Coronavirus Impact: Global Smartphone Shipments Declined 38% in February Global smartphone shipments witnessed a steep decline of 38 per cent Year on Year (YoY) in February 2020 in the wake of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, according to market research firm Strategy Analytics. It has been the biggest fall ever in the history of the worldwide smartphone market. According to Linda Sui, Director at Strategy Analytics, “global smartphone shipments tumbled a huge 38 per cent annually from 99....

Google Cancels I/0 2020 Entirely Due to Coronavirus Earlier this month, Googlecalled off the physical eventof its annual developer conference Google I/O 2020 citing the outbreak of coronavirus. The software giant was exploring options to move the event online and has now made it clear that it will beentirely skipping I/O 2020 this year. The announcement was made last night at its Google Developers Twitter handle and was subsequently updated on Google I/O’s official website....

Google Pledges $50 Million to Fight COVID-19; Launches Dedicated Coronavirus Hub Google has pledged $50 million to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. On a newly-launched website about all things COVID-19, the company said that a part of that $50 million pledge is $5M in matching donations to the UN Foundation’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the World Health Organization (WHO). The site, which Google is positioning as its dedicated COVID-19 hub, can be accessed atgoogle....

Indian Government, WHO Launch WhatsApp Chatbots to Provide Coronavirus Information In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, fake news and misinformation are becoming a big issue across the globe. Along with that, there’s confusion among people about the Coronavirus, how it spreads, and the symptoms that a COVID-19 infected person exhibits. To make it slightly more easy to combat these issues, various governmental and non-governmental organisations are launching chatbots to dispense information to the masses....

Leaked MIUI 12 Roadmap Hints at December Rollout Xiaomi’s custom interface MIUI 12’s update rollout timeline has reportedly leaked online. The roadmap got posted in Xiaomi’s official community forum Mi Community titled ‘MIUI 12 Official and Update schedule’ and later got removed. Going by the allegedly leaked timeline, the first private beta will start rolling out from September. It will be followed by beta versions for some devices in October and the stable release will take place in December as per the post....

List of Chrome Components and What They Mean Google Chrome updates itself in the background so users never have to worry about updating the browser themselves. There’s also a simple way to check for pending updates by going to the “About Google Chrome” page. However, both these methods update Chrome as a whole and users have no control over the updates. Sometimes a faulty update might result in Chrome crashes which might leave users frustrated....

OnePlus 7 and 7T Series Get Instant Translation with Latest OxygenOS Open Beta OnePlus started itsopen-beta programfor the OnePlus 7T series last week that brought Android 10’sLive Captionfeature and now, the company is rolling out the second open beta for OnePlus 7T series and 11th open beta for OnePlus 7 series with Instant translation feature that was announced during the launch of the OnePlus 7T Pro last October. Instant translation feature generates real-time subtitles during video calls....