MIT and makers of the app Private Kit: Safe Paths say they’ve overcome an Android and iOS interoperability issue that will make the COVID-19 contact tracking app able to track people in close proximity with others using Bluetooth. MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory says it accomplished the feat last week.
Currently, Private Kit logs location history using GPS for 28 days. Bluetooth proximity apps record…
How Microsoft Teams will use AI to filter out typing, barking, and other noise from video calls
April 10, 2020
Last month, Microsoft announced that Teams, its competitor to Slack, Facebook’s Workplace, and Google’s Hangouts Chat, had passed 44 million daily active users. The milestone overshadowed its unveiling of a few new features coming “later this year.” Most were…
Twitch expands Watch Parties so we can view Prime movies and TV shows together remotely
April 10, 2020
Twitch is expanding the beta for Watch Parties to all U.S. Twitch partners, enabling people to watch Amazon Prime movies and television shows together, even though they’re physically apart.
Watch Parties enable Twitch creators and their viewers with active Prime…
Google launches braille keyboard for Android devices
April 10, 2020
Google today announced the launch of a virtual braille keyboard for Android that’s designed to enable those with low vision or blindness to type on their phones without additional hardware. The tech giant says it collaborated with braille developers and users to create it, and to ensure it can be used anywhere a user would normally type — including social media, text messaging, and email…
Google Cloud today announced the launch of the Rapid Response Virtual Agent program, a quick way to launch Contact Center AI agents for handling conversations with online chat or over the phone.
The Rapid Response program also makes it easy to add COVID-19 related templates…
The 2020 models from Samsungs Galaxy A-series is coming to the US the first models will be available tomorrow with more options (including a couple of 5G-connected phones) scheduled to arrive in the summer.
And yes, the roster includes two brand new devices, including…
Honor 30 Pro official images surface
April 8, 2020
Honor President Zhao Ming released a set of official press renders for the upcoming Honor 30 Pro which is set to debut on April 15 alongside the vanilla Honor 30. We can see the back design complete with the quad-camera setup, expected to be headlined by a 50MP Sony IMX700 main shooter with a massive 1/1.28″ sensor. Alongside it, we can spot the periscope module as well the two other…
While the Samsung Galaxy A71 has been out since January, its rumored 5G version is yet to materialize. We’ve already come across several certifications from agencies like TENAA, 3C as well as on Geekbench with the Exynos 980 chipset.
Now, a new Geekbench listing for the…
The OnePlus 8 will be available in a color called “Interstellar Glow”, but leaks haven’t quite managed to nail down the exact hue. When we first saw it, it had deeply saturated colors, going from purple to warm yellow. New renders of the same color have surfaced…
Samsung Galaxy J6 now getting Android 10
April 8, 2020
Samsung announced the Galaxy J6 with Android 8.0 Oreo back in May 2018, which picked up the Android 9 Pie update in last April and is now receiving Android 10 which could be its last major software update.
The new build has version J600GUBU6CTC8 and comes with One UI 2.0 and March 2020 Android security patch. A detailed changelog of the update is currently unavailable, but you can expect it to…
