May 21st, 2020 was Global Accessibility Awareness Day and in recognition, Google has released few useful apps and features that are aimed at helping individuals who have cognitive disabilities, people who are deaf or have difficulty hearing and for people who are wheelchair users.
WhatsApp has been constantly adding new features lately and recently, the company added support for QR codes in the latest iOS beta on TestFlight. Following that, now WhatsApp has started rolling out QR code support for Android beta users. Continue reading “WhatsApp for Android beta brings QR code support”
Samsung India has launched yet another initiative that is aimed at creating an online presence for their offline Samsung retail stores. They have partnered with Facebook this time, to train Samsung’s offline partners to become part of an online ecosystem. With this initiative, Samsung aims to have customers purchase Samsung smartphones online via Facebook’s many services like Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp.
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Google has been steadily adding new functionalities to Digital Wellbeing ever since it was launched back in 2018. In the latest beta v1.0.312292882 update, Google is testing a few new features like sleep tracking, Daily Device Usage toggle, night notes and more.
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Twitter already offers a few ways to control the conversation surrounding a user’s tweet, like for example, the ability to hide replies to a tweet. Now Twitter has begun testing a new setting where the user will be able to control who can reply to their tweet.
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While Facebook Marketplace was a great place to sell and buy items sold by individuals, users could never shop for products from big brands or local stores. Today, with the launch of “Shops”, Facebook is creating a platform for any business, from a small business to a global international brand, to sell products directly with users.
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Last year in December, Google enabled a feature called Direct sharing, which allowed users to share a single photo or video to another Google Photos user via a private conversation from within the app itself. Google is now adding the ability to directly share private albums in a similar manner to another user.
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Google Chrome has rolled out an update that is focused on better, clearer privacy and security controls in the browser settings. These include easy controls over cookies, Site settings, shortcut to clear browsing data, option to block/allow third-party cookies in incognito mode, two major security upgrades and more.
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Instagram has introduced a new feature for its apps that will help users discover inspirational content, recommendations and tips from creators public figures, organizations and publishers. It will include posts and videos curated by the creator along with helpful tips and advice.
Update: May 19, 2020 — WhatsApp has restored the 30 seconds status limit in India after nearly two months. This is reflected in Android 2.20.166 update.
Google Chat has been a useful tool among the G Suite applications when the need arises to chat with contacts inside a domain. Now, Google has announced that they will be removing the domain constraints and let user’s chat with people outside of their G Suite domains.
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As we all confined within our homes due to coronavirus lockdown, the video conferencing app including Zoom, Google Meet, Facebook’s Messenger Room, and others are making a meteoric rise. Continue reading “Google Meet clocks 50 million downloads on the Play Store amid COVID-19 lockdown”
Seeing Chinese knock-offs of many popular products is very common these days. However, seeing an exact copy of an AAA-video game title like Ubisoft’s popular game “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege” is rare and that is exactly what developers at Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd.’s Ejoy.com have created, called “Area F2”. For obvious reasons, Ubisoft has filed a lawsuit claiming copyright infringement to try to remove the game from app stores.
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The social media giant Facebook today announced the acquisition of popular GIF platform GIPHY in a deal worth $400 million. Known for its visual expression and creation, GIPHY will be a part of the Instagram team from now on. However, Facebook said that it isn’t disclosing terms of the deal. Continue reading “Facebook buys popular GIF platform GIPHY for $400 million”
Advertisements are annoying to most of us when surfing the web. What is even more annoying is when loading the advertisement, our devices will sometime slowdown due to how resource-intensive the advertisement is. To solve this, the developers at Chrome have decided that they will soon block all resource-heavy advertisements from showing on the browser.
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