Last week Asus Chromebook Flip received full support for Android apps with a Google Play Store. Now, Google has announced that the same support is coming on Acer Chromebook R11 and Chromebook Pixel 2015.
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Google is rolling out an update to its popular Now on Tap feature that was introduced with Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The latest update adds an array of shortcuts along with a tab for nearby places.
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Last month Google released Gboard, a new keyboard app for iOS devices in the U.S. that lets you search and send information, GIFs, emojis and more. Today it has released it in several countries, including UK, Australia, Canada and Ireland and will be available in India soon. In addition to GIF and emoji support, the keyboard also lets you use Glide Typing by sliding your finger from key to key instead of tapping. It has English US, English UK, English AU, English CA, and English IN, but Google is planning to add lots more languages in future versions.
Facebook has added a major change to Messenger which brings a change in the way users start a new conversation. The latest update brings a new Home tab interface that tweaks the way conversations are displayed.
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Twitter has introduced a new go-live Periscope button on its Android and iOS app. This new button lets you start a broadcast directly from the Twitter app, provided you have the Periscope app.
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Earlier this year Facebook rolled out a basketball game inside the Messenger app. Now it has got an addictive football game within the app to celebrate the Euro 2016. Just like the basketball game, you need to send a football emoji in a conversation with a friend to unlock the game. Continue reading “Facebook Messenger gets an addictive hidden football game”
Pinterest has acquired the team behind third party keyboard Fleksy for an undisclosed sum. The keyboard uses predictive technology to improve typing on mobile devices.
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Telegram has updated its iOS and Android app to version 3.10 which brings new features such as drafts, picture-in-picture, internal video player and more. Continue reading “Telegram gets drafts, video player and more in latest update”
Facebook has announced that Messenger on Android is getting SMS support. The social network was testing the feature with few Android users since February this year. With the SMS integration, users will now be able to send and receive SMS messages from Messenger.
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Apple has launched Swift Playgrounds app for iPad that teaches kids to code. It includes basic concepts of coding along with Apple-developed programming lessons where students write code to guide onscreen characters through a graphical world and solving puzzles as they learn core coding concepts.
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Apple is bringing quite a few new features to its Apple TV this fall with updated tvOS. The company at WWDC 2016 announced that the last generation of Apple TV had 80 video channels and now it has over 1300 video channels. Also the native apps have grown to 6000 for the Apple TV in seven months. Continue reading “Apple tvOS updated with single sign-on, improved Siri search, more live channels and apps”
Apple has finally renamed its desktop OS X to macOS for streamlining the naming convention across all other Apple operating systems – iOS, watchOS and tvOS. The Cupertino giant has also announced the next version of its Mac operating system called macOS Sierra. Continue reading “Apple renames OS X, introduces macOS Sierra with Auto Unlock, Siri, Apple Pay and more”
If your phone has Android’s Marshmallow and you have been using Google’s ‘Now on Tap’ feature, then you already know that without enabling the ‘Now cards’ you cannot use the feature. Continue reading “Google makes ‘Now on Tap’ feature independent of ‘Now cards’”
WhatsApp beta app has been updated to version 2.16.118 which brings a new message quotes feature. The update allows users to quote somebody’s message at the time of replying. Continue reading “WhatsApp beta for Android lets you quote messages while replying”
Uber has announced that it is rolling out ‘Scheduled Rides’ feature that lets you request cars up to 30 days in advance.
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