Facebook is cancelling F8, its annual conference for developers, due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. The social media giant said in a statement that the conference, which was originally scheduled to take place on May 5th and May 6th later this year, will be replaced by &ldquo;locally hosted events, videos and live-streamed content.

Facebook is cancelling F8, its annual conference for developers, due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. The social media giant said in a statement that the conference, which was originally scheduled to take place on May 5th and May 6th later this year, will be replaced by “locally hosted events, videos and live-streamed content.

Ride-hailing company Uber India has partnered with e-commerce firm Flipkart to deliver essential items to customers in cities such as Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi. The 21-day countrywide lockdown has led to an acute shortage of delivery personnel for online firms and a surge in demand for everyday essentials at the same time. Earlier last week, the company inked a deal with online grocery firm Bigbasket to deliver essentials to customers across four cities--Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chandigarh and Noida.

Google is working closely with state and central government authorities to surface the locations of Covid-19 relief centres across India. People searching with the keyword &lsquo;Food shelters in&hellip;&rsquo; and Night shelters in&hellip;&rsquo; followed by the city name on Google Maps, Search and Google Assistant will display such locations. The search giant said it is working to bring this service to other Indian languages and will be adding additional shelters in more cities across the country over the coming weeks.

The buzzy mobile streaming service Quibi from veteran Hollywood producer Jeffrey Katzenberg and seasoned tech executive Meg Whitman has been launched in India amid the coronavirus pandemic. The new kind of streaming service offers quick-bite" original content, including comedies, dramas and entertainment, of 10 minutes or less made exclusively for smartphone users. Additionally, the programs are made in a way to allow viewers to move between portrait and landscape orientation by rotating their phones. Quibi is now available for a 90-day free trial, after which it will charge a subscription cost of ₹669 per month.

According to a report by market analysis firm, Netmarketshare, Microsoft&rsquo;s Chromium-powered Edge recently surpassed Mozilla&rsquo;s Firefox to become the second most popular desktop browser.&nbsp; Edge gained&nbsp; 7.59 per cent of the browser market share as compared to the 7.19 per cent of Firefox. Meanwhile, Google Chrome maintains the numero uno spot and is still far ahead with 68.5 per cent market share.

California-based tech giant Apple's&nbsp;CEO Tim Cook has announced on Twitter that the firm has sourced over 20 million masks through its global supply chain to donate them to medical workers in areas of need. He also said that in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apple has put together several departments to design, produce and ship face shields to&nbsp;healthcare workers.

According to a 9to5Mac report, early digging into iOS 14 code has revealed that Apple may be looking to bring fully customisable home-screen widgets to iPhone devices. Other leaks like a redesigned wallpaper picker have been spotted, with a more refined experience on offer. While Apple's WWDC developers conference for this year has not been announced yet, the event is usually held in early June, and showcases the tech giant's software plans for the year.

Electric car-maker Tesla has released a video of the ventilators its making to help fight the novel coronavirus pandemic. The video shows what car parts are used to create the machine that helps people breathe artificially in severe cases of Covid-19. Tesla's ventilator design uses an infotainment system from the Model 3 to power the air flow manifold, with the suspension air tank being used as an oxygen mixing chamber. It's worth noting that several American car-makers have announced their support to fight the pandemic's effects in the US, with Ford and GM building essential medical equipment like ventilators, respirators and face shields.

According to reports, video-hosting platform YouTube will suppress videos on its platform that spread false claims linking 5G technology to the Covid-19 pandemic. Furthermore it will remove videos that violate its policies, but allow other 5G-themed conspiracy content that doesn't explicitly mention the novel coronavirus, which may see reduced circulation and a removal from search results. The move comes as at least seven cell towers in the UK have been set on fire in the past week due to conspiracy theories online alleging that 5G technology was causing the Covid-19 pandemic.

Video conferencing app Zoom is improving its security settings for a more secure interaction after facing backlash for its many privacy and security issues. The app now requires passwords if a user tries to enter a meeting using just the meeting ID instead of the meeting invite link. It is also enabling the &lsquo;Waiting Room&rsquo; feature by default, which now allows the host to manually control who joins the meeting. This comes after the so-called &lsquo;Zoombombing&rsquo; incidents when people intrude on meetings and digital classes and even bombard chat participants with offensive content.

OnePlus 7T and OnePlus 7T Pro smartphones are receiving the OxygenOS 10.3.2 update in India. The changelog features an optimised RAM management and improved stability for slow-mo video recording. OnePlus has also fixed the random disappearance of screenshots in Gallery and has optimised video play without any lags. The new software update also brings the March 2020 Android security patch to the flagship smartphones.

Google has released reports for 131 countries with charts that compare traffic from February 16 to March 29, as nations exercise stringent lockdown&nbsp;measures amid the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic.&nbsp;Italy and Spain, two of the hardest-hit countries, both saw visits to retail and recreation locations such as restaurants and movie theaters plunge 94%. India, which went into a sudden 21-day lockdown on March 25, was also notable at 77%.

Overall, you're getting a fantastic front panel on this phone, but&nbsp;Samsung has already won the&nbsp;greatest display and biggest phone trophy loads of times before. That's why the biggest selling point over here is the incredibly powerful camera system that includes a 108MP wide-angle main snapper, 48MP telephoto, 12MP ultra-wide, and Time of flight DepthVision lenses. Now, that's some serious muscle power and as you'd expect,&nbsp;the S20 Ultra delivers excellent camera images, no matter what you're shooting.&nbsp;&nbsp;
The main camera clicks 12MP photos by default as it combines nine pixels into one, resulting in much lower noise and sharper quality. You can also take straight up 108 MP shots, which results in brighter pictures with more natural colours. Furthermore, the advantage of using the 108 MP sensor is that you can scale in without losing out on detail. The large sensor also does a great job of giving you fantastic depth of field all on its own, so&nbsp;you don't really need to use the portrait mode. Low light photography is exceptionally good and you can further enhance it by using the night&nbsp;mode.&nbsp;Unfortunately,&nbsp; the Ultra much like Samsung&rsquo;s other phones suffers from heavy image post-processing, which means the AI will boost colours and saturation levels, especially in ultra-wide photos.&nbsp;
Now, the zoom functionality on the Ultra&rsquo;s camera is the main party trick. Samsung calls it &lsquo;Space Zoom' and it allows you to zoom up to 100x&hellip; Images taken with 1x and 2x are perfectly usable, while both 4x and 5x&nbsp; photos also look sharp.&nbsp;Even 10x manages to preserve a decent amount of detail.&nbsp;The next stop is 30x and this is where softness and noise start to kick in. Finally, by the time you slide into 100x, everything just looks a bad piece of watercolour art. In our opinion, the 100x zoom only works well when you're focusing on a subject that has text written on it.&nbsp;You won't be posting it yo your Instagram page for sure, but this level of detail from such a vast distance is pretty impressive.&nbsp;
Coming to the 40MP front camera, a monster in its own right, produces bright and lively selfies, but again Samsung&rsquo;s s image processing is aggressive in smoothing and whitening skin. Aside from all those megapixels and crazy zoom, the most interesting camera feature on this phone is something called Single Take. When engaged, it records a series of photos and videos of your subject. Basically the AI decides what works best for you,&nbsp; and while it seems like a cool idea, we don't see it being used on a regular basis.&nbsp;

All in all, the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra is a beast of a phone- everything from big display to the megalithic camera bump is just extreme. For most people, the S20+ could be a better option as it almost offers all the same features at a lower cost.&nbsp; But that being said, we loved using this phone and there's a good chance you will love the Ultra too, as long as you're willing to pay the 'Ultra' price for it.

In terms of software, the Ultra runs on&nbsp;Android 10 and Samsung One UI 2, which in our opinion is one of&nbsp;the best-in-class Android skin on the market. Things like dark mode, gestural navigation, better privacy controls are all available over here. Furthermore, the haptic feedback that we loved on the S20 + is even better on the Ultra, most likely due to the screens larger size.&nbsp;

In India, the S20 Ultra gets powered by Samsung's homegrown Exynos 990 chipset as opposed to the Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865 processor&nbsp;available in the U.S. and Korea.&nbsp;According to benchmark scores, the Exynos chip&nbsp;doesn't measure up to what Qualcomm is offering, but of course, benchmark scores don't always paint an accurate picture, and, in&nbsp;day-to-day use, you won't notice a significant difference. The Exynos chipset handles everything with ease, whether it's opening apps or multitasking. The only place we felt the Exynos 990 didn't perform up to expectations was while playing visually intensive games for long periods of time. For example&nbsp;Call of duty Mobile after two hours of non-stop gameplay resulted in the phone heating up and frame rates plunging.&nbsp;&nbsp;
We were also concerned that the 5,000 battery, despite being a massive one, would struggle to&nbsp;keep that 120Hz, 6.9-inch display lit up,&nbsp;but it turns out its more than capable of handling the extra stress. We got about 10 hours with high refresh rate option turned on, which isn't all-day longevity but it isn't too bad either. You can also top it up the battery from dead to 100 per cent in just over an hour with the 25 W fast charger that comes bundled in the box.
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Personally, we think the S20+ is just the right size for most people but&nbsp;the advantage of having a super large device like the Ultra is that you&nbsp;get a nearly 7-inch edge to edge display, with some of the best OLED technology you'll find on a phone&nbsp; -&nbsp;Colours are punchy, blacks are super inky,&nbsp; brightness is terrific and bezels so incredibly slim that you'd think they've been put on a Keto diet...&nbsp;
Although it's worth noting&nbsp;that the Ultra&rsquo;s bigger screen dimensions result in lower pixel density than the S20+ and&nbsp;there&rsquo;s also a wee bit of interruption to the ocean of screen thanks to the centrally located front camera, but it isn't intrusive at all. The display on the Ultra gets the same 120 Hz refresh rate that we saw on the S20+, which means scrolling and animation&nbsp;playback is super smooth... However, for it to work, you need to give up that lovely QHD+ resolution and settle for the FHD+ resolution instead, which is an easy enough compromise to make for the fluid experience.&nbsp;

The S20 Ultra has a lot in common with its younger sibling, the S20+. Both phones get the&nbsp;extras that befit a Samsung flagship, including loud stereo speakers, IP68&nbsp; water resistance, reverse wireless charging and an in-display ultrasonic fingerprint scanner. They also skip out on the traditional headphone jack, which now seems like a distant memory. The main difference between the two apart from the camera is&nbsp;size.&nbsp;The Ultra is basically a souped-up Galaxy S20+,&nbsp;with a ginormous camera module that makes the phone&nbsp;both top-heavy and side-heavy. Add to that a thickness of 9mm, and this phone could become&nbsp;too much for a small hand to bear.&nbsp;
But that's not to say the S20 Ultra isn't a well-made phone... quite the opposite. The subtle curves at the back offer a comfortable grip while the metal and glass build feels premium in the hand. Although,&nbsp;it doesn't have the Phone 11 Pro classy feel to it, and that beefy camera bump makes it look somewhat intimidating.Samsung has given the module Gorilla Glass 6&nbsp;protection but its sheer size means it has great wobbling potential on a flat surface.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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Go big or go home! That's what the new Galaxy S20 Ultra is all about. It's got a massive 6.9 inch Dynamic AMOLED screen, 120 Hz high refresh&nbsp;rate, 5,000 mAh battery, 40MP selfie snapper, 12 gigs of RAM, 108 MP quad-camera setup, 100x digital zoom. The only number that's low on the spectrum is the 128 gigs of on board storage and even that's expandable up to 1 TB through Micro SD card expansion.&nbsp;On paper, the&nbsp; Ultra seems like one of the best flagships money can buy,&nbsp;but how does it fare in the real world? Let's find out.&nbsp;

Lenovo and Motorola have announced that some of their products will be receiving a nearly 75-day free warranty extension. The offer is applicable to smartphones and accessories whose warranty was set to expire between March 15 and April 20, but owning to the Covid-19 pandemic, the deadline will be pushed to May 31. The sister companies join a list of smartphone makers including Huawei, Realme, Samsung and OnePlus, that have extended warranties on their devices.

Controversial Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group Technology has released court documents that indicate social media giant Facebook attempted to purchase its Pegasus spyware. The infamous software has the ability to hack even Apple devices and load malware to monitor and steal data--all through a well disguised malicious link.&nbsp;Reports say the NSO CEO claimed Facebook representatives approached the company to purchase the right to use specific capabilities of the Israeli spyware in October 2017, but the firm declined the sale on the grounds that it only sells its products to a "sovereign government or government agency".

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