Online music streaming platform, Amazon Music has introduced a new innovative voice control powered by Alexa to enhance the listening experience. Available in both mobile apps and Echo family devices, users can ask Alexa to play their favorite songs which they haven’t listened for a while. Continue reading “Amazon Prime Music launches new voice control features powered by Alexa”
Photo and video sharing social network, Instagram has introduced new tools in an attempt to enhance the security of the community. The company has announced three significant tool: About This Account, Increasing Access to Verification and Support for Third-Party Authenticator Apps. Continue reading “Instagram introduces extra user details in profiles, account verification service; support for third-party authenticator apps coming soon”
Telegram, a cloud-based instant messaging and voice over IP service has rolled out an update lately bringing an array of distinctive features including chat export tool, improved password hashing algorithm, new “Exception” section in notification settings, improved Telegram passport and more. Continue reading “Telegram updated with chat export tool, Telegram passport improvements, Exceptions in Notification and more”
Facebook said that it’s testing out a new feature “things in common,” that would allow non-friends to connect. This feature would be present in the comment section and shows the things that are in common like if you live in the same city as someone or went to the same college. Facebook will highlight things you have in common with non-friends who have left comments. Continue reading “Facebook testing ‘things in common’ label to try to connect non-friends”
Instagram said to be testing a new feature where it is planning to group student users by the college community. This move of Instagram brings the photo-sharing platform a step closer to the flagship Facebook app. Instagram is prompting users to join a college community and “connect with other students.
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Facebook today has announced that it has banned ‘myPersonality app’ which was mainly active prior to 2012 on Facebook and failing to agree for audit. Since the app has shared information with researchers as well as companies with only limited protections in place, the company will notify 4 million people who chose to share their Facebook information with myPersonality that it may have been misused. Continue reading “Facebook bans myPersonality app for potentially misusing user-data”
Twitter has introduced a new Inbox style wherein you will now see messages from people you follow in one section and Messages from the people you don’t follow in the ‘Requests’ setting in case you have enabled ‘Receive messages from anyone’. These are now filtered, so it’s easier to see the useful messages. Continue reading “Twitter introduces new Requests and Quality DM-filtering tools”
Netflix is said to be testing a way to bypass iTunes billing system in more than 33 markets across the globe. Starting from September 30th, the Netflix customers in selected markets across Europe, Latin America and Asia will be unable to pay using iTunes. Continue reading “Netflix testing a way to bypass iTunes billing”
Google’s data-saving Datally app is getting a new update that brings features like new bedtime mode and emergency bank. The bedtime mode helps you save even more data while you sleep, and Emergency bank lets you put aside some balance just in case when you run out. Continue reading “Google data-saving Datally gets new bedtime mode and emergency bank”
Facebook is said to be testing its own speech recognition with the new “Aloha” voice feature for both the Facebook and Messenger apps, as well as external hardware. This again is being spotted by the famous app investigator Jane Manchun Wong giving us the first look at a prototype for the Aloha user interface. Continue reading “Facebook said to be working on ‘Aloha’ speech recognition”
Google’s experimental unit said to be silently working on developing a new app for discovering and playing podcasts; named Shortwave. This new app is being revealed by the trademark filing, which describes it as “allow[ing] users to search, access, and play digital audio files, and to share links to audio files.” Continue reading “Google developing experimental podcast app Shortwave”
After working closely with the American Heart Association (AHA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to understand the science behind the physical activity, Google has finally introduced a newly redesigned Fit platform. The new Fit is centered around two simple smart activity goals; Move Minutes and Heart Points. Continue reading “Google Fit redesigned with Move Minutes, Heart Points and health tracking rings”
Gmail for Android is finally getting the Undo button- a feature that is present on the desktop site. The Gmail for Android V8.7 can now undo sent emails and this allows you to have a few extra seconds to quickly reverse the message and add anything that you might have missed. Continue reading “Gmail for Android now lets you ‘Undo’ sent emails”
Instagram today announced that it is testing recommended posts in the Feed. According to the company, it is a new way to see content you may like on Instagram. The recommendations are based on the people you follow and photos and videos you like. Continue reading “Instagram testing recommended posts in the Feed”
Tencent had launched the PUBG Mobile game for Android and iOS back in March and it has surpassed 100 million downloads in about 5 months since its debut on smartphones and tablets. However, PUBG’s counterpart, the Fortnite had surpassed the milestone on iOS alone in late July, according to data-tracking service Apptopia. Continue reading “PUBG Mobile surpasses 100 million downloads in 5 months of launch”
