Top Weekly Tech News #22 : Shower Power speaker, Hyperloop test, Assassin Creed Valhalla, PUBG update, Google Photos and more.

 1. "SHOWER POWER" IS A NEW WATER BASED BLUETOOTH SPEAKER.


Yes!! You heard it correct. Ampere's Shower Power is a bluetooth speaker which can be powered by water coming from your shower. The company says that with this device, customers can listen to music, podcasts or anything else during their showers. Ampere says that the speaker contains their own created hydropower systems which generates power from water before reaching you. It can give you 16 hours of playback time after full charge and is completely eco-friendly and made with 100% recyclable plastic. 


2. HYPERLOOP COMPLETES FIRST TEST RUN WITH PASSENGERS.


Hyperloop is a transportation system which uses magnetic levitation to attain high speeds. Virgin, an US based company achieved this milestone by successfully conducting test run of the Hyperloop system with the passengers. There was a big concern over the safety of the passengers but Virgin has successfully proved that this Hyperloop transportation system is safer than expected. Reports suggests that this transportation system is also supposed to come in India. The company conducted its first test run in their DevLoop test site located in Las Vegas, Nevada.


3. NVIDIA RTX 3090 CAN'T HANDLE ASSASSIN'S CREED VALHALLA AT 4K / 60 FPS.



Assassin's Creed Valhalla game is Ubisoft's one of the biggest title game that they have launched for the next gen consoles for PS5, XBOX Series X and PC. The Series X only runs the game on 30 fps with that power. This is the same case with PC, even with RTX 3090 and Intel i9-10900K paired together they can't handle Valhalla at 4K/60 fps infact it was giving an average of 56fps with frame rates dropping down to about 40 fps in some scene. This was found by a YouTuber when he was playing the game with this configuration.


4. PUBG TO INVEST $100 MILLION IN INDIA.


 After the ban of PUBG along with other 117 Chinese apps by Indian government, PUBG Corp is bringing the game back to India. The company will re-release the game in India with a new name PUBG Mobile India. PUBG is said to make some India specific changes to gameplay for Indian audience. They have released a teaser in YouTube but they haven't announced release date yet but we will listen about it soon.


5. GOOGLE PHOTOS WILL STOP PROVIDING UNLIMITED STORAGE FROM JUNE NEXT YEAR.


Google Photos allows us to upload photos at high quality (not original quality) without any limits. This is going to end from June 1, 2021 as Google is going to stop giving you unlimited storage instead whatever you upload will fill up 15 GB space which is assigned to you. If you need more space you will have to pay Google monthly for the same. This change will not effect Google Pixel users.


QUICK FLASH NEWS

1. Indian Government is going to start regulating content on OTT platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ Hotstar, etc.

2. Apple has introduced their new Apple Silicon, the 'M1 Chip' for new Macs. They have also launched MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac Mini with the same chip. Read more about them here.

3. Samsung has officially launched their new 5 nm based Exynos 1080 chipset in China. It is octa-core chipset with 4 Cortex A-78 cores and Cortex A-55 cores. This is paired with Mali-G78 M10 GPU. The first smartphone to launch with Exynos 1080 is said to be Vivo X60 series.

4. Mediatek launched Dimensity 700 chip which brings 5G support to budget smartphones. It is slightly toned down version of Dimensity 920. It is an octa-core chip with Mali-G57 MC2 GPU. It also supports 90Hz refresh rate.

5. Along with PUBG, Tiktok is also rumoured to make a comeback in India. According to Hindustan Times, ByteDance is working with Indian Government to revoke its ban in India. 

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