NEW DELHI: Facing criticism over its upcoming privacy policy, WhatsApp has said that its users will not immediately lose their accounts or face curtailed functionalities on the platform on May 15, but they will have to eventually go through limited functions if they fail to accept the new norms in the due course of time.

NEW DELHI: Facebook-owned Instagram has apologised for a technical bug that deleted the story posts by millions of users, including social activists, globally.
Instagram Head Adam Mosseri said in a tweet on Friday that the platform experienced a technical bug, which impacted millions of people's stories, highlights and archives around the world.

SAN FRANCISCO: A week after streaming media player Roku removed the YouTube TV app for new users, Google is countering by bringing the cord-cutting service to the main YouTube client.

NEW DELHI: After Apple gave users more control over their data sharing with app developers, Google has now pre-announced an upcoming safety section in Google Play that will help people understand the data an app collects or shares.

NEW DELHI: Twitter is testing a new Tip Jar feature globally including in India where iOS and Android users can send money directly to their favourite accounts with substantial followers.

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook has taken down nine networks from six countries in April targeting people with false and deceptive information.
The social network removed 1,565 Facebook accounts, 141 Instagram accounts, 724 Pages and 63 Groups.

SAN FRANCISCO: Google has accidentally revealed its upcoming "Pixel Buds A-Series" on Twitter. However, the post has now been deleted.The official Android account on Twitter tweeted a photo of the "Pixel Buds A-Series" and said the earbuds "have arrived".

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is rolling out a new sticker to Stories that allows English-speaking users to add auto-generated captions to their videos.

NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has permitted telecom service providers (TSPs), including Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio Infocomm, Vodafone Idea, and MTNL, to conduct 5G trials.

NEW DELHI: Taking on invite-only audio chat app Clubhouse, Twitter has announced to make its live audio conversation app Spaces available to users with 600 followers or more on both iOS and Android platforms.

SAN FRANCISCO: 5G smartphone sales from Apple, Samsung and OnePlus helped the US smartphone market witness a 19 per cent year-over-year growth in the first quarter this year, a report has showed.

BEIJING: Chinese technology company ByteDance has appointed its Chief Financial Officer Shouzi Chew to also assume to role of TikTok CEO.
TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer quit the company in August last year amid the dispute with the then Donald Trump administration and the India ban.

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook has acquired popular virtual reality game developer Downpour Interactive which is behind the hit multi-player military simulator Onwards.

SAN FRANCISCO: In a bid to take on invite-only audio chat app Clubhouse, Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram has introduced a new feature in its Live that allows users to turn off their phone's camera when broadcasting.

SAN FRANCISCO:Google-owned video streaming platform YouTube said that it is testing time-linked comments that will appear at the exact time users are watching a video.

NEW DELHI: As scheduled, the low-end version of the battle royale game PUBG called Lite is officially closing down on Thursday (April 29).Recently, the news of PUBG Lite's shutdown was confirmed by developers Krafton via a message on its official website.

SAN FRANCISCO: In a bid to entice developers and studios to bring more PC games to its store, Microsoft is reducing the cut it takes on game sales from 30 per cent to just 12 per cent from August 1.

SAN FRANCISCO: With an aim to make online meetings fun, video conferencing platform Zoom has started rolling out "Immersive View" that allows hosts to arrange video participants and webinar panelists into a single virtual background.

NEW DELHI: After the seven-day limit, WhatsApp is now testing and developing a Disappearing Message feature with the 24-hour option for personal and group chats.According to WABetaInfo, a website that tracks WhatsApp in Beta, revealed that the disappearing message feature will be available in a future update.

SAN FRANCISCO: Google-owned video streaming platform YouTube's mobile app for iOS and Android will now offer users more control over video resolution and other options.

SAN FRANCISCO: Snap, the parent company of snapchat, has paid $124.4 million to acquire Berlin-based Fit Analytics, a startup in the field of apparel and footwear technology.

NEW DELHI: Twitter could soon offer a tipping button on user profiles, where people can pay users who have a substantial followers for their great tweets.
App researcher Jane Manchun Wong has discovered that Twitter is exploring features like tipping to give people a way to pay other Twitter users.

SAN FRANCISCO: Google-owned video streaming platform YouTube is now making it easier for users to change their channel's name without needing to make any sort of alterations to the associated Google account.

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook-owned short video-making app Instagram Reels is bringing ads to Reels in few countries, including India.The full-screen ads will be arriving first in India, Germany, Brazil and Australia before landing in more countries "in the coming months."

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook-owned Instagram on Wednesday announced a new feature to protect people from seeing abusive direct messages (DMs), as well as the ability to prevent someone you've blocked from contacting you from a new account.

SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft is reportedly working on a new app store for Windows 10 that will introduce a modern and fluid user interface, as well as bring changes to the policies that govern what kind of apps can be submitted to the store by developers.

SAN FRANCISCO:Virtual assistant Alexa can now help customers find and connect with nearby vaccination sites, starting with the US.
In addition to helping customers find their local vaccination site, Alexa can also answer questions about vaccine availability and eligibility requirements in more than 85 countries.

SAN FRANCISCO: Google Cloud and industrial automation and software leader Siemens have come together to help optimise factory processes and improve productivity on the shop floor with AI/ML driven solutions.

SAN FRANCISCO:Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Snap have joined the US government's promotional campaign for vaccine eligibility, according to a media report.

NEW DELHI: Facebook is all set to announce a bouquet of social audio products to take on invite-only audio meet app Clubhouse and video conferencing platform Zoom.

SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter went down in the US and the micro-blogging platform said it was working on to fix an issue with its servers.Twitter users, especially on the east coast of the US, reported problems with page loading and were unable to send tweets and direct messages (DMs).

BRASILIA/NEW DELHI: After facing an intense scrutiny in India over its upcoming privacy update, consumer protection agencies in Brazil have now asked the government to act on the May 15 privacy update that will allow Facebook to aggregate users' data across all of its platforms.

NEW DELHI: In a bid to assess racial and gender bias in its artificial intelligence/machine learning systems, Twitter is starting a new initiative called Responsible Machine Learning.

SAN FRANCISCO: Google has announced features coming to Google Assistant, with the most notable feature for Apple users being the ability to locate a lost iPhone using the digital assistant.

NEW YORK: Even as video calls have taken over people's work and personal lives amid the pandemic, a new Stanford University research has found that the feeling of exhaustion that comes from a day of back-to-back online meetings, also known as "Zoom fatigue", is greater for women than men.