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Chrome is a popular web browser developed by Google. The tech giant keeps adding new features to this platform to improve user experience. In 2021, the company enabled users to remove their account history as recent as up to the last 15 minutes on Google app. This functionality also arrived for Android devices earlier in 2022. The option not only allows users to delete their search history but also helps them remove other account activity instantly. This feature also aims to save users from the hassle of digging through their account settings to delete browsing history.
According to a report by ChromeStory, Google may now add this feature to the Chrome app on Android. This Google Chrome feature will make it easier for Android users to delete their browsing history. A new option to delete browsing history up to the last 15 minutes is likely to be added to Chrome’s Android app with an upcoming update.

How Google may be planning to add this option
As per the report, Google has added a new flag to its Chrome app on Android. The report says that it is not clear if the flag offers an option to help users to remove just browsing data or account activity or both. However, the report mentions that the option will appear in the three dots overflow menu in Chrome.
The report also didn’t mention when this feature is likely to rollout. However, this handy option will help users during sensitive browsing. The report also didn’t clarify if this option will later appear in Chrome for iOS or desktop.

Google Chrome may soon allow users to translate text within images
Google is reportedly working on a new feature that will help users to easily translate text within images in Chrome. Currently, this feature is under development and is not available in Chrome Beta or Canary. Google Chrome already allows users to translate entire web pages. For this, users can select the “Translate” option by right clicking the desktop or by tapping the menu button on mobile.
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DigiYatra is a service that offers passengers contactless, paperless check-in and boarding processes based on facial biometrics. The first phase of this service was launched in three airports — Delhi, Bengaluru and Varanasi in December 2022. According to a report by IANS, the Ministry of Civil Aviation has confirmed that the DigiYatra service will be introduced at four more airports — Kolkata, Pune, Vijayawada and Hyderabad by March. Here are all the details about the DigiYatra service, how it works and how it will be implemented at the airports:
DigiYatra in four more airports: How will it be implemented
In a written reply, the Ministry of Civil Aviation has informed the Lok Sabha that the project is in the implementation stage, the report adds. The written reply also states that the expenses needed for the implementation of Digi Yatra will be on the airport operators.
The reply reads: “The Ministry of Civil Aviation does not provide any budgetary support for its implementation. To give wide publicity to Digi Yatra, airport operators and airline operators are making in-flight announcements, providing help-desk support and displaying banners and films etc. at the airports. Publicity is also being done using social media. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has awarded the work for implementation of biometric boarding system at Kolkata, Pune, Vijayawada and Varanasi airports.”
What is DigiYatra
The Ministry of Civil Aviation launched the Digi Yatra initiative which is a biometric boarding system that uses facial recognition technology (FRT). This system is designed to offer a hassle-free experience to passengers at airports. DigiYatra’s primary goal is to improve passenger experience by eliminating the requirement of verifying tickets and IDs at multiple touchpoints. This system also aims to achieve better throughput in the existing infrastructure using a digital framework. The FRT-based Digi Yatra central ecosystem has been developed by Dataevolve Solutions. The system was chosen via a national startup challenge which was conducted by Niti Aayog under the Atal Innovation Mission.

DigiYatra passenger verification system: How it works
Digi Yatra is a voluntary facility that offers passengers a seamless verification experience at airports. This system doesn’t store passengers’ personally identifiable information (PII). All the passenger’s data is encrypted and stored in the wallet of the passenger’s smartphone. The data is shared only for a limited time. Passengers need to validate their Digi Yatra ID at the airport of travel origin.
Passenger data is then removed from the system within 24 hours of the flight. Facilities that have already implemented Digi Yatra offers touchless passenger validation via FRT. This system helps users to save time at different touch points including — entry to the airport, security hold area (SHA) and boarding area with no CISF intervention.
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It has been a while since we have been hearing about a ‘more affordable version of AirPods,’ known as ‘AirPods Lite‘ under development. Rumours are rife about Apple working on a lower-priced pair of AirPods to compete with affordable earbuds. We now hear that these affordable AirPods could debut sometime in late 2024 or early 2025.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF Securities expects Apple to refresh its audio products within the second half of 2024 to early 2024, which could include a second-gen HomePod mini, AirPods Max, and also a new affordable AirPods.
Not long ago, Kuo had said that the affordable AirPods, aka the AirPods Lite, could launch in late 2024 or maybe early 2025. As per the analyst, Apple plans to price the alleged affordable AirPods for $99 (~Rs 8,100).
While Kuo has not mentioned what Apple could call these affordable AirPods, Jeff Pu, an analyst, has referred to them as “AirPods Lite” in an investors’ note.
In 2020, The Elec, a South Korean publication, was the first to toss up the name “AirPods Pro Lite.” The report suggested that these would be the most affordable AirPods to come with Active Noise Cancellation (ANC). As per the report, the AirPod Pro Lite would have been launched in the first half of 2021, but even two years later, there are no such earbuds in the company’s portfolio.
It is too early to say anything about these affordable ‘AirPods Lite.’ So, we suggest taking these rumours with a pinch of salt. But, it will surely be interesting if they come up with such low-priced AirPods, which are already one of the best-selling products of Apple.
It was last year only when Apple last upgraded the AirPods with spatial audio, longer battery life, and new touch sensors. Apple still sells both the AirPods – the third-gen and second-gen – for Rs 19,990 and Rs 14,990 in India.

Realme has rolled out the new OTA changelog update for Realme 10, Realme 10 Pro 5G, Realme C33, Narzo 30 5G, and Realme 8 5G users for the month of January. The update offers several new features, optimised network compatibility, and will provide system stability.
Realme 10, Realme 10 Pro 5G, Realme C33, Narzo 30 5G, and Realme 8 5G were launched in January 2023, December 2022, September 2022, June 2021, and April 2021 respectively and are now fetching the January OTA changelog update.
The OTA update is being rolled out in phases, with users receiving a push message to download it. The upgrade will be rolled out to a select group of users starting today, with a wider distribution following in a few days. Alternatively, Realme users can also check the update by going to Settings > About Phone > System update.
Changelog details
Realme 10
UI Version: RMX3630_11.A.27
Security
● Updates Android security patch: December 2022
System
●Improves system performance.
● Fixes some known issues to improve system stability.
Camera
● Improves camera stability
Realme 10 Pro 5G
UI Version: RMX3660_11.A.34
Security
●Updates Android security patch: January 2023
System
● Improves system performance.
● Fixes some known issues to improve system stability
Realme C33
UI Version: RMX3624_12.A.71
Security
● Integrates the January 2023 Android security patch.
System
● Integrates the January 2023 Android security patch.
Narzo 30 5G
UI Version: RMX3242_11.C.08
Security
● Integrates the January 2023 Android security patch to enhance system security.
System
● Improves system performance and stability.
Network
● Optimised network performance to improve stability
Realme 8 5G
UI Version: RMX3241_11.C.08
Security
● Integrates the January 2023 Android security patch to enhance system security.
System
● Improves system performance and stability.
Network
● Optimised network performance to improve stability.

PUBG New State has announced a ‘special’ in-game event for Valentine’s Day. The event is called ‘Take Heart, New State’ and runs through February 21. According to the company, players can claim ‘exciting’ free items, themed around Valentine’s Day, during this period.
“Celebrating the season of love, New State Mobile, has launched an all new special in-game event for Valentine’s Day,” announced the company.

From outfits to weapon crates, a variety of in-game items are up for grabs
PUBG New State players can participate in missions and earn ‘exciting’ items on a daily basis. As per the company, these items are “centered around the theme of love and togetherness.” Once claimed, they will be permanently stored in the player’s inventory. These in-game rewards include couple outfits, themed weapon skins, and crates with ‘guaranteed’ items.
Rewards are available via this in-game menu
To be in the running for these digital freebies, players can go to the ‘Take Heart, New State’ page under the ‘Event’ section. In this section, users will find various mission objectives, including daily logins, winning a ‘Chicken Dinner’ with a friend, sending gifts to in-game connections, collecting dressing room likes, and much more.

Certain number of points corresponds to a certain reward
Each of these missions has a point weightage. Accruing a certain number of points helps the player unlock a certain in-game reward. Here’s the list of all the items available for the players to claim using the points they earn.

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YouTube has announced the “Go Live Together” feature for creators. This feature will help creators to live stream content with other users from their phones. YouTube’s latest creator-focused feature will also allow users to invite a guest to ‘co-livestream’ videos. The Google-owned video streaming platform took to Twitter to introduce the new feature which is aimed mainly at content creators. YouTube also hinted that the company may soon introduce this feature for desktop users as well.
The tweet shared by the TeamYouTube account says: “Introducing Go Live Together, a new way to easily start a co-stream & invite a guest, all from your phone! creators need 50+ subs to host co-streams, but anyone can be a guest!.”

YouTube ‘Go Live Together’ feature: How to use
YouTube’s latest creator-related feature will be available for Android and iOS users. The ‘Go Live Together’ option will appear in the Create section beneath the “Go live” button on YouTube’s mobile app. The video streaming platform will also allow creators to send out a link to any guest.
Apart from this, youtube will also let creators go live from their phones on live streams scheduled from their computers. However, users can access this feature to go live directly from their mobile phones.

Furthermore, creators will also be able to switch up the guests they have on their livestream. But users can only have one co-host in their livestream at once. The stream feed of the user who has started the livestream will appear above their guests even after they have been invited.
YouTube Shorts crosses the 50 billion daily views mark
In 2020, YouTube introduced its Shorts service to compete with another popular video streaming platform TikTok. During Google’s fourth-quarter earnings call, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced that YouTube Shorts has now crossed the 50 billion daily views mark. The social media platform surpassed the 30 billion daily views mark in 2022.
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Apple’s HomePod 2 made its debut after a gap of almost five years. The second generation of the company’s smart speaker, which was launched last month, comes with advanced computational audio and support for immersive Spatial Audio tracks. It is now available for purchase in India.
Apple HomePod 2 price, availability
HomePod 2 is priced at Rs 32,900 and will be available in white and midnight colour options. You can purchase the smart speaker online from the Apple store.Apple HomePod 2 design, features
The HomePod 2 is powered by the S7 chip and sports a custom-engineered high-excursion woofer, built-in bass-EQ mic and five tweeters. It also comes with a transparent mesh fabric and a backlit touch surface.
As per the company, the smart speaker gets a motor to drive the diaphragm. It also gets room-sensing technology that allows it to recognise sound reflections from nearby surfaces to determine if it is against a wall or freestanding and then adapts to sound in real-time.
The newest generation of HomePod offers several smart features, including Sound Recognition which enables it to recognise smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, and send a notification directly to the user’s iPhone if a sound is identified.

Additionally, there is also a new temperature and humidity sensor that can measure indoor environments, so users can create automations that close the blinds or turn on the fan automatically when a certain temperature is reached in a room.
As far as connectivity is concerned, HomePod 2 supports Matter and can connect with other Matter-enabled accessories. Additionally, HomePod 2 can be paired with Apple TV 4K and comes with eARC (Enhanced Audio Return Channel) support on Apple TV 4K. The new HomePod also offers support for Find My, which makes it possible for users to locate their Apple devices, like an iPhone, by playing a sound on the misplaced device.

Twitter’s subscription service, Twitter Blue, seems to have finally come to users in India. We found the Twitter Blue icon at the sidebar on the Twitter web, clicking which opened a pop-up showing the perks of the Twitter Blue subscription. However, right now, there is no option to pay and subscribe to Twitter Blue in India.

Twitter recently expanded its Blue subscription to Saudi Arabia, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, making it available in a total of 12 countries.
It is likely that Twitter could soon introduce the Blue subscription for users in India. As of now, there is no word on how much the subscription will cost in India.
How much does Twitter Blue costs
Twitter Blue comes at $8 per month on the web, while it costs $11 on iOS and Android. There is also a yearly plan which is priced at $84. So far, there is no word on how much Twitter Blue will cost in India.
What do you get with Twitter Blue
Twitter’s subscription entitles users with the blue ‘verified’ checkmark. However, the user needs to verify their phone number, and only after due diligence the blue check will be approved.
If you have paid for the Blue subscription and verified, your tweets and replies will be shown at the top, as Twitter will prioritise tweets and replies from verified users.
Further, Blue subscribers will see fewer ads, to be exact 50 per cent fewer advertisements on their Twitter feed. Also, subscribers will be allowed to longer videos of up to 1 hour.
Users will also get to undo and edit tweets for up to 5 times within 30 minutes. Further, the subscribers will be able to set an NFT as their profile picture. And these subscribers can also post 1080P videos, which is not available for other users.

Security company Check Point Research (CPR) has flagged the popular Dingo Token as a live scam. For those unaware, Dingo Token is a protocol layer that provides a new world of NFT. According to the report, the threat actors behind the token have embedded a backdoor function into the smart contract to manipulate fees going up to as much as 99%. The function has also been used 47 times. The Dingo Token is currently ranked at 774 by market capitalisation at $10,9 million. As per the report, investors of Dingo Token are at risk of potentially losing all their money. CPR has also warned about the growing interest in cryptocurrency scams by hackers.
99% contract fee
The smart contract in Dingo Token charges a 95% tax fee and a 4% liquidity fee. This means that the platform will charge a 99% fee on any transaction with a contract that will steal your funds. The report also shares an image of how the transfer amount is calculated. Apart from this, the report also offers two other images to show how the tax fee and the liquidity fee are calculated.
Head of products vulnerabilities research at Check Point, Oded Vanunu said, “The Dingo Token is a clear scam. We found a backdoor code added to the token smart contract that allows the owner to change the fee charge. They changed it to a staggering 99% fee.”
Vanunu added, “This is a common tactic that locks users’ funds and eventually, the scammers pull out all the money. Scammers are increasingly finding cryptocurrency attractive. They can stay anonymous. It’s fast. It’s lucrative. If you’ve incorporated crypto into your investment portfolio or are interested in investing in crypto in the future, you should use credible exchanges and buy from an established token with numerous transactions behind it.”
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Apple seems to be preparing to refresh the AirPods Max and HomePod mini, two of its audio products launched back in 2020, suggests an analyst. However, analysts believe these two may not come before late 2024.
In a tweet, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, suggests that Apple plans to refresh two of its audio products – AirPods Max and HomePod mini. According to the analyst, the mass production of the second-gen AirPods Max and HomePod mini will begin in the second half of 2024. Further adding that these two could debut between the second half of 2024 and the first half of 2025.
As for what comes new with them remains a secret. But, from what we have seen recently, there might be a huge design change with these two since HomePod still looks like the original one, and second-gen AirPods Max is also said to have the same design as the first one, but they might come in new colours.
HomePod mini gets a new feature
It is the first time we are hearing anything about a new HomePod mini. So far, there has been no talk of the HomePod mini being refreshed.
Apple did add one new feature to the original HomePod mini, which basically unlocked the temperature humidity sensor on it. The feature has been there since its inception but was recently activated with a software update.
In the same tweet, Kuo also talks about a new affordable AirPods, which could debut around the same time. We also do not know much about them, except that they could be called “AirPods Lite,” and that they might cost $99.
Apple also has an iPad-like smart display under development, a new Apple TV, and a device that could be a sort of a HomePod and Apple TV combo. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman believes that the smart display and new Apple TV could launch next year, i.e., 2024, but there is no word on when the HomePod and Apple TV will debut.