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The Amazon Alexa App Now Supports Hindi on Android, iOS Amazon firstintroduced Hindi language supportfor its voice assistant, Alexa, back in September last year. Yeah, it has already been one-year since Alexa could listen to and understand your Hindi commands. The company has decided to celebrate its first-year anniversary by further expanding thereach of the Hindi language to the Alexa app on Android and iOS. Alexa in Hindi has greatly improved over the past year....

TikTok Considering Instagram Founder Kevin Systrom as CEO: Report With US President Donald Trump expected to announce his decision about theproposed TikTok-Oracle dealin the next 24 hours, the viral video platform has reportedly approachedInstagramco-founder,Kevin Systrom, to take over as the company’s CEO. That’s according toThe New York Times, which says that Systrom came into the fray after TikTok’s last chief, Kevin Mayer, left the company in August after just three months on the job....

Amazon Music Adds Podcasts, Including Original Shows by Will Smith, DJ Khaled Amazonis adding podcasts to its music streaming service,Amazon Music. In a press release on Wednesday, the company said that it expects its move to bring in new podcast listeners, particularly through its Alexa-enabled Echo speakers. As part of the plan, the US tech giant is making millions of episodes from a range of podcasts available without any additional costs to customers is the US, the UK, Japan and Germany....

Apple Releases iOS 14, iPadOS 14, watchOS 7 and tvOS 14 Apple has started rolling outiOS 14, iPadOS 14, tvOS 14 andwatchOS 7to all supported devices, as announced during the company’s ‘Time Flies’ event earlier this week. All the incoming operating systems get some notable new features, including an‘App Library’on iOS,sleep tracking on watchOSand better integration with HomeKit on tvOS. There’s still no news, however, on whenmacOS Big Surwill go live....

Facebook Live Gets AI-based Automated Captions for Livestreams To help people with hearing disabilities,Facebookis bringing automatic closed captions toFacebook Liveand Workplace Live. The company already provides automatic closed captioning for on-demand videos in 16 languages, and has also announced similar capabilities for IGTV. On Facebook Live, automatic captions will support six languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German and French to start with. The new feature uses AI-based automated speech recognition (ASR), and according to the company, it is especially challenging for the AI system to recognize every single word spoken during livestreams....

Facebook Partners with Ray-Ban to Launch Smart Glasses in 2021 Confirmingpast rumors, Facebook has partnered with Ray-Ban’s parent company EssilorLuxottica to develop smart glasses. Through this partnership, the brands areplanning to launch the first smart glasses sometime in 2021. The exact details including name, specifications, software, and pricing are unknown for now. However, Facebook has confirmed toThe Vergethat the upcoming consumer-centric smart glasseswill not have an integrated display. The company promises to share more information regarding these smart glasses next year....

Firefox 81 for Android Adds Downloads Page, Download Manager Support, and More Mozilla releasedFirefox 79with new UI late July and launchedFirefox 80earlier this month to address a few user complaints. The company is now rolling out the latest version, Firefox 81, with a dedicated downloads page, auto-tab closing functionality, and more. The new Downloads page helps youkeep track of all your downloaded fileswithout having to rely on afile manager. If you’re a Firefox user, you might recall that the older version of Firefox had this feature....