Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 3:10AM 
It’s something that Giphy Cam does but now baked into Google’s Allo messenger. The chat app will let you record selfie clips that come out as looped GIFs to show a more personalized reply to a message. The update, according to Allo’s Head of Product Amit Fulay, is now available to all users. So if you love GIFs, now’s a good time to download Allo.
Source: Engadget
Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 2:15AM 
When it comes out, Essential Home will be the first smart speaker to come with Siri. Apple has to catch up now.
While Apple has the HomeKit platform, it doesn’t have its own smart home speaker like Google Home, Amazon Echo, and soon-to-arrive Essential Home. But that might change and it’s going to happen sooner than later. It’s being rumoured that Apple will be unveiling a Siri-powered speaker at its Worldwide Developers Conference next week. But you mustn’t expect it to be available immediately. It’s being pegged for a fall release.
Making its own smart home speaker will be advantageous for Apple in terms of getting users to stay exclusively with its products. It’ll serve as a hub for all the HomeKit accessories and will help in a way promote its other products. For example, it will use Apple Music in place of the other music streaming services when you ask it to play a song. The product is rumoured to be getting virtual surround sound technology and conflicting reports are out about whether it’ll have a screen or not. If there is any truth to the rumours, we’re about to hear about it pretty soon.
Source: Mashable
Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 1:12AM 
Google promised at Google I/O that Daydream VR was getting Chromecast streaming support later in the year with the arrival of Daydream 2.0. But it looks like Samsung and Oculus one-upped Google and brought Chromecast streaming support to the Gear VR. The newest version of the Oculus app will now show a Cast button at the top right corner. When you tap on that, it’ll ask you to select the Chromecast-enabled device you want to stream to.
Source: Droid Life
Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 12:25AM 
OnePlus 5 has been rumoured for quite a while now and we might be seeing it in two weeks or so—if the leaked posters are real, that is. A user of Chinese microblogging Weibo posted an image of a supposed OnePlus event happening on June 15th at 15:00 local time. While the words OnePlus 5 aren’t mentioned, it has been talked about enough in the past few months that it might be a safe assumption. However, there isn’t a guarantee yet of the veracity of this poster so it’s best to manage your expectations.
What is known about the upcoming OnePlus flagship is it’ll be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor, the main camera will be made with DxOMark, and it’ll have a fingerprint sensor on the front as well as retain the 3.5mm audio jack.
Source: BGR
