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Gaana Launches in-App Short Video Platform Gaana HotShots Ever sinceTikTok got banned in India, several local players such asMitronandChingarihave emerged to fill the gap. Now, in an attempt to attract TikTok audience and influencers, music streaming platformGaana has launched an in-app short video platform it calls Gaana HotShots. As you might have guessed, HotShots works quite similar to TikTok. You can create short video clips, edit videos with special effects, and share them on the platform....

Gboard Update Adds Support for Android 11 Emojis Gboard is the keyboard of choice for a lot of Android and iPhone users. And today, the keyboard app is adding some more emojis to make itself even better. The latest Gboard beta on Android is bringing support for some of the new emoji fromAndroid 11. For the unaware, Android 11 brings over 100 new emojis to the operating system. However, till now there was no way to use them short of copying them from emojipedia....

Google Maps May Soon Show Traffic Lights Google Maps is arguably the best web mapping service out there. WhileMaps has several featuresto make it the first choice for a lot of users including me, it doesn’t show traffic lights on the road. Well, that’s probably about to change in the near future. As spotted by one of the readers ofDroid Life,Google Maps is currently testing the possibility of adding traffic lights, at least on the Android side of things....

How to Change the Default Search Engine on Microsoft Edge The decision to adoptChromium for Microsoft Edgehas largely paid off for the Redmond giant. From users to experts, everyone has hailed the new Edge as a competitivealternative to Google Chrome. It offers better battery life, has a built-in anti-tracking system, and hogs way less RAM than Chrome. Having said that, there are some fronts where Edge has been needlessly opaque. For instance, if you want to change the default search engine on Microsoft Edge then you would have to go through several hoops....

How to Stop Apps from Requesting to Track in iOS 14 Not that Apple had not been at loggerheads with the ad industry before, the tech giant’s latest assault on apps like Google and Facebook that track users to serve personalized ads is huge. As part of the long-hatched crackdown on user-privacy,iOS 14will force apps to explicitly ask for permission to track. What’s more, users can even stop apps from requesting to track in iOS 14....

How to Use Shared Reminders in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 Especially when working on shared projects, there are a couple of essential things I like to have at the disposal for smooth functioning. Seamless collaboration and the ability to delegate responsibilities to others with ease. Till iOS 13, I had to rely onthird-party task managersfor assigning tasks as Reminders app lacked this feature. But that’s the story of the past, as I can now share reminders with others iniOS 14and iPadOS 14 for a smooth-sailing collaboration while dealing with a shared project....

Instagram Expands TikTok-like Reels to India After expanding toFrance and Germany last month,Instagram’s Reels is now available in India. With this expansion, Instagram Reels is live in Brazil, France, Germany, and India. The expansion comes at a time when theIndian government has banned several Chinese apps including TikTok. The company was allegedlytesting Reels in Indialast week. As introduced alongside the previous expansion,Instagram Reels now has a dedicated section in the Profile and Explore page....