Google today released 4th annual “Android security year in review,” and announced that its Play Protection technology has successfully taken down over 39 million from Play Store in 2017. Play protect was announced back in May 2017 at the I/O event. Continue reading “Google Play Protect took down over 39 million apps from Play Store in 2017”
A few days ago there were reports about Google renaming Android Wear to Wear OS and today Google has officially announced that it indeed is renaming it to ‘Wear OS by Google.’ However, the company is just renaming with no functional changes, but at least it is an indication that Google is paying attention to the wearable platform. Continue reading “Google officially rebrands Android Wear to Wear OS – List of watches getting updated to Wear OS”
At the investors day presentation, Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek confirmed that the company is working launching its services in India. Apart from India, the company is also working on bringing its services to other major markets in the world like Russia, and Africa which according to Daniel has rich musical culture. Continue reading “Spotify working on launching its music streaming service in India soon confirms CEO Daniel Ek”
Audeze has introduced the first cinematic 3D audio headphones; Mobius which are specially designed for gaming. The headphones combine the planar magnetic technology, and other technologies like Head-Tracking, Room Emulation, and Sound localization to unlock the full potential of Gaming Audio. Continue reading “Audeze Mobius 3D surround-sound gaming headphones announced”
WhatsApp rolled out the group description for Android beta back in February and now it is rolling out the feature to iOS as well. The functionality is available to users who have updated WhatsApp to 2.18.31. Continue reading “WhatsApp Group description available to all iOS and Android users”
Sennheiser today launched the AMBEO Smart Headsets aiming to take the Virtual Reality (SMART) audio to the next level. It is a smart compact and mobile 3D sound recording headset that is aimed at offering Virtual Reality audio space for vlogging and other content creation. Continue reading “Sennheiser AMBEO Smart Headset with 3D binaural audio launched in India for Rs. 19990”
Microsoft has announced that it has created first machine human-level Chinese to English translation. It is one of a kind Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered machine system that can translate sentences of news articles from Chinese to English with the same quality and accuracy as humans. Continue reading “Microsoft achieves first human-level Chinese to English machine translation using AI”
Not so long ago, Google announced that location-based reminders feature is coming to Google Home. And, just like it promised, this feature is now finally rolling out to Google Home devices. Setting up reminders on Home device is easy, and all you got to do is just tell Assistant you want to be reminded of something when you are in a certain place. Continue reading “Google Home will now let you set location-based reminders”
Google with an aim to bring more real-world games like Pokemon Go, is opening up its Maps API for game developers to build their games. For an open-world game, developers first need to understand the physical environment around their players. Continue reading “Google opens up Maps API for game developers, Resonance Audio for AR and VR experiences”
U.S. president Trump earlier this week ordered Broadcom to stop its acquisition of Qualcomm citing national security concerns. Following the president’s order, Broadcom today has announced that it withdrawing its proposal to acquire Qualcomm and it has also withdrawn its slate of independent director nominees for Qualcomm’s 2018 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.Continue reading “Broadcom withdraws its proposal to acquire Qualcomm”
Though Honor 7X was launched with Android 7.0 Nougat, the company quickly announced that it will roll out the Oreo update soon. Before the official roll out, the company has a habit of making the update available for beta testers for feedback. Continue reading “Honor 7X Android Oreo with EMUI 8.0 starts rolling out to beta testers”
Pixel 2 has one of the best cameras on a smartphone and Google is using its AI to make the images look so good. In a blog post today, the company announced that it is open-sourcing a portion of this AI; a piece of software that underpins the Pixel’s portrait mode. Continue reading “Google open-sources semantic image segmentation that powers Pixel 2 Portraits”
According to OpenSignal’s latest speed test report, Navi Mumbai is the fastest 4G city in India and it stole the top spot from Mumbai. Navi Mumbai registered an average 4G speed of 8.72 Mbps in OpenSignal’s latest data. Continue reading “Navi Mumbai has fastest 4G speeds in India: OpenSignal”
After launching Bharat 5 and 5 Plus, Micromax today launched the Bharat 5 Pro that comes with Face Unlock and a similar 5000mAh battery. The latest budget segment device from Micromax in the Bharat series, sports a 5.2-inches HD display and has 3GB of RAM. Continue reading “Micromax Bharat 5 Pro with 5000mAh battery, face-unlock launched for Rs. 7999”
Google at the Pixel event back in October last year had announced Assistant Routines, and they are finally rolling out replacing ‘My Day.’ This feature is meant to allow a single phrase to initiate multiple commands and the feature is now live on the Google Assistant’s / Google Home app’s settings. Continue reading “Google Assistant Routines initial roll out begins”
