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Update (5/20/20 @ 9:35 AM ET): Google has abandoned work on bringing macOS-like corner shortcuts to Chrome OS.
The desktop functionality of Chrome OS has incrementally improved since its introduction as a web-focused operating system back in 2010. However, it’s undeniable that Windows and macOS still have more desktop-focused features as their philosophy has been different from the beginning. After Google revealed it was getting out of the tablet hardware business, the focus has turned back on competing with Windows and macOS on the desktop keyboard-and-mouse front. To that end, Google has been adding new features and conveniences to make Chrome OS a head-to-head competitor with the established giants. Now, Google may be about to add its own version of the “hot corners” feature.
This feature exists in macOS, lettings Mac users trigger different actions by moving their mouse cursor to a corner of the desktop screen. It also exists in the GNOME desktop environment (which is the default desktop environment for Ubuntu, and many other Linux distributions). Windows, on the other hand, doesn’t have such a feature. On the Mac, hot corners turns each of the four corners of a user’s display into actions. When a user moves their cursor to the top right corner, for example, the action that is assigned to the top right corner will be launched. They can access the Notification Center by moving their cursor to the top left corner, and access screensavers at the bottom right corner, for instance.
A new commit has been submitted to the Chromium Gerrit, which shows that Google may be preparing to add its own version of Hot Corners by adding a Chrome flag for the same. Its description states: “If enabled, the user can configure actions for corners of the display.” As of now, the commit is under review, and it hasn’t been merged yet. Right now, the commit doesn’t state any details about Google’s version of Hot Corners. However, the description makes it clear that it will function similarly to macOS’ and GNOME’s implementations of the feature. What kind of actions will be triggered is something that we don’t know yet.
This isn’t the first time Google has lifted features from other operating systems to make its own better. Chrome OS users now have the feature of a second virtual desktop, which is known as virtual desk. Apple’s Look Up feature was brought to Chrome OS in the form of the Google Assistant-powered Quick Answers.
If the commit is merged, Chrome OS users can expect to see the feature arrive as a flag in future Chrome OS versions, such as Chrome OS 82 or version 83.
Google was working on bringing a feature similar to macOS’ “hot corners” to Chrome OS. The feature in macOS allows users to configure actions to launch when moving the mouse to a corner of the screen. However, the “CornerShortcuts” project is being abandoned and the Chrome flag will be removed. RIP.
At the Galaxy Unpacked event earlier this year, Samsung unveiled a new pair of truly wireless (TWS) earbuds alongside its flagship Galaxy S20 series. The new earbuds, called the Galaxy Buds+, were a minor upgrade over the original Galaxy Buds, featuring larger batteries in the earbuds as well as the charging case, support for multi-device connection, and a new dual driver system. Initially, the Galaxy Buds+ were released in three color variants — Cosmic Black, Cosmic Blue, and Black — but Samsung soon added a red color option to the lineup. Along with these four color options, Samsung also launched a special variant as part of the limited editing Samsung Galaxy Z Flip bundle designed by the American fashion designer, Thom Browne.
Late last month, we discovered yet another Deep Blue color variant of the Galaxy Buds+ in version 1.7.47-22 of the Samsung SmartThings app. But, at the time, we had no information about its release and we believed that the company would launch them alongside the Galaxy Note 20 series later this year in August. However, Samsung has now released the new Deep Blue color variant, officially called Aura Blue, in the U.S. and you can get it on Best Buy for $149.99 by following the link below. Do note that, other than the color, the new Aura Blue Galaxy Buds+ are exactly the same as previously launched variants.
OnePlus has been doing special editions of its phones for a few years now. The OnePlus 5T was available in the Star Wars: The Last Jedi Edition, and the OnePlus 6 was available in a Marvel Avengers Edition. Both of these phones were available in limited quantities and in select regions only. The company expanded the scope of these special editions with the launch of the OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition. This variant not only came with a new and distinct CMF (color-material-finish), but it also bumped up the RAM to 10GB and the charging technology to Warp Charge 30. The McLaren Edition made a return with the OnePlus 7T Pro, once again bumping up the RAM and opting for the signature CMF. However, this run appears to have come to an end, as recent developments indicate that there may not be another McLaren edition in the works.
What does this mean? This means that there is unlikely to be another McLaren Edition phone coming from OnePlus. The next McLaren iteration was expected to be on the presumed OnePlus 8T, but we can rule this out from happening based on how things stand right now.
That’s not to say that there won’t be a special edition for the OnePlus 8T series, at all. OnePlus could always collaborate with a new partner and market a different CMF with different features as a special edition. Some have taken this news to also mean that there won’t be a “T” version at all this year — we do not have any evidence of this statement being true or false, either way.
We’ve reached out to OnePlus for comment on this delisting. We’ll update our article when we get more information.
Google launched the first Android 11 Developer Preview earlier this year in February, which was followed by Preview 2, Preview 3, and recently, Preview 4. Even though the company did not highlight any developer features in the latest release, we discovered a couple of changes and new features when we tried it out on the Google Pixel 3a XL and Google Pixel 4. These included things like a new select button in the recent apps overview, resizable picture-in-picture windows, new icon shapes in Pixel Themes, and much more. While there’s still a long way to go before any of these features are officially available in a stable Android 11 release, you can now experience the new icon shapes with the latest beta release of Nova Launcher.
Nova Launcher v6.2.13 is now available for download and it brings the new adaptive Flower and Hexagon icon shapes that were introduced in the Android 11 Developer Preview 4. To try out these new adaptive icon shapes for yourself, you can download the latest beta release of Nova Launcher from the link below.
Once you have the update installed on your device, you’ll need to navigate to the Icon style option within the Look & Feel section in the Nova Launcher Settings. As you can see in the attached screenshot, Nova Launcher now offers a total of 12 icon shapes, including Round, Squircle, Rounded square, Flower, Square, Teardrop, Pentagon, Heptagon, Octagon, and three different Hexagons. Along with the new adaptive icon shapes, the update brings a couple of bug fixes and optimizations for the launcher. Here’s the complete changelog for Nova Launcher v6.2.13 beta:
Microsoft holds a conference event every year for software engineers and web developers. Called Build, or //build/, the event is a conference for developers that primarily work on Windows, Microsoft Azure, and other technologies. While Microsoft holds an event on the ground every year, as they have in the past years, but because of COVID-19, Build 2020 is an online-only announcement. On the occasion, Microsoft has announced a plethora of new features, such as Windows Terminal 1.0, Windows Package Manager, Windows Subsystem for Linux 2, all of which will be useful to a lot of developers in some form or the other.
Windows Terminal 1.0
During the last year’s Build 2019 developer conference, Microsoft had announced Windows Terminal. This is exactly what it sounds like — a new terminal app from Microsoft.
Some of the highlights of the app are the inclusion of GPU-accelerated text rendering, theming support, tabs, tear-away windows, shortcuts, full Unicode support, and more. The eventual goal of Windows Terminal is to be a good replacement to other command-line apps like PowerShell and Command Prompt.
Windows Terminal was released as a preview at Build 2019, and now, at Build 2020, the app has graduated into its full release in the form of Windows Terminal 1.0.
Windows Terminal 1.0 can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store or from GitHub. The app will be updated on a monthly basis starting from July 2020. But if you want to try out the latest features before they make their way to the stable branch, you can check out the preview channel on Microsoft Store and GitHub.
Multiple profiles supporting a variety of command-line applications
Customized color schemes and configurations
Custom key bindings
Unicode and UTF-8 character support
GPU accelerated text rendering
Background image support
Support for command-line arguments
Microsoft Windows Package Manager
If you are familiar with GNU/Linux distributions, you are very likely familiar with command-line package managers. To put it crudely, a package manager manages the process of installing, configuring, and uninstalling packages (or apps) on your computer. A command-line package manager does all of these tasks from the command line. Microsoft has never officially offered a command-line package manager, but that is now changing with the Windows Package Manager.
Windows has had a few popular third-party command-line package managers, like Chocolatey — but these are unofficial and not from Microsoft themselves. Unlike an app store like the Windows Store, a package manager supports installing apps from multiple sources, which makes it easy to set up different development environments with fewer friction points.
Windows Package Manager is now available in preview form. What’s even more exciting about this is the fact that it is open source.
Windows Package Manager offers the following features, when preceded with the winget command:
install – Installs the given application
show – Shows info about an application
source – Manage sources of applications
search – Find and show basic info of apps
hash – Helper to hash installer files
validate – Validates a manifest file
–help – Provides command line help
–info – Provides addition data, helpful for troubleshooting
–version – Provides the version of the client
To explain, if you use “winget install“, you’ll see all the command-line options to interface with Windows Package Manager. For example, if you type “winget install terminal” you’ll install the new Windows Terminal software. Windows Package Manager is pre-configured to point to the Microsoft community repository and you can search for available packages using “winget search” and display information using “winget show“. You’ll be able to add third-party repositories with “winget source” as well.
The command-line client is distributed within the App Installer package that is pre-installed on Windows. However, the client will not be made generally available during the Preview period, so you must either install a Windows 10 Insider build or sign up for the preview flight ring to receive automatic updates. Further, if you do not mind foregoing the automatic updates, you can also manually install it on any Windows 10 version since the Fall Creators Update (1709). When Windows Package Manager reaches version 1.0, it will be delivered with the Desktop App Installer.
Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 / WSL 2
At Build 2019, Microsoft had announced Windows Subsystem for Linux 2, which ships a full Linux kernel, allowing you to run Linux commands and apps. For instance, you can even go ahead and compile LineageOS using WSL on Windows.
Added support for graphics processing unit (GPU) compute workflows allows Linux tools to leverage GPUs to enable hardware acceleration for many development scenarios, such as parallel computation and training machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) models.
Support for Linux graphical user interface (GUI) apps will enable you to open a WSL instance and run a Linux GUI app directly without the need for a third-party X server. This will help you to run your favorite apps in a Linux environment such as an integrated development environment (IDE).
WSL will soon support a simplified install experience by running the command ‘wsl.exe – install,’ which will make it easier than ever to start using Linux apps on Windows.
With these upcoming changes to WSL 2, users no longer need to run an X server to use Linux apps with GUIs. Linux apps will also now run much more seamlessly on Windows. As Mishaal points out, this might just be the tipping point for the “year of the Linux desktop” meme to finally come true, and it’s ironic that it is Microsoft that is bringing this around.
What are your thoughts on the features announced at Microsoft Build 2020? Let us know in the comments below!
Nokia Chief Product Officer, Juho Sarvikas, announced in a tweet that the company is finally rolling out the much-awaited Android 10 update to the Nokia 5.1 Plus.
The update carries version number V3.11A and, along with the usual jump to Android 10, also packs the April 2020 security patches. Nokia says the OTAs will be rolled out in a phased manner. The first 10% of the userbase will receive the update starting today, with the rollout steadily expanding to more users in the following days.
As for what’s new, the update brings along all the standard Android 10 features such as system-wide-dark mode, a new gesture navigation system, Smart Reply, revamped location and privacy controls, new Digital Wellbeing tools with Parental controls and much more.
Launched in August of 2018, the Nokia 5.1 Plus is an entry-level smartphone from HMD Global. The phone is part of Google’s Android One program and as such, it was promised to get two major Android updates and three years of monthly security updates. It packed a 5.86-inch IPS HD+ display, MediaTek Helio P60 octa-core SoC, 3GB RAM, and 32GB storage, 13MP+5MP dual cameras, and a 3,060 mAh battery. The phone came running Android 8.1 Oreo out-of-the-box and was eventually updated to Android 9 Pie in December 2018. Android 10 will probably the last Android platform update for the Nokia 5.1 Plus. However, it should continue to receive the monthly security patches for one more year.
