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In Summary Live Text digitizes the text in your photos and unlocks a series of different operations that you can perform with it on your device. It uses on-device intelligence to recognize the text in an image and allows you to take action on the captured text as you deem fit. Live Text can come in handy when you want to look up the text (in an image) on the web, copy it to the clipboard and paste it on another app, or call a phone number displayed in an image....

The company this year was looking to settle a debate over whether HDDs or SSDs are more reliable. Backblaze provides a cloud-backup service for laptops and computers and offers its B2 cloud storage to enterprises. It uses a mix of SSDs and HDDs as storage server boot drives in the Backblaze Cloud Storage platform. Since 2018, it’s replaced failed HDD boot drives with mostly 2.5-inch SSDs (some are M.2 form factor drives)....

Founded in 2003, Barracuda is the developer of cybersecurity solutions, including email protection, app and cloud defenses, data management, and network security. Products include Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offerings, threat detection and response, and data inspection. The company caters to approximately 200,000 customers worldwide and focuses on small to medium-sized businesses. It appears that the cybersecurity firm recently captured the interest of KKR, an investment company that markets itself as offering “alternative asset management....

Perhaps you spent all of last year working from home as a freelancer and now are contemplating, for the first time in your life, trying to claim the den as a workspace deduction. Maybe you took up a second source of income in the form of being a Lyft driver and now need to incorporate that ride-sharing income into your other business earnings. Perhaps you had to pay for employees who were suddenly only working part of the time because they were caring for a loved one with the coronavirus....

When HTC initially unveiled their new flagship device for 2014, the One (M8), they did so with a flurry of colors: silver, gun metal gray and gold. Quite the slate, but one of the more popular colors from the previous generation’s days apparently missed the cut. According to a new leak, that could be changing. Last year, when HTC launched the original One (now called the One (M7)), they did so with two color options: silver/white and black....

Product certification at Anatel is mandatory for products that emit radiofrequency. It is a record that aims to ensure the item, which received a seal from the agency, meets the quality and safety standards established in the country. When purchasing a non-approved product, Brazilian consumers do not have the guarantee of technical assistance in the event of technical issues, or to file a complaint through Anatel so the agency can intervene in the event of unsolved problems....

When the advances work, they’re great. When they fail, it can be incredibly frustrating to deal with. Even the most user-friendly devices can have glitches that come up from time to time. We saw it recently with the iOS 14 update, which caused iPhone battery issues for some users. Now, glitchy iPhone screens are causing annoying issues. Some people can’t get their screens to rotate from horizontal to vertical and back again....

Go a step further and find out more about the people in your family’s history who laid down their lives or served in the military. Throughout Memorial Day weekend, Ancestry.com is giving free access to war-related records. If you’re a history buff, or just want to learn more about your family’s past, you won’t want to miss this. A chapter of history at your fingertips. In honor of Memorial Day, Ancestry....

People love new. Whether that be with material goods or software, people always want the latest and greatest. HTC got a lot of crap for shipping the One with Android 4.1 instead of Android 4.2, but I doubt 99% of One owners even care. Samsung did manage to put Android 4.2.2 on the GS4, so good for them, but what about Sony? Sony is pretty bad when it comes to timing....

In a classic case of hell freezing over, Sony has started rolling out the latest version of Android to some of its devices before any other manufacturer. Android 4.4.4 is now available for the Xperia Z1, Z1 Compact, and Z Ultra, merely a week after Google released the update for Nexus phones and tablets. According to Sony’s official changelog, the update brings an improved camera experience – it’s unclear what the improvements are, but it’s possible they bring the camera experience closer to that on the Xperia Z2, Sony’s current flagship (which strangely wasn’t the first to receive 4....

Earlier today, a test Android 4.4.2 firmware for the Galaxy Note 3 had leaked online. Just a few hours later, Samsung has started rolling out the official update for the Note 3, at least in Poland. Sadly, the KitKat update does not bring any major new feature or interface overhaul for Note 3 users. Instead, all the changes are very minor in nature and are aimed at improving the overall usability of the device....

It was such a successful design that Apple stuck with it for more than a decade, even after the 2020 model was updated with Apple’s new M1 processor. But with the next-generation M2 processors on the horizon, there were rumours that the 2022 MacBook Air would receive a major revamp. The new design didn’t disappoint, reducing the laptop’s size and weight even further, while also providing a slightly larger 13....

However, the previous stories shrank the possibility that the company is planning to introduce iPhone X instead of iPhone 8. However, as we previously shared that Japanese medium claimed that the upcoming flagship smartphone from Apple would be called iPhone Edition. However, recently iDrop posted some renders of the next iPhone that somehow reveals the design of what we all are calling iPhone Edition. As we all know Samsung is also preparing to launch its latest flagship, the Galaxy S8....

A new survey polling more than 1,000 consumers across the U.S. sought to answer exactly that question, as well as to extract consumer sentiment about the coming of drone delivery and a new phase of ultra-fast end-to-end service. The top line? Consumers tend to be drone curious and generally in favor of the technology, although as with seemingly everything in the country, there’s no consensus. The survey found that a majority of Americans (58%) favor the idea of drone deliveries and even more (64%) think drones are becoming an option for home delivery now or will be in the near future, suggesting a small gap between those who believe the trend is inevitable and those who think it’s a good idea....

For most people, all they need is an internet browser. They don’t really need “apps”, in the traditional sense or the word, nor do they care about having a big old hard drive since they’ve become accustomed to streaming everything. And thus, Chromebooks were born. HP makes one, so does Samsung, Acer, and even Google themselves, but according to DigiTimes, ASUS is going to join Team Chromebook at some point in the fourth quarter of this year....

The audiobook app now works with ’s car interface so you can more easily fire up a book use the Android Auto interface to control playback. The update allows you to fine tune playback speed between .5x 3x skip forward back through the different sections of your book. Audible will appear with your list of media apps in the Android Auto interface. The Android app also puts your wish list, best sellers, categories, pre-orders in a more prominent spot....

is apparently taking a butter knife to the process in an effort to smooth things out. Instead of the current pop-out window, some are seeing an integrated frame for when you want to rate app write a review. I couldn’t trigger the change myself, so may be A/B testing the new feature or rolling it out slowly. Fire up the ay Store yourself see what you find. The story behind the story: has made a considerable effort in the last year or so to really optimize every aspect of the ay Store....

Between better and more efficient smartphones, the rise of tablets and the breakthrough of smart home devices, there’s been no shortage of amazing products to buy and try out. That said, some items released in the past 10 years were downright strange. Tap or click to see the weirdest smart home gadgets out there. To cap off the year (and the decade), we’re going over the best and most influential tech to enter our lives this past decade....

Top 10 Dual-Sim Android Phones All your contacts, SMS messages, emails and photos on only one device! And these Dual SIM Android phones have really picked up. More and more manufacturers have begun to manufacture them, with remarkable names from the tech world have tried to produce these devices. And seeing how things are going, we will definitely see many more of these devices coming up. Also, there have been many who tried to make them in the past, small manufacturers and their endeavors only proved to the big companies that this is a technology worth improving and distributing....

The Snapdragon 652-powered Redmi Note 3 was among the most popular budget mid-range devices in India last year. The company sold upwards of 2.3 million units of the handset in 2016 despite battling stock issues. For its price, the Redmi Note 3 (aka kenzo) is already a pretty great phone. What makes it even better, especially for a tinkerer, is the sheer number of custom ROMs available for it. MIUI might be packed to the brim with features and customisation options, but it deviates too much from stock Android in terms of UI/UX....