Month: March 2020

WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps in the world right now. The Facebook-owned company in 2017 released a feature that allows people to delete their own messages from WhatsApp. Using this feature removes photos, videos, or messages completely from WhatsApp, which means that no one, including you, can see these messages after
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TransferWise, the London-headquartered international money transfer service most recently valued by investors at $3.5 billion, has partnered with China’s Aliplay for international transfers. The launch enables TransferWise’s now 7 million-plus users to be able to send Chinese yuan from 17 currencies to users of Alipay, which serves more than 1.2 billion people worldwide including via
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Snapchat streaks, officially called Snapstreaks, are much like Reddit karma: utterly useless in the real world, but a source of pride for those who have racked up massive totals. Advertisement Whether you’re just starting out on Snapchat or you’re a long-time user who’s been enviously looking at your buddies’ growing Snapstreaks, you have come to
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  The U.S. International Trade Commission on Monday said it plans to probe a number of tech companies, including Apple, on patent infringement claims involving touchscreen smartphones, computers and other devices. Today’s decision arrives a month after Irish non-practicing entity Neodron filed a Section 337 complaint with the ITC alleging Apple, Amazon and a number
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Remote collaboration tools like Zoom are gathering massive amounts of attention as people begin working from home en masse. But, as with most trends, virtual reality seems to be sitting out this boom. This should be surprising to absolutely no one, but the lack of widespread adoption is not for lack of trying. Virtual reality
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We need to go hands-off in the age of coronavirus. That means touching fewer doors, elevators, and sign-in iPads. But once a building is using phone-based identity for security, there’s opportunities to speed up access to WIFI networks and printers, or personalize conference rooms and video call set-ups. Keyless office entry startup Proxy wants to
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Flipkart’s Big Shopping Days sale is making a comeback this week. The Walmart-owned online marketplace will run its Big Shopping Days 2020 sale from March 19 to March 22. Flipkart’s big sale will include discounts and bundled offers on smartphones, laptops, TVs, wearables, speakers, smart home products, and more. Flipkart has tied up with State
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Xbox Series X specifications have been revealed by Microsoft. The next Xbox gaming console is said to focus on power, speed, and compatibility, Microsoft said while announcing the specifications for developers. In a blog post, where Microsoft details the technology involved in its ‘most powerful Xbox ever,’ says that the limitation faced by the developers
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France’s competition authority slapped a record EUR 1.1 billion ($1.2 billion) fine on US tech giant Apple on Monday for anti-competitive behaviour towards its independent retail distributors. The authority said it found that Apple acted to prevent independent retailers in France from competing on price and abused its economic power over them. The head of the
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Steam, one of the most popular digital stores for games, has set a new record in terms of concurrent users, possibly because of coronavirus enforced quarantine. According to a post from third party tracker SteamDB, and verified by Steam’s own stats, there were 20 million concurrent online users on the platform at around 8pm IST,
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Social media giant Facebook will host its own digital gaming event during the Game Developers Conference (GDC) starting from March 16 at 5pm GMT (10:30pm IST) to March 19. Facebook has announced that it will reveal the latest updates for Oculus virtual reality titles at Facebook: Game Developers Showcase. “Beginning March 16 and running through March
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Microsoft has cancelled its flagship developer conference ‘Build 2020’ in-person, scheduled to take place from May 19-21. The Microsoft ‘Build’ will now be a digital-only event this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. New coronavirus cases in Washington State have surged to 457, including 31 deaths. “In light of the health safety recommendations for Washington State,
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Although Twitter is yet to listen to users for edit and auto-deletion buttons to serve them better, a Twitter client called Brizzly has launched a new subscription service that offers these functionalities built on the Twitter API (application programming interface). The subscription costs just $6 per month and gives people access to non-native Twitter features like an
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If there are particular conversations on WhatsApp you want to keep to hand, you need to pin them to your chat list. The process differs slightly between iOS and Android. However, in both cases, pinning conversations in WhatsApp is pretty straightforward. Keep reading to learn how to pin WhatsApp conversations in Android and iOS… How
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