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Sharing GIFs, short videos, and Live Photos is now possible in WhatsApp, as long as you have an iPhone. The functionality is built in other popular instant messaging apps, including Facebook’s Messenger, its other valuable chat platform. Apple’s iMessage also does GIFs. But it’s only now that WhatsApp is beginning to see the light. Complete article: WhatsApp […]

China’s Huawei Technologies wants to be the world’s second-largest maker of smartphones in two years, Richard Yu, chief executive of Huawei’s consumer business group, told Reuters on Thursday. Complete article: Huawei wants to overtake Apple and Samsung

The vision presented at Universal Studios in Los Angeles is the grand unification of Musk’s clean-energy ambitions. The audience was able to step into a future powered entirely by Tesla: a house topped with sculpted Tuscan solar tiles, where night-time electricity is stored in two sleek wall-hung Powerwall batteries, and where a Model 3 prototype […]

Social chat platform WhatsApp newest app update will now include a video call function. This is the first time in the app’s history that the messaging app features a video call function. The update was first tested in the Windows Phone version of WhatsApp and is recently made available on Android phones. Complete article: WhatsApp Update – […]

Facebook Inc. and Google owner Alphabet Inc. will join with a little-known Chinese company to lay an ultrafast internet cable between Los Angeles and Hong Kong, the latest sign of its U.S. backers’ insatiable appetite for bandwidth. Complete article: Google, Facebook – internet cable between Los Angeles and Hong Kong

A new study from Germany’s Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) found that the autopilot feature of the Tesla Model S constitutes a “considerable traffic hazard,” according to a report in Der Spiegel. Complete article: Tesls´s Autopilot is a hazard

Tech giant Samsung has urged owners of the Galaxy Note 7 to turn off its high-end smartphone while it investigates new reports of the device catching fire. Complete article: Please turn off your Samsung Galaxy Note 7!

Google’s smart messaging app Allo, which started rolling out last week, has surpassed the 5 million downloads milestone on the company’s Play Store. The app hit the 1 million downloads mark four days ago, and was the top free Android app in the US this past weekend. Complete article: Google Allo hits 5 million downloads

Some 126 Norwegian Tesla owners are suing the electric carmaker for falsely advertising the “Insane Mode” on its Model S P85D sedan. This feature lets the car accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour in 3.5 seconds. The plaintiffs claim that the model only goes up to 469 horsepower and not the 700 hp that […]

The iPhone 7 is here, but it’s already got stiff competition from Android handsets from the likes of Samsung and HTC. In this article, I’ll be putting the iPhone 7 head-to-head with what’s arguably the best Android phone of 2016, the Samsung Galaxy S7, and finding out which is best. We’ve had both handsets for […]

What initially appears to be a normal pair of sunglasses turns out to be Spectacles, the first hardware product from Snap Inc.. When you slip Spectacles on and tap a button near the hinge, it records up to 10 seconds of video from your first-person vantage. Each new tap records another clip. Complete article: Snapchat releases […]

Fans of the Maps app on Windows 10 will have something to look forward to with its latest update. Now, you can see what the roads are like either to home or work (or whatever locations you’ve labeled as such) and even take a gander at realtime traffic from recently viewed roadside cameras. Complete article: News […]