Google+ to Shut Four Months Early Due to Another Data Breach Affecting Over 50 Million Google has already declared that its ambitious social media platform, Google+, will beshuttered down by Augustnext year and the reason behind this is a security flaw in the past that revealed users’ profile data in Google search. Now, the scheduledshutdown has been brought ahead by four months, citing another (potential) major security breach. What the internet giant headlined as “Expediting changes to Google+” seems to be a euphemistic way of hastening the closure without inviting a lot of embarrassment....

Honor Unveils New Brand Identity, With Revamped Logo While Huawei is makinghuge stridesin the smartphone industry, its sub-brand Honor is not behind and carved out space for itself as well. The company has now become a well-known brand not only in China but also in other countries, thus, Honor believes that it’s time to change in its brand identity to reflect the same. At its Honor Artology event in Hong Kong,Honor today stated that it has grown upover the years and unveiled a new logo to celebrate its upcoming fifth anniversary....

India Wants WhatsApp to Get User Consent Before Adding Them to Group Chats WhatsApphas made major strides to fight fake news in India. The company went as far aslaunching a TV campaignto curb fake news. The central government, on the other hand, believes that there more scope for improvement, and has now has asked WhatsApp to introduce a new feature seeking consent of users before being added to any WhatsApp group chat....

Indian Voice Assistant Developed by IIT Patna Will Speak 18 Languages India’s massive population presents a huge opportunity for voice-based application and has boosted Google’s and Amazon’s efforts in developingGoogle Assistantand Alexa forHindi, apart from English. However, the market for Indic languages is much larger, which is why NITI Aayog is collaborating with several researchers and developers at IIT Patna and 14 other institutions to create avoice assistant capable of addressing queries in as many as 18 languages....

Ok Google: 50 Google Assistant Commands You Can Use The Google Assistant is one of the most popular AI-based personal assistants out there and it’s capable of doing a whole lot of things, spanning from things as simple as setting an alarm to complex commands that will allow you to control everything in your smart home. However, in my experience, I haven’t seen many people using the Google Assistant to its full potential and if I were to guess a reason behind it, I’d say that it’s because not many people know what all they can do with theGoogle Assistant....

OnePlus 6T ‘McLaren Edition’ With 10GB RAM, Warp Charge 30 Starts At £649 A little over a month after thelaunchof OnePlus 6T, OnePlus took the stage today to announce the launch of new OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition. Yes, the company has partnered with McLaren to launch this new variant, and it looks pretty awesome. Check it out:OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition Pricing & Availability The OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition will be available in Western Europe and North America starting December 13....

Some Mi TVs Forcing Ads on Users Before Switching HDMI Modes Xiaomi is known for offering its products at highly affordable prices and while the company makes a big deal about honest pricing andlimited profiton the actual cost, it covers its bases by showing its users ads and selling ad-enabled services. This has become the norm on MIUI phones and you will see Xiaomi inserting adsanywhere it finds empty space– within its own apps like file manager, Mi Calendar, and even in themultitasking menu....