Signal, WeChat Downloads Spike in US, China Following Trump’s Ban Threat People in the US are reportedly rushing to install instant messaging app,WeChat, after president Donald Trump threatened to ban it for allegedly being a national security threat. According to Sensor Tower,WeChat downloads in the US increased 41%in a six-day average from the week prior to August 7th, when theTrump administration imposed far-reaching restrictionson US transactions withTencentandByteDance, the owners of WeChat and TikTok, respectively....

Snapchat Adds New Lenses Replicating Viral TikTok Dance Challenges Snapchatis apparently testing a new strategy to co-exist with TikTok. The company is leveraging its expertise in Augmented Reality to releasefour new lenses that replicate viral TikTok dance challenges. To make this a reality, the company partnered with four TikTok personalities, or as Snapchat calls them, ‘Snap Stars’. The four lenses in question are Star Burst by Jalaiah Harmon and Jye Trudinger, Be you by Sarati and Robin Delaporte, Alone by Loren Grey and Max van Leeuwen, and Be Happy by Dixie D’Amelio and Abbas Sajad....

Stadia to Soon Get Pre-ordering, Messaging and More Google Stadiais slowly but surely becoming a fully fledged cloud game streaming service. The company has been adding a bunch of features to Stadia over the past, and now it seems there are a couple more being worked on. 9to5Google did an APK teardown of the Stadia Android app v2.29, and found a couple of new features that Google is working on for the service....

Wear OS Fall Update to Add New Weather App, Improved Performance As part of its ‘Android Beyond Phones’ initiative that seeks to highlight its non-smartphone IoT platforms likeAndroid AutoandAndroid TV, Google has announced that an upcomingWear OSupdate in the fall will focus on fundamentals like performance and power. In a blog post on Thursday, the company previewed a new weather map and announced that the update will bring improved performance....

Xiaomi Starts Rolling out Android 10 Update to Redmi 8 Users in India On one hand, Xiaomi isgearing up to roll outits next-gen MIUI 12 software skin to a handful of devices later this month. But, on the other, it’s still stuck on rolling out theAndroid 10update based on the previous-gen MIUI 11 to some of the budget devices. As you can tell from the title, Redmi 8 is the latest phone in Xiaomi’s portfolio to bag the Android 10 update....

‘Amazon Pharmacy’ Online Drug Store to Soon Launch in India Amazonhas announced plans to launch an online pharmacy in India as part of itsexpanding footprintsinnew sectorsof the e-commerce scene in the country. Called ‘Amazon Pharmacy‘, the new service will debut in Bengaluru before possibly rolling out to other cities. According to the company, it will offer both over-the-counter and prescription drugs, as well as basic health devices and traditional herbal(Ayurvedic)medicines....

Apple Will Launch ‘Apple One’ Subscription Bundles: Report Ever since Apple announced services such as News+, TV+, and others, we’ve been guessing that the company will also launch bundles to make the subscription more attractive to users. A new report from Bloomberg now says that Apple will be launching such a bundle under the ‘Apple One’ name. According to Bloomberg’s report, the company will be launching the bundles alongside the iPhone 12 this October....