YouTube has been introducing new features to its platform lately like UPI support, Dark Mode toggle, voice search for cast, and more. On similar lines now, YouTube has made a change in the view count numbering format displayed on videos.
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Gameloft, the developers of many popular mobile games, including the Asphalt series, N.O.V.A Legacy, Minion Rush, Sniper Fury, etc. is celebrating their 20th anniversary as a game developer. In celebration, they are releasing a new Gameloft Classics Android App that’s free and includes 30 iconic Gameloft games, some of which has never come to Android.
Discovery Plus streaming service made its debut last month in India at an introductory price of Rs. 299/year. Less than a month since launch, the company has now launched a limited time annual subscription for Rs. 99 amid nationwide lockdown.
Google looks to be dedicated at making YouTube as its main music streaming service as it continues to push new updates to it. The latest change to the app is the removal of the “Hotlist” tab and replacing it with the “Explore” tab, aimed at improving music discovery for its users.
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In the last few days, Instagram has made a number of updates to its apps that include creator focused features for IGTV and finally adding browser support for Instagram Live videos. The updates to IGTV will massively help creators on the platform, incentivising them to use IGTV more as the platform of their choice.
A lot of app makers have been adding tools to help people find the right balance for how you use their apps. Back in 2018 Facebook added ‘Your Time,’ designed to help users manage social networking habits that reveals how many minutes you’ve spent on Facebook’s app on that device each day for the past week and on average. Continue reading “Facebook app gets ‘quiet mode’ to mute push notifications”
Xiaomi’s Mit Fit app for wearable devices received the 4.0 update last year which introduced new UI, optimized data view, and more. The company has now released the 4.0.17 update with minor tweaks to UI and a nifty feature for Indian users.
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Apple Clips is a neat little app where users can create unique videos by combining video clips, images, and photos and adding stickers, music, filters and more. In this new update, Apple is adding features like mouse and trackpad support for iPadOS 13.4, extra editing capabilities like duplicate, splitting and more.
The amount of people using streaming services has skyrocketed recently due to the COVID-19 pandemic quarantines. With this increased viewership, the chances of younger audiences coming across inappropriate content is also high. To combat this, Netflix is introducing new parental controls for families to help parents make the right viewing decision for their children.
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Back in 2018, WhatsApp started adding a “forwarded” label for any message that is being forwarded from one chat to another and later limited forwarding messages to 5 chats at once globally. Following that, WhatsApp has again started limiting message forwarding to prevent the spread of fake news related to the COVID-19 crisis.
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The online music streaming services in the world enjoyed a good year in 2019, with the number of paid subscribers growing by 32% YoY, crossing 350 million. Driving this growth was exclusive content offerings like podcasts and originals, price cuts in subscriptions in emerging markets and bundled offers from telecommunication companies.
With the launch of the Pixel 3, Google introduced a gesture of flipping the phone on to its screen to enter a ‘Do Not Disturb (DND) mode. Now, with Google Phone 47 beta, they appear to be testing a more traditional use for the same gesture: silencing incoming calls. Along with this, Google is also testing a feature to answer a call with 1-way video.
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In a move to connect users during the ongoing crisis, Skype has rolled out new Meet Now feature that allows you to easily set up a collaboration space and invite both Skype contacts and friends or family who are not on Skype. Participants can then easily join meetings whether they have an account or not. Continue reading “Skype’s ‘Meet Now’ feature allows users to join video meetings without sign ups or downloads”
It is video chatting season for everyone in quarantine and with Zoom rising to popularity, Facebook has decided to enter the fray with a desktop app for its Messenger, both for macOS and Windows. It features group videos calls, chat sync across, dark mode and more.
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WhatsApp has pushed yet another update for its Beta app in android, bringing the version number to 2.20.110. It makes a few changes including renaming delete messages, testing support for multiple device login and reducing WhatsApp Status video length for Indian users.
