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Motorola Edge 30 Ultra First Impressions: Checking All the Boxes

Motorola has just launched its first ‘Ultra' smartphone in India. The Edge 30 Ultra packs some really interesting hardware and is the first smartphone in India to include a 200-megapixel primary camera. A quick glance through its spec sheet and it seems to be all about big numbers, but does it have what it takes to compete with similarly priced smartphones in this segment? Here are my first impressions of it.The Motorola Edge 30 Ultra sits above the Edge 30 Pro (Review) which launched earlier this year in India at a very…

DuckDuckGo’s new email privacy tool is worth checking out

DuckDuckGo offers two main ways of protecting email privacy: Anti-tracking: Get a duck.com email address (mine’s [email protected]) to hand out instead of your actual email address. DuckDuckGo will block known trackers before passing the messages along to your actual email inbox, so that marketers—or anyone using read receipts—can’t see whether you opened their emails. (Just note that this may not prevent tracking the links you click on.) Masking: Generate randomized email addresses (such as [email protected]) that forward…

JT Speaks on Idea That ‘Nobody Checking for Me’ in Comparison to Yung Miami

JT and Yung Miami have an undying love for each other. That much is clear in the latest episode of Miami’s podcast Caresha Please, which she co-hosts with Saucy Santana.JT made an appearance in the latest episode, where she touched on how fans view her versus how they see her City Girls counterpart. “Trick made a comment like more so of like, nobody checking for me,” JT said around the 1:07:15 mark above. “They more into you like, ‘Blah blah blah,’” JT said to Caresha. “We know it’s not true—we both equally loved. But he…

The new Fall Guys Sonic level is worth checking out, but it’s one-note

The Bean Hill Zone event runs from August 11–15 I haven’t been back to Fall Guys since its free-to-play transformation. But the new Sonic the Hedgehog event, including a bespoke ring-collecting Bean Hill Zone level, got me to update and boot up the game again. Is it worth your time? Yes — well, to a point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PWtjGTf4bU If you’re someone who’s dead set on winning, you might have a bad time, in a way that feels too out of your hands. If you’re looking for a chaotic casual play session — just…

Meta expands fact-checking programme to include more Indian languages

Image Source : AP Facebook's Meta logo Meta news: Meta on Tuesday revealed it is extending its third-party fact-checking programme in India to include NewsMeter, which is a fact checker focused on the southern states of the country. The programme will now allow for more accuracy and bolster its fact checking capabilities in regional Indian languages including Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, and Tamil, the company said in a statement. Including this partnership, Meta will have 11 fact-checking partners in India, making…

SoFi increases savings and checking account APY to 1.8% for direct deposit members

SoFiSoFi announced Tuesday that it's increasing the annual percentage yield (APY) of its checking and savings account for direct deposit members by 30 basis points (or 0.30%). The new 1.80% APY is much higher than the national average of 0.10%. For members who don't use direct deposit, the APY on accounts is 1.00%.In addition to the increased interest rates, SoFi is offering new members a limited-time bonus for signing up. New members will get up to $300 when they create an account and set up direct deposit. Existing

American Express Business Checking members can now earn rewards to reinvest in their businesses

American Express announced Thursday that Business Checking account clients will now earn Membership Rewards points for using their debit card. Cardholders will earn 1x point per $2 spent, with no monthly fee.Membership Rewards points are worth 0.6 cents each and can be deposited directly into Business Checking accounts. Other features of the Business Checking account include an annual percentage yield (APY) of 1.1% on balances up to $500,000. Account holders can manage their account and any American Express cards they