Ubisoft, publisher of many record-breaking games in the world such as Assassins Creed, Watch Dogs, Far Cry, etc. is taking a step forward to revolutionize the gaming industry. Ubisoft is going to launch the Ubisoft Connect service that will go live on October 29, 2020.
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Ubisoft Connect is a new environment that merges entire Ubisoft services such as Uplay and Ubisoft Club in one place to provide one save file across all the major platforms. This means if you play a particular game on a console and then play the same game on another platform, then you can easily start playing from where you left on the other platform as the saved file of the game will be common for all the platforms.
For example- If you played Assassins Creed Valhalla on PlayStation 4 and save it and then save the progress and play the same game on, for instance, let’s say PC, you can easily do it and continue playing on PC from where you left on PlayStation 4.
Not only that, Ubisoft Connect packs many new features such as a refreshed user interface (UI), social features, in-game rewards, a leaderboard, also a dedicated newsfeed to check out friends’ activities and compare your stats with them. Ubisoft also features personalized tips and video recommendations based on your current game activity to improve your gameplay.
Moreover, by making use of this service, Ubisoft also offers over 1000 legacy Ubisoft Club rewards free to all the players.
As of now, only limited games will be available for Ubisoft Connect, which is likely to expand in near future. Following are the games that will be available
The Assassins Creed series
Watch Dogs series
The Division
Division 2
For Honor
The Rainbow Six series
Far Cry, and more.
This service will be available on Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Nintendo Switch, on November 10. However, for PlayStation 5 it will be available on November 15, 2020. Google Stadia will get this service by the year-end.
Samsung Electronics launched its innovative AirDresser earlier this year globally that uses powerful air and steam to remove dust and germs. The company’s unique home innovation refreshes and sanitizes clothes without even washing them. Since then, the Samsung AirDresser has gained a lot of popularity around the world, and Samsung explains how its innovative home product does the job perfectly.
Samsung AirDresser uses a powerful air and steam jet to remove dust and germs from the clothes, refreshing and sanitizing them to provide easy and convenient garment care. One significant feature of this innovation is that it works with only minimal noise and vibration. It is so quiet that you can keep it anywhere inside the home, even in the bedroom.
How Samsung AirDresser is Delivering Comprehensive Clothing Care
“The AirDresser brings truly comprehensive clothing care to the home environment, all in a sleek, appealing package,” says Samsung. It uses powerful air and steam to relax wrinkles, remove odors, dry clothes, and more. Once you hang a garment inside the unit and initiate the cycle, the system starts doing its job automatically. The Jet Air and Air Hangers built in the system release powerful air to loosen and remove dust particles and other things. It refreshes your clothes thoroughly, removing all dust particles and odor from your clothes.
The Samsung home appliance not just refreshes your clothes with the JetAir and JetSteam features, it also offers powerful deodorization feature for your clothing. It breaks down and separate odor-causing particles from clothes, including the sweat and smoke odors. This keeps your garments fresh and odor-free without having to wash them with water. In addition to this, the AirDresser removes wrinkles from your clothes using the combined JetAir and AirHanger technology.
Image courtesy: Samsung
One of the best features that the Samsung AirDresser hosts is the smart control for ease of use. You can access various features of AirDresser through the Samsung SmartThings app, which includes Care Recipe, My Closet, and Cycle Management. These let you manage and control different things and functions of AirDresser. To read more on these, see the Samsung article that talks about these features in detail.
Check out the video below to see how the AirDresser cleanses your clothing:
When it comes to transferring Messages from one iPhone to another, luckily, it’s not hard to transfer messages in iOS. Apple provides you three methods to backup which you can use to transfer your messages to a new iPhone.
You can use the iCloud backup services, make a local Mac backup or use iCloud, which places all of your texts into iCloud. These are the ways you can use, but here we are talking about both with iCloud/iTunes and without iCloud/iTunes.
To make it simpler for iPhone users to backup and transfer their things, Apple has added the integration of iCloud. By default, all Apple ID user receives a free space of 5GB on iCloud, which can later be extended by buying more storage. You can either sync all your precious data with iCloud or first take its backup and then restore it to the new phone.
How to Transfer Messages from iPhone to iPhone
Method 1: Transfer Messages using iCloud
May be the easiest method to transfer messages from iPhone to iPhone is to work Messages in iCloud. It operates quite as iCloud syncing does for other data. You upload data to your iCloud account, and then all other devices signed into the corresponding account can download messages from iCloud. Although they allow an outstanding service in migrating content from one phone to another.
Moving messages is easy between iPhones if you use iCloud. Essentially, you just need to make a backup of Messages and then place the backup onto the new phone. And it includes both standard SMS texts and iMessages. Here’s what to do. Just follow the below instructions.
Step 1: Put your old iPhone in charge and connect it to a secure Wi-Fi network.
Step 2: Go to Settings > your profile> iCloud backup and turn on iCloud Backup, tick “Back Up Now” and ready for the iCloud backup to be finished.
Step 3: When you see the Apps & Data screen on your iPhone, select “Restore iPhone from iCloud Backup.”
If you should set up your iPhone, you need to go to the Settings app. Navigate to General > Reset and choose the “Erase All Content and Settings” option to reset your iPhone, by which you can fix up your iPhone and continue to the Apps & Data screen again.
Step 4: Insert your Apple ID and password. When you complete the setup process, you can see all your messages along with other files backed up in iCloud on your old iPhone displayed on your new iPhone. This indicates you have successfully transferred messages from one iPhone to another.
NOTE: This service of iCloud was introduced in iOS 11.4. When you have it enabled, then you can use iCloud’s backup service to back up messages.
Method 2: Transfer Messages using iTunes
If you need to transfer all your iMessages as well as text messages from your iPhone to any iPhone without an iCloud app, then iTunes would be the best alternative. Besides the media library, iTunes is further set to transfer all data, including texts from iPhone to iPhone. And you only need an iTunes backup for your old iPhone to begin the transferring process.
Note: Make sure that you have the newest version of iTunes. Connect your old iPhone to your computer via lightning cable >> Start the iTunes.
Step 1: Choose your iPhone when it appears in iTunes >> Select on the Back Up Now option to back up your old iPhone.
Step 2: Next, the process completes. You can see if the backup completed successfully on the Summary screen in iTunes.
Step 3: Start your new iPhone and reach to the App & Data screen > Select on Restore from iTunes Backup. If you previously set up your new device, you need to delete it first.
Step 4: Connect your new iPhone to your computer by USB cable >> Open iTunes on your computer and choose your device.
Step 5: Click on the Restore Backup option >> Select the backup that contains the messages you need to transfer.
Note: To transfer messages from iPhone to Latest iPhone 12 by iTunes, you need to make a local backup of your messages from the old iPhone and then replace your messages with the target iPhone.
Method 3: Transfer Messages without iCloud and iTunes
There is an easy way to transfer your data without iCloud or iTunes. There are many third party Mobile tools such as Mobil Trans and Ease US mobile transfer.
What if you can’t update your old phone to iOS 11.4 – maybe because it’s an older model. Or perhaps you don’t want to spend on the storage required for Messages in iCloud. In that case, you will still transfer messages.
Step 1: Connect both the iOS devices
To begin with, you can connect your new and old iDevices to the computer and start the third party desktop application. From all the given options on its home, select the “Phone Transfer” point.
Step 2: Select messages
After selecting the messages, Mobile Trans will find all the messages from the target iPhone and transfer them to your new iPhone.
Image Courtesy: MobileTrans
Soon, just pick the type of data that you want to transfer (for instance, messages). Click on the “Start” button once you are done.
Step 3: Wait for the transfer to finish
Wait for few minutes for the transfer to complete. In the end, you will get a notification that the transfer process is complete so that you can carefully remove both phones.
Note: Make sure that both the devices stay connected until the transfer is completed.
That’s it! Now you can locate all the recently transferred messages on your new iPhone smoothly.
Other Methods
On the other hand, you can still sync your old messages – as long as you back up your old phone. Your text messages will be stored as part of the backup – either in the cloud or on your Mac or PC.
Plug your old iPhone in and also make sure to connect it with Wi-Fi.
Tap on Settings Option > Apple ID > Obtain your old iPhone. Click on it to verify that iCloud Backup is on.
You can agree on Back Up Now to force a backup. But before preparing that, you will want to review that you are backing up Messages as part of this backup.
Go to Settings >> Apple ID >> iCloud and ensure that Messages is turned on.
You can notice how big your Message back up is in Manage Storage.
Conclusion
That’s all about our example on how to transfer text messages from iPhone to iPhone. It’s obvious that you want to transfer messages from your old iPhone into your new one for the messages you thought are private or important.
With the above-listed ways, surely, you can now successfully transfer your precious messages to the latest iPhone from the old one.
Recently Google released Android Auto 5.7, an update for the Android Auto app that fixed a few things and some bugs. However, now several users are complaining that the Google Assistant is not recognizing their voice commands. Some even claim that the voice assistant launches automatically without them even doing anything. Many users using the Android Auto 5.7 have come to Google’s support forum to complain about the issue they’re facing with the latest update. But Google still isn’t able to figure out what is causing the Google Assistant to stop work.
The majority of the users claim that Google Assistant fails to recognize what the user is saying. It only listens to the “Hey Google” command and then shows the launching animation on screen as if it’s listening for voice input. The launching animation continues to stay like this, but nothing happens to the Assistant afterward.
Google Needs More Detail and Seeks Bug Reports
Google has promptly responded to the users’ complaints and has said that it is already investigating the problem. However, the company needs more information to see what exactly is happening. For this, the company has asked the users to share more logs and bug reports to help the Android Auto team figure out the cause of the problem.
Pawan, who is a member of the Android Auto Team, said, “We are currently investigating this issue. It would be great if you could send us a bug report from your phone to diagnose the root cause of the issue. We’ll send an email with the instructions on how to capture a bug report. Please reply directly to the email with your information.” Although few users are still having the issue with their voice assistant, some seem to have fixed the issue by reinstalling the app. One user in the forum says that he has fixed this issue by deleting the Android Auto app first and then reinstalling it.
Currently, there is no official fix available as of now, as the investigation is still on but, we hope the issue is fixed soon. If the problem is arising due to Android Auto, then we expect Google to release the new version in the coming days.
Google has announced the launch of its AI-driven photo printing and delivery service through Google Photos at a monthly subscription of just $6.99. The company ran its initial test in February this year, and now it is bringing the service back for use by people. People using Google Photos can have 10 photos printed and delivered at their doorstep every month for just about $7, including the shipping cost. The service will automatically send physical prints of the best photos of users upon subscription. Google Photos will start this service for its US customers this month.
Google Photos had teased the Premium Print Series service back in February this year but, now it is rolling it out across the US. However, there is no official word on when the tech giant will release its “photo print and delivery” service worldwide.
You Can Select Photos and Customize The Print
Image courtesy: Google Blog
The Premium Print Series service uses machine learning and Google’s AI to automatically recommend 10 high-quality photos for printing each month. The service will be available in the coming weeks for US users. One good thing is that users can skip a month or overrule the automatic suggestions to swap in other images if they want. Once you set your 10 images, you can then choose between matte and glossy finishes or add borders to the printed images. Google also gives you an option to print out some of your photos as card-stock postcards and mail them to your family and friends.
The subscription now provides the same-day printing and pickup service at Walgreens. According to Google, users can now order 4×6, 5×7, or 8×10 size photo prints through Google Photos for same day pickup at Walgreens. This makes it easier for the customers to find a location near them as it doubles the total number of stores available for same-day prints. Google now lets you order same-day prints, canvas prints, or photo books with up to 140 pages.
Playing games mustn’t need the internet? If you agree, then it’s good for you because a lot of games have gone online. But hey, Google Play Store for Android devices still has a trove of offline jewels to play. These games don’t need the internet and can be played offline where all content is available at once or via DLC. We dug deep into the app marketplace for Android devices to find the best offline Android games available. The list includes games ranging from 2D to 3D with a fixed perspective to PvP as well as free and paid. Check out this list of 15 best offline Android games that you can play.
15 Best Offline Games on Android
1. Alto’s Odyssey
Image Courtesy: Alto’s Odyssey (Google Play Store)
Price: Free | Offers In-App Purchases
OS: Android
Popularity: 10M+ Downloads
Alto’s Odyssey is one of the few games that offer a perfect and soothing visual on an endless runner game. Strive through the desert with time and climate-changing now and then. Your objective is to skate as far as you can, accumulating points by collecting coins, grinding on ropes, and jumping to steer clear of rocks. The game gets challenging as you move forward but, the soothing soundtrack will keep you glued to it. Complete challenges each time you play it and move on to the next level. It is an endless fun game with a soothing soundtrack and visuals and great gameplay. It is one of the installations in the Alto series that you can play.
Image Courtesy: GRID Autosport (Google Play Store)
Price: $9.99
OS: Android
Popularity: 50,000+ Downloads
Dive into the high-caliber high-graphics racing game aka GRID Autosport. With its irresistible graphics, the same gives you access to all DLC at one go. Race on 100 circuits and drive any of the 100 cars completing the loops, laps, and tracks on the go. You can switch between controls i.e. Wheel Touch, Tilt, and others as per your preferences. GRID Autosport gets scalably difficult with each level/challenge you cross. Master several disciplines including Drag and Street Race, Endurance, Drift, Open-Wheel, and groove to the adrenaline rush you’ll feel playing it. There’s a free early access version of GRID Autosport (Multiplayer) available on Play Store as well.
Price: Free | Offers In-App Purchases | Pro at $6.99
OS: Android
Popularity: 100M+ Downloads
Minecraft is a truly addictive game with millions of active users at any given time. Sure you cannot collaborate with your friends online or share what you have created when offline, but Minecraft works flawlessly when offline too. The game revolves around you with a pickaxe strolling through the map searching for diamonds and supplies for your house and farm. The visuals are not graphically enhanced but the world of Minecraft is full of blocks. It is much like a Lego World although here, everything is made up of blocks that you can alter, modify, scale-up, and more. Formulating something on Minecraft gives satisfaction like no other game so you must try.
Image Courtesy: GTA San Andreas (Google Play Store)
Price: $6.99
OS: Android
Popularity: 1M+ Downloads
GTA San Andreas is one of the best offline games on Android under the open-world category. It is a remastered version of the iconic PC game where Carl Johnson has the same story as its PC version. Carl escaped the clutches of ill-spread Los Santos, San Andreas only to return after five years. Venture into the world, roam freely and escape the clutches of the cops as Carl is framed for homicide. The game has high-resolution graphics with cloud save support. It has a dual analog stick to control both movements of the camera and the character itself. GTA San Andreas has a cult following that makes it a must-try.
This is a fun arcade game that will leave you wanting more. The game revolves around a character that’s you and you need to gather large crowds. Let your character run, take turns around the corner to control the crowd. Each time your crowd crosses paths with other characters, they will become your identical clone. There are plenty of AI-enabled opponents that you need to clone as well to manage to become as huge as you could. It is an addictive offline game that you could play for a past time although if you are looking for games with stories, this one ain’t for you.
Image Courtesy: Really Bad Chess (Google Play Store)
Price: Free | Offers In-App Purchases
OS: Android
Popularity: 1M+ Downloads
It is chess, but it isn’t chess-like. If you love or hate Chess, you should try Really Bad Chess. The game has the same checkered chessboard but the pieces are out-of-the-box. You can start with three queens and 4 horses while your AI opponent could have different pieces to play with. It takes the complexity of chess but introduces a chaotic environment that even the non-Chess players would love. Raise your rank as you play and, the pieces are randomly arranged as you go. You can play with AI for as long as you want. Really Bad Chess has a single in-app purchase that unlocks features like view captured pieces and play with your friends, and so on.
Okay, you don’t need a rocket science degree to understand why Subway Surfer is on this list. It is one of the best endless running games with pretty impressive graphics. The game occasionally changes most of its details depending upon which city it has updated too, like Miami or Paris. Run along the subway escaping the sight of a cop and a dog running just behind you. Collect coins as much as you can, use magnets to collect more. You can also use a jetpack to fly for a bit or use the hoverboard that floats and gives you an extra lease of life in case you hit a train or something. It is an entertainer that you can play to beat the scores on leaderboards. It is one of the most popular best offline games on Android with 1 billion downloads.
Fall into the incredible outer world dimension with Smash Hit. The game revolves around an aesthetic soundtrack that moves in harmony. Smash through the glass walls as you drop to get rewards. Smash Hit is one of the few games w2ith the best destruction physics. Choose between 50 different rooms across 11 graphics styles and destroy all the glass pieces to dust. The more you destroy, the more metal balls you get in the later run to destroy more pieces further. The game has no ads so you can chill. A single but optional premium upgrades give you access to new game modes, statistics, cloud save on multiple devices among other functionalities.
Image Courtesy: Shadow Fight 2 (Google Play Store)
Price: Free | Offers In-app Purchases
OS: Android
Popularity: 100M+ Downloads
If you are into martial arts, try Shadow Fight 2, a pic RPG fighting game. The game lets players use lethal weapons and move to beat their opponents to the ground. Use kick, jump, punch, or weapons including swords, magical powers to finish him. It is an epic fighting game where you need to defeat the opponents including six demon bosses. Dive into the intriguing storyline, customize your player, and set out n your quest to the Gate of Shadows like a boss. The app contains in-app purchases that quicken things and give you an edge over your opponents if you play your cards well. Shadow Fight 2 is one of the best offline games for Android to try out if you are into fighting genre.
Do you think you can handle an entire metro system in a city? If yes or if no, try our luck with Mini Metro, a BAFTA-nominated subway simulator. Set up a metro system in a growing city, increase the number of stations to accommodate the growing population. As you add stations, alter metro lines to keep the growing population and their subway rides as smooth as possible. Mini Metro has multiple modes to try including twenty real-world cities that will test your skills. It has a variety of upgrades that you do to get the best out of the gameplay. Compete against others on its daily challenge. You can also play in an endless normal mode or try extreme mode for adrenaline-pumping challenges.
Wonder playing an RPG game without the internet? It’s Eternium, a free-to-play action RPG game that allows for epic gameplay. Cast spells, swing magic to take down your opponent with its tap-to-move control. There are so many exciting things going on around Eternium if you keep on downloading the content online and play it offline. Venture into the dungeons, loot gold that you find, and protect yourself with two weapons of your choice. Unleash unbeatable abilities and spells, and more with Eternium, a complete entertainer.
Image Courtesy: Air Control Lite (Google Play Store)
Price: Free | Offers In-App Purchases
OS: Android
Popularity: 10M+ Downloads
Although some might find it childish, Air Control Lite is truly addictive. There’s nothing much to do but enough to keep you glued to the screen. Blink once and, you risk losing the score you earned landing airplanes and helicopters one-by-one. Your task is simple, be an Air Traffic Controller and guide the incoming traffic to landing. Starting with two types of planes and helicopters, you proceed further with other types of flying machines. Land as much as you can, you earn one point for each landing. Divert, reroute all you want but the end goal should be, landing. Check if paths of two airplanes or machines collide and, if they do, the game is over. That’s it, endless game open-ended to you as long as you can keep the planes landing. You can also tweak the speed if you want but beware, speeds kills.
Image Courtesy: Hill Climb Racing (Google Play Store)
Price: Free | Offers In-App Purchases
OS: Android
Popularity: 500M+ Downloads
If you haven’t played this game, you haven’t played anything ever. Although a 2D game, you’ll feel the adrenaline of riding on your vehicle across the hill filled with ups and downs. Maneuver and decelerate based on the ascent and descent in the terrain, hit those brakes all the way to keep your car in control. Newton Bill is an uphill racer who dares it all reaching hills that were otherwise impossible to mount. Use the Garage Mode to fine-tune your car and play across 28+ endless stages. Unlock 29+ cars in an offline mode and reach the summits such as Nuclear Plant, Ragnarok, and others. Get going with this bang on offline uphill racing game free to play with a few but optional in-app purchases to go through.
Image Courtesy: FallOut Shelter (Google Play Store)
Price: Free | Offers In-app Purchases
OS: Android
Popularity: 10M+ Installs
Fallout Shelter lets you manage a nuclear shelter a.k.a vault where you control all aspects of it. Create picturesque rooms under the ground, create jobs for the dwellers. Use the Radio Room to attract new dwellers to your fallout shelter. Create anything useful out of junk. Instill skills in the people living in your vault and oversee their happiness quotient at all times. Use your inevitable power to provide food, outfit, and weapons that they can use to protect themselves. You can send dwellers on the ground to find something or say, die an unspeakable death. As an administrator to Fallout Shelter, you need to keep your dwellers protected against other calamities while preparing them for the future as well. It is certainly one of the best offline games on Android to try.
A top-down shooter game set in the megacity of Edenbyrg where you need to assemble your cybernetic robot Jydge in a task to eliminate crime budding in the city that never sleeps. The game has pretty decent graphics for a top-down shooter and offers plenty of customizations for cybernetics, weapons, and more. Choose your companion from over a billion configurations, assemble your team to defeat the evil by upgrading your Gavel gun every time you get the opportunity to do it. So not shoot just ammunition but electricity, lasers, rockets, and what not to get the job at hand done. It’s a paid game, so you will have to pay to play but once you are done, there are no hidden or in-app purchases whatsoever.
This concludes our test on the 15 best offline games on Android that you can play without the internet. Some might have online portions but all are tested for allowing offline gameplay. Let us know which one of the games you play already or would love to play.
Google’s newly launched Pixel 5 recently started shipping to customers and already encountered a build-quality fail.
Some owners who received the new Pixel 5 complaint about seeing a wide gap between the phone’s display and aluminum frame. The gap is most prevalent above the front camera, on the top edge near the sim slot.
This problem might not be that big of an issue, but it can severely affect the phone’s IP68 water and dust resistance. Here are some pictures highlighting the issue on Pixel 5.
Image Courtesy: AndroidPolice
Image Courtesy: XDA Forum
Gap between screen and body frame
The reports suggest that these defects are present in phone right out of the box. So, it does not develop over time.
Some users who complain about this to the company got their phone replaced. However, there is no assurance if those new devices will not encounter this build quality issue.
This is not the first Google Pixel device to struggle with the build-quality issue. Earlier, Google Pixel 2 XL struggled with oleophobic coating and other display-related issues. Moreover, Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL had battery bloating issues.
Google is yet to comment on this issue. So, it is highly recommended to not get your hands on the newly launched Pixel 5 as of now.
NBA 2K21 players are not happy with 2K, and the game has come under fire from its fans for a valid reason. NBA 2K21 has allegedly added unskippable ads into its pre-game loading screens. As reported by Stevivor, the game has inserted unskippable video ads that play during pre-game loading screens and between matches. The worst part in NBA 2K21 is that you cannot even skip through them. The game features video ads for Oculus Quest 2 and appear on all versions of the game across all platforms, including the PS4, Xbox One, and Windows PC.
In-game ads are usually added to free games or are seen in free-to-play titles. However, NBA 2K21 is not a free but a full-priced game. Some versions of this game may cost even up to $100, but still, it has embedded ads inside. Here is a video recorded by Stevivor that clearly shows the ad playing for the Oculus Quest 2.
NBA 2K21 Plays Ads in MyTEAM Season 2
As you can see in the video above, 2K has attached the unskippable video ad to the pre-game loading screen titled “MyTEAM Season 2, Episode 7.” The ad starts automatically on the loading screen and provides no option to skip even after the ad runs full. Stevivor says that it takes longer even on a PC that runs from an SSD drive. This thing has irritated a whole lot of players as they’re seeing ads even after paying for the game, full price.
This is not the first time the NBA 2K series has received criticism from gamers. It has already faced such backlash for its focus on monetization beyond the initial cost of the game. This unnecessary step from the 2K will likely make things worse if it does not remove these ads. Though, it is still unclear whether 2K will keep these in-game ads long-term or do something else with them.
Google is on a spree to roll out new features to its various products. Recently it added new features or did some changes to its products like Google Search and Calendar. Now, the company is introducing a bunch of new features and updating the look of Assistant-powered smart displays in a big way. Smart displays such as the Nest Hub and others will now get a new, more intuitive UI, dark mode, and the ability to see calendar events from more than one Google account. Google will start rolling out the update starting this week.
The new UI will make it easier for users to interact with the display and access the information they’re looking for. The biggest change comes with a new home screen that will provide contextual information to users depending on their habits and the time of the day. It now divides functions into a few different sections.
New Features to Smart Displays
Image courtesy: Google Blog/YouTube
Google has done a significant change to the home screen of Assistant smart displays. It now divides the information into five different sections depending upon the time of the day, Media, Discover, Home Control, and Communicate. These will be accessible from tabs at the top of the screen. Depending upon the time of the day, the tab will change its title to Your Morning, Your Afternoon, or Your Evening and present various cards of information that Google finds relevant to you at that time. These may include news reports, calendar events for the day, tappable titles for playing music, and so on.
The other significant new feature is the dark mode. Assistant-enabled smart displays’ users can now activate a dark theme to make the panel easier on their eyes at night. Dark mode can also be set to change automatically depending on 5he time of the day. Besides this, the update includes another major feature that gives the ability to run multiple accounts. You can use both personal and work accounts on smart displays to manage meetings and calls in one place.
Image courtesy: Google Blog/YouTube
Google has started rolling out the features already, but it may take some time for them to reach everyone.
PS5 is all set for an official launch on November 12, 2020, and the upcoming gaming console is already grabbing people’s eyes towards it.
PS5 features
The next-gen gaming console comes with power-packed features such as-
3D-audio sound
Haptics/adaptive triggers
Ultra-high-speed SSD
Hardware-based ray tracing
Ultra HD Blu-ray support, and much more
However, gamers who have been playing on PS4 knows the struggle that how loud PS4’s cooling fan is. Not only that, the console gets very heated after long hours of gaming. But there’s good news, Yasuhiro Ootori, PS5’s mechanical and thermal design engineer in an interview with 4Gamer.net (via ResetEra) said that the company will collect data of each game and its effect on the console’s Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) and thus adjustments will be made accordingly via a firmware update.
“Various games will be released in the future, and data on the APU’s behavior in each game will be collected. We have a plan to optimize the fan control based on this data.” Says Ootori.
Moreover, Sony PlayStation 5 comes with a double-sided air intake fan which is 120mm in diameter and 45mm thick. The upcoming gaming console also packs a temperature sensor inside the Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) and three temperature sensors on the mainboard to control the fan speed.
It was all revealed in this PS5 teardown video.
PS5 teardown video || Courtesy- Sony
In addition to that, the console comes in 2 variants: PS5 and PS5 Digital Edition. Digital Edition doesn’t have disc-support. Both the variants come with a price tag of $499 and $399 respectively.
Sony has definitely taken its time and worked on the overall performance of the console. And hopefully, it will stand up to the mark. More information can be found on Sony’s official website.
