Technology

Most subscription sites use “dark patterns” to influence customer behavior around subscriptions and personal data, according to a pair of new reports from global consumer protection groups. Dark patterns are “practices commonly found in online user interfaces [that] steer, deceive, coerce or manipulate consumers into making choices that often are not in their best interests.”

Spotify for Podcasters – the all-in-one podcasting platform – introduced a new ‘Comments’ feature on Tuesday. This interactive feature is said to allow listeners to post comments on podcasts and receive replies from podcasters, enabling more engagement. Alongside Comments, the app has also been revamped and it now delivers real-time performance updates for podcasts alongside

Samsung events tend to be about as leaky as a 150-year-old faucet, so there weren’t too many surprises coming out of the company’s latest Unpacked. As expected, the showcase shed more light on the Galaxy Ring, Samsung’s latest foldables, two new smartwatches and a couple pairs of earbuds. If you missed the livestream, you can

Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 and Galaxy Buds 3 Pro were unveiled at the Galaxy Unpacked event held in Paris today (July 10). Samsung’s latest generation of truly wireless stereo (TWS) earphones resemble Apple’s AirPods with stems and Blade Lights marking a big departure from the company’s previous design language. They come with an active noise cancellation

Insta360 has launched the Flow Pro smartphone gimbal with a feature we’ve never seen on any rival product: Apple DockKit support. That allows it to track you around automatically while you present, perform or do other activities, much like DJI’s popular Osmo Pocket 3 gimbal. DockKit support effectively gives you a robotic cameraman. Just set

Xbox cloud gaming is now available on the Amazon Fire TV Stick, courtesy of the new Xbox app. Microsoft first announced that it would be making its Xbox games available to Fire TV stick owners via the Xbox app last month, however, it was not found on the Amazon app store. Starting this month, Xbox

David Ellison, the new chief executive of Paramount, has big plans for the media giant and wants to turn it into a “media and technology” company, according to the Financial Times. Ellison is taking over as Paramount’s boss after his production studio, Skydance Media, agreed to acquire the company behind massive films and franchises like

WhatsApp Channel verification check marks will soon be updated to a new colour on Android. The visual change was spotted by a feature tracker on a recent beta version of WhatsApp, which suggests that it will soon be rolled out to all users in future. It will make the check marks displayed inside the app

Blizzard and Hasbro have revealed the Transformers skins for Overwatch 2’s upcoming collaboration with the popular mecha toy franchise. The two companies released an animated trailer on the Overwatch YouTube channel today, showing off the skins based on three Autobots and a Decepticon. The trailer shows that the Transformers skins are assigned to Reinhardt, Bastion,

Apple Watch Series 10 might feature a display that is much larger than the company’s current generation model, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The smartwatch is expected to debut later this year as the successor to the Series 9 model that was unveiled in in 2023, and might not arrive with previously reported changes, such

Samsung’s summer event is nearly here. Unpacked 2024 will stream live on Wednesday, July 10, at 9AM ET. You can watch it on Samsung’s YouTube channel, Newsroom website and homepage. The company is holding the shindig in Paris ahead of the Olympics, kicking off there later this month. Perhaps it wants to set the tone

Apple Watch Series 10 might feature a display that is much larger than the company’s current generation model, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The smartwatch is expected to debut later this year as the successor to the Series 9 model that was unveiled in in 2023, and might not arrive with previously reported changes, such

This is it, the first game to nearly make me throw my Playdate against a wall. Angel Pop, a bullet hell shoot ‘em up that landed on the Playdate Catalog last month, is utter chaos. Playing as an adorable little girl, you must fend off a nonstop barrage of enemy fire over the course of

Netflix is one of the most popular OTT platforms in India. The platform brings four different subscription plans in the country, which range from Rs 149 per month to Rs 649 per month. However, choosing the best plan based on preferences and usage can be slightly confusing for customers, especially after Netflix brought its Household

After 378 days inside a mock Mars habitat, the four volunteers for NASA’s yearlong simulation of a stay on the red planet are coming home. The crew — Kelly Haston, Anca Selariu, Ross Brockwell and Nathan Jones — is scheduled to exit the 3D-printed habitat in Houston this evening. You can watch the livestream of

MSI Crosshair 16 HX Monster Hunter Edition has been launched by the company in India, and the gaming laptop is available to purchase alongside the MSI Claw, the company’s first handheld gaming console that was launched in India back in March. The gaming laptop runs on a 14th Gen Intel Core i7 processor paired with

In case you missed it, we’re officially getting a this summer. The company unveiled the upcoming 1497-piece set this week alongside a 90-second mini-movie that reimagines the film in Lego brick form. The Jaws set includes the boat (the Orca), the shark, and minifigures of the protagonists Martin Brody, Matt Hooper and Sam Quint, plus

WhatsApp recently expanded the rollout of its Meta AI chatbots in select markets, including India and the US, and the instant messaging platform appears to have started working on new artificial intelligence (AI) features. The Meta-owned messaging platform is reportedly developing a new ‘Imagine Me’ feature that will let users generate AI-generated photos of themselves. This update