Amazon Will Not Ban TikTok From Employee Phones
Amazon on Friday asked its employees to delete the Chinese-owned video app TikTok from their cellphones, putting the tech giant at the center of growing suspicion and paranoia about the app. Almost five hours later, Amazon reversed course, saying the email to workers was sent in error,...
PUBG, Spotify, Pinterest, Tinder, And Other iOS Apps Were Crashing Due To A Facebook Issue (RESOLVED)
A number of popular apps and services including, PUBG, Spotify, Pinterest, and Tinder were inaccessible today on iOS devices due to a now-resolved issue involving Facebook log-ins, theverge reports. There were widespread reports on social media of apps crashing whenever launched on iPhones and iPads, and corresponding...
TikTok Deleted 49 Million ‘Rule-Breaking’ Videos
Chinese-owned social video-sharing app TikTok says that it has deleted more than 49 million videos which broke its rules, between July and December 2019. About a quarter of those videos were deleted for containing adult nudity or sexual activity, the business said, in its latest transparency...
WhatsApp Introduce QR Codes To Connect With Businesses
The tech giant Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp has introduced a new features aimed at helping businesses stay in touch with customers as well as allow them to easily showcase their products. Now customers can start a chat with a business by scanning a QR code...
How To Permanently Delete Your Facebook Account 2025
If you’re reading this, chances are you’re one of over 2 billion people worldwide who use Facebook. The social networking giant isn’t showing any signs of slowing down, with an average of five new profiles created every second and 300 million photos uploaded daily. Because...
Facebook Removed 41 Facebook Accounts, 77 Pages, And 56 Instagram Accounts
Facebook has removed 41 Facebook accounts, 77 Pages, and 56 Instagram accounts for violating their policy against foreign interference which is coordinated inauthentic behavior on behalf of a foreign or government entity. This network relied on a combination of authentic and inauthentic accounts, some of which had already...
Apple Is Working On QR Code Payments For Apple Pay
The tech giant Apple has released the second developer beta of iOS 14 with some small changes across the system. And now 9to5Mac was able to find a hidden feature in the Wallet app to allow users to make payments with QR Codes using Apple Pay. The feature for scanning a...
Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Event Confirmed For August 5
Samsung has confirmed that it will host a launch event on August 5, which will see the debut of the Galaxy Note 20, and, as expected, it will be online-only. The event will take place on Wednesday, August 5th, at 10AM ET. The company is...
Gmail For iPad Now Supports Split-View Multitasking
When using an iPad, you’re now able to multitask with Gmail and other iOS applications. You can use Gmail and Google Calendar at the same time with Split View to check your schedule before replying to an email to confirm a meeting time. Or, you...
Instagram’s Pinned Comments Feature Is Not Available To Everyone
Instagram has rollout pinned comment feature to everyone, the company announced in a tweet. Now user can pin three comments on a post to the top of a thread, and it’s designed to allow the author of a post to better control the tone of...
SentinelOne Has Released Free Decryptor For ThiefQuest Ransomware
The Cyber-security firm SentinelOne has released today a free decryptor app that can help victims of the ThiefQuest ransomware recover their locked files. The ThiefQuest ransomware — initially identified under the name of EvilQuest — targets only Mac users. “The ThiefQuest malware, which was discovered last...
Amazon Prime Video Is Introducing Individual User Profiles
Amazon Prime Video is rolling out user profiles for family members and friends who share Prime accounts, the business announced today. Each account allows up to six user profiles. One profile will default as the primary account, with five additional profiles allowed. These could be...
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Tests Positive For COVID-19
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for COVID-19, he announced today. Bolsonaro himself announced the result, speaking on Brazilian TV channels Tuesday. “Everyone knew that it would reach a considerable part of the population sooner or later. It was positive for me,” he said,...
Energy Company EDP Confirms Ragnar Locker Ransomware Attack
EDP Renewables North America (EDPR NA) confirmed a Ragnar Locker ransomware attack that affected its parent corporation’s systems, the Portuguese multinational energy giant Energias de Portugal (EDP), BleepingComputer reported. In a letter sent to customers (.PDF), the energy company apologized for the incident but insisted that there is...
LG Profit Down 24% In Q2
LG Electronics has posted operating profit of 493 billion won and revenue of 12.8 trillion won in the second quarter of 2020, the company said in its earning guidance on Tuesday, Zdnet reported It is a decline of 24.4% and 18%, respectively, from the same...
Google, Facebook and Twitter Suspend Review of Hong Kong Requests for User Data
Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Google and Telegram have all said they are “pausing” co-operation with requests for user information from the Hong Kong police. Facebook said on Monday that it would temporarily stop processing Hong Kong government requests for user data as the company reviews a sweeping...
Microsoft Announces Xbox Series X Games Showcase Event For July 23
Microsoft will hold its Xbox Series X games event on July 23rd at 9AM PT / 12PM ET. If you’re an Xbox fan, this is the event that you won’t want to miss, because as was promised back in May, this is the one where...
The Bubonic Plague Is Back Again In China’s Inner Mongolia
Authorities in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia are on high alert after a suspected case of bubonic plague, the disease that caused the Black Death pandemic, according to state-run Xinhua news agency. According to state reports, the Bayannur patient – a herdsman – is in...
Fujitsu Will Close Half Of Its Office In Japan As Pandemic Transforms Work
Fujitsu has announced it will reduce its office space in Japan by 50% and switch completely to a hot desk system by the end of the fiscal year 2022. Fujitsu said the new plans are part of what the company has dubbed as its “work...
What is Web Hosting Bandwidth?
Web hosting bandwidth describes the rate at which data can be transferred between a website and computers connected to it within a specific time. Normally it is the calculated monthly in hosting packages by many website hosts, e.g. 1g bandwidth each month, or 5g bandwidth...
