WhatsApp Business Accounts to Get New Message Rating Feature

WhatsApp has released a new beta for Android 2.21.22.7 update. The update brings along a new message rating feature that allows users to rate business account messages. Only received messages can be... https://ift.tt/3baIVhI

Zoom's Live Transcription Feature Now Available to All Free Users

Zoom now has an auto-generated closed captions feature for all free Zoom Meeting account holders. The new feature is also known as live transcriptions and provides automatic closed captioning during a... https://ift.tt/3b9ahF4

Samsung Galaxy Book Lineup Refreshed With Windows 11, 5G Connectivity

Samsung has launched its new Galaxy Book, Galaxy Book Odyssey, and the Galaxy Book Pro 360 5G laptops with 11th-generation Intel Core processors and Windows 11 support. https://ift.tt/3jESDO5

Chinese EV Maker Xpeng Unveils Flying Car That You Can Drive on Roads Too

Xpeng's affiliate HT Aero has showcased a flying car that it says will also drive on roads. It showcased the design of the vehicle that it is promising to roll out in 2024 https://ift.tt/3mcO2ED

Nigerian startup Autochek, which offers a marketplace for car sales, raises a $13.1M seed, following a $3.4M pre-seed in November 2020 (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)

Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch:
Nigerian startup Autochek, which offers a marketplace for car sales, raises a $13.1M seed, following a $3.4M pre-seed in November 2020  —  African automotive company Autochek has secured a $13.1 million seed round almost a year after raising $3.4 million pre-seed in November 2020.

Stripe partners with Klarna to let retailers in the US, UK, and Europe more easily offer a buy now, pay later option (Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan/Financial ...)

Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times:
Stripe partners with Klarna to let retailers in the US, UK, and Europe more easily offer a buy now, pay later option  —  Tie-up will allow retailers easily to add option for customers to pay in instalments at checkouts  —  Online payments processor Stripe has entered a strategic partnership with …

Uber and French grocery chain Carrefour partner to launch rapid grocery deliveries from nine micro-fulfillment centers across Paris (Ivan Levingston/Bloomberg)

Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg:
Uber and French grocery chain Carrefour partner to launch rapid grocery deliveries from nine micro-fulfillment centers across Paris  —  - Partnership is latest step in competitive local grocery sector  — Uber's EMEA grocery orders up 620% in September year-on-year

Nine UK schools pause plans to use facial recognition to take payments for lunches, following criticism from the UK's ICO (BBC)

BBC:
Nine UK schools pause plans to use facial recognition to take payments for lunches, following criticism from the UK's ICO  —  Nine schools in North Ayrshire have paused use of facial recognition technology days after introducing it, following UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) inquiries.

Docs: Facebook tested turning off News Feed ranking for 0.05% of users in Feb. 2018 and found engagement dropped, Groups content rose, and ad views increased (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
Docs: Facebook tested turning off News Feed ranking for 0.05% of users in Feb. 2018 and found engagement dropped, Groups content rose, and ad views increased  —  New leaked Facebook documents show what happened when Facebook tried to remove feed ranking.  It didn't go well.

All UPI money transfers, offline, online payments on PhonePe are free

India's leading digital payments platform PhonePe has clarified that all UPI money transfers, offline and online payments (across UPI, wallet, credit and debit cards), on the payment app are free, and they will continue to be free for all users. https://ift.tt/3EgULn1

150% increase in usage of Teams by frontline workers: Microsoft

Microsoft Teams platform has witnessed a 150 per cent increase in its usage among frontline workers over the last year, the company announced. https://ift.tt/2ZkfZBm

How to use the new SharePlay feature on your iPhone

The SharePlay feature gives users the ability to stream movies, TV, music and other media using FaceTime https://ift.tt/313XL88

Redmi Smart Band Pro May Launch With Redmi Note 11 Series on October 28

Redmi Smart Band Pro renders have leaked. A new report says that it may launch alongside the Redmi Note 11 series and the Redmi Watch 2. The Redmi Smart Band Pro design is expected to be similar to... https://ift.tt/3GnZRQb

Elon Musk Reveals Reason Behind Supporting Dogecoin

Elon Musk is known for his cryptic mini-tweets but in a rare switch, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO elaborated on his support for Dogecoin while also clarifying that he doesn't own any Shiba Inu tokens. https://ift.tt/3GmYvFz

Mastercard Partners Digital Wallet Bakkt to Offer Crypto Services in US

Under the deal, Mastercard users will be able to buy and hold crypto assets. Rewards will also be given to customers in cryptocurrencies. https://ift.tt/3CiOCWO