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A USB device is useful for a variety of scenarios, but booting your PC or laptop from it? That feels like a step too far. However, in reality, this is a necessary step in many situations. If you’re reinstalling Windows 11 or 10, or using software to clone a hard drive, it’s the easiest way. Before you begin, there are three things you’ll need for the process to work: a bootable USB stick.a laptop or PC set up to boot from USB devicesSoftware that will run from a USB drive How to make a USB device bootable…

Nothing has announced discounts on two of its products currently available in India. The Valentine's Day discounts will only be available for a limited time and will apply to the London-based technology company's only smartphone offering, the Nothing Phone 1 and its lone TWS offering, the Nothing Ear Stick. The Nothing Phone 1 was launched in India in July last year at a starting price of Rs. 32,999 while the Ear Stick TWS earphones were launched in October last year at Rs. 8,999. The Nothing Ear 1, which was the…

Xiaomi TV Stick 4K was launched in India on Tuesday as the latest streaming device from the Chinese electronics manufacturer to debut in the country. The company had teased the arrival of the product in the Indian market last week. The streaming device was first introduced by Xiaomi in December 2021. The Indian variant of the TV Stick runs on Android TV 11 with the company's PatchWall UI on top and supports Dolby Vision which is claimed to offer improved video playback and Dolby Atmos for surround sound audio. The smart…

Xiaomi TV Stick 4K, the Chinese electronics company's smart home product, will in India on February 14. The tech giant first released the product in December 2021. It helps transform a regular television into a smart one. The device runs Android TV 11 and supports Dolby Vision technology for improved video playback. The Indian version will include Xiaomi's Patchwall, which the company already uses in its smart TV offerings. The TV Stick 4K is powered by a quad core Cortex A35 chipset.The Xiaomi TV Stick 4K comes with a Mi…

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Amazon | ZDNETEven though most new televisions are already smart out of the box, adding a streaming device to any non-Fire TV, like the Amazon Fire TV Stick, can elevate your viewing experience. The Fire TV Stick is a Wi-Fi-enabled device that connects to your TV's HDMI port to let you stream content from your favorite subscriptions, such as Netflix, HBO Max, and Hulu.  Also: The top video streaming services comparedConsidering there are four to choose from with different features and prices, there's sure to be one…

TikTok is limiting the number of songs that users can post on its app, an experiment to assess how much they value music in their videos.Content creators won’t be able to use certain songs, the company said in a statement. The test is occurring with a subset of TikTok’s users in Australia.The effort is worrying major music labels, which believe TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, are ultimately going to use the results of the test as an excuse to pay them less.Credit:Bloomberg“This will only affect certain music and…

A panel of OPEC+ energy ministers Wednesday said the group of petrostates would continue cutting oil production, amid uncertainties about demand in China and the impact of sanctions on Russian crude supplies.  Maintaining the status quo will allow the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and a group of producers led by Russia—collectively known as OPEC+—to take more time to assess consumption data from China, the world’s biggest oil importer, and determine how a resurgence…

Amazon’s Fire TV Sticks are popular for good reason. They’re inexpensive and make it easy to watch Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Disney+, YouTube and other streaming services on any TV, or even a projector or computer screen. The only snag is that some videos might not be available in your region. That’s nothing to do with the Firestick: it’s simply that some shows and even entire streaming services are restricted to certain countries because of licensing. For example, BBC iPlayer is only available in the UK.…

A new auditing regime should make harder to give Meta, Google and Amazon an easy ride on data protection. It's well established that the European Union has some of the strictest privacy laws in the world, threatening fines of up to 4% of a company's annual turnover. A lesser-known fact, and one which large tech firms would like to keep quiet, is that the EU hasn't enforced those rules very strictly. Since introducing its landmark privacy law known as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018, the EU has…