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Google is celebrating Halloween 2018 with its first ever interactive, multiplayer Google Doodle game called Trick-or-Treat: The Great Ghoul Duel! The Halloween themed game is hosted on Google’s Cloud platform and players around the world can team up randomly and join a match or host their own game with up to seven friends and family members via a custom invitation link. In the game, you play as a Green or a Purple Ghost and your job is to collect souls. Spooky music plays out as you dash to collect as many souls or spirit flames as you can and deposit them to your base. Players can also steal souls from other members of the opposing team and gain special ghostly powers like speed boosts, night vision and more. Players can share personal superlatives awarded to them at the end of the match based on their performances. Google implemented this special Halloween Doodle game with the help of Open Match, a highly-scalable, open source matchmaking framework cofounded ...

If you thought Google Pixel 3 XL’s big and bulky notch was enough to put you off, you were wrong. While several handset users (hilariously) reported that their devices grew another notch on the sides of the display, some were really annoyed at the glitch. The virtual notch was not seen at one particular position, and while some said it appeared on the left edge, some side the second notch grew on the right side. Luckily, Google is aware of the problem and says that it will fix it soon. The problem was first reported by UrAvgConsumer who posted a tweet on October 25. Although there is no exact explanation of what caused this glitch, according to Slashgear, there is a possibility that a rogue developer settings could have been enabled. This might have confused the auto-rotate on the phone possibly causing the faux notch stuck in the wrong place. The tech news platform says that Android offers coders the ability to add a virtual notch to their phone so that they can test under develo...

Microsoft Office 365 for the Mac is getting a dark mode on macOS Mojave. The information comes from Microsoft's own Akshay Bakshi, a Product Manager for Microsoft on Twitter. He tweets, “Look closely at the Pictures icon. Office running on macOS Mojave in Dark Mode.” If you are a part of office insider, you will be able to access this feature as early as next week. As an office insider, users will get previews of the updates coming to MS office, like this upcoming dark mode for Mac. Insiders will also be able to give feedback to Microsoft about the features. It also seems that the dark mode will be limited to Office 365 subscribers. MacOS Mojave already has a dark mode and the dark mode in MS Office will compliment this if you are one that is using dark mode in Apple’s latest desktop and laptop OS. Once testing of the new features is complete, it will roll out to Office 365 users. There is no official information whether dark mode will make its way to any other versions of Office ...

It has been two days since the OnePlus 6T became official globally and just a few hours since its India price was announced and the company is already rolling out a software update to the phone. OnePlus is now seeding OxygenOS 9.0.4 update to the OnePlus 6T, which brings improvements to Nightscape in camera and also updates the phone’s Android security patch to November, which the OnePlus 6 also received recently through Open Beta 6. We still don't know what the November patch fixes, because Google is yet to release the November Security Bulletins. Nightscape on the OnePlus 6T is nothing but the pro-mode sprinkled with some computational photography. When shooting in low light, the camera bumps up the ISO and slows down the shutter speed. The update was originally spotted by HDBlog and apart from improvements to Nightscape and an updated security patch, it also brings improvements to Screen Unlock, come new navigation gestures, optimised standby power consumption and some general ...

Apple just wrapped up an eventful evening in New York, where the company announced the new iPad Pro, an updated Mac Mini and a refresh of the universally loved MacBook Air. All three products have received significant upgrades from their predecessors, and just as much as everyone was waiting to hear what Apple had to announce, now we also have the price of the devices in India. iPad Pro The new iPad Pro that comes in 11-inch and 12.5-inch variants and is powered by the new A12X Bionic chip is the device for creative professionals. It comes with an all-new Apple Pencil and for the first time ever, a USB-C port on an Apple portable device. It is nice to see Apple finally embrace a universal port standard for their tablet. You can read everything about the new iPad Pro models in our in-depth story here. Additionally, here are the prices for the new iPad Pro Models in India. There is no official date of availability yet, but given that Apple has been treating India as a market of grea...

Apple has announced two new iPad Pro tablets. The new iPads will be available in the US starting November 7. There is no information available on when the new iPads will come to India or an India pricing. The design of the new iPad Pro has changed to be more angular compared to the rounded edges found on the previous generation iPads. Speaking of the previous generation iPad, the 10.5-inch iPad Pro will continue to sell in the market. The new iPad Pros are a 5.9mm thick and the 11-inch iPad pro weighs 468 grams, whereas the 12.9-inch iPad Pro weighs 631 grams. As the rumour mills suggested, the new iPads have forgone the home button in favour of Face ID. This is how the 11-inch iPad Pro manages to get an 11-inch display in the 10.5-inch iPad Pro's form factor. The Pro still has 4 speakers and this time the devices have magnets all around to hold and charge the new Apple Pencil. For connectivity Apple removed the lightning cable in favour of USB-C, giving users the a...

Apple has finally launched an all new MacBook Air and Mac Mini at its live event in New York City. The new MacBook Air replaces the first model that was originally launched in 2008 (by the company’s late CEO, Steve Jobs) and was updated regularly until 2017. The new Mac Mini succeeds the current Mac Mini that was launched way back in 2014. The two new Apple devices can be ordered online starting today and will be available from November 7. The new MacBook Air retains the same display size of 13.3 inches but cuts down on bezel size by 50 percent and increases pixel count drastically—it sports a new Retina Display that offers over 4 million pixels of resolution. In terms of security, the new MacBook Air incorporates a new T2 chip that features Touch ID and Secure Boot. The keyboard has been updated with more a more stable butterfly mechanism for keypress. Only USB-Cs on the new MacBook Air The trackpad, now twenty percent larger in size, supports Force Touch. The speakers have been upda...