Week Rewind 91: Last Week in a Quick Snap

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Week Rewind 91, you will get all the quick rewinds of last week, including hot topics and new innovations. Last week from 5th December 2022 to 11th December 2022, was a wonderful week in terms of a few new innovations in gadgets. We had listed it as follows:

Last week as a short recap:

1. AOW 79: APPS OF THE WEEK
2. GOW 41: Games of the Week
3. Microsoft Accidentally Reveals the Design Prototype of Windows 12
4. Adani Group Now has 5G Spectrum, But Where will It Start
5. UPI Lite to Launch in India Soon: What Is It And What Are The Features
6. Motorola’s teasing a rollable concept phone
7. Meta Quest Pro VR headset for its privacy risks
8. iPhone 14 crash detection feature
9. Vivo smartphone with built-in mini drone with camera
10. Samsung could be working on a foldable laptop
11. Amazon's Prime Gaming to be launched in India soon  
12. Major Android leak leaves Samsung, LG, other devices vulnerable to security threat
13. The iPhone 14 Can Connect to Satellites
14. Apple’s M2 Max chipset spotted on Geekbench

1. AOW 79: APPS OF THE WEEK

India is trying to launch its first self-reliant, indigenous App store as “Aatm Nirbhar App store” where basically the Indian users will develop & launch the apps globally. Users have grown to love Android for the plethora of features and customization options, but sometimes it can all get a bit confusing. 

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2. GOW 41: Games of the Week

Users will get this list every Sunday from now onwards. We simply termed it as “GAMES OF THE WEEK”. Our main ideology for this is to list out the best user-friendly, interesting, addictive, lesser boring, & overcome the confusion from the pool of games apps. This is more like finding a shell from the deep ocean. 

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3. Microsoft Accidentally Reveals the Design Prototype of Windows 12

According to Bowden’s sources, the prototype shown during the Ignite 2022 event is probably just one of the design goals that Microsoft is working on for the upcoming Windows OS. Also, there is a search bar at the top center as well as the weather widget in the top left corner.

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4. Adani Group Now has 5G Spectrum, But Where will It Start

The subsidiary company, Adani Data Networks, will only be focusing on offering 5G B2B services. This means that the Adani Group will be solely focused on the enterprise side of the business with 5G.

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5. UPI Lite to Launch in India Soon: What Is It And What Are The Features

It would be an alternative to other mobile wallets including MobiKwik and Paytm. UPI Lite will be based on the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) framework for small digital transactions in the offline mode.

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6. Motorola’s teasing a rollable concept phone

At parent company Lenovo’s Tech World 2022 event, Motorola is showing off a rollable mobile phone in a quick video demo. With the press of a button, the screen extends and retracts, with a moving wallpaper to match.

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7. Meta Quest Pro VR headset for its privacy risks

Big tech companies are generally bigger privacy offenders than smaller companies, and when the former acquires the latter, it’s not exactly a win for the privacy of consumers. A good example for this is Google accounts becoming a requirement for Fitbit users following Fitbit’s acquisition.

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8. iPhone 14 crash detection feature

Crash Detection is designed to detect severe car crashes in passenger cars. If you're in a severe crash and unresponsive, your Apple device can automatically call emergency services on your behalf.

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9. Vivo smartphone with built-in mini drone with camera

At least you don’t have to worry about the cameras getting switched, in case your friend decides to buy the same smartphone. A fingerprint sensor is placed on the removable mounting bracket, with which the camera system can be identified.

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10. Samsung could be working on a foldable laptop

Samsung could be working on a foldable laptop; patent shows an ASUS Zenbook Pro Duo-like design. For those who are catching up, the ASUS Zenbook Pro Duo has a conventional display and a secondary touch screen towards the top of the keyboard.

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11. Amazon's Prime Gaming to be launched in India soon  

Prime Gaming is operational in over a dozen market. The service, a revamped version of Twitch Prime, was originally launched in the US in 2016. It offers users a host several other perks including in-game loot at no additional cost and a range of Twitch-focused features.

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12. Major Android leak leaves Samsung, LG, other devices vulnerable to security threat

As these leaked platform keys are also used to sign normal apps in some cases, an attacker could add malware to a trusted app, with the same key as a malicious version. can sign it, and Android will trust it as an “update”.

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13. The iPhone 14 Can Connect to Satellites

There were no injuries, and the man was successfully rescued. The report notes that the man was in a remote location just outside the range of satellite connectivity.

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14. Apple’s M2 Max chipset spotted on Geekbench  

According to the Geekbench listing, the M2 chipset will have a 12-core CPU and 96GB of RAM. Besides, the upcoming chipset scored 1,853 in single-core and 13,855 in multi-core performance tests.

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