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Amazon’s “Alexa for Apps” Will Enable You to Control Any App Using Voice Commands Amazon’s Alexa isalready competent enoughbut here is Amazon’s new feature which took their Voice Assistant game a notch higher. You can now get access to a third-party app and control it using their new voice command feature which the company is calling “Alexa for apps”. The company islaunchingit in preview form, as of now, which means they will be starting out with certain developers to get a better idea of the various uses of this feature....

Apple Could Integrate “Vein Detection” into Face ID: Report Apple, back in 2017, pulled yet another rabbit out of their tech hat by introducingFace IDwith the iPhone X. The new kind of biometric unlocking soon started tospread around the market, however, Apple’s system remained one of the best for its unmatched fail-rate of 1 in a million. Nonetheless, when it came to the real world, there were manyinstanceswhere theFace ID failed horribly, especially in the case of twins....

German Citizens Will Be Able to Use Galaxy S20s As Government IDs As we move deeper and deeper into the digital era, smartphones are becoming an essential part of our lives. These hand-held devices have already replaced many of our daily-use items like a notepad or a calculator. Now, Samsung is trying to replace the official government IDs with theirGalaxy S20 smartphones. The Seoul-based company recently announced that they havepartnered with the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), Bundesdruckerei (bdr), and Deutsch Telekom Security GmbHto make its Galaxy S20 series of smartphones an official government ID for the German citizens....

How to Blur Backgrounds in Skype on iPhone and iPad Since theinception of the Novel Coronavirus, it hasincreased the adoption rate of video conferencingby several folds. So, to cater to consumer demands, companies like Microsoft are adding more and more features to the video conferencing platforms. Recently, we saw the Redmond-based tech giantintroduce a ton of featuresfor its video conferencing platform, Skype. Now, the company has added yet another feature to its iOS app that will use AI to blur the background of a user during a video call....

iOS 14 Bug Lets You Setup a Clean and App-Free Home Screen With the introduction of iOS 14, Apple brought aton of featuresfor its devices and completelyredesigned the home screenwith support forwidgets. One of the home screen editing features in the latest iOS update lets you manage and hide the extra app pages on the device. However, it does not let you hide all the pages. Well, now a probable bug bypasses that “one mandatory page” criteria and lets you get a clean app-free home screen on your iPhone....

Max Payne’s Writer and Model “Did the Face” to Celebrate the Game’s 19th Birthday If you are a fan of the popular action game from the early days of modern gaming, Max Payne, then you would probably remember Max’s always-annoyed scrunched up face. However, what many people don’t know is thatthe face of Max Payne in the game was actually the face of the game’s writer,Sam Lake. Now recently, Max Payne passed his 19th birthday, and to celebrate it, Lake shared a picture of his own scrunched up face mimicking the character from the game....

Tesla to Build Their New 5 Million Sq Ft. EV Manufacturing Plant in Texas As the demand for electric vehicles is gradually increasing in the market, Tesla is upping its supply solutions byopening massive manufacturing plantsfor its vehicle lines. Now, the company recently confirmed that it will open yet another 5 million sq. ft. Tesla factory in Austin, Texas. The announcement came from CEO, Elon Musk at the recent second-quarter earnings meeting....