Huawei AppGallery has 530 million monthly active users and 83% increase in app distribution
Currently, the platform has over 2.3 million registered developers. This is up by 77 percent from last year and also counts 300,000 developers outside China. AppGallery’s global audience has grown to 530 million monthly active users (MAUs), and increased in Europe by 61.5% year-on-year to more than 42 million users.
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Amazon has released the Alexa Conversations feature of the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) to the general public
Alexa Conversations is aimed at simplifying the process of building voice apps and making them more user-friendly. It utilizes AI innovations to better understand humans so developers don’t have to figure out everything a user might say while interacting with it. With Alexa Conversations, a chatbot can predict the next steps in the dialog based on the entire conversation’s history and the capabilities of the developer’s API, Drew Meyer, head of Alexa Everywhere, said.
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New products
Oppo F19 Pro+
F19 Pro+ will have a 6.4-inch AMOLED display, Dimensity 800U processor and a 64 MP main camera.
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Realme X9 Pro
The phone will have a 6.4-inch FHD+ display, Dimensity 1200 processor, 12 GB of RAM and 128 GB / 256 GB of storage. It will come with a 4,500mAh battery.
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The far-right social media platform Gab has been hacked
Private messages from s15,000 Gab users were used to create a dataset of more than 40 million posts from the site, including private posts. Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), a self-proclaimed “transparency collective,” claim they have received more than 70GB of data from the hackers.
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Volvo will sell only electric vehicles by 2030
Volvo said its goal is to have half of its global sales to be fully electric cars by 2025, with the remaining half made up of hybrids. The company claims that the electric vehicles will be sold exclusively online. Showrooms representing Volvo will be used to service cars, provide pick-up points for vehicles and offer in-store advice, as well as displaying some available models.
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