Google has just launched a new accessibility feature for blind people called the Talkback braille keyboard. It is a new virtual keyboard that will be integrated directly into android, enabling a blind person to type fast and conveniently without any additional hardware.
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To help its customers during the nation-wide lockdown, Vodafone Idea is launching a new program called #RechargeforGood. It is aimed at incentivising its customers to recharge for a friend, family or anyone who doesn’t know how to recharge online or doesn’t have access to the internet and in return, Vodafone Idea will reward a cashback of up to 6% of the recharge amount.
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OnePlus has always given importance to the design of its smartphones, believing that “it shapes every moment of your experience with a device”. In a blog post about its upcoming 8 series phone’s design and materials, they talk about their fifth generation Matte-Frosted Glass that they claim to be their best CMF (color, material, finishing) to date.
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In February, Google released an update to Chrome Beta v81 that added a lot of API’s that could power new experiences in the future. These include Web NFC API, WebXR augumented reality API’s, etc. and Google has brought them over to the stable version in Chrome v81.
Google’s own game streaming service Stadia, has become the next company to take advantage of increased number of people being quarantined at home. Starting today and rolling out over the next 48 hours, Google is offering a free trial of Stadia Pro, which usually costs $9.99/month, for the next two months in 14 countries.
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Apple Clips is a neat little app where users can create unique videos by combining video clips, images, and photos and adding stickers, music, filters and more. In this new update, Apple is adding features like mouse and trackpad support for iPadOS 13.4, extra editing capabilities like duplicate, splitting and more.
The amount of people using streaming services has skyrocketed recently due to the COVID-19 pandemic quarantines. With this increased viewership, the chances of younger audiences coming across inappropriate content is also high. To combat this, Netflix is introducing new parental controls for families to help parents make the right viewing decision for their children.
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Recently, Sony revealed its specifications list for its upcoming next generation console, the PlayStation 5. And now, Sony has revealed the new controller that will be paired with the PS5, the DualSense Wireless Controller.
There were multiple events and conferences that were supposed to be held during the first half of 2020 but were postponed, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of their response, Microsoft has gone ahead and announced that all their events till July 2021 will be digital-only.
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TCL, a company known for its displays and TVs, is officially entering the smartphone market with its own TCL- brand smarphones, the TCL 10 Series. It consists of 3 smartphones; the 10 5G, 10 Pro and 10L, each having TCL’s own display with NXTVISION visual tech, Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs, quad rear-camera setups and more.
The COVID-19 pandemic has apparently not slowed down Samsung’s growth by a large amount, with their current estimates even beating initial expectations. Samsung posted its earnings guidance for Q1 2020, being one of the first tech companies to do so, estimating approximately 55 trillion Korean won ($45.26 billion) in sales and 6.4 trillion Korean won ($5.26 billion) in operating profit.
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The online music streaming services in the world enjoyed a good year in 2019, with the number of paid subscribers growing by 32% YoY, crossing 350 million. Driving this growth was exclusive content offerings like podcasts and originals, price cuts in subscriptions in emerging markets and bundled offers from telecommunication companies.
Apple’s voice assistant, Siri often falls short in functionality and natural language processing capabilities when compared to the Google Assistant. In a bid to improve Siri’s shortcomings, Apple has decided to acquire Voysis, which is a company that has developed an AI based platform for digital voice assistants to understand natural language.
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With the launch of the Pixel 3, Google introduced a gesture of flipping the phone on to its screen to enter a ‘Do Not Disturb (DND) mode. Now, with Google Phone 47 beta, they appear to be testing a more traditional use for the same gesture: silencing incoming calls. Along with this, Google is also testing a feature to answer a call with 1-way video.
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Apple has been working on redesigning its wallpaper settings for its upcoming iOS 14 for quite a while now. In a supposed new leak, twitter user DongleBookPro has tweeted images of the new iOS wallpaper settings panel and its implementation.
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