It looks like Google might be leaking the Pixel 8a in a Google Fi wireless ad, intentionally or unintentionally. The Pixel 8a hasn’t officially been announced yet but it’s almost a sure bet that Google plans to launch one later this year. As there have been numerous leaks of the device so far. From renders to supposedly live images of the phone. Including multiple colorway options. In short, the Pixel 8a isn’t a total surprise anymore. So long as all the leaks are accurate.
Leaks don’t often happen from the company that’s making the product, however. And that’s what makes this potential leak more interesting. A new report from GSM Arena has pointed out the possibility that Google may have shown what the Pixel 8a looks like in an ad. The ad was seen on YouTube by a user named Frutejuise. Who pointed out a few key details about the phone.
Pixel 8a potentially seen in Google Fi ad on YouTube
One notable detail about the Pixel 8a is that it will supposedly come without a mic next to the LED flash. On the regular Pixel 8, there is a little mic that can be seen next to the flash module. In all of the Pixel 8a leaks, however, this mic is missing. In the Fi ad, what appears to be a Pixel 8 series device can be seen without this mic on the back. What’s more, is that both phones can be seen in colorways that are only offered on the Pixel 8 Pro — Bay and Porcelain.
These are also most certainly not Pixel 8 Pro phones for two key reasons. There are only two camera sensors, and the frames have matte finishes. The Pixel 8 Pro has three camera sensors and its frame has a glossy finish.
It goes without saying that none of this is ironclad proof. So take the potential leak with a grain of salt. However, the image in the ad does very much look like a Pixel 8a when compared to already leaked images. And that paired with the colors that aren’t available on the standard Pixel 8 suggests this is Google’s latest upcoming A series device.
NASA states that on April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada. It’s a rare event (this particular one won’t happen again for another 20 years) and the people belonging to the regions will likely take photographs of it. Most people don’t use a dedicated camera on a regular basis and many don’t even have access to one.
Keeping all these in mind, Google now offers tips on how to fully utilize the brief moments in capturing the total solar eclipse.
Google offers tips to make the most of the few minutes the eclipse will be visible
The company starts by noting that people living within the path of a total solar eclipse will only get a handful of minutes to view it. Google‘s Michael Specht, a photography expert, and a Pixel Camera Product Manager, recommended some tips to capture the total and partial solar eclipse successfully.
Whether you belong to a region of totality or you’re traveling to one of the places, it’s important to pack the essentials. Alongside safety glasses (“eclipse glasses”) and your Pixel or a camera, you should include your charger or a battery pack (if you’re traveling). “It’s a good thing to not be in a state of panic when you’re deciding whether to have your camera rolling or your phone shut off to save battery,” notes Michael Specht.
While phones these days do most of the things all by themselves thanks to the advancement in computational photography, you still need to play with your phone’s camera to get an idea of what it can do or how to utilize its capabilities in capturing the total solar eclipse. “Practice taking photos at different times of day, to mimic the descent into darkness that will happen at the time of the total eclipse itself,” tips Google’s blog post.
Michael suggests playing around with the Pro Controls of the Google Pixel 8 Pro before the day to get an idea of how the different parameters like exposure, ISO, focus, etc influence the photo you take. It will help you make the most of those couple of minutes of the beginning and end of the total solar eclipse.
And if you don’t want to manage all the different parameters all by yourself, there’s nothing to worry about. Computational photography is where a Pixel stands out.
Credit: Google
You can use a tripod if you have access to one
You may prefer to use a tripod if you have access to one. It will help you and your camera/phone capture sharper images with relatively longer exposures during the dimly lit moments. As a last tip for capturing the solar eclipse, Google advises avoiding the astrophotography mode in Pixel as it may take as long as 4 minutes to capture a shot based on the light intensity. NASA predicts the totality will last around 4 minutes or less and you won’t be willing to lose all of it. And don’t forget to enjoy the rare moment.
Flare is pleased to announce the onboarding of Hypernative, an industry leader in proactive institutional grade Web3 security. The Hypernative platform will protect Flare ecosystem participants against zero-day cyberattacks, alerting the network ahead of emerging risks to digital assets, protocol/dApp vulnerabilities, and evolving threats to web3 users.
Web3 attacks are becoming more sophisticated and are originating from a broader base of exploit vectors. As the industry continues to grow, it becomes a larger target for bad actors across the globe. By teaming up with an established leader in web3 security, Flare is increasing safety and protection for all users, dApps and institutions in the Flare ecosystem.
The Hypernative platform has developed cutting-edge technology designed to stay several steps ahead of web3 exploits, continuously looking for weaknesses across assets, protocols, and applications. As of today, the platform has detected over 270 exploits that could have potentially cost $14 Billion in damages. A leader in the field, Hypernative serves some of the largest web3 ecosystems in the industry, totalling $37 Billion in total value monitored.
The Hypernative architecture is unique in the web3 space. It can provide “always-on” monitoring of various activities including on-chain, governance, financial, and security-based. It was designed to preemptively detect many risks and attacks before the impact is felt, allowing clients to take action and mitigate any losses.
To date, over 764K risks have been detected across 1443 protocols that are constantly monitored. Because of the high volume, Hypernative focuses on critical insights, alerts, and recommended actions to avoid false positives (but without compromising via false negatives).
The system is easily integrated across all web3 platforms, complete with API data, alerts, and customization options. This type of security is especially important for those web3 institution groups with heavy financial activity, such as DeFi. These types of platforms are targeted due to the financial opportunities and therefore will benefit from the increased and proactive protection provided by Hypernative.
Hugo Philion, Co-founder of Flare & CEO of Flare Labs, commented, “Flare has been architected with enshrined oracles to support high transaction value use cases, including DeFi and AI. Hypernative’s monitoring on Flare will help provide applications and their users with an additional layer of defence against potential exploits. We aim to provide the highest level of security possible, so institutions, builders and community members have the confidence to engage with decentralized applications on the network.”
Flare is an EVM smart contract platform optimized for decentralized data acquisition. With a set of integrated oracles secured at the network layer, Flare offers developers secure, low-cost access to a broad range of price and state data for their dApps. As an EVM-based platform, any Solidity-coded applications can be launched and run on the network.
“There is a dawning realization that web3 needs a new security standard that goes beyond audits and bounties,” said Gal Sagie, co-founder and CEO of Hypernative. “It’s encouraging to see leading protocols like Flare take a global approach to security and implement active strategies that protect their entire ecosystem.”
As web3 smart contracts get more and more complex, the intelligence needed to protect them must continuously improve as well. Because of Hypernative’s strong record of protecting some of blockchain’s most advanced platforms, the tools it has developed are not only industrial strength, they are battle-hardened. Hypernative will be instrumental in protecting the over 290 projects built on Flare with real-time, proactive warnings designed to prevent and minimize the potential damage created from even sophisticated attacks.
Along with access to the platform and assistance in setting up their alert configuration, Flare projects will be able to see the monitoring and prevention flows, receive alerts and actions needed, and receive assistance from Hypernative in the event there is an attack.
About Hypernative
Hypernative stops zero-day cyber-attacks, and economic risks, detects on-chain anomalies, and protects digital assets, protocols, and web3 applications from significant losses or threats. The platform monitors on and off-chain data sources using proprietary machine learning models to accurately predict cyber, economic, and governance threats before they happen and connect these to automated playbooks to prevent and mitigate risks in real time.
About Flare
Flare is the blockchain for data: an EVM smart contract platform specifically designed to support data-intensive use cases, including Machine Learning/AI, RWA tokenization, gaming and social. With decentralized, enshrined oracles secured at the network layer, Flare is the only smart contract platform optimized for decentralized data acquisition – price & time series data, blockchain event & state data, and web2 API data.
By giving developers trustless access to the broadest range of data and data proofs at scale and for minimal cost, Flare expands the utility of blockchain and supports the development of new and improved use cases.
We’re here to compare some of the best camera smartphones in the world. These two phones are the best OPPO and HONOR have to offer at the moment. As you already know, we’re comparing the OPPO Find X7 Ultra vs HONOR Magic6 Pro. Both of these smartphones launched in the first quarter of the year. They’re brand new, basically, and they do have a lot to offer.
Truth be said, they are both camera-focused, but that’s not all they have to offer. Both of them are full-fledged flagship smartphones. We’ll kick things off by listing their specifications. Following that, we’ll compare them across a number of categories, including design, display, performance, battery, cameras, and audio. Having said that, let’s get things started, shall we?
Specs
OPPO Find X7 Ultra vs HONOR Magic6 Pro, respectively
When it comes to their designs, they do look and feel quite different. There are some similarities here, though. They are both large flagships with curved displays and proportionally curved backplates. That’s about it when it comes to similarities. The OPPO Find X7 Ultra has a centered display camera hole on the front, while the HONOR Magic6 Pro includes a pill-shaped cutout. There’s a reason for that, as the phone offers 3D facial scanning.
On the back, both smartphones do have large camera islands, though the one on the OPPO Find X7 Ultra is definitely larger and protrudes more. The OPPO Find X7 Ultra has four cameras in there, while the HONOR Magic6 Pro hides three cameras inside its rear camera setup. The OPPO Find X7 Ultra combines vegan leather and glass on most of its variants, though you can also get a model with a glass back only. That phone is available in China only, though, to emphasize once again. The HONOR Magic6 Pro comes with a glass back or silicone polymer backplate (aka vegan leather).
Both smartphones include their physical buttons on the right-hand side. The OPPO Find X7 Ultra also has an alert slider, which sits on the left side of the phone. The OPPO Find X7 Ultra is slightly taller, wider, and thicker than the HONOR Magic6 Pro. It is slightly lighter than the glass model of the HONOR Magic6 Pro and slightly heavier than the vegan leather variant. Both smartphones feel great to hold and use, though their glass models are quite slippery. They’re both IP68 certified and feel like truly premium devices.
OPPO Find X7 Ultra vs HONOR Magic6 Pro: Display
The OPPO Find X7 Ultra features a 6.82-inch QHD+ (3168 x 1440) LTPO AMOLED display. That panel is curved, and it supports an adaptive refresh rate (1-120Hz). It also supports HDR10+ content and Dolby Vision. This panel can project up to 1 billion colors, and its brightness can theoretically go up to 4,500 nits. The screen-to-body ratio of this smartphone is at around 90%, in case you were wondering. Its display is protected by the Gorilla Glass Victus 2.
HONOR Magic6 Pro
The HONOR Magic6 Pro has a 6.8-inch 2800 x 1280 LTPO OLED display. That panel is curved too, and it can project up to 1 billion colors. It offers an adaptive refresh rate (1-120Hz), and its brightness theoretically goes up to 5,000 nits. HDR content is supported. The display aspect ratio of the display is 19.5:9, while the panel is protected by Jurhino glass. The screen-to-body ratio is around 91% here.
Both of these displays are outstanding, basically. During the review period, I enjoyed using both the same, to be quite honest. They’re both big, bright, and vivid. The blacks are deep, and the viewing angles of both displays are great. The touch response is also good, and both have a high PWM dimming to protect your eyes. The HONOR Magic6 Pro does have an advantage in that regard, but that’s not something you’ll notice, as the OPPO FInd X7 Ultra also offers high PWM dimming. Both displays also get plenty bright in all conditions, so there’s nothing to worry about in that department.
OPPO Find X7 Ultra vs HONOR Magic6 Pro: Performance
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC is included inside both of these smartphones. That is Qualcomm’s most powerful processor at the moment. Both devices also offer up to 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM. Well, the global HONOR Magic6 Pro model comes with 12GB of RAM only, and we’re focusing on that model, so… keep that in mind. Both devices also offer UFS 4.0 flash storage, which is not expandable.
The performance of both of these devices is outstanding. There are some quirks with the OPPO Find X7 Ultra’s software, but only because it’s made for China. It does work fine once you install the Google Play Store, though. Both smartphones fly through anything you throw at them. Multitasking is a breeze, as is anything else you can think of, including gaming. They can open apps really fast, they’re great for browsing, multimedia consumption, image editing, video processing, and so on.
We’ve played Genshin Impact on both smartphones, and they both handled it beautifully. There were no performance dips during the 1-hour test, and even though they both got warm, that did not affect the performance, nor did they feel too hot to use. The performance is excellent on both smartphones. Their fingerprint scanners work beautifully, and the same goes for the 3D facial scanning on the HONOR Magic6 Pro. It simply works, in all lighting conditions.
OPPO Find X7 Ultra vs HONOR Magic6 Pro: Battery
There is a 5,000mAh battery included inside the OPPO Find X7 Ultra. The HONOR Magic6 Pro has a 5,600mAh battery on the inside. HONOR used a second-gen silicon carbon battery in the HONOR Magic6 Pro, which allowed the company to squeeze more capacity here. The battery life both of these phones offer is great, by the way. Both of them did great in our battery drain test, and in general performance too.
We were able to squeeze out over 8 hours of screen-on-time on both smartphones. The HONOR Magic6 Pro even reached the 9-hour mark at one point. Do note that we did use both smartphones for various tasks on those days, but without gaming included. Everything else was fair game, emails, messaging, TikTok, YouTube, browsing, image editing, short video processing, and more. When you do throw in gaming in the here, the battery life does change, of course.
Your mileage may vary, though, of course, as you’ll be using your phone with different apps installed, in different ways, and with different signal strengths. Also, we used them while hooked up on WiFi most of the time. We did not notice major drainage when they were hooked up to 5G, however. We did have a good signal, though, so keep that in mind. The point is, both smartphones do offer great battery life.
They also support extremely fast charging. The OPPO Find X7 Ultra supports 100W wired, 50W wireless, and 10W reverse wireless charging. It also has a charger in the box. The HONOR Magic6 Pro supports 80W wired, 66W wired, and 5W reverse wired charging. Do note that it does not come with a charger in the box, though. You’ll have to get one separately.
OPPO Find X7 Ultra vs HONOR Magic6 Pro: Cameras
Both of these are outstanding camera smartphones, to say the least. The OPPO Find X7 Ultra has four cameras on the back. It has a 50-megapixel main camera, a 50-megapixel ultrawide unit (123-degree FoV), a 50-megapixel periscope telephoto camera (2.8x optical zoom), and a 50-megapixel periscope telephoto camera (6x optical zoom). The HONOR Magic6 Pro, on the other hand, has three cameras on the back. It has a 50-megapixel main camera (f/1.4-f2.0 aperture), a 50-megapixel ultrawide unit (122-degree FoV), and a 180-megapixel periscope telephoto camera (2.5x optical zoom).
OPPO Find X7 Ultra
Despite the fact both smartphones do a great job when it comes to photography, the results are considerably different. The HONOR Magic6 Pro simply prefers warmer images, which usually end up looking a bit brighter than the ones from the OPPO Find X7 Ultra. OPPO’s flagship leans more towards a realistic representation, with moodier shots, and emphasized contrast between light and dark areas. Both do a fantastic job, and that goes for main, ultrawide, and zoomed-in shots.
The two phones traded blows from one photo to the next, and it was all a matter of preference. I enjoyed using both camera setups equally, to be quite honest. If you want more realistic low-light shots, the OPPO Find X7 Ultra is the way to go. If you want them to look great, but a bit brighter than you’d see them, the HONOR Magic6 Pro is the phone for you. Both phones do great in the macro department, while both ultrawide cameras follow the color science of the main cameras brilliantly. You really can’t go wrong with either one of these for your photography needs.
Audio
Both of these smartphones come with stereo speakers. The loudness they provide is comparable, and both sets are more than loud enough. Also, they’re well-balanced, with minium distortion at the highest of volumes, which is very difficult to even notice.
You will not find an audio jack on either phone, though. You’ll have to use their Type-C ports for a wired connection for your headphones. If you prefer to go wireless, you’ll be glad to hear that Bluetooth 5.4 is supported on the OPPO Find X7 Ultra, and Bluetooth 5.3 on the HONOR Magic6 Pro.
Microsoft Windows 10 will receive Extended Security Updates (ESU) just like Windows 7. However, getting these security updates will be expensive.
Most of the Windows 10 editions will reach the end of support on October 14, 2025. This may seem a little far off, but the date is approaching fast, especially for Windows 10 loyalists. Microsoft has indicated that it will offer paid security updates for Windows 10 after the OS hits its end of life.
Getting Windows 10 Security Updates after the OS hits its end of life will be costly
Microsoft has published a detailed blog post reminding Windows 10 users they have limited time with a fully supported and regularly updated Operating System.
End of life for an OS essentially means it won’t receive new features, updates, or security patches. However, Microsoft has supported Windows 7 with Extended Security Updates for quite a long time after the company replaced it with Windows 10.
Microsoft released Windows 11 in October 2021. The OS is now more than two years old. It succeeds Windows 10. However, millions of PC users refuse to ditch Windows 10 and upgrade to Windows 11 even though the latter is still free for legitimate users.
However, Microsoft will not offer free support for Windows 10 after October 14, 2025. The company will, however, offer paid support. Needless to say, Microsoft will only offer security updates.
Microsoft is reportedly offering three paid options for businesses looking to continue using Windows 10. There’s the traditional 5-by-5 activation key method, a cloud-based activation method, and activation that comes bundled with a Windows 365 subscription.
The 5-by-5 activation key method will need users to purchase and download an activation key. They would have to enter this key into their Windows 10 PC. This key will be valid for a year. The base license package for Windows 10 ESU will cost $61 per device per year.
Businesses that have been using a Microsoft cloud-based update management solution such as Microsoft Intune or Windows Autopatch, can get a hefty discount. A Windows 10 ESU license, activated through Microsoft’s cloud solutions, will cost $45 per user, and it will be valid for up to five devices for one year.
Should businesses opt for a Windows 10 ESU subscription?
There’s no doubt Windows 10 ESU subscriptions are quite expensive, especially for businesses that have hundreds of PCs that will need security updates.
Windows 11 does have a stringent hardware requirement. In other words, businesses will have to upgrade hardware to ensure Windows 11 compatibility or acquire a Windows 10 ESU subscription.
Either way, Windows 10 won’t get any feature updates after October 2025. Moreover, it is not clear how long Microsoft will release security updates for Windows 10. If that’s not scary enough, Microsoft may increase the price of the Windows 10 ESU subscription for each additional year.
As for non-commercial Windows 10 users, upgrading to Windows 11 would essentially be mandatory. Incidentally, Microsoft hasn’t yet offered any ESU subscription for Windows 10 intended for personal or educational use.
For a while now, Google has been working on Apple Wallet pass support for its Wallet service. Now, the company is rolling out the feature more widely. However, it will probably take a while for its adoption across all relevant apps and services.
Some Google Wallet users had already received support for “.pkpass” files in March as a test. These types of files are what Apple Wallet uses to read, store, and manage pass data. Now, as spotted by the 9to5Google team, the Google Wallet “.pkpass” file support is going live for more users around the world.
That said, there is an initial problem: the adoption of the new option. Google’s public tests lasted just a few weeks, so it seems likely that not all services had enough time to adapt. However, integrating this feature into Google Wallet en masse will likely help speed up the process.
Google Wallet now supports Apple Wallet passes, but it’s not working everywhere yet
The 9to5Google report indicates that its test results were hit-or-miss. For example, clicking on the “Add to Apple Wallet” button of a parking pass from the Charlotte NC airport allowed the ability to download the “.pkpass” file and import it immediately to Google Wallet. On the other hand, there were cases where the download of the “.pkpass” file was blocked due to a message indicating that it was necessary to use the Safari browser.
This last error will probably be the most common among Android users until the adaptation of apps and services is massive. As a temporary solution, Max Weinbach suggested a workaround that consists of sharing a pass from the Apple Wallet app. After pressing the “share” option, you can choose a messaging app. Once you send the pass, the recipient (which can be yourself) will receive the “.pkpass” file. This way, you can import all your Apple Wallet passes.
From now on, it is up to the relevant services to adapt to Apple Wallet pass support in the “rival” service. The Mountain View company has already taken the most important step, and all that remains is to wait for widespread adoption.
importing Apple Wallet pass to Google Wallet. Source: 9to5Google
To catch you up, companies like Disney, Hulu, and Netflix have been looking for a way to stave off password sharing. This is when an account holder gives another person they’re login credentials to watch content on a streaming service without paying. This is something that all streaming services hate.
Last year, Netflix cracked down on password sharing. Netflix accounts are geo-locked, so, if any person tries to watch Netflix while outside of the designated household, it will be blocked and the potential watcher would be prompted to buy their own subscription. Obviously, many people were infuriated with this. However, it actually worked. After the crackdown, Netflix’s subscriber count rose- we’re sure that many people chose the Netflix with ads tier. So, naturally, we expect all major streaming services to bring policies such as these.
The Disney+ password crackdown is coming in June
If you like sharing your Disney+ account with your friend from across town, it looks like your days are numbered. In an interview with CNBC, Disney’s CEO Bob Iger stated that the company will be cracking down on password sharing “in just a few countries in a few markets,” starting in June. This will be just like Netflix’s password crackdown where the company tested it extensively in a few markets. However, Disney plans on expanding this to all users starting in September.
So, if you enjoy sharing your password, you have, at the very most, about five months to keep doing so. After that, you may be prompted to buy your own service. This is a massive bummer for people who really enjoy sharing passwords. However, this is something that should not come as a surprise. With a struggling global economy, several companies around the world are making tough decisions that users are not a fan of. The question remains whether this will hold the same results for Disney+ as it did for Netflix. Only time will tell.
Most of the malicious search ads we have seen have originated from Google, but threat actors are also abusing other search engines. Microsoft Bing is probably the second best target due to its close ties to the Windows ecosystem and Edge browser.
In this blog post, we look at a very recent malvertising campaign impersonating the popular VPN software NordVPN. A malicious advertiser is capturing traffic from Bing searches and redirecting users to a decoy site that looks almost identical to the real one.
The threat actors went ever further by trying to digitally sign a malicious installer and hosting it on Dropbox. Victims will have the impression they are getting NordVPN as it is part of the package, but will also inadvertently install a Remote Access Trojan known as SecTopRAT on their computer.
We have reported the malicious Bing ad to Microsoft, and other parts of the distribution infrastructure to their respective provider. We want to reiterate that NordVPN is a legitimate VPN provider and they are being impersonated by threat actors.
Fraudulent Bing ad
When searching for “nord vpn” via the Bing search engine, we identified a malicious ad that impersonates NordVPN. The ad itself looks suspicious because of the URL in the ad snippet. The domain name nordivpn[.]xyz was created one day ago (April 3, 2024). It was probably chosen as it looks quite similar to the official name and can deceive users who aren’t looking too closely.
As we often see, the ad URL is simply used as a redirection mechanism to a fake website that is meant to look identical to the one being impersonated. This is true here as well, where we have a redirect to besthord-vpn[.]com (note again the spelling chosen with the ‘h‘ looking like an ‘n‘) which was created today, only a few hours ago.
The website looks incredibly convincing, and victims will be tricked into downloading the app from there. Unlike the legitimate NordVPN that goes through a sign up process, here you can directly download the installer from Dropbox.
Here’s a summary of the traffic flow from the malicious ad to the download link:
Malware payload
The downloaded file is called NordVPNSetup.exe and is digitally signed, as if it was from its official vendor; however, the signature is not valid.
The file contains both an installer for NordVPN and a malware payload. The installer for NordVPN is meant to give victims the illusion that they are actually installing a real file.
The payload is injected into MSBuild.exe and will connect to the malware author’s command and control server at 45.141.87[.]216 on port 15647.
That network traffic is detected by Emerging Threats as Arechclient2 Backdoor, an alias for SecTopRAT.
Conclusion
Malvertising continues to show how easy it is to surreptitiously install malware under the guise of popular software downloads. Threat actors are able to roll out infrastructure quickly and easily to bypass many content filters.
ThreatDown customers who have DNS Filtering can proactively block online ads by enabling the rule for advertisements. This is a simple, and yet powerful way to prevent malvertising across an entire organization or in specific areas.
The malicious ad and related indictors have been reported as we work with industry partners to take down this campaign.
Just a couple of weeks after bringing you an exclusive look at the Motorola Edge 50 Pro (also known as the X50 Ultra and Edge Plus 2024), we’re back with another look at a new Motorola smartphone that is also launching on April 3.
This is the Motorola Edge 50 Fusion.
Motorola’s Edge 50 Fusion is a good-looking mid-range phone
On the front of the phone, it has the April 3 date, when the device will be announced. In fact, Motorola has already begun sending out invites for an event in India on April 3. We’d expect it to launch first in India and China, then make its way to Europe and North America shortly after that.
Motorola’s Edge 50 Fusion will sport a curved 6.7-inch pOLED display powered by the Snapdragon 6 Gen 1. The Edge 30 Fusion recently appeared on Geekbench with the Snapdragon 6 Gen 1, scoring a 913 in the single-core test and a 2,629 in the multi-core. Motorola also includes 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, which is pretty standard for Motorola with its mid-range phones, actually.
The company includes a 50-megapixel primary camera with OIS on the back and a 13-megapixel ultrawide camera. At the same time, the front has a 32-megapixel camera in the hole punch display.
The Edge 50 Fusion is also expected to sport a 5,000mAh battery with 68W wired charging. However, the 68W charger is not expected to be included in the box. Motorola has also ensured that the Edge 50 Fusion is waterproof with an IP68 rating and also has Gorilla Glass 5, so it should be pretty resistant to shattering.
In the gallery below, you can see all three colors in which the Motorola Edge 50 Fusion will be available. This includes Ballad Blue, Peacock Pink, and Tidal Teal. All three have a textured back; however, the Ballad Blue has a vegan leather back. We expect the Motorola Edge 50 Fusion to be priced around $300 USD or around Rs 25,000 in India.
Update: Evleaks has recently posted a video showing off the Motorola Edge 50 Fusion. This video shows all three colors that we have shown above. Essentially confirming our leak.
If you have a Disney Plus account, and you happen to share your login with friends and family outside your home, get ready to spend more. As originally shared back in February, Disney+ will begin to crack down on password sharing. However, now Disney CEO Bob Iger has laid out a definite timeline, and the end of an era is coming this summer.
Disney, taking cues from Netflix’s anti-password-sharing playbook, is now determined to do the same and boost profits. This is a strategy that is becoming popular among streamers, along with incorporating ads and asking subscribers to pay more in order to get rid of them. Even Hulu and Amazon Prime Video have jumped on these trends.
As per Iger (via 9to5Mac), Disney will begin its password crackdown experiment in a few countries starting in June. By September, expect it to be rolled out everywhere. Though Iger didn’t get super technical about how this’ll work, Disney has said they’ll be keeping an eye on your account activity to make sure you’re all watching from a single household.
The writing’s been on the wall since last summer when Disney announced they were joining Netflix in the fight against shared accounts. In February, they even gave US subscribers a heads-up, so this latest announcement isn’t exactly a surprise. Still, at least now there’s a clearer idea of when you’ll need to start budgeting for that extra Disney+ subscription and break the news to the friends and/or family members that may have access to it.
Netflix’s anti-password-sharing move caused a bit of a stir initially, but it ultimately led to a boost in paying subscribers. Disney is probably hoping for the same results and banking on the popularity of their current and upcoming shows. Considering all the recent price hikes, streaming is becoming more expensive than ever. Now that password-sharing looks like it’ll be a thing of the past, we’re really in for some more strict budgeting.
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