Apple at the WWDC 2018 event Apple announced that it is opening up CarPlay is opening for 3rd-party applications, post the announcement, Sygic now confirmed offline maps development for Apple Carplay. Sygic is the World first offline navigation for iOS. Continue reading “Sygic is developing offline maps for Apple Carplay”
To tackle social science and misinformation, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp. The company said that it would welcome any proposals related to social science or discipline. Continue reading “WhatsApp launches Research Awards to tackle social science and misinformation”
Android P Developer Preview 4 is out and it comes with smaller app updates, and Google Camera is one of them. However, it doesn’t seem to have any live changes, it does have hints of many new features to come, including the much-anticipated RAW support, corrections to wide-angle distortion, multi-channel audio and more. Continue reading “Google Camera v5.3 hints at RAW support, corrections to wide-angle distortion, multi-channel audio and more”
Instagram today has announced that it is rolling out “You’re All Caught Up” news feed algorithm message. It started testing the feature back in May. Users will start noticing the new message when they have seen every post from the last two days. This move comes after collecting feedback from users as the current arrangement is making it difficult to keep track of seen posts. Continue reading “Instagram finally starts rolling out ‘You’re All Caught Up’ feature”
Google’s stock keyboard Gboard is said to be testing a new smart replies feature that will work for WhatsApp, Facebook, Allo, Snapchat, and more. The feature is currently in development, so might be a while before it rolls out to everyone. Continue reading “Gboard testing smart replies for WhatsApp, Facebook, Allo, Snapchat and more”
The craze for Lite/ trimmed down apps these days is racing ahead, and now it is Spotify whose Lite app has made its way to Play Store. However, the implementation isn’t exactly the greatest, and it is missing a lot of crucial features from the main. Continue reading “Spotify Lite with basic functionality released for Android”
Instagram- the Facebook-owned company now has added the ability to ask questions in its Stories after rolling out the option to add soundtracks to your Stories. The feature is dubbed “ask a question,” and has started rolling out at least for Android users, but not for all though.
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Twitter last year had announced its intentions to offer transparency for all ads running on Twitter, with a specific emphasis on political advertising. Today the company is introducing the Ads Transparency Center, which allows anyone across the globe to view ads that have been served on Twitter. Continue reading “Twitter introduces Ad Transparency Center for users to identify political campaigns”
Instagram today is introducing music in Stories. Now you can add a soundtrack to your story that you feel fits perfectly at any moment. The company says that Instagram Stories is now used by 400 million every day. Continue reading “Instagram now lets you add sound tracks to your Stories”
Telegram is receiving a new update bringing the version number to 4.8.3 for iOS and 4.8.10 for Android, and this brings several nifty features and improvements. Continue reading “Telegram update brings replace media, vCards sharing, mark as unread, 2X voice messages, and more”
YouTube TV introduced a picture-in-picture mode with Android 8.0 Oreo back in November and has also extended to its Premium and Music services. The videos are minimised to a corner to let you keep watching while browsing around other apps. However, it now seems to be rolling out to non-paying YouTube users. Continue reading “YouTube picture-in-picture will be available to all Android users”
Amazon today announced the launch of Fire TV Stick, Kindle and Echo on Prime Now, an app-only ultrafast delivery service available to Prime members in Bengaluru, Mumbai, New Delhi and Hyderabad. Amazon will offer a limited time introductory discount of 15% on Amazon devices purchased on the Prime Now app. Continue reading “Amazon Prime Now delivers Fire TV Stick, Kindle and Echo within 2 hours in select cities in India”
Snapchat is an effort to sustain in the competitive market is planning on building out a bona fide hub for gaming inside of Snapchat, according to a new report from The Information. The platform is said to be launching later this year and the company is said to be already signing on game publishers to participate. Continue reading “Snapchat said to be launching its own gaming platform later this year”
Twitter today has shared four new steps that it is taking to address spam and malicious automation issues; reducing the visibility of suspicious accounts in Tweet and account metric, improving the signup process, auditing existing accounts for signs of automated signup, expansion of our malicious behavior detection systems. Continue reading “Twitter details new steps to fight spam and malicious automation issues”
