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Now, ask Frozen characters to tell stories using Google Assistant

The new update is currently available across all Google Assistant devices by default. To activate it, users just need to say: “Hey Google, tell me a Frozen story.”

With Frozen (movie) fever taking over, Google has added a new skill to its Assistant that now lets users have characters from the film read them a story.

The new update is currently available across all Google Assistant devices by default. To activate it, users just need to say: “Hey Google, tell me a Frozen story.”

When you do, you’ll launch the skill (there’s some music and an intro), which takes you to a campfire with some of the film’s main characters. After the intro has finished playing, you or your child can select a character you’d like to tell you a story, Life hacker reported on…read more

Facebook testing tool that allows users transfer pics to Google Photos

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reacted by calling for new rules to address “data portability” and other issues.

Facebook started testing a tool on Monday that lets users move their images more easily to other online services, as it faces pressure from regulators to loosen its grip on data.

The social network’s new tool will allow people to transfer their photos and videos directly to competing platforms, starting with Google Photos.

The company said it will first be available to people in Ireland and will be refined based on user feedback.

The tool will then be rolled out worldwide in the first half of 2020.

US and European regulators have been examining…read more

Xiaomi Mi Credit app debuts with Rs 1 lakh lending limit on personal loans

Being an online marketplace for lenders, the Mi Credit app debuts with support from Aditya Birla Finance Limited, Money View, EarlySalary, Zestmoney and CreditVidya

Expanding its financial services portfolio, Chinese electronics maker Xiaomi on Tuesday announced the Mi Credit – an app-based credit lending service with a limit of up to Rs 1 lakh on personal loans. Being an online marketplace for lenders, the app debuts with support from five non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) and fintech firms — Aditya Birla Finance Limited, Money View, EarlySalary, Zestmoney and CreditVidya. Apart from lending services, the company also partnered with Experian to provide credit score report free of cost on the Mi Credit app.

According to Xiaomi, the Mi Credit service is currently available in more than 10 states, covering around 1,500 pin codes, and the company aims to roll our services across all pin codes by the end of this financial year (March 2020). The Mi Credit app is now available on Google Play Store, Xiaomi app store and GetApps platform for Android smartphones. Besides, it will come preloaded on the company’s MIUI operating system-powered smartphones.

“Today, we have over 300 million Mi Fans in our global community and having understood their consumption behaviour – it is one of the strengths we aim to leverage to build a stronger Mi Finance business globally. We see a huge…read more

Best of 2019: Spectre Camera wins Apple’s list of top apps of the year

Digital notebook app Flow by Moleskine was the top iPad app, while Serif Labs’ Affinity Publisher publishing and design app took top honours for Mac

Tech news: Apple has uncovered its “Best of 2019” applications and games crosswise over stages, for example, iOS, macOS and tvOS.

“Engineers far and wide move all of us with imaginative applications that have the ability to impact culture and completely change us, and this year that is as valid as ever. The 2019 App Store Best Apps and Games victors mirror our worldwide want for association, imagination and fun,” said Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior VP of Worldwide Marketing said in an announcement on Monday.

The iPhone application of the year went to Lux Optics’ Specter Camera, an AI-controlled photography application.

Computerized note pad application Flow by Moleskine was the top iPad application, while Serif Labs’ Affinity Publisher distributing and plan application…read more

Facebook builds new AI chatbot to keep workers’ prying relatives at bay

The new ‘Liam Bot’ chatbot teaches Facebook workers official company answers for dealing with thorny questions like, “Is Facebook destroying democracy?”, The New York Times reports.

The Christmas season is here, which means prying family members posing ungainly inquiries. To monitor such circumstances for its representatives, Facebook has assembled an exceptional chatbot.

The new ‘Liam Bot’ chatbot instructs Facebook laborers official organization answers for managing prickly addresses like, “Is Facebook pulverizing majority rule government?”, The New York Times reports.

Utilizing man-made consciousness, the chatbot educates the worker to reply with focuses incorporating Facebook counsels with specialists on the issue, It has employed more arbitrators, It is taking a shot at AI to spot despise discourse, etc. It likewise gives a bit by bit manual for help those posing simpler inquiries identified with account recuperation.

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Nine of 10 Indian users consume content in local languages: Google India

Nearly 40 million users of Internet who were added from 2015-18 and nine out of ten such new user is Indian language user, Nidhi Gupta, senior product manager, Google India said

Technology news: The vast majority of new Internet clients in India at present expend content in Indian dialects, a Google official said.

Almost 40 million clients of Internet who were included from 2015-18 and the vast majority of such new client is Indian language client, Nidhi Gupta, senior item director, Google India, said here.

She additionally educated that Hindi web utilization has become more than 90 percent during 2015-16 while the English substance development was 19 percent.

Gupta said in a question and answer session here on Tuesday that after English, Hindi was the second most utilized language over all…read more

Apple making iPhone XR in India, expanding operations: Ravi Shankar Prasad

India’s overall mobile as well as components exports are expected to cross $1.6 billion each in 2019-20,

Tech titan Apple has begun creation of iPhone XR in India for household market and fares, basic the administration’s endeavors to reinforce portable assembling in the nation, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Monday.

The clergyman additionally said that Salcomp, the world’s biggest producer and a significant provider of chargers to Apple for iPhone, has agreed to take over shut office of Nokia in a SEZ close to Chennai.

Salcomp will resuscitate the unit, which was shut for about 10 years, and the office will get operational from March 2020. The unit will deliver charger and other gear, and will flaunt an enhanced portfolio. This will involve a speculation of…read more

Coolpad Cool 5 review: Decent budget smartphone with not-so-good imaging

Business Standard took the Coolpad Cool 5 out for a spin to test how it fares on key parameters.

Technology news: Chinese cell phone producer Coolpad as of late propelled the Coolpad Cool 5 cell phone in India at a cost of Rs 7,999. The telephone comes in slope blue and 12 PM blue hues. Business Standard took the telephone out for a turn to test how it passages on key parameters. Here are the discoveries:

Design and display

With its slight bezel and dewdrop screen, Coolpad Cool 5 shakes the standard plan of spending plan cell phone these days. It has a polished back with dark shade converging into the violet, which looks great however is powerless to unique finger impression marks. You get a plastic case inside the case, on the off chance that you settle on it. Aside from that, the telephone has a unique mark scanner and a 13 megapixel (MP)+2 MP double camera, alongside a LED glimmer opened on the upper left back.

Forthright is a 6.22-inches HD+ screen with 1520 x 720 pixels goals and a perspective proportion of 19:9 with great review edges. The presentation is energetic and splendid enough even…read more