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Fortnite Is Finally Available on the Google Play Store Close to two years after itsofficial debut on mobile, Fortnite has found its way to the Google Play Store at last. The hit battle royale game was previously only available to download from the Epic Games website. The developer was strictly opposed to the idea of Google taking a steep 30% cut out of all in-app purchases until today. But, it has now surrendered and made Fortnite accessible to all via the Play Store....

Google Announces Four New Duo Features Google’s video calling app, Duo, has seen an upsurge in usage since the Coronavirus pandemic locked us all down in our houses. In fact, Google says that every week, it is seeing 10 million people sign up for Google Duo, and in a lot of countries calling times have increased over 10 times. Clearly, Duo is important in these times, and Google is now adding four new features to the app to make it more reliable and useful....

Google Starts Rolling out “Hey Google” Sensitivity Controls Last September, Google announced it would add an option tocontrol the sensitivityof the Assistant’s hotword “Hey Google”. The feature was firstspottedin January through an APK teardown and now, Google has officially confirmed toThe Vergethat the company has started rolling out the feature gradually. The response comes after XDA’s Editor-in-Chief Mishaal Rahman manually enabled the feature yesterday. The feature will be available inDevice Settings -> Moreof the Google Home app....

Government to Procure ‘Aarogya Setu’ Wristbands to Monitor COVID-19 Patients The Indian government is reportedly looking to procure thousands of smart wristbands pre-loaded with its‘Aarogya Setu’ appto track COVID-19 patients in the country. According toET, the wristbands will help authorities keep track of patients in hospitals and at their homes under self-quarantine. It will also help healthcare professionals record patients’ temperatures and symptoms via remote monitoring. The report further states that the State-owned Broadcast Engineering Consultants India (BECIL) is working with Bengaluru and Gurgaon-based startups on designing the new smart bands....

IFA 2020 Will Have an ‘Innovative Concept’ to Comply With COVID-19 Restrictions Even as mostconferences, summits and expos are being cancelledbecause of the pandemic, the organizers of the IFA 2020 has announced that the upcoming event in Berlin will go ahead as planned, but not in the same way it has in the past. In a tweet earlier today, the official Twitter account of IFA Berlin said that the event will have an“innovative concept designed for unprecedented times”....

Instagram to Add a ‘Remembering’ Tag on Memorialized Profiles Of what looks like a feature that makes more sense now more than ever due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Instagram is working to revamp its Facebook-like account memorialization feature in a more visualized manner. Instagram has had account memorialization feature for a whilenow but currently, there are no visual elements to identify memorialized profiles on the platform. With this development,you’ll soon see a ‘Remembering’ tagon memorialized profiles....

iPhone 12 Facing Production Delays, iPhone SE Plus Postponed: Ming-chi Kuo We’ve been getting quite a bit of information about the iPhone 12 over the past few days, includingCAD based rendersof the upcoming smartphone, and reports about theiPhone 12’s notch. Now, in a new investor note released by famed Apple analyst Ming-chi Kuo, he has outlined some new information regarding the iPhone 12’s production as well as the iPhone SE shipments and market demand....