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Semi conductor company Qualcomm has found new ways to input audio into its AllPlay WiFi streaming. The company’s new feature supports Bluetooth feature in addition to analog audio input on supported platform.

Bluetooth is a feature that has become an effective method for streaming music wirelessly to speakers input so it’s not a surprise that Qualcomm has begun supporting the device. The company also made an announcement regarding an EQ feature that will be made available to designers to add in their AllPlay enabled application.

The company has decreased the audio latency of AllPlay feature to less than hundred milliseconds in order that user home won’t produce sound like a huge echo chamber, while streaming audio to several products.

Technologies companies like Microsoft and Google are rivals, but now they have decided to join hands to improve experience for mobile and handheld device users. According to reports, the Redmond, Washington-headquartered Microsoft and Mountain View, California-headquartered Google have been joining forces to make mobile-friendly web browsing.

According to Microsoft, it is going to launch a new feature for Bing. Bing will make changes in its search algorithm pattern. In addition, it will search and rank mobile-friendly websites better compared to websites with desktop only version.

Social networking and news website, Reddit, has received numerous complaints about online harassment of its users. In addition, the recent surveys have suggested that the website’s popularity is continuously declining due to the issue. Now, the company has added some new policies that according to the company will help in reining harassment of users by other users.

Administrators, who have been managing the website, announced on Thursday in a blog post that online harassment was becoming an issue and they are not in mood to tolerate harassment of users on their website.

Launch of Apple’s HomeKit has been delayed after sources reported that the technology firm's Internet of Things software framework was experiencing delays.

Apple PR on the other hand said that the launch is on track and will be on scheduled time.

Apple was widely expected to launch its HomeKit devices in May or June this year (i.e. now), but now there are suspects that the launch is being pushed back until August or September.

The products will have to match the Apple’s security standards for integration on the proprietary framework, which for Apple, will mean smaller ‘partners’ will be sacrificing control for a small percentage of financial return.

HomeKit will connect multiple smart home devices together, allowing them to talk to the iPhone but also to each other.

United Airlines has launched a bug bounty program which offers air miles as a reward for researchers who discover flaws in its web portals.

The Bug bounty programs are increasingly gaining popularity as incidents of cybercrime are increasing.

Companies such as Google and Facebook use these programs to let the third-parties and users to keep an eye on their systems and also former reward for disclosure to lure hackers away from selling the information on the black market.

United Airlines, however, has chosen to offer air miles, for the task, depending on the severity of the bug discovered instead of cash.

The scientists at the Oregon State University have found a 100 million-year-old specimen of grass that could contest to be the oldest on earth. The specimen was found in Myanmar, preserved in amber.

The evolutionary age of grass has been intensively studied. Previously, the earliest dated grasses have been maximum 55 million-years old but the latest finding will push it to 100 million-years. The research has thus, backtracked the grass evolution to the Late Cretaceous period.