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Let’s all agree that the majority of the human race would not be able to live without their smart devices, including the characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

With the Avengers coming to an end (for now?), here is a small list of some of the smart devices spotted throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe courtesy of ithome.com.

How are you peeps doing? It has been a somewhat quiet week in the tech industry. Huawei Malaysia wasted no time bringing the Nova 4e into Malaysia even before its China counterpart officially announced it. The vivo V15Pro and V15 have also just been released recently and we got some nice photo samples. But perhaps the most interesting one is when Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp servers were down and everyone panicked. Oh, those poor Instamodels and influencers, we totally "feel" you.

Saudi Arabia has always been known as a country that places harsher restrictions on women to the point that they cannot be anywhere without knowledge or consent from their guardian. It has come to a point where an app called “Absher” has been used to track women’s locations in the country.

Digi has recently announced that they are the first telco in the world to launch a system that makes mobile data usage easier to manage thanks to a collaboration with Google.

Google Lens is probably smarter than you as it now can recognize over a billion items. The AI-powered tool is trained to read more product labels in order to recognise names and products. In addition, it gains data from photos taken on various smartphones.

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If you're an avid YouTube viewer, chances are you probably have been introduced to a new YouTube tool that monitors your personal watching time in your profile. Called the Time Watched Profile, this can only be viewed on your mobile app (iOS and Android). Why? Well, Google just wants to provide you information about how much time you have been spending on YouTube. Check out below on what you can do with it. 

Based on a recent survey conducted by Google, about 4 in 5 users go on Youtube to find any kind of videos be it on their mobile phones, tablet or even on their own computers. That being said, there are certain genres that are watched more than others such as Music, Comedy, Lifestyle, and How-to videos. Not only that, depending on the stages of life viewers are more likely to gravitate towards certain contents as well!

Whatsapp has announced that it will stop the support for certain operating systems on Android and iOS such as iOS 7 and older as well as Android Gingerbread 2.3.7 and older. Whatsapp has recommended to upgrade your device’s operating system to the latest operating system version your device is able to, in order to receive continued support from the messaging app. For more updates like these, stay tuned to TechNave.com.

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