Xiaomi India Launches ‘Mi Eco-Active T-Shirt’ Made Out of Recycled PET Bottles Almost a year after launching theMi Organic T-Shirtin India,Xiaomihas further expandedits lifestyle portfolioin the country by launching theMi Eco-Active T-Shirt. According to Xiaomi, each t-shirt is made out of 12 recycled PET bottles collected from different parts of the country. The company further claims that the t-shirts are exclusively made in India for fitness enthusiasts, and are ‘breathable, sweat-absorbent and skin-friendly’....

You Can Now Use Your Xiaomi Phone’s Camera to Measure Your Heart Rate Xiaomiintroduceda new health and fitness tracking app, Mi Health, earlier last year. It offered step and sleep tracking, BMI measurement, and women’s health features to start with. The company hasgreatly improvedthese features over the past year and is now adding a new very useful feature – heart rate monitoring – to the Mi Health app. Yeah, the latest version (2....

Zoom Now Supports Two-Factor Authentication Popularvideo conferencing platformZoom has finally addedtwo-factor authentication(2FA) support across its web portal, desktop client, mobile app, and Zoom Rooms. 2FA adds an additional layer of security which requires more details to make sure that the authorized user is accessing the account. With two-factor authentication, Zoom pitches benefits likeimproved security, enhanced compliance, easier credential management, and reduced costsfor small businesses and schools. The company’s move comes a few months after itadded end-to-end encryptionfor all users....

‘BLURtooth’ Exploit Lets Attackers Hack Into Bluetooth Devices Cyber-security researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Purdue University have identified key security vulnerabilities in certain Bluetooth implementations that leave Bluetooth devices critically vulnerable to a number of different attacks. NamedBLURtooth, the vulnerability (CVE-2020-15802) affects the Cross-Transport Key Derivation (CTKD) component in Bluetooth 4.0 toBluetooth 5.0, enabling attackers to gain unauthorized access to a compromised device. According to the CERT Coordination Center at the Carnegie Mellon University, the flaw leavesBluetooth devices vulnerabletoseveral potential hacking threats, including Man in the Middle (MiTM) attacks....

“Apple One” Services Bundle Confirmed by Apple Music for Android An APK teardown of the latestApple Musicapp for Android has revealed confirmation of “Apple One” bundles. The teardown by 9to5Google revealed multiple strings that refer to Apple One bundles for subscription to Apple’s services. For the unaware, an earlier report from Bloomberg had claimed thatApple is working on creating bundlesfor its services. According to that report, the Cupertino giant was looking at bundling together two or more services into ‘Apple One’ bundles allowing users to save money when they subscribe to more than one Apple service....

Amazon in Talks to Buy 40% Stake in Reliance Retail for $20 Billion: Report Having sold around25% stake in Jio Platformsto leading global tech companies and venture capital firms earlier this year,Reliance Industries is now reportedly offering to sell a $20 billion stake in its retail business to US e-commerce giant, Amazon. That’s according to sources quoted byBloomberg Quint, which claims that the two companies have held discussions about a possible mega-billion dollar deal that could seeAmazonbuyup to 40% stakein Reliance Retail Ventures Limited (RRVL)....

AMD Zen 3 CPUs, ‘Big Navi’ GPUs Coming in October After a torrent of rumors and speculations over the past few months,AMDhas officially announced the launch date for its next-generation CPU and GPU platforms. In a teaser video posted Wednesday, the company revealed that it will unveil its Zen 3-basedRyzen Desktop CPUs(codenamed ‘Vermeer’) on October 8, followed by the Radeon RX 6000-series graphics cards based on the RDNA 2 architecture on October 28....