Technology

Google is making casting experience better on Android TVs. The company has introduced a new feature called ‘Cast Connect’ which essentially allows to the related app on your Android TV to stream the content. Google says that Cast Connect is based on the existing casting infrastructure. “The Cast Connect library allows your Android TV app to receive messages and broadcast media status as if it were a Chromecast,” it explains. According to Google, you can initiate a media playback on an Android TV app from a Cast-compatible application. The feature also…

Microsoft has just added an another feature to Microsoft teams in an effort to beat the likes of Zoom in the video-conferencing space. A part of the Advanced Communications plan, these features will be added to any paid subscription of Microsoft 365 or Office 365 subscription. The latest feature to be added to Microsoft Teams in the support for up to 20,000 participants in a live chat, but only in a view-only live event mode. If the chat it interactive, the number of participants is restricted to 1,000. Besides this feature, Microsoft Teams…

PUBG Mobile has rolled out its new ‘Ancient Secret Mode’ along with new in-game events and exclusive rewards. There’s also a new arena gameplay called ‘Team Gun Game’. The new update with fresh content is now available on PUBG Mobile for Android and iOS users. The new Ancient Secret themed gameplay can be selected from the Mode Selection screen. Once this mode is selected, players will be see an ancient secret building rising on Miramar and Erangel. It’s a two-story structure that begins each game at ground-level. As the game progresses,…

After months of staying in the testing phase, Microsoft’s cloud-based gaming platform is ready to launch. The company has said the Project xCloud will launch on September 15 for Android devices. The platform will be available as part of the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription, which is available for $14.99 ( ₹1,125 approximately). Microsoft’s Project xCloud will debut with more than 100 games for Android devices which include phones and tablets. There is no word on when the platform will be available Apple’s iOS and iPadOS. According to TheVerge, Microsoft’s xCloud will…

Former Google+ users received to the  rather strange email that stated that they are not being sued but there was at least “one bug” that revealed their non-public user date to third-arty developers leading to a class-action lawsuit. Just to rejig your memory, back in 2018 the now-defunct social media site, that was created by Google to take on Facebook, was hit by a privacy flaw that allowed any third-party developer access to private user data from pretty much any profile. Within months of that, Google+ was wrapping up and preparing…

The vast majority of drones are rotary-wing systems (like quadrotors), and for good reason: They’re cheap, they’re easy, they scale up and down well, and we’re getting quite good at controlling them, even in very challenging environments. For most of the applications, though, drones lose out to birds and their flapping wings in almost every way—flapping wings are very efficient, enable astonishing agility, and are much safer, able to make compliant contact with surfaces rather than shredding them like a rotor system does. But flapping wing have their challenges too: Making…

Since January, construction has been underway on a huge Gundam robot—a popular fictional robot that will appears in some 50 TV series and movies since 1979, not to mention a slew of video games and manga. Coming in at about 60 feet tall, the Gundam will be impossible to miss from the Port of Yokohama, just south of Tokyo, where it will call home for a full year. Although the COVID-19 pandemic has halted progress on various construction projects, worldwide, the Gundam perseveres. You can check out the progress for yourself in this…

Robots and self-driving cars have been the secret heroes of the coronavirus outbreak, and now they can could soon be cooking our food, too. In mid-July, White Castle—the oldest hamburger restaurant in the U.S.—announced that it’s partnering with Miso Robotics, a Pasadena, California-based industrial automation company, to create a robot that will serve up hamburgers. Named Flippy, this robot will begin preparing patties and dunking fries into hot vats of oil sometime this fall. Despite this being Flippy’s first official fast food rodeo, the autonomous robot already has a built-in fanbase. The…

Snapchat is all set to take on TikTok with the announcement of a new feature in that will allow Snapchat users set their Snaps to music – just like TikTok does. Currently being tested, this feature will allow Snapchat to effectively capture a chunk of the TikTok users who have been looking for alternatives ever since the Trump administration in the US have been hot-footing a ban on TikTok and other Chinese technology companies. TikTok is currently banned in India and in some other countries as well, so if Snapchat manages to…

SaaS unicorn Freshworks has asked about the  US court to dismiss a plea filed against it by rival Zoho Corporation, a Chennai-based SaaS company. In March, Zoho filed a case against Freshworks at the California Northern District Court under the Defense of Trade Secrets Act, accusing it of accessing and using confidential customer data. Now, Freshworks has said that Zoho’s plea lacked “specificity and particularity” in its allegations. According to the case filed by Zoho Corp earlier this year, files of which were accessed, the company accused Freshworks of building its…