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LG Working on a Dual-Screen Smartphone with a Rotating Display: Report LG has beenworking to get back in the smartphone businessas the company is preparing to launch the “LG Velvet“. We started hearingrumoursof it back in April and recently gotleaked hands-on imagesof the smartphone. Now, there are rumours that the company is working on a unique smartphone that will come with a rotating horizontal display. The report comes from a South Korean publication,Korea Herald....

New $1799 13-Inch MacBook Pro is Much Faster than $1299 One, Reveals GeekBench Scores Apple, following the refresh cycle of the MacBooks that started with the16-inch MacBook Prolate last year, recently unveiled the updated13-inch MacBook Proline-up. The new models carry the specs like we sawin the leaksearlier. It also features the new scissor keyboard instead of the muchcriticised butterfly keyboard. Now, Geekbench scores of the new 13-inch MacBook Pro variants have surfaced on the internet and it shows that the $1799 model is much faster than the $1299 base model....

Samsung Pay Debit Card Confirmed to be Launching Later This Year Samsung introduced its secure and easy-to-use mobile payment system, Samsung Pay, back in 2015 to make mobile payments. Now, to celebrate the five-year anniversary of Samsung Pay, the company will be launching a physical debit card this summer. The announcement comes from a blog post by Sang Ahn, the VP and GM of Samsung Pay in the North America division....

Uber to Use “Selfie Tech” to Verify If Drivers Are Wearing Face Masks Uber is one of those companies that has taken numerous steps to curb the spread of COVID-19 through social contact. We have seenthe company deliver essentialsamidst the global lockdown. Now, as the company is starting to operate in some countries after it suffered major loses due to the lockdowns, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said that they will be using Uber’s “selfie technology” to verify if the driver-partners are wearing face masks or not....

Ubisoft “Addressed Criticism” by Making Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla Shorter The games in the Assassin’s Creed series have always been criticised for their long duration gameplays. I mean Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey takes more than sixty hours to complete. So, according to an official from game-makers Ubisoft, the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla would be much shorter than its predecessors. The Head of Communications from the Middle East division of Ubisoft recentlytweeted(in Arabic) a post claiming that the developers have“addressed criticism”and the upcoming iteration of the Assassin’s Creed game“won’t be the longest or the biggest game in the series”....

Virtual Babysitting is a Thing Now and Business is Booming As the Coronavirus-led lockdown has forced families to adopt the pandemic lifestyle, parents are having quite a hard time dealing with their little ones at home 24×7. We have seen companies likeSpotifyandApplecome up with new ways to keep the kids engaged, giving the parents a bit of time of their own. However, according to recent reports, parents are now hiring babysitters to keep their offsprings engaged virtually and it seems business is booming for the initial virtual babysitting companies....

Xiaomi Japan Apologises After Using Nuclear Bomb References in Their Ads Xiaomi’s Japan division did an “oopsie” recently by publishing a controversial advertisement for theRedmi Note 9 Pro. The company drew references from one of the biggest disasters that Japan faced back in 1945 when the US dropped a nuclear bomb on the city of Nagasaki. So, after getting a lot of backlash from the public, the Japanese division of the Chinese smartphone-makers released an official apology letter recently....