Twitter Now Lets iOS Users Upload Live Photos as GIFs On one hand, Twitter may be looking tobuild a decentralized social media standardbut on the other, it continues to add some helpful features to the platform. The latest feature will make yourLive Photos captured via an iPhoneor iPad (basically, an iOS device) a lot more useful and likable. Live Photos is one of the fun standoutcamera features on iOS devices. For those unaware, it not only stores a still image while clicking a photo but also a short 3-second video along with it....

Twitter Wants to Build an ‘Open and Decentralized’ Social Media Platform In an attempt to create a Facebook competitor, which everyone flocks to, Twitter becameincreasingly centralizedover the years. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey believes that’s the case and has now tweeted a lengthy plan to fund research to build an open and decentralized standard for social media platforms. It will “ultimately become a standard” thatTwitter’s clientwill be based upon. Dubbed Bluesky, thisproject willsee a team of up to five researchers, which could include open-source architects, engineers, and designers, being on-boarded in the near future....

Xiaomi Top-Selling Smart TV Brand in India With 33% Market Share in Q3, 2019 Xiaomi continues to hold the pole position in theIndian smart TV marketwith a 33 percent market share in Q3, 2019. According to the latest ‘Worldwide Quarterly Smart Home Device Tracker’ report from IDC, the Chinese company’s well-knownMi TV lineupsaw a quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) growth of 46 percentand year-on-year (YoY) growth of 69 percent during the period. According to the report, Xiaomi is followed by usual suspects, Samsung, LG, and Sony at numbers two, three and four with 14 percent, 13 percent, and 10 percent market shares respectively....

YouTube Updates Anti-Harassment Policy to Deal With Toxic Content Following heavy criticism for its perceived failure to deal withthreats and harassmenton its platform, YouTube on Wednesday updated its terms and conditions to include a slew of policy changes that it says will help reduceundesirable content. As part of its plans, the company said it will start taking a stronger stance against threats, personal attacks and toxic comments on its platforms going forward....

10 Best Gallery Apps for Android to Manage Your Photos We love taking pictures on our smartphones, especially since most Android smartphones these days come equipped with exceptional cameras. Thus, it’s important that the Gallery app on our Android device is fully equipped to manage the tons of photos we are taking. While smartphone manufacturers mostly include a photo management app aka a Gallery app by default, they most certainly aren’t the best....

Amazon, Onida Tie-Up to Launch ‘Fire TV Edition’ Smart TVs in India Amazon has partnered with Onida to launch itsFire TV edition Smart TVsin India at a starting price of Rs 12,999. The TV will be available in 32-inch variant for an introductory price of Rs 12,999 while the 43-inch version will be available for Rs 21,999 starting December 20. “We are very excited to bring the complete Fire TV experience on Onida TVs in India....

Apple’s Costly Pro Display XDR Comes with a Special Polishing Cloth Apple’s powerful andmodular new Mac Prohas officially gone on sale today. The new 6K Pro Display XDR is also available to order and it’s base variant cost a steep $4,999 in the U.S. There’s also a $1,000 “nano-texture” upgrade available for thePro Display XDRand well, the additional cost isn’t what has us stumped. It’s the fact that Apple willprovide a special polishing (read cleaning) clothwith this exorbitant Pro display....