Facebook is one of the oldest social media platforms. It’s been able to catch up with the competition and keep itself in the market. However, the more visual platforms like Snapchat and TikTok thrive, the more users are reluctant to use Facebook. The company is now ditching some location-based features. As per the company’s announcement, Nearby Friends, weather alerts, location history, and background location are among the features that will die forever....

Notably, the company introduced back the quick weather icon back in February 2020. The quick weather icon was now placed on the top bar of the UI in a card. It showed a bunch of important information such as the current temperature and conditions on your location. The information is based on online forecasting services. However, for some Android Auto users, the icon was still not visible. In a forum post that was published back in March 2021, several Android Auto users claimed that the quick weather icon was not available on their Android Auto interface, even though it has been over a year since its re-addition....

What is Project Starline? This is the company’s interesting and very expensive way of making video calls more personal. Instead of watching a person on a flat screen, the company wants to go the extra mile. When you sit in a booth, you’ll be scanned by multiple cameras. These cameras track your head movements, body movements, and eye movements. Then, this information is processed and sent to another person with another booth....

What is Ring Protect? What is Ring Protect? Ring Protect is the company’s subscription service that adds additional features to your products. Like the ability to save video and share it for all of your Ring devices. You can also see photos of visitors in your notifications, download more videos at once, and much more. There’s essentially three plans for Ring Protect. There’s Ring Basic, which is $3.99 per month, per device....

Instead, the new support comes with direct integration into apps for the new device range. What does Live Translate mean on the Pixel 6 series? What does Live Translate mean on the Pixel 6 series? Now, the new feature hinges on the powerful machine learning supported by the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro’s Tensor chip. And it works offline, processing the translations locally using downloaded language models. But the kicker with the introduction of the new features isn’t necessarily in its offline capabilities....