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Are you Overgramming? Instagram is stepping up to help you manage overuse rather than leaving it to iOS and Android’s new screen time dashboards. Last month after TechCrunch first reported Instagram was prototyping a Usage Insights feature, the Facebook sub-company’s CEO Kevin System confirmed its forthcoming launch. Tweeting our article, Systrom wrote “It’s true .

PayPal-owned, peer-to-peer payments app Venmo is ending web support for its service, the company announced in an email to users. The changes, which are beginning to roll out now, will see the Venmo.com website phasing out support for making payments and charging users. In time, users will see even less functionality on the website, the

Despite some concerns over its adoption by scammers, new payment service Zelle is shaping up to overtake rival Venmo this year, according to a new forecast from eMarketer. The firm expects Zelle to grow more than 73 percent in 2018, to reach 27.4 million users in the U.S., ahead of Venmo’s 22.9 million. Square Cash

Today Snapchat finally gets a true developer platform, confirming TechCrunch’s scoop from last month about Snap Kit. This set of APIs lets other apps piggyback on Snap’s login for sign up, build Bitmoji avatars into their keyboards, display public Our Stories and Snap Map content, and generate branded stickers with referral links users can share

Musical.ly is merging the functionality from its two-year old live streaming platform Live.ly into its main app, and has disabled Live.ly’s standalone app as part of the transition process. The Live.ly app will eventually be pulled from the App Store and Google Play, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Instead of being able to go live,

BitWall, a Bitcoin-focused startup promising to help online publishers make money, has been acquired. Its new owner is Watch Out, the company behind an app that sends alerts about things like product and food recalls and weather-realted emergencies. It’s not the most obvious acquirer, but the companies say BitWall can help Watch Out improve its

Investors are placing another huge bet on a startup looking to reinvent a decades-old process into something that’s near instant, this time pouring $325 million into Opendoor — a company that wants to bring the complex operation of buying or selling a home down to something similarly as simple as hailing a Lyft. The idea

Currently, when the Google Translate apps for iOS and Android has access to the internet, its translations are far superior to those it produces when it’s offline. That’s because the offline translations are phrase-based, meaning they use an older machine translation technique than the machine learning-powered systems in the cloud that the app has access

Amino has raised a big Series C round of funding — $45 million from GV, Venrock, Union Square Ventures, Goodwater Capital and Time Warner Investments, with Hearst Ventures joining as a new investor. Co-founder and CEO Ben Anderson has described Amino as a way to help people who have “passionate niche interests” find others who

“The next hundreds of millions of riders for us are going to come from outside of the United States”, Uber’s head of rider experience Peter Deng tells me. The transportation giant already sees 75 million riders per month and 15 million rides per day. But to grow in the developing world, it had to rethink

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook messages were retracted from the inboxes of some users, six sources told TechCrunch in April. Facebook quickly tried to normalize that breach of trust by claiming it would give everyone the ability to unsend messages in the coming months. We haven’t heard a word about it since, and Facebook told me it

Last week TechCrunch reported Instagram will launch a long-form video hub, with a tentative June 20th launch date. Now Instagram is asking reporters to RSVP for a June 20th “special event,” confirming our scoop’s date. The invitation simply reads “Instagram has some news to share, and we want you to be the first to hear

At Apple’s WWDC 2018 — an event some said would be boring this year with its software-only focus and lack of new MacBooks and iPads — the company announced what may be its most important operating system update to date with the introduction of iOS 12. Through a series of Siri enhancements and features, Apple

Essential has been nearly radio silent since reports surfaced late last month that Andy Rubin was looking for a buyer for his hardware startup. The company didn’t really confirm or deny the rumors — or say much else for that matter. A few weeks later, the company does have some news — but it’s not

TCL just dropped the sequel to the KeyOne, the company’s surprisingly good keyboard-sporting BlackBerry handset. We reviewed it roughly this time last year, and it was almost enough to restore our faith in the possibilities of BlackBerry as a brand. Almost. Of course, that had much more to do with TCL’s ability to create solid

A month after releasing the first beta version of Android P at I/O (and right in the middle of Apple’s own developers conference), Google has just released Beta 2 of its upcoming mobile operating system. The update is available to users enrolled in Google’s developer program, who have access to a Pixel device. Those who’ve

Twenty months after launching its Craigslist competitor, Marketplace, and relentlessly promoting it with placement in the main navigation bar, Facebook will start earning money off its classifieds section. Facebook today begins testing Marketplace ads in the U.S. that let average users pay to “Boost” their listing to more people through the News Feed. While they’re

Abhilash PavuluriAug 19, 2019 16:38:28 IST Editor’s Note: This story is part of a three-part series about the basics of equipment used in astronomy. Part 2 discusses the many different astrophotography techniques and equipment one can choose from, and Part 3 elaborates on the fittings, upgrades, and hacks that can enhance even the most basic stargazing equipment. The night sky will always be the gateway

tech2 News StaffAug 26, 2019 16:12:22 IST Redmi is expected to unveil its upcoming smartphone lineup, which will include Redmi Note 8 and Redmi Note 8 Pro, on 29 August. Ahead of the launch, some brand new leaks reveal the camera and processor specifications of the Redmi Note 8. As per the new post shared

tech2 News StaffAug 21, 2019 16:49:24 IST The international version of Redmi K20 Pro (Review) was announced in Europe yesterday (20 August) with the name Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro. This smartphone is powered by Snapdragon 855 SoC and sports a triple rear camera setup at the back. Just like Redmi K20 Pro, this smartphone also features a

2/6 The micro-SUV flaunts a bold and attractive design and takes styling cues from Tata’s H5X concept aka the Harrier 3/6 Tata H2X SUV’s headlights are similar to the Harrier’s eye-like LED DRLs at each end of the slim grille that is placed above the main lamps. 4/6 The diamond-shaped DLO, Y-shaped tail lights, compact rear

Ameya DalviAug 02, 2019 16:24:02 IST In our latest list of best phones under Rs 10,000, I did suggest bumping up the budget a bit to get the higher memory variants. We won’t be facing such issues in today’s list when we increase our budget to Rs 15,000. Just like in the case of sub-10K

tech2 News StaffAug 27, 2019 20:55:28 IST As the need for cleaner energy becomes extremely important to combat climate change, the automobile industry has come with innovative ways for promoting EVs. However, the reach of charging stations for these EVs is still low in many parts of the world. Hyundai and sub-brand Kia have taken a

tech2 News StaffAug 22, 2019 21:22:17 IST Over the past decade or so Google has been naming its incremental Android versions as desserts and in alphabetical order. The last Android version Android 9.0 was named Pie and it now appears that this is the last time Google has named its Android version after a food

tech2 News StaffAug 20, 2019 21:56:35 IST Privacy and Facebook don’t go hand-in-hand but the Menlo Park-based social media giant is trying very hard to mend its tarnished reputation amongst its userbase. To that end today Facebook has announced a new tool called “off-platform activity” which will enable users to monitor all the data that

Agence France-PresseAug 19, 2019 14:23:45 IST At first glance, it looks like hard candy laced with flecks of fake fruit, or a third grader’s art project confected from recycled debris. In reality, it’s a sliver of Arctic Ocean sea ice riddled with microplastics, extracted by scientists from deep inside an ice block that likely drifted southward

tech2 News StaffAug 23, 2019 18:52:51 IST Google today announced that it will be launching a new feature of Google Photos that will let you search for text in the images. According to the tweet by Google, the feature will start rolling out from this month itself. As per this feature, Google Photo will now

tech2 News StaffAug 19, 2019 16:37:40 IST NASA’s Hubble glimpsed this weird globe in the sky, and as is its wont, captured a stunning image. This round, mysterious object is gas surrounding an ageing star. If you look close enough, you can see it shining in the middle of the gaseous blob. The star, once upon a

tech2 News StaffAug 19, 2019 16:37:20 IST On 15 August, the orbital Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), operated jointly by the European Space Agency and NASA, captured a rare sighting: a comet, in the final moments of its nosedive into the sun. The entire event was captured on video by SOHO researchers, where the comet (in a sea of

tech2 News StaffAug 23, 2019 21:03:01 IST Yesterday Nokia announced that it will be launching new smartphones at the upcoming IFA 2019 that is to be hosted in Berlin on 5 September. Now it was already being speculated that the upcoming smartphone will be Nokia 7.2 and Nokia 6.2. As per the earlier leaks, it