Month: August 2020
Facebook testing TikTok style short video formats in India Facebook
The short-video format appears to be the flavour of the season. Now, Facebook is flirting with a new TikTok-clone within its larger app that would soon be competing with a dozen other clones of the Chinese app banned by India two months ago. And the new testing that is already…
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Attack of the gaiters
A minor face-covering controversy broke out this week, thanks to a widely-misinterpreted paper involving masks, lasers, and spit. The study, which came out in Science Advances on August 7, was pretty straightforward. It laid out a method that other scientists could use to test masks in their own labs. Using…
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5 offerings on OTT platforms for the I-Day weekend in India null
As ever, our weekly choices from the streaming platforms in India offer an interesting canvas — but are dominated by crime thrillers with different shades. Two web series in Hindi, Abhay 2 and Dangerous, are taut suspense stories, but one offers action and other some seduction. Among the films, the…
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Google is reportedly replacing Duo with Meet for video calling Google Duo
It’s not always easy to keep track of Google’s various apps – it often has more than one for the same job – and it would seem that the latest app to be in danger of getting sidelined is the Google Duo video calling tool. Sources have told 9to5Google that…
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The Morning After: AI-generated video plays out fake Wimbledon matchups
If you’re trying to make sense of the current climate for Big Tech, then Dan Cooper has some advice: look to the past. Specifically, he’s ready to rehash Microsoft’s antitrust battle over Internet Explorer in the late 90s, and infer what that means f… Source
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Save on Genki’s Covert Dock, preowned games, and more this weekend
This story is part of a group of stories called Only the best deals on Verge-approved gadgets get the Verge Deals stamp of approval, so if you’re looking for a deal on your next gadget or gift from major retailers like Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Target, and more, this is…
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