Netflix's 'The Chilling adventures of Sabrina' strikes the middle ground between teen drama and horror series

Netflix's The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is the second series following Riverdale which uses the characters and mythology from the Archie comics. Like Riverdale, which has recently taken on a very dark and very gritty True Detective meets Midnight Express turn, Sabrina Spellman's world, is similarly explicit in its exploration of horror themes.

The series, which debuted at midnight last night (Witching Hour, get it?) Is like Mean Girls with covens and demons instead of diabolical debutantes. Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men) embodies the chaste yet defiant Sabrina Spellman, who upon turning 16, must sign her name to the dark forces and let go of all her mortal friends and connections.

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Google Lens comes to mobile users via Google Images

The mobile web version of Google just got a bit more helpful. Google started rolling out in the US first the Google Lens integration into the mobile web version of Google Images. All the pictures in the mobile web version of Google Images now gets the Lens icon underneath. Pressing that icon will highlight interesting subjects with dots. Tapping on these dots will slide up a panel of related images or products. If what you're looking for isn't marked, you can encircle it and let Lens do a search for you.

This feature is particularly useful for when you're shopping or trying to look for a specific product. The sheet that slides up is similar to what you see in Lens's integration in Google Assistant or Google Photos. Over time it can highlight other items like landmarks, animals, and plants. It'll also be rolling out to more countries and languages soon.

Source: 9to5Google

Western Digital outs its biggest magnetic HDD yet

Western Digital is one upping its competition with its latest product. The company just outed a new 15TB Ultrastar DC HC620 HDD, which beats out the last year's 14TB models. While Seagate has announced it plans to out a 16TB model this year, it hasn't materialized. These aren't consumer-grade devices though but are meant more for enterprise customers who need massive storage drive densities for server and data center applications. So, yes, these will be pricey.

Source: The Verge

Gboard is testing offline voice typing

If you wanted to dictate a message using Gboard, you previously needed to be connected to the internet to do so. But what if there are times you aren't online and you want access to this feature. Or you'd rather not send out your voice data to Google? Well, Gboard is testing out offline voice typing. This video hows how it works and it seems to be working pretty well. Also, it doesn't take up that much space at 85MB. Google hasn't officially pushed this feature out so they might be working out some of its kinks. 

Source: XDA Developers