Author: Jaihind

The status feature helped Facebook to know more about its users about what they’re doing at the moment and what they like the most. But after a certain period of time users started moving away from the feature and they instead opted for other things like sharing memes and posts. Facebook wanted to end this trend by adding colorful backgrounds to regular, text-based status updates in an effort to make them stand out amongst the much more attention-grabbing images filling up users’ feeds. Now, the social networking giant Facebook has debuted a new feature called “Did You Know,” and it’s…

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon mobile platform will finally and officially be powering the laptops and 2 in 1 convertibles running on top of Microsoft’s Windows OS. This announcement has just come as an expected one in the ongoing Snapdragon summit by Qualcomm. The company calls this the “always connected PC”, ridding users of their reliance on Wi-Fi and bringing laptops into the 4G LTE era. As well as the more useful implications for portability, the company is also bigging up the security benefits. Rather than hopping onto public Wi-Fi networks that are the most vulnerable to “man in the middle” attacks, private…

Google has now come up with an experiment which combines paper craft and Google Assistant. The new project entitled as Paper signals allows you to control physical objects with the help of Google Assistant. Before getting started you need a Paper Signals starter kit which includes an Adafruit board, all the cables you’ll need, and a micro servo motor that moves your paper objects around. Moreover, you would also need an  X-acto knife, glue, pencil, a ruler and Google Home or just in case if you don’t have one, your smartphone with Google Assistant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iJXYSfnxuQ Once you gather all your parts…

The one major problem with Google Chromebook was the lack of official Microsoft office support. When Google opened up the play store access to their laptop products, some of the Chromebook users were able to access the office suite while it was not available for few others. This left Chromebook users in an absolutely uncomfortable situation. But a recent news confirms a scenario change. Following comments online that Microsoft Office was available on all Chromebooks with Google Play support, Chrome Unboxed has investigated the situation, confirming that it can be installed on a whole bunch of devices. Neither Microsoft nor Google…

Google gives a quick redesign to its search interface keeping the Amazon Black Friday in mind. For your information, Amazon Black Friday is one of the biggest shopping events of the year and one which saw an estimated $3.34 billion in online sales in 2016. Among the first of changes, the new “quick view” button is a significant one. The button can be button found in the Google Shopping previews section. This can be tapped to provide a glimpse at the product description, reviews, and related items, and it’s a move that should help provide faster access to the core…

Google seems to be fully committed to bringing in curvy edges to all of its apps. First, it was the Search giant’s homepage which underwent the revamp and now it is Google Assistant’s turn. Whoever opened up the latest version of Google Assistant would have been able to witness the subtle changes Google has made to the app. The first thing one might notice is the stark white background which now matches the colour of each dialogue box. This replaces the light gray palette from before, although your own voice commands will still show in a mildly darker…

Chinese heavyweight Huawei has unveiled its Huawei Band 2, Huawei Band 2 Pro and Fitwatch in India. The Band 2 and Band 2 pro are fitness bands. However, the Fitwatch is a dedicated Smartwatch. Huawei Band 2 The Huawei Band boasts a POLED screen that displays different information like time, step count, calories burnt, battery level and more. It also shows notifications for incoming calls, messages, SMS, emails, calendar events and much more. The band does come with a Heart Rate Monitor, sleep tracking and other activities like running and swimming. The Huawei Band 2 is also…

If you are an Android user, you must’ve come across this confusing situation to pick a third- party file manager. Organizing your files is no joke in Android, especially if you’re an extreme user and used to have tons of photos and videos. So, Google has come up with its own way of a solution to solve this long time problem, launching their very own app Google Files Go. A listing for the app is now live in the Play Store, but if you try to download it, a message will tell you the app is part of an early…

Technology behemoth Google gives a much needed touch to its mobile homepage and search much-needed. The mobile site revamp, which is now live for Android and iOS users that are logged in via their Google account, uses the same rounded UI design Google has been testing for a while. The revamp includes a curved edge search box and several other things which eases the search process further. Link text and titles have been tweaked ever so slightly, with the blue shifting to a softer, lighter shade than before. In addition, the gray backgrounds we’ve gotten used to for…

As expected, India has now surpassed the United States to become the second largest market for smartphone vendors while China remains undisputed in the No. 1 place. Out of all the smartphones being sold, 2 companies account for almost half of all the shares. Chinese player Xiaomi and South Korean giant Samsung alone have shipped around 18.6 Million of all the devices being sold across the country, while other vendors like Oppo, Vivo and Lenovo do play a considerable role in the market. These companies grow at a mind boggling pase as per Canalys, especially Xiaomi. Xiaomi saw increased shipments…

From launching it’s first smartphone in India, the Redmi 1S  to the latest Mi Mix 2, Xiaomi is witnessing spikes in its growth chart. The Chinese Apple, as it is fondly called is currently duking it out in the Indian market with more than 5 million Redmi Note 4 being sold across the country. In a bid to improve it’s woeful customer service, the company is introducing e-token system in its service centres all over the country. You can get the token right from the comfort of your home (or office, if you want). You can also see the…

On a very rare note, Android, Google’s mobile Operating system is powering a weird device. Sony’s all-new touch-controlled projector is now being powered by Android which is very unusual for the projector. Sony first showcased a prototype of what it would later call the Xperia Touch way back in February 2016 during the Mobile World Congress held in Berlin. At the 2017 MWC, Sony revealed it would go on sale in Europe in the spring, so it’s taken quite a while for the projector to finally make its way to the US. The device will be sold on Amazon…

It’s been years since the video calling has made its way to the public platform. It may sound weird to hear that Google did not integrate the feature to Android-the single biggest Operating system. But now finally Google realized that it’s high time to integrate the feature into its OS. This was accomplished by incorporating its own Duo video calling service and the ViLTE standard, the latter of which is an extension of the existing VoLTE that focuses on increased video call quality over an LTE network. By default, video calls will be routed through ViLTE, but Duo is the…

If you’re a fan of autoplay and think it is a time-saving feature, then probably you will be loving what we are going to say. Google is working on autoplay feature in Youtube which reportedly plays you videos without clicking them. This is definitely not a new feature considering several other apps like Facebook, Instagram is already using it for ages. Videos automatically play when you scroll through the Home section, though there is no audio. To make up for the lack of sound, subtitles are overlaid to understand what is being said. You can play almost every video in…

Microsoft gives a master touch to its Cortana digital assistant on Windows 10 for PC and Mobile. A new option called “Connected Home” is now available from the Cortana Notebook settings menu, which allows users to control a number of smart home devices from various companies via their voice. The new Connected Home section supports Alphabet’s Nest devices, along with products that support Samsung’s SmartThings platform. It also can control devices from Wink, Insteon, and Hue. Once support for these products is enabled in the settings menu, you can use your Windows 10 PC or Mobile device to control a Nest…

With a latest update, Google has brought in a long time expected feature to its smart assistant Google Home. You can now integrate multiple speakers with the app and use it in multiple rooms. Alongside getting in a new user interface and night mode Google Home app now lets you assign speakers to specific room Google Home speakers can help owners control a number of smart home devices with voice commands. However, if you own more than one Google Home device, you couldn’t assign it to a specific room in the speaker’s app. That has now changed, thanks to the…