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— Eddy Cue (@cue) June 22, 2015 This is as clear as it can get. Apple will compensate the artists for every song that gets streamed via Apple Music even during the free 3 month trial period. Earlier, Taylor Swift had claimed that it’s unfair for struggling indie artists to go without compensation for 3 months, and to protest that, she told that her upcoming pop album, 1989, will not be made available on Apple Music....

Public figures can now share live video from Facebook Mentions (a new app released exclusively for celebs) and this new feature is aimed at bridging the gap between the celebrities and their followers in a more intuitive way. The live videos will be infused in users News Feed and Facebook will also allow folks to comment, share and like the live broadcast video. Facebook has roped in popular figures like Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Serena Williams, Luke Bryan, Ricardo Kaká, Ashley Tisdale, Lester Holt, Martha Stewart, Michael Bublé and more....

According to Zuckerberg, the clear history feature will allow the user to delete their Facebook history in entirety. As of now, Facebook has been collecting a lot of important data including the personal details like phone numbers. The treasure cove of data is then used by the company to serve targeted ads. Until now Facebook didn’t have an option to turn off the data collection. The new Clear History feature will let Facebook users opt out of data collection....

For those who know not, the Vibe Z and the Vibe X are two branches of Lenovo’s high-end Vibe series of smartphones. While the Z is more for the power hungry geek crowd, the X is targeted at those looking for not just decent hardware muscle but also funky looks. The fist Vibe X had grabbed attention with its incredibly sleek frame, curvy design, and full HD display but had copped some flak for its less than awesome battery and relatively mediocre camera....

Before talking about what Versa has, let’s take a look at what it doesn’t. The Fitbit Versa is not meant for buyers wanting to ditch their smartphone while running or engaging in some other workout session. This is primarily due to the absence of both built-in GPS and LTE compatibility. Apart from that, however, Fitbit is offering all the major features on Versa. For starters, it sports a heart rate monitor and is waterproof so that you can track your swims as well....

1. Still a high-quality processor The Poco F1 is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor, the flagship chip of its time. And even today, it remains a formidable proposition. It might not be able to beat the 855, the 855+ or the 865 that came after it, but by most accounts, it is still better than the 700 series of chips that come in most mid-segment devices. Yes, better than even the Snapdragon 730G that is on the Poco X2....

What’s worse is that once your Google Drive storage is full, you will even stop receiving e-mails on your Gmail ID because that too uses your Drive storage. If you are facing a similar situation, here are a few ways by which you can declutter your Google Drive storage and make space for your e-mails and files on G Drive. Now, of course, you can just go ahead and get a Google One subscription and bump up your storage if you are going to store a lot more files on Drive....

When Xiaomi’s Hugo Barra says that about a device, you would expect it to refer to one of his own company’s phones, or perhaps one of the high-profile Androids in tech town. But nay, the device he was referring to was from the company that many of his brethren consider THE enemy. It was an iPhone 6 Plus. The iPhone vs Android relationship has been at best a rocky one....

Bik: A Space Adventure We start off with a retro-themed adventure game called “Bik – A Space Adventure”. The story involves a young boy who tries to find his way home after being abducted by a UFO. You will be given control over several characters throughout the journey for solving various unique puzzles. The graphics and captivating narrative is truly worth giving a shot, hence go ahead and download it from the link below....

The Constraints Gcam project had us impressed with the HDR+ mode on the Pixel and the Nexus phones which allowed users to take photos at the low-level light by burst shooting ten short exposure and then combining them into a single image. Once the automatic post-processing is done the grains and other noises in the background are drastically reduced. The SeeTheDark app which was presented at the ICCV 2015 Extreme Imaging Workshop showed us how the smartphone camera can capture images at the extremely low light by accumulating more exposures and ultimately merging them into one....

A discussion on Reddit started around a video containing an interview with one of the cooks at Google’s HQ kitchen. Somewhere in the middle of the video (starts at minute 3), Bernard Faucher, says that there is a 3D printer in Google’s kitchen that makes different types of pasta, according to the needs of the employees. I can imagine already bowls and bowls filled with Android-shaped pasta. 3D food printer at Google’s HQ Burritos Cookie dough Cupcakes Sandwiches...

Taking a look at the other side of the spectrum, which includes different operating systems for both computers and smartphones — primarily Windows and Android — while there have been several applications and utilities over time that promise a similar experience and functionality as AirDrop, sadly, there has been no competent equivalent for AirDrop till date. Until a few days back, when Google finally unveiled a true native built-in file sharing utility for Android, called Nearby Share....

Why should you care about Dual-band GPS? The new technology is said to offer accuracy to within about 30cm which is phenomenal, considering the present day accuracy is up to 5m only. For those of you keeping count, that’s about 16 times more accurate than your current smartphone! Xiaomi showed us a quick demo of this technology during the launch event today in Shenzhen, China, where a car with completely blacked out windows is driven through a closed path with the driver using nothing, but just Xiaomi’s Mi 8 smartphone with dual GPS receivers to navigate his way, and still manages to make sure the car is within the stipulated bounds....

The rollout has already begun and the feature should be available on all the Honor 9 Lite devices by 5th of March. After updating the phone, one needs to head over to settings and enroll for the Face Unlock feature. Earlier on, the feature was exclusive for the Chinese variant of the Honor 9 Lite. As far as the specifications are concerned, the Honor 9 Lite offers a comprehensive set of features for its price point....

As far as specifications are concerned, the Honor V10 features a 6-inch Full HD+ panel with an aspect ratio of 18:9. Under the hood, it’s powered by the company’s own Kirin 970 octa-core chipset, i7 co-processor for processing neural network queries, and a 3750mAh battery along with fast charging support. There are three variants to choose from – 4GB RAM with 64GB internal memory and 6GB RAM plus 64/128GB storage....

Founded in 2004, Flickr has gone through a few ownership changes. In the year 2005, Yahoo acquired Ludicorp and Flickr, which led to tonnes of data migrated from servers back in Canada to servers in the United States. Following this acquisition, a lot of changes were made to the platform, like design changes, increase in storage capacity and inclusion of some nifty features. Among these changes, the one that caught a lot of eyeballs was the addition of 1 terabyte of free storage for all Flickr users....

Although it’s this simplicity that makes Keep appealing to beginners, the lack of essential note-taking features has caused it to trail behind other popular note-taking apps on Android in the past. However, recent Google Keep releases have introduced some much-requested features, like the ability to format text, as part of an effort to make Keep a full-fledged notes app. Now, following the release of these formatting features, Google has added yet another useful feature to Keep....

If you’ve recently switched to Chrome for any of these reasons, you’d want to import your passwords from your current web browser or password manager into Chrome to ease your sign-ins. Here’s a guide outlining two different ways on how to import passwords into Chrome. Method 1: Import Passwords to Chrome Using a Chrome Flag Google has been working on a password import feature in Chrome for a while. However, it still seems to be under testing, as Google hasn’t rolled it out yet in any of its recent versions....

Although Apple does not provide any option to choose their preferred Maps app, users have found a way to bypass this constraint. There are two solutions for this problem, for both jailbroken iOS devices and non-jailbroken ones. Obviously, the jailbroken solution is a little better, but for non-jailbroken phones, it’s still good because you can use Google Maps with Siri pretty easily, so you can have the flexibility that you want....

Now, this icon itself actually represents the Windows 10 Update App, which is only available to users that have turned on the automated update process, as Microsoft itself advises. More specifically, Microsoft requires two basic optional updates to be installed on the system, for both Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 platforms. Getting these two on board is not a hustle, but even them some readers have reported that the icon is still missing....