WhatsApp for Mac got a new update via the App Store. The latest update with version 25.22.79 reportedly introduces a chat filtering feature with Unread, Favourites and Group options. This is available to a limited group of users. The messaging service is is making it easier to see unread, favourite, and group chats on your Mac computer.
Google has reportedly alerted 2.5 billion Gmail account holders after a password hacker group was able to carry out a “successful intrusion.” As per the report, the incident occurred between August 8 and 18 in a widespread attack via compromised Open Authorisation (OAuth) tokens. Apart from targeting individual accounts, the threat actors have also targeted Salesforce’s database containing information about its customers, the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has found.
Google Phone app will now allow Android users to create custom calling cards for specific contacts. The company will let users add images, add effects, edit text, and background colour to their preference. The feature resembles Apple’s contact cards feature, which lets users add an image or background colour to a specific contact’s number. While iPhone owners can only add images, Android owners also have the option to add a video to the profile card.
The Cupertino, California-based technology giant's six radio stations will be available outside its app for the first time on TuneIn to its 75 million monthly active users.
Google Translate is getting an artificial intelligence (AI) upgrade that adds two new utility features. The Mountain View-based tech giant’s translation app has so far allowed users to copy and paste text to type and get instant translation across a large selection of languages. Now, the tech giant is using its Gemini AI models to add two new features.
WhatsApp on Wednesday announced a new feature that leverages AI to rewrite text for different tones and clarity. As per the Meta-owned instant messaging platform, users can draft a basic text, and the AI-powered writing assistant will provide suggestions for improvement, including different tones and styles. WhatsApp said that its new Writing Help is built on top of Private Processing technology, and the chats or responses will not be read by anyone other than the user.
Anthropic announced a new limited experiment on Tuesday, where it will be providing 1,000 paid subscribers access to Claude’s Google Chrome extension. The extension will sit within the web browser, similar to other extensions, and allow users to ask questions about web pages. While it cannot handle agentic tasks at present, it can perform tasks such as summarising content and running an analysis of a given dataset on a web page.
Google introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) image model on Tuesday, calling it the company’s best image generation and editing model to date. Dubbed Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, the model improves on both the generation speed and element-based editing. Interestingly, the model went viral on the crowdsourced AI model ranking platform LMArena weeks before its official announcement.
Perplexity, the Silicon Valley-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup, has reportedly expanded its revenue-sharing programme for publishers. As per the report, the company will now compensate media houses and website publishers when their content appears on the Comet web browser’s AI searches. The expansion follows last year’s announcement when the company first announced its revenue-sharing programme to pay publishers for surfacing their content on its AI answer engine platform.
Spotify has announced, in a press release, that the company will start rolling out a new feature that will allow users to send direct messages to each other. Users will be able to recommend music, podcasts, and audiobooks to their family members and friends, and to people with whom they share a Family or Duo plan. Starting this week, the feature will be rolled out to select markets, and a wider rollout could be expected soon. However, the company has not revealed when the feature will be available in India.
YouTube might be using artificial intelligence (AI) to alter human-created Shorts videos, several content creators have claimed. The YouTubers have complained that the AI-generated effects on their videos were being added without their express consent, and added that the streaming giant did not inform them about adding the said effect.
Spotify will raise prices as it invests in new features and targets 1 billion users, the Financial Times reported on Sunday citing the music streaming provider's Co-President and Chief Business Officer Alex Norstrom.
Slack, the enterprise-focused communication and collaboration platform, introduced a new feature on Monday that will allow users to manage their projects better. Dubbed Slack Lists, or just Lists, the new feature lets team leads create tasks and assign them to users. The feature’s functionality is similar to workflow management platforms such as Trello or Asana.
Winzo, an Indian gaming platform, launched a short video platform on Sunday, just days after shutting down its real-money games amid the Indian government’s blanket ban. The company also announced its foray into the US market and said that it will bring Indian gaming innovation to global audiences. Interestingly, Winzo plans to bring its entire catalogue of e-sports and social games to the US, given that the country does not ban real-money games.
TikTok on Friday denied circulating reports that it had been unbanned in India. The app was first banned by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in June 2020, due to concerns regarding national security and data privacy. The rumours of a possible comeback surfaced on Friday, after the official website of the Chinese social media platform became accessible for a brief period to some users.
Google unveiled its flagship Pixel 10 series of smartphones at the Made by Google event on August 20. Several days after the launch, the tech giant has announced a key feature on the latest handsets, which was previously unknown. According to Google, the Pixel 10 series will soon offer support for voice and video calls over WhatsApp via a satellite network.
Blinkit founder and CEO Albinder Dhindsa announced that the platform now delivers powered eyeglasses from Lenskart in just 10 minutes. Customers don’t need a prescription to order. They can select lens power from preset options ranging from minus 0.25 to minus 1.5, choose their preferred colour, and check out via the Blinkit app. The service is currently available in Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Mumbai, with plans to expand to more regions across India soon.
Jio users can claim a three-month free JioSaavn Pro Individual subscription via the MyJio App until August 31. To redeem, users must open the app’s Offers Store, tap the “JioSaavn Pro – 3 Months Free” banner, and generate a code to use on the JioSaavn app or website. The offer excludes existing subscribers and cannot be combined with other discounts.
YouTube Music is commemorating its 10th anniversary by releasing several new features. The music streaming platform was launched in 2015, and since then, it, combined with YouTube Premium, has amassed more than 125 million subscribers globally. To mark this milestone, YouTube Music will soon let users comment on albums and playlists to converse about the music they love with others. Further, it is also bringing taste match playlists for connecting over shared music tastes.
WhatsApp has started testing a new menu option that makes it easier to select multiple messages. Unlike the simpler long press to select method on Android, the current iOS process is slightly more cumbersome. This update simplifies it, allowing users to select multiple messages more intuitively.
Apple is raising the prices of the monthly Apple TV+ subscription, the company announced on Thursday. The Cupertino-based tech giant’s streaming service will become 30 percent more expensive for subscribers in the US and other affected international markets. The updated pricing is now reflected on the Apple TV+ platform, which now costs $12.99 (roughly Rs. 1,130) per month.
Google announced a new update for Gemini Live on Wednesday, adding new capabilities, broader app integration, and improved voice models for more natural speech. The Mountain View-based tech giant is also introducing visual guidance, allowing Gemini Live to highlight specific objects on the screen in response to user queries.
The Google Photos app is getting new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that enable automatic image edits based on natural language commands from the user. Announced at the Made by Google event on Wednesday, it is rolling out beginning with the newly introduced Google Pixel 10 in the US. The tech giant is also implementing industry-standard C2PA Content Credentials within the native Camera app on Pixel to differentiate between images edited with and without AI.
Google unveiled several new products at its Made by Google event in New York on Wednesday. While the Pixel 10 series was the main highlight of the event, several other announcements also took place. Among them is a new health coach for the Pixel Watch, Fitbit trackers, and Fitbit smartwatches, powered by artificial intelligence (AI). As per the company, it can create custom routines, tailor workouts based on data, and provide sleep quality insights.
Google Pixel 10 series was launched on Wednesday with much fanfare. Just like typical Made by Google events, the showcase focused equal parts on the hardware, software, and ecosystem features. One interesting software upgrade to the smartphone series is coming in the form of Gboard, which is now getting its first set of artificial intelligence (AI) features.
Adobe Acrobat Studio was introduced on Tuesday as a new platform for PDF tools and artificial intelligence (AI) features for content creation. The San Jose, California-based software giant stated that it is an upgraded platform aimed at offering the trifecta of AI-powered PDF tools, content creation features, and AI assistants that can analyse, summarise, and answer queries about files.
Anthropic is rolling out the ability to end conversations in some of its artificial intelligence (AI) models. Announced last week, the new feature is designed as a protective measure for not the end user, but for the AI model itself. The San Francisco-based AI firm said the new capability was developed as part of its work on “potential AI welfare,” as conversations on certain topics can distress the Claude models.
Notion Mail, the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered email app, is finally available on iOS. On Monday, the company announced that it was finally rolling out its email app on the App Store, and it is now available for everyone to download. The San Francisco-based workspace application firm first released Notion Mail on Android in April.
Microsoft is adding the Copilot function to Excel, introducing a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) features. These features will allow a user to summarise data sets and columns into simpler forms, such as paragraphs and sentences. The tech giant has integrated the AI features into Excel formulas. Users can initiate a query by typing “COPILOT” followed by their query.
Google is reportedly testing a new translation tool within Circle to Search. While some Pixel beta users see it as Scroll and Translate, the app code also refers to it as Live Translate, causing branding confusion. The feature is said to translate entire screens but lacks cropping support, has some processing delays, and uses a text-on-text overlay. To access it, users must tap the Translate icon in Circle to Search.
OpenAI on Tuesday announced a new subscription plan called ChatGPT Go as a low-cost alternative to the existing ChatGPT Plus subscription. Initially introduced in India, it will also be expanded to other markets soon. As per the company, ChatGPT Go grants users access to higher message limits, larger file uploads, and expanded image generation. Further, they can enjoy advanced data analytics and longer memory for more personalised responses when conversing with the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot.
Google is reportedly testing a new Live Translate feature within Circle to Search. Though not active yet, it was spotted in the app drawer alongside screen translation and song recognition. When enabled, it lets users choose translation for the whole screen or specific apps. The tool reportedly launches with a rainbow edge animation and offers a movable floating overlay to set language, minimise, or crop text, though the crop tool isn’t working yet. Currently, dynamic translations appear only briefly, limiting proper testing.
Google Photos appears to be testing a new feature that lets users delete or keep an image by swiping right or left on it. Several netizens claimed to have spotted this unnamed feature on Saturday. The feature is said to only appear when the app is opened, and in most cases, it vanishes after the first use.
OpenAI updated the GPT-5 artificial intelligence (AI) model on Saturday to make its responses “warmer and friendlier.” The San Francisco-based AI firm highlighted that it has tweaked the model so that it would not appear cold or rude to users. The updated version of the large language model (LLM) is currently being rolled out to all users globally.
Grok Imagine, xAI’s latest multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) tool, is now available to all users globally without any cost. Last week, xAI Founder Elon Musk announced that for a limited period, the AI images and videos generating tool is now available to all users, irrespective of whether they have a paid subscription or not. The tool, which was introduced earlier this month, offers text-to-image and image-to-video modalities.
YouTube Music is reportedly testing a new Daily Discover feature that curates fresh music recommendations based on your listening habits. Spotted by a Reddit user, this feed appears on the homepage and offers a selection of new tracks daily. Each recommendation is displayed with a brief note explaining why it was picked.
Google has rolled out Chrome 139 for Android with several updates. The three-dot menu now includes an “Add tab to group” option, and the Tab Grid switcher gains a “New tab group” button. A bug fix makes the “Copy link” action in the address bar fully functional, accessible by long-pressing the Omnibox. Dynamic Colour for the dark theme has also been refined, moving from darker tones in Chrome 136 to a lighter, grey-like appearance across the entire browser interface.
Russia, through its media and internet regulator, Roskomnadzor, has reportedly imposed a partial restriction on voice calls made via two instant messaging apps, WhatsApp and Telegram. The regulator said that it took this step to better fight crime. Moreover, the regulator said that several law enforcement agencies and citizens appealed that the two instant messaging services had become the primary calling service for deception and extortion.
Google is adding a couple of new features to its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Gemini. On Wednesday, the Mountain View-based tech giant announced personalised responses and Temporary Chats for Gemini’s Android app. The first is a personalisation capability that allows the AI chatbot to fetch information from previous conversations to tailor the responses to the user’s preferences.
Google in July announced a new feature called Remix for its Photos app. While it is yet to be made available for devices widely, the tech giant has now shed more light on how it works. As per Google, the Remix feature leverages generative artificial intelligence (AI) to transform normal selfies, portraits, or pet photos into artistic styles, such as 3D animation, anime, sketch, and more. It is built into the Photos app and is separate from the default photo editor.
WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out a Writing Help assistant feature powered by AI Private Processing for select beta users. The new functionality will allow users to enhance their messages using AI-powered assistance. It was reportedly spotted on WhatsApp beta for Android 2.25.23.7 update.
Ride-hailing platform Rapido launched a food delivery app in India on Wednesday. Named Ownly, it is reportedly a zero-commission platform that aims to provide food items at rates comparable to the offline market. According to a report, it focuses on delivering affordable food, with items such as rice and eggs priced below Rs. 100. However, the app is currently available only on the Google Play Store and serviceable in a few areas in the Bengaluru vicinity.
Apple has reportedly responded to the allegations made by Elon Musk on Monday, where the billionaire accused the iPhone maker of being biased towards OpenAI’s ChatGPT app. The Cupertino-based tech giant has refuted all allegations and highlighted that apps are ranked on the platform based on algorithms and selection by experts operating with objective criteria.
Google is reportedly working on improving the Canvas feature within Gemini’s Android app. As per the report, the Mountain View-based tech giant is expanding the functionality of Canvas, allowing users to create different kinds of content formats and even an app within the sandbox-style interface. If true, this new functionality will substantially enhance the overall experience users get via the tool.
Google Search added a new feature on Tuesday that allows users to select publications as their preferred source. The feature enables users to see news and articles from their favourite or go-to publishers more frequently. We, at Gadgets 360, have been bringing you the latest news and information about a wide range of consumer tech devices, the latest rundown on new and upcoming games, and breaking down cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity.
LinkedIn launched a new game, Mini Sudoku, on its professional social networking platform on Tuesday. The game, which is a modern take on the classic puzzle, is available to all users. It also marks the sixth entry in the platform’s gaming catalogue, a new service which started in May 2024.
Microsoft Edge users will now be shown a prompt on top of the webpage when they download the Google Chrome web browser. The tech giant highlighted that both web browsers use the same technology, simultaneously claiming that Edge comes with added Windows protection. This could be an attempt to get more people to use its native browser.
OpenAI is finally bringing back the GPT-4o artificial intelligence (AI) model to ChatGPT, after retiring it last week. The San Francisco-based AI firm removed the older model after the launch of the GPT-5 model, highlighting that the new frontier model can handle both reasoning and conversational tasks. However, many users took to social media platforms to highlight that they preferred 4o’s responses more than GPT-5’s.
Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Perplexity on Tuesday launched an audacious bid to buy the Google Chrome browser in its entirety, according to a report. The Aravind Srinivas-led company is said to have offered Google $34.5 billion (roughly Rs. 3.02 lakh crore) for the rights to the world’s most popular web browser, a sum which is even higher than Perplexity’s own valuation.
Zomato users in India can now renew their Gold membership for Re. 1, as spotted on the app, though not officially announced. Launched in 2023 at Rs. 149 for three months, Gold offers free delivery on orders over Rs. 199 within 7km and up to 30 percent extra discount at multiple restaurants. The deal appears to be a limited-time in-app offer.
