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The Pixel phones and the Google Home speakers all fall under Google's 'Made by Google' brand. This unit was started some three years ago by the company, before which Google was dabbling in other hardware like Nexus. Now, Google is ready to make its products more sustainable. In a tweet shared by the company, Google says that starting 2022, 100 percent of its 'Made by Google' products will include recycled materials and will maximize recycled content whenever possible. Google's Anna Meegan, Head of Sustainability, Consumer Hardware further wrote in the blog that by 2020, 100 percent of all the company shipments going to or from customers will be carbon neutral. This announcement adds to Google's existing efforts to be sustainable. Google says that between 2017 to 2018, it cut its product shipment carbon emissions by 40 percent. Google also announced its Power Project, which will apparently provide "one million energy-saving Nest thermostats to...

"According to Instagram, ads will be introduced “slowly and thoughtfully” in the Explore feed, making the user experience easy and natural” I nstagram has evolved in leaps and bounds over the past few years to become one of the most engaged and popular social media platforms in the world. The photo-sharing platform offers great visual appeal for its users, who flock to it to follow personalities, latest events, brands and trends prevalent across the world at the moment . Tapping into the latter two factors of user behaviour, the Facebook-owned service has announced that it will be gradually rolling out advertisements in its Explore Feed. T he Instagram Explore feed is the personalised content chain that every user sees based on the type of content they like to browse and view on the platform. In fact, Instagram claims that the Explore feed is among the most popular as well, with more than 50 percent of its users checking the feed at least once every month. It is t...

Facebook has finally revealed the details of its cryptocurrency,   Libra  , which will let you buy things or send money to people with nearly zero fees . You’ll pseudonymously buy or cash out your Libra online or at local exchange points like grocery stores, and spend it using interoperable third-party wallet apps or Facebook’s own Calibra wallet that will be built into WhatsApp, Messenger and its own app. Day before yesterday Facebook released its white paper explaining Libra and its testnet for working out the kinks of its blockchain system before a public launch in the first half of 2020. Facebook won’t fully control Libra, but instead get just a single vote in its governance like other founding members of the Libra Association, including Visa, Uber and Andreessen Horowitz , which have invested at least $10 million each into the project’s operations. The association will promote the open-sourced Libra Blockchain and developer platform with its own Move progra...