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Apple Denies Antitrust Allegations; Claims it Has Plenty of Competitors Globally Applehas rejected allegations of monopolistic trade practices leveled against it by fellow tech companies, Spotify, Tile and Rakuten. In an online conference this week, Daniel Matray, head of Apple’s App Store and Media Services, claimed that neither the company’s App Store eco-system, nor its digital payment service, are dominant anywhere around the world.“We compete with a wide variety of companies, Google, Samsung, Huawei, Vivo, LG, Lenovo, and many more”, he said....

Apple May Use Lasers for Faster AirDrop in Future iPhones Apple’s wireless file transfer system, AirDrop is pretty handy. In fact, it has inspired Android to build its ownNearby Share featureas well. However, AirDrop can be slow when transferring large files between devices, and that’s not good. Well, it looks like Apple is working on a more advanced method to transfer files at higher speeds with AirDrop. According to a patent granted by the USPTO on Tuesday (via AppleInsider), the Cupertino giant is working on using lasers to transfer files faster....

Facebook Discontinues Experimental Pinterest-like App Hobbi Facebook’s New Product Experimentation (NPE) team released quite a lot of apps in the recent past. Well, the company has started to abandon the ones that didn’t gain much traction. According toTechCrunch,Facebook has decided to shut down its Pinterest-like appHobbi. The app has apparently sent users a push notification to inform itwill stop operations on the 10th of July. In case you’re unaware, the app was released this February....

Facebook Launches Bitmoji-like Avatars in India After launching first in Australia last year, Facebook has been expanding its Bitmoji-like ‘Avatars’ to New Zealand, Europe, and the U.S.The latest country to get Facebook’s Avatars is India. Interested Facebook users in India can now generate characters that represent them, much like Snapchat’sBitmojis. If you’re a Facebook user, you can use Avatars on stories, posts, profile pictures, and chats. Facebook has reportedly created Avatar templates customized for India....

Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Press Renders Leaked on Samsung’s Website South Korean giant Samsung’s next flagship launch is going to be theGalaxy Note 20series of phones. While so far we have seen a few leaks and rumours about the device, a fresh leak of the phone’s press renders has just surfaced. Apparently, press renders of the upcoming Galaxy Note 20 Ultra were just posted on the Samsung Russia website. The renders show off the phone in all its glory, complete with the camera array on the back....

Gboard Beta Adds Smart Compose to Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram Gboard has reportedly gained support forSmart Compose with the latest beta version on Android. The feature supports Google’s Messages andthird-party messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram. Smart Compose was announced atGoogle I/O 2018. Gmail first gained support for the featureon the web. The feature eventually became available to thePixel 3 seriesand all Gmail users on Android. As reported by9to5Google, Smart Compose is live on Gboard beta version 9....

Google Acquires AR Glasses Startup North Google has acquired North, a Canadian AR glasses company. North started its operations back in 2012 under the name ‘Thalmic Labs’. North will join Google’s team based in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada. “We’re excited to have North join us in our broader efforts to build helpful devices and services…North’s technical expertise will help as we continue to invest in our hardware efforts and ambient computing future,”wrote Google’s Senior Vice President of Devices & Services Rick Osterloh in a blog post....