Chrome for Android Starts Testing ‘Quick Replies’ in Notifications Google seems to be testing a myriad of new features for its Chrome browser right now. As spotted byXDA Developersin the latestChromium Gerritupdates, it has started testing ‘quick replies’ support for the browser internally. If you open a website in the Chrome browser, it already has the ability to send you a pop-up notification. But with quick replies, you will be able torespond to messages right from the notification center, without having to open the browser time and time again....

Data Breach Exposes Trade Secrets of GM, Tesla, Volkswagen, More from Last 10 Years Companies spend large sums to ensure that their trade secrets remain secrets, especially when each of their products costs thousands of dollars. But a security researcher has revealed that the confidential information of more than 100 manufacturing companies including major automakers such as GM, Tesla, and Volkswagen has been left exposed publicly by another company which serves them....

Facebook Confirms That It Is Building A New Internet Satellite ‘Athena’ At its secretive Building 8 innovation lab, Facebook has been working on a slew of projects that would allow them to beam Internet to under-developed areas. While the social media giant may haveabandoned its plansto build Internet-beaming drones, it has now officially confirmed that it hasstarted work on a new satellite project dubbed Athena. Facebook hasn’t given away many details of this new project but the folks over at Wired have managed to secure some info via a Freedom of Information Act request....

Google Maps’ India-First “Two-Wheeler Mode” Launched in Other Asian Countries Google Maps’ “two-wheeler mode”, which waslaunched as an India-first initiativeback in December last year, ismaking its way to other East Asian countriesin which a large population still relies on two-wheelers. The countries now receiving the feature include Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. The two-wheeler mode acknowledges that bikers find it easier to move through congested routes and narrower paths, and take much less time....

Google Partners with Facebook, Microsoft to Simplify Data Transfer Between Services Google has joined hands with tech titans such as Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter to launch an ambitious initiative that will make it much easier for users to transfer their data securely between different services, ranging from social media accounts to work and fitness apps. The initiative is called theData Transfer Project,and it is an open source solution that will allow the participating service provider to create channels that will let users seamlessly move their data in the cloud between different services without any security risks....

Halo Infinite Will Not Have Battle Royale, Says Developer 343 Industries At its reveal during E3 2018, Halo Infinite received a warm welcome from the fans. However, with the current trend of Battle Royale spreading everywhere, one question that everyone had on their minds was whether the upcoming Halo game would follow the same trend or not. Thankfully, we now have a definite answer to that. In a social live stream hosted overnight onHalo’s Mixer channel, developer 343 Industries played a bit of Halo, had a bit of fun with stream chat, and answered a few fan questions....

Hangouts Chat Desktop UI Refreshed With New Material Theme Elements Google announced new Material Design guidelines at Google I/O 2018 earlier this year and has steadily been refreshing its platforms with the new theme. It has already refreshed the visual elements of several of its entities, such as Gmail, Google Drive, and Chrome, but it’s now revamped the desktop UI for Hangouts Chat. The Material Themeredesign of the Hangouts Chat website isn’t too expansiveand only tweaks the elements necessary to highlight the new design guidelines....