Xiaomi’s Next Smart Speaker Could Look a Lot Like the Apple HomePod Xiaomi is often rebuked of copying Apple’s design for its own products. Take the Mi notebook as an example. Now, the Chinese giant is said to be looking up to Apple to derive inspiration for yet another product. This time it’s a smart speaker and it very closely resembles theHomePod. A patent application for Xiaomi’s smart speaker has emerged online this week....

Airtel Xstream Offering Premium Kids Catalog for Free Airtel has today made its premium kids’ catalog in Airtel Xstream available for free to all Airtel Thanks customers, aiming to help parents keep their kids engaged as they’re working from home in light of coronavirus pandemic. “While we stay indoors and observe social distancing, it is critical that children has access to meaningful content for their education and entertainment. Today, we are launching a kids channel in our Xstream platform and opening it up to all our valued customers for free....

Android 11 Making A/B Partitions Mandatory to Make Updates Faster, Safer With Android 11, Google is looking to make A/B partitions mandatory to make the update process faster, smoother and safer. A new commit in the AOSP Gerrit, titled‘Require Virtual A/B on R launches’, suggests that Android 11 will check whether the device supports A/B partitions every time before it boots. Originally introduced in Android 7.0 Nougat, A/B partitions not only allow for seamless updates, but also keeps phones from bricking in case of failed updates....

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Adds New Multiplayer Maps; Four Player ‘Quads’ Mode With just hours to go forCall of Duty: Modern WarfareSeason 3 to go live, Activision has revealed some of the changes that players can expect going forward. First off, the game getsthree new 6×6 multiplayer maps, including the Talsik Backlot city in the middle of the Urzikstan desert, the Hovec Sawmill in a quaint village that’s in danger of total devastation and the Aniyah Incursion that is a more enclosed version of the area around the Aniyah Palace....

Chrome OS 81 Brings Gesture Navigation, Redesigned Dock and More With touch-enabled Chromebooks like Asus Chromebook Flip, Samsung Galaxy Chromebook and the upcoming Lenovo Chromebook Duet starting to hit the market, Google is trying to make its laptop operating system easier to navigate using touch. As part of the plan, the company has rolled out Chrome OS 81 with support for Android-like gestures that the company says will make it simpler for users to navigate the UI....

Facebook Gaming Adds Tournaments to Organize Matches Facebook Gaming has launched a new feature in early access named Tournaments that lets gamers easily organize and join matches. “We’re excited to open early access to Facebook Gaming tournaments, a feature to help people stay connected through games. Gaming is all about friendly competition, and Facebook Gaming tournaments help bring that experience to everyone wherever they are, whatever game they’re playing.”,wrote Facebook Gaming on its website....

How to Delete Your Zoom Account: A Complete Guide At the end of March,reports claimedthat Zoom secretly sends data to Facebook even when youdon’t have a Facebook account. Initially, it felt like a seemingly small problem but soon, it opened a can of worms. Now, new reports suggest that there are several security issues with Zoom. On Windows, attackers canhijack login credentialsusing path injection and Zoom’s macOS installer abuses preinstallation scripts to get away with macOS restrictions....