Apps of the Week: Best Android, iOS and Windows Apps [07/12/18]

WhatsApp [19659002] The application has been one of the few applications that still support the platform with regular updates. Today, a new update has been released for Windows Phone users, bringing instant messaging to 2.18.206 and providing support for the private response feature again.

The feature was released on Android devices a month ago through beta update. It was added to Windows Phone about a year ago and then removed due to update issues.

Google Translate

The new Google Translate update aims to reduce gender trends in your translations. However, in some languages, translations appear in the masculine and feminine genres, if the terms requested allow such flexibility. Words like "strong" or "doctor" (doctor or doctor) were rather masculine; while "beautiful" and "nurse" tended towards the feminine.

Mercado Pago

Mercado Pago recently launched a QR code payment solution designed to simplify the lives of people who forget their wallet at home. Taking a step forward now to make your portfolio more attractive, the platform announces that the balance of users will automatically start paying.

Hangouts

The application is listed, but not an upgrade. The search giant is planning to shut down Hangouts activities by 2020. The messaging service should not last long, especially with similar tools provided by the company itself and shutdown. recent Chrome service plugin.

Facebook Messenger Lite

Facebook decided to take advantage of the end of the year to contemplate the lightest version of Messenger with a whole range of new features, always keeping the messenger in the size of 10 MB.

If you receive a GIF, the animation will appear automatically and you will also be able to send standard GIFs (standard format), although this is not possible via the application itself. even. In addition, it allows you to customize your conversations with different people and groups, change the color of the chat and even create nicknames for the people you are chatting with.

Microsoft Edge

Microsoft has ambitious plans with its official browser, Edge, and these include, in addition to the redesign, a multi-platform-based expansion engine on Chromium – the information clarifies rumors that the software would be supposed to be stopped in favor of launching a browser similar to Chrome.

The company revealed in an article of its official blog that the browser would come not only to older versions of Windows (including versions 7 and 8), but also to macOS, the operating system of Apple computers.

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