outofthebox

OnePlus Open — the company's first foldable phone that is set to debut on October 19 — will ship with some third-party applications out-of-the-box. The Chinese smartphone maker has confirmed that its upcoming handset will feature a few non-OnePlus applications that will be pre-installed by the firm. Third-party apps installed by manufacturers are informally known as bloatware and are usually found on Android smartphones. OnePlus is yet to provide a list of third-party applications that will be installed on the OnePlus…

Robotics is thriving in different kinds of industries in recent years, especially in Industry 4.0. The combination of cutting-edge technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence, IoT, and many more have developed multiple robots for different purposes. The education and research in robotics are increasing at an increasing rate owing to several pioneers in robotics. Their expertise in robotics is largely contributing to the robotics domain for more improvements and advancements in robots. Here are the top 10…

The 80s classic gets a Halloween re-release for its 40th anniversary: a supernatural chiller and anti-gentrification satire that came out the same year as ET – Mr Hyde to that film’s Dr Jekyll, perhaps – and one of the most Spielbergian films not actually directed by Steven Spielberg. It is also a movie with its own particular flavour of sadness, owing to the early deaths of two of its stars: Dominique Dunne, daughter of author Dominick Dunne and niece of Joan Didion, killed in the year of the film’s release by her…

I love it when a distribution dares to be different. We have enough clones of the Windows desktop metaphor and macOS has pretty much perfected the dock/topbar layout. So when I see a distribution that takes a standard desktop and flips it on its ear, it immediately gets my attention.Such is the case with KaOS 2022.06, which takes the KDE desktop environment and gives it an out-of-the-box twist to give it just enough unique flavor, without adding an extra layer of complexity for users.Before I get into this subtle twist,…

An alleged Redmi 10C listing has been spotted on the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) certification website. The smartphone has also been reportedly spotted on the IMEI database. Redmi 10C has also been spotted on the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) certification website. However, these listings don't reveal much about the upcoming Redmi smartphone. Last month, a Redmi 10A smartphone was spotted on US FCC and Geekbench websites. Furthermore, Redmi 10A and Redmi 10C are tipped to launch in India sometime…

In the coming weeks, Google will begin beta testing a feature for Android 13 that makes it easier for users of braille displays to get up and running. Google announced in a blog post on Thursday that the next Android 13 beta will include “out-of-the-box support” for braille displays. Braille displays are used to create pin patterns to touch-read on-screen text and also type in braille. The display allows people with deafblindness to use smartphones and people who are blind to silently use mobile phones without screen…