Google Contacts Gets Dark Theme: Here’s How To Enable it Googlerecently admittedits lapse in encouraging developers to use white color in their apps until date but is now correcting this error by itself taking the first step and adding “dark theme” to all of its apps – one at a time. The company had already introduced the new Material Theme and dark mode for Google News andMessagesrecently, but Contacts is the latest one to get the much-awaited dark theme option....

Google Launches ‘Play Academy’ Free E-Learning Platform for Android App Developers The Android ecosystem is one of the most flourishing app marketplaces and Google now wants to further bolster the same by giving its app developers access to free, bite-sized interactive sessions via its newly launched ‘Play Academy‘ e-learning platform. While you could certainly head to YouTube today to learn pretty much anything, but Google haspartnered with e-learning company Intellumto provide developers the right knowledge about managing their apps through the‘Academy for App Success,’as seen down below....

Google Probing Malicious Attack That Blocked YouTube, Other Services After several users complained that they were either unable to access Google services likeYouTubeon Tuesday, the tech giant confirmed the root cause of this was “external” and under investigation. Internet research firm ThousandEyes, however, claimed that “traffic to certain Google destinations appears to be routed through an ISP in Russia and black-holed at a China Telecom gateway router”. The disruption in Google services was limited to nearly an hour....

How To Save WhatsApp Backup to Google Drive Manually WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging platforms across the globe, with close to1.5 billion active userschatting off with one another. The messaging app renders you the option to save the conversations in the cloud, so that you can retrieve them if you switch devices or need to reinstall the app. And now that WhatsApp hasannouncedthat it’ll be deleting chats and media from users who have not backed up stored data to Google Drive, it has become essential to save the backup to Google Drive....

JBL PartyBox Bluetooth Speakers Announced in India, Starting at Rs 27,499 Popularaudio brand JBLhasintroduced two new high-powered speakers in Indiathat will light your parties on fire. The JBL PartyBox 200 and PartyBox 300 with special synchronizedring-shaped lighting and wireless audio supportso that you can focus on your dance moves and calling dibs on the last slice of pizza instead of worrying about the sound setup at the party. Both – the JBL PartyBox 300 and PartyBox 200 – support True Wireless Stereo (TWS) which allows you to connect two Bluetooth speakers and use it in a stereo configuration, for a louder and better sound output for larger gatherings....

Move Over, Lasso! People Are More Excited For Vine Successor ‘Byte’ Last week, Facebook quietly introduced a new app called Lasso. As its listing on both Play Store and App Store suggests, Lasso is a simple app that lets you create short, fun videos. Sounds familiar? Well, that’s because it’s a direct competitor of TikTok, an app that recently surpassed Facebook,Instagram, and evenYouTubein terms of downloads. Facebook, as we all know, wants to snag some eyeballs and capitalize on the trend....

Tinder Adds 23 New Gender Identity Options for India Dating appTinder today announced it has added 23 new gender options for users in India to allow them to add information about the orientation they believe represents them most authentically. Until now,Tinder users in Indiawere offered only two options when selecting their gender: man or woman. For users who identified as transgender, gender neutral or somewhere between or outside the gender binary, that limitation posed an obvious challenge....