Google has announced the Google Fiber project more than two years ago, in February 2010. Today is the moment when the efforts behind this project are becoming reality, as they’re launching their very first fiber optic network in Kansas City. With this launch, Google wants to deliver bi-directional connectivity speeds as much as 1 Gigabit per second! The huge speed that Google Fiber wants to bring to its first community is 100 times faster than what the majority of Americans currently have, which is roughly about 4 Megabits per second....

Google has announced through a blog post that its self-driving cars have been given the green light by authorities to circulate on public roads in Mountain View, California this summer. According to Project Director Chris Urmson, the prototype vehicles will have safety drivers present and will have a capped speed of 25mph. He further added: Google also said that it plans to run small pilot programs with the self-driving car prototypes in the coming years....

Watch the video below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzM4V3MYv5k Did you notice that the phone she’s holding is unusually small and unbelievably thick for a premium flagship smartphone which will set you back by almost £699 (freaking US $1062)? Well, that’s because it’s the tiny and bulky Sony Xperia Z5 Compact being passed off as the Z5 Premium on Sony’s official YouTube channel! Pic credit: Androidauthority.com Also, check the back panel. The Z5 Compact has the normal glass back that we have been seeing on Xperia Z series of smartphones, but the Z5 Premium comes with a shiny mirror glass on the back (it’s premium, you see)....

Honor 9A The Honor 9A comes with a plastic body design and weighs in at 185g. It has a fingerprint scanner, mounted on the back, for authentication. Towards the front, the phone features a 6.3-inch FullView display, which comes with TÜV Rheinland Certified Eye Comfort certification that claims to offer protection against blue light. Under the hood, the Honor 9A runs on the MediaTek Helio P22 (MT6762R) chipset with 4x Cortex A53 cores clocked at 2....

Unique Design While the Honor 9X on first look would resemble any other modern-day mid-range smartphone with its glossy back and blue color scheme, you will see the finer details under direct lighting. The back from multiple patterns of “X” when the light gets reflected which gives it a cool look rather than having a plain and simple gradient finish. The sides also get the same glossy blue treatment. Given that the back is glossy, it does attract a lot of fingerprints and smudges....

Against all odds, though, NoBroker is flourishing today in an undisclosed office location in Bangalore, India with 4.5 million customers and 105,000 properties across five cities. Its biggest accomplishment, however, is none of that. It’s the fact that it has just in the last financial year saved brokerage fees worth a hundred million dollars. So how did NoBroker break into the onerous real-estate sphere and managed to stay there with an exponential growth?...

— Alphabet Soup (@ManicBeing) June 13, 2019 Unlike on MIUI which involved a ton of steps to disable ads across various apps and services on the phone, the workaround, in this case, is pretty simple. That’s because Huawei seems to be displaying ads only on the lock screen (as of now) and not across the UI like Xiaomi. While this is not as obtrusive as MIUI which displays ads even on the home screen and in most system apps, it can get annoying especially due to the fact that even flagship devices like the Huawei P30 Pro which are really expensive have ads showing up on the lock screen....

First, the integration of ColorOS into OxygenOS has become a hindrance for some. The general inconsistencies at UI make for an unsatisfying experience for some. Second, specific bugs and slowdowns bother many users since this is a major software update. But do not worry because we will take a detailed look at how you can downgrade your OnePlus device from OxygenOS 12 to OxygenOS 11 with ease. Pre-Requisites Before we start the downgrading process, make sure to perform a complete backup of the device as the downgrade process will factory reset your device....

Well, you could scout around for an app, download and figure out how to use it. Or just edit the PDF on your iPhone. Yes, there is a way in which you can edit a PDF on your iPhone without having to install any additional apps. And not just “Markup and Highlight” editing options but options that allow you to change orientation, add text, and even your signature to a PDF....

If you’re not familiar with Windows 8, you may have tried to download it and use the product key from your previous OS or use the one from this OS with 8.1. The bad news is that it won’t work, because each operating system from Windows will have a different product key. The good news, however, is that you can still get Windows 8 for free without doing anything illegal....

How to Download Latest Beta Build of WhatsApp? The pinned chat feature is currently available in the latest 2.7.163 build of the app. That said, the feature first rolled out in 2.7.162 version of the Android app. To make use of this new feature, you can simply download the apk of the app from APK Mirror link here. Alternatively, you can sign up to become a WhatsApp beta tester on the Play store....

Google has been testing the ‘Stay Safer’ feature for some time, and now it has finally arrived for users in India. In a nutshell, the feature will alert and notify users traveling in taxis, auto-rickshaws, or any other mode of public transport, when their vehicle goes off-route. In addition, it will also share the live status of their trips with friends/family so they can track their journey. The feature is a pretty welcome change for people taking public transport to work or different places across the city during any hour of the day....

Now, it seems that a new version of the HTTP standard is ready to be deployed, promising faster loading webpages and less load on servers. Mark Nottingham, chairman of the IETF HTTPBIS Working Group, says that the specifications for HTTP 2.0 have been formally approved. HTTP 2.0 is designed to load Web pages faster and to use significantly fewer connections, thus lowering the load for servers and networks. The new HTTP 2....

InFocus has recently announced Kangaroo, a new Windows 10 portable PC that can be yours for as low as $99. Kangaroo is touted as the world’s smallest portable desktop computer, having the following dimensions – 124mm length, 80.5mm width, and 12.9mm girth. This is pretty much the size of a smartphone. The device weighs just 200 grams, so this is truly a portable computer that you can anywhere you go....

If installing the cracked applications is the main motive behind jailbreaking, a certain iPhone hacker, iPAGod has found a way to do that without jailbreaking your device, so that you still retain the Apple warranty. Shockingly enough, iPAGod app is not using any new or existing exploit in iOS. Rather, it uses a method created by Apple for developers to share their apps for beta testing over the internet. iPAGod lets you install cracked Apps on iPhone iOS 4....

We are talking of Soan Papdi, a sweet that is a very popular gift in Indian festivals, especially during Diwali, the festival of light. Rare indeed is the middle class Indian household that does not get in line at a sweets shop for a Soan Papdi Ka Dabba (a box of Soan Papdi) at this time. And gorges on the sweet when it does come home. Every year! The iPhone is becoming a bit like that....

Spotify and YouTube Music, both managed to grab huge attention of the majority of music streaming app users with lucrative offers and a competitive price, when compared to JioSaavn and Gaana. Which, obviously, would in-turn turn the subscription base upside down for both these old players. And hence the move to cut down annual subscription prices. To give you a background, Spotify offers an annual subscription service for a price of Rs 1189 and a monthly subscription for Rs 129....

The problem was that the phone around the Pixel’s cameras tended to be erratic and expensive in equal measure. Leading some of us – Yours Truly included – to refer to the Pixel as a camera hidden in the body of a phone. Indeed the hashtag “TeamPixel” was almost always seen on photographs because that was what really marked the Pixel out most starkly – not the stock Android or the little software touches, but the staggeringly good camera....

We wish we had a Dollar for every time someone asked us that pair of questions after seeing our first impressions of the BlackBerry Classic, the standard bearer of the ‘proper’ QWERTY keyboard brigade (Hint: we would have made enough to purchase an iPhone 6 Plus 128 GB!) Well, to be able to answer your question properly, we decided to place the last four BB devices that have sported QWERTY keyboards side by side – the Bold 9900 (2011), the Q10 (2013), the Passport (2014) and the Classic (2015)....

Here is the WTF news of the day! ET talks about the top Chinese PC maker, Lenovo, being interested in buying the Finnish Mobile & networking major, Nokia. But Gianfranco Lanci, who runs Lenovo’s operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa has dismissed the rumors, by calling it a joke. Nevertheless, Nokia’s shares have jumped up 11 percent today on the basis of these rumors. This comes after Nokia’s shares tumbled to an all-time low of €1....