Improvements

Telegram is announcing new updates to some of its features pertaining to reactions to chat messages, emoji statuses, and UI improvements to iOS and Android, respectively. Starting with reactions, Premium users are now have “a selection of infinite reactions”. They can react to individual messages with up to three animated emojis. Telegram launched its Emoji Platform last month, which allows for anyone to upload their own custom animated emojis. The emoji panel also expands now to accommodate for more emojis and emoji…

Jason Hiner/ZDNETApple officially released iOS 16 on Monday. Included in the new operating system are countless changes to how your iPhone works and, at times, looks. For the last few months, I've been using iOS 16 on my iPhone 13 Pro Max . In fact, when I showed my daughter how to create her own lock screens once she installs iOS 16, the first thing she said was "That's exactly like how I make a watch face." To enter edit mode, you need to wake your iPhone's screen, but don't unlock the phone and go to the home…

Following Apple's announcement of the iPhone 14 and 14 Pro this week, early benchmark scores for Apple's new A16 Bionic chip have started showing up in Geekbench, confirming the advances Apple has made with its latest chip. As noted by MySmartPrice (opens in new tab), Geekbench scores for the new iPhone 14 Pro have appeared online, revealing scores as follows. iPhone 14 Pro Single Core - 1879 Multi Core - 4664 iPhone 14 Pro Max Single Core - 1882 Multi Core - 5290 As MSP posits, it's very possible the iPhone 14 Pro…

Sony is rolling out a new PS5 system software update that includes 1440p resolution support, a new gamelists feature, and UX and social improvements. Testing for 1440p on PS5 first started in July, and now all PS5 owners will be able to access the software update. The new 1440p option allows PS5 owners to pick this resolution on compatible TVs and monitors. If games fully support 1440p then they’ll natively output at this resolution, otherwise 4K games will improve anti-aliasing by using supersampling down to 1440p…

Apple's iPhone 14 series is expected to go official at the company's ‘Far out' event on September 7. The smartphone series that could include four models —iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Max, and iPhone 14 Pro Max— has been in the rumour mill for quite some time now. Now, a report has popped up suggesting changes to the colour options and improvements to MagSafe in the new lineup. Apple is expected to include a new battery accessory for iPhone 14. The iPhone 14 models will reportedly start at 128GB of storage, same as…

Samsung Galaxy S22 series is getting a new camera update, the company announced today. The update brings several camera improvements including a bigger guide size and faster scanning speed while scanning QR codes from the Quick Panel, and more. Samsung has also optimised the memory and AI engine in Photo, Night, and Video mode, according to the blog post. The update also offers optimised HDR image quality in Photo mode. The Samsung Galaxy S22 series was unveiled by the South Korean company in February this year.In an…

A new OnePlus 10T update has started rolling out with camera improvements, amongst other things. This update is now rolling out over-the-air (OTA) to, and it’s marked as ‘A.06’. It’s coming to both global and Indian models, by the way.New OnePlus 10T update delivers both camera & charging improvementsThe update does come in phases, though, so keep that in mind. Such updates are basically always staged, so this is no different. It may take up to a week or two for the update to arrive to everyone.Now, in regards to…

has unveiled its latest lineup of NVMe solid state drives, the 990 Pro series. The company claims the will reach almost the highest speeds that are theoretically possible from the PCIe 4.0 interface (PCI 5.0 SSDs ). Samsung hopes to deliver better performance for PC and console games, 4K and 8K content and other heavy data use cases. The 990 Pro boasts sequential read and write speeds of up to 7,450 MB/s and 6,900 MB/s. The 980 Pro offers up to 7,000 MB/s and 5,100 MB/s read and write speeds. The 990 Pro's random read…

Google TV is bringing improvements to its boot time, performance, and other features for managing storage on smart TVs with a new software update. The new changes are said to make the homescreen on Google TV load faster. The performance has improved across several verticals including Live tab loading, homescreen scrolling, or using a kid profile among others. The Chromecast with Google TV was launched in India last month. It comes with support for leading streaming platforms and offered 4K HDR video playback at 60 frames…

If you're one of the unfortunate people who need to run Windows on your (Intel) Mac and have been suffering from Wi-Fi issues, you're in luck — a new update might help.Apple has now released Boot Camp 6.1.16 for Intel Macs, with the update said to improve Wi-Fi issues as well as fixing problems that some people had with making Bluetooth work properly.Fix appliedThe new update, first reported by MacRumors, says that it "introduces WiFi WPA3 support" while also fixing a Bluetooth driver problem. That problem was a…