Amazon has announced in a blog post that users of its Alexa virtual assistant in the US and Japan will now be able to receive help diagnosing their symptoms in case they feel they've contracted Covid-19. Based on the user's risk level and symptoms, Alexa will then relay guidance from the US Centre for Disease Control for American users, and the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare for users in Japan. For customers in India, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, the UK and the US, Alexa can play a song for 20 seconds, to help keep time while washing hands.

Amazon has announced in a blog post that users of its Alexa virtual assistant in the US and Japan will now be able to receive help diagnosing their symptoms in case they feel they've contracted Covid-19. Based on the user's risk level and symptoms, Alexa will then relay guidance from the US Centre for Disease Control for American users, and the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare for users in Japan. For customers in India, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, the UK and the US, Alexa can play a song for 20 seconds, to help keep time while washing hands.

Samsung India for the second time has extended its warranty on consumer electronics and mobile products till June 15 amid the nationwide lockdown. This includes devices such as TVs, smartphones, refrigerators, tablets, and more. Samsung says this will be valid for all products whose warranty expired in the period between March 20 and May 31, 2020.

Popular video conferencing app Zoom nearly doubled its expectations for annual sales as more people work from home during the Covid-19 lockdowns. The Chinese company Zoom reported fiscal first-quarter revenue of $328.2 million, beating analysts' estimates of $202.7 million, and more than double of what the company earned in the same time last year. But Zoom's costs also rose sharply, almost twice this time at $201 million.

According to reports, Apple&rsquo;s new iPhone 12 series could come with an in-display fingerprint sensor to possibly create a consistent experience for the future Apple Card. The Cupertino-based tech giant is expected to launch four models under its new iPhone 12 series, all of which are rumoured to come with 5G support and OLED panels with smaller notches. The launch has reportedly been delayed by at least two months due to supply chain issues amid the Covid-19 pandemic and the new iPhones are expected to arrive in November.

Smartphone maker Poco has teased the launch of a new device in India via its Twitter page. The company didn&rsquo;t share any other details, but speculations suggest it could be the Poco F2 Pro that was launched in Europe last month. Other reports claim it to be Poco M2 Pro since it recently got its Bluetooth SIG and WiFi Alliance certifications. However, the company is yet to officially confirm its development.

First-person shooter PC game Valorant by Riot Games is now available to play for free in India. Unfortunately, the game can't be accessed via the Steam platform, but can be downloaded via Valorant's official website. The game will feature multiple episodes and the game's first episode called Ignition is already available to play.

Google has been sued in the US over claims that it illegally invades the privacy of users by tracking people even when they are browsing in Incognito or private mode. The class action lawsuit seeks at least $5 billion from Google and owner Alphabet for collecting information about what people view online and where they browse. The search engine denies this is illegal and says it collects data even in private mode.

Facebook has launched a new tool called Manage Activity to help users archive or trash old posts, all in one place. The archive feature is for content you no longer want others to see on Facebook, but that you still want to keep for yourself. Posts sent to the trash will stay there for 30 days before being deleted unless you choose to manually delete or restore them before then. Manage Activity will launch first on mobile and Facebook Lite, and will be available on desktop in the future.

Oppo has confirmed that the new Find X2 series will be launching in India on June 17. The series comprises of the Oppo Find X2, Oppo Find X2 Pro, Oppo Find X2 Lite, and the Oppo Find X2 Neo. However, it is uncertain if the company will bring all four smartphones to the Indian market. To recall, both the Find X2 and Find X2 Pro handsets were announced globally in March. They feature impressive 120Hz 6.7-inch QHD+ displays, 48-megapixel triple rear cameras, Snapdragon 865 chipsets with an integrated 5G modem, 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM, and 65W SuperVooc 2.0 charging tech.

The Trump administration has decided to launch an investigation into the digital services taxes (DST) being enforced or proposed by nine countries, including India, and the European Union that would hit US companies, like Google and Amazon. The US Trade Representatives (USTR) said that India has adopted a 2 per cent tax for non-resident companies that deal in online sales of goods and services and have annual revenue more than over ₹2 crore.

Google has banned &lsquo;Remove China Apps&rsquo; from the Play Store that helped users remove Chinese apps from their devices. The top trending app in India, which was downloaded more than 5 million times since late May, was reportedly pulled for violating Google Play Store&rsquo;s Deceptive Behaviour Policy. According to the policy, an app cannot make changes to a user&rsquo;s device settings nor can it encourage users into removing or disabling third-party apps.

Facebook announced that it has signed a global deal with Saregama to license its music for video and other social experiences across its flagship social networking platform and Instagram. This will allow users to use the label&rsquo;s music across videos, stories via music stickers and other creative content. Saregama, India&rsquo;s oldest music label, has a catalogue of more than 1 lakh songs that spans across film, Carnatic, Hindustani classical and devotional music in over 25 languages. This includes tracks from several music legends, including Lata Mangeshkar, R.D. Burman, Mohammed Rafi and Talat Mahmood among others.

In the wake of the nationwide protests in the US, following the death of George Floyd, game developer Activision took to twitter to announce that it's postponing the new seasons of its first-person shooter franchise that includes Call of Duty: Mobile, Modern Warfare, and Warzone. The new seasons were all set to launch this week, but Activision tweeted that "right now, it&rsquo;s time for those speaking up equality, justice and change to be seen and heard." Recently, Sony also delayed it's PlayStation 5 gameplay reveal amid unrest in the US, denouncing "systemic racism and violence against the Black community.

According to the latest industry research report from Gartner, global smartphone sales in the first quarter of 2020 fell a record 20.2 per cent YoY due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Apple saw a smaller decline in sales while Oppo, Samsung, and Huawei suffered the most. Samsung&rsquo;s smartphone sales declined 22.7 per cent in Q1 2020, however, it still maintained the top spot with 18.5 per cent market share. Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, on the other hand, was the only brand to register a growth compared to last year--although it was a marginal 1.4 per cent.

Researchers from West Virginia University's Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute have reported that the Oura smart ring, together with AI prediction models, can help detect Covid-19 related symptoms up to three days in advance, with over 90% accuracy. The approach has participants track their stress, anxiety, memory and other such mental biometrics, and correlates these with physiological data collected from Oura smart rings, like body temperature, heart rate, respiratory function and sleep patterns. While the approach does leave room for error and asymptomatic individuals to slip through, it's a step forward in the prevention of the spread of Covid-19.

Apple has patched a security vulnerability in a new software update that allowed hackers to build a jailbreak tool offering users more customisation and installation of apps that would otherwise be restricted by the company. The iOS 13.5.1 comes less than two weeks after Apple released the iOS 13.5. Apple says the new update &ldquo;provides important security updates and is recommended for all users.&rdquo;

Vivo has launched its flagship smartphone, the Vivo X50 Pro Plus, with an in-built gimbal camera system that helps in taking clearer handheld shots. It&rsquo;s got a quad rear camera setup, with Samsung's new 50MP ISOCELL GN1 primary sensor and a periscope lens with support for up to 60x Hyper Zoom. The smartphone features a 6.56-inch full HD+ Super AMOLED display with 120Hz refresh rate and is powered by the Snapdragon 865 SoC coupled with up to 12GB RAM and 256GB storage. The 5G phone has a 32MP selfie snapper and a 4,315 mAh battery that supports fast 44W wired charging. The Vivo X50 Pro Plus starts at &yen;4,998 (~₹53,000) in China, and will be coming soon to India.

The Delhi government has launched a mobile app that helps users find the status of total number of hospital beds and ventilators in the union territory. The Delhi Corona app shows users the number of hospital beds that are vacant at a given location, along with its capacity for handling patients that require a ventilator while being treated for Covid-19. The app doesn't require any registration to access the information, and includes information to services like ration, e-pass and relief shelters in the region, along with details of containment zones. The app is currently available for free on Android smartphones.

Asus has launched two new laptops in the TUF Gaming series for AMD fans in India. The Asus TUF Gaming A15 comes with a 15.6-inch full HD IPS Anti-Glare display with a 144Hz refresh rate and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 GPU on the top-spec variant. Meanwhile, the A17 packs a larger 17.3-inch screen, a lower 120Hz refresh rate and up to a GTX 1660 Ti graphics card. Both models are powered by AMD&rsquo;s latest Ryzen 4000 series CPUs, coupled with up to 32GB RAM and 1TB of HDD and SSD storage. The smaller but more powerful Asus TUG Gaming A15 laptop is available on Amazon at a starting price of ₹60,990, while the A17 costs the same but will go on sale from mid-June.

Samsung Galaxy M10s successor, the Galaxy M11, has been launched in India. It features a 6.4-inch HD+ Infinity-O display and is powered by Snapdragon 450 SoC, coupled with up to 4GB RAM and 64GB storage. The smartphone comes with a 13-megapixel triple rear camera setup, an 8-megapixel selfie snapper and an &lsquo;Alive Keyboard&rsquo; feature that features auto-correction, word completion and next-word prediction is several Indian languages. There&rsquo;s also a 5,000 mAh battery that supports 15W fast charging and a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner. The Galaxy M11 will go on sale in India at a starting price of ₹10,999 for the 3GB+32GB variant.

Vivo has also launched the Vivo TWS Neo true wireless earphones along with the X50 smartphone series in China. They come with 4th generation Qualcomm chipset and Bluetooth 5.2, which according to Vivo, allows aptX Adaptive to deliver &ldquo;near CD quality&rdquo; audio. The earbuds can automatically switch to 88ms low latency mode and have a large 14.2mm drivers that feature DeepX audio effect for strong bass, clear voice and treble. They are IP54-rated, have touch controls and feature a two-microphone system with noise reduction during voice calls. The Vivo TWS Neo earbuds are priced at &yen;499 (~₹5,300).

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