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Amazon Pantry Resumes Operations in India Amazon has resumed operations in India and is currently accepting orders for groceries and other essential household items through its Amazon Pantry service. The service is currently available only in select PIN codes in the cities of Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune, but will hopefully be expanded to more locations around the country. The company also said that it is prioritizing deliveries of existing orders, while delivery of new orders could take 7 to 10 days....

Amazon Prime Day Reportedly Postponed Due to Coronavirus Amazon is planning to postpone its annualPrime Daysales event at least until August in wake of thecoronaviruspandemic, according to internal meeting notes obtained by Reuters. The report says Amazon expects almost $100 million loss in revenue that could go up to $300 million in the worst-case scenario due to excess unsold devices that might now be sold at discounted rates. To be specific, Amazon will have about 5 million devices including its range ofEcho deviceslike smart speakers and smart displays....

Apple Acquires AI Voice Startup Voysis to Make Siri Better Understand Our Queries This seems to a week full of acquisitions for Apple. The company acquired well-known weather appDark Skymerely a couple of days ago. Now, Bloombergreportsthat Apple has picked up AI voice startup Voysis that could help make Siri better at understanding the user’s natural language. Siri may be great at answering your basic questions, ranging from time and weather to the distance to the moon....

Byju’s Adds Free Live Classes for Students Amidst Coronavirus Lockdown Edtech platform Byju’s has introduced free live classes for students in light of the nationwide lockdown imposed to contain the spread of coronavirus. Interested students can now learn real-time from Byju’s teachers by reserving a slot for their preferred topic from the app. “We have now added free ‘Live Classes’ on our platform, where students can attend 3-4 regular sessions per week....

Fortnite Season 2 Battle Pass Adds a Deadpool Skin After being originally revealed in the official Chapter 2 Season 2 Battle Pass trailer back in February, Fortnite has finally added the much-awaited Deadpool skin to the game, making the fourth wall-busting anti-hero the latest Marvel character to come to the battle royale title. The skin, which will be available to everybody who buys the Battle Pass, can be unlocked by completing the special Deadpool weekly challenges, which includes finding two hidden pistols....

Google Play Games Now Makes It Easier to Play Together with Friends A couple of weeks ago, an APK teardown revealed that Google was planning to add a new ‘Play Together‘ feature to Play Games. The app has today received this feature in the form of a new ‘Social’ tab that lets you add friends and see if you are interested in trying out a game they play. As pointed out byAndroid Police, this feature is currently rolling out via a server-side update....

Google Rolls Back ‘SameSite’ Cookies Added with Chrome 80 WithGoogle Chrome 80update this February, Google started rolling out its ‘SameSite’ cookie classification system as a step to enhance the security and privacy of the web browser. The software giant is now temporarily rolling back the feature due to the coronavirus pandemic. According to Google, most websites were prepared but it has to revert the change as a lot of government and healthcare websites might still be unaware of the new cookie implementation or might not have had the time to implement necessary changes, thereby breaking essential features....