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Companies have been using IoT sensors to do all sorts of interesting in recent years, but a recent piece of tech that was announced shows how niche some of them can be. According to Footy Headlines, Adidas Japan has created a new type of tracking sensor that is placed into insoles for shoes. That's right, for shoes!

For those of you who are familiar with our smartphone reviews, you'll notice we typically use Antutu Benchmark as one of our aggregate benchmark tests. It's an app meant to find out how well a device's chipset handles a variety of different smartphone use cases. But guess what? The app has disappeared from the Google Play Store.

Valve has really been working hard on improving its Steam platform lately. Just last week, the developer revealed changes to its search filters, which we found highly useful. But that's not the end and Steam Labs has cooked up another new featured called the News Hub.

Late last year, Terry Diebold made the decision to finally auction away the Nintendo PlayStation prototype that he had been parading around the world. The auction has since been completed and the machine managed to sell for USD 360000 (~RM1501740). This makes it the most expensive video game-related item ever sold.

It seems that China could be planning to utilize robot arms to perform various medical tasks on COVID-19 patients that could put doctors at risk if done in person. The aforementioned robot arms have cameras built-in and it can be controlled by an operator even if they are not located in the same city as the patient.

Xiaomi recently posted on their Twitter account, which states that the upcoming Xiaomi Mi 10 series will be globally unveiled on 27 March 2020. While not much is known in regards to the official price as of now, we do know that the aforementioned smartphone series could be priced from slightly less than RM2500.

It seems that a recent coverage by mydrivers.com has mentioned that the upcoming Huawei Mate 40 smartphone, which is due to be released somewhere around H2 2020, could come with the HiSilicon Kirin 1020 chipset. While not much has been confirmed in regards to the exact performance specs of the aforementioned chipset, the source has mentioned that it might perform up to 50% faster compared to the Kirin 990.

Based on a statement by TheSun.co.uk, it seems that UK citizen Beth McDermott, managed to contact emergency services via her Huawei smartphone after she was knocked unconscious for three days from falling down the stairs at home. Her Huawei smartphone, which is the Huawei Y6, still had around 50% charge even after three days mainly due to how the smartphone manages the applications installed in order to save as much battery as possible.

This time, the famous Jane Manchun Wong has spotted another code in Spotify, revealing a new feature which we didn’t know we need with the help of Siri, Google Assistant, or Amazon Alexa. The code has revealed that Spotify is working on a voice command ‘Hey Spotify’ to let users ask the app to play songs, albums, and apps without typing anything.

I’ve always thought that Plants vs Zombies is a brilliant game with the idea of plants fighting off zombies. Not only the game was conquering top charts of different platforms’ app stores, but it has also become a worldwide sensation. After EA acquires Pop Cap, which is the original developer of the game, Plants vs Zombies has been made into a franchise by bringing the sequel Plants vs Zombies 2 in 2013 and console game Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare in 2014. 7 years later, the game is finally making a comeback with Plants vs Zombies 3!