Android 11 DP4 Adds New Icon Shapes to the Launcher Google last night rolled out a fourth, unscheduled, developer preview for Android 11, and as one would expect at this point, there aren’t a lot of big changes all over the place. That said, there still are things that Google is tweaking and testing, and one such thing is theAndroid 11launcher. In the Android 11 DP4, Google is testing a couple of new customisation options in the default Android 11 launcher....

Android 11 DP4 Gets a New ‘Select’ Option in Recents Screen Google has been making tweaks toAndroid 11‘s multi-tasking screen for quite some time now. Back with developer preview 3 last month, the company made the apps appear larger inside the recents screen, along with a couple of shortcuts at the bottom. Now, with Android 11 developer preview 4, Google has made another change to the multi-tasking screen. When you enter the multi-tasking (or recents) screen in Android 11 now, you will see a third option in the row of buttons at the bottom....

Apple Rated Number One Tech Company in Brand Intimacy Study 2020 Apple has been rated as the number one tech company in MBLM’s 10th annualBrand Intimacy Study,which the company says is the“largest study of brands based on emotions”. The US tech giant is followed on the list by Samsung and Google at numbers two and three, while Microsoft, AT&T, Verizon, Dell, LG, HP and Intel round out the top-ten. In an official press release on Wednesday, MBLM said that brands with an emotional connect with customers“significantly outperform”the top brands in the Fortune 500 and S&P indices in both revenue and profit....

Chrome OS Getting New Gallery with Latest Update Chrome OS has started to replace its native gallery app with a new media app that brings improved features and capabilities. The new media app is available in the latestChrome OSdev channel with version 84.0.4133.0 that started rolling out today. First things first, the new media app uses a grayish dark material design language throughout the app. There are various handy controls such as Info, Delete, Zoom Out, Zoom In, Crop & Rotate, Rescale, Undo, Redo, and Lighting filters in the top portion of the app....

Facebook SDK Bug Caused Several iOS App Crashes Several popular iOS apps including Spotify, TikTok, GroupMe, Pinterest, and Tinder reportedly faced crashing issues due to a problem in a Facebook Software Development Kit (SDK) integration. The crash had apparently affected multiple apps, as can be seen in the discussion on this issue raised onFacebook iOS SDK’s GitHubpage. “Well, this certainly got our entire team rattled and the boss foaming at the mouth....

GitHub Announces Cloud-Based IDE ‘Codespaces’ Based on Visual Studio Code At its ‘Satellite’ virtual conference on Wednesday, GitHub announced four new products that it said will help software communities collaborate better online. The most notable one is a full-fledgedcloud-based IDE called GitHub Codespacesbased on Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code. According to Shanku Niyogi, GitHub’s SVP of Product,“Codespaces gives you a fully-featured cloud-hosted dev environment that spins up in seconds, directly within GitHub, so you can start contributing to a project right away”....

Google Authenticator Update Brings Revamped UI and Account Transfer Google has updated its authenticator app to go inline with its modern material design language. It is worth noting that this is thefirst major design revamp for the app since 2017and the version number of the update is 5.10. With the new update, the app’s logo has moved to the center, the text size has been reduced, and the floating action button (plus button) at the bottom right has got a refresh as well to follow the new material design guideline....