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Samsung Ties-up With Esports Team ‘T1’ to Promote its Curved Gaming Monitors Samsunghas announced an official sponsorship deal with global esports team and three-time League of Legends champion, T1 Entertainment & Sports (T1), to market its latest curved gaming monitors, the Odyssey G9 and G7. TheOdyssey G9 and G7 were unveiledatCES 2020earlier this year. As part of the deal, players at the T1 headquarters will practice using the QLED displays. These monitors come with 1000R curvature, 1ms response time and 240Hz refresh rate....

Spotify Removes 10,000-Song Limit on Library Spotifyhas had a 10,000 song limit in the library for quite a while now. The company is now making changes tolet users add as many songs they would liketo the music library. Up until now, the Swedish music streaming giant used to show an error that reads“Epic collection, friend. There’s no more room in Your Library. To save more, you’ll need to remove some songs or albums....

Switzerland Testing COVID-19 App That Uses Google and Apple’s Exposure Notification API Switzerland has become the first country to pilot a COVID-19 contact-tracing app that uses theexposure notification APIjointlydeveloped by Apple and Google. Called “SwissCovid“, the app has been developed by the EPFL Institute in Lausanne, Switzerland. Announcing the pilot for the new app, Professor Edouard Bugnion, Vice-President for Information Systems at EPFL, said:“This is the first time that the operating system updates from Google and Apple enable its deployment and testing on such a large scale”....

Truecaller Denies Data Breach Involving Personal Data of 47.5 Million Indians Popular caller ID appTruecallerhas reportedly been subject to adata breach involving the personal data of 47.5 million Indians. Cybersecurity firm Cyble points out thatmalicious actors are selling the data in question viadark webat a throwaway price of $1000. According to Cyble, the data is from 2019. The records are classified based on various factors such as state, cities, and the network operator....

Xiaomi Mi Band 5 May Add Five New Sports Modes, Analog Watch-Faces Xiaomi is expected to launch itsMi Band 5 fitness trackerby the end of this year, and several leaks over the past few weeks have already revealed quite a bit about the upcoming device. A tipster on Chinese social media site, Weibo, has now shared what they claim to be live photos of the Mi Band 5 (see featured image above), showing off some of its design elements....

YouTube Blames ‘Error’ for Deleting Comments Criticizing Chinese Communist Party YouTube has issued a clarification after facing backlash for removing comments critical of the Chinese Communist party. In a statement, a YouTube spokesperson said:“This appears to be an error in our enforcement systems and we are investigating.Users can report suspected issues to troubleshoot errors and help us make product improvements”. The controversy started on Monday when Oculus co-founder and American right-wing activist, Palmer Luckey, accused YouTube of censoring his comments....

Call of Duty: WWII Now Free for PlayStation Plus Subscribers Sony is makingCall of Duty: WWIIavailable for free to PlayStation Plus subscribers. Thegame is available to download starting todayif you’re subscribed to PlayStation Plus. As announced on PlayStation’s official Twitter handle, the game is part of the monthly PS Plus games lineup. It will beavailable until the 6th of July. Sony will reveal the entire lineup for June later this week....