Tencent’s gaming services will remain stopped for the next 24 hours. PUBG mobile is showing a message in-game “Tencent games will temporarily suspend all its services for the whole day from 0:00 on April 4”. There is no elaborate statement for this message. Well, this message also makes clear that PUBG mobile will be stopped for the next 24 hours.
“To express deep condolences to the martyrs and compatriots who died in the fight against New Crown Pneumonia, Tencent Games will be suspended for one day from 0:00 on April 4 thin, including mainland China and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions. May the dead rest in peace, may the living work hard, and may the motherland flourish.” Statement from Weibo account.
According to Official statement on Weibo account of Tencent games the temporaily close is to honor the martyred of COVID-19.
Note : PUBG Mobile stop in only few regions as mentioned above as China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao [ Not in India]
Sony has unveiled its two new Bluetooth products, Truly wireless headphones and earbuds. The wireless earbuds named WF-XB700 and headphones WH-CH710N. Sony has also put Extra Bass trademark on products that symbolize audio innovations.
Wireless earbuds WF-XB700 has lightweight and perfect ear fit design. It has sony tri-hold ergonomic structure which makes comfort to ears. The design is inspired by 1000XM3 with a simple typical tri-structure. Earbuds come with sweat-resistant feature with 9 hours of music per charge. The earbuds are available in blue and black color combinations which seems perfect. WF-XB700 has less battery life as compare to 1000XM3.
The WF-CH710N Sony headphones are truly wireless with active noise cancellation support. It uses Artificial Intelligence to cancel the noise. AI depicts the extra noise around and activates the noise selection mode.
The headphones have built-in microphones to cancels the ambient sound and provide better communication. Headphones have 35 hours of battery life, with upgraded metallic design. The headphone WF-CH710N has dedicated buttons for media playback and controls.
Sony earbuds WF-XB700 starting price is $130 available in two color variants as Red and Blue. Truly wireless headphones priced at $200, color variant black, white or blue. Which one you prefer to purchase
Mind reading may be possible with true facts; a team of US Researchers develops an AI algorithm that turns Brain thoughts into text. Currently, a developed AI-based system detects neural patterns when someone speaks aloud. The experts say the system will help people who are unable to speak or suffering from locked-in syndrome.
“We are not there yet but we think this could be the basis of a speech prosthesis,” said Dr Joseph Makin, co-author of the research from the University of California, San Francisco. In Nature Neuroscience Journal published by Researchers they also share the process of development of AI algorithm.
The participants were asked to read aloud, their neural patterns were tracked and fed into Machine Learning Algorithm. This machine-learning algorithm converts brain activity into logical representation (numbers). In order to verify the result, Sounds predicted from small chunks compared to actual sounds by the system.
The system accuracy varies for one participant each sentence to 3%; which is higher than the error rate of human transcribers. The AI-based algorithm only handles only a small number of sentences. Researchers also find that the system requires less training data for the final user.
Reasearchers Makin and colleagues writes in journal that they depends on brain activity for data. In order to get brain data electrode array are need to implanted into the brain, which no one easily accept. The researchers team is still working on the AI algorithm that turns brain thoughts into text for improvements. What do you think about this research, comment down below.
On Monday, Microsoft announced Microsoft Teams free version for freelancers and small enterprises. The offer is only for a group of workers, doesn’t have subscriptions of Microsoft 365. Microsoft Teams is an app by Microsoft which is used to collaborate, chat meetings over video calls. Microsoft also rebranded Office 365 to New Microsoft 365.
You can collaborate, chat and search for up to 300 people. The app offers built-in audio and video calling for individuals, groups and meetings with team. Microsoft Teams is cloud based so offer integrated and sync with Office Online Apps like Word, Excel, OneNote and Powerpoint. You will also get 10GB of team files storage with personal storage for 2GB per person.
If you have already have a subscription of Microsoft 365, then upon sign up you will be redirected to your existing tenant. And if you have don’t have subscription of Office 365 then you will have access to Free version of Microsoft Teams.
Yesterday, Microsoft announced the new Microsoft 365 with family and personal subscriptions. In an official blog Microsoft rebranded Office 365 to Microsoft 365 which is powered by new Artificial Intelligence.
This year Microsoft also launched the new integrated Office App for the Android and Windows platform. Office App has all the office app within it as Powerpoint, Excel, Word and other. The app is available for download on the play store. The change will come in effect after 21st April on all Platforms Windows, macOS, iOS and Android devices.
Microsoft also launched a dedicated website for Microsoft 365 with all detailed features. Additionally, Microsoft also announces the Microsoft safety app, it helps you to connect and collaborate with your family digitally. The New Microsoft 365 is “Subscriptions for your life” also “help you make the most of your time, connect, and protect the ones you love, and to develop and grow”; described by Microsoft.
New Microsoft 365 is powered by new Artificial Intelligence and packed with rich content, templates, and features. Microsoft claims it helps the user to become a better designer, writer, and presenter by innovated tools. In blog company also share the statistics about users; they expect to hit 38 million subscribers of Office 365 in the next few months.
April Fool’s day is near the most annoying infamous digital tradition. Every year Google also be a part of it by numerous pranks, but this year Google skips legendary April Fool’s Prank. Google is skipping because of the global Coronavirus pandemic.
Business Insider obtained an e-mail that clearly states the reason. “Under normal circumstances, April Fool’s is a Google tradition and a time to celebrate what makes us an unconventional company. This year, we’re going to take the year off from that tradition out of respect for all those fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. Our highest goal right now is to be helpful to people, so let’s save the jokes for next April, which will undoubtedly be a whole lot brighter than this one”. Wrote by Lorraine Twohill Google’s Head of Marketing.
She also added, “We’ve already stopped any centralized April Fool’s efforts but realize there may be smaller projects within teams that we don’t know about. Please suss out those efforts and make sure your teams pause on any jokes they may have planned — internally or externally”.
Google meants this April Fool’s Prank will be indeed appluadbale, so the joke is save for the next year. The tech Gaint takes number os steps to reduce the impact of Global pandemic. Google also launched a dedicated Coronavirus Website to deal with pandemic last week.
The Coronavirus global outbreak causes the cancels of many big tech events. Events cancel due to COVID-19 Pandemic also includes Google I/O 2020 offline and online event. Now, in the next year, we will see Google April Fool’s Prank.
Its Quarantine due to COVID-19, Company like Vivo, Realme and Xiaomi postponing their mobile launch date. However, Samsung launched Galaxy M11 with a Triple Camera and a huge battery in the UAE. The Phone was officially uploaded to the UAE website of Samsung without releasing any detail to the media.
Specs and Features
Samsung Galaxy M11 has 6.4″ High Definition Plus Infinity-O Display with a left-aligned punch hole for the selfie camera. The phone has a fingerprint sensor in the rear, the triple camera setup also has flash at the right side of it. Galaxy M11 comes with a screen resolution of 1560x720p with a 20:9 aspect ratio.
Samsung Galaxy M11 comes with an octa-core chipset clocked at 1.8GHz. Company has not confirmed the specs but expected to have 3GB RAM and 32GB Storage expanded up to 512GB. The phone will have an MicroSD card to expand storage.
Galaxy M11 has a triple camera setup, offers you 13MP(f1.8) main camera, 2MP(f2.4) depth camera and 5MP(f2.2) Ultra-wide lens. The ultra-wide lens with a depth sensor lets you take better portrait shots. Punch hole selfie camera comes an 8MP with a focusing aperture f/2.0 with focus.
Samsung Galaxy M11 powered with 5,000mAh battery and 15W fast charging. It has USB Type-C support and also 3.5mm headphone jack. Phone has two sim card slots with one slot for microSD.
Galaxy M11 Price and Availability
The price is not mentioned on the UAE website yet. Samsung Galaxy M11 is said to be launched in three color variants like Black, Metallic Blue, and Violet in UAE. It will be available for purchase at a bunch of online brick and mortar stores in UAE. the exact date of launch and price is still to be revealed, so stay tuned we will update you.
Realme 6 and Realme 6 Pro launched this month with amazing specs and features. Both the smartphone from the Realme 6 series featured with 64MP AI Quad camera setup. In an On The Air (OTA) Update, Realme 6 and Realme 6 Pro now support Netflix HD streaming.
The Realme CEO, Madhav Seth about the update coming. The update is rolled out for all the Realme 6 users if you have not got yet. Go to system settings and check for updates.
With the latest OTA updates, now you can make the most of your stay at home by enjoying Netflix in HD on #realme6 & #realme6Pro. Reply with what you guys are watching now. pic.twitter.com/3djRE0dbyA
The OTA update requires 320MB in size for the firmare update. Due to pandemic coronavirus, Netflix streaming is doen to SD from HD. After the lockdown of 21 days, this update will give you HD streaming of Netflix.
Realme 6 launched at a starting price of Rs. 12,999 in India. The Realme 6 Series smartphone comes with a 30W fast charger, takes less than 15 minutes to charge the phone. Realme 6 smartphones are the first smartphone to featured 720G Qualcomm-Snapdragon processor chipset.
Realme 6 and Realme 6 Pro have not got any update regarding the HD streaming of Amazon Prime Video. The support twitter handle of Realme responds to the user on Twitter that they are working on the same. Realme X2 has already Netflix HD streaming Support.
During Quarantine you can sign up for the free Netflix trial and enjoy Netflix HD streaming by Realme 6, Realme 6 pro support. You can try out the some of the popular streaming OTT platforms with free trial.
Corona Kavach App is bought by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Government of India. The App is available to download from Google Play Store. The App is firstly launched in the beta version, now its available in the stable version.
Corona Kavach App
Corona Kavach App is App launched by the Indian Government Agency to keep people updated about all the cases related to COVID-19. It also alerts the user when the user goes near to other COVID-19 infected. Download App
Countries affected by Coronavirus like Singapore and China are already using this type of app. Google also launched a dedicated website for Coronavirus, this website give you information about global COVID-19 cases. There is also a WhatsApp chatbot that communicates by users and provides related Faqs to COVID-19.
The App will keep updated all the cases in India’s concern to COVID-19. The app will let you know the location in which COVID-19 affected people are more. The Government ensures your location data safety, data will only be shared for potential use.
How Corona Kavach App Works?
Corona Kavach App uses the location data of the Phone detects where the user is moving. It alerts via a notification when you get near any other COVID-19 infected. On the home screen, the App show data of Active cases, Cured Cases, Death Cases, and Passenger Screened at Airport. There are different colors in Corona Kavach with their meaning as Green(All Good), Mustard(See a Doctor), Yellow(Quarantine) and Red(Infected). You will see this color when you install and register to App.
The App has also two options thatmonitor your health status as ” Start Breathing Exercise” and “Questionnaire”.
In the Questionnaire, you have to respond to different questions and click on submit then Corona Kavach Icon. On submit, Corona Kavach App analyzes your answer and gives you a report. The App is only available on Google Play Store for download.
There are many streaming services and OTT Platforms in India. We have selected some of the most popular streaming services in India with Plans and Pricing Comparison. During these Quarantine these platforms are for your Binge, So let you make decisions which one you should go for.
Popular Streaming Services (OTT Platforms) in India
Netflix
Amazon Prime
YouTube Premium
Hotstar(Disney+)
ALT Balaji
Zee5
Voot
Sony Liv
MX Player
1.Netflix
Netflix
Netflix is the most popular streaming service in India with most of the users from India globally. Its Plans range varied from Rs. 199 to Rs. 799 monthly. Netflix plans are comparatively expensive from all other streaming services. However, it also offers a free trial to new users. It has some of the most popular web series and trending shows, movies, and Netflix originals.
Netflix has one cheapest plan that starts at Rs. 199 for the phone on a single screen. The picture quality offered is SD. In quarantine, all plans are streaming content in SD quality. The Rs 799 plan offers 4 screens with Ultra HD quality streaming.
2.Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime Video is a streaming service by Amazon to Prime users. The subscription to this service also includes free and fast delivery of products from Amazon and music streaming. Plans offered by Amazon Prime Video are in two variants. Offers Rs 129 monthly and Rs 999 yearly, it also offers a 30-day free trial.
3.YouTube Premium
Youtube premium is premium service offers under youtube. It also offers some of Youtube Original shows as the seeker and many more. Premium membership of YouTube lets you play youtube videos and songs without ads. It also includes background music play on Youtube Music.
You can enjoy 1 month free trial of Youtube Premium by sign up as new users and adding a payment method. Youtube subscription plan Rs 129 per month and Rs 349 for three months, also offers a family plan Rs 189/month up to 5 members. Students can opt to premium at Rs 79 per month.
4.Hotstar (Disney+)
Hotstar is mostly subscribed and popular streamimg service in India. It offers Hotstar orignals, Movies and TV Shows. Disney plus is soon to be launched in india as report the Disney+ content will be the part of the Hotstar. It also offers Hotstar VIP ahead from Hotstar premium.
Hotstar subscription plans are currently priced at Rs 299 per month and Rs 999 per year. The plans and pricing of Hotstar are expected to be raised after Disney+.
5.ALT Balaji
Alt Balaji is a popular streaming service in India, a subsidiary of Balaji Films. They offer a bunch of ALT Balaji originals. Last year ALT Balaji announce to make 60 plus originals with Zee5 originals. The subscription price starts at Rs 100 monthly and Rs 300 yearly. This also offers rental services for movies within a validity.
Zee5 is the popular streaming services in India subsidiary of Zee Entertainment. This offers all content from the Zee network includes movies, Tv Shows and originals. It also has a live Tv option, where you can watch the online streaming of Zee Network channels also news and regional channels.
The subscription has variety based on regional languages as Tamil Pack, Telgu Pack also all access pack. Plans price starts at Rs 49 per month to Rs 999 annually.
7.Voot
Voot is the Viacom OTT platform by Viacom 18’s hosts all the content from Viacom 18 aired channels. The channels include Colors that broadcast Big Boss and MTV Roadies show, Splitsvilla and many more. Voot also has originals shows and movies. Some of the Tv Shows episodes released one day before aired on TV. It doesn’t offer any free trial, it has some ad-supported content. The subscription costs Rs 99 per month to Rs 999 per year.
8.Sony Liv
Sony Liv is OTT Platform by Sony entertainment, it offers all content aired on the Sony channels. It has some of the Popular shows as the Kapil sharma show which makes it Popular streaming services in India. It also offers movies, Sony Channels live and Sports.
Sports include live streaming of football tournaments like the UEFA Champions and the European League. The subscription is also not so costly Rs 99(1 month), Rs 143(3 months), Rs 499(6 months). It also not offers any free trial.
9. MX Player
MX Player
From last year MX Player has expanded its content and now lives across 4 countries. It’s still a video player but also offers videos from MX Originals and Voot Originals. You can watch Youtube videos directly from MX Player. It also offers a music streaming service. There is not any subscription-based service for MX Player only you have to subscribe to channels. Mx Player offers content based on ad-supported.
From the list of popular streaming services in India, only Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Youtube Premium offer a 1-month free trial. Online Platform like MX player, Hotstar, Voot and Sony Liv offers many content users without a subscription. This free content is ad-based while enjoying the videos or music you can have many ads that interrupt you.
Netflix is an Online streaming service platform with most users worldwide. It offers Web series from Netflix Originals, Movies and TV Shows from all genres. Due to Coronavirus outbreak globally, users are forced to indoors. If you don’t have used before you can sign up for the free Netflix trial. India has one of the biggest streaming market, Netflix enters with a One-month trial offer. Now, this free Netflix trial costs Rs 5 for sign up.
Netflix Subscription Plans
Netflix plans have varied globally, In India, Netflix offers a low-cost subscription. You can subscribe to Rs 199 monthly subscription for a single-screen phone or a tablet user. Subscribing to a free Netflix trial will not cost you any. It only requires a transaction of Rs 5 as payment method verification to Bank. In the trial, you can choose any plan from Rs. 199 to Rs 799 monthly subscription.
Netflix Plans
Sign Up for Free Netflix Trial
Netflix free trial sign up requires a Master Card, Visa Card or Express. In India, the banks are now mostly provides only Rupay debit cards so how we are gonna sign up. If you are an Airtel user, then register to Airtel Payments Bank. In Airtel Thanks App you will get Master Card and used it for sign up.
Also, if you are not an Airtel User, you can use IRCTC iMudra App. Download the App from Play store, register it by mobile number. Add money to the wallet and use Visa Card from App to Sign Up for free Netflix Trial.
Netflix Free Trial is valid for 30 days, after 30 days the payment as per plan will be deducted. Deduction of amount will be not done automatically, the amount will be charge as per subscribed plans. You will get the remainder before two or three left in your subscription ends.
Netflix Free Subscription in India
In India, the Netflix free trial subscription is not available for a month now. But there is a way to get a free subscription to Netflix by prepaid recharges. The Indian telecoms are offering Netflix subscription with Prepaid and postpaid plans. So, let’s see the plans without wasting a minute.
Airtel Netflix Subscription Plan in India
Airtel has some selected prepaid as well as postpaid comes with benefits of Disney+ Hotstar VIP and Airtel Xtreme Premium. The Airtel Xtreme preimum offers 380 live TV channels. The tv channels includes Colors, HBO,CNN and many more. You can get the premium by purchasing the fiber plan or set up box.
The Airtel prepaid plan of Rs. 249, Rs. 279 and others offer Airtel Xtreme premium for 28 days validity. You can explore the airtel prepaid and postpaid plans for free Netflix subscription.
Jio Netflix Subscription Plan in India
Reliance Jio has recently announced the latest budget postpaid plans with a complimentary Netflix subscription. The postpaid plans also offer other OTT apps like Amazon Prime, Disney+ Hotstar. The new budget postpaid plan is as low as Rs. 399 per month with data and complimentary access.
To opt for the Netflix subscription, users have to subscribe to a postpaid plus plan from Jio. After purchasing the plan, head over to Netflix sign up/ log in and connect the profile to the Jio account to redeem.
Vi Netflix Subscription Plan in India
Vi is a new brand after Vodafone and Idea merging. The Vi has just announced the postpaid plans for users. The Postpaid plan ranges from Rs. 399 to Rs. 1099. All the plans except Rs. 399 offers Amazon Prime for 1 year. Is not it great to have 1 Year of Amazon Prime Video of worth Rs 999 in a low price with Vi postpaid plan?
The Vi Red X postpaid plan comes with Netflix subscription for 1 year also Amazon Prime Video and other benefits. This plan will cost you Rs 1099 from pocket with additional benefits.
There are a lot of options and apps to stream movies and TV Shows online. Google Play Movies App offers movies on Rent and Buy, you can buy and rent movies for a month or more. In an Apk teardown by XDA Developers, it hints about adding of ad-based free streaming in Play Movies App.
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<string name="athome_free_with_ads">Free with ads</string>
<string name="athome_free_with_ads_description">Hundreds of movies, just a few ads</string>
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<string name="athome_watch_free_with_ads">Watch free with ads</string>
The code strings clearly show ‘Introducing’ and ‘Watch free with ads’ means Google Play Movies App will offer Hundreds of Movies with ads. This feature also adds the feature of monetization in-app. It will great to see when the feature rolls out.
There are many OTTs to watch your movies and TV Shows at home on Hotstar, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix and more. In this area, Google can compete with another streaming service in India. After the addition of this feature, Play Movies can compete with these streaming platforms. Most of the OTTs will offer monthly subscription-based service where it offers Ad based free movies.
This feature is not currently live and may arrive in a future update. In future release may be some of the features revealed in Apk teardown were not in the update. It will be great if Google Play Movies will bring ad-based free streaming.
After the Coronavirus outbreak worldwide, many global events get canceled. Google has also canceled its annual event Google I/O 2020 due to Coronavirus. Google I/O is an annual event of Google in which the company launches its new products and research. Starting of the month Google has tweeted about the cancelation of Google I/0 2020.
Google I/O 2020 is scheduled online after the cancellation of the offline event. Google writes on I/O 2020 event page“Out of concern for the health and safety of our developers, employees, and local communities — and in line with recent ‘shelter in place’ orders by the local Bay Area counties — we sadly will not be holding I/O in any capacity this year.“
“Right now, the most important thing all of us can do is focus our attention on helping people with the new challenges we all face. Please know that we remain committed to finding other ways to share platform updates with you through our developer blogs and community forums.“, Google states.
After cancellation of the Google I/O 2020 due to Coronavirus, Company has initiated the refunds of the tickets fare. Visitors will get directly eligible to purchase tickets for Google I/O 2021 who have book tickets for Google I/O 2020.
The Cloud event, Google Cloud Next 2020 gets online from 6th April to 8th April. Coronavirus outbreak not only led to cancelation of many events as Facebook F8 developer conference, MWC and more. Google has also made a Coronavirus Website live for enhanced information.
