Google Android 10 GO edition got released on the 3rd of September in 2019. Google calls off the tradition of naming their major version OS after desserts through the announcement of branding their “Android Q” OS as “Android 10”. Besides the Google Pixel devices, the Android 10 GO would comply with many other Smartphones. Let’s see what it offers!

• Live Caption

Google’s Android 10 Go Edition is smart enough to add captions whenever you start playing any media file – like, audio message, video, image, podcast, etc. – on your adorable phone. Interestingly, this amazing featurecan work without internet or WiFi connection.

If you love taking selfies or capturing videos every now and then, the ‘Live Caption’ feature would be a blessing for you. It canautomatically includesubtitles on whatever you capture or record. All you need to do is, touching the volume button, then tapping the related icon.

• Smart Reply

While someone messages you, the Android 10 GO’s‘Smart Reply’ option can discern intention of that message content and wittily show suggestive response without delay. It offers a clever way to maintain communication with other people investing limited time and energy. 

This ‘Smart Reply’ feature not only suggests relevant replies, but also offers related actions. For instance, it can display directions on the Google map, if someone asks you for an address. This cool feature complies with diverse messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal etc.

• Sound Amplifier

What if you are working in a noisy zone and receiving important calls at the same time? The surrounding noisemight interfere your hearing to the conversation. To overcome these kinds of situations, the Android 10 GO Operating system is programmed with‘Sound Amplifier’feature.

This handy feature can efficiently filter the background echoes and noises. Boosting the sound system of your phone, it can improve the audio quality. Furthermore, it can fine tune the sounds so you can listen to lectures, music or conversation more comfortably.

• Gesture Navigation

Google has improved its‘Gesture Navigation’ system in the latest Android 10 Go edition. Unlike the Android Pie’s One-Button mechanism, the Gesture control system appears under a thin bar in Android 10 without taking much space on the screen. Itsintuitive navigation system allows the user to swipe forward or backward easily to access different apps or return the home screen in a fasterway.

• Dark Theme

Extensive use of Smartphones not only hurts the eyes but also attenuates the battery-power. Thanks to Google for bringing ‘Dark Theme’feature in the new Android 10 GO version. It’s high-end ‘Force Dark’ option can open the apps – which lack integrated Dark Mode – automatically through offering darker schemes. This eye-soothing dark mode saves the battery power keeping it alive for long hours.

• Privacy Controls

Google OS Android 10’s improved design integrates all the Privacy Control options in one place. Now you can alter your privacy setting easily within a few moments.

• Location Controls

Google Android 10 gives you the scope to choose whether you wanna share your location with various apps. You can also decide when or how long you would like to turn ‘ON/OFF’ the location sharing option of your Smartphone.

• Security Updates

When the apps of your Smartphone are not updated regularly, it runs the risk of getting attacked by malwares, virus, or even hackers. Don’t worry! Android 10’s advanced ‘Security Updates’ feature can appear as a savior! It fetches the latest Security fixes, and privacy updates keeping the OS up-to-the-minute.

• Focus Mode

It is quite annoying when your Smartphone is overloaded with a number of distracting, unused or less necessary apps, which you don’t wanna delete right at this moment. Android 10 OS is blessed with ‘Focus Mode’ which gives you the opportunity to pause or turn off an unwanted app – through a single tap – temporarily until you want it back.

• Family Link

Are you a cautious parent who wannamonitor the actions and presence of own kids round the clock? If yes, then check out the ‘Family Link’ feature of Google Android 10 GO Edition. This pragmatic feature assists you in setting the Smartphone’s screen time.

Using this feature you can limit the access of your kids to different apps or web contents. Moreover, you can stay updated about your kid’s movement through tracing out the current location of the device. What else you need?

Bottom Line

After pioneering the domain of search engine, Google is emerging to the other branches of technology. With the launch of Android 10, Google hasproved itself as an indomitable power in the realm of developing Operating Systems (OS). The Google Android 10 GO OS presents a number of pragmatic and user-friendly features which makeit out win the predecessors.

If you love gadgets and are tech savvy enough to feel the need to stay up to date at all times, then you are already considering smartwatches. Even traditional watch companies like Fossil are beginning to manufacture these, so why should you stay back from putting one on your wrist? But with any hefty purchase, a little pros and cons list can’t hurt. Read on to find out if smartwatches are all that they say they are!

First and most obvious on the ‘pros’ list goes: the mobility. As if your smartphone wasn’t ‘mobile’ enough, just like the wires now they have you losing the whole device too! Smartwatches let you not just check the time but also your email and social media notifications all on one small circle display right on your hands.

With the rise of bike rides in the city, even bluetooth earphones have been left behind with the arrival of smartwatches. The watch itself vibrates to let you know of an incoming call so you no longer have to miss hearing a ringtone or miss the vibration in any hustle or bustle, and can decide to receive and talk right then and there.

If you are a person who travels a lot, especially in a two wheeler where smartphone mounts are not reliable, a smartwatch can show you the map right at your convenience.

Smartwatches analyze your sleep data, and keep a count of your steps every day, making it an interesting method of tracking your health and remaining fit.

Unlike a normal watch, you can change the dial or watch face every day to avoid redundancy and stay stylish.

However, if you enjoy long conversations with your friends, or make long business relevant calls, smartwatch cannot serve you well with that low volume. 

You can only check your social media notifications or fitness statistics for so long, with a battery that does not last as long as a smartphone would. This remains the biggest on the ‘cons’ list for smartwatches. Smartwatches typically can be used 1-2 days after a full charge and some watches do not even last for a day.

Even though smartwatches are able to provide you tonnes of data regarding your exercise and fitness, many smartwatch tests shows that the data is not 100% accurate and not even 80% sometimes. The steps calculator and heart rate sensors are not known for accuracy in a smartwatch. Hopefully the brands are working on improving the sensor feedback and analyzing the data. And if fitness tracking is your primary concern, there are definitely more suitable options for that.

They say you can watch movies and listen to music on a smartwatch, but the small display might make that a little difficult for you.

Other factors such as getting outdated quickly, being expensive, and bands getting damaged through constant water interaction, does not make the smartwatch a must-have. 

Having read all that, you can finally ask yourself, are you being smart with your smartwatch?

Contributor: Sumaiya Kabir 

Twitter’s new ban on political ads will cover appeals for votes, solicitations for campaign contributions and any political content. But the company quickly acknowledged Friday that it expects to make mistakes as individuals and groups look for loopholes.

Twitter is defining political content to include any ad that references a candidate, political party, government official, ballot measure, or legislative or judicial outcome. The ban also applies to all ads — even non-political ones — from candidates, political parties and elected or appointed government officials.

However, Twitter is allowing ads related to social causes such as climate change, gun control and abortion. People and groups running such ads won’t be able to target those ads down to a user’s ZIP code or use political categories such as “conservative” or “liberal.” Rather, targeting must be kept broad, based on a user’s state or province, for instance.

News organizations will be exempt so they can promote stories that cover political issues. While Twitter has issued guidelines for what counts as a news organization — single-issue advocacy outlets don’t qualify, for instance — it’s unclear if this will be enough prevent partisan websites from promoting political content.

Twitter announced its worldwide ban on political ads Oct. 30, but didn’t release details until Friday. The policy, which goes into effect next Friday, is in stark contrast to Facebook’s approach of allowing political ads, even if they contain false information. Facebook has said it wants to provide politicians with a "level playing field" for communication and not intervene when they speak, regardless of what they're saying.

Response to Twitter’s ban has been strong and mixed, with critics questioning the company’s ability to enforce the new policy given its poor history banning hate speech and abuse from its service. The company acknowledges it will make mistakes but says it’s better to start addressing the issue now rather than wait until all the kinks are worked out.

Aside from ongoing concerns about foreign elections interference, the political advertising issue rose to the forefront in recent months as Twitter, along with Facebook and Google, refused to remove a misleading video ad from President Donald Trump’s campaign that targeted Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

In response, Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, another presidential hopeful, ran her own ad on Facebook taking aim at Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The ad claimed — admittedly falsely to make its point — that Zuckerberg endorsed Trump for re-election.

Over the past several weeks, Facebook has been pressed to change its policy. But it was Twitter instead that jumped in with its bombshell ban.

Drew Margolin, a Cornell University communications professor who studies social networks, said Twitter’s broad ban is a reflection that “vetting is not realistic and is potentially unfair.”

He said a TV network might be in a position to vet all political ads, but Twitter and Facebook cannot easily do so. While their reliance on automated systems makes online ads easier and cheaper to run, Margolin said it also makes them an “attractive target” for spreading misinformation.

Political advertising makes up a small sliver of Twitter's overall revenue. The company does not break out specific figures each quarter, but said political ad spending for the 2018 midterm election was less than $3 million. It reported $824 million in third-quarter revenue.

Because of this, the ban is unlikely to have a big effect on overall political advertising, where television still accounts for the majority of the money spent. In digital ads, Google and Facebook dominate.

Unlike Facebook, which has weathered most of the criticism, Google has been relatively quiet on its political ads policy. It has taken a similar stance to Facebook and does not review whether political ads tell the truth.

Twitter, Facebook and Google already take steps to prevent political manipulation by verifying the identities of some political advertisers — measures prompted by the furor over Moscow's interference. But the verifying systems, which rely on both humans and automated systems, have not been perfect.

China’s government has issued a plan to promote high-tech manufacturing after discarding a strategy that helped trigger a tariff war with Washington.

A statement Friday by the Cabinet’s planning agency calls for the government to help manufacturers in autos, electronics and other fields. It gives few details about how that will be carried out or whether it will involve potentially contentious market barriers or subsidies.

A previous development plan, “Made in China 2025,” called for government-led creation of Chinese global competitors in robotics, electric cars and other fields.

The United States and other trading partners complained that “Made in China 2025” and other plans based on subsidizing or shielding fledgling Chinese industries from competition would violate Beijing’s market-opening obligations.

Chinese tech giant Huawei is selling a folding smartphone without Google apps or U.S.-made processor chips following sanctions imposed by Washington.

The Mate X went on sale Friday on Huawei’s online store in China priced at 16,999 yuan ($2,422) and competes with Samsung’s Galaxy Fold launched in September.

Huawei Technologies Ltd. is scrambling to preserve its business following U.S. controls imposed in May on sales of American components and technology to the company, which Washington says is a security risk.

The Mate X uses Huawei’s Kirin 980 and Balong 5000 chipset and Chinese alternatives to Google music, maps and other services.

Huawei has yet to announce plans for sales outside China.