RED Hydrogen Two Canceled Following CEO Jim Jannard’s Retirement After the spectacular failure of its ambitiousRED Hydrogen Oneholographic smartphone last year, the company known for high-end cinematic cameras was still planning to put a high-quality Pro 3D camera on a smartphone, according to an official announcement from RED founder and CEO, Jim Jannard, earlier this year. That project, however, has now officially been shut down, with the 70-year-old Jannard announcing his retirement from the company a few hours ago, citing health reasons....

Twitter Celebrates Diwali With ‘Lights On’ Diya Emoji With a Twist On the occasion of Diwali, Twitter has announced a new‘diya’(lamp) emoji that allows users to control how bright its flame would burn. In an official press release, Manish Maheshwari, the Managing Director of Twitter India, said:“In line with our tradition of engaging people in this conversation, as well as delighting them with innovations, we have launched a ‘Lights On’ diya emoji to represent the joy of the festival of lights”....

Xiaomi Led India Smartphone Market in Q3 as Shipments Hit a Record 49Mn Units With a 26 percent market share, Chinese handset maker, Xiaomi, continued its dominance in the India smartphone market during the third quarter of 2019. That’s according to thelatest Market Monitor reportfrom Counterpoint Research, which says smartphone shipments during the quarter reached a record 49 million units despite the slowdown in the overall economy. As per the report, sales during the period was driven by new launches, discounts, and various pre-Diwali promotional offers, with players like Realme, Vivo, itel, and OnePlus emerging as the fastest-growing smartphone brands in the country, shipping record volumes....

YouTube for Android Tests Showing Comments Before Video Suggestions YouTube has been trying to moderate the comments section for quite some time now, which is great seeing how it’s jam-packed with spam and random comments. But, the video streaming giant nowappears to betesting a new change to the comments sectionin the Android app. As posted by Redditor superficial-iceberg, whoreceivedthe YouTube version 14.52.54 update earlier today, the position of the comments section has been changed....

Android Pie Accounts for 22.6% of the Ecosystem Thanks to Project Treble: Google Google on Wednesday claimed its Project Treble is having the desired result in helping more Android vendors roll out timely updates to their devices. In itsofficial blog post, the company said that the biggest evidence of change lies in the increased adoption of Android Pie, which reportedly accounted for 22.6 percent of the ecosystem at the end of August, making it the biggest major version of Android in circulation....

Asus ZenFone 5Z Gets Android 10-Based ZenUI 6 Update in Beta Phone makers who didn’t have great track record with Android updates in the past have started fixing their update cycles. Xiaomirolled outthe MIUI 11 update to Redmi K20 in India without Android 10 in tow, which is disappointing. But, Asus todayrolled out the ZenUI 6.0 beta updateto itsZenFone 5Zflagship phone and it’s based on Android 10. Yes, if you are someone who bought the feature-rich ZenFone 5Z last year then you are in luck as it’s one of the first Asus phones to get the Android 10 update....

Chrome OS Tablets May Soon Get Refreshed UI With Gesture Navigation New screenshots recentlyposted on Redditsuggest Google may be working on bringing Android 10’s gesture navigation to Chrome OS tablets. According to screenshots posted by developeru/Hupro, Chrome OS 79 features a#shelf-hotseatflag (chrome://flags/#shelf-hotseat) that enables a ‘modular shelf’ with an Android-like gesture navigation bar at the bottom. It currently does nothing, but shows that Google might still be working on a new UI for Chrome OS tablets....