With Slack becoming ever more popular among companies as a way to communicate with teams, it is witnessing a number of new features. After bringing Google Drive recently to Slack users, the collaborative tool is now offering one-to-one or group video calls without anyone having to leave the service or application. #Cloud #Slack
With Internet of Things becoming more entrenched in our societies, Google has tweaked Android to run on various devices. A new version of Android called Android Things will run on products such as routers, cameras and speakers. This will help companies to work with Android dev tools easily. #IoT #Android
It is a well known fact that Google has been urging websites to adopt the secure HTTPS protocol. Now, the company will flag websites that it deems are not secure enough, if they are still on the HTTP protocol. Chrome 56 will be the version that will make it difficult for websites that aren’t secure in Google’s eyes. #Security #Google
Vodafone’s M-Pesa PAY, which was launched this Tuesday, will not be able to accept cashless payments from customers. If you are a merchant or a small business owner, this is another way to accept payments. Merchants and retailers have been scrambling to find ways to accept payments from customers after the government banned high denomination notes. #fintech #Vodafone
According to a US government communique, India and the US agreed that creating a transparent, predictable and open business environment that reduces administrative burden and protects innovation is essential for attracting investment, promoting manufacturing activity, and providing the confidence necessary for businesses to bring new technologies across borders.The two sides also emphasized their commitment to facilitate efforts to exchange best practices among industry and government.
Google’s Embedding Projector is going to be open source very soon, thanks to a decision made by the company’s management. The tool allows users to visualise data and interact with it using a web app platform. More companies will probably be able to access data visualisation solutions now. #bigdata #Google
AMD is announcing a line of Radeon Instinct products, which is targeted at machine learning applications. These GPU-based solutions help in developing enterprise applications which make use of machine intelligence and deep learning. They will be complemented by an open source framework called MIOpen. #developer #AI
Now start using Skype Translator on calls made from landlines and cellphones to Skype. Microsoft has added this new feature after test running it on calls made from Skype to Skype. This surely should help those messages from being lost in translation, though Skype Translator’s AI needs a lot of time to learn. #Translation #Skype
If you were tired of receiving junk notifications on your iCloud Calendar app, as we had reported earlier, Apple has finally come up with an option to mark such invites as ‘junk’. The ‘Report Junk’ is currently available only in iCloud web app but will soon be available on iOS and Mac too. #security #Apple
Google Home will now be opened up for third-party developers. Developers can now bring all their content and applications to Google Assistant and create back-and-forth conversations with users with the help of Google Assistant. Google is indeed focusing a lot more on AI than many people had expected it to. #AI #Developers
