Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

The micro-blogging site Twitter announced on Monday that it will showing a warning if you tried to like or retweet a tweet that had been labeled for potentially including misleading information. The functionality is rolling out on the web and iOS globally this week, and it will…

Google Assistant has been able to turn lights on and off for a while, but until now, it could only do so immediately, via r/googlehome reddit. Now it is finally possible to use the commands “Ok Google, turn off the lights in 10 minutes”, “turn…

Wordfence announced that all customers of Wordfence site cleaning services receive an 1-year clean site guarantee. If your site is compromised again after Wordfence team has cleaned and secured your WordPress site, Wordfence will clean it again for free. The Wordfence Security Services Team is…

A former Alexa developer has launched an app that can help the cat parents. The app called MeowTalk records the sounds of cats and then attempts to identify the meaning of these meows. These meanings will then be fed in a database for the AI software from which…

Google Chrome support for Windows 7 was supposed to end summer of 2021, but because of challenges presented by COVID-19, Google has announced an extension. After assessing the current situation, and based on feedback from our valued enterprise customers, Chrome is extending our support for Windows…

Bitcoin exploded above $18,000, taking its market capitalization to an all-time high. The price of the digital token surged to $18,605.50 around 10:16 a.m. GMT (+5:45), and its price is up about 154% year-to-date. Bitcoin recorded its highest price ever in December 2017, hitting $19,783….

Samsung Electronics announced that Google Assistant will join the suite of voice assistants currently available on 2020 Samsung Smart TVs, providing viewers with enhanced control and discovery abilities. Available alongside Amazon Alexa and Bixby, Google Assistant is now fully integrated into Samsung Smart TVs and…

Microsoft is bringing Teams’ friends and family features to the desktop and web allowing you to create a Microsoft Teams meeting for up to 300 friends and family that can run all day free of charge. You won’t need a Microsoft Account or the Microsoft…

The micro-blogging site Twitter has launched a new feature worldwide called ‘fleets’: tweets that disappear after 24 hours, similar to the stories feature on Snapchat and Instagram. Twitter launched these ephemeral tweets, dubbed “fleets”, after having tested the feature in Brazil, Italy, India, and South…

Mastercard will extend the Google Pay service to cardholders across Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, and Romania together with its issuing partners. With Google Pay, users with eligible Android devices will be able to make secure, fast and convenient purchases in stores and…

On January 26, 2021, Firefox will end support for Adobe Flash, as announced back in 2017. Adobe and other browsers will also end support for Flash in January. “Firefox version 84 will be the final version to support Flash. On January 26, 2021 when we release…

The social media giant Facebook introduce vanish mode on Messenger, which lets you send messages that disappear automatically. How it works is simple—messages disappear after they’re seen and you leave the chat.   To turn it on, swipe up on your mobile device in an existing…

YouTube has cancelled YouTube Rewind for the year 2020. The announcement was issued on Twitter just a day after the company experienced widespread outages. In the statement, YouTube said that Rewind has always been meant to be a celebration of its users, but that celebrating wouldn’t feel…

Google Photos will start charging for storage once more than 15 gigs on the account have been used. The change will happen on June 1st, 2021, and it comes with other Google Drive policy changes like counting Google Workspace documents and spreadsheets against the same…