of 5G smartphones in India in the premium segment. The company’s most premium foldable smartphone Galaxy Z Fold2 comes with 5G connectivity in India. All three variants of Galaxy S21 launched in India support 5G connectivity. It also launched the 5G variant of Galaxy S20 Fan Edition in India recently.

In terms of specs, the Samsung Galaxy M42 is said to be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G processor and is likely to launch in 6GB and 8GB RAM variants. It will also get ‘Knox Security’, the first for a Galaxy ‘M’ smartphone, if the reports are to be believed.

Clubhouse denies data breach, dubs the report misleading

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Popular audio chat platform Clubhouse has downplayed any breach or hack after a report said that a database containing 1.3 million scraped records of the platform’s users were posted on a popular hacker forum.

According to a recent report, the leaked database contains a variety of user-related information from Clubhouse profiles, including user ID, name, photo URL, username, Twitter handle, Instagram handle, number of followers, number of people followed by the user, account creation date, and invited by user profile name.

The invitation-only social media app for iOS that facilitates auditory communication termed the report as misleading and false. “Clubhouse has not been breached or hacked. The data referred to is all public profile information from our app, which anyone can access via the app or our API,” say reports quoting Clubhouse’s statement on Twitter.

If the CyberNews report is to be believed the scraped data posted on the hacker forum can be used by cybercriminals to carry out targeted phishing or other types of social engineering attacks, and that such database can also be used by threat actors to brute-force the passwords of Clubhouse profiles.

Interestingly, the development comes close on the heels of an archive with data purportedly scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles reportedly put for sale on a popular hacker forum emerged, with another 2 million records leaked as a proof-of-concept sample by people behind the hack. Earlier, Facebook witnessed data leak of 533 million users, including 6.1 million Indians.

Vivo introduces a specially curated experiential space for X60 series buyers

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The Chinese smartphone maker, vivo, announced a series of experiential activities today via “vivo X60 Pavilion”. The vivo X60 Pavilion will showcase professional photography capabilities of its flagship line-up—vivo X60 series to its customers providing a touchpoint for its fans and consumers to experience the newly launched X60 series.

The pavilion by vivo X60 will let people try out the new X60 series to get a hands-on experience. As the series has received an overwhelming prebook response by breaking all the records of its predecessor, the brand is committed to continue offering a seamless experience and delight its consumers. The brand will be hosting a ‘Pavilion’ space in Ambience Mall, Central Atrium, Gurugram, New Delhi, kickstarting from 9th to 11th April 2021, from 12 pm onwards.

The Pavilion is specially curated for a fun experiential space and stand-alone experiences for the consumers that will be tied together by the common thread of #PhotographyRedefined.To make the experience unique for fans and customers, the Pavilion will offer a personalized experience, with the audiences and reach vivo community in a diversified and better way. The pavilion will host all the variants of the recently launched X60 series that will be available for people to try. The vivo experts are there to answer any queries about the new phones.

 

The Pavilion will be divided into three zones:

The Xperience Hub: For a hands-on experience of the phone and highlighting pro features

The Gallery 6:  A curved photo gallery for a walk-in experience of the shots on vivo X60 Series

The O Zone: Photobooth to experience the low light photography

 

In collaboration with ZEISS, a global leader in optics and optoelectronics, vivo X60 series is the first smartphone that integrates the user-oriented innovation of vivo and the outstanding expertise in mobile imaging of ZEISS. The professional photography capabilities, premium sleek design, and unparallel performance allow users to enjoy best in class technologies. The vivo X60 series runs on the powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 series 5G Mobile Platform that promises to deliver an unmatched lag-free experience.

As part of vivo’s commitment to ‘Make in India’, the vivo X60 series is being manufactured at the Greater Noida facility that employs more than 10,000 men and women ensuring all vivo devices sold in India are made by fellow Indians.

 

LG to support up to 3 years of smartphone OS updates

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Even as it is set to exit the mobile business, LG Electronics has said that it will offer extended software upgrades for its smartphones. LG’s mobile operating system (OS) update guarantee will be extended by one year, it said.

According to reports, LG’s premium smartphone users can now get OS updates for three years, while people using LG’s budget handsets can receive upgrades for up to two years. Users of LG Velvet and LG Wing smartphones that were launched last year, for instance, can get support for OS upgrades through 2023.

The South Korean electronics major said devices eligible for its extended OS update programs will be posted on its global websites, though its support plan could vary by market depending on Google’s Android OS release schedule and product specs. The company also promised utmost after-sales services globally even after the closure of its mobile business, as per reports quoting Yonhap news agency.

The tech giant recently announced that its mobile business unit will no longer operate after July 31 after years of money-losing performance. In South Korea, the company said repairs of smartphones will be supported for at least four years from their manufacturing date. It also decided to keep its mobile payment and digital wallet service, LG Pay, for at least three years.

LinkedIn now the latest victim to threat actors, faces massive data leak

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Microsoft-owned professional networking platform LinkedIn is now the latest victim to data leaks, following Facebook which witnessed data leak of 533 million users, including 6.1 million Indians. LinkedIn is facing a massive data leak of 500 million users that is allegedly being sold online.

According to reports, an archive with data purportedly scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles has been put for sale on a popular hacker forum, with another 2 million records leaked as a proof-of-concept sample by people behind the hack. “The four leaked files contain information about the LinkedIn users whose data has been allegedly scraped by the threat actor, including their full names, email addresses, phone numbers, workplace information, and more,” as per CyberNews.

The leaked data up on sale includes LinkedIn IDs, full names, email addresses, phone numbers, genders, links to LinkedIn profiles, links to other social media profiles, professional titles and other work-related data. “While users on the hacker forum can view the leaked samples for about $2 worth of forum credits, the threat actor appears to be auctioning the much-larger 500 million user database for at least a 4-digit sum, presumably in bitcoin,” the report said.

Meanwhile, LinkedIn said that it has investigated an alleged set of LinkedIn data that has been posted for sale and has determined that it is actually an aggregation of data from a number of websites and companies. “It does include publicly viewable member profile data that appears to have been scraped from LinkedIn. This was not a LinkedIn data breach, and no private member account data from LinkedIn was included in what we’ve been able to review,” LinkedIn said. However, the author of the post, claims that the data was scraped from LinkedIn.

Interestingly, earlier this month, the personal data of nearly 533 million Facebook users, including 61 lakh Indians, emerged online after a hacker posted the details on a digital forum. It included Facebook ID numbers, profile names, email addresses, location information, gender details, job data, and other details. Facebook, however, said this was old data that it previously reported in 2019.

Consumers now spend over 4 hours a day on apps

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With remote work and learning becoming the order of the day in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic forcing people to stay indoors, consumers, on average, are spending 4.2 hours a day on apps globally, which is 30% higher than the same time two years back.

According to app analytics firm App Annie, the biggest surge has been witnessed in India as people spent 80% more time in apps in Q1 2021 than they did in Q1 2019 in the country. In the January-March period this year, daily time spent passed four hours in the US, Turkey, Mexico and India for the first time, said App Annie in a report. In Brazil, South Korea and Indonesia, it was more than five hours.

The biggest surge has been witnessed in India as people spent 80% more time in apps in Q1 2021 than they did in Q1 2019 in the country

“If we live in an attention economy, then there’s no doubt where people are currently directing their eyeballs. Our new data for Q1 2021 reveals that consumers are spending more time than ever in apps – and the surges in some countries have sent daily dwell times past five hours,” App Annie noted in the report. The top apps by downloads, consumer spend and monthly active users (MAUs) across Apple App Store and Google Play were TikTok, YouTube and Facebook in the January-March quarter, it mentioned.

“In Western markets, we can trace the rise of the two market-leading secure messaging products: Signal and Telegram. Signal places first in the UK, Germany and France, and fourth in the US,” it further said. Meanwhile Telegram appears at ninth spot (the UK), fifth (France) and seventh (the US). As in so many areas, China’s breakout app chart is unique and quite different from the rest of the world.

The App Annie report further said, “If there’s a theme within it, it’s the emphasis on video sharing and editing. TikTok is at number 1, while Kwai is at 2. Meanwhile, CapCut – a video editing app for TikTok is at 7. iQIYI, a video streaming service, is placed at 3.” Homegrown short video platform MX TakaTak was also seen as the fastest growing app by downloads in the quarter. TikTok led the top downloads chart, followed by Facebook and Instagram, it said.

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