Tue 24 January 2023: Iran ranked second in the world for internet censorship in 2022 after frequently cutting off the internet in some regions of the country and restricting access to social media sites to quell uprisings sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death. This led to Iran being placed second on the list of the world’s […]
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Tue 24 January 2023: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp has rolled out a much-needed feature that automatically blocks taking screenshots of a view once messages. With this feature of WhatsApp, it is possible to send a ‘view once’ message without worries about the receiver taking a screenshot. How WhatsApp blocks view only message? Whenever users send […]
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Mon 23 January 2023: For many of the authoritarian regimes in the Middle East, technology has long been a tool to enable digital repression. These states are increasingly using information technology to suppress the flow of information, censor content, and even surveil citizens. In this episode: Marc Owen Jones (@marcowenjones), associate professor of Middle East Studies […]
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Mon 23 January 2023: The most recent stable version of WhatsApp has been made available to iPhone users. The update, which can be downloaded by iOS users from the Apple App Store, now allows users to search for messages by date. Users may now drag and drop files from other apps into the messaging app […]
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Sat 21 January 2023: WhatsApp, owned by Meta, is developing a new feature that would enable users to share photographs at their original quality. According to WABetaInfo, the platform plans to incorporate a new setting icon within the drawing tool header that would allow users to configure the quality of any photo. Users will have […]
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Fri 20 January 2023: Instagram now has a new ‘Quiet mode,’ which allows users to pause notifications whenever they want to take a break from the social networking platform. Users will not receive notifications once the new mode is enabled, and their profile’s activity status will change to notify others, the company said in a […]
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Fri 20 January 2023: It will likely survive, but only after more firms and currencies crash and burn. Here’s why. As the Los Angeles Rams beat the Cincinnati Bengals in the championship game of the National Football League last February, an unlikely set of players made a splash off the field, in living rooms across […]
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Thu 19 January 2023: Twitter, which is now owned by Elon Musk, has raised the monthly fee for its Blue service for Android users to $11. Twitter Blue plan starts at $8/month or $84/year in available countries to get the blue checkmark in addition to early access to features. “All Twitter Blue features will be […]
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Thu 19 January 2023: Mo Gawdat, author and former chief business officer at Google X, predicts that AI will become a billion times smarter than humans. The time is now, he says, to influence it with the right ethics to have humanity’s best interests in mind. Artificial intelligence is becoming unavoidable with smart devices in […]
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Wed 18 January 2023: Former US President Donald Trump is planning a social media comeback on Facebook and Twitter after being banned from both platforms. This unfolds as Trump gets ready to run for president of the United States. According to several sources, the Trump campaign team had already petitioned Facebook’s parent company, Meta, to […]
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