Facebook Messenger starts showing AI-powered suggestions on Android and iOS

It took quite a while for Facebook Messenger to officially join the AI game, with the M digital assistant available now in the US.

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Fitbit makes progress getting Pebble watches to work independent of cloud services

Fitbit still has some work to do to ensure Pebble watches will work 6 or 12 months from now, but cloud reliance is gradually being decreased.

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Facebook tries to beat Snapchat at its own game with Stories for all, new camera effects and more

Usually, it's the underdogs that take inspiration from market leaders, but Facebook isn't afraid to go the other way around and follow Snapchat's suit.

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Official Alexa support comes to iPhones and iPads in Amazon app

We don't know how Apple feels about this, but if you want to try something new on your iOS device today, the Amazon app includes Alexa assistance.

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Microsoft’s Cortana 2.0 digital assistant brings ‘fresh new look’ to iPhones

After refreshing the looks and improving the user experience of Cortana on Android devices months ago, Microsoft finally does the same for iOS users.

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Google Duo video calling app for Android and iOS begins global rollout

It feels odd to talk about Google Duo like it’s a new thing, both because the video calling service was unveiled way back in May at the I/O developer conference, and considering it looks so simple and basic you have to wonder what on earth took the search giant so long.But it’s the cross-platform app’s simplicity that makes it so appealing, with very few bells and whistles needed to minimize the frustration and complication of ...

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Google brings five new languages, GIF suggestions to Gboard keyboard app for iOS

Voice calls, texts, words in general, both spoken and written, appear to be losing steam in modern day-to-day communication. The perfect emoji and a carefully selected GIF can take little effort and convey much more emotion, as well as mystery and ambiguity, than your typical figure of speech.With your emoji game recently upped by SwiftKey’s aptly named Swiftmoji release on Android and iOS, it’s time you also brushed up on your GIF reaction skills today, thanks to Google and its more awkwardly titled Gboard app.Unfortunately for ...

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Lara Croft GO, Streaks and INKS lead list of Apple Design Award winners

If you were wondering where Google got the idea for its inaugural Play Awards bestowed upon Android app developers at last month’s I/O conference, Apple just wrapped up day one of WWDC 2016 by handing out its own Design trophies.Only for Cupertino, this is the 19th year in a row the best and most innovative Mac and iOS software products are recognized and promoted for free, which some of the more obscure titles on ...

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Google’s Gboard for iOS perfectly integrates search into your keyboard [UPDATE]

Update: A Google product manager on the Gboard team said that they are working on bringing features from the app over to the Android side. We’re not sure in what form the features will come in, though.Our original story is below.If you also feel like most third-party iOS keyboards are always one step behind their Android counterparts, and find the former platform’s built-in app a little lacking in functionality and versatility, we have some pretty big news for you today.Good, potentially ...

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Opera expands free and unlimited VPN services to iPhones and iPads

The least popular of the world’s big five web browsers, according to both W3 and StatCounter, is looking to gain users with a big push for privacy and unrestricted access to social networks and video streaming services.Opera, or rather the Norwegian software company behind it, today announces the iOS launch of an app very recently made available on desktops as well. It’s called Opera VPN, and it unsurprisingly aims to “unblock the web for free.”No more having to pay to change your virtual location to score admission to

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