5 top news from the world of technology over the past week

Miscellaneous / by admin / April 18, 2021

From Apple presentation to updating Xiaomi smartphones to MIUI 12.5.

NASA Officially This Week announced on the contract with SpaceX to deliver astronauts to the moon, and scientists from the BrainGate consortium demonstrated the first wireless brain-computer interface for humans. From the point of view of science, these are quite high-profile events, but the readers of Lifehacker were more attracted by other news. We will tell you about them.

Apple confirms presentation on April 20

Apple announced the first presentation in 2021, it will take place on April 20 and will be held online. The event will be streamed live from Apple Park. If you believe the latest rumors, then new tablets iPad Pro, iPad mini 6, prefix with speaker and webcam and AirTag.

Sony has officially announced the Xperia 1 III 5G smartphone (pronounced Xperia 1 Mark III). By design, it is almost identical to the previous generation, but the glass on the back is now not glossy, but matte: it will not collect fingerprints so much. Together with him, a more compact model Xperia 5 III was presented.

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The Chrome browser has received an update that brings a number of useful features, including the ability to link to highlighted text and a convenient PDF mode. These and other improvements, according to the developers, can significantly increase your productivity.

Telegram has launched two new web versions of the messenger. They are called "Version K" and "Version Z". Both are available to all users and support most of the basic functions. Differences, at first glance, are observed only in some details of the interface, animation and localization.

Xiaomi has begun updating smartphones to MIUI 12.5, an interim but important update with new features and design changes. The company has already announced which smartphones will be the first to receive the update, and at the end of March it began updating the flagships. Now it has become known a few more models that will definitely receive MIUI 12.5