Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

The US government pressured Twitter to elevate certain Covid-19 information and suppress other content, while the platform suspended reputed medical professionals who disagreed with establishment views during the peak of the pandemic, new 'Twitter Files' have alleged.

Google has added a new 'Highlight' tab to its contact management service 'Google Contacts' on Android.

The microblogging site Twitter has restored a feature that promotes suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources to users looking up certain content, after coming under pressure from some users and consumer safety groups over its removal.

YouTube is reportedly testing its Queue system feature for iOS and Android apps.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has denied that the micro-blogging platform removed suicide prevention feature for its users, saying the reports were "fake".

Privacy-focused online browser DuckDuckGo has announced a new feature that will block one of the most common pop-ups web users are likely to see -- "Sign in with Google".

Samsung Electronics has held an opening ceremony for a research and development center in Vietnam, in what the tech giant said is the largest such facility in the Southeast Asian country set up by a foreign firm.

WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new feature that will provide users the ability to report status updates on desktop beta.

Samsung has fixed Microsoft Intune, a cloud-based unified endpoint management service, issue on Galaxy S22 and Galaxy S21 smartphones running Android 13.

YouTube Music is reportedly testing the 'live lyrics' feature with a tweaked Casting user interface (UI).

The US unit of Samsung Electronics is recalling some 6,60,000 washing machines in the country over fire risks, the US consumer product safety agency has announced.

Elon Musk on Saturday said he supports the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for their work towards protecting the public, some people from the organization did contact Twitter employees to censor content and suppress voices.

China-based ByteDance, the parent company of short-form video-making app TikTok, allegedly accessed the data of at least two US journalists and a "small number" of other people connected to them.

Micro-blogging platform Twitter has updated the list of features for its Blue service, which mentioned that subscribers paying for the $8 per month service will now get "prioritized rankings in conversations."

Many users have reported experiencing an odd glitch in the Google Calendar mobile app over the past few days. The app appears to be creating random, nonexistent all-day events based on the content of users’ Gmail messages.

Meta, Facebook's parent company, on Friday, agreed to a $725 million settlement to resolve a class-action lawsuit in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.

Netflix is reportedly hiding its cheapest ad-free plan from some users when they try to subscribe to the platform.

More than a week after being suspended from the micro-blogging platform, the account which used to track Twitter CEO Elon Musk's private jet is back on the platform but will show information with 24 hours delay.

Elon Musk-owned electric vehicle company Tesla has launched its own Wireless Charging Platform, a wireless charger that can charge up to three Qi devices at one time.

Twitter on Friday announced the long-awaited feature that its boss Elon Musk had promised to bring to the platform -- that subscribers can now upload videos up to 60 minutes long from around the web at 1080p resolution and 2GB in file size.