Want to See How Will You Look When You Gets Older? Check The FaceApp

Artificial Intelligence is making it ways in all kind of development now a days. Latest addition to it is The FaceApp, which uses AI to fix your selfie and make changes in it.

With the FaceApp you can edit your selfie and

• You can fix your expressions
• Change appearance of your face
• Grow older or younger
• Change gender etc.

FaceApp utilizes neural networks for transforming your face’s appearance and allows altering expressions such as adding smiles, making it look old or like a child. You just have to upload photo to server and then you can check various filters available in the application to play with it.

The app is still in early stage of development but it looks good and will improve in upcoming days. You can download it from

Google Play Store

iTunes Connect

The app is available at free of cost right now. 

We had In-App Payments, What's next? It's In-Car Payment.

Jaguar launches in-car payments at Shell gas stations. In a first for in-car convenience features, Jaguar is teaming up with Shell to launch a new payment feature that lets you use Apple Pay or PayPal (with Android Pay coming later on) to easily pay for gas right within their vehicles at the pumps. The feature is coming to the UK first, but will roll out around the world after that.

So how it's different than other payments. Right now there are lots of payments app available in market but that will be installed in your phone so for the payment you must have your phone with you and application should be downloaded. But in this case, application will be available in your car dashboard and you can pay through it so you don't need to carry your mobile with you. This is an even more convenient system since you never even have to take out your wallet. Just install this app and it will be available right in front of your car dashboard. Many cars now a days have in-car infotainment touchscreen display which has many features like GPS guidance system, maps, musics etc. Vehicles are increasingly networked and equipped with geolocation services. Now it will have this payment app and you can pay through it.

The feature requires installation of the Shell app to make the payments possible, but it’ll show up on your Jaguar’s in-car infotainment touchscreen display once installed, You can then pay using either your PayPal or Apple Pay credentials as mentioned, and all of this is available as of Wednesday in the UK – provided you’ve got a new model Jaguar XE, XF and F-PACE car.

Amazon Chime - Video Conferencing Service from AWS

Today Amazon introduced Amazon Chime - Frustration-free online meetings with exceptional audio and video quality.

Amazon Chime is now available to all customers. Amazon Chime is a modern, fully-managed communications service from AWS that makes it easy for you to communicate with people inside and outside your organization using voice, video, and chat. With Amazon Chime, online meetings are easier and more efficient, crystal clear audio and high definition video keep you focused on the discussion, and the service is designed to work seamlessly across desktops and mobile devices. Because Amazon Chime is a managed service that runs on AWS, it doesn’t require you to deploy or maintain complex infrastructure and software. And you benefit from the security that comes with a data center and network architecture built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations.  Read more at following link.

Announcing Amazon Chime

With this Amazon is ready to take on other service providers like Microsoft, Cisco and Google.  Amazon Chime will be available for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS apps and unlike the WebEx, it doesn’t require the users to punch in a PIN number. As of now, Amazon is offering a free edition of Chime. The Plus Edition with advanced user management and Active Directory (AD) support along with 1GB of message retention is priced at $2.50 per user per month. The Pro Edition, however, costs $15 per user per month and will include screen sharing and video chat that supports up to 100 users along with unlimited VoIP.

The next iPhone could feature wireless charging

Apple is now a member of the Wireless Power Consortium. Following is statement issued by Apple on joining WPC.

"Apple is an active member of many standards development organizations, as both a leader and contributor. Apple is joining the Wireless Power Consortium to be able to participate and contribute ideas to the open, collaborative development of future wireless charging standards. We look forward to working together with the WPC and its members."

This update fuels recent rumors that Apple is going to add wireless charging in the next iPhone. So recent report suggests that all the iPhone models launched in 2017 will come equipped with the wireless charger.

The Apple Watch already works with a magnetic cable that charges your device wirelessly. But the iPhone has never had such a feature. When wireless charging first became popular, it was either slow or your phone battery would become hot. If this feature isn’t implemented properly, it could damage batteries. But the technology is now ready for prime time, and Apple seems to be ready to move ahead.

In September, Apple could introduce, not one, not two but three different iPhone models. In addition to the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. The latest bout of rumors has been predicting the starting price for an iPhone to go up to $1000 and the new features further support the same. It’s unclear if all iPhones or just the top model will feature wireless charging.

Google acquires Fabric developer platform and team from Twitter

Google is taking over Twitter’s mobile app developer platform Fabric, as well as its Answers mobile app analytics, and Crashlytics crash reporting system. Twitter launched Fabric as a modular SDK in 2014 to allow developers to pick and choose different tools to improve their apps, and it now serves apps reaching 2.5 billion users built by 580,000 developers.

But as Twitter tries to get into better financial shape, it’s cutting non-essential divisions, as it did with its change from Vine to Vine Camera. By passing the platform off to Google, it can cut the costs of running Fabric without screwing over its developers by suddenly shutting it down.

The Fabric team announced “Today we enter the next chapter for Fabric and are pleased to announce that we’ve signed an agreement for Fabric to be acquired by Google and for our team to join Google’s Developer Products Group, working with the Firebase team.”

Google Is Launching Automated Call Extensions In Mobile Ads on February 6

Google has been sending emails to AdWords advertisers informing them that call extensions will be automatically included in mobile ads beginning February 6, 2017.

Not all advertisers are receiving this notice, only those whose landing pages prominently feature a phone number. Google will pull the phone number from the landing page and include it in the advertiser’s mobile ads as a call extension.

Reporting for automatic call extensions will be available at the campaign or ad group level. They will not be reported in the automated extension report, either, but in the main call extension report. That at least means that you’ll be able to see all numbers being used for call extensions–whether of your doing or Google’s–in one location. A Google spokesperson has confirmed that if you do have call extensions set up in a campaign, Google will not add other call extensions.

Google is taking the liberty of making this change by default, while emphasizing that mobile search is predicted to drive 19% more calls to businesses than using landing pages alone. For advertisers using dynamic phone numbers on landing pages and are not using call extensions, the Google spokesperson says that for now it will screen for those scenarios and not generate automatic call extensions when dynamic phone numbers are detected on the landing pages.

However, there are several reasons why advertisers may not be in favor of this change. Some may not want to pay for calls being placed to their business through mobile search ads, and some may not even want to encourage phone calls if they’d prefer to capture leads in otherwise.

If for whatever reason, you do not want call extensions to be automatically added to your mobile ads you will have to opt out manually. You can opt out by following these steps:

1. Navigate to the Ad extensions tab
2. Select “View: Automated extensions report”
3. Scroll down to “Automated extension options (advanced)”, then click on “Edit”
4. Select the option that says “Do not use specific automated extensions for this account”

If you’re in favor of having call extensions automatically added to your mobile ads then you can simply do nothing and let the change take effect when it rolls out next month. If you already have call extensions in place, then this change will not affect you at all.

Amazon India Now Lets You Sell Used Products

Amazon India has introduced a dedicated section for posting ads and selling products as an individual. Furthermore Amazon.in will also be taking care of the logistics part and will charge a nominal fee for the service.

Amazon has just launched a new service called Sell as Individual, which allows you to sell your used goods. The service is currently only available in Bengaluru. With Sell as Individual, you can sell products locally in your city, and Amazon offers doorstep pick-up, packing, and delivery of used goods you're selling.

To sell a product, just go to the Sell as Individual Page, and you have to fill in a small form, where you choose the category of the product, add a photo, price, and the pickup details.

Once you've made your listing, the product is listed on Amazon.in (as a used product), at the price you have listed. Other customers can now shop for it as usual, and make the purchase. Amazon will then email you once the product is sold, and schedule a pickup.

It will then come, collect the product, package it, and ship it to the buyer. In case the product it returned by the buyer, Amazon will ship it back to you, at no charge. Once the sale is completed, Amazon will transfer the money to you - minus a small fee. Amazon.in will deduct Rs 10 for item value below Rs1000, Rs 50 for items sold between Rs 1000- Rs 5000 and Rs 100 for items valued above Rs 5000. The fee is very nominal considering the efforts one puts to sell his wares on listing sites like OLX and Quikr. As an incentive, Amazon.in will also be offering Rs 1,000 as Amazon Pay Balance if you manage to sell either five books, video games, movies, music or one mobile phone/tablet/laptop.