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.
Twitter is one of the few major social media companies that have taken an active approach towards preventing the spread of misinformation on its platform. Recently they were testing new ways to label potentially harmfully misleading tweets with warning labels and yesterday they announced new labels and warnings to prevent COVID-19 related misleading information from spreading.
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The android Twitter app appears to be testing a small UI change that will allow users to see more information about Retweets in a clearer way. The new feature was spotted by popular Twitter reverse engineer, Jane Manchun Wong, who showed a screenshot of the feature
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Facebook is working hard to develop their Messenger Rooms, which is a feature that can be used to connect to people over video. In the latest 2.2019.6 WhatsApp Web update, Messenger Rooms appears to be in development to be integrated in as a shortcut.
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As we all know by now, Telegram is a messaging app works similarly to WhatsApp, Signal, and Facebook Messenger. Founded by brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov, people behind Russian social network VK, this messaging platform comes equipped with an array of innovative and useful features.
Last year, Telegram released a slew of updates for its Android and iOS users bringing the ability to transfer group ownership, among others.
Through this feature, admin can choose to transfer the powers of a group or channel to another administrator id they wish to. Also, there is an option called ‘Transfer Ownership’, which allows users to change the owner easily. Continue reading “How to transfer channel or group ownership in Telegram”
Over the years, Google Lens has become much better at using their AI to recognise text and images from a smartphone camera and provide contextual information. Today they released a new update that brings three new features; the ability to quickly copy text to a computer, text translation and pronunciation, and the ability to quickly look up concepts.
Spotify have become a very popular platform for listening to podcasts anywhere and now the company is looking to extend the feature further. They have begun testing video podcasts on their platform, where creators will be able to upload the video recording of their podcast. The feature is first starting with two YouTube stars – Zane Hijazi and Heath Hussar, who host the show “Zane and Heath: Unfiltered”.
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As promised, Zoom continues to release software updates to improve the security of its cloud video conferencing app after gaining massive popularity during the pandemic. The latest update has added more controls for admins over Personal Meeting IDs (PMIs) in their organisation and has added better default security settings for basic account holders.
With people staying at home due to the ongoing nationwide lockdown, many streaming platforms are opening up their premium content for free and recently, Airtel opened up its premium Kids content on XStream for free. Following that, now the company is offering unlimited access to ZEE5’s premium content for its users.
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HOOQ video streaming launched in India back in 2015 and partnered with other streaming platforms and services. After almost 5 years now, the company has shut down its service globally and has end partnerships with other services as well.
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The entertainment platforms have witnessed a surge lately with people staying at home. TikTok is one such popular short-video sharing service that has now crossed a whopping 2 Billion downloads globally and this comes just 5 months after it crossed 1.5 Billion downloads.
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