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At last, our wait for the most-anticipated smartphone of the year has finally come to an end as Xiaomi has today launched the Mi A2 (global variant of theMi 6X) in India. The Chinese giant unveiled the device at an event in Spain a couple of weeks ago, but it has now come to India at a starting price of Rs 16,999. The Xiaomi Mi A2 will be available in India in 2 memory+storage configurations, namely 4GB RAM + 64GB storage....

Gmail groups your emails in a ‘threaded conversation view’ to reduce clutter, however, this makes it difficult to search for older messages. Gmail has always provided you the option to disable this view on the web but mobile users lacked this feature until today. In itsofficial blog post, Google has now announced that theGmail app on both Android and iOS is finally getting the option to disable the conversation view. Yes, it’s time to rejoice if you’re bothered by all the scrolling and pecking to find the right message, in a group email....

Amazon’s voice-based digital assistant,Alexa, is all set to gain a new‘skill’called‘Answer Update‘ that will notify users when the AI software learns an answer it didn’t previously know. The tech giant reportedlytold TechCrunchthat the feature will start rolling out to users next week. According to anAmazonspokesperson quoted by the site,“TheAlexa service is getting smarterevery day, and Answer Updates is just another way we’re continuing to expand Alexa’s Knowledge Graph”. Believed to have beenfirst discovered by Voicebot, the feature will notify users when it learns the answer to a particular question it had been asked before by that particular user, but it didn’t know the answer to....

Aadhaar has transformed from being the world’s largest biometric universal identity system to a privacy and securitynightmarefor the government as well as citizens. We recentlyhighlightedhow easy it was for criminals to commit crimes such asidentity theft, financial fraud, and property, but it appears that Andhra Pradesh is the hotbed of Aadhaar-related data leaks and the state government’s lackadaisical attitude to web security is to blame for it. Independent security researcher, Srinivas Kodali, shed some light on some major Aadhaar leaks that have been steadily trickling in from Andhra Pradesh over the past few months, which gives us a clear idea as to how the problem has only aggravated over time....

Google has officially released the Android 9 Pie build today and even though it does come with a ton of AI features, there’s one important piece of the puzzle missing from the equation. It is called‘Digital Wellbeing’and is now being made available for beta testing exclusively on Pixel devices. If you’re not familiar with Google’s Digital Wellbeing feature, it has been designed to tell you how much time (in hours and minutes) you really spend looking at your smartphone screen....

AndroidPistachio Ice Creamor Pedha? Well, you no longer need to debate about the name of the much-awaited upcoming Android release as Google hasfinally revealedthat Android P will be officially calledAndroid 9 Pie. Yes, it’s as simple as that. Instead of beating around the bush and picking an awfully long name, Google has picked a dessert that was right in front of our eyes to represent its next major release of Android....

The release ofAndroid 9 Piehas brought with it a number ofnew featuresthat, although incremental in nature, are expected to make the overall experience just that bit better. One such feature is the ability to remember the Bluetooth volume level of each paired device, enabling users to set different default volumes for different Bluetooth devices. According to XDA, the feature is working as advertised on thePixel 2and the Essential Phone after the update....

Facebook has announced it has removed four pages ofUS conspiracy theorist Alex Jonesfor violation of its policy that bans extremist behaviours including hate speech. “Earlier today, we removed four Pages belonging to Alex Jones for repeatedly posting content over the past several days that breaks those Community Standards,” Facebook said on Monday, Xinhua news agency reported. The world’s largest social media company said it has been pursuing a policy that wants “everyone using Facebook to feel safe....

Google can return to China if it complies with the country’s censorship laws, a Chinese state-owned newspaper said in an editorial published on Monday. “Google is welcome to return to the mainland, but it’s a prerequisite that it must comply with the requirements of the law,” said the article which was published on the website of the People’s Daily — the mouthpiece of the ruling Communist Party of China. The censored version of Google will block searches on human rights, religion and peaceful protests, which hasled to criticism from non-governmental organizationssuch as Amnesty International....

Though Google just delivered one of its biggest Android updates,Android 9 Pie, earlier in the day, the tech giant strives to make the mobile OS more optimized. Thus, Google has today confirmed the acquisition of GraphicsFuzz, a company specializing in building tools that help benchmark mobile graphics. There’s no word on the acquisition sum. First reported byXDA Developers, GraphicsFuzz specializes in testing the reliability and security of graphics drivers for both PC and mobile platforms using in-house developed GPU-testing tools....

Android 9 Piebrought a number of remarkable changes to theworld’s most popular mobile operating system, but one of the biggest is theintroduction of gesture navigation. However, even as gesture navigation becomes increasing more prevalent on both Android and iOS (read iPhone X), it continues to remain only an option on the former, with users still being able to use the traditional nav-bar at the bottom for all their navigational needs....

HMD Global has sent out media invites for an upcoming event in New Delhi, which could see the Nokia 6.1 plus announced for India. The event is set to take place on August 21. HMD doesn’t reveal more,but speculation is the company would unveil the Nokia 6.1 plus, the international version of the Nokia X6. The device, which was originally launched as in China, already has a global variant in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Russia, and a few other markets....

In light of the recent brutal lynchings around the country, the Indian government had pinned all the blame on social media and messaging apps. WhatsApp is at the center of this ongoing controversy and has adopted anumber of measuresto curb the spreadof false news and misleading info on its messaging platform. The Indian government, however, isnot satisfiedwith the service’s initiatives, and is now planning to arm itself with the power to obstruct social media access in times of emergency or when public order is under threat....