Latest News (Tech and Some Others) as of Feb 16 2018

                              Today's Top List



1. iPhones running on iOS 11 are crashing when a Telugu letter is typed or sent to the phone.

Earlier this week , engineers from Aloha browser reported a new bug is found on majority of apple Products. The bug which is caused by a specific Telugu character , causes app crashes when the character is inserted into TextField.

The aloha browser laterly tweeted that the problem seems to be with a San Francisco font which has been used as default in majority of Apple product .

Apple officially announced this as a bug and will provide a solution soon.



2. Twitter launches Live Streaming Feature For Breaking News.

Twitter users of USA Can Experience above as of now. It is available next to timeline ,a small window , displaying as live-stream.Users who clicked on the live-stream landed in a feed of tweets algorithmically determined to be related to the news. With the help of Conversations on Twitter and this feature you can now be on faster way  to know what's happening around the world.

Footage for streams will be sourced from the local news stations partnered with Twitter.

This feature as of now only available with web of Twitter, soon to available on other platforms.



3. Google Assistant Now available in 38 more countries with Support to 17 More Languages.

Google Assistant become more popular as it's making our works ease. With its AI recognition features It supports us with its Suggestions , making and understanding our work with our Voice int the form of Google Home and Google Home Mini.

Google will Support 52 countries with more tan 25 languages by some point of 2018.

google planned to make its assistant available in South America, Western Europe, Russia, SAudi Arabia and some  parts of SouthEast Asia.



4. Facebook will allow select companies and organisations to post "Community Help" during a crisis.

Facebook's community help may allow its users to get help such as food,shelter and so on from certain companies during a crisis. The feature launched last year helped many people till now
.

According to Facebook, " The first wave of organisations are getting access to the crisis management features now. they include direct Relief,  Lyft, Chase, Feeding America,international medical corps, the California department of forest and fire and save the children. more will be added in coming weeks.It means more organisations and companies will be added to this.

Facebook says people have engaged with Community help more than 750,000 times since it has been launched.



5. Paytm Mall soon to Open Offline Store in Delhi.

Alibaba group-backed domestic retailer Paytm Mall is all set to launch its Offline store in India. The company is introducing a brick and MOrtar store co-branded with RedTape which will allow customers to walk in , scan the product Codes ,browse and make payments.

Paytm Mall's offline store will be equipped with Paytm Mall QR codes which will  provide customers with all the details about the respective products and allow them to buy the product from within the app.

The company will expand to over 50 stores within 2018.Paytm also partners with other brands to provide customers with more offers and offers.


6. Microsoft Xbox App on Android and iOS brought with a Feature called Party Chat.

Xbox is a Microsoft's Gaming App Which is available across all platforms. Recently It released a closed beta testing of the feature.Followed by the  beta testing success, MIcrosoft releases the Stable build to all Android and iOS users.

The party chat feature is to let the users stay connected with each other by Chatting with each other while they are not on the Console or PC. HOwever one have to sign-up for the Xbox Live-service to use it.

You can connect with live chats or voice messages.To start  a party chat , tap the friends profile and choose "Invite to Party" option. In case if the person is in another chat they will be informed of the same and they will also able to join the chat  right away.


7. Samsung Galaxy J4 BenchMark suggests Samsung is developing a new budget phone.

There are unannounced samaung galaxy codenames leaked with galaxy note 8 firmware update. The codenames are gussed possibly Samsung will launch budget smartphones in J series.

Samsung Device with Model SM-J400F has been spotted in the leak.The leak suggested the phone will
*Run on Android 8.0  Oreo
* Powered by Quad core processor clocked with 1.4 GHz
* Sports with 2GB of RAM.
* It is not confirmed but this could be with Exynos 7570 Processor(available now in Galaxy J3(2017) edition)


8. Qualcomm's New 5G Modem is the World's Fastest ever.

Qualcomm has unveiled the all new Snapdragon X24 LTE Modem , capable of supporting 2Gbps 5G. Phones that will come with this modem will be of future-ready for next generation.

Its a category 20 LTE device that uses Masive MIMO Technology and Qualcomm's 14nm FinFET process.The download of movie or heavy games will be done within seconds. It can also support upto five aggregated LTE carriers for a total of 20concurrent LTE streams.

The Company said it had said a major milestone by releasing the chip in 2018, even if most devices that use it won't achieve their full potential.


9. Jio Feature 4G phone available via Amazon for RS. 1500 as of now and Jio Football Offer Offres 2200 cashback on new 4G smartphones.

The Jio football Offer is now availble for both new and Existing Jio Customers on buying a new 4G smartphone.


The 2200 cashback will offer 44 vouchers worth Rs.50



10. Airtel's new Rs. 9 plan will offer Unlimited Calling and 100 MB data per day.




11. BSNL's new RS.99 Prepaid Voice STV plan offers unlimited Voice calls to any network for 28 days.

The plan has been launched followed by the Reliance Jio's Rs.98 Plan. The Plan will Offer Unlimited Calls to any Network including Roaming (except Mumbai and Delhi).Also it gives PRBT service for the same validity.

The Plan does not provide any Data and Free SMS .


12. Windows 10 get "Unlimited Performance scheme" to boost speed .

Windows 10 Insider Preview build 17101(RS4) includes this. It eliminates Micro-latencies.This scheme is claimed to offer  an absolute max. performance and boosts speeds to a high level.

It is initially exclusive to work-stations. You can enable the feature by going to Hardware and Sound>Power options or simply by running "powercfg.cpl" after pressing Win+R combination.

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