Uber is finally bringing improvements to its rating system. The ride -sharing service is making it easier for you to see your rider rating. With the latest update, your Uber rating will now appear right below your name. The latest move comes from Uber to make the riding experience more user friendly.
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Instagram has announced that it now has more than 700 million monthly active users. The Facebook owned photo sharing app has added the last 100 million in just four months as it had 600 million users in December, while it took 6 months to go from 500 million to 600 million. Continue reading “Instagram hits 700 million monthly active users”
Samsung has released an app for people living with aphasia, a disorder that causes the loss of language capabilities. Dubbed as Wemogee, the emoji-based chat app has been developed by Samsung by collaborating with a team of speech therapists. Continue reading “Samsung Wemogee is an emoji-based chat app for people with speech disorders”
In a bid to fight fake news, Google has tweaked its search algorithm to curb misleading and offensive content. The company is making improvements in Search ranking and providing easier ways for people to provide direct feedback, and is bringing greater transparency around how Search works.
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Facebook today announced new India centric features for its platform at an event called as “A place to connect” in Delhi. The social network is bringing India specific camera filters along with the frames and effects that come in the Facebook camera. The custom effects for India include Namaste and geo-specific experiences in cities like New Delhi, Mumbai, Goa, and other places. Continue reading “Facebook rolls out camera effects for India, brings Reactions to Lite app”
YouTube had launched for Android and iOS in 2015 following which it was released in India last year in November. Now, YouTube Kids app is available for smart TVs including those from LG, Samsung and Sony.
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Google Maps will now help you find your parked car thanks to a new parking reminder feature. Available for Android and iOS, the feature will let users record their parking locations. Continue reading “Google Maps for Android and iOS get parking reminders”
Rumors and report about the next generation OnePlus have been making rounds for a while. Now, couple of renders of the OnePlus 5 have surfaced which highlights the dual rear camera setup. Continue reading “OnePlus 5 with dual rear camera setup surfaces in renders”
Reliance Entertainment announced that the global launch of its movie platform, BIGFLIX. The Anil D. Ambani led company launched BIGFLIX in a nine-language for India and global markets. Continue reading “Reliance Entertainment launches BIGFLIX globally in 9 languages”
Google is expected to launch three Pixel devices this year. It has been reported that the company is working on two Pixel phones codenamed as Walleye and Muskie. Now, a leak from Android Open Source Project is suggesting there is a third device in making as well. All the three Pixel phone are tipped to be powered by Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 835 processor.
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Last month, Google announced that it will apply neural machine translation for translations of text in Hindi. Now, the company is expanding the neural machine translation for Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam and Kannada. Introduced in September last year, Neural machine translation translates whole sentences at a time instead of piece by piece. Continue reading “Google Translate expands neural machine translation to Chrome and 9 Indian languages”
Google and Chinese imaging company Yi Technology have jointly announced Yi Halo”, the virtual reality (VR) camera. The Yi Halo is the second camera based on Jump, a VR technology product from Google for professional productions. Continue reading “Google Yi Halo 3D VR camera with 17 4K cameras announced”
LinkedIn has announced that it finally has 500 million members spread across 200 countries. India continues to be LinkedIn’s largest market in APAC, and the second largest globally after USA. The largest professional social network has registered over 40% growth in India the past two years with a user base of more than 42 million members.
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No it’s not Superman, it’s Kitty Hawk flying car. The flying-car company called Kitty Hawk that has been funded by Google co-founder Larry Page has finally released a video of its first prototype vehicle.
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Samsung recently launched its flagship Galaxy S8 in India for Rs. 57,900. Analytics firm IHS Markit has now released the actual manufacturing cost of the Galaxy S8 in latest report. It costed Samsung, $307.50 to make the Galaxy S8, according to IHS. Continue reading “Here’s how much it costs to make a Samsung Galaxy S8”
