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Truecaller Voicemail Feature Launched for Android Users in India With Transcription in 12 Regional Languages
Truecaller launched a free Voicemail feature for Android users in India. This offers instant transcription, and messages are stored directly on the device. It also offers smart call categorisation, spam filtering, adjustable playback speed and AI-powered voicemail transcription in 12 Indian languages. Truecaller users can set up unlimited voicemail...
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Go Plan Is Now Available for Free: Know How to Get It
ChatGPT Go is now available for free in India for the next 12 months, a promotion tied to OpenAI’s DevDay Exchange event in the country. The plan, normally priced at Rs. 399 per month, sits between the free tier and ChatGPT Plus, offering extended access to GPT-5 and higher usage limits for messages, uploads, and image generation. Users can activ...
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ChatGPT Go: All You Need to Know About OpenAI's Plan to Offer One-Year Access to ChatGPT Go for Free in India
OpenAI will reportedly offer all Indian users a free one-year ChatGPT Go subscription starting November 4, 2025, ahead of its first DevDay Exchange event in Bengaluru. Launched in August 2025 as a mid-tier plan at Rs. 399 per month, ChatGPT Go is claimed to provide 10 times higher limits for messages, image generation, and file uploads, along with ...
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WhatsApp Begins Testing Feature That Lets Users Manage Storage Directly Within the Chat Window
WhatsApp is reportedly testing a new feature for its Android app, which makes managing storage an easier process. As per details shared by a feature tracker, the Meta-owned instant messaging platform is working on a new quick option that lets users monitor and free up storage space directly from the conversation window, eliminating the need to navi...
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Spotify Users Can Now Send Direct Messages to Each Other to Share Music, Podcasts
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 wi...
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Beeper Messaging App Updated With On-Device Accounts, Support for End-to-End Encryption
Beeper has been updated with support for on-device connections to WhatsApp, Telegram, Messenger, Instagram, and Google Chat, ensuring end-to-end encryption (E2EE) without relying on Beeper Cloud. The app's core features remain free, but a new Beeper Plus subscription will unlock additional features and customisation options.
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Perplexity Assistant for Android With Image Analysis and Web Search Introduced
Perplexity introduced a virtual assistant for Android devices on Thursday. Powered by the company’s answer engine, the artificial intelligence (AI) assistant can answer questions, generate messages, as well as perform some app-based tasks as well. Additionally, the Perplexity Assistant also has multimodal capabilities and can access the user’s ...
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GitHub Copilot Free Version With 2,000 Code Completion Per Month Launched for All Developers
GitHub launched a free tier of the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Copilot on Wednesday. The platform’s Copilot is geared towards coding-related tasks and comes with several third-party agents, extensions and features such as multi-file editing. The free version of the chatbot comes with higher rate limits in code completions and chat messag...
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Apple App Store’s Top Apps and Games of 2024 in India Announced: WhatsApp, Instagram, BGMI and More
Apple on Monday announced its annual year-end charts of the most downloaded apps and games on the App Store in over 35 countries, including India. WhatsApp — the popular instant messaging platform owned by Meta Platforms — has emerged as the top free iPhone app. Meanwhile, the Forest: Focus for Productivity app, which helps users put down their...
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Gemini AI Assistant Reportedly Getting Support for WhatsApp and Spotify via Extensions
Gemini virtual assistant on Android is reportedly getting new capabilities. The artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot was integrated into the operating system as an alternative to Google Assistant. With AI capabilities, the Gemini AI assistant could answer queries, generate text, and search the web. Now, Gemini is said to be getting extension capabi...
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Telegram Chief Pavel Durov Charged, Banned From Leaving France
The chief of Telegram Pavel Durov on Wednesday was charged by the French judiciary with a litany of violations related to the messaging app but allowed to go free while being banned from leaving the country.
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Microsoft Copilot for Telegram Released in Beta, Available to All Users for Free
Microsoft Copilot is now available on the popular messaging app Telegram. The tech giant integrated its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot with Telegram on Tuesday, extending its capabilities within the app. Telegram users can now converse with, ask questions, and search the internet with the Copilot. Currently, the feature is released in beta, a...
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WhatsApp Chat History and Media Backups on Android Will Soon Take Up Space on Google Account Storage
WhatsApp chat history and media backups for Android users are stored separately from their Google account cloud storage. With backups of the popular instant messaging app not taking up space on Google accounts, Android users have had the benefit of additional cloud storage space available for their photos, videos, emails and other files. That is go...
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How Snapchat's AR Creators Are Developing and Monetising AR Content in India: Interview With Snapchat's Joe Darko
Snapchat has been working on features centred around AR for years, and is now helping creators monetise content on the photo and video messaging service. We sat down with Joe Darko, Snap's Global Head of AR Developer Relations, to understand the firm's AR content plans, the creator economy in India, and the launch of AR-related hardware from Snap.
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Elon Musk Urged by UN to Ensure Human Rights Are Central to Management of Twitter
Elon Musk was urged by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk on Saturday, to "ensure human rights are central to the management of Twitter". The message from Türk was issued after reports that Musk had fired the entire team working on human rights on the microblogging platform. In his letter, Türk urged Twitter to stand up for the r...
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Truecaller Voicemail Feature Launched for Android Users in India With Transcription in 12 Regional Languages
Truecaller launched a free Voicemail feature for Android users in India. This offers instant transcription, and messages are stored directly on the device. It also offers smart call categorisation, spam filtering, adjustable playback speed and AI-powered voicemail transcription in 12 Indian languages. Truecaller users can set up unlimited voicemail...
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Go Plan Is Now Available for Free: Know How to Get It
ChatGPT Go is now available for free in India for the next 12 months, a promotion tied to OpenAI’s DevDay Exchange event in the country. The plan, normally priced at Rs. 399 per month, sits between the free tier and ChatGPT Plus, offering extended access to GPT-5 and higher usage limits for messages, uploads, and image generation. Users can activ...
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ChatGPT Go: All You Need to Know About OpenAI's Plan to Offer One-Year Access to ChatGPT Go for Free in India
OpenAI will reportedly offer all Indian users a free one-year ChatGPT Go subscription starting November 4, 2025, ahead of its first DevDay Exchange event in Bengaluru. Launched in August 2025 as a mid-tier plan at Rs. 399 per month, ChatGPT Go is claimed to provide 10 times higher limits for messages, image generation, and file uploads, along with ...
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WhatsApp Begins Testing Feature That Lets Users Manage Storage Directly Within the Chat Window
WhatsApp is reportedly testing a new feature for its Android app, which makes managing storage an easier process. As per details shared by a feature tracker, the Meta-owned instant messaging platform is working on a new quick option that lets users monitor and free up storage space directly from the conversation window, eliminating the need to navi...
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Spotify Users Can Now Send Direct Messages to Each Other to Share Music, Podcasts
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 wi...
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Beeper Messaging App Updated With On-Device Accounts, Support for End-to-End Encryption
Beeper has been updated with support for on-device connections to WhatsApp, Telegram, Messenger, Instagram, and Google Chat, ensuring end-to-end encryption (E2EE) without relying on Beeper Cloud. The app's core features remain free, but a new Beeper Plus subscription will unlock additional features and customisation options.
-
Perplexity Assistant for Android With Image Analysis and Web Search Introduced
Perplexity introduced a virtual assistant for Android devices on Thursday. Powered by the company’s answer engine, the artificial intelligence (AI) assistant can answer questions, generate messages, as well as perform some app-based tasks as well. Additionally, the Perplexity Assistant also has multimodal capabilities and can access the user’s ...
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GitHub Copilot Free Version With 2,000 Code Completion Per Month Launched for All Developers
GitHub launched a free tier of the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Copilot on Wednesday. The platform’s Copilot is geared towards coding-related tasks and comes with several third-party agents, extensions and features such as multi-file editing. The free version of the chatbot comes with higher rate limits in code completions and chat messag...
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Apple App Store’s Top Apps and Games of 2024 in India Announced: WhatsApp, Instagram, BGMI and More
Apple on Monday announced its annual year-end charts of the most downloaded apps and games on the App Store in over 35 countries, including India. WhatsApp — the popular instant messaging platform owned by Meta Platforms — has emerged as the top free iPhone app. Meanwhile, the Forest: Focus for Productivity app, which helps users put down their...
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Gemini AI Assistant Reportedly Getting Support for WhatsApp and Spotify via Extensions
Gemini virtual assistant on Android is reportedly getting new capabilities. The artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot was integrated into the operating system as an alternative to Google Assistant. With AI capabilities, the Gemini AI assistant could answer queries, generate text, and search the web. Now, Gemini is said to be getting extension capabi...
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Telegram Chief Pavel Durov Charged, Banned From Leaving France
The chief of Telegram Pavel Durov on Wednesday was charged by the French judiciary with a litany of violations related to the messaging app but allowed to go free while being banned from leaving the country.
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Microsoft Copilot for Telegram Released in Beta, Available to All Users for Free
Microsoft Copilot is now available on the popular messaging app Telegram. The tech giant integrated its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot with Telegram on Tuesday, extending its capabilities within the app. Telegram users can now converse with, ask questions, and search the internet with the Copilot. Currently, the feature is released in beta, a...
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WhatsApp Chat History and Media Backups on Android Will Soon Take Up Space on Google Account Storage
WhatsApp chat history and media backups for Android users are stored separately from their Google account cloud storage. With backups of the popular instant messaging app not taking up space on Google accounts, Android users have had the benefit of additional cloud storage space available for their photos, videos, emails and other files. That is go...
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How Snapchat's AR Creators Are Developing and Monetising AR Content in India: Interview With Snapchat's Joe Darko
Snapchat has been working on features centred around AR for years, and is now helping creators monetise content on the photo and video messaging service. We sat down with Joe Darko, Snap's Global Head of AR Developer Relations, to understand the firm's AR content plans, the creator economy in India, and the launch of AR-related hardware from Snap.
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Elon Musk Urged by UN to Ensure Human Rights Are Central to Management of Twitter
Elon Musk was urged by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk on Saturday, to "ensure human rights are central to the management of Twitter". The message from Türk was issued after reports that Musk had fired the entire team working on human rights on the microblogging platform. In his letter, Türk urged Twitter to stand up for the r...
