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Huawei Nova 4 To Boast A Pinhole To House The Selfies Camera, Not A Notch

Just before Samsung launch a device with its new Infinity-O display design, Huawei could release a smartphone with a camera implemented in a small pinhole at the top-left corner. That would be the Huawei Nova 4, which would be officially presented in December.

Huawei Nova 4 To Boast A Pinhole To House The Selfies Camera, Not A Notch

As soon as it arrived on the market, the notch was destined to die. Screen manufacturers are regularly presenting alternative solutions, and, at the end of this year, Samsung has introduced its future display designs. Among them, the one that particularly has drawn attention was an O-shaped sort of pinhole to house a single selfies camera. The Samsung Galaxy A8 series was supposed to be the first smartphone on the market to take advantage of this design, but Huawei Nova 4 might be the one.

On Chinese social networks, the famous brand has started teasing around the future Huawei Nova 4, and the first images are more than equivocal – the selfies camera would be placed in a hole at the top left of the display.

Besides, thanks to Slashleaks, we are now able to observe a very similar model of a smartphone in the real world, used by a man in a Chinese bus. Slashleaks also noted that the device has a 3.5-mm jack for headphones.

Huawei Nova 4 To Be Officially Presented in December for the Chinese Market

For the moment, we don’t know if Huawei Nova 4 would launch on all markets, as it happened with the Chinese brand’s other models such as Huawei P20 and Mate 20, for example, but, most likely, that would happen. Huawei Nova 4 would get its official presentation in December, and we should expect it to roll out in stores soon afterward.

We will discover everything about the Huawei Nova 4 during its official presentation scheduled for December for the Chinese market.

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Windows 10 Mail App To Boast Ads Similar To Google Gmail

Windows 10 could make room for advertising in some of its applications, such as its email client. Indeed, some Windows 10 mail app users in many countries have noticed the presence of ads in the form of emails, says The Verge. An initiative that seems to be inspired by its competitor Google which has already added such ads in Gmail.

Microsoft to add ads in Windows 10 mail app for non-Office 365 subscribers

We do not know precisely what drives Microsoft to follow in the footsteps of Google’s Gmail as Windows 10 is, after all, a paid software since the Windows 10 license is included in the price of new computers. Accordingly, users may not appreciate this very unpleasant new feature.

However, the Redmond-based tech giant announced the addition of ads in the Windows 10 mail app via Frank Shaw, Microsoft’s communications manager, who also explained that it was ultimately just a test that should have never reached the general public. According to the official, Windows 10 mail app will boast ads for non-Office 365 subscribers.

Microsoft promised not to scan email to display targeted content

“The company [Microsoft] had decided to disable these ads. He also said that the experiment was never designed to be tested on a large scale, which does not support the existence of an FAQ on a pilot program implemented in several countries around the world, but the ads should disappear. If some users have seen advertising on the application, it should disappear quickly,” said Frank Shaw for The Verge.

On the positive side of this experience, we note the fact that Microsoft refuses to scan emails in order to display targeted content. The company has always refused to give in to this kind of practice and has even tackled Google in the past on this subject. As a consequence, Gmail has also decided to stop scanning emails since then.

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Cyberpunk 2077 Development Process Is “Going According To Plan,” CD Projekt CEO Stated

CD Projekt reaffirms its intention to offer high-quality video games. Without going into too much detail, the CD Projekt Red team assures that the development of Cyberpunk 2077 “goes fast and according to plan,” with the main objective of the studio responsible for the Witcher series being to offer a “high-quality” role-playing adventure.

Cyberpunk 2077 Would Be One Excellent Game, CD Projekt’s CEO Thinks

Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the most sought-after games at the moment with many fans expecting a great new title in the franchise. Apparently, CD Projekt is up to offer an excellent game to the public. Adam Kicinsky, CD Projekt’s chief executive, came out with new information about Cyberpunk 2077 to reassure the fans that the upcoming title would be great.

“We’re breathing life into the game world,” said the studio’s chief executive, Adam Kicinski, who also said that “not all parts of the game look like what was presented at E3 or Gamescom. Accordingly, a large part of the game wasn’t as detailed. CD Projekt is currently “adding content and adjusting things, which involves a lot of work on the part of the development team.”

Cyberpunk 2077 To Match Red Dead Redemption 2 Regarding The Quality, Kacinski Said

“What I can say today is that we’re progressing fast and according to plan,” which doesn’t mean that the work is close to completion. They have yet to enter the “very important test phase to polish the entire content of the game. Once development is complete, we can start adding patches to fix bugs, both large and small, and we’ve set aside time for this task.”

In the same interview, the CD Projekt chief has assured that the developers, who also created the popular The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, are looking to come up with a Cyberpunk 2077 game of the quality of Red Dead Redemption 2, recently rolled out by Rockstar Games.

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Google Duplex Artificial Intelligence Is Now Unde Tests By A Small Number of Pixel Smartphones Users

Google has finally begun to test its Google Duplex artificial intelligence in real-world applications via a small number of Pixel smartphone users. The AI system was presented during this year’s Google I/O conference, held in May, and which has been tested to a limited extent in the USA, where it has reached a small number of users on their Google Pixel smartphones.

As Google has confirmed to the news portal Venture Beat, through some Google Pixel smartphones, it is already possible to use Duplex to make phone calls autonomously with which the “app” can make bookings in the name of the user in some restaurants or hairdressers in the United States.

Duplex is activated directly through the Google Assistant and works only in the English version, for the moment, at least. Its functions include the possibility to call external businesses, not just Google partners, and for the moment they are limited only to restaurants, and not to hairdressers as Google announced back in May.

Via Google Duplex artificial intelligence tests, it has been shown that the service works through a button that becomes available when you search for a restaurant in the Google Assistant.

Google Duplex Artificial Intelligence Is Now Unde Tests By A Small Number of Pixel Smartphones Users

Among its features, Duplex only allows reservations for a maximum of ten people, and also asks for other relevant data such as the date and time of the booking. For calls, you use the user’s phone number in your Google Account, but you can select another one. The reservations made through Duplex are automatically synchronized with the Google Assistant and the Google Calendar.

The restaurants that can be accessed through the Duplex artificial intelligence system are still limited, and Google has offered the option to those businesses that do not wish to attend to this program the possibility of deactivating this option through their Google Account for businesses.

At the moment, Google is testing the Duplex artificial intelligence only among a small number of Pixel smartphones users in the United States, and just in a few cities. After the initial tests, the function will be extended to a more significant number of testers, according to the company.

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Google Chrome To Add Scrolling Tabs Feature Similar To What We Have In Firefox

Google is working on a new Chome update that will include the ability to scroll through the browser taskbar tabs. A handy feature that Firefox has had for a long time and which has served as an “inspiration” for Google engineers.

We usually tend to open a lot of tabs, depending on what we’re up to when working with Google Chrome. Having a more straightforward way to switch from one tab to another would be ideal. We already have that in Firefox, but, let’s be honest, Chrome is the most popular browser ever made, so millions of users around the world would be thankful for the new feature of scrolling tabs.

In a Chrome session, each tab you add reduces the size of the previous tabs on the taskbar. The more tabs we have open, the smaller they will be, and the more difficult would be to locate a specific tab. Mozilla has long provided a solution for its Firefox and is simple but effective. It added scroll arrows placed on the bar or the possibility to use the mouse wheel for scrolling between tabs.

Google Chrome To Add Scrolling Tabs Feature Similar To What We Have In Firefox

Google announced that it’s working on a similar solution that would come in a future Chrome update., as reported by TechDows. The idea is not to reduce the size of the tabs to the point where it would be challenging to locate specific ones, and, as a Google engineer explained on Reddit, this function is already in works. He did not reveal when this feature would come out in Chrome, but we presume it would be pretty soon.

“Scrollable tabs are on their way. In the meantime, you can click Shift and Ctrl to select several tabs at once and then drag them out to separate the windows and group them into another one,” the Google engineer said on Reddit.

The new Google Chrome feature is not yet available in the browser’s beta versions but could be added soon, so keep an eye on next Google Chrome Beta versions.

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