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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Facebook is finally rolling out its Zoom competitor, Messenger Rooms, to countries beyond US, Canada and Mexico. The video conferencing service will let Facebook users host video calls with up to 50 people for an unlimited amount of time and features many controls and options for the host itself.
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While some of us having very few tabs open in our Chrome browser, there are those who keeps tens of tabs open. For both types of users, Google is bringing a new tool called Tab Groups in their browser that will easily help users organise their tabs in groups, along with colour tagging and label options.
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Cyberbullying in social media is an issue that many users, both young and old face these days. Instagram is making an effort to curb this by introducing more tools and controls for users in regard to their privacy and their post’s comments.
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Google has been discovered to be testing a new feature for their RCS-based Google Messages app that will help it better compete with Apple’s iMessage. The feature lets users send emoji reactions to text messages, which is a feature that has been present in iMessage for ages.
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Tencent Games has rolled out the new PUBG Mobile Lite 0.17.0 update bringing in several new features including modes, map changes, weapons, and vehicles. This version is now available free on Google Play in several regions of South Asia, Africa, and East Europe. Continue reading “PUBG Mobile Lite 0.17.0 update brings Payload mode, fresh winner pass and more”
The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the daily ritual of millions of people across the globe including where they work. In an attempt to curb the spread of the disease many companies including Apple, Google, Twitter informed their employees to work from home. Continue reading “Twitter allows some employees to work from home permanently”
Google’s music streaming services have been messy for the past few years with users split between Google Play Music and the newer YouTube Music. However, it looks like Google is banking on YouTube Music as they introduced a tool to easily transfer a user’s Google Play Music library, personal taste preferences and playlists over to YouTube Music.
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Apple has announced a new update to the popular sound editing app, Logic Pro X 10.5, with a bunch of new features for sound designers. These include Live Loops, Remix FX, Sampler and Quick Sampler, Beat Creation, Logic Remote and more.
