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Emoji 13.1 Announced with Gender Options for More Emojis Just recently, we reported that Apple isbringing in new emojis with iOS 14. Prior to that, we have seen Android adding thenew emojis to Gboard. Well, these emojis aren’t even available for everyone yet, but the Unicode Consortium has already approved its list of emojis coming with Emoji 13.1. Emoji 13.1 comes in this year, since the development of Emoji 14 has been pushed back due to the Coronavirus pandemic....

Facebook Alleges EU Antitrust Probe Compromises Employee Privacy Facebookis asking EU courts to put a limit on what information the region’s antitrust regulator can and cannot ask for while investigating the company and its business practices. Describing the EU Competition Commission’s requests as ‘exceptionally broad’, Facebook’s associate general counsel for competition, Tim Lamb, argued that the information the investigators are asking for will compromise the privacy of its employees. In a statement to AFP, Lamb said:“The exceptionally broad nature of the commission’s requests means we would be required to turn over predominantly irrelevant documents that have nothing to do with the commission’s investigations”....

Flipkart Launches Hyperlocal Delivery Service ‘Flipkart Quick’ in Bengaluru Confirmingrumors, Walmart-owned e-commerce platformFlipkarthas today launched its90-minute hyperlocal delivery service in Bengaluru. Dubbed Flipkart Quick, the service aims to deliver products across categories such as grocery, dairy & meat, mobiles, electronics accessories, stationery items, and home accessories. Customers can either choose to order products within the next 90 minutes or use Flipkart Quick tobook a 2-hour slot somewhere between 6 AM to midnight....

Garmin Confirms Ransomware Attack But Denies Data Leakage Garminon Monday announced that it was the victim of a cyber-attack earlier this month. In an official press release, the company said that the attackers encrypted some of its systems as part of a ransomware attack on July 23rd. As a result, many of its online services have been affected since that day. According to the company, its website, customer support and company communications have faced problems because of the attack....

Gboard Rolling out Image Pasting in Clipboard and Google Lens Integration on Android Google has reportedly started rolling out two new features to Gboard – image support in clipboard and Google Lens. The features are said to be rolling out widely on both stable and beta versions of the virtual keyboard. With image support in the clipboard,you can copy images and paste them on any supported fieldsyou desire. The trickiest part lies in copying the image....

Google Announces Nine Winning Apps of Indie Games Festival 2020 Google announced the2020 Indie Games Festivalfor European, Japanese, and South Korean developers in January earlier this year. Indie meaning your team has no more than 50 employees and your game has to be live on the Play Store before March 2020 to be eligible. The company hand-picked 20 finalists from all of the entries and they were supposed to go on stage and present their apps in Seoul, Tokyo, and Warsaw....

Google Chrome on Desktops Might Finally Get a ‘Read Later’ Feature Three years after getting a ‘read later’ feature on iOS,Google Chromeis finally set to get the functionality on desktop platforms. A new entry in the Chromium Gerrit suggests that it might soon be available on ChromeOS, macOS, Windows and Linux. Believed to have been first spotted byTechdows, the feature is already available behind a flag in Chrome 86 Canary....