Google Chrome Adds Support For Native Windows 10 Notifications After months of testing, Google has finally turned on native support for desktop notifications onWindows 10with Chrome 68. The feature was rolled out on macOS earlier this month with Chrome 59. The notifications are sent via the Action Center, andaccording to Thurrott.com, allows users to apply Windows 10’s custom notification settings to the browser. “Users can also choose to limit the number of notifications that are displayed, as well as their priority in the Action Center....

Google is Now Removing the Contacts Shortcut from Legacy Gmail Google started rolling out the updated and redesigned Gmail earlier this year in April which, along with adding a whole set of new features, removed a couple of features from the service. One of things missing from the new Gmail, the Google Contacts shortcut, was still available on the legacy Gmail, until now that is. According to a recentreportfrom9to5Google, the company has nowremoved the Contacts shortcutfrom legacy Gmail as well....

Google Patents Facial Recognition System Based on Users’ Social Media Data Google has access to more user data than the company cares to acknowledge but according to a recentreportfromThe Next Web,the amount of data just doesn’t seem enough. The report reveals that one of Google’s patents has recently been approved which will allow the company to parse social media connections in order to improve facial ID of users. The patent, titled‘Facial Recognition with Social Network Aiding’, highlights an artificial intelligence-based feature which might be used to improve the functionality of Google’s reverse image search....

Google Play Store Showcases Apps ‘Made by Indians’ Ahead of Independence Day As India prepares to celebrate its 72nd Independence Day, Google has decided to showcase the leading apps on the Play Store made by Indian developers. Under the banner ‘Made by Indians’, five apps which serve different purposes have been highlighted on the Play Store as you scroll down the home page. The apps include fitness and wellness app HealthifyMe, Zee Network’s freemium entertainment platform Zee5, regional language social network ShareChat, news and jobs discovery platform Dailyhunt, and the widely-publicised e-learning app BYJU’s....

Huawei Testing Android Pie on Mate 10 Pro, P20, Honor 10 and Honor V10 Google recently started rolling outAndroid 9 Pieand it’s already reached the Pixel devices, as well as the Essential PH-1. While the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S has also started receiving the latest update, another Chinese manufacturer has also joined the ranks, Huawei is prepping the latest update, according to a recentreportfromGizChina, testing Android Pie on four of its devices....

Indian-Origin Scientist Warns About Blindness Risk Due To Blue Light Exposure Are you addicted to your smartphones, laptops and tablets? The blue light emitting from these digital devices can affect your eye’s retina and lead to age-related macular degeneration, according to a research led by a professor of Indian-origin. Macular degeneration, an incurable eye disease that results in significant vision loss starting on average in a person in their fifties and sixties, is the death of photoreceptor cells in the retina....

It’s Time to Launch More Premium Smartphones in India, Says Xiaomi Havingtoppled Samsungas India’s largest smartphone brand mostly on the strength of its mid-range and entry-level handsets, Xiaomi is now looking to established a presence at the premium end of the country’s smartphone market. The company has traditionally focused on budget-oriented handsets, and currently has number ofpopular productsin the Rs. 5,000 – Rs. 20,000 price range. Talking to the mediaon Wednesday about the company’s future plans for its second-biggest market, Manu Jain, the Vice-President and Managing Director of Xiaomi India, said that the Chinese tech giant will launch new premium products in the days ahead to stake its claim in a segment that is traditionallydominated by OnePlus, Samsung and Apple in India....