SeasonWatch is a citizen science project aimed at understanding the seasonality of trees, and the effects of climate change on this seasonality, across India. Students from more than 1200 schools and more than 1100 interested individuals contribute weekly information on tree species that are commonly found across the country. Source: NDTV
Gmail’s Confidential Mode can help you protect your sensitive mails. You can use it to set an expiration date for messages and block people from downloading, printing, copy-pasting and even forwarding your mail and its attachments. Source: NDTV
Samsung Galaxy M42 5G will go on sale in India starting 12am (midnight). The phone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G SoC, comes equipped with Knox security system and packs a 5,000mAh battery. Source: NDTV
On this episode of Orbital podcast, we discuss how good is the Xiaomi Mi 11X in its price segment of under Rs. 35,000 against the competition. We also talk about the Marvel series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Source: NDTV
The Sony A7C is a smaller version of the A7 III, with improved real-time Eye AF for humans and animals. Plus, it also gets a fully articulating rear display and better battery life. Read our review to find out if it’s worth the premium. Source: NDTV
Spotify is updating its Android and iOS apps with a host of new features. Users can now sort the Your Library page in a grid view, conduct filtered searches, sort their audio in different formats, among other new features. The update will roll out to all devices next week. Source: NDTV
Google is rolling out a new feature that will show an “External” label to email threads that include recipients that do not belong to a user’s Google Workspace organisation. The new feature is added to the existing external recipient warning banner. The rollout of the feature has already begun for Gmail for Web as well
Instagram Live Rooms has rolled out a new feature in which hosts will be able to mute their audio like you would in a Zoom or Google Meet call. Source: NDTV
Microsoft is updating Windows 10 with support for Advanced Audio Codec (AAC). Windows 10 users are also getting a unified audio endpoint and a fix for the rearranging apps problem that affects users when using multiple monitors. Source: NDTV
Apple iPhone active installed base reached a new high this quarter, Counterpoint reports. The strong performance of the iPhone 12 series helped Apple to clock record first-quarter revenue with 42 percent in global revenue share. iPhone revenue grew in double digits across all its geographic segments. Source: NDTV