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Twitter Starts Testing Audio Tweets on iOS As Twitter continues to grow as an essential platform for real-time conversations, the company is adding new ways to share your thoughts and opinions. We recently saw it rolloutInstagram Stories-like ‘Fleets’ featurein India. And now, Twitter is testing out audio tweets with iOS users. Yeah, audio tweets where you can record a message and share it with your followers. “Sometimes 280 characters aren’t enough and some conversational nuances are lost in translation....

Walmart Tests Cashier-Less Store in US Amidst Coronavirus Pandemic Walmart is reportedlytesting a cashier-less store in the U.S. As reported byFox5 New York, the retail chain giant is inthe process of removing cashiers and standard conveyor belt lines at one of its storeslocated in Fayetteville, Arkansas. In the testing phase,Walmart will allocate workers to help customers during checkoutto ease the initial learning curve. According to the report, the companymay expand its cashier-less system to more storesdepending on the response it gets from the Fayetteville store....

Xiaomi’s New Water Dispenser Heats up Water in 4 Seconds Xiaomihas launched an ‘instant hot water dispenser’ via its YouPin crowdfunding platform. Called the ‘Morfun Pocket Hot Water Dispenser‘, the device is said toheat-up water in just 4 seconds. According to Xiaomi, the device offers all the functions of a conventional water heater, but in a portable form factor. The device offers5 temperature settings, including 45°C, 60°C, 85°C and 100°C. There are alsofour different water levels to choose from – 120ml, 250ml, 360ml and 500ml....

Zoom Vows to Offer End-to-End Encryption to All Users; Not Just Paid Ones Zoom announced its plan to implement end-to-end encryption for video calls back in April earlier this year, post a ton of backlash from privacy enthusiasts. The company has since been advocating that it will only provideAES 256 GCM encryptionto paid users – leaving its free tier users high and dry. However, Zoom has today announced that it has figured out how to enable end-to-end encryption for all users....

10 Best Meditation Apps for Android and iPhone Mental Health is still a taboo topic in many countries, including India. It is stupid, seeing how our ancestors heavily focused on the mental aspects of our life through Yoga and meditation. While we give special care to people with physical illness, a mental problem is stigmatized. I don’t know what it will take for us as a society to recognize it as a problem, but I want to convey that it’s not wrong to talk about it....

Acer Unveils the “Acer One 14” Affordable Laptop at Just Rs. 22,999 Stuck at home due to theCoronavirus, we are currently seeing an unprecedented number of schools and businesses following the work from home method. However, this also introduces a big cost of digitalisation for businesses, and for educational institutions as well. To help solve this problem, Acer has launched the new ‘Acer One 14’ affordable laptop in India. The Acer One 14 comes with anIntel Pentium gold 4415U processor....

Adobe Flash to Get Discontinued from December 31 Adobe announced its plans to deprecate Flash Player in July 2017. After almost three years, the company hasnow announced the exact date of discontinuation – December 31, 2020. “By announcing our business decision in 2017, with three years’ advance notice, we believed that would allow sufficient time for developers, designers, businesses, and other parties to migrate existing Flash content as needed to new, open standards,”says Adobe in a blog post....