Spotify has launched a new Premium Subscription plan in 55 countries including India designed for two individuals who live at the same address. The plan offers two premium accounts, with access to all of Spotify’s premium features like ad-free playback, offline playback and even a new specially curated playlist called Duo Mix.
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For many years, Netflix subscribers had the option of using a native UWP (Universal Windows Platform) Windows 10 app, where viewers could download content for offline viewing. Now, Amazon has finally released its Prime Video UWP app for Windows 10, bringing a native client for those who do not wish to watch content on their browsers.
Telegram, a popular messaging app, has been found in violation of US federal securities laws by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and has been fined a civil penalty of $18.5 million. The complaint was focused on their blockchain based Telegram Open Network (TON) and their cryptocurrency called “Grams”.
Food delivery platform Swiggy has launched its own digital wallet – ‘Swiggy money’, in an attempt to take on the likes of Paytm and Amazon Pay. This means, you no longer need to depend on other payment options hereafter to order from Swiggy. With this, Swiggy enables single-click checkout experience on its platform. Continue reading “Swiggy Money digital wallet powered by ICICI Bank launched”
Earlier last year, Spotify made its debut in the Indian market with huge collections giving tough competition to the likes of Amazon India, Gaana, Wynk, and others. Recently, Amazon India has announced that both Spotify’s Premium and free tier users in India can now enjoy music and podcasts on Amazon Echo devices. Continue reading “Spotify now available on Alexa-enabled Echo devices in India”
In the latest development, Facebook has announced that it is rolling out a notification screen that alerts people when they share news articles that more than 90 days old. With the context button, the new notification screen is meant to inform users to make informed decisions about what to share on Facebook. Continue reading “Facebook rolls out ‘notification screen’ to alert users before sharing old news”
Google has released a major UI update to its Photos app, shifting the focus of the app to highlight a user memories rather than just being a photo gallery. In the update, Google is simplifying the UI with a three-tab structure, introducing Map view of the stored photos and added new types of memories.
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A couple of days back Apple introduced its iOS 14 with various new features and one among them alerts the users when app read the clipboard. As per the latest report, some apps including TikTok are reading the clipboard often. A TikTok user who updated to iOS 14 noticed the app accessing the clipboard every few seconds. Continue reading “TikTok caught accessing user clipboard on iOS14, to roll out update to fix it”
With people staying at home due to the lockdown, usage of OTT (over-the-top) apps have increased and at the same time, OTT platforms aggregator have made searching for content easier as well. On similar lines, Flixjini which is an aggregator for OTT platforms has now added a new ‘Discover’ feature that will show users new movies and shows to watch in a simple, easy, and quick manner. Continue reading “Flixjini OTT platforms aggregator adds new ‘Discover’ feature”
Facebook launched the comparatively affordable Oculus Go, which functioned as a standalone VR headset with 3DOF (Degrees of Freedom). However, with community feedback, Oculus has decided to discontinue the product, and will focus on developing their Oculus Quest and Rift line of VR headsets.
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In what looks like an accidental move, WhatsApp released new animated stickers in the WhatsApp Store in Beta v2.20.194.7. The feature disappeared in a subsequent Beta update v2.20.194.9, suggesting that the feature is still very much in development.
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Thanks to the pandemic and quarantine measures taken up around the world, a lot of us have time to explore our passions and interests online. Keeping track of these explorations can sometimes be hard and that’s where Google new app Keen comes in.
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Researchers from the Awake Security Threat team has discovered a global surveillance campaign that uses spyware software via extensions found on the Google Chrome Webstore. These malicious extensions have nearly 33 million downloads and almost all of them used domains that were linked to small registrar in Israel called Galcomm.
Google released its Android 11 Beta to the public on June 10th, and one among its major updates was a change where all conversations from messaging apps were grouped into a dedicated space in the Notifications screen. Google has now announced collaborations with Facebook and Twitter to help integrate Messenger and Twitter DMs respectively with Android 11’s Conversations API.
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Twitter has begun rolling out an interesting new feature for its iOS app users, which is the ability to create Voice Tweets. Users can now record their thoughts with their voice, each one having a maximum time limit of a little more than 2 minutes, and post it for their followers to hear.
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