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WhatsApp Gains Messenger Rooms Integration with Latest Android Beta Update Facebook is not pulling any punches and is gearing up to snatch a chunk of the video conferencing market from rivals likeZoomandGoogle Meet. The company has alreadyrolled outMessenger Rooms to everyone across the globe this week. Now, in line with rumors, the Messenger Rooms integration in WhatsApp has started to go live for some users. First spotted by reliable tipster WABetaInfo, the Messenger Rooms integration todaywent live for WhatsApp Android beta usersrunning the latest build #2....

2 Senior Google Engineers Quit Following Pixel 4 Failure: Report Two senior members of Google’s hardware team reportedly left the company this year following a disappointingPixel 4launch in 2019. According toThe Information, engineer Marc Levoy, who played a key role in the development of the computational photography powering thecamera app in the Pixel devices, left the company in March, while Pixel general manager, Mario Queiroz, quit in January to join Palo Alto Networks....

Amazfit Ares Smartwatch to Launch on May 19 Amazfit has been teasing a new smartwatch for quite some time now, and today, the company has finally announced that it will be launching its latest smartwatch — the Amazfit Ares — on May 19. We don’t know a lot about the upcoming smartwatch from Huami, but the teaser image shared by the company on itsWeibo accountgives away a decent amount. For one, it looks like this will also be arugged smartwatchwith a boxy, square-ish design and what looks like a rubber or silicone strap....

Amazon Fire TV Gets a New ‘Free’ Tab Amazon is adding a new “free” section toFire TVmenu’s top navigation bar to make it easier for customers to find free content across different sources. According to Amazon’s blog post, the tab gathers content across free ad-supported streaming services and apps such as IMDb TV, Twitch, Tubi, Pluto TV, Crackle, The CW, the News app, Red Bull, PBS, and PBS Kids. The content present in the Free tab will be refreshed regularly and themedia is curated across new, trending, and popular movies & TV shows categories....

Amazon’s New Fire HD 8 Tablet Lineup Comes with Upgraded Internals and USB C Amazon has today launched new tablets under its Fire Tablet lineup. The company has usually unveiled two tablets every time it does so with one normal tablet and another kids-focused option. However, this year, Amazon is putting out three new Fire tablets for consumers. Fire HD 8 The Fire HD 8 tablet, as the name suggests, is an8-inch tablet running Amazon’s custom Android-based Fire OS operating system....

Dell Launches New XPS 17 and XPS 15 Laptops with Edge to Edge Displays Dell has today launched upgraded versions of the XPS 15 and XPS 17 laptops with some major changes. The company is making the panels taller and they are now 16:10. Moreover, there’s support for next-gen ports like USB-C on the new XPS series of laptops. Here’s everything the new XPS 15 and XPS 17 come with....

Epic Games Announces Unreal Engine 5 with New Geometry and Lighting Features Epic Games has today announced the latest version of its game engine – Unreal Engine 5. The update brings two new major features to the game engine, which the company calls ‘Nanite’ and ‘Lumen’. Nanite is a feature that focuses on virtualizing polygon geometry. The feature lets developers import high-quality assets such as ZBrush scripts, photogrammetry scans, CAD data without compromising on quality....