Bijay Pokharel
Bijay Pokharel is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Abijita.com and a freelance technology writer covering the tech industry since 2017. He specializes in cybersecurity, digital privacy, malware, vulnerabilities, and online safety, with a strong interest in internet protection and women’s online security. A dedicated tech enthusiast and continuous learner, Bijay approaches his professional work with clarity, rational thinking, and a calm, solution-oriented mindset.
Google Meet Now Supports Live Captions In Four New Languages
Captions setting will also be “sticky.” This means that if you turn them on or off during a meeting, they will be saved, along with the chosen language, for future meetings. Non-English captions are currently available on the web to APAC and EMEA countries only,...
Bijay Pokharel,
December 16, 2020
1 min read
Twitter Is Shutting Down Its Periscope Apps
The micro blogging site Twitter has announced that it’ll be shutting down Periscope as a service, with the company set to discontinue the Periscope applications by March 2021. Twitter will, however, continue to offer live video streaming through its integrated Twitter Live feature within the main Twitter...
Bijay Pokharel,
December 16, 2020
1 min read
Gmail Hit By A Second Outage Effecting Significant Number Of Users
The errors came just a day after many Google properties, including Gmail, YouTube, and Google Docs, were hit with a widespread outage.
Bijay Pokharel,
December 16, 2020
1 min read
Apple Releases iOS 14.3 With ProRAW For iPhone 12 Pro, AirPods Max And Fitness+ Support
ProRAW gives you all the standard RAW information, along with the Apple image pipeline data. So you can get a head start on editing, with noise reduction and multiframe exposure adjustments already in place — and have more time to tweak color and white balance.
Bijay Pokharel,
December 15, 2020
2 min read
Google Discontinues The Google Home Max
The tech giant company Google is no longer manufacturing the Google Home Max, its smart speaker designed with HiFi audio.
Bijay Pokharel,
December 15, 2020
1 min read
Facebook Publicly Launches Its Collaborative Music Video App, Collab
In the app, a “collab” is a selection of three 15-second independent videos, stacked on top of each other, that play in sync.
Bijay Pokharel,
December 15, 2020
1 min read
Reddit Buys Short-Form Video Social Platform Dubsmash
In a post announcing the acquisition, Reddit said it is looking forward “to bringing our teams together to combine the unique creator experience of Dubsmash with the community growth engine of Reddit.”
Bijay Pokharel,
December 14, 2020
1 min read
Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs And Other Services Go Down In Multiple Countries
Multiple Google services and websites including YouTube, Gmail, Google Assistant, and Google Docs have been hit with a widespread outage.
Bijay Pokharel,
December 14, 2020
1 min read
Pay2Key Hackers Stole Data From Intel’s Habana Labs
The hackers are suspected of breaking into the company’s network and gaining access to plans and information regarding its new artificial intelligence chip Gaudi
Bijay Pokharel,
December 14, 2020
1 min read
Oracle Moves Its Headquarters To Texas
Software giant Oracle moved the company headquarters from Redwood City, California to Austin, Texas, as reported by Bloomberg. The move to Austin from Redwood City “means that many of our employees can choose their office location as well as continue to work from home part...
Bijay Pokharel,
December 14, 2020
1 min read
Workers Protest At Wistron iPhone Manufacturing Plant In India Over Pay Issues
A majority of the nearly 2,000 employees, who were exiting the facility after completing their night-shift, went on a rampage destroying the company’s furniture, assembly units and even attempted to set fire to vehicles.
Bijay Pokharel,
December 14, 2020
2 min read
Suspected Russian Hackers Reportedly Breached US Government Agencies
Russian government hackers breached the Treasury and Commerce departments, along with other U.S. government agencies, as part of a global espionage campaign that stretches back months, according to people familiar with the matter.
Bijay Pokharel,
December 14, 2020
2 min read
Twitter Inadvertently Limited Engagements On Trump’s Disputed Election Tweets
Twitter began applying “disputed” and other warning labels to tweets containing election misinformation ahead of the November 3rd US presidential election, and restricting engagement with those tweets.
Bijay Pokharel,
December 13, 2020
1 min read
What Is A Default Gateway?
The default gateway is the access point between your local network and the rest of the internet. It’s a single piece of hardware through which all devices on your network can send and receive data.
Bijay Pokharel,
December 13, 2020
2 min read
How To Delete A Drive Partition On Windows 10
Windows 10 includes multiple tools to ease the process to remove those you no longer need to make more space available to increase the size of another partition.
Bijay Pokharel,
December 12, 2020
5 min read
Google Pay Adds Support For 34 New Banks In 26 Countries
Google added 24 banks back in October, and now the company has tacked on an additional 34, in 26 countries around the globe.
Bijay Pokharel,
December 12, 2020
1 min read
Critical Vulnerability Found In ‘Easy WP SMTP’ Plugin
The WordPress Easy WP SMTP plugin, which has 500,000+ active installations, fixed a zero-day vulnerability affecting version 1.4.2 and below that could allow an unauthenticated user to reset the admin password among other issues.
Bijay Pokharel,
December 12, 2020
1 min read
Former Cisco Engineer Sentenced To Prison For Deleting 16k Webex Accounts
Investigators said Ramesh then proceeded to run a script that deleted 456 virtual machines that were supporting Cisco's video conferencing software WebEx Teams, actions that resulted in the temporary deletion of more than 16,000 Webex accounts.
Bijay Pokharel,
December 12, 2020
2 min read
EU Drugs Regulator Confirms Data Breach In Cyber Attack
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) had not provided any details on Wednesday, when it disclosed the cyber attack, but Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE had said documents related to the development of their COVID-19 vaccine had been “unlawfully accessed”.
Bijay Pokharel,
December 12, 2020
1 min read
FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization for First COVID-19 Vaccine
The FDA’s authorization for emergency use of the first COVID-19 vaccine is a significant milestone in battling this devastating pandemic that has affected so many families in the United States and around the world,” said FDA Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn, M.D.
Bijay Pokharel,
December 12, 2020
7 min read





