Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1660 Ti OC 6GB Review

Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is a premium graphics card that targets gamers who want value without paying extra for the GeForce RTX ray tracing features.

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Cooler Master MK850 Gaming Keyboard With Pressure-Sensitive Analogue Keys Launched

Cooler Master has launched its new MK850 new gaming keyboard which uses infrared sensors to measure key-press depth to simulate the analogue sticks and triggers of a game console controller.

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Samsung Galaxy S10, S10 Plus come with factory pre-installed screen protector worth approx Rs 2,000

Highlights: Samsung Galaxy S10 and S10+ come applied with a first party screen protector. The replacement screen protector by Samsung is priced at MSRP of $29.99 (Rs 2,000 approx).   Samsung delivered a fairly detailed presentation of its Galaxy S10 series of smartphones when they were announced. However, small tidbits of information were left out like the ability to hide the Infinity-O display design with software implementation and that one will be finally able to remap the Bixby button to perform some other function like booting up a pre-specified app (not the Google Assistant though). One more thing that the company didn’t reveal was that the Galaxy S10 and S10+ smartphones will come equipped with the company’s screen protector. Doesn’t seem like a really big deal, right? Well, yes and no, considering how the new Galaxy S10 and S10 Plus are equipped with an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor.  While there’s no evidence to prove this right now, Samsung says that it “cannot guarantee the experiences with screen protectors made of traditional glass and polyurethane materials.” This suggests that if one uses a basic screen protector, the in-display fingerprint sensor could face some difficulty in authenticating the user. Well, it doesn’t really hurt to get a free screen protector whose replacement is worth MSRP of $29.99 (Rs 2,000 approx) with the phone. Samsung released a notice releasing the information, which was posted under the Samsung subreddit by Urano_Metria but as per the redditors post, the company had mentioned that the “factory pre-installed screen protector will be covered by 90 days warranty.” However, the circular was later updated and the 90-day warranty was redacted, so, we guess there’s no warranty after all.  The top-of-the-line Samsung Galaxy S10+ variant runs on the Exynos 9820 chipset in India and comes with 12GB RAM. It sports 1TB of Internal storage, which can be expanded to 512GB. The phone runs on Android 9.0 Pie out-of-the-box and ships with a 4,100mAh battery. It has a display size of 6.4 inches with a 1440 x 3040 pixel resolution. The Galaxy S10+ is expected to launch in India on March 6 at a starting price of Rs 73,990. Related Reads:  

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Apple AirPods 2 to launch by end of March: Report

Highlights: Apple AirPods 2 could be launched by March 29, says a new report Life of outgoing AirPods ends by March 28 AirPods 2 could feature "wellness sensors" among other new features   Rumours and leaks about Apple’s second generation of AirPods have been circulating around the internet for many months now. AirPods are Apple’s first generation of wireless earbuds; they were originally announced in December 2016. A fresh report by Spanish website Applesfera boldly claims Apple will announce a new pair of AirPods on March 25 and follow it up with the official release on March 29. The report goes on to claim that the outgoing AirPods are reaching the end of their life cycle on March 28. Applesfera says that it has heard from several different sources that Apple plans to hold a keynote on March 25. Since we can’t confirm this news we advise you to take this piece of news with a bit of salt. The website goes on to explain that, according to a screenshot it received from an anonymous supplier of Apple products in the Asia Pacific market, March 28 is the last day of the life cycle of the current AirPods. This information too isn’t verified. The screenshot received by Applesfera If there’s any truth to this information, Apple should launch an improved and more expensive version of its AirPods. The new product is expected to be named AirPods 2 but Apple could always surprise us and go with something different this time around. When launched, the new wireless earbuds are expected to pack more features. Previous reports suggest they will come with “wellness sensors” to track health-related parameters like body movement and heart rate. According to Supply Chain Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the next generation AirPods will feature handsfree Siri access, which means Apple’s virtual assistant can be awakened for voice commands without having to press a button on the buds. There’s a chance they even come with water resistance, unlike the current AirPods. A new pair of AirPods was seen passing the Bluetooth SIG certification in November last year. So a late-March launch definitely seems possible. Still, the coming days will tell us if that’s really going to happen.   Related Read: Apple AirPods 2 seem to have cleared Bluetooth SIG certification

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Horizon Zero Dawn Sales Pass 10 Million Copies, 2 Years After Its Launch

Horizon Zero Dawn has crossed the 10 million copies sold milestone in just two years since launch, revealed Guerrilla Games.

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Samsung Galaxy S8, S9 and Note 9 users can finally remap the Bixby button

Highlights Bixby remapping coming to 8 and 9 series flagship Samsung phones Update will come through the app and not the OS Won't let you remap button to engage Google Assistant   Samsung has been pushing hard for customers to use Bixby, to the point that they created a dedicated button on their flagship smartphones just for the AI. Since the button was introduced, users have complained about not being able to remap it to more useful functions like firing up the camera or even Google Assistant. With the Samsung Galaxy S10+, Samsung had announced that they would allow remapping of the Bixby button and now, the feature is also making its way to the 8 and 9 series of the Samsung Galaxy S and Note smartphones. The update that will allow the remapping of the Bixby button will come not through an OS update, but through an update to the Bixby app itself. The update can be found by going to the Galaxy Store app and searching for the update. Once updated, you will be able to remap the Bixby button to open any app on the phone, assignable using a single or double tap option. Sadly, you cannot reprogram is to bring up Google Assistant. You can find the settings by simply heading to Settings > Advanced Features > Bixby key.  For the longest time, third-party developers and Samsung have played a cat and mouse game. Developers would release apps that would allow remapping of the Bixby button and then Samsung would shut their work around down. However, BxRemapper has been a popular app that Samsung users have been using to do more with their Bixby buttons, but now, they may no longer need that. Related Reads: Samsung Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10+, Galaxy S10e Pre-bookings now open in India: Price, offers, availability and all you need to know

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Chrome Canary now includes dark mode for web pages

Highlights: The Canary build of Chrome browser gets a dark mode on Android The dark mode renders the content within the browser windows dark A system-wide dark mode could be introduced in the next version of Android   Chrome will soon join the long list of applications that support dark mode by default. Two months ago, we’d reported that Google had been working to bring native dark mode support to its popular browser on Windows 10. A fresh update from 9to5Google tells us that dark mode has now been included in the latest build (ver. 74.0) of Chrome Canary for Android and that one need only toggle a Chrome flag to see it in action. Unlike previous demos of dark mode on Chrome Canary, the updated feature in the latest build renders only the content in the browser window dark and not the browser UI. To enable this dark mode in the latest build of Chrome Canary, you have to toggle  a feature flag called “#enable-android-web-contents-dark-mode”. To do this, visit chrome://flags and search for “Dark Mode” using the search bar. Once you’ve found it, click on the dropdown button below the flag and change it from Default to Enabled. Chrome will then prompt you to relaunch the application so the changes can take effect. Hit Relaunch and expect to see no change to the homepage however. Curious to see how far Google had come with the new feature under test, we fired up our resident Google Pixel 2 XL and opened Chrome Canary. With the new dark mode enabled, we saw the Google search results page appearing well-rendered. When we opened a news article from our website, the background went from being full black to dark grey. Sadly, some elements within the page flashed white as we scrolled up and down. Naturally, we don’t expect the rendering to be perfect at this point but we do expect it to get better by the time the feature rolls out to the stable version of the browser. You’ll notice that enabling this dark mode only renders the content of pages dark and not the UI of the browser itself, which is what a dark mode in most applications does. In fact, Google has even named the flag “...web-contents-dark-mode” so users don’t get the wrong idea. That said, Google is expected to roll out a system-wide dark mode feature in the next version of Android, which should decide the colour scheme of the browser’s UI as well. We expect this dark mode for content on pages to roll out to the stable version of Chrome in the coming weeks.   Related Read: Google working to bring native dark mode on Windows 10  

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