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Watching videos can be fun, but sometimes you just want to shout out your response while the video is playing, or call out your favourite creators for things you disagree on. Facebook will soon let you do just that with Interactive Show Experiences for Facebook videos. Facebook is now introducing a new set of tools that willallow publishers and creators to ask questions during live videos,stage game shows like HQ Trivia and other similar interactive experiences....

Facebook is announcing new revenue generation opportunities for content creators and at the core of this initiative is a programme called Brand Collabs Manager. The feature willallow brands to partner with creators directly through Facebookfor better incentives, engagement and transparently monitoring impact of their campaigns. The tool offers atwo-way communication mediumfor both – brands and content creators – and will let them discover prospective partners. By utilizing a creator’s fan-following, brands will be able to receive more engagement, and have a clear way of tracking how well their money is being spent....

Under firefor allegedly playing a major role in compromising the privacy of more than87 million usersas part of theCambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook is doing its best to up its PR game and garner some much-needed good press. After itsblood-donation initiativein India, Pakistan and Bangladesh earlier this month, the company now has announced that its premium communication platform, ‘Workplace’ will be available for free to all staff and volunteers of education providers and non-profit organizations....

If you didn’t know it yet, battle royale games are the biggest thing in gaming these days. While Fortnite is raking in millions of dollars from hardcore fans, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds or PUBG which kicked off the battle royale craze is also trying to get a revenue boost from its game. In the sale announcement post, PUBG Corp noted that the game has reached over 400 million total players worldwide. “With PUBG Mobile included, there are now over 400 million registered PUBG players worldwide....

Unity 3D has been a boon for many indie games developers and many of them are using Unity to make games for mobile devices, which are being lapped by fans all over the world. Unity not only makes overall game development easy but helps in bringing features such as multiplayer modes for indie games. Recognizing this advantage and factors likethe rise of gaming smartphones, Google Cloud has partnered with Unity tocreate a collaborative platform for cloud-based game development....

Google pulled the trigger early on its new standalone podcast app yesterday, before removing it from the Play Store. And a day later, the Google Podcasts is official. As we mentioned in our previous coverage of the podcasts feature, Google has added personalized podcast recommendations, Assistant integration in podcasts, to make discovery and playback a lot more easier. Of course, Googlehas some major plans for podcasts including AI-driven audio search as well as real-time translation for podcasts, but the Google Podcasts app is the first step....

Google has just recently launched a brand new podcasts app on the Play Store, and has also (obviously) integrated the service with the Google Assistant on both smartphones, and Google Assistant powered smart speakers. Being the obsessive-compulsive app downloader that I am, I installed Google Podcasts on my phone and checked it out. Here are my thoughts on the new Google Podcasts app. User Interface: Material Design 2 Is Stunning...

Augmented reality is a hot area when it comes to marketing and while Snapchat could be considered one of theearly innovatorsin the field, Apple and Google are using the best of their abilities to dominate the niche. Google has shared two live examples of how itsARCore technologycould augment the reality of the advertising industry. At the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Google will be demonstrating these two projects and showing visitors a glimpse ofhow augmented reality could be used to make advertisements more compelling and engaging....

Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus joined hands with Google last month to push out Android P Developer Preview updates to its brand new OnePlus 6 smartphone, and with the latest Developer Preview 2 for the OnePlus 6, the company finally brought Google Lens integration into the default OnePlus camera app. However, if you’re not one to wait, and you want the Google Lens integration in the camera app on your OnePlus smartphone without the developer preview, well we’ve got your back....

It was recently reported that Instagram is testing a new feature modeled on Snapchat Discover and YouTube that will act as avideo hub, with long-form content included along with shorter clips. TechCrunchhas now obtained new information about this videos hub that will supposedly be called IGTV, and will go live today. As per information obtained from sources, the IGTV video hub will be part of the Explore section in the app and will finally allow users to share videos that are over 60 seconds in length....

After conquering the smartphone market, Xiaomi disrupted the TV ecosystem in India with the launch ofMi TV 4andMi TV 4Aearlier this year. These smart TVs are powered by the PatchWall UI, which is Xiaomi’s own custom skin on top of Android. The TV’s software has today received a new update that brings two nifty new features to the Mi TV lineup in India. According to the release notes posted by Xiaomi India product manager Sudeep Sahu on hisFacebook profile, this new PatchWall update (build 1....

MicrosoftCEO Satya Nadella is one of the many Silicon Valley leaders who have begun to speak up on the major immigration issue in the US, where the contentious ‘Zero Tolerance’ policy being implemented by the Donald Trump administration has come under fire by civil rights organizations and human rights activists. Immigration authorities along the US-Mexico border have been lambasted for separating young children from their immigrant parents.Image Courtesy: News Bytes...

While almost everyone owns a smartphone these days, coupling a smart wearable along with it is becoming the latest trend, and many big brands are following the trend. Myntra, the Flipkart owned fashion giant, after launching its30-second self-checkout store, is all set to join the wearable market as well. Myntra has built a software platform for wearable devices that will power its own line of wearable products as well as those developed by third-party device makers....