Google has been discovered to be testing a new feature for their RCS-based Google Messages app that will help it better compete with Apple’s iMessage. The feature lets users send emoji reactions to text messages, which is a feature that has been present in iMessage for ages.
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Google’s music streaming services have been messy for the past few years with users split between Google Play Music and the newer YouTube Music. However, it looks like Google is banking on YouTube Music as they introduced a tool to easily transfer a user’s Google Play Music library, personal taste preferences and playlists over to YouTube Music.
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Apple has announced a new update to the popular sound editing app, Logic Pro X 10.5, with a bunch of new features for sound designers. These include Live Loops, Remix FX, Sampler and Quick Sampler, Beat Creation, Logic Remote and more.
Twitter is one of the few major social media companies that have taken an active approach towards preventing the spread of misinformation on its platform. Recently they were testing new ways to label potentially harmfully misleading tweets with warning labels and yesterday they announced new labels and warnings to prevent COVID-19 related misleading information from spreading.
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There have been quite a few leaks regarding an over-the-ear premium headphone from Apple recently. New detail have now surfaced for the device, apparently called the “AirPods Studio”, including the specifications of the headphone and the various features it will offer.
A researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology has discovered 7 new vulnerabilities in Intel’s Thunderbolt technology that enables attackers to access a system’s data even if it is encrypted or if the device is locked. The security flaws have been acknowledged by Intel, who has already released patches via OS updates to prevent exploitation via this flaw.
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The android Twitter app appears to be testing a small UI change that will allow users to see more information about Retweets in a clearer way. The new feature was spotted by popular Twitter reverse engineer, Jane Manchun Wong, who showed a screenshot of the feature
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Facebook is working hard to develop their Messenger Rooms, which is a feature that can be used to connect to people over video. In the latest 2.2019.6 WhatsApp Web update, Messenger Rooms appears to be in development to be integrated in as a shortcut.
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The premium smartphone market (>Rs. 30000) has been a competition between Samsung Apple and OnePlus for many quarters now. In the first quarter of 2020, the market saw a growth of 21% YoY, with Samsung managing to edge out Apple to take the lead as India’s current top premium smartphone manufacturer.
Apple may be on track to increase India’s local manufacturing revenue to nearly $40 billion over the next 5 years, as a result of the Government of India’s Production Linked Incentive scheme (PLI) for large scale electronics manufacturing. The scheme will be largely availed by two of Apple’s contract manufacturers, namely Winstron and Foxconn.
Microsoft went live yesterday on YouTube, Mixer and Twitch to reveal 13 new titles that will be released for the Xbox Series X. With the pandemic also causing nearly every conference to be postponed, Microsoft is planning to build hype for their upcoming Xbox Series X console via many live streams until its launch date.
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Being the only one among the top 3 to record a positive growth for the first quarter of 2020, the Indian smartphone market shipped 32.4 million units overall. This calculates to a growth of 1.5% YoY, whereas the Chinese and US markets saw a decline of 20.3% YoY and 16.0% YoY respectively. The top 5 manufacturers continue to be Xiaomi, Vivo, Samsung, realme and OPPO.
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The Apple product update train continues to deliver small incremental upgrades to their products and the next in line appears to be the Apple TV 4K. Multiple rumours have surfaced that claim Apple is getting ready to launch an updated Apple TV 4K with the A12X chip.
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There are many new cutting edge technologies that are promised with the 5G revolution. One of the more important technologies is sub-6 GHz carrier aggregation and Qualcomm, working together with Fujitsu, has showcased a proof of concept by completing a 5G NR data call using 5G sub-6 GHz carrier aggregation.
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Over the years, Google Lens has become much better at using their AI to recognise text and images from a smartphone camera and provide contextual information. Today they released a new update that brings three new features; the ability to quickly copy text to a computer, text translation and pronunciation, and the ability to quickly look up concepts.
