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Office 365 Rebranded to ‘Microsoft 365’ With New AI-Powered Features and More Microsoft on Monday announced a rebranding for its cloud-basedOffice 365productivity suite for consumers, naming itMicrosoft 365 Personal and Family. In an official blog post, the company said that the change will bring a powerful set of free applications and services that will help users create, share, connect, and collaborate with their friends and family. The new service will be available on the web, as well as on Windows, macOS, Android and iOS devices....

Poco F2 Won’t Be a Rebranded K30 Pro: Report The long-awaited Poco F2 is in the news again but as always, there is no concrete information regarding its specifications or availability. Poco held a virtual community meet last evening onZoom, where the company’s General Manager C Manmohan reportedly debunked a few rumors about the Poco F2. The major takeaway from the Zoom meeting is thatPoco F2 won’t be a rebrandedRedmi K30 Prothat got launched last week in China....

Reliance Donates Rs. 500 Crore to PM CARES Fund Reliance Industries has announced a donation of Rs. 500 crore to Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES Fund) in light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Apart from its PM CARES fund donations, the company is separately contributing Rs.5 crore each to Maharashtra CM Relief Fund and Gujarat CM Relief Fund. The company also focuses on India’s first 100 bed hospital dedicated to Covid-19 patients....

Samsung Announces AKG N400 Earbuds With Active Noise Cancellation Samsung has announced theAKG N400 true wireless earphones with active noise cancellation (ANC) and water-proofing. The new features make this Samsung’s most premium TWS earbuds, given that theGalaxy Buds+that wasannounced earlier this year, doesn’t offer either of the two functionalities. In terms of hardware, the AKG N400 comes with 8.2mm drivers that have a frequency response of 10Hz-20KHz, an impedance of 16 ohms and a sensitivity of 96 dB SPL....

Samsung to Stop LCD Panel Production by 2020 Samsung will reportedly end the production of LCD panels in South Korea and China. According to Reuters, the South Korean tech giant will stop LCD productions by the end of this year. The step follows Samsung’s previous announcement of suspending one of its two LCD production lines in South Korea last October due to reduced demand. The company, however, will fulfill all the current LCD orders by the end of 2020....

Skype Is Not Going Away Anytime Soon AlongsideMicrosoft 365, the Redmond giant announced thatMicrosoft Teams for consumerswould be available later this year. The obvious question that comes in mind is regarding the future of the company’s current consumer-centric video calling platform Skype. As of now, it looks like Skype is here to stay. Despite Microsoft’send-of-life announcementof Skype for Business, Skype is still a potentialZoom alternativefor video conferencing and webinars with over 40 million daily active users, an increase of 70 percent over last month partly because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic....

The COVID-19 Quarantine Has Us Using Our Phones More Than Ever As theCoronavirus pandemicspread through the world, nation after nation went into lockdown mode trying to flatten the curve of the virus’ infections. In India, that happened starting from 25 March, when the Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a21-day nationwide lockdownin order to slow the rate of spread of the disease. That announcement meant that people, including yours truly, found themselves stuck at home all day long, for days on end....