Sega Genesis Mini to Launch in September, Include 40 Games

Sega Genesis Mini is the name of the gaming console in the US, whereas in Australia, Europe, and Japan, it will be called Sega Mega Drive Mini.

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Google Maps Snakes Game Released as April Fools' Day Gag, Will Be Playable After as Well

For a limited duration you can play snakes in an all new avatar on your Google Maps app

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Google Camera update brings Dark Mode, UI changes

Highlights: Google Camera update brings Dark Mode in the app. With the version 6.2, the app will also have new UI experiences. The update is being rolled out to all Pixel users in a phased manner. Google has been doing a lot with its camera and in a bid to enhance the whole camera experience, the search giant has started to roll out an update to the camera app that brings a Dark Mode as well as some enhancements to it. The update technically makes switching between modes more fluent in the app. Version 6.2 of the Google Camera app is being rolled out to all Pixel handsets. We are still to get an update, which suggests that it is a phased release. Dark Mode The update will bring a Dark Mode to the camera app, but the question is why? There are times when you need to go into ‘Settings’ to tinker with them. Even if you use the dark mode option(s) that are currently offered in Android 9, the ‘Settings’ menu has a bright white background, which is generally a problem when you are used to the dark UI. Reportedly, to remove that uneasiness, Google is including this feature in the app. Interestingly, the mode will only be activated in the Battery Saver mode. It is assumed that users could also get the ability to keep the Dark Mode ‘on’ at all times. Previous reports have suggested that Android Q may introduce a system-wide Dark Mode. Moreover, the Dark Mode seems to working in perfect sync with Android Q beta, but not with the stable Android 9 Pie. Changes in Modes Previous Google Camera updates brought a simpler UI to the app but there have been some visual jerks when switching between the camera, video, portrait, and panorama modes. For example, if you choose between camera and video, there is a black transition screen with the icon of the selected setting in the middle. With the update, this black display will not be seen and whatever the camera is pointing to will be shown on the display. There is also a zoom in and out effect during the transition from one mode to another. The previous update (Version 6.1) brought Selfie Flash when using the front-facing camera.  Version 6.2 update brings a change to this as well. Instead of the black screen, users will now be able to see a flash icon. So if you have the selfie ‘flash on’, you will be able to notice that with the icon on the display and don’t have to reach out on the top right to toggle between the flash settings. Related Read: Android Q Beta 1 released for all Pixel smartphones: An indepth look at new features

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Huawei P30 Series of smartphones will be available in India via Amazon

Highlights: Amazon will sell Huawei P30 series of smartphones in India. The Notify Me button for the lineup is live on the online retailer’s website.  There is currently no information on what price tag the phones will carry in India. Huawei recently announced its latest P30 series of smartphones - the Huawei P30 and P30 Pro. The company’s new lineup is now confirmed to launch in India as the handsets are being teased on Amazon.in, with the ‘Notify Me’ option live for interested customers. However, only teasers for the phone are up on the online retailer’s website and there’s no mention of the price, colour models or variants it will be made available in. The Huawei P30 was announced in one version with 6GB RAM and 128GB storage. However, the P30 Pro comes in three variants: 8GB RAM and 128GB storage, 8GB RAM and 256GB storage and 8GB RAM and 512GB storage.  Huawei P30 and P30 Pro specs Both the Huawei phones are powered by a 7nm Kirin 980 processor, which features Dual-NPU. Thermal management on the device includes a graphene film cooling system. In terms of display, both the phones feature a 19.5:9 aspect ratio with a waterdrop notch display design. The Huawei P30 is equipped with a 6.1-inch Full HD+ OLED panel (DCI-P3 HDR display) that offers a 2340x1080p resolution and the Huawei P30 Pro sports a 6.47-inch Full HD+ Curved OLED display (DCI-P3 HDR) with a 2340x1080 pixels resolution. The two phones come with an optical in-display fingerprint sensor, which the company claims is 30 percent faster than its predecessor. Coming to the optics, the Huawei P30 sports a Leica Triple camera system that includes a 40MP main camera with SuperSpectrum Sensor and f1.8 aperture lens. Then, there’s a 16MP ultra-wide angle camera with f2.2 aperture and an 8MP telephoto camera with f2.4 aperture. On the front is a 32MP sensor with AI HDR+ support. On the other hand, The Huawei P30 Pro features a Leica Quad camera setup. It sports a 40MP main sensor with f1.6 aperture lens, a 20MP ultra-wide angle camera with f2.2 aperture, an 8MP telephoto camera with 5X Telephoto lens and f3.4 aperture, and finally, a Time-of-Flight (TOF) sensor. On the front, it also features a 32MP camera with AI HDR+. Both the phones run on EMUI 9.1, which is layered upon Android 9 Pie. The P30 Pro is backed by a 4200mAh battery that supports reverse wireless charging. Its battery also supports 40W fast charging and 15W wireless charging. The P30, on the other hand, gets a smaller 3650mAh battery with 25W fast charging support, but no wireless charging support. The Pro variant of the phone has an IP68 rating, while the P30 comes with an IP53 rating. Huawei P30 and P30 Pro Price The Huawei P30 is priced at 799 euros (Rs 62,200 approx), while the Pro variant starts at 999 euros (Rs 78,000 approx) for the 128GB storage variant. The 256GB and 512GB storage variants of the phone are priced at 1099 euros (Rs 85,600 approx) and 1249 euros (Rs 97,000 approx). They are expected to be priced slightly lower in India, than what they cost in Europe.  Related Reads: Huawei P30 Pro with Leica Quad camera system, P30 with three cameras launched Huawei P30 Pro first impressions: more zoom than ever before

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Xiaomi India teases Smart Cooking contraption on April Fools Day Prank or Real

Highlights: Xiaomi India is teasing a smart cooking device. This could be an April Fools' Day prank. It could also be the Xiaomi Smart Rice Cooker.   Xiaomi is known for selling a lot of smart home products in its home country China. The company’s product portfolio includes washing machines, ACs, Water Purifiers, Rice Cookers and many other smart home-centric devices. Since all of these are still not available in India and the company has said in the past that it is looking to expand its product portfolio in the country, one can expect some popular Xiaomi home products to trickle down to Indian shores in the coming months. Xiaomi India is now teasing a Smart Cooking device on its Twitter handle. In its Twitter post, the company write - “Burgers, pizzas, pasta, biryani! Why does tasty food always end up being unhealthy & calorie heavy? Things are about to change. Can you guess what's coming?” If we have to venture a guess looking at the teaser, we would say that Xiaomi could be planning to launch its Smart Rice Cooker in India, since one of the devices shown in the company’s video teaser looks like it. However, it is April 1 and this could be Xiaomi’s April Fools’ Day prank. If it is a prank indeed, it’s not a very smart one because the company is teasing a product that actually exists. If Xiaomi is in fact launching the Smart Rice Cooker in India, we’re not sure if the country is a great market for such a product. While India is a major rice-eating nation, it’s difficult to imagine Indians buying a smart, smartphone-controlled device to cook it. However, this might not stop the company from releasing such a product in the market. Nevertheless, multiple Mi followers have responded to Xiaomi's teaser on Twitter. While some have tried to guess the product, some believe it to be a prank. Xiaomi India has also responded to many tweets either with a funny GIF or emoji. We bet this is a prank. What do you think? April Fools’ Day pranks have been going around in the tech community since last Friday. OnePlus is taking followers on a ride on its electric Warp Car on the occassion of April Fools’ Day. You can read all about it here. Burgers, pizzas, pasta, biryani! Why does tasty food always end up being unhealthy & calorie heavy? Things are about to change. Can you guess what's coming?

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Speed of Light caught on tape at 10 trillion FPS

Highlights: YouTubers film speed of light at 10 trillion frames per second. They used the T-CUP camera at Caltech.   You’ve got to admit: slow motion videos are pretty cool. We’ve all come across slow motion (or “slow mo”) clips of everyday occurrences on TV, like a water balloon bursting, a bullet being from a gun underwater, jelly bouncing about on the cone of a subwoofer, stuff like that. But the latest video from The Slow Mo Guys on YouTube tops all of that—it shows a beam of light visibly passing through the entire length of a tiny vial. We must remember that light is the fastest thing known to humankind; it travels at 299,792,458 metres per second. To achieve this video, show presenters Gavin Free (Gav) and Daniel Gruchy (Dan) headed to the WM Keck Engineering Laboratories at the California Institute of Technology, where they were able to get their hands on “the world’s fastest camera” for a small set of experiments. Called the T-CUP (trillion-frame-per-second compressed ultrafast photography), the camera is capable of achieving single-shot, real-time imaging speeds of up to 10 trillion frames per second, which is a hundred times greater than the fastest camera out there. “In particular, T-CUP brings together the concepts of compressed sensing and the Radon transformation, which uses only two projections to reconstruct a high-quality 3-D spatiotemporal data cube. The T-CUP system is also built on a femtosecond streak camera, which provides the fastest possible temporal shearing to achieve Tfps [(trillion frames per second)] imaging speeds,” explains Optics & Photonics News, The Optical Society’s monthly news magazine. In the first experiment seen in the YouTube video, the duo record a beam of laser light passing through a small bottle of diluted milk at about 100 billion frames per second with the help of Postdoctoral Scholar Peng Wang. At that speed, the beam takes approximately 2,030 picoseconds to travel from one end of the bottle to the other. For reference, one picosecond is one trillionth of a second (0.000000000001 second). In the second experiment, Wang traps the light beam inside a tiny cavity called “chaotic cavity”. It has mirrors on the inside walls and is covered in water vapour. Shot at 100 billion frames per second again, the beam of light passed into the cavity is seen bouncing off the mirrored walls furiously (about 25 times in a span of 2,500 picoseconds). In the third and last experiment, the trio use a tiny rectangular vial of diluted milk to shoot a beam of light at 10 trillion frames per second. The beam is seen passing through the entire length of the vial  (which is only a few millimetres long) in less than 50 picoseconds assuming an indefinite ghostly “blob” shape. According to the duo, the T-CUP’s next upgrade might let it capture video at 1 quadrillion frames per second. Watch The Slow Mo Guys’ video below; it’s really quite cool: Related Read: Scientists prepare to drill for world's oldest ice core in Antarctica: Report

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OnePlus is taking followers for a ride in its electric Warp Car on April Fools day

Highlights: The OnePlus Warp Car can deliver a day's power with just 20 minutes of charging and you need 20 Warp Chargers to top up the battery. It drives using the smartphone's swipe gestures. The car also uses the phone's flashlight as the headlight and in-car lights.   OnePlus has moved beyond phones and how. In a press release shared today, OnePlus announced it’s launching an electric car that will be blessed with the company’s Warp Charge capabilities and introduce never-before-seen automotive integration with a smartphone. Carl Pei, OnePlus co-founder took to the company’s forums to tease the announcement on Friday, and as outrageous as it sounds, here’s what the electric supercar will have to offer -- The Warp Car, as OnePlus is calling it will be made using SLS 3D and ABS 3D printing and will be designed to make it modular. Apparently, you can build up on the design at your home itself and add new features, replacing worn out ones. It’s also crafted like a modern supercar and OnePlus said you have to be no taller than 5 feet 8in and no shorter than 5 feet 6in to fit into the car. Furthermore, the OnePlus 6T will play a key role in handling the car. The phone is used as a steering wheel, replacing the traditional wheel. OnePlus says this does away with complicated concepts like steering a wheel. Instead, the user will simply have to swipe left to go left, swipe right to go right, swipe up to go forward and swipe down to go reverse. OnePlus said they will push out an OTA update to engage Airplane Mode when the phone is in driving mode, so “you won’t ever again suffer from dismissing a notification and accidentally turning the car”. More interesting is how the car gets its lights. It apparently uses a system of tunnels and mirrors that turns the smartphone’s flashlight into its headlights. You simply have to keep your flashlight turned on and slide it into the phone holder. The in-built system will light both the interior of the car and the headlights outside. The Warp Car will also integrate the front-and-rear facing cameras of the OnePlus 6T.  The front-camera will automatically capture in-car selfies “when you’re looking especially good” while the rear-camera can take photos of the dials of the dashboard. Since it’s called Warp Car, it’s no surprise that it can charge super fast. The Warp Car can deliver a day’s power in just 20 minutes (something we have heard about the OnePlus 6T as well before), and you need to have to plug in 20 regular OnePlus Warp Chargers to top up the battery. If the idea doesn’t already sound outlandish enough, we have to burst you bubble and say this is all just a prank. Tech companies have made it a trend to take its loyal followers for a fun ride every year on April 1 and OnePlus is the latest brand to join in on the fun. Related Reads: Forget OnePlus TV, Carl Pei teases OnePlus Warp-Charged electric Car

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