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El Salvador on Tuesday became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as an official currency. The government is rolling out bitcoin ATMs, an e-wallet and stylish kiosks.

Facebook-owned WhatsApp has recently updated its minimum system requirements and this means that it would end support for the older devices.

WhatsApp will reportedly let users hide their online status from anyone who can’t be trusted.

Samsung Heavy Industries said that it has succeeded in demonstrating a ship collision avoidance system.

Facebook-owned WhatsApp has added the ability for users to migrate their chat history when switching from iOS to Samsung Android devices, the company said in a blog post.

th 0.64μm pixels, and ISOCELL GN5, the first image sensor to adopt all-directional focusing Dual Pixel Pro technology with two photodiodes in a single 1.0μm pixel.

Cloud-based instant messaging and voice-over IP service Telegram has introduced live streams with unlimited viewers to groups and channels with its version 8.0 update.

The microblogging site Twitter is launching a new feature called Safety Mode that will temporarily autoblock accounts sending harmful or abusive tweets to you.

WhatsApp announced that it has banned over 3 million Indian accounts in the 46-day period from June 16 to July 31.

Facebook-owned photo and video-sharing social networking service Instagram is asking users to supply their date of birth.

Huawei released the HarmonyOS 2 operating system on June 2. In less than two months, as of early August, it had over 50 million users and now the latest report shows that HarmonyOS 2 now has over 70 million users.

Clubhouse is now rolling out a spatial audio feature, which would give a new level of depth to the Clubhouse chats.

Samsung Electronics announced that two Samsung researchers have been elected as the vice-chairs of two Working Groups at the respective 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project), during meetings held in August (August 16 to August 28). Following the election, the company now holds a total of...

TikTok has banned the popular "milk crate challenge" due to concerns that users participating in the trend could be seriously injured.

Streaming giant Netflix started testing 2 Android games for its subscribers in Poland, the company announced in a tweet.

Spotify is now rolling out its premium podcast feature to all creators based in the U.S., allowing them to charge up to $150 for a subscription.

A South Korean watchdog on personal information protection on Wednesday fined major foreign platform service providers nearly 6.7 billion won (US$ 5.7 million) over privacy violations.

Instagram Shop is a tab on the photo and video sharing app that lets users browse items such as clothes and beauty products and in some cases purchase the items directly within the Instagram app.

The social media giant Facebook is letting some users make voice and video calls within its main app on a trial basis, aiming to make it easier to place calls without opening its standalone Messenger app. The move enabled users of each service to find,...