Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ are the company’s latest flagships and these phones come with some impressive features that aren’t present on the 2017 flagships. However, today the company is pushing one such feature to S8 and Note8 flagships. Samsung has released an update to the Always On Display (AOD) on the Galaxy S8, S8+, and Note8 that adds support for using GIF. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S8, S8+, Note8 Always On Display update brings GIF support”
Apple this week rolled out the macOS 10.13.4 that introduced official support for eGPUs (external graphics processors) on Thunderbolt 3 Macs. In the release notes, Apple has published a detailed support document that outlines how eGPU support works and provides graphics card and chassis recommendations that can be used with your Mac. Continue reading “Apple details eGPU support in macOS 10.13.4, recommends AMD Radeon graphic cards; no NVIDIA support”
Google’s URL shortener; goo.gl was introduced back in 2009 and today the company has announced that it is shutting down the services and is replacing it with Firebase Dynamic Links (FDL). FDLs are smart URLs that can send existing and potential users to any location within an iOS, Android or web app. Continue reading “Google shutting down goo.gl URL shortener in favor of Firebase Dynamic Links”
WhatsApp is currently working on improving its Change number feature on iOS, Android and Windows phone. When someone gets a new number or changes his number on WhatsApp, it migrates the data to the new number preserving the chat history and will be automatically gets added to the groups that the old number is present and notifies group members. Continue reading “WhatsApp beta for Android now lets you notify your contacts when number is changed”
Earlier this month, Instagram and Snapchat removed the GIPHY integration over racial slur GIF that was spotted by users. However, Instagram has now restored the GIF stickers from GIPHY as it confirmed it has reviewed its GIF library four times and will preemptively review any new GIFs it adds. Continue reading “Instagram restores GIF stickers from GIPHY”
Gboard beta 7.1 is now rolling to users along that hints at bunch of new features and improvements including Auto-spacing, new emoji, GIF making, 20 new languages and dialects, handwriting settings and more. Continue reading “Gboard 7.1 beta for Android hints at new emoji, GIF making, 20 new languages and dialects”
Razer today announced that it will be rolling out the Android 8.1 Oreo update to everyone from mid to late April 2018. However, the developer’s preview is available for those who wish to try out the update before the official roll out. Continue reading “Razer Phone Android 8.1 Oreo developer preview now available, stable update from April”
Google launched Audiobooks back in January, and today it is receiving a major update including smart resume, bookmark favorite moments, speed controls and more, more reading time with routines on the Google Assistant. Continue reading “Google audiobooks gets smart resume, bookmark favorite moments, speed controls and more”
Twitter has introduced new Timestamps feature that lets you share live video or replay at any specific moment. Twitter says that it rolled out this feature after seeing user share live videos with a specific time in the video they wanted to talk about. Continue reading “Twitter and Periscope Timestamps lets you share live videos from any specific moment”
Following the P20 launch, Huawei is now again back in the news with a foldable display. The company has patented a foldable smartphone that opens and closes like a book. The patent was filed with WIPO on September 19 last year and is only published today. The patent is titled “mobile terminal folding mechanism and mobile terminal.” Continue reading “Huawei patent files hint at foldable smartphone with hinge”
Indian mobile internet users is expected to reach 478 million by June 2018, according to a report titled Mobile Internet in India 2017 published jointly by the Internet and Mobile Association of India [IAMAI] and KANTAR-IMRB. Continue reading “Indian mobile internet users expected to reach 478 Million by June 2018: IAMAI”
Airtel today announced a partnership with ALTBalaji, a wholly owned subsidiary of Balaji Telefilms to bring exciting digital content from ALT Balaji’s portfolio to Airtel TV app users. Continue reading “Airtel TV app now offers ALTBalaji catalogue of shows, movies for free”
Back in October 2017, DeepMind Artificial Intelligence startup became a part of the Alphabet, and its WaveNet technology which is a deep neural network for generating raw audio waveforms is used in producing better and more natural sounding speech for Google Assistant in English and Japanese languages. Continue reading “Google launches Cloud Text-to-Speech service powered by DeepMind’s AI for more natural sounding voices”
Reddit beta for Android is getting a new update with improvements and features like AMOLED night mode toggle in Settings, improved bottom navigation bar, and more. Continue reading “Reddit 3.0 beta for Android brings AMOLED night mode, improved bottom navigation bar, new themes and more”
Facebook is caught with the data-sharing scandal which made users uninstall the apps that were previously connected to Facebook, Snapchat is surprisingly is going the same route. According to the latest beta update, Snapchat might be testing ‘Connected Apps’ to let users connect to third-party apps. Continue reading “Snapchat said to be testing ‘Connected Apps’ to let users connect to third-party apps”
