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Huawei Mate Xs 2 Foldable Smartphone to Support Satellite Communication

Huawei Mate Xs 2 foldable smartphone will support Beidou satellite communication. It will be unveiled on November 5, 2022, during the Huawei Developer Conference 2022.

On October 31, Huawei revealed that the Mate Xs 2 folding smartphone, which debuted in April, will feature Beidou satellite communications. Huawei Mate Xs 2 is an amazing smartphone with a huge folding display screen and an outwards folding mechanism.

Given that Apple introduced a similar technology with its iPhone 14 devices, this technology has received widespread praise as an industry innovation. The Beidou Navigation Satellite System offers complete global coverage for time and navigation. Short message transmission is its most notable feature.

It is a distinctive innovation of China’s Beidou satellite navigation system and will provide a significant advantage to Huawei. Using satellite communication one can send an SMS to a recipient without the need for a mobile network. Such a technology, nevertheless, is still developing and needs time to expand.

According to a previous report, Huawei is trying to add further features including two-way communication so that users can also receive SMSes and even make brief voice calls in an emergency.

Professional satellite phones, however, are frequently large, heavy, and expensive. The recently released Huawei Mate 50 series was the first smartphone supporting Beidou satellite connectivity. It’s noteworthy that the Meta Xs 2 will be the first foldable smartphone to support satellite communication.

The Huawei Mate 50 series can send text messages, provide location updates, stay in contact with the outside world, and assist in generating trajectory maps even when the user is in a desert or other emergency situations without network signal coverage.

Huawei has revealed that the Xs 2 would only be able to link to satellites run by the dominant provider of AI and data services, Beidou. Despite being offered in certain other areas, like the UK, the new feature might only function on foldable smartphone models sold in China.

Mate Xs 2 foldable smartphone is Huawei’s most recent foldable phone. It also introduced the use of tri-band Wi-Fi. Due to its tri-band WiFi connectivity, the phone can easily handle even the most demanding network tasks. The phone comes with a Qualcomm SM8350 Snapdragon 888 4G Octa-core processor.

It boasts a 7.8-inch foldable display that can be folded into a 6.5-inch screen. The smartphone has an OLED panel with a refresh rate of up to 120 Hz, high-frequency PWM dimming at 1440 Hz, and touch sampling at up to 240 Hz. The phone is available in two storage options: 8GB + 256GB or 12GB + 512GB.

The phone has three cutting-edge design features thanks to hardware innovation: ultra-fat, ultra-reliable, and ultra-thin. Roughly weighing 250g the smartphone is even lighter than the iPhone 14 Pro. The device’s strengthened screen and double-rotor hinge technology produce an almost unnoticeable crease and increase resistance.

Huawei is a Chinese global technology company with its headquarters in Shenzhen, China. It creates, develops, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, telecommunications equipment, and diverse smart devices.

Sandhya Gupta

I am a law graduate from NLU Lucknow. I have a flair for creative writing and hence in my free time work as a freelance content writer.

Is Elon Musk planning to bring back the Vine app?

Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and the current owner of Twitter, does not appear to be resting. Not even a week after accomplishing the $44 billion Twitter acquisition deal, the billionaire is now going to consider resurrecting Vine, an app that allowed users to capture and enjoy sharing an unlimited number of short, looping 6-second videos. Twitter ended up buying it in October 2012 and decided to sell it four years later.

Jack Dorsey, Twitter founder as well as former Chief executive officer, stated that closing Vine had been his “biggest regret.”

Now, the Twitter platform’s current owner or Chief Twit has directed Twitter engineers to get to work on a Vine relaunch, which could be ready by the end of the year. According to Axios, the developers have been instructed to take a look at the old code base of Vine, which has not been altered or updated since the shutdown.

A source told Axios that there’s a lot of work to be done. Extensive negotiations are currently happening inside the networking community about a potential Vine revival, according to a Twitter employee.

Elon Musk has been attempting to give hints about the reintroduction of the Vine app on Twitter, and he even started a Twitter poll asking if indeed the app should be reintroduced on Sunday. “Bring Vine back?” he demanded outrightly. A total of 4,920,155 votes had been cast in the poll, with 69.5 per cent in favour and one-third opposed.

The reason to reintroduce Vine

The reason Elon Musk may introduce Vine again is simple which is the revenue potential. TikTok is now not only the most popular app in the world but also one of the highest-grossing apps. According to Finbold data, the short-form video platform TikTok is one of the top social media platforms generating the most revenue.

The app obtained $2.5 million per day on Android and iPhone devices all over the world in September, excluding the iPad. This probably amounts to an hourly wage of around $104,000.

TikTok managed to earn $75.8 million in overall revenue during the month. TikTok competitors can also be found on Facebook and Google.

Why was Vine shut down?

Vine was brought down in October 2016 by Twitter. “Today, we are sharing the news that in the coming months we’ll be discontinuing the mobile app,” the company said in a statement.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Though Twitter never said exactly what went wrong, the app struggled to grow its user base and find ways to make money. Vine once had a commanding lead over other social video apps, but it couldn’t keep up as competitors added features.

Suhani Jain

I am a student pursuing my bachelor’s in information technology. I have a interest in writing so, I am working a freelance content writer because I enjoy writing. I also write poetries. I believe in the quote by anne frank “paper has more patience than person

Google Rolls Out Chrome OS 107 Update With ‘Save Desk for Later’ Feature

Leave a Comment / News, Tech News / By Sandhya Gupta

In an effort to enhance user experience, technology giant Google has unveiled the Chrome OS 107 update with a “Save Desk for Later” feature.

In the past few months, Google has vowed to continuously update its ChromeOS operating system. The search engine giant has just released an upgrade called ChromeOS 107 that includes a number of new features.

Users now have the option to save their Desks for afterward in addition to merging them. When a user saves a desk, all of the open tabs on that Desk are also saved so that one can return to them later.

As per 9to5Google, the new release brings two enhancements to Desks. The first enhancement will allow a user to quickly “Save desk for later” from the overview screen by clicking the button located above the leftmost window. When a user clicks the button the “Saved for later” screen, which can be found to the right side of “New desk,” appears.

Users may give it a name, view the creation date, and quickly see the icons. It is now simpler to close open desks from the Overview menu, and if you accidentally close a desk and wish to undo it, a brief “Undo” prompt appears.

A merge feature that enables a user to consolidate opened Desks into a single one is apparently also being tested by Google. One of the most widely used productivity tools to appear in ChromeOS in recent times is Virtual Desks, which has gained popularity swiftly. The max number of virtual desktops is now eight, but Google is working to extend it to sixteen.

With so many areas to manage, Google has included a helpful function that allows users to merge one desk with the desk adjacent to it with just one click. In ChromeOS 107, users will see an icon to the left of the “X” used to close a desk when viewing a desk in overview mode. Users can delete that desk from their lineup and relocate its content to the desk just to the left by using this merge icon.

A new “Documents” filter has been added to the “Recent” view in the Files app, and the list underneath has been arranged by time to make it simpler to navigate. Users can now access “accent letters” by simply long tapping on the virtual keyboard. U By, users of Chrome OS 107 update will be able to perform the same action by pressing down on physical keys. Users might need to manually enable it if that fails.

Chrome OS 107 update also introduces auto-framing to the platform, enhancing the productivity toolkit of the platform. When auto framing is activated while using the camera on a device that supports it, the camera will intelligently zoom on the user’s face to keep one in front and center in the frame.

ChromeOS is a Linux-based operating system developed by Google. Its primary user interface is the Google Chrome internet browser, and it is adapted to the open-source ChromiumOS operating system.

Sandhya Gupta

I am a law graduate from NLU Lucknow. I have a flair for creative writing and hence in my free time work as a freelance content writer.

Jack Dorsey to take on Elon Musk’s Twitter with new app Bluesky

Leave a Comment / News, Tech News / By Sandhya Gupta

Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, is apparently testing another social networking application Bluesky to compete with Twitter.

Just as Elon Musk wraps up his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, a small tech company created by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has revealed the creation of a new social media app. Earlier this month, Bluesky announced that it would soon release a beta version of its Bluesky Social app.

Dorsey’s latest social media platform aims to be “a competitor to any company trying to own the underlying fundamentals for social media or the data of the people using it.” According to the press release, the new app will make use of the federated social network known as the Authenticated Transfer Protocol (AT Protocol), which is hosted by numerous sites instead of just one.

Bluesky announced, “The next step is to start testing the protocol. Distributed protocol development is a tricky process. It requires coordination from many parties once a network is deployed, so we’re going to start in private beta to iron out issues. As we beta test, we’ll continue to iterate on the protocol specs and share details about how it works. When it’s ready, we’ll move to the open beta.”

The company stated in its press release, “The word ‘Bluesky’ evokes a wide-open space of possibility. It was the original name for this project before it took shape, and continues to be the name of our company. We’re calling the application we’re building Bluesky because it will be a portal to the world of possibility on top of the AT Protocol.”

Jack Dorsey originally introduced Bluesky in December 2019, as Silicon Valley was bracing for a global “techlash” and a wave of disinformation and election meddling around the 2020 US election. Twitter, like all other big social networks, was battling a conundrum on how to control the voice of millions of users without running the danger of overreaching.

In order to build “an open and decentralized standard for social media,” Dorsey claimed Twitter would sponsor a “small independent team” of five software developers, with the eventual objective of transforming Twitter itself to this standard. Importantly, Twitter does not hold a majority stake in BlueSky. It has reportedly gotten $13 m in financing from Twitter as of April of this year, with the sole stipulation that its research is continued.

In a Q&A at the time, Dorsey stated that the primary and long-term objective is to create a sustainable and open framework for public conversation. Without any involvement from Twitter, Bluesky is controlled by its team itself. Bluesky aims to create a decentralized social network protocol so that various social media networks, each with its own systems of moderation and curation, can communicate with one another using an open standard.

Bluesky has been in the research stage since 2021, with 40–50 members of the decentralized technology community working to evaluate choices and putting together protocol ideas.

In 2006, Dorsey co-founded Twitter. He served as CEO of Twitter for a number of years after which he resigned. He was replaced by Parag Agrawal, the company’s CTO at the time. Recently, Agrawal was fired from the company along with the chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, CFO Ned Segal, and the general counsel Sean Edgett shortly after Musk took over Twitter.

Sandhya Gupta

I am a law graduate from NLU Lucknow. I have a flair for creative writing and hence in my free time work as a freelance content writer.

Twitter Blue to charge $20 Per Month for Blue Tick

Leave a Comment / News, Tech News / By Suhani Jain

Elon Musk has instructed Twitter employees to start charging more for Twitter Blue, which is the firm’s optional 4.99 USD per month subscription that provides some additional features for authenticated users. Musk has directed that the new Twitter Blue subscription, which also offers verified customers with a blue tick on the social networking platforms, cost approximately 19.99 USD, according to The Verge. The news comes as the “Chief Twit” presses to increase subscription revenue from the microblogging site.

Furthermore, verified consumers will have 90 days to sign up or subscribe to the new plan or their blue checkmark would be removed. Besides that, On Sunday, Twitter staff members who were working on that project were told that they would be fired if the feature was not launched by November 7, according to The Verge.

On Sunday, Elon Musk tweeted, “The whole verification process is being revamped right now.” At present, Twitter Blue is operational in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Source: yourstory.com

Elon Musk dismissed some of Twitter’s top executives last week, after acquiring the social media company for 44 billion USD. These top executives included CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, legal executive Vijaya Gadde and General Counsel Sean Edgett.

According to The New York Times, Musk has “planned to begin laying off workers” at Twitter as soon as on Saturday. Citing people with knowledge of the situation, the report said that some managers were asked to “draw up lists of employees to cut.”
Source: yourstory.com

Along with plans to bring back banned accounts, including that of former United States President, Donald Trump, Elon Musk hosted a poll on Monday to reinstate Vine.

Musk has acted fast to implement changes at Twitter, beginning with changing the homepage for logged-out users. He’s also planning mass layoffs of intermediate managers and developers who haven’t recently made a significant contribution to the code base with the help of Tesla technicians he’s brought in as advisors at Twitter.

Managers are already curating lists of employees to lay off, and the cuts are anticipated to begin this week. Employees tasked with carrying out Musk’s projects since his takeover Thursday evening have been operating late into the night and throughout the weekend.

The Twitter Blue Tick subscription became widely available almost a year ago as a way to see ad-free articles from selected publishers and make other changes to the app, such as changing the colour of the home screen icon.

Advertising stayed the large majority of Twitter’s revenue in the few quarters following its initial public offering. Elon Musk wants account subscriptions for half of the company’s whole revenue.

Suhani Jain

Apple’s Paid Subscribers Doubled to 900 Million in 3 years

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Apple has about 900 million paid subscribers on its platform, which has more than doubled in just three years, according to company CEO Tim Cook.

According to the company, paid subscribers are rising exponentially than transacting accounts, so paid account penetration is increasing.

“We have a great subscription business, 900 million paid subs now on the platform and growing very fast. We doubled in 3 years. This is the part that is really interesting to us because we really believe that the engine for services growth is there, foreign exchange is a temporary thing and the fundamentals are very good,” Tim Cook said during the company’s earnings call for the September quarter.
Source: business-standard.com

Services as well set a new high in the September quarter, with 19.2 billion USD in revenue.

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, also said that they have reached one more record on their installed base of active devices which is all thanks to a quarterly upgraders’ record and double-digit development in switchers on iPhone, and they also reached the latest revenue record for said quarter throughout nearly every geographic segment.

In terms of silicon supply constraints, he stated that they were not noticeable in the quarter.

He also stated that he wants to admit that we are still living in unprecedented times, from the war in Eastern Europe to the tenacity of Covid-19 and also from environmental disasters all around the world to a growingly difficult economic environment.

Also, he added that, through it all, they have aimed to help their customers navigate the challenges while also providing them with the tools they need to continue driving progress for both their organizations.

Apple iPhone revenue increased 10% year on year to a September quarter record of $42.6 billion, according to the company, as the Indian market perceives bumper iPhone sales led by the new 14 series.

Apple CEO Tim Cook stated that customer demand was “stronger and more favorable than they anticipated. According to a report, the Apple iPhone 15 Series will have a USB-C charging port and four models with significant feature differences.

“Customers are loving our iPhone 14 line-up. Loaded with camera upgrades for sharper photos, Action Mode for smoother videos and new safety features like Crash Detection and Emergency SOS via Satellite, iPhone is even more indispensable to our daily lives,” Cook told analysts during the company’s quarterly earnings call late on Thursday.
Source: latestly.com

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