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A Fan-Favorite Honkai Star Rail Genius May Never Become Playable, Leak Suggests
Sanmay Chakrabarti
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Screwllum is a member of the Genius Society and owner of the Planet Screwllum in the Honkai Star Rail Universe. Recent leaks via Seele Leaks reveal that Screwllum will not be playable anytime soon in the game. The leak further suggests that he might never become playable in Honkai Star Rail.
According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is now testing out a new Contact Syncing feature for iOS. The new feature was being tested out on Android and has now arrived to iOS beta testers for WhatsApp. This feature will give users more control over whether they want to synchronize their WhatsApp contact across linked devices or not. Read all the details here!
Genshin Impact 5.2 Leak Reveals Two New Obtainable Gliders with Fascinating Origins
Sanmay Chakrabarti
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Stepleaks have leaked information about two new obtainable gliders in Genshin Impact 5.2. One of the obtainable gliders is leaked to be related with Dainsleif or Khaenri'ah while the other is going to be Natlan aesthetic glider. The leak bolsters that Dainsleif or more information on Khaenri'ah may be revealed in version 5.2 Archon quest.
The highly anticipated Type:// Soul Halloween update has finally arrived on Roblox! Players can now explore spooky new realms, encounter terrifying creatures, and collect exclusive Halloween-themed items. Read and discover what awaits you in this thrilling Type Soul Halloween update.
One Piece Fan Letter Special Announced; a New Spin-Off About the Straw Hats
Ajith Kumar
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To celebrate the 25th anniversary of One Piece anime, Toei Animations has announced a new spin-off episode called "One Piece Fan Letter," find out more details about this upcoming project here.
Meta Unveils ‘Movie Gen’ AI Video Generation Model to Challenge OpenAI Sora and Veo
Arjun Sha
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Meta has released a set of advanced models under 'Movie Gen'. It can generate AI videos in HD quality, produce background music, and sync it with the video automatically. Movie Gen also promises AI video editing, allowing users to remove, replace, and add elements from videos.
An exclusive report from Insider Gaming suggests that AC IV Black Flag remake is releasing sooner than expected. The report says that they have received a gameplay footage which seems finished and almost release ready. Despite the plans set, the delay of Assassin's Creed Shadows might impact the AC pipeline including Black Flag remake release date.
Apple to Open Four More Apple Stores in India; Check out the Locations
Kanika Gogia
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Apple is gearing up to open retail stores in Bengaluru, Pune, Delhi-NCR, and Mumbai. As of now, the giant hasn't confirmed the timeline for these store launches. Apple also confirmed that they have started manufacturing the entire iPhone 16 lineup, including the high-end Pro models in India.
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YouTube has announced a slew of upgrades to its Shorts section. As per the latest blog post, creators will be able to upload Shorts videos that are up to 3 minutes in length. The platform is also offering a templates feature to allow creators to re-use others' video styles and sounds for their own Shorts. Longer videos will be available starting from October 15 while other additions are rolling out as we speak.
Penguin’s Character Will Not Be As Likable By Episode 8 Says Colin Farrell
Shashank Shakya
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The audience loves The Penguin, however, Colin Farrell says that Oz is not going to be as likable by the end of the series. Learn more.
Dress to Impress Finds Itself a New Competitor in Heidi Klum’s Modelverse
Ishan Adhikary
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Runway hit fashion star Heidi Klum collaborates with Supersocial to bring a new dress-up game to rival Roblox Dress to Impress. The game comes with 13 different virtual runways around the world with more coming with each update including Octoberfest, Halloween, Hollywood, Fashion Week, Hawaii & more. On the other hand, rival DTI has over 3.2B+ visits in a year and has won multiple awards at RDC 2024.
Ads in Google's AI Overviews are officially live now to U.S users. This is to help users make a more informed buying decision anytime they head over to search to find product-centric solutions to problems. Check out all the details of this functionality right here!
Discord has introduced a message-forwarding feature, allowing users to share posts and attachments directly with others, eliminating the need for links, screenshots, or re-uploads. Forwarded messages can be sent to up to five people, and while the original author isn't displayed, a forwarded message indicator is present. This feature is available on iOS, Android, and on the web.
Oura Ring 4 Arrives with Better Battery Life & Accuracy; Still Needs a Subscription
Sagnik Das Gupta
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The Oura Ring 4 has launched as the brand's latest smart ring, with enhanced tracking and accuracy, thanks to a new Smart Sensing technology. Additionally, the latest Oura Ring claims to provide better battery life than its predecessor. Price starts at $349, with the Oura Membership requiring you to shell out an additional $5.99 per month. Find more details here!
Samsung One UI 7 Set to Release Next Year, Alongside Galaxy S25 Series
Abubakar Mohammed
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Samsung announced at the Developers Conference 2024 that One UI 7 will officially launch in 2025, following a Beta release this year. The first device to get the One UI 7 treatment would be none other than the upcoming S25 series, and other Samsung phones will soon follow.
Spotify’s New Offline Backup Feature Has Got Your Back When You’re Without Internet
Anshuman Jain
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Spotify's new offline backup feature, available for premium users, automatically creates a playlist of recently listened songs when internet goes down. This playlist is based on cached data and requires the user to have listened to at least five or more tracks to be able to create a playlist. It's a solution for instances when phone loses internet and music streaming stops.
WhatsApp is launching two new status features globally for everyone. The first new feature is the ability to like status updates and the second one is the option to mention your contacts privately in your status so that only they will know that they have been mentioned and can reshare your status as theirs if they wish to.
Honkai Star Rail 2.7 Banner Set to Bring Two Long Awaited Characters
Sanmay Chakrabarti
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New leaks from Uncle reveal upcoming HSR 2.7 version's Drip Marketing artwork details. The leaks reveal that Sunday and the new Tingyun's Drip Marketing will appear for version 2.7. Sunday and Tingyun may be connected in the story if they are appearing as playable in the same version.
Genshin Impact Leak: This Fatui Harbinger Won’t Be Playable for a Long Time
Sanmay Chakrabarti
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Leaks from HomDGCat reveals all the character IDs of playable Natlan characters. Only Il Capitano has been found to have an NPC ID among the Natlan cast of characters, according to the leak. The character IDs are also missing three characters, which points towards three more playable characters that are yet to appear in 5.x versions.
Google Pay Introduces UPI Circle & More Features to Users in India
Abubakar Mohammed
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Google has announced new features in the Google Pay app, including UPI circle, an AI-powered support guide for answering any questions users may have before taking a loan, and support for Gold Loans in partnership with Muthoot Finance. The firm hasn't provided a timelines for the release of these features, though.
Google Boosts Android Security in India with Enhanced Fraud Protection
Anshuman Jain
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Google is introducing an Enhanced Fraud Protection feature for Android users in India, following a successful 6-month trial in Singapore. This feature will block the installation of apps that attempt to capture sensitive information, aiming to prevent financial scams. It's part of Google's Digi Kavach program and will work with the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre.
Google has announced in the Google For India event that the Gemini app and Gemini Live will be available in nine languages, including Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, and more. The giant also announced AI Overviews in four more languages.
Google is updating Gmail's summary cards to be more useful and intelligent. These cards will have a new design, including an action button for bill payment reminders and calendar events. They will also display real-time updates on purchases, events, bills, and travels. A new "Happening Soon" section will show purchase summaries and appear when relevant events are imminent.
Microsoft’s ‘Click to Do’ Feature Will Be Your On-Screen Assistant Every Step of the Way
Sagnik Das Gupta
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Microsoft has announced a new Click to Do feature for its Copilot Plus PCs, which is very similar to Google's Circle to Search. The feature lets you make visual searches of text or any other content that appear on screen. Know more here.
Microsoft Paint Gets an AI Upgrade with Generative Fill and Erase Features
Sagnik Das Gupta
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Microsoft has just announced a couple of new AI features for its Paint tool. The preloaded Windows tool is not more versatile, thanks to the addition of Generative Fill and Erase. See all the details here!
WhatsApp Adds Filters and Backgrounds to Spice up Your Video Calls!
Sagnik Das Gupta
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After being in development for months, WhatsApp has made filters and backgrounds for video calls public. There are 10 different filters and backgrounds to choose from and enjoy! Here are all the details.
Microsoft Revamps Copilot AI with a Fresh UI, Copilot Voice, Vision, & More
Arjun Sha
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Microsoft has finally updated Copilot with a new look. In addition, Microsoft has added Copilot Voice for natural voice interaction and Copilot Vision for web browsing along with Copilot's real-time vision analysis. You can also listen to Copilot Daily on the homepage -- daily news from around the world presented by an AI voice. The new AI model behind Copilot is also pretty powerful.
Will There Be Joker 3? Director Todd Phillips Talks About The Possibility
Shashank Shakya
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In a recent interview, Todd Phillips opened up about the prospects of the Joker 3 movie being made, and here is what he said. The prospects of Joker 3 happening are slim. In the interview, he said, "It was fun to play in this sort of sandbox for two movies, but I think we’ve said what we wanted to say in this world."
iPhone 17 Pro Might Ditch Volume Keys and Add a Completely New Button
Kanika Gogia
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According to a leak, Apple is testing its iPhone 17 Pro with a new button that replaces the existing Volume keys and Action Button. The rumored Action-Volume Button might be something similar to the Camera Control button on the new iPhone 16 series. Users might be able to adjust the volume with a swipe and trigger customizable shortcuts with presses.
Genshin Impact: Leaked Lore of New Weapons Fills Story Gaps of Natlan’s History
Sanmay Chakrabarti
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Leaks via Honey Hunter reveals weapon lore of the three new 4-star weapons featuring in 5.1 weapon banner. The three weapons — Mountain Bracing Bolt, Sturdy Bone, and Fruitful hook, were wielded by past heroes of Natlan. Each of the weapon has a unique story that also reveals a little bit of the Natlan's lore, like the mention of the Tyrannical Python King.
After years of pushing from Google and the EU, Apple finally added RCS to iPhones. Now, recent findings have revealed a few strings that suggest Google may soon add RCS support for Google Messages on Wear OS, making texting in the Android ecosystem a bit seamless.
HSR Leaks: Fan-Favorite 5-star Character Rumored to Rerun in Version 2.6
Sanmay Chakrabarti
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Leaks via Firefly Leaks revealed the upcoming HSR 2.6 rerun character, featuring alongside Rappa. Acheron is the expected to be one of the rerun characters in version 2.6 and may feature in the same phase as the new character Rappa. This will be Acheron's first rerun banner since her release in version 2.1 in Honkai Star Rail.
Leaked Pixel 9a Renders Reveal It’s Ready to Ditch the Camera Bar
Abubakar Mohammed
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The latest high-quality renders of the Pixel 9a reveal and confirm many details about the upcoming budget Pixel device. The biggest difference is in the design, as the phone's cameras will sit flush with the back panel, unlike the Pixel 9's protruding camera island. The design on the front looks pretty close to Pixel 9 series, with the bezels being a tad thicker.
New Genshin Impact Banner Leak Reveals Upcoming Natlan Characters
Sanmay Chakrabarti
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The upcoming Genshin Impact 5.2 and 5.3 banners have been leaked via DK2. Chasca and Ororon are expected to feature in the version 5.2 and Mavuika and Citlali in version 5.3. Mavuika, Chasca and Citlali are expected to be 5-star characters while Ororon is expected to be a 4-star character.
Android 16, codenamed "Baklava" breaks Google's more than a decade long desert-naming tradition. This change is due to Google's trunk stable project, which started with Android 14 QPR 2 and used 'A' as the first build ID. This new naming scheme may indicate a shift in Android's development direction. The official version will still be denoted by a number.
[UPDATE: Fixed] Songs from Popular Artists Are Actually Missing on YouTube
Anshuman Jain
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Songs from artists like Adele, and Nirvana are unplayable on YouTube, showing a message "This video contains content from SESAC." This is because YouTube's music license deal with SESAC expired. YouTube is in active conversations with SESAC to reach a new deal soon. However, this isn't the first time such an issue has occurred; a similar situation happened with Universal and TikTok.
On the evening of September 30th, 2024, Sony PlayStation network started having connection errors. As per the PSN server status page, all PlayStation operations such as account, gaming, social, and PS store are down. The site also confirms they are working on the issues.
Google's Phone app is reportedly testing a redesign, taking inspiration from iOS' call screen interface. The new layout features two buttons for accepting or declining calls, with the decline button on the left and accept on the right, similar to iOS.
Qualcomm is reportedly working on the second generation of Snapdragon X2 Elite chipsets. The model number is "SC8480XP" and the internal codename is "Project Glymur." Besides that, Qualcomm may introduce a new 8-core Snapdragon X Plus SKU, X1P-24-100, into the market.
Apple’s Long Rumored HomePod with Display and homeOS May Arrive in 2025
Kanika Gogia
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Apple is reportedly developing a brand-new operating system called “homeOS.” The Cupertino tech giant will launch a lower-end smart display for FaceTime and controlling home appliances and a higher-end device with a robotic arm and a larger iPad-like display. Both the smart displays will have Apple Intelligence at the core. The lower-end smart display is expected to arrive as early as next year.
With the latest update, Microsoft has finally phased out Sidebar from Edge. You can update to Edge version 129 to remove the Sidebar by default.
Vivo Announces Funtouch OS 15 Based on Android 15: Check out New Features
Sagnik Das Gupta
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Vivo's Android 15-based Funtouch OS 15 is here, and it brings out about a whole new emphasis on smoothness. From a new animation system to Priority Scheduling of apps as well as new personalization options in the UI, here's all that's new!