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How to Update Xbox One Controller Wirelessly

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To get a better experiences of playing game, Xbox One need to be updated regularly with the newer version released by the official, and in most case, people should take the USB cable to get an update of the controller’s firmware, but there is also another way that can update the Xbox One controller wirelessly. Read more…

Xbox One is going to add “do not disturb” and other new features

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With the new year comes, Xbox One in recently announced some new features will come to the device soon, among which including a “do not disturb” feature.

According to an article posted by Bradley, Xbox Insider Team Lead, several new features of Xbox One will come in this new year, such as a do not disturb mode, Next Achievements, mini game hubs and etc…, and they start to roll out the update for their testers first. Read more…

Google Chrome’s Built-In Ad Blocker Will Start To Work On February 15th

 Google Chrome

To further avoid spams and advertisements, Google announced in June that it would gain a built-in ad blocker in early 2018, and now Google make this promise and said that they will add a built-in ad blocker in early 2018, according to VentureBeat. Read more…

Apple Is Reportedly Buying Shazam Soon

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Recently, Apple is reportedly to plan to acquire the music recognition company Shazam, and maybe puts it at around $401 million.

Shazam company is known for its popular audio identification software and app, it supports the user to identify songs and movies via an audio clip. According to Recode, Apple will make this deal around $400 million, but it still haven’t been confirmed by the company. Read more…

Sprint And T-Mobile Officially Canceled Merger

Sprint And t-Mobile Canceled Merger

Two famous wireless carriers Sprint and T-Mobile both confirmed that they have been ended the internal discussions to merge these two companies.

Rumors about these two companies’ merger discussion has been kept for severl months, and this is the first time they confirmed the discussion officially Read more…

Google Will No Allow User To Change Domain Name To Search In Different Countries

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Had tried the localized search results by visiting Google in different countries via adding the specific country code top level domain to the address bar? Google now just stop this service and only provides the search results on the user’s location. Read more…

Apple Sued by Japanese Company Over Animoji Trademark

Animoji

Have you already tried the Animoji in iPhone X? The use of Animoji by Apple in recently sued by a Japanese company for taking their own Animoji Trademark.

Animoji is a brand-new facial recognition feature in the newest version of iPhone – iPhone X, which use its face recognition technology to allow people to transform their face into customized moving emoji. Read more…

Apple Will Release a Fix for the iPhone 8 Crackling Earpiece Issue

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Recently, dozens of iPhone 8 users post a issue on Apple’s support forum, MacRumors forums and Reddit that they got a “crackling” or “static” sound during phone calls, and Apple finally replied that they will release a fix soon to solve this problem. Read more…

Google’s Street View Cameras Getting An Upgrade After Eight Years

Google Street View cameras

Have you ever seen the cars with a spherical contraption (actually globe-like cameras) driving on the street? They are the Google Street View cars that used to capture the different street views on the city, and now, a new and first upgrade in eight years just come, Google has updated its Street View cameras in many aspects.

According to associated report on wired.com, this first major upgrade in eight years enhance the street view capture via some advanced technology and algorithms Read more…

Snapchat Said To BBC That They Call Police To Check Facts

 Snapchat

As we all know that Snapchat is image messaging and multimedia mobile application, but now it seems like the company starts to pay more attention on the news, and claims they get the real and accurate source of news.

According to the BBC news, Snapchat said that they get a team of journalists that are responsible for covering the news accurately, before highlighting the posts, members of this team firstly will check the fact and accuracy of the user-generated coverage, and make sure these news showing to the user has no any fake or incorrect content. Read more…