Oppo unveiled it’s first ever wearable smart glass Oppo Air Glass which will be the company’s first step towards augmented reality world. Following the Oppo’s concept last year, they have confirmed the initial retail price of the upcoming tech. The smart glass will be available in the Chinese market from 3rd March and its price will start from 4,999 yuan.
The Air Glass feature four main characteristics which are Beauty, Universality, Utility and Lightness. This product has been designed with an aim to act as third screen for the users aside from their everyday devices like smartphones and smartwatches. When it comes to design, Oppo Air Glass has a single design with Spark Projector and cutting-edge micro-LED display. It has also got a custom optical diffraction waveguide which supports two display modes a 16-level grayscale and a 256-level grayscale that can deliver up to 1400 nits in average brightness while projecting.
Oppo Air Glass is powered by Quallcomm Snapdragon Wear 4100 chipset and it will support features like weather reminders, a Health app, schedule reminders and a teleprompter. It will also support four methods of interaction; touch, voice, hand gestures and head movements. It will also be equipped with a real time translation feature with the support for Chinese to English two-way translation.

Netflix is testing a TikTok-style comedy feed feature which is known as Fast Laughs to television. This feature has got a feed of clips from Netflix stand-up specials, movies and comedy shows. This newly introduced feature is rolling out slowly to the subscribers in English-speaking countries which include UK, US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Ireland.
Once you will enable this feature you can find it several rows deep into your homepage. This feature respects content settings of the user but it is not available on the profiles of kids. This newly introduced feature is a discovery tool for the viewers who can’t decide on something to watch thus helping them to settle on a show instantly when the trailers are not enough.

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. You can also schedule reminders in order to take a break at set intervals or sign off after some specific time.

Solid State Drives are famous for enabling fast storage speeds in PCs, laptops and other devices. Apple iPhones have used SSDs for quite some time now but Android phones is equipped with Universal Flash Storage now a days. This storage is going t change in the near future with an upcoming gaming phone, Lenovo Legion Y90. This will be the first Android phone which will support SSD and UFS 3.1 memory working together on a RAID 0 configuration which combines the two storage types efficiently.
A RAID 0 setup increases storage performance by using two drives working at the same time. Lenovo has said that this setup will enhance the storage speed by up to 50%. RAID 0 has been used in PCs and laptops for many years but it will be the first time that people will get to see it on commercially available smartphone.
Lenovo Legion Y90 will be released on February 28 in China. It will be equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip, 5,800 mAh battery with 68W rapid charging, AMOLED display and 144Hz refresh rate and also a 64MP camera which is capable of shooting 8K video recording.

Twitter has recently announced that the users can add their Ethereum wallet addresses to their profiles which is the part of Tips payment feature. Tips let the users to add public-facing payment methods to their accounts thus letting the users to send the tips or payments to other people on the platform. In past the traditional payment applications like Cash App and less tradition Bitcoin wallet addresses in Tips were included on Twitter.
Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter is considered as Bitcoin Maximalist, people who think Bitcoin is the only digital asset required in the future. For some time now Dorsey has dismissed various other cryptocurrencies like Ethereum. Now Twitter has slowly greeting Ethereum and in June 2021, Twitter gave away NFTs minted on Ethereum blockchain.

WhatsApp has recently introduced a new view for in-app contact list with two options which are Frequently contacted and Recent chats. The new update was supposed to make it simple and easy to navigate through contact list but on the other hand the reaction was negative one. After the user response, WhatsApp has now decided to turn back in new update.
The newly introduced WhatsApp version 2.22.5.9 has nothing much included in terms of functionality, however, the previous contact list interface has been restored. The update came after some users expressed their dislike for the new user interface on Twitter. The developers were forced to revert the change after the backlash and now the users will be able to access their contact list as it they were doing previously. Prior to this update, WhatsApp contacts page did not display Recent chats sections and listed all the contacts in alphabetical order.
WhatsApp is receiving loads of updates since it has been purchased by Meta in 2015. one of them is the long-awaited revamped voice call interface that displays contact name, number and profile picture with call duration on top. WhatsApp is also all set to come up with Instagram-like message reactions.

Snapchat has started testing a new monetization option for the creators. According to Snapchat, the revenue generated from the mid-roll ads will be shared with the creators which are also known as Snap Stars. This feature will be available for the creators who bring most entertaining and hilarious content to Snapchat, while the eligibility criteria is account engagement with more emphasis on public Stories, cultural relevance as well as content quality.
At the moment a few Snap Stars in USA are beta-testing the new mid-roll ads in public Stories who will also receive revenue share earned from ads. Previously Snapchat introduced Snap Spotlights which are TikTok-like short form videos. So far Snapchat has invested heavily in the new format which include spending $1 million per day in order to fund creators who are supporting the platform. Snap’s decision to share the ad revenue which are generated by Stories show the company is to ensure its continued growth and maintaining loyal creator base.