Google Assistant in Hindi is Witty, Surprising and Hilarious! Hindi support for Google Assistant has beenaround for some time nowbut its arrival onGoogle Home smart speakers last weekmade me switch to my mother tongue to test out whether it is any good. Instead, things turned out to be pretty hilarious! I started out with some basic commands to find out about the weather for the day, traffic on the way back home, and listen to some Hindi tunes....

Google Doodle Celebrates MIT Professor Who Foresaw Internet’s Impact Google has honored Greek professor and computer scientist Michael Dertouzos’s 82nd birth anniversary witha doodle today. Dertouzos is best known for foreseeing the popularity of internet devices and how the Internet would impact everyday lives. He also predicted the popularity of PCs, and helped maximize their potential as director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Laboratory for Computer Science. “We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism....

Google Pixel 3 USB-C Earbuds Let You Reply to Messages Without Unlocking the Phone Moving away from the headphone jack has been a painful transition for many of us, merely because it robs us of the liberty of using just about any pair for earphones for your phone. But with more companies likeOnePlus discarding the long-lived 3.5mm port, USB-C is becoming an interim solution until wireless audio improves. Google dumped the headphone jack lack year with the Pixel 2, but back then, there was no official pair of earphones – just a Libratone headset, listed under the “Made for Google” program....

How to Disable Automatic App Updates in MIUI Automatic app updates on Android can be a time-saver if you don’t want to make the effort of manually selecting and updating your apps. However, if you don’t configure it properly, it might do more harm than good. For example, if you have mistakenly turned on automatic updates on mobile data plans, you might find your entire data being used and see an inflated bill....

How to Use Light Theme with Dark Menu Bar and Dock in macOS Mojave Apple’s macOS Mojave brought the much awaited “Dark Mode” to Apple’s desktop operating system and it looks gorgeous. However, not everyone is a fan of dark mode. Many users still prefer the limited dark mode which used to only darken the Menu bar and the Dock while leaving everything else in light mode. However, if you have upgraded to macOS Mojave, you know that there is no native toggle to turn that on....

Now Pay Your Electricity, Water Bills in Delhi By Scanning Fridge Magnets The New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) launched a “smart” initiative this weekend, announcing that it will distribute QR Code enabled smiley fridge magnets to its consumers to facilitate digital payment of utility bills. Powered by SignCatch, an IT and services company, the magnets will be personalized for each customer, and the QR code on the magnet will be mapped to their account number for the utility, an NDMC statement said....

Poco F1 Supports Quick Charge 4+, but Here’s Why Xiaomi Is Not Talking About It The ripples fromPoco F1 making a splash in the mid-range segmentcan be felt spreading through the market more than two months after its launch. The F1 is arguably the mostsmartly-pricedphone this year, and as we know there’s also room for more improvements. Xiaomi didn’t tell us about Poco’ssupport for AptXand theF1’s resilience against water splashesuntil well after the launch....