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Amazon adds in-skill purchases to Alexa

The feature takes a similar form in the voice assistant. Participating skills offer up a certain amount of free content, in order to hook users in to a one-time payment to unlock more stuff.

Google Finance gets redesigned, finally dumps Adobe Flash

apps / By Nisheeth Bhakuni

Google Finance now lives as a tab in Search, and some features are going away.

Pixel 2 Camera Improves with Android 8.1

android / By Nisheeth Bhakuni

Android Oreo 8.1 is nearly here and it has added support for Google’s Pixel Visual Core chip inside this year’s Pixels.

FACEBOOK may soon ask you to upload a photo of yourself to prove you’re not a bot.

apps / By Nisheeth Bhakuni

The company is using a new kind of captcha to verify whether a user is a real person. According to a screenshot of the identity test shared on Twitter on Tuesday and verified by Facebook, the prompt says: “Please upload a photo of yourself that clearly shows your face. We’ll check it and then permanently …

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Apple High Sierra Has Login Flaw That Puts Data at Risk

iOS / By Nisheeth Bhakuni

Security bug found in latest version of MacOS High Sierra

AWS launches bare metal instances

analytics, cloud / By Nisheeth Bhakuni

AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing division, today announced its long-awaited bare metal instances for its EC2 service.

How Project Treble makes Porting Android Oreo a 1 Day Job

android / By Nisheeth Bhakuni

Project Treble is most commonly described as an attempt by Google to modularize the Android OS framework to separate vendor specific code.

Amazon Web Services’ computer vision gets real-time face recognition

analytics, cloud / By Nisheeth Bhakuni

Amazon Web Services announced a series of updates to its Recognition service, which provides machine learning-based computer vision capabilities to cloud customers.