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For merchants selling on e-commerce portals, copywriting skills are as important as their ability to make goods that people want to buy. Of course, the skill doesn’t come naturally to many merchants who have been busy building a business and hiring a copywriter is not always smooth. Which is why Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has announced a copywriting tool which canchurn out 20,000 lines of original content per second. Alibaba’s marketing arm, Alimama, announced that the copywriting AI has passedTuring testwhich is used to judge a machine’s ability to mimic human responses....

Amazon has today introduced a new range of Alexa skills in India which are built for children aged 13 years or less. Dubbed ‘Kids Skills’, the new category of Alexa skills bring experiences from popular Indian comic books and kid-friendly entertainment franchises such as Amar Chitra Katha, Tinkle, ChuChu TV, PAC-MAN and Hungama to name a few. The new Alexa skills are now available in the Alexa Skills Store on Amazon India, and can be used on all Echo devices as well as the Alexa app for smartphones....

Amazonhas announced that itsPrime Day shopping extravaganza will start at noon on July 16, and will last a full 36 hours. The annual event will run simultaneously in 17 countries including India, and will give Prime members in the country access to hundreds of top international Prime Day deals for the first time. The company is believed to have around 1 crore (10 million) Prime members in India, and around 10 crore (100 million) globally....

After almost a week of delay, Google has finally released theAndroid P Beta 3or the Developer Preview 4. While the new update doesn’t come with any major change apart from a couple of minor UI modifications, the update does come with the ability toenable dark modeon your device. Before you get too excited, keep in mind thatthis is not a complete system-wide dark mode.One might recall that setting a dark wallpaper on your homescreen would change your notification bar, quick settings, along with a couple of more menus to a darker shade....

The hottest topic in the world of Android right now is Android P, and rightly so. Google has been betting big on their upcoming Android version, and have already released Beta 1 and Beta 2 of the new version of Android. Now, while the Beta 3 or the Developer Preview 4 was supposed to be delivered about a week ago, as per the timeline Google shared earlier, I can happily say that it is finally here....

As per a report by Taiwan’sCommercial Times, Apple has signed a deal with Japan Display (JDI) to supply 6.1-inch ‘Full Active’ LCD panels for the affordable iPhone model. Moreover, the display panels ordered by Apple will reportedly feature an 18:9 aspect ratio with a Full HD+ resolution that will be surrounded by an Aluminum frame, instead of a stainless steel frame as a cost-cutting measure. Another major change that Apple is set to introduce this year is by adopting theUSB Type-Cstandard for the upcoming iPhone and iPad line-up, partially though....

But a day before the scheduled launch, the price of Zenfone 5Z has been leaked online, by none other the chosen exclusive e-tailer,Flipkart. Thanks to this revelation,we now know the pricing of the different variantsof the Asus Zenfone 5Z in India. Asus is expected to launch three different variants here in India with storage options such as 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB. While the 64GB variant comes with 6GB of RAM, the other two models will be stocked with 8GB of RAM....

Belkin has launched its 3.5mm Audio + Charge RockStar adapter in India. The device, which wasoriginally showcasedin the country in late May, can be plugged in to the Lighting port on iPhones, and can simultaneously handle charging and audio playback. The dongle is capable with a number of iPhone models, including the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus running iOS 9 or later....

In a controversial order whose legal standing is being questioned by cyber law experts around India, the district magistrate of J&K’s Kishtwar district last weekissued a directiveto allWhatsApp group adminsto register with his office within the next 10 days, failing which, they will be held liable under various cyber-crime laws in the country. Purportedly to curb the spread of rumors via online platforms, the order also says that admins of WhatsApp groups will have to give an undertaking to the authorities that they would be personally responsible for any controversial and/or incendiary content posted on these groups, and will be liable to be prosecuted for that as per the law....

The Election Commission of India (EC) has announced thecVIGIL appwhich allows citizens to report incidents of poll violations and any discrepancies in the polling process in upcoming elections in India. cVIGIL, which stands for ‘Vigilant Citizen’, has been created to leverage a voter’s role as a responsible citizen to ensure free and fair elections especially as the General Elections roll around next year. The cVIGIL app will be released when the timeline of state elections is announced, however, a beta version of the app will soon be made available for EC employees and interested folks who want to test the app’s UI by recording trial videos and sending it to EC’s developer team for performance analysis....

Facebook has been testing a new feature called‘Your Time on Facebook’, which lets users know how much time they spend on the social media platform on a daily basis, and also alerts them when they’ve exceeded their daily usage limit. Now we have more information about related feature which is now under testing. Called‘Do Not Disturb’, this will let users mute all Facebook notifications. The ‘Do Not Disturb’ feature mutes Facebook notifications, but aggregates them all in a single section called Push, which is located under the Notifications option in the Settings menu....

Facebookrevealed on Monday that more than 800,000 users were recently affected by a bug that caused the system to temporarily unblock some people that they had previously blocked. The company has already started notifying users of the glitch, and has also issued an apology for the same. Facebook’s Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egansaidthat the error has been rectified, and the unblocked contacts have all been re-blocked automatically. While she didn’t share many technical details about how and why it happened, she did claim that the bug was caused by a“technical issue”, and was live from May 29 to June 5....

Facebook’s attempts to move past theCambridge Analytica scandal(where the data of over 87 million users was harvested without their consent) are proving to be futile as the social networking giant is now facing a federal investigation into its relationship with the data mining firm. According to a report inThe Washington Post, the U.S Department of Justice’s (DOJ) probe into both companies is now being joined by federal agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and Federal Trade Commission (FTC)....