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Microsoft adds a new voice to the text transcribe feature on the web version of Microsoft Word.

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After Microsoft announced the launch of Microsoft Office tools online to counter the service like Google Docs and Sheets, the company is all set to add new features to the platform. As per the announcement from the tech giant, the Microsoft Word online version on the web will get a feature of studio transcription where the recorded conversation and ongoing conversation can be transcribed into text in real-time. The feature will be using the Azure Cognitive Services to make sure that the transcription is done properly without any errors. The features will also be able to detect multiple speakers and provide time-stamped audio to the user. 

The feature is very useful for professionals in which they can easily make a transcription about their professional meetings. The feature can also be useful in the cases of interviews and formal meetings. Not only professionals, but the feature is very useful in the current environment of a pandemic where students are attending online classes. The entire audio lecture could easily be transcribed into text and it will help the students to cover topics they have missed. The feature will be available to all users for free who already have Microsoft 365 and currently using Microsoft Word through Microsoft Edge or Chrome browser. 

The company has already made clear that the same feature will also be launched to Android and iOS next year. The sidebar on the platform will allow the users to upload an audio file in WAV, MP4, or MP3 format and or record a live conversation to transcribe it into text. Once the text has been transcribed, it can directly be added to the Word Document. Initially, the process will only work with Word in English (EN-US), but as per the success of the tool, the company does not reject the possibility of adding more languages to this tool. 

Apart from that, the company has also added a Dictate feature on the web version of Google Docs, which enables the user to speak and convert the voice into text on the document,

Oppo to launch the new F17 Pro on September 2.

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Oppo has finally put a teaser page on its official website for the much-awaited F17 Pro smartphone. The phone is said to be the next big offering from Oppo in the mid-range category of smartphones. The phone will be finally launched on September 2 by the company and the pre-orders will begin immediately after. The phone is said to be one of the best camera phones from the company in the mid-range segment and will be a tough competition for Redmi Note 9 and Samsung M series. 

Some of the specs about the phone reveal that the phone will house a 6.43 inch AMOLED screen and a battery with VOOC 4.0 fast charging support which will have 30W fast charging support. The main feature of the phone will be 48 MP quad-camera setup which is expected to give much better image quality than the 64 MP camera setup on the other smartphones. The phone will also come up with a 16 MP front selfie camera and multiple features that will make selfie portraits even better than the previous generation Oppo smartphone. The phone will have at least six different colors in terms of offering and will be priced at $335 for the base model. 

The phone will also house a Snapdragon 765, so you can expect the phone to provide blazing fast all-round performance with a good performance in gaming as well. The company will finally launch the smartphone in a few days in India and expected a superb customer response from the very first day of sales.

New details and images leaked for iPhone 12 Pro Max, will support 120Hz refresh rate.

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As soon as a new Apple product or a new iPhone is about to be released, a lot of leaked images and spec automatically come out months before the actual release happens. Now a lot of details have already been leaked by different sources about the specs and design and we are already expecting more to come before the official launch. Now new leaked images of iPhone 12 Pro Max have been released on the internet which confirms that the phone will have a 120Hz refresh rate, which will further improve the visual quality and the animation and videos will be much smoother. 

We all know the launch of the iPhone 12 and other variants has already been delayed by a month due to the unavailability of parts, caused due to production loss in a pandemic. Now with the delayed launch, more and more images and specs seem to be coming out for the device. The new leak for iPhone 12 Pro Max reveals some very important details about the handset. The new iPhone will provide the users with two different options for refresh rate setting, which will be Enable High Refresh Rate and two, Enable Adaptive Refresh Rate. The first option will fix the refresh rate on the device to 120Hz, while the second option will change the refresh rate as per the app requirement. 

The changes to the refresh rate will happen automatically. Similar technology was also detected last week in the new generation of Samsung Galaxy phones. The settings of the phone will also have LiDAR Scanner option for better image quality and toggle option to enable LiDAR assisted autofocus and subject detection for video and Night Mode photography. The phone will also support 4k video recording at 120 and 240 FPS. More such details are being expected to be leaked before the launch of the phone. But the specs that have been revealed till now shows that the overall specs of the phone are going to be very powerful.

Apple ordered by District court not to close the developer account for Epic Games, Fornite continues to remain off the App Store

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In the ongoing feud between Apple and Epic Games, the district court has ordered Apple not to block Epic’s Unreal engine which is used by various apps on the App store. However, the popular game Fortnite remains to be off the App Store. U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said Apple can’t retaliate against Epic Games by blocking the gaming firm’s developer accounts or restrict developers on Apple platforms from accessing the widely-used Unreal Engine tools. 

The effect of banning the developer’s account will show major damage for both Epic games and other third party developers who are using Unreal Engine. The court also stated that the action on Fortnite is justified as the company did break the rules of the App store, but it did not breach any contracts related to the Unreal engine and developer tools. The court also mentioned that the game Fortnite will remain off the App Store unless the company brings the games in accordance with the App Store rules and regulations, only after which it can be published back on the platform of App Store. 

The issue started earlier this month when Apple removed Fortnite from the App Store for using its own payment method, instead of using Apple’s payment platform which also had a 30% commission that Epic had to pay Apple for every in-game purchase. With Apple removing the app from the App Store, the issue spread like wildfire, with Epic Games complaining against the monopoly the App store is having over the market. Many companies like Facebook and Xbox have also come in support for Epic Games and have objected to App Stores’ action against them.

Windows users face blue screen crash and performance issues after installing August Windows 10 Cumulative Update

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Yet another Windows 10 update is causing a lot of errors and issues for the users where they are facing performance issues with the operating system. The issue is occurring due to this month’s patch cumulative update. The update is causing a lot of performance issues for users as well as Blue screen crash errors. The Windows update KB4566782 was released on August 11, which was reported earlier due to the installation issue, where the users were unable to download and install it using the Windows update. However, in some cases, users were able to install it manually. 

Now multiple users are reporting issues where the installed update has produced serious lags in the performance of the system and is also causing the system to crash suddenly. Performance issues faced by the users are system slowdown, increased boot time, lower fps counts in games, external hard drives not working, and slow File Explorer. Also, many users have been facing an issue where the screen immediately freezes and then responds after a couple of seconds. The screen will freeze when you try to run any kind of application or open a folder. 

There is currently no solution for this from Microsoft, but a safeguard to this problem until it is resolved is that one should remove the update from the settings and pause the automatic updates till the time the issue has been resolved. It will make sure that the buggy update is not installed on the operating system and you can use it normally until a working patch arrives from Microsoft.

The world’s fastest internet speed recorded at 178 terabits/sec.

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The requirement of higher internet speeds have been increasing day by day as the size of workable files, graphic and media are also increasing. In the same effort, a team of researchers from University College London (UCL), led by Dr. Lidia Galdino, have together broken the world record for the fastest internet speed with two other companies. The data transmission speeds reached up to 178 terabits per second which are around 178 million megabits in a second. 

According to the university, the maximum speed can download the entire library of Netflix in approximately one second. As per the team, the speed attained is almost double the capacity of any system that is currently being used in the world. The transmission was done through different colors of light or wavelengths, providing a wider scope than optical fiber. The bandwidth that the researchers used was 16.8THz, which is much more than 9THz which is used more commonly. A lot of advanced hardware and software is used for the same including amplifier technologies to boost the signal over a wider bandwidth. 

The team used Geometric Shaping (GS) constellations which used different combinations of light brightness with signal patterns to find the best possible combination for data transfer. The team also emphasized on the fact that this setup could also be run using the current hardware and infrastructure. The only thing that would be required is the upgrade to the amplifiers located on the optical fiber routes at intervals of 40-100 km.

WhatsApp to bring new features in the update, like ringtones for group calls and more.

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WhatsApp has been rolling out new features for its app too frequently, giving new experiences to the end-user. Now the company has rolled out a new feature where you will be able to assign a ringtone for group calls, including new stickers and animations as well. The new update will also bring in a lot of UI improvements for calls. The information was leaked by WABetainfo, which usually tracks all the  WhatsApp features which are currently in the Beta stage.  

As per the details, the messaging app has just submitted a new update through the Google Play beta program with version code 2.20.198.11. This update will bring out a lot of new features to the app, including the ringtones for group calls. The update will also bring in a lot of new and different stickers and animations that can be used while in a chat with someone or in groups. The animations also bring in a major improvement where the animation will play in a loop for at least 8 times and will have lesser loop times as well. 

The update will also bring in new updates and UI improvements for voice calls where all buttons to manage the call have been shifted to the bottom of the screen. Apart from these updates, we can see a lot of UI improvements in the calling screen as well where the developers have been trying to clear the calling screen from any kind of buttons. Also, the chat screen will now have a dedicated camera button to share selfie-and images quickly. There are a lot more features that the company is currently working on and will be added to the app in future updates.

PUBG Mobile 1.0 launches on September 8.

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PUBG has been a kind of phenomenon ever since it was launched and the game has millions of active users worldwide. Ever since its launch, the games have been keen on adding new maps, weapons, security updates, and bug fixes to make the game experience better. Now the company will be launching the all-new version of PUBG Mobile 1.0 on September 8, which will be bringing major performance boost and performance lag fixes. The major update is also said to bring a lot of changes to the visuals and graphics of the game, making it even more engaging and able to run on low-end devices. 

The update 1.0 will bring improvements to character models, particles, smoke, air blasts, muzzle flashes, and the addition of scope interaction. The background will also see a major change as the environment such as vegetation, water, etc will be revamped to look even more real. The new update will also bring a 30% increase in frame rate and a 76% decrease in lag, which will depend on the type of hardware the phone has. Also, the game could be run on a higher fps rate which could be 90fps. 

Apart from these, there will be a lot of minor changes to the games as well, details regarding which will be released later. The game already has more than 600 million players on its platform and the kind of improvements it promises in the future will only lead to an increasing community for the game. The updates will be launched on September 8, 2020, but can be available to different parts of the world in phases.

One Plus to launch a new affordable phone under Nord series

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OnePlus has been focusing a lot of resources on the mid and budget market segment for smartphones and OnePlus Nord was their first step for entering the mid-range phone segment. However, as per the latest news and leaks, OnePlus might be working on a new smartphone that will be totally focused on the budget category segment. The new phone will also be a part of the OnePlus Nord series and will house the Snapdragon 460 chipset which is mostly used in the budget category smartphones. 

It means that it is going to be the cheapest smartphone from OnePlus to be launched till date. The information was leaked on Twitter from “the_tech_guy” where a series of codes can be seen giving all the details about the processor and chipset.

The code has mentioned Snapdragon 865, Snapdragon 855, Snapdragon 765, and Snapdragon 460 Soc as well. Since the company already has made a smartphone on all chipsets, the only one remaining is the 460 Soc. In another unverified leak, it was also claimed that the OnePlus might be launching a new smartphone with either Snapdragon 662 or 665 and will be priced at $240. 

A similar phone was also noticed on Geekbench which was codenamed “Clover”. The phone was running on Snapdragon 660 with 4GB of RAM and Android 10. Although OnePlus has made no official announcements about the same, we can surely expect the company to launch a new smartphone in the month of September, which will be targeted towards the budget or mid-range segment. 

New Malware threat detected in Google Drive

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The year has been really bad for the digital security sector as a number of hacking attempts to major platforms were discovered one after the other. Hacking of social media accounts to the leak of user data for millions of users, this year has seen it all. Now it seems that even the Google ecosystem is not untouched by the same. If you are working and relying totally on the Google ecosystem, then this might not be good news for you.

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The last few months have been a boom for Google services as people have been using the online tools to work from home and share their work experience. Google even decided to provide Google Meet for free during the pandemic, which was a paid service in GSuite. With the increase in the number of users and active engagement for Google services, it came as a perfect opportunity for hackers to steal the data and create havoc among all. Security researchers have found that a bug in Google Drive can be used to swap out the legitimate files with malicious ones.

The bug is majorly a threat for people who are currently working from home in the time of the pandemic. The bug was discovered by A. Nikoci, who claims that the bug is caused by Google Drive’s failure to check different versions of files stored on the cloud. It allows the hackers to swap normal files in favor of malicious ones and it cannot be detected as Google drive will read it as an updated version. Google drive also does not detect whether the file replaced is the same type or not, making it easier for hackers to replace any type of file.

The issue has been notified to Google, but as of now, the bug remains unresolved. Until then the users need to be aware of any unexpected changes to their Google drive. Do not run or open a file from the Drive if you do not recognize it.

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