HP Omen 16 Features and Specs The Omen 16 gets a 16.1-inch IPS QHD display with support for up to 165Hz refresh rate and an aspect ratio of 16:9. The display supports the Eyesafe display certification to avoid straining the eyes during long gaming sessions. The laptop is powered by the new 11th Gen Intel Core i7 processor, coupled with up to Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 GPU. There’s support for up to 16GB of DDR4 RAM and up to 1TB PCIe Gen 4×4 SSD....

According to an anonymous Techcrunch source, authorities from New Delhi told the firms last week that they will “not un-ban the apps and games in India” in the near future. This, as per the source, is because the responses that the government received so far do not really wipe off the cybersecurity issues for which the apps were banned. The apps in question are TikTok, Xiaomi Video, Baidu, Weibo, and many others that were banned in the country last year....

Alongside this, the government has capped the surge pricing to 1.5 times the base fare. Surge pricing refers to the increase in ride fares due to high demand from riders while there isn’t a sufficient number of drivers in the area. The guidelines also allow aggregators to charge 50 percent lower than the base fare. The cancelation fee is set to 10 percent of the total fare and does not exceed Rs....

New Instagram Features Added Instagram is testing Candid Stories, which will allow you to post a story of the ‘real’ moment and will be shown to those who also post a candid. Much like it happens on the popular BeReal app, you will get daily notifications to post a candid story. The notification can also be switched off and you can just post one via the Stories camera. The feature, which was rumored previously, will allow you to take a picture or a video using both the rear and front camera at the same....

One of the major steps the company has taken towards that goal is create a new ‘Instagram Equity Team‘ that Mosseri says will focus on “better understanding and addressing bias in our product development and people’s experiences on Instagram”. The Equity team will focus on creating products that will be ‘fair and equitable’. This includes working with Facebook’s Responsible AI team to weed out inherent biases from the company’s AI algorithms....

Although Threads has long offered the option to set and even auto-update statuses, the experience wasn’t really coherent from an average social media user’s perspective. With the new Status tab, the user experience has become more straightforward, which could result in increased usage of the feature. In addition, Threads now lets you view both Threads statuses and Instagram stories without even having to install the primary Instagram app. The app prioritizes stories from close friends and lists updates from the rest of them below in an ‘Everyone Else’ section....

Instagram Gets NFT Support for Creators As per Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri’s recent tweet, Instagram will now let a small subset of creators in the US share NFTs they have bought or made as posts, Stories, or in DM (direct message). This is a way for content creators to earn money on the Meta-owned social media platform and comes in addition to the subscription plan that it recently began testing. NFTs on Instagram 🎉This week we’re beginning to test digital collectibles with a handful of US creators and collectors who will be able to share NFTs on Instagram....

During its presentation for CES 2022, Intel announced that it has started shipping the first-generation of the Arc Alchemist discrete GPUs to leading manufacturers like Samsung, Lenovo, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte, Haier, HP, Asus, and more. Although the company did not mention anything about the launch timeline for Intel Arc-powered machines, Lisa Pearce, the Vice President and General Manager at Intel’s Visual Compute Group, mentioned that they will launch over 50 laptops and desktops powered by the Intel Arc GPUs over the coming months....

“In a recent development for providing a more holistic travel experience to the customers, IRCTC that is already in the business of online rail and flight tickets booking launched its online bus booking services that went live for the service of the nation on 29th January 2021,” reads IRCTC’s statement. How to Book Bus Tickets Online on IRCTC Now that you know the existence of the service, here’s how you can use it to book bus tickets....

Jio’s Free Disney+ Hotstar Plans No Longer Exist Now, only the Rs 601 prepaid plan from Jio offers a free Disney+ Hotstar subscription. The plan offers 3GB of data per day (an additional 6GB of data too), unlimited calls, 100 SMS per day, and access to a host of Jio apps for 28 days. Another thing to note is that the website has a Rs 666 plan but it comes with different benefits now....

Jio Football World Cup Plans: Benefits, Validity, and More The new Football World Cup plans have two categories: data-only packs and data with calls and SMS services. You can choose the plans that are deemed suitable. There’s the flexibility to choose the validity and price. There are two data packs. The Rs 1,199 plan provides 1GB of high-speed data for 5 days. Post this, the Standard PayGo rates will be applicable....

Windows 11 Build 22000.526 Released: What’s New? The changes have been listed in the official release notes of the latest Windows 11 build. Although the addition of the clock and date to the taskbar in multi-monitor setups might seem like a small change, users have been complaining about its removal since the initial Windows 11 release last year. We even covered an in-depth guide on how to add a clock to the taskbar on a secondary display in Windows 11....

In the days leading up to the launch, the Chinese giant is teasing some of the key specs and features of the Lenovo Legion 2 Pro. In teaser posters uploaded to Weibo, Lenovo confirmed the following specifications: Lenovo Legion 2 Pro: Specifications On the front, the device will feature a 6.91-inch Full-HD+ E4 AMOLED display from Samsung. The panel will boast a 144Hz refresh rate and 720Hz multi-finger touch sampling rate, as per the teaser....

Of the 30 titles, 20 of them support Smart Delivery. You can take a look at the official list of titles below: Day One Xbox Series X | Series S Optimized Titles Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (Smart Delivery) Borderlands 3 (Smart Delivery) Bright Memory 1.0 Cuisine Royale (Smart Delivery) Dead by Daylight (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery) Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition DIRT 5 (Smart Delivery) Enlisted Evergate The Falconeer (Smart Delivery) Fortnite Forza Horizon 4 (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery) Gears 5 (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery) Gears Tactics (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery) Grounded (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery) King Oddball (Smart Delivery) Maneater (Smart Delivery) Manifold Garden (Smart Delivery) NBA 2K21 Observer: System Redux Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery) Planet Coaster (Smart Delivery) Sea of Thieves (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery) Tetris Effect: Connected (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery) The Touryst (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery) War Thunder (Smart Delivery) Warhammer: Chaosbane Slayer Edition Watch Dogs: Legion (Smart Delivery) WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship (Smart Delivery) Yakuza: Like a Dragon (Smart Delivery) Yes, Your Grace (Smart Delivery)...

Now, a British company called Hubble Connected has launched a medical-grade N95 filter mask with built-in wireless earphones and a mic to ensure that wearers can enjoy maximum protection without missing out on music/ phone calls. MaskFone Specs and Features Called MaskFone, the device serves as a face mask first and foremost, offering the necessary protection in the midst of a raging pandemic, but also allows users to go about their day uninterrupted and unencumbered by the shackles of an earphone....

Mi Notebook Pro and Mi Notebook Ultra Arrive in India! Mi Notebook Ultra: Specifications This laptop is Xiaomi’s most premium offering in India to date. Mi Notebook Ultra has a unibody aluminum design while being thin and light. The laptop is merely 17.9mm in thickness and weighs 1.7kgs. And of course, the design (including the Mi Notebook Pro) seems to be inspired by the Apple MacBook Pro. The highlight of the Mi Notebook Ultra will have to be its stunning display....

Mi Watch Lite: Specifications The Mi Watch Lite, if you haven’t already guessed, is a rebranded version of the Redmi Watch that was recently unveiled in China. It looks similar in design to the original Mi Watch. But, it features a 1.4-inch LCD touch screen with a 320 x 320-pixel resolution and a peak brightness of 350 nits. It supports over 120 watch faces. It has only a single button on the right to go back or home....

Windows 11 Build 22000.651 Rolls Out in Release Preview Channel Microsoft recently shared an official blog post on its forum to announce the new Windows 11 update for Insiders in the Release Preview channel. For Windows 10, the build number is 19044.1679. Although Microsoft did not add any new features with this Windows 11 update, the company listed bug fixes for an array of existing issues. These fixes are more or less the same for Windows 11 and Windows 10 builds....

Two Groups of Windows Insider Beta Program According to Microsoft, Windows Insiders in the Beta channel will be classified into two groups. One group will receive Build 22622.xxx updates with new features rolled out or enabled via an enablement package. On the other hand, a second group will receive Build 22621.xxx updates with new features disabled by default. Microsoft says it is taking this approach to validate its ability to release updates with features turned off by default....

The Redmond giant also shared a tweet to announce the upcoming Surface event. The hardware event is set for September 22 and will see the launch of the successor of the Surface Duo that Microsoft launched last year. Moreover, the company is expected to launch a successor of the Surface Book 3. You can check out the tweet by Microsoft right below. You’re invited.Learn more about the #MicrosoftEvent: https://t.co/tpK3TB8Xxb— Microsoft (@Microsoft) September 1, 2021...