Apple has just concluded its Peek Performance event of this year by announcing Mac Studio which is the most powerful desktop computer from Apple yet. Mac Studio is quite bigger this year in order to fit Apple’s M1 Max processor and its new flagship M1 Ultra processor.
The newly announced Mac Studio is 9.5cm high and 19.7cm wide and deep making it a portable version of desktop computer. When it comes to build quality, the Mac Studio is manufactured from a single piece of aluminum which is fitted with a massive thermal system of heat dissipation. When it comes to port selection, there are numerous options provided on the back. It includes four thunderbolt 4 USB-C ports, two USB-A ports, a 10 Gbit Ethernet, a 3.5mm audio jack, one HDMI and a power connector. Mac Studio provides two choices of processors which includes either M1 Max or M1 Ultra. The M1 Ultra-powered Mac Studio provides 90% better CPU performance than a Mac Pro with 16-core Xeon processor and it is 60% faster than a 28-core Mac Pro.

There will come situations when you are required to ask others for their answers or opinions. Like you are planning a trip with your friends and want to decide for a location from various suggestions. This is where WhatsApp’s new feature could be useful. The Meta owned app is working on the ability to allow the users to create polls in group chats.
The latest version of WhatsApp lets the users to make polls within the group chats. A screenshot has also been shared by WABetaInfo which gives a glance at the upcoming feature. When you will create a poll, the app would ask you to input a question. Then you will have to enter a couple of answers for the users to vote. The report also mentions that only group members would be able to see polls and results. Though the ability to create polls on WhatsApp’s iOS app only but soon it will be available for the Android as well. WhatsApp is also working on various new features as well as updates which include a pause and resume function for voice messages, message reactions and addition of search shortcut.

Twitter now a days is experimenting with various new format content formats. After the introduction of Fleets, Twitter is reaching out to audio. They come up with audio chat rooms in Spaces. Now in order to buold up the feature, the company bought the podcast app Breaker.
At teardown expert Jane Manchun Wong shared a screenshot which was recently posted on Twitter. The microphone icon is at the bottom menu bat that appears to lead to Podcasts page when tapped. The rest of the screenshot is just a blank canvas so it is still not clear how podcasts would be integrated with the platform.
Spaces is also like a collection of podcasts as it allows the users to create chat rooms and record the conversation for others to listen later. Though they last only for a month but still it makes temporary podcasts and Twitter could easily turn those to permanent, letting the users to select from and listen to their favorite selections. Twitter will go head-to-head with similar offering like Apple and Spotify. Twitter has got a huge user base to support its podcast.

After the escalation on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, several countries and corporations enacted sanctions and blocked goods as well as services completely. After Microsoft and Apple, Samsung is also stopping its products from entering Russia.
According to some reports, Samsung is ceasing the shipments of phones and chips to Russia. It is a big decision taken by Samsung as they manufacture 34% of the phones in Russia ahead of other rivals like Apple, Xiaomi and Realme etc. The move from Samsung came just days after Apple announced that it will stop all the sales in the country in reply to Russia invasion in Ukraine. Microsoft also followed the suit earlier on Friday by announcing that they are freezing the products and services in Russia. Google on the other hand has restricted the map data by disabling the live traffic reports and user-submitted data.

Google always likes to switch up its style and this is why Android 12 had a shift in appearance with Material You. With an all new design philosophy all of its apps will follow the suit whether with the dynamic themes or the bottom navigation bars. We often not see Google switch back to an older design but with a surprising change in Google Photos, the company seems to be setting a pattern with its current trends.
Google Photos has briefly flashed a three-line hamburger menu in the app before it disappeared after the restart. When tapped, the icon dies not do anything. It just lights up without opening a specific menu or performing any other action. So it is still not clear that it is a bug or Google is testing to roll out to users eventually. It is also very interesting that Google Messages app was recently updated to feature a new three-line icon which was not featured previously. There menus have been removed from Android apps over last few years

Dark Mode has become very famous in last few years. Most of the apps that we are using now a days have added the dark mode support. It has also been given in most of the Google apps which includes the Search app itself. Just a few days ago we saw Google testing pitch black theme on the search results in the desktop web version. The test has been followed up with new darker shade on Google app on Android phones.
The new color is not as black as the shade we have seen on the web version that one was literally pitch black and this one is just the darker shade of gray though it is quite closer to black. The change is more evident in the Discover feed which has become considerably darker. Search results have also got a new and darker shade but the change is not that significant. The redesign has not been rolled widely but if you want to try this out you can download latest 13.8 beta from Google Play Store.

Instagram has quietly removed a feature which let the people to monitor the time that they spend on the platform daily. This limit feature displays the pop-up notification to the user once their app activity cross the pre-defined time limit, thus reminding them to conscious of their screen time and make it easy for them to select to quit out the app.
However now it seems that Meta needs the Instagram users to spend more time on the platform so that ti can cash in by targeting them with the advertisements. This could be the result of pressure from the business side given a sudden plunge in share value which was reported in the fourth quarter earnings of the company earlier this month. There is an increasing competition from various other famous platforms like TikTok, new regulations in EU and Apple’s iOS privacy changes which are making it more difficult for the company to track users via personalized ads.
In order monitor how many hours you have spent on the app you need to visit Settings>Account>Your activity.