DAILY TECH NEWS -- #18
Jeff Bezos to Space | Orange iPhone 13 | MIUI 13 Coming Soon | Graphene Hard Disk | Twitter "Who can Reply" feature | Google Meet Blur Feature | Samsung Stretchable OLED Display |
👉Amazon CEO - Jeff Bezos Flying To Space 🚀🌎
Amazon's Billionaire Founder Jeff Bezos said on Monday he and his brother Mark will fly on the first crewed space flight from his own Rocket Company Blue Origin next Month. Which will be launching from West Texas on July 20.
"Ever since I was five years old, I've dreamed of traveling to space. I will take that journey with my brother", Bezos, who is the richest person in the world, said in an Instagram Post. Blue Origin closed the first round of the auction last month and said it had received more than 5,200 bidders from 136 countries, without disclosing the highest bid from the round. The current highest bid stood at $2.8 million in the ongoing second round of the auction, according to Blue Origin's Website.
👉 Apple iPhone 13 to add an Orange color new Renders🧡
iPhone 13 series is likely to launch globally in the month of September this year. The iPhone 13 series is said to include four models of iPhone 13, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max.
Earlier reports suggested that similar the upcoming iPhone 13 will come in several funky color options including the boring Blue, White, and Black. A new leak by the "Renders by ian website" reveals an orange color option for the upcoming iPhone 13 series. According to some other sources, the iPhone 13 mini is also expected to come in blue and the iPhone 13 red. Other than this, we would also get White, Black, and Grey colors. Moreover, we also learned that the design would remain the same, i.e., a smaller notch, bigger camera bumps on the rear, and a few other details.
👉 Samsung Reveals its First-Ever Stretchable OLED Display
We've had curved displays for a while now, but what about stretchy ones? Samsung says it's making progress building screens "that can be stretched in all directions like rubber bands", and that the first applications for this material could be in building flexible health tech.
On June 4, researchers at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology(SAIT), Samsung's R&D hub dedicated to cutting-edge technologies, that they recently created an OLED display that can be stretched by up to 30% while operating as normal.
Xiaomi unveiled MIUI 12 in late April. It has been over a year, however, the company is yet to announce the next major generation of its OS. Instead, the Chinese tech giant has been delivering the MIUI 12.5 incremental update for eligible devices worldwide. But now, it looks like Xiaomi may finally unveil MIUI 13 in the upcoming days.
Although the latest version of MIUI is currently MIUI 12.5, the changelog mentions that the company has added support for MIUI 13 floating windows. This clearly suggests that MIUI 13 is indeed in development and will be available in a few weeks.
👉 Graphene to enable 10x higher data storage🖴💻
Nowadays, people are learning more about SSDs for their storage needs, mainly because of their faster speeds, HDDs are still widely used in the desktop industry. Compared to Solid State Drives(SSDs), Hard Disk Drives(HDD) can usually contain more space to store data and are much cheaper to manufacture and purchase.
Recently published in the Nature Communications journals, the study was conducted in collaboration with teams at the University of Exeter, India, Singapore, Switzerland, and the US. The researchers replaced a carbon-based coating inside current HDDs with graphene and saw a tenfold jump in storage space.
Twitter could be working on a feature that will allow users to decide who can reply to their tweets after they've been published. It is still unclear how the feature will work exactly or when it will be rolled out to the general public since the company hasn't made an official announcement yet.
Jane Manchun Wong a reverse engineering expert on June 5 said that the platform is planning to introduce a feature called "change who can reply!". This will let users select the specific people who can interact with the tweet after it has been published. The feature is currently under testing.
Google has extended the capability of the virtual background feature that was earlier limited to just the web version of the Google Meet. It was first published to the web version in October 2020. Now, Google has begun rolling out this feature for the Android App.
This means users will now be able to switch from live backgrounds to virtual backgrounds. It includes blurring or selecting Google's handpicked images. Backgrounds such as office spaces, landscapes, and abstract wallpapers are available for use. In the future, the feature will be made available on iPhone/iPad.
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