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BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) is shutting down on May 31st

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The facts confirm that the user version of BBM is officially disintegrating at the end of May. In a blog post, Emtek (the organization that has assumed control over running the BBM app since 2016) has declared that it will end support for the messaging app on May 31st, pointing out to fleeting clients over the previous year regardless of the struggle to renovate the app with features like Uber hailing and video calling. “We are proud of what we have built to date ... The technology industry however, is very fluid, and in spite of our substantial efforts, users have moved on to other platforms, while new users proved difficult to sign on,” the company wrote in a blog. “Though we are sad to say goodbye, the time has come to sunset the BBM consumer service, and for us to move on.” Those utilizing the enterprise version of the app, called BBMe, will proceed with tasks as regular. In case that you truly miss BBM and need to continue utilizing it, you can also download the enterprise versi...

Google isn’t blocking Microsoft’s new Edge browser

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Microsoft is moving its Edge browser to the Chromium engine, which means improved web similarity for the default browser on Windows 10. This should imply that the majority of Google 's services function well with the new version of Edge, however beta analyzers discovered not long ago that Google Meet, Google's enterprise messaging service, had all of a sudden quit working. Google Meet clients were welcomed with a brief to download Chrome or Firefox, creating fears that Google's services wouldn't work well with Microsoft's new Edge browser. The reality is different, however. "We see the expanded selection of Chromium and WebRTC as constructive for the whole Unified Communications industry," clarifies a Google spokesperson in an announcement. "With the ongoing arrival of developer previews for Edge, we are excited to have the capacity to offer another review involvement of Hangouts Meet, and we plan to authoritatively bolster it once it turns out to be...

Galaxy S10 5G Now Available for Pre-Order at Verizon for a Steep Price

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Verizon has declared that 20 additional cities will get the carrier's millimeter wave 5G Ultra Wideband coverage before the current year is over. The service is as of now available in Chicago and Minneapolis and now Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas, Des Moines, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Little Rock, Memphis, Phoenix, Providence, San Diego, Salt Lake City, and Washington DC will likewise get 5G. To enable clients to set themselves up with expanded speed, the bearer has also begun taking pre-orders for the Galaxy S10 5G. It is bigger than the Galaxy S10 Plus, and predominantly, it is the main part in the Galaxy S10 family to be perfect with Verizon's 5G systems. But sadly, it also bears a high price, which you'll find out soon in this article. The Galaxy S10 5G is estimated at $1299, which adds up to a monthly installment of $54.16 for a two-year contract. You can as well get up to $450 for deal-ins on qualified...

Google brings its redesigned fitness app to iOS

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Google Fit, the fitness tracking application that was upgraded on Android a year ago, has appeared on iOS. The application blends with Apple Health, which means your advancement in other Health-cooperative applications like Nike Run Club, Sleep Cycle, and Headspace will subsidize towards your Google Fit objectives. The iOS application matches up with both the Apple Watch and Wear OS gadgets. Google’s fitness app is designed around the idea of closing rings to hit activity goals based on recommendations from the American Heart Association and World Health Organization. That’s roughly 150 minutes of “moderate” activity a week, and 75 minutes of “vigorous” activity. The system is based around two metrics: Move Minutes, or the time you were active, and Heart Points, the intensity of the activity.

Huawei pour salt on Samsung’s wounds, will go forward with Mate X launch

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  If things weren't already awful for Samsung , Huawei had aggravated them. With Samsung dropping the release of Galaxy Fold , everybody expected that Huawei Mate X will meet a similar destiny as Galaxy Fold. However, if you had your eyes set on an extravagant smartphone, then there's positive news. As per a Chinese news site MyDrivers , Huawei is going ahead with the release of Mate X. The site got affirmation from somebody at Huawei that the company is set up for the release planned for June. However, seeing the Galaxy Fold debacle, it may be a smart thought to give analysts a chance to declare their analysis before spending your hard earned money on Mate X. All things considered, the Mate X beyond any doubt does look and feel sturdier than the Galaxy Fold. Now we don't have much knowledge regarding the availability of Mate X. Huawei may target only a bundle of countries at release and extend later on. We do expect that Huawei gets a notable release because, as per gene...

Apple facing $1B lawsuit by Teen over facial recognition arrest

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The 18-year-old says he was wrongly accused of stealing from Apple stores. A 18-year-old New Yorker documented a $1 billion claim against Apple on Monday, asserting that facial recognition software falsely connected him to robberies at a few stores. Ousmane Bah was captured by New York Police Department officers on Nov. 29 in the wake of being blamed for burglaries at Apple Stores in Manhattan, Boston, New Jersey and Delaware, as per his claim. The claim says the real criminal was found taking $1,200 worth of product - especially Apple Pencils - from the Boston store on May 31, 2018. That guy then utilized a stolen ID that carried Bah's name, address and other personal information, however not his photograph, as per the lawsuit. This may really have been a non-photograph student's license that Bah recently lost, the lawsuit says. Bah is African American. The lawsuit blames Apple for carelessness, emotional disorder, maligning, defamation and fake cover-up. The supposed usage of...

5 Galaxy S10 features you're going to love most

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The Galaxy S10, S10E and S10 Plus are three of a sort in the most possible manner. They're all quick, amazing phones with extraordinary cameras and long battery life. They're water resistant, have jacks for your wired earphones and can charge without wire. There's a great deal to adore with each of the three. No phone's ideal, obviously, and this trio has a couple of unpleasant spots all over. In any case, for the present, we should acknowledge where the Galaxy S10 phones take off. Battery life Each of the three Galaxy S10 phones have incredible battery life that will get you through the day. The S10E normally has the least durability, being the smallest, however in case you're not utilizing it to stream YouTube videos and operate throughout the day, you ought to be more than fine. The Galaxy S10 Plus, meantime, also has quite good battery life. Even after using it as mobile hotspot for whole day, you can still watch YouTube videos or play games for hours before goi...

How to enable Google Chrome’s new dark mode on Windows 10

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Google Chrome 74 is formally taking off today for Windows, Mac, and Linux, indicating the launch of another dark mode for Windows 10 clients. A similar dark mode arrived a month ago on macOS with Chrome 73, and the present update incorporates automatic Windows 10 support. Chrome will automatically line itself to coordinate if a dark mode is set up on Windows 10. The final product makes Chrome look practically xerox to the browser's darker Incongnito Mode menu bars. While Google is empowering this new dark mode on Windows, the company hasn't completely exchanged it on for all Chrome clients till now. "I can confirm that we are rolling out this feature to a small number of Chrome M74 users now, and that it will become more widely available in the near future," clarifies a Chrome people group director. If you would prefer not to hang tight for Google to completely set up this, there's an alternate way to drive dark mode: Discover the alternate route (shortcut) you ...

Intel’s new 9th Gen laptop processors hit the 5GHz mark

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Intel has reported another suite of processors for high-end laptops that offer quicker speeds and preferred network choices over earlier chips. The new ninth Gen H-arrangement processors, which have 45W power draws, contrasted with the 15W chips in more slender and lighter laptops, are accessible in Core i5, i7, and i9 versions and are intended for requesting uses, for example, gaming or substance creation. The star of the new chips is the Core i9-9980HK, which has another top turbo speed of 5GHz, which is a rate that was beforehand unattainable in a laptop chip. It's likewise unlocked, which implies that it tends to be overclocked for significantly more speed. Like earlier Core i9 chips, the 9980HK has eight cores and 16 strings and accompanies 16MB of store. Also, the new chips bolster Intel's most recent Wi-Fi 6 networking cards, which can hit velocities of 2.4 Gbps. Intel says the new processors give up to 54 percent quicker 4K video editing and a 56 percent improvement in ...

Apple planning new Find my iPhone app that will track non-Apple devices

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  Apple is wanting to blend its Find my iPhone and Find my Friends services into a one app, 9to5Mac reports. The service will be able to track an extended number of devices, on account of another hardware item that will compete with any analogy of Tile and will supposedly be launched for the two iOS and macOS as a Marzipan-based application.   The new service will apparently have the capacity to track your devices even when they're not associated with the internet by either Wi-Fi or cell, however it will generally highlight many of the present features of the Find my iPhone app. You'll become capable to put devices into "lost mode" and have them make a sound so you can discover them, and the service will keep on enabling you to discover your AirPods.   One of the greater new feature for the new app is the capacity to track non-Apple things. Apple is apparently building up another tag, codenamed "B389," which you'll be able to append to a thing you ne...

Samsung has postponed the Galaxy Fold’s launch in China

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  Samsung has supposedly postponed the Chinese launch of its forthcoming Galaxy Fold smartphone, according to SamMobile. The site refers to people acquainted with the circumstance that the official reason is because of an issue with the venue, yet takes note of that different exercises identified with the launch have additionally been deferred or dropped. Engadget Chinese editor in Chief Richard Lai additionally noted on Twitter that arranged occasions in Hong Kong and Shanghai set to occur on Tuesday and Wednesday have been postponed. We've connected with Samsung for comment, and will refresh this post on the off chance that we hear back. Samsung Galaxy Fold launch events in Hong Kong and Shanghai have been postponed. They were originally scheduled for this Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. — Richard Lai (@richardlai) April 21, 2019 Word comes not long after a string of reports from tech journalists who found their audit devices broken after only two or three days of utilizat...

How to change your Facebook password on your iPhone

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If you want to know how to rapidly change your Facebook  password on iPhone ? Read on underneath for how to do it in three simple steps. Regardless of whether you need to refresh your Facebook password in the wake of finding out about a security breach or are simply doing some standard account security updates, it's great practice to routinely change your passwords. Make a point to utilize a unique password for every one of your accounts. Utilizing a password manager like 1Password or even the implicit AutoFill password manager with iOS /macOS makes the procedure increasingly consistent. How to change your Facebook password on iPhone Open Facebook on iPhone and   tap the tab with 3 lines   in the bottom right corner Swipe down and choose  Settings & Privacy , then  Privacy Shortcuts Swipe down  and tap  Change your password   Here’s how the process looks:    

Samsung Galaxy Fold phone's Display issue. Here's why

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The Samsung Galaxy Fold is launching one week from now as arranged, in spite of reports from some early analysts that their devices broke after only a couple of days of use. It may appear to be a dangerous move for Samsung (SSNLF) to push ahead with the launch on schedule, yet the company has a lot go with on the extravagance $1,980 device — a 4.6 inch-smartphone that opens up into a 7.3-inch tablet. Analysts state that the device could disturb the smartphone market, which has leveled for both deals and creative new features. Pre-orders of the Galaxy Fold have effectively sold out on the web. (Samsung declined to share how many were initially available.) However at this point Samsung is dealing with news that a few commentators found defective pivots and their screens broke after removing the Fold's protective film. In an announcement the company said ""removing the protective layer or adding adhesives to the main display may cause damage. We will ensure this informat...

Instagram testing to hide the like count on people’s photos

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Instagram has considered hiding the like count on photos, so audiences can't perceive what number of people have loved an individual post. An unreleased feature that would freely hide like, was spotted today by code seeker Jane Wong, who says the test expresses that Instagram needs "your followers to focus on what you share, not what number of likes your posts get." Only the individual who posted a photo will almost certainly observe the quantity of likes it's gotten. Instagram says that it has not tried the feature. In an announcement, an Instagram representative stated: "We're not trying this right now, yet investigating approaches to reduce pressure on Instagram is something we're continually thinking about." Details of the test come only days after the Independent showed that the British Information Commissioner's Office has prescribed that social platforms, like Instagram and Snapchat, offer the alternative to kill features like likes and ...

Apple expands its iPhone recycling program to US and the Netherlands

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Apple has reported that it's extending its iPhone recycling program to incorporate Best Buy stores in the US and KPM areas in the Netherlands, incredibly expanding the quantity of spots where clients can return old gadgets to guarantee that they're recycled appropriately. Beforehand, the main spot to reuse an iPhone was through Apple Stores or Apple's online site. The organization has custom-assembled robots considered Daisy that dismantle recycled iPhones. Daisy would now be able to dismantle 15 diverse iPhone models — up from the nine models it could dismantle in 2018 — which it can dismantle at a rate of 200 phones for every hour. (That is up to 1.2 million iPhones per Daisy robot every year.) So far, Apple says that it's gotten "almost 1 million gadgets through Apple programs" for recycling, so that may be pointless excess until further notice, yet ideally the extended program will give more phones to reuse. Furthermore, Apple reported another Material Rec...

Google and Apple block TikTok in India

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Google and Apple have pulled TikTok from their stores in India , one of the app's greatest user bases, as per reports from Reuters and Quartz. The move pursues a solicitation from the state court on April third to boycott access to TikTok on Google 's Play Store and Apple 's App Store after concerns were raised that people  were utilizing it for obscene purposes and exploiting kids. TikTok has been downloaded more than 230 million times in India, as indicated by analytics firm Sensor Tower. A TikTok agent told that the organization has "confidence in the Indian judicial system" including that "we are idealistic around a result that would be generally welcomed by more than 120 million monthly active users in India." The Indian state court's investigation concerning TikTok has been progressing for a considerable length of time. An outsider investigation concerning the app and prior calls from the government prompted individuals requesting TikTok to ...

Microsoft unveils disc-less Xbox One S All-Digital Edition for $249

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Microsoft is making its disc-less Xbox One S official today. Following quite a while of releases, the software maker is disclosing the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition, which is priced at $249 and will be accessible on May 7. This is a new model that will be sold close by the first Xbox One S, and the more dominant Xbox One X. The huge selling point here is that this All-Digital Edition won't send with the Blu-beam drive, cutting the price somewhat by $50 (prescribed retail price). Microsoft is including a 1TB HDD on this new digital model close by digital variants of Forza Horizon 3, Sea of Thieves, and Minecraft in the crate. The hardware is actually equivalent to existing Xbox One S comforts, just without the 4K Blu-ray drive. "The Xbox One S All-Digital Edition is $50 less than Xbox One S and we hope to keep up in any event this price distinction between the two consoles," clarifies Jeff Gattis, general supervisor of Platform and Devices Marketing at Microsoft. This ...