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Instagram Rolls Out Walkie-Talkie Messaging Feature

11Dec By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Instagram Rolls Out Walkie-Talkie Messaging Feature

Facebook-ownedphoto sharing social platform Instagram has reportedly launched its own walkie-talkie feature. With this,the users can now communicate through voice messages. Users can hold down the microphone button to record a short voice message that appears in as an audio wave form that recipients can then listen to at their leisure. Voice messages are up to one-minute long, stay permanently listenable rather than disappearing. Being one of the most popular social media apps, hands-free Direct messaging could make Instagram a more appealing chat app for drivers, people on the move with their hands full or users in the developing world who want a more intimate connection to pay for the data for long audio or video calls. The launch hold down deepens Facebook’s entry into the...

Tumblr Banning All Adult Content After its App down From Apple’s App Store

5Dec By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Tumblr Banning All Adult Content After its App down From Apple’s App Store

Tumblr has said it is banning adult content from the Yahoo-owned blogging platform, which saw its app pulled from Apple's App Store last month over child pornography. Tumblr will begin enforcing its new policy on December 17, giving users who host unwanted explicit content an opportunity to take their imagery elsewhere, according to chief executive Jeff D'Onofrio. There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content," D'Onofrio said in a blog post Monday. Those looking for adult content may be better off Going Here instead of Tumblr from now on. "We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community." The decision to purge porn from Tumblr was made after "serious thought" regarding standards in the...

Instagram will now Allow Users to Share Stories with a Select Group

1Dec By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Instagram will now Allow Users to Share Stories with a Select Group

Photo sharing social media platform Instagram is coming up with the ability for users to share their Stories with a select group of friends. With this, the users can create a list of their close friends and share more personal moments with them. This feature will be available on Instagram's iOS and Android apps. The Instagram users can add people to the list by selecting the "Close Friends" option in the pop-over menu on their profile. No one can publicly request to be added to the list and only users can see their list of close friends. While people who are added to a list will know they're on it, they won't be able to know who else is on the list. They also won't be notified when they are added or removed from the list. Users can then take a picture or video using the camera opt...

AWS Launches a Machine Learning Tool Amazon Forecast

29Nov By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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AWS Launches a Machine Learning Tool Amazon Forecast

Amazon’s cloud computing services known as the Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new pre-built machine learning tool that will make it easier for developers to generate predictions based on time-series data. The new service will be called Amazon Forecast. Amazon has built a number of models to handle its own data in its retail business and this one is essentially the same technology that Amazon uses to forecast demand on its retail site. Under this, the users provide the company with all of their supply chain data and then give the service the variables that could have impact on the forecast. “With just three clicks, you can give us the information and get a forecast,” AWS CEO Andy Jassy said. “It’s super simple and when we benchmarked with customers in the private beta and o...

The all-new Google’s Pixel Slate is Arriving Tomorrow

28Nov By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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The all-new Google’s Pixel Slate is Arriving Tomorrow

Google’s last major piece of hardware, Google Pixel Slate, for the year is finally shipping this week. A number of pre-orders have already begun receiving shipping notifications for the Pixel Slate. The detachable tablet, which was announced alongside the Pixel 3 and Google Home Hub last month, joins last year’s Pixelbook on the high-end of the Chromebook spectrum. It also presents an interesting crossroads for the OS moving forward. The Slate doesn’t provide a whole lot to differentiate itself from the Pixelbook, right down to the specifications. The only major differences here are a higher-res screen and a detachable form factor, the latter of which isn’t hugely distinct, given the laptop’s fully swiveling keyboard. The tablet starts at $599 standalone, that gives you 4GB of ...

Music Streaming Service Spotify Launching in India Within 6 Months

28Nov By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Music Streaming Service Spotify Launching in India Within 6 Months

The popular music streaming service Spotify will reportedly make its India debut in the next six months. The company says that they will offer an extended free trial period when it launches in the country. Spotify currently offers a 30 day trial to all its new customers across the world. This development comes after the Swedish company entered 13 Arab markets, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt earlier this month. The service is currently available in 78 markets across the world and has 83 million paying subscribers as of June this year. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek had first announced plans to enter the India market in March, just prior to its direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Also, Spotify had disclosed in its public offering filing that it has leas...

Pharma Major Lupin Launches its First Chatbot named ANYA

24Nov By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Pharma Major Lupin Launches its First Chatbot named ANYA

A medtech firm Lupin has reportedly roled out a chatbot named ‘ANYA’ which has been basically designed to provide medically verified information for health-related queries. This particular disease awareness bot aims to answer patient queries related to ailments. The bot was launched at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Research Society for the Study of Diabetes. ANYA is chatbot trained to help patients with health-related concerns as part of their disease management. “At Lupin, we continue to explore ways to integrate technology to support effective patient care. Chatbot as a technology has enormous potential to aid in medical assistance and to support in building awareness and breaking myths associated with various therapies,” said Rajeev Sibal, President - IRF, Lupin. ANYA is currently...

HTC is not Quitting the Smartphone Market

24Nov By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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HTC is not Quitting the Smartphone Market

It was recently reported that smartphone maker HTC will be quitting the market soon, however, the company has now refuted all these claims stating that it will continue to strengthen its smartphone business. With this, the company will even launch new devices in the year-end and in early 2019 as well. Along with this, HTC also mentioned that it will push new product lines with the integration of 5G, AI, and blockchain as well. The company will thus keep its smartphone business alive, even though the company isn't seeing the success it would've hoped with its flagship 'U' series. "In addition to continuing optimizing its VR platform and enriching its VR/ AR content, HTC said it will also exert efforts to integrate related technologies including AI, blockchain, and 5G to roll out new ...

Google Neighbourly App to Launch in Other Indian Cities

21Nov By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Google Neighbourly App to Launch in Other Indian Cities

An Indian app that was created by Google known as Google Neighbourly which comes from the company's ambitious Next Billion Users team is now launching in other parts of India as well. The app was originally launched in Mumbai back in May and is aimed to offer a platform to help people source local information from their neighbours. While its debut was limited to Mumbai and Jaipur, the Neighbourly app reached Ahmedabad, Coimbatore, Kota, Mysore, and Vizag in September. It is touted to have over 1.5 million downloads and half a million people on its waitlist. The Neighbourly app is now rolling out nationally starting with Bengaluru and Delhi that both topped the waitlist. Google is also in plans to add more cities on a daily basis and bring the app to Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune...

Amazon Introduces Skype Calling to its Echo Devices

20Nov By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Amazon Introduces Skype Calling to its Echo Devices

Amazon has introduced a new feature to its device Alexa, and now, it would be able to even make Skype calls. Your Echo/Plus/Dot, et al. will be able to do so via voice using a command like, “Alexa Skype Mom.” Echos with displays, meanwhile, will offer up the full video Skype experience. Users can also ask Alexa to dial a phone number via Skype. It’s a solid partnership for the two companies. Amazon could use better chat support and Microsoft hasn’t made much headway with Cortana-enabled devices. This is also a bit of a blow for Facebook, whose Portal devices are built almost entirely around the idea of offering a standalone home product for video chat. That’s the best and practically only killer app on Facebook’s offering at present. The feature can be set up through the Alexa ...

Apple Launches All New Configurations for MacBook Pro

15Nov By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Apple Launches All New Configurations for MacBook Pro

The technology major Apple has been quite active for a long time and now, the company has unveiled a bunch of new products during a press event in New York. It shared details of the new configurations for the 15-inch MacBook Pro. The customers can now get a MacBook Pro with an AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 or Vega 20 graphics processing unit. Before this update, users could only get Radeon Pro 555X or 560X GPUs. As the title clearly suggests, Vega is a new generation of graphics processors. The iMac Pro comes with desktop-class Vega processors that are the Vega 56 and Vega 64. The Vega 16 or Vega 20 are less powerful than the iMac Pro GPUs. In particular, Radeon Pro GPUs use GDDR5 memory just like the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One X. But Vega GPUs now take advantage of HBM2 memory, which pr...

Tinder App Launches 23 New Gender Options in India

14Nov By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Tinder App Launches 23 New Gender Options in India

The popular dating app Tinder has launched 23 new gender options for users in India. This will enable the users to add gender information which they believe represents them most authentically. So far, Tinder users in India were offered only two options when selecting their gender: man or woman. For users who are identified as transgender, gender neutral or somewhere between or outside the gender binary posed an obvious challenge. "Users are best to assert their own identity and our latest update gives them the opportunity to decide how to express themselves authentically and it has been a good year in India for gender, sexuality and personal autonomy," Taru Kapoor, General Manager, Tinder India said. With this new update, the users will be able to type any word that describes their ge...