A ton of information related to the Coronavirus outbreak comes to the public via online resources like social media, news sites, etc. Doing its part, Instagram has released a bunch of new updates aimed at making it easy for users to access correct information about COVID-19 on its platform.
Its been two years since Opera, the same developers for Opera Browser for PC, released its News app for Android. It had become widely popular in multiple regions including Africa and now, Opera has released a Lite version of the app to work better on high-end Android smartphones.
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Being one of the lesser feature-rich podcast apps, Google Podcast has been steadily receiving updates to bring feature parity with other popular podcast applications like Pocket Casts, Spotify, etc. One of the new updates to the app include auto-download of newly released episodes, redesigned UI for better navigation, suggestions and more.
With a large number of people in Europe being quarantined and having to work from home in response to the Coronavirus outbreak, the European Union (EU) has requested major streaming services and social media companies to reduce their streaming quality to prevent internet gridlock. These companies include Netflix, Amazon Prime, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
In recent times, the ability to live transcribe speech has become popular in a few Google apps and now, yet another feature has come to Google Translate. Users can transcribe speech from one language to the language of their choice in real time, which can be a great feature when travelling abroad or if you have an international friend.
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In a recent update, WhatsApp Beta has started testing a feature called ‘Delete messages‘ that was introduced as part of its rumoured cleaning tools for deleting messages in Groups. Now, in WhatsApp Beta v2.20.83/v2.20.84, they are reportedly testing the disappearing messages feature for personal chats too.
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Facebook has begun testing the ability to cross-post Facebook Stories in Instagram for some users. Code found in Facebook for Android app points to a toggle to share a Story that was created using the app directly to Instagram.
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Just earlier this week, Facebook had announced Project Lightspeed for their mobile Messenger app, overhauling it to make it faster, smaller and simpler. Now, Facebook has begun testing a macOS client of the Messenger, available on the Mac App Store in a few countries like France, Australia, Poland, etc.
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Twitter has become one of the last major social media platforms to copy Snapchat’s 24-hour disappearing type content, calling it ‘Fleets’. They are currently testing Fleets in Brazil and it will work differently from regular tweets, that is, users will not be able to retweet, like or publicly comment on them.
The developers of the TikTok, Bytedance has announced their entry into the music streaming market with the Resso app, taking on streaming giants like Spotify, Gaana and Apple Music. The streaming service is designed with the new generation of music enthusiasts in mind with focus on social features like commenting on songs, sharing lyrics and more.
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Google Photos is coming with a new update that redesigns many important elements in its UI. Google is getting rid of the hamburger menu, moving the search bar from the top to the bottom bar, added a button for the Library and more.
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When you begin to follow a multitude of accounts on twitter, it can start to become a little overwhelming with many topics. In June of 2019, Twitter began testing a feature called Lists on their mobile app that allowed users to split their timeline with different pinned lists. The feature has been in iOS for a quite a while, and now Twitter has announced wide-rollout for Android users too.
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WhatsApp for Android got dark mode feature in beta back in January, and it has been in the works for iOS for more than a year. Now WhatsApp has announced the roll out of dark mode for all the Android and iOS users. This lets users choose from light or dark theme. The dark theme is more like dark gray unlike pure black available in some apps. Chats appear with dark background, and your messages are shown in green bubbles. Continue reading “WhatsApp Dark mode finally available for all Android and iOS users”
Facebook’s mobile application have always known to be extremely heavy on resources, causing many users to use the lite version of the Facebook and Messenger apps. Facebook has finally decided to update its Messenger app, rebuilding it from the ground up to make it faster, smaller and simpler.
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The spread of misinformation in social media is an issue that is widely debated these days. According to a leaked demo, Twitter may roll a new policy that targets misinformation by having a community of fact-checkers and journalists marking the tweet as “Harmfully misleading” or not.
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