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BlackBerry to Launch a 5G Android Smartphone with Physical Keyboard in 2021 BlackBerryended its partnership with TCLearlier this year. While most BlackBerry fans thought that would mark the end of BlackBerry phones, the company has today announced its plans to team up with OnwardMobility and FIH Mobile Limited for making a5GBlackBerry Android smartphone with physical QWERTY keyboard. According to the press release, the first smartphone through this partnershipwill get launched in the first half of 2021....

Facebook Removes Over 790 QAnon Group To Combat Conspiracy Theories While US President mayback QAnon groupsbecause they praise him, Facebook and other social media giants are not happy with them for spreading baseless conspiracy theories on their platforms. Facebook has, therefore, decided toban and restrict a truckload of pages, groups, and adsbeing run by QAnon members. In an official blog post, Facebook says that it recently“removed over 790 groups, 100 Pages and 1,500 ads tied to QAnon from Facebook....

Facebook’s Classic UI Is Getting Discontinued This September Earlier this year, Facebook revamped its user interface on the web with a major redesign. The redesign added a dark mode and made the overall experience better with bigger fonts. The social media giant is now all set todiscontinue the classic Facebook interface this September. Facebook first announced the new Facebook UI in May last year at its F8 developer conference. The companystarted testing the UI in betalast October, followed by a wider rollout this May....

Fitbit Sense, Versa 3, Inspire 2 Leaked With Button-less Design Fitbitis apparently working on three new devices that might launch before the end of the year. According to German tech blog,WinFuture, the devices will be marketed as theFitbit Versa 3, Fitbit SenseandFitbit Inspire 2. While the third one is likely to be a budget device in line with the original Inspire, the first two should offer more premium features. The blog also published a whole host of images of the upcoming devices....

Gmail and Other Google Services Facing Disruptions Globally Many of Google’s online services, includingGmail, Google Drive and Google Docs, are apparently facing severe disruption with several social media users reporting that they are unable to use some or all of the aforementioned services since this morning. The most common problem cited by users is the inability to upload files toGoogle Driveand send attachments with Gmail. Ok@gmailis down is#trending#gmail — Hemendra Singh (@pictionarybyhem)August 20, 2020...

Google Chrome Working on Adding a Streaming Service Hub Google is working on a centralized platform insideGoogle Chrometo let you access all your streaming services. Dubbed Chrome Kaleidoscope, the feature is showing its early signs of existence in the latest Google Chrome Canary. As spotted byChrome Story, the feature will list popular streaming services on a dedicated page. For now, it existsvia chrome://kaleidoscope. The initial list of supported streaming services may include Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+....

Google Duo Gets Captions for Audio and Video Messages on Android and iOS Google’s video calling appDuohas gained support forcaptions on audio and video messages. The software giant took to its official ‘Made by Google’ Twitter handle to announce the feature, pitching that it would be useful in noisy environments. In a noisy place? No problem. Captions are now available on Google Duo, so you won’t miss a word of your video and voice messages....