While Microsoft’s xCloud and Google’s Stadia are trying to change the gaming industry with their cloud game streaming tech, Facebook Gaming is going a different path by introducing cloud based games that can be instantly played without downloads on the Facebook app or the browser.
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YouTube is rolling out a new update to its mobile app for both iOS and Android, adding multiple new features such as Video Chapters, a better video player with more accessible controls and gestures, and new suggested actions.
WhatsApp has released a new update to their Beta app, bringing the version number up to v2.20.203.3. In it, WhatsApp is testing one new feature – the ability to join missed calls, and They are slightly tweaking the fingerprint lock to include more types of biometrics such as face unlock.
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WhatsApp Business has become a really good and quick way for customers to reach businesses, both big and small. Since its release, WhatsApp have been steadily adding features to help businesses manage their chats, bringing new ways t0 interact with their customers. Now, an update has been announced where customers will be to shop directly with a business straight from the chat itself.
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Google has been working a lot in the background to improve the user experience of notifications in their Chrome browser. Their latest Chrome 86 update has brought a new change which is an added enforcement for websites that have been detected to send abusive notification content.
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Truecaller has pretty much become a default app in most smartphones these days, helping us identify callers and avoid spam numbers. Till now, the app could quickly tell us who is calling, and now, with the Call Reason feature, users can know why someone is calling them.
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One of the many tools offered with Facebook for Business is the Messenger API, which allows businesses to manage messages initiated by their customers and interact effectively. Facebook is now adding support for Instagram messaging to the API, expanding the ways a business can connect with their customers, and introducing tools to help increase interaction.
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Paytm has announced yet another product entry into the Indian financial market with the launch of credit cards in partnership with various card issuers. Paytm plans to issue nearly 2 million of these co-branded cards in the next 12-18 months and the entire experience will be powered via their Paytm app.
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During their SearchOn event, Google has announced new updates to the Google Lens experience, improving the visual recognition capabilities of the app such as the ability to understand quadratic equations, identify articles of clothing and they even announced a new showroom AR experience for cars.
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For quite a while now, the Google Search app has supported the ability to identify songs from recordings that are currently being played. Previously, Google only supported this identification from official recorded music, but now, thanks to its improvements in machine learning, the Search app can identify songs with just a hum of the song’s tune.
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Facebook has announced a new update to one of their core services — the Messenger, with changes to the app’s UI and a newly redesigned logo. This new update represents a consolidation of the many changes that Facebook made, where they brought various updates to its Facebook app, Messenger and Instagram.
Security breaches have increased in frequency in the last few years and many users do not even know if their passwords have been compromised. To help solve this, Google will notify users if the passwords saved in their Chrome browser has been compromised and provide a way to fix it.
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Google has announced that its productivity-focused G Suite offering is getting revamped and will soon be replaced with Google Workspace. With it, Google will bring many updates and new integrations, connections between all of its services, which include Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet, Chat and more.
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The Discover page on the Google app on Android and iOS is a place where you can view articles across a range of topics from the web. Google is now adding a visual element to the Discover page with a feature called Web Stories, which functions very similarly to Instagram Stories and Snapchat.
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Clicking Night Mode photos has been one of Google’s primary strengths ever since they entered the smartphone photography game with the Pixel devices. However, this feature has usually only been present in premium and mid-range smartphones. Google is now bringing Night Mode photography to entry level smartphones with an update to their Camera Go app, starting with the Nokia 1.3.
