Fri 05 August 2022: To curb abusive texts, Meta-owned messaging company WhatsApp will soon launch a new tool that will allow group administrators to erase messages for everyone. According to WABetaInfo, the platform is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.22.17.12 and that will let group […]
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Thu 04 August 2022: A robot that can dive deep into the water to find buried planes and shipwrecks has been developed by scientists at Stanford University in California. OceanOneK, a humanoid that can be operated remotely, responds to the operator, known as a “virtual diver,” giving them the feeling that they are exploring the […]
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Tue 02 August 2022: TikTok parent company ByteDance is eyeing the music streaming market with the launch of “TikTok Music” and posing a threat to the major players like Spotify, Apple Must, and the rest after successfully dominating the short-video format market and giving Meta (previously Facebook) jitters. the company has submitted a trademark application […]
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Mon 01 August 2022: A group of North Korean hackers is using a malicious Microsoft Edge or Chrome extension to track or access user email accounts. According to cybersecurity company Volexity, the malicious extension created by the hacker collective known as “SharpTongue” is capable of stealing email content from AOL and Gmail. According to a […]
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Sat 30 July 2022: Brazilian authorities urged messaging platform WhatsApp to hold back the launch of a new “Communities” tool Friday until elections are held in October. The new feature would permit communications to be sent to 2,560 people simultaneously. Sao Paulo prosecutors argued in a letter sent to the company that the expansion of two non-application message groups […]
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Sat 30 July 2022: Researchers studying different social media platforms identify how algorithms play a key role in the dissemination of anti-Muslim content, prompting wider hate against the community. US Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar has often been a target of online hate. But much of the hate directed at her gets amplified through fake, algorithm-generated […]
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Fri 29 July 2022: By the end of 2023, the amount of content from suggested accounts that users see on Instagram and Facebook will double, according to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in an effort to engage users. The CEO of the tech giant stated that all forms of content, including text, images, links, group content, […]
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Thu 28 July 2022: Microsoft, a major player in the US technology industry, reported on Tuesday that its latest quarter’s earnings fell short of projections due to weak demand and supply disruptions from China hurting sales of personal computers. While the tech company’s $16.7 billion profit on $51.9 billion in revenue exceeded market expectations, it […]
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Wed 27 July 2022: The Play Store, a part of tech giant Google, has now received a new logo to commemorate its tenth anniversary. The tech giant has made a few minor adjustments to the general design of the Google Play Store logo, but the most noticeable modifications are the less vibrant colors that more […]
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Tue 26 July 2022: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is working on a feature that will let users keep disappearing messages even after their expiration. According to WABetaInfo report, the disappearing messages can be viewed within chat info in a new section called ‘Kept messages’, and all people in the conversation can open this section. When […]
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