Over 99% Of Netflix Users Have Not Tried Its Games: Report
Video streaming platform Netflix’s foray into the gaming business is off to a poor start as a new report says that less than 1 percent of its subscribers are playing its games. App analytics company Apptopia estimates an average of 1.7 million people are engaging...
Whatsapp Now Gives Over 2 Days To Delete Messages After Sending
WhatsApp has confirmed that it is now letting users delete messages up to two days after they are sent. On the microblogging platform Twitter, WhatsApp announced the change in the option to delete sent messages. “Rethinking your message? Now you will have a little over...
Snapchat Lets Parents See Who Their Kids Are Chatting With
Snapchat on Tuesday launched a new in-app tool to allow parents to observe who their children are chatting with, without letting guardians see the content of private chats. Children will also be able to see how their parents see them via the Snapchat ‘Family Center’...
Enterprise Software Vendor Twilio Hacked In Phishing Attack
US-based enterprise software vendor company Twilio on Monday said it has been hacked as someone gained “unauthorized access” to information related to its customer accounts. Twilio has more than 150,000 customers, including Facebook and ride-hailing major Uber. “On August 4, 2022, Twilio became aware of...
Meta Shuts Down Its Biggest VR Game For Quest 1 Owners
Meta is shutting down Quest 1 virtual reality (VR) headset support for ‘Population: One’, its popular battle-royale game set in VR. Quest 1 owners will no longer be able to launch or play the game starting October 31, its developer BigBox VR has announced. Quest...
Twitter Confirms July Data Breach That Affects 5.4 Million Accounts
The microblogging site Twitter has confirmed a recent data breach was caused by a now-patched zero-day vulnerability used to link email addresses and phone numbers to users’ accounts, allowing a threat actor to compile a list of 5.4 million user account profiles. While Twitter is forthcoming...
Meta Rolling Out NFT Support On Instagram To 100 Countries
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company is beginning the international expansion of non-fungible tokens (NFT) support on its photo and video-sharing platform Instagram. The expansion follows the social network’s initial NFT test launch in May. With this expansion, users and businesses in more...
YouTube May Soon Let Users Zoom In On Videos
YouTube is testing a new feature in its mobile app with its premium subscribers that allows them to zoom in on any video.
Twitter Expands ‘Location Spotlight’ Tool To All Businesses Globally
Twitter has made a new feature available for all businesses globally to display their location address, hours of operation, and additional contact details on their profiles on the platform. Earlier, the ‘Location Spotlight’ feature was available to users in the US, the UK, Canada, and...
Uber Adds Train, Coach Booking To Its App In UK
Uber is testing adding train and coach travel to its app in the UK via a fully integrated tie-up with Berlin-based multimodal travel platform, Omio. Omio said it has built up its consumer-facing apps for booking intercity and international travel, across a wide variety of...
Microsoft Teams App Now Optimised For Mac With Apple Silicon
Microsoft announced that it has created a native version of its Microsoft Teams app optimized for the Mac lineup with Apple silicon. The company said it is rolling out a production-grade universal binary version of Teams, which means it will run natively on the entire...
Facebook To Shut Live Shopping Feature From Oct 1
Facebook has announced to shut down its live shopping feature from October 1 and focus on the short-form video platform Reels on its main app and Instagram. The users will still be able to use Facebook Live to broadcast live events, but they won’t be...
EPFO Pension Scheme Holders’ Data Exposed Online, Claims Security Researcher
A Ukraine-based cybersecurity researcher and journalist has claimed that about 288 million personal records, containing the full name, bank account number, and nominee information of the Employees’ Pension Scheme (EPS) holders in the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), were exposed online before being taken off...
Twitter Drags Elon Musk’s Billionaire Buddies Into Legal Battle
The microblogging site Twitter has now dragged tech investors and entrepreneur friends connected to Elon Musk in the $44 billion takeover deal that has been terminated by the Tesla CEO and a legal trial is set to begin on October 17. According to The Washington...
Microsoft Unveils New Solutions For Threat Intelligence, Attack Surface Management
Microsoft has announced two new security products that will provide deeper context into threat actor activity and help organizations lock down their infrastructure and reduce their overall attack surface. The new products are Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence and Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management. “Microsoft...
Apple Sued By French Developers Over App Store Fees: Report
Apple is facing an antitrust lawsuit over its App Store fees that is filed by a group of French iOS app developers. The plaintiffs are accusing Apple of anti-competitive practices in allowing only one App Store for iOS devices, which gives it a monopoly in...
Indian Govt Blocked 348 Apps For Collecting Users’ Info
Amid rising complaints against mobile apps, the Centre has identified and blocked 348 apps developed by various countries, including China, for allegedly collecting user information for profiling citizens and transmitting it overseas in an unauthorized manner, the Parliament was told on Wednesday. “The Ministry of...
Webb Telescope Images Colourful Cartwheel Galaxy
The powerful next-generation James Webb Space Telescope has captured colourful images of the Cartwheel Galaxy, located about 500 million light-years away. Using its powerful infrared cameras, Webb produced a detailed image of the Cartwheel and two smaller companion galaxies against a backdrop of many other...
US Man Made $25 Million By Unlocking Smartphones With Stolen Passwords
A former owner of a T-Mobile store in the US, guilty of using stolen credentials to unlock “hundreds of thousands of cellphones”, made around $25 million from the illegal scheme. According to the US Department of Justice, Argishti Khudaverdyan, 44, has been found guilty by...
Discord Plans To Overhaul Its Android App For Better User Experience
In a bid to improve its experience for Android users, chat platform Discord has announced that it will overhaul its Android app so that new features and upgrades come simultaneously on iOS and desktop. The company mentioned switching to React Native for the Android app...
