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Retail Asia24/01/2023

Last month, Consumer Reports said 23 of the 28 dark chocolate bars it tested included potentially harmful levels of lead, cadmium or both for people who eat more than one ounce of chocolate a day. Five had elevated levels of both metals: two from Theo, and one each from Hershey-owned Lily’s, Mondelez-owned Green & Black’s, […]

Retail Asia11/02/2021

An important update is now rolling out to Alexa app users on iOS devices. The update adds support for both Light and Dark modes, allowing users to switch between them on the fly, as well as Dynamic Type support. The update is meant to further improve Alexa’s accessibility features. Thanks to the newly added Dynamic Type support, […]

Retail Asia30/06/2020

What do you do when your social-media site is under attack because of your policies that allow offensive posts and posts filled with hatred to ferment until they blow up? Why you start pushing out Dark mode for the mobile version of your site. Of course, we are talking about Facebook. The social-media giant has […]

Retail Asia22/05/2020

A tweet from the Google SearchLiaison reveals that starting today and for the remainder of the week, Google will be disseminating an update for the Google Search app for Android 10, iOS 12, and iOS 13. By default, the app will follow the system-wide setting of your phone. So if your iOS or Android device […]

Retail Asia19/02/2020

Another reason to use Dark Mode is to preserve the battery life on handsets that sport an AMOLED display. That’s because such panels create the color black by turning off the pixels in the appropriate area of the screen. Pixels that are turned off do not draw on the phone’s battery, saving some power. Dark […]

Retail Asia24/01/2020

Facebook has been trying to implement the long-awaited dark theme into its Android app for many months, which isn’t something unusual. We’ve been hearing reports about the company’s struggles to finalize the feature, but it looks like Facebook’s endeavor turned into a marathon rather than a sprint. Starting today, a lot more people have started […]

Retail Asia12/11/2019

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Whether you’re using Android or iOS, Dark theme is all the rage these days. Both Android 10 and iOS 13 feature system-wide Dark theme settings and more and more apps are including such an option. Why? for a couple of reasons, really. At night, or in a darkened room, the usual white background (with black […]

Retail Asia10/10/2019

Apple Music beta experimented with a couple of new features that were made available to testers not long ago. Starting today, all those features added to the beta app are available to everyone who uses the Apple Music app on their Android phones. First and foremost, Apple Music now has a brand new dark mode, specially […]

Retail Asia25/06/2019

Google slowly introduced us to the systemwide dark mode in Android Q by painting its own apps in morbid colors on a piecemeal basis. It brushed over the Phone app, Contacts, Calendar, Keep notes, you name it. Apple, however, will be going all out with the iOS 13 dark mode, it seems, theming the launcher, toggles and […]

Retail Asia14/06/2019

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Samsung continues to improve the Galaxy S10 family with important new features and additional functionality. The upcoming update focuses on camera enhancements by adding a couple of nifty new features, as well as improvements to the phones’ performance when taking night shots. As the title says, it appears that the Galaxy S10’s decent Night mode has just […]

Retail Asia17/05/2019

If your eyes feel strained at the end of every day, it could be because of Google’s Material Design, which it is using on many of its core apps. Because Material Design uses plenty of bright white background, it can be blinding to look at at night or in a dark room. Not only can […]

Retail Asia02/05/2019

Facebook has been widely testing Messenger’s dark mode for about a month now, and while the feature might have been available for everyone, you couldn’t enable it from the settings menu. The only way to enable dark mode in Messenger was to send a crescent moon emoji in any chat, an Easter Egg activation available on […]

Retail Asia04/04/2019

There are two words that when seen in print by a smartphone user, will instantly get him or her to react by installing a particular app, or checking to see if an update has been received for an app already installed. Those two words are Dark Mode. This is a feature that reverses the typical […]

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Consumer Reports urges dark chocolate makers to reduce lead, cadmium levels

Amazon brings Dark and Light modes to Alexa app on iOS devices

Facebook testing Dark mode for iOS

Google Search gets dark mode settings toggle for iOS and Android

Beta version of popular Google app gets Dark Mode for all Android users

Facebook dark theme rolling out to more Android users

Two variations of Dark theme are reportedly being developed for the iOS version of WhatsApp

Apple Music massive update adds dark mode

Apple’s new Reminders app dark theme leaks out

Samsung Galaxy S10 update adds Night mode improvements

Google adds Dark mode to an Android Apps

Facebook Messenger dark mode now Available

WhatsApp closer to protecting the retinas of Androids