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Apple recently did an event on Sept. 15, where the company announced new gadgets along with the services, including a new Apple Watch and two new iPad models.

First of all the graphics of the opening ceremony in the event blows everyone's mind up, the actual intro of the event has mesmerising animations and graphics in it.

SPOILER ALERT: iPhone is not released yet, but there are some products within those the budget products are majorly very impressive.

Let's get straight into the details-

1) Apple Watch Series 6: In the event, Apple launched it's new Apple watch series 6, Apple watch lovers know about the best features of it because most of the features are so accurate in it. Additionally, the new features added is for cardio, handwash, altitude measuring etc. The new features added to monitor the Oxygen level in blood in just 15 seconds.

Multiple changes are also there like -

The processor is 20% faster
The screen is 2.5 times brighter
Elevation is added
Memoji feature will be there too, so as to put your on the home-screen

This is available at a price of $400.

2) Apple Watch SE: This newly launched watch also has some cool features in it, but the build is someway similar to Watch Series 6. Watch SE contain S5 chipset. But the price will surely be going to just shock you, it's just $279. As compared to the devices of Apple, this price range is imposing.

One thing to notice here that everything here is from recycling stuff, that is a big step taken by Apple and even watch and it's built doesn't contain any sort of harmful chemicals in it. Apple wants to be a Carbon-neutral up to 2030. This is a very good step towards the environment also.

3) Services: As Apple is increasing the building of new products, there will also be a slight growth for services also. As Apple is providing a single package which is named as Apple One. The price of this is $14.95/month, in India, it will be near Rs.200.

4) iPad: iPad has it's 10 anniversary this year. There are two major difference you can see within these-

iPad 8: iPad 8 contains A12 Bionic chip, it is 10% faster from the old one with faster graphics and thin & light. Also has some minor changes as iOS 14 and the price will be $329.
iPad Air: In iPad Air, the all-screen display will be there and it is also available in five colour patterns. There will be a display of 10.9 inches. Resolution is also increased to 2360x6040 pixels and this price will be $600.

The best update of the event is in iPad Air, that it contains A14 Bionic chip (6-core CPU), this chip is better than the chip in iPad Pro boosts 40% faster CPU and 30% faster GPU. This chip is also expected to be in new iPhone 12.

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Many one of you wants to buy a budget laptop that will help you to do different tasks in different fields of work. According to the demand for features, here are the top 5 laptops you can buy to get value for money.

As we know buying a laptop is really confusing these days. You have so many options here to switch on and there are different sort of specifications with the variation of every model. So, let's get straight into it.

1)ASUS VivoBook 14

ASUS VivoBook 14 Intel i5-1035G1 10th Gen 14-inch FHD (8GB RAM/1TB HDD + 256GB NVMe SSD/Windows 10/Integrated Graphics)

Operating System Windows 10 Home with lifetime validity

Processor 10th Gen Intel Core i5

Display Size Anti-glare 14 Inches FullHD

Capacity 8 GB (Dual-channel configuration)

RAM type DDR4

Fingerprint Unlock Yes

Optical Drive 256GB NVMe SSD

HDD Capacity 1 TB SATA

Additional USB C-port

Click here to buy ASUS Vivobook 14

2)HP 15

HP 15s du2078TU 15.6-inch Laptop (10th Gen i5-1035G1/8GB/512GB SSD/Windows 10 Home/MS Office 2019)

Specs:

Operating System Windows 10 Home

Processor 10th Gen Intel Core i5

Display Size Anti-glare 15.6 Inches (39.62 cm) (1366x768)

Capacity 8 GB

RAM type DDR4

Optical Drive 512GB SSD

Additional USB C-port

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3) Mi Notebook 14

Mi Notebook 14 Intel i5-10210U 10th Gen (8GB/512GB SSD/Windows 10/Intel UHD Graphics/Silver/1.5Kg)

Specs:

Processor 10th Gen Intel Core i5

Operating System Windows 10 Home

Display Size Anti glare 14 Inches FullHD

Capacity 8 GB

RAM type DDR4

Optical Drive 512GB SSD

Additional Dolby Speakers Installed, FullHD web camera USB

Click here to buy Mi Notebook 14

4) Lenovo Ideapad Slim 3i

Specs :

Operating System Windows 10 Home with lifetime validity

Processor 10th Gen Intel Core i5

Display Size Anti glare 15.6 Inches (39.62 cm)

Capacity 8 GB

RAM type DDR4

HDD Capacity 1 TB

Additional Wifi6

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5) ACER ASPIRE 3

Acer Aspire 3 A315-56 (UN.HS5SI.004) Laptop (Core I5 10TH GEN/8 GB/1 TB/WINDOWS 10)

Specs :

Operating System Windows 10 Home Basic

Display Size 15.6 Inches (39.62 cm)

Processor Intel Core i5-1035G1 (10th Gen)

Graphic Processor Intel UHD Memory

Capacity 8 GB

RAM type DDR4

Expandable Memory 12 GB

HDD Capacity 1 TB

Optical Drive No (Can install SSD)

Warranty 1 Year

Sales Package Laptop, Battery, AC Adapter, User Guide

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These are some best of line specs under this price range.

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PUBG (Player Unknown Battlegrounds) is a game which is most popular among most of the countries especially India. According to the recent activity, the Indian government put a ban on 59 Chinese Apps you know so well. But, now the Indian government is thinking a lot more about security.

Now, India government has a target of 275 more Chinese apps on India's radar and this list also includes PubG and many more. They will examine it on the basis of any violation of national security and privacy of the user. From those apps, 47 apps which are apparently clones of those 59 applications which are banned earlier are banned now. This section majorly includes all the lite applications for those apps.

If you don't know about it then the Indian market for Pubg is the biggest. India accounts for 24% of PUBG's lifetime downloads. It has nearly 175 million users, and Pubg is doing a lot of efforts to save this market as they put the title in the Hindi language on Play Store.

According to a new add-on, it has also updated its privacy policy for India. In the revised privacy policy, PUBG Mobile has stated that the data produced from Indian users will be stored on servers located in India, and it has promised to not be sold off to third parties. If we talk about the information gathered by the app includes open ID, IP address, Device Information (such as battery level, WiFi strength, available space, Country code, Android ID, MAC etc), registration time, login time and some date and time stamps.

If you have noticed that the banned apps are all Chinese but Pubg is not purely or completely Chinese. The actual company who build it is "Bluehole" which is a South-Korean company and the actual promotion, marketing and distribution are done by Tencent which is a Chinese company. It is a collaboration of these two companies which make it runs smoothly.

Why all the banned apps belong to China? The main reason behind this is the laws which govern this that is the National Intelligence Law which was passed in 2017 is not so strict in terms of privacy and data security.

But, this time there is not a flaw in terms of privacy in the game. According to me, there is no such data privacy affection is happening in it so can run smoothly for coming times and if it gets a ban then the reason is not stated as privacy or security. It can be a reason for affection and health issues.

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Jio has been pretty much everywhere. Jio is entering a lot of different market sectors with a lot of different services. So, there are a lot of questions that arise from this sort of discussion,

IS JIO GOING TO BE NEXT SUPERPOWER?

So, there are two types of companies in the world. One which comes across a problem in the market and does the research, find the solution and creates a product to solve the problem. The second type of companies which look for opportunities the moment they see an opportunity where they can capture a big market share they just jump right on it. Jio is in this category of company. If we take an example, in this lockdown season Zoom Cloud Meeting getting so popular all across the world because of its big session meeting groups. But, Jio takes it as an opportunity and build JioMeet which is the exact same copy of Zoom App. Same with JioChat, the interface is quite similar to WhatsApp. Same as with JioTV+ which is just a copy of AppleTV+. This may lead to understanding that Jio is not in the favour of uniqueness as they are in the second type of the company in the market. So, we can say this "Jio is all about Business".

A lot of big companies recently got a business partnership with Jio, as there is a necessity of lower-end budget smartphones which are made in India. Big companies like Facebook, Google and Qualcomm recently invested in Jio. Jio is going to announce its smartphone soon as they are building up with Google for OS, Facebook for Apps and Qualcomm for chipsets, so they can provide smartphones with 5G in India soon.

Now as we have mentioned Jio wants to increase their profits in every trade.

Jio mart is taking up on Groofers, BigBasket etc. and they are planning to sell almost everything on it in the near future, then they will take up Flipkart and Amazon.
Jio Meet to take on Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet.
Jio Saavan to take upon tons of music servicing apps like Spotify, Gaana, Wynk, Prime Music, Youtube Music and many more.
Jio Money against Paytm, Google Pay, PhonePay etc.
Jio Embibe to take on the likes of Byju's.
Jio Health Hub against Medlife.
Jio Gate the society security app is taking MyGate and GateKeeper.

Jio is doing this because they want to create their own ecosystem on the internet. They want to get all into a single platform. According to this theory, it going to be the next superpower soon.

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As we all know that the Indian government banned 59 apps, mostly Chinese from the Google Play Store. India banned these Chinese apps over security and privacy concerns. The existing users of these 59 apps are likely to receive a notification stating the implementation of the ban. Because of this, some people are facing lots of problems and they just want an alternative for those apps, which they are using for many years.

So, we are here to give some verified apps alternatives which are having quite good performance than those 59 apps. We have divided the apps into different categories -

1. File Sharing (Shareit and Xender) - Shareit and Xender are so much popular for file sharing from one device to another. So, instead of these now you can use "Files by Google", "Z Share", "Jio Switch", ShareAll".

2. Browsing (UC Browser, DU browser, CM browser APUS browser) - Most of the people used the UC browser because of its one-page convenient feature and the others for different cool usage systems, but instead of that you can use "Google Chrome", "Firefox", "Jio Bharat browser".

3. Maps (Baidu map) - We don't think that someone uses this maps app to navigate but still you can use "Google Maps", "HereWeGo", "Map my India".

4. E-shopping Apps (Club factory, Shein) - These are popular among India, because of discounts, but now you can use "Myntra", "Flipkart", "Amazon".

5. Smartphone Boosters (Cleaner, DU speed booster) - Actually a smartphone is that much smart to clear its RAM and boosts by only removing cache apps. So, this is actually not that much useful. But, if you want a booster thing then you can use "Files by Google".

6. Games (Clash of Kings) - There are a lot of games on Google Play store, you can get similar apps and suggestions by Google. So, you can download them to enjoy.

7. Beauty Apps - There is a beauty mode available in lots of new smartphones but if you want an app then you can use "YouMakeUp", "Selfie City" or either use "Snapseed" as a picture editor.

8. News Apps (Uc News, News Dog, QQ News) - These are some popular apps for news but instead of them you can use "Google News", "DailyHunt", "Inshorts".

9. Chatting (WeChat) - Usage of "WhatsApp", "Telegram" and "Hike" is preferable instead.

10. Music (QQ Music) - I don't this some of you is using this app for music. But, you can use "Gaana", "JioSaavan" and "Spotify".

11. Cloning App (Parallel Space) - For cloning app now you can use "Clone App".

12. Video Editors (Viva Video) - For video editors, you can use "Kinemaster", "Adobe Premiere Rush", "Inshot", "Power Director".

13. Doc Scanning Apps (CamScanner) - For scanning, you can now use "Adobe scan", "Microsoft office lens", "Google Drive scan feature", "Scan it", "Kagaz Scanner".

14. Screen Recorders (du Recorder) - Now, there are inbuilt screen recording option available in almost every smartphone but if you want to use an app then "Screen Recorder (No Ads)" is preferable.

15. Safety Vault (Vault-Hide) - Now, there are inbuilt vaults available in almost every smartphone but if you want to use an app then "Keep Safe" is preferable.

16. Entertainment (Tik-Tok, Likee, Quaii, BigoLive) - These all apps are widely used by the Indian people, and I suggest you don't use these kinds of apps. But still, if you want some then you can use "Triller", "Chingari", "Roposo", "ShareChat".

These recommended apps are available on the Play Store and verified as Google Play Protect.

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PUBG MOBILE, Gameplay. Battlegrounds is a player versus player shooter game in which up to one hundred players fight in a battle royale, a type of large-scale last man standing deathmatch where players fight to remain the last alive. Players can choose to enter the match solo, duo, or with a small team of up to four people.

As everyone knows about this that the Govt banned 59 Chinese mobile applications, including top social media platforms such as TikTok, Helo and WeChat, to counter the threat posed by these applications to the country’s “sovereignty and security,” it said in a press release late on Monday. ShareIT, UC browser and shopping app Clubfactory are among the other prominent apps that have been blocked amid rising tensions between India and China following clashes at the border two weeks ago. Now, there is the biggest question comes in that if PUBG (Player Unknown's Battle Ground) has chances to get banned in India too?

Is PUBG Mobile banned in India? As the tensions between India and China have grown up, the Indian government has decided to put up a ban on 59 Chinese apps including the popular ones like TikTok, UC browser and more. However, people want to know whether the popular battle royale game PUBG Mobile has also taken the hit or not.

So, the simple answer as of now is that the game will continue to serve its purpose in India. The government has not decided to put a ban on Tencent Games' popular title PUBG Mobile here in India. As of now, the players will also be able to enjoy the game Call of Duty: Mobile on the Android, iOS devices.

In case you have missed the list of Chinese apps that have been banned, here's the complete list:
List of 59 Chinese apps banned in India:

1. TikTok
2. Shareit
3. Kwai
4. UC Browser
5. Baidu map
6. Shein
7. Clash of Kings
8. DU battery saver
9. Helo
10. Likee
11. YouCam makeup
12. Mi Community
13. CM Browers
14. Virus Cleaner
15. APUS Browser
16. ROMWE
17. Club Factory
18. Newsdog
19. Beutry Plus
20. WeChat
21. UC News
22. QQ Mail
23. Weibo
24. Xender
25. QQ Music
26. QQ Newsfeed
27. Bigo Live
28. SelfieCity
29. Mail Master
30. Parallel Space
31. Mi Video Call – Xiaomi
32. WeSync
33. ES File Explorer
34. Viva Video – QU Video Inc
35. Meitu
36. Vigo Video
37. New Video Status
38. DU Recorder
39. Vault- Hide
40. Cache Cleaner DU App studio
41. DU Cleaner
42. DU Browser
43. Hago Play With New Friends
44. Cam Scanner
45. Clean Master – Cheetah Mobile
46. Wonder Camera
47. Photo Wonder
48. QQ Player
49. We Meet
50. Sweet Selfie
51. Baidu Translate
52. Vmate
53. QQ International
54. QQ Security Center
55. QQ Launcher
56. U Video
57. V fly Status Video
58. Mobile Legends
59. DU Privacy
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WWDC is Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference where developers can attend sessions and meet with Apple Engineers. In this year 2020, it is also there to showcase some new updates and results of what Apple developers created. It is scheduled from June 22, 2020.

So, here's everything that Apple announced at WWDC 2020:

iOS 14
One of the major changes that iOS 14 carries over iOS 13 and all previous iOS versions are the addition of the App Library view that groups multiple apps automatically on one, single screen. The experience seems similar to multiple folders on a home screen. In addition, the apps will be in a sorted manner.
"We created an easy way to hide out pages", said Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Apple, while announcing the App Library in iOS 14.

App Library

Widgets
Here a lot of widgets are provided just to tap and hold to one to get onto your home screen. So, now you can track anything just by you and it also provides some customizations to our layout pages. Instead of being that boring screen, it will become an interesting one.

Widgets placed onto the home screen

Picture-in-Picture

There is a feature introduced c/a Picture-in-Picture by Apple. This with automatically make a playing video to get into a smaller sized pictured view as you go to the Home.

Siri

This is one of the best updates what Apple users really want, it is so disturbing according to the user when Siri takes the whole screen to take commands. But, now it will take a few inches below to the screen so as to get better user experience.

Translate

When talking to someone with another language Siri can help in translations. Then because of this Apple introduced "Translate" which helps to translate a language into another. It can work completely offline and keeping your conversations private. Using advanced on Device Machine Learning and the powerful Neural Engine you can translate your voice and text between any combination of top 11 languages.

Messages

Apple is introducing a new way to let you stay connected to the most important conversations by letting you pin them at the top of your list so you can always get to them. If we talk about Groups, Apple is adding Inline replies that let you reply directly to a specific message you can view full replies in the full conversation or you can view them as their own threads you can focus in on the specific topic to make it even more clear who a message was meant for, Mentions is introduced. You can type someone's name to send a direct message to them. Now you'll also have the ability to notified only when you're mentioned (just like SLACK).

Cars interface update and lock/unlock via iPhone

EV routing in Maps, if you've electric car maps is going to help eliminate range anxiety and there are a bunch of new wallpapers to set according to your mood. There is additional support for new categories of care play apps like Parking, AV charging and quick food ordering.

Now you can let your keys at home and unlock and start your car with your iPhone, actually, it uses NFC and you just tap to unlock.

App Store

App Clip is introduced which is a small part of an App which initiates with a card and when it is clicked then app pops up, that is with just a tap you can launch the app clip. No need to app credit cards because it uses apple pay to pay anywhere, to launch it superfast the app SDK is less than 10MB.

iPadOS 14

I) Calls - An iPad call covers the whole big screen which is not so cool, now introducing a short call notified version, which notifies near you notification panel and has access to take up and deny the calls.

II) Search - Apple just rebuild the search from the group up to be a universal search, it is a single destination where you can access all your searches. It can majorly access Apps, Contacts, Documents

III) Pencil - Apple is introducing Scribble, so you can handwrite to convert anything as text. Scribble recognises both English and Chinese. Everything is detected e.g if you wrote the number for a phone call or address to show the directions.

Airpods

Starting with automatic switching - let's say if you just finished listening to a podcast and you pick up your iPad to watch a show AirPods will magically switch over.

Apple Watch

Now the watch faces get to the watch or you can add it from a third party website too. Dance is added to the workouts section which is actually a full-body workout. Sleep tracker gets also updated into it. Hand wash timers are also there to detect and tell you to proper hand wash.

macOS - Big Sur

Here apple brought up a control centre in macOS, this makes you adjust anything so easily at one place. Notifications and widgets placed together decently to manage easily.

Safari (Apple's Browser)

For the browser lovers safari is there to work 50% faster as compared to chrome and native translation capabilities are into it now.

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These all major announcements were done by Apple Officials in WWDC-2020

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Security is the primary factor which we all need in every state and every part of our lives. Either in terms of jobs, business and some smart devices around you. Devices can catch malware and viruses if you are not there to take care of them. Because of this only, Smartphone Security is being a big responsibility for every smartphone maker to get into. So, that people can trust the device and save their personal docs, photos and videos in it. So, here a guard which is offered by one of India's leading Direct Selling Companies and is a major player industry dominated by multinational giants called "Mighty Gaurd or also known as Modicare Mighty Gaurd".

MightyGuard is a powerful military-grade mobile app security app by Modicare to protect your mobile against hackers and threats such as phishing, malware and viruses.

MightyGuard is providing some essential features listed here:

Anti-Theft - User can enable Anti-Theft to track and locate your mobile when it is lost or stolen, you can play a loud alarm even if it is on silent mode.

Intruder Alert - Enable intruder to capture the image of the person trying to unlock your phone three times with wrong PIN/pattern/password.

VPN - Protect your device privacy, hide your IP address and secure your connection on public Wi-Fi with its inbuilt VPN feature.

Data Breach - Find if your details were exposed in any data breach.

Parental Lock - Enable parental lock to block inappropriate websites and keep you kids safe online

App Lock - Lock and protect your sensitive apps using a PIN.

Call Blocker - Manage your block list to automatically block calls from majorly spammed or specific numbers.

Privacy Advisor - This is an add-on feature to the app, it reviews the permissions used by the apps on your phone and decides whether to keep them or not.

This app contains lots of essential features which protect your phone. It has a stable rating of 4.4 on Google Play Store. There are some recent bugs which are reported by the users into it. But, they are got fixed now. Now the app is truly working great. We can recommend this app in terms of security and look forward to get some really new features and updates with a lot more in terms of security.
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In this lockdown season, everyone wants to continue their work as it as early and these tools are helping in various sectors like Education, Business, IT support etc. In early time most of the software is there to charge some amount or fee and just giving minimal features in the free version. As they know in this lockdown season everyone wants to get in touch to proceed with their workings. Every platform has got so many updates now, as they are improving for a better experience to the customers. Hence, everyone just got attracted by their product and start using it. There are a lot of video conferencing tools which are present in the market today.

So, here are the 5 most popular video conferencing tools which you can use in 2020:

1) Google Hangouts Meet - Video meetings for your business. Connect with your team from anywhere. With easy-to-join video calls, you can meet face to face without the added cost of travel and the best part of this is it can operate via Browser easily and with the security of Google.

2) Zoom - Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, and group messaging into one easy-to-use platform. Our solution offers the best video, audio, and screen-sharing experience across Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Blackberry, Zoom Rooms, and H.323/SIP room systems. As it has some issue with its security but that issue is fixed now.

3) Skype - Make internet calls for free with Skype. Call friends and family on any phone with Pay As You Go and Pay Monthly subscriptions. Skype provides you with a better quality of video and audio features. (but it takes more data to run)

4) Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams is a chat-based workspace in Office 365. It brings together people, conversations and content along with the tools that teams need so they can easily collaborate to achieve more. Now it is available with added feature of new custom background effects which is very cool.

5) Cisco Webex Meetings - Cisco Webex Meetings. The best just got better. Meetings have always been essential to business. And at a time when people are spread across the globe, budgets are stretched, and the pace of business is accelerating, how you meet matters more than ever. You need a simple, powerful, scalable service that gets out of your way and lets you get to work. That’s why companies that want to get more done—including 95% of the Fortune 500—get it done with Cisco Webex Meetings.

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One thing to notice here that everything here is from recycling stuff, that is a big step taken by Apple and even watch and it's built doesn't contain any sort of harmful chemicals in it. Apple wants to be a Carbon-neutral up to 2030. This is a very good step towards the environment also.

iPhone lovers are waiting this phone from quite sometime, but the most remarkable thing about the iPhone 12 line-up is their affordable prices. Even though cuts will be there to achieve that level.

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