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Twitter confirmed testing upvote & downvote buttons for a tiny group of iOS users to highlight relevant comments on a long conversation. Upvotes and downvotes may appear in different styles for iOS users (up and down arrows, a heart icon, and a down arrow, and thumbs up and thumbs down icons). The Twitter official tweet revealed that “Some of you on iOS may see different options to up or down vote on replies. We’re testing this to understand the types of replies you find relevant in a conversation, so we…

Google introduced Ai-powered transit crowdedness estimates on its Maps that allow users to avoid crowds in buses, trains, or the subway. Initially, the feature rolled out in 200 cities across the world, and now, Google announced its expansion to over 10,000 transit agencies in 100 countries. This lets users avoid the jam-packed mass transit or find vacant seats. google integrated Ai technology to make accurate predictions and used data from google maps users, historical location trends through the Location History data, which is held private using anonymization technology. The tech…

Back in May, Google had expressed its interest to build quantum computers that can perform large-scale calculations without errors at the Google I/O developer conference. According to a published research paper by Industrial giant Honeywell, it had consorted multiple physical qubits (the storage and processing units of quantum computers) that could resist disturbances from vibration, electromagnetic emissions, etc. Honeywell released a research paper after google research has shown logical qubits get the better of errors. quantum error correction, identify and resolve qubit errors. Many companies including the popular one’s are…

Amazon announces a new set of tools and features to the developer community Amazon announces a new set of tools and features for the Alexa developer community at the Alexa Live Developer Event. It is said to be the biggest new tool launch to date. Amazon decided to host new features after seeing Alexa’s down curve in skill growth over the past year. The new features are expected to bring Alexa back into our daily lives while providing more interactive skills and new tools to earn money. Even though it…

FTC published report on “anti-competitive repair restrictions in the month of May influenced president joe biden to release an executive order to create new Right to Repair rules. As per the latest report, FTC has unanimously voted for a new policy statement that’s looking to restore “Right to Repair for small businesses, workers, consumers, and government entities.” FTC’s new update on its website says, “The Federal Trade Commission today unanimously voted to ramp up law enforcement against repair restrictions that prevent small businesses, workers, consumers, and even government entities from…

Windows 11 has been making the headlines ever since Microsoft rolled out the beta version of the Operating system. Along with many new features and a brand new design, Microsoft announces minimum system requirements for upgrading to Windows 11. Discussions were around Microsoft’s decision to leave older generation processors from the windows 11 compatibility list. The tech giants finally reveal their reasons behind the big decision. Windows 11 enhances the level of security by requiring hardware that can enable protections like windows hello, device encryption, virtualization-based security, hypervisor-protected code integrity,…

Apple’s iOS 14.7 is reported with an annoying bug that doesn’t allow users to unlock apple watch via iPhone. if you are an iPhone user with a Touch ID and updated iOS 14.7, then your iPhone may no longer unlock the apple watch. This bug ruins the whole good user experience of the apple watch as well as the iPhone. Apple has acknowledged the issue in a support document that says, “When you have Unlock with iPhone turned on, unlocking your iPhone unlocks your Apple Watch as long as you’re…

The popular social media platform Instagram is making every effort for a pleasant user experience. They rolled out a new feature enabling users to hide likes and views of their posts. This way users can focus on the content, rather than the popularity of the content. How to hide likes & views in an old post Go to your Instagram profile Tap the three black lines in the upper right corner Select “Settings” Search for posts & select it Turn on “Hide Like and View Counts” How to hide likes…

Youtube viewers may soon have a new way to support their favorite creators with a new tool called Super Thanks…! The new feature allows viewers to extend their support by giving ‘tips’ to creators. Users can choose from four price points given by Youtube. When a user rewards a creator, they’ll see an on-screen animated celebration and a colorful comment with their name appear below the video in the comments section. Youtube was working on this feature for a year. it’s now available in beta across 68 countries. Previously, Youtube…