Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

Privacy-focused online browser DuckDuckGo on Thursday announced that its email protection service in beta is now finally available to all users and they can generate a free “@duck.com” email address and intercepts email trackers before they reach their personal inboxes. DuckDuckGo Email Protection is a...

WhatsApp is likely planning to bring iMessage-like profile photos within group chats. According to WABetaInfo, the platform is planning to introduce something that has been requested for a long time — profile photos of group participants. When this feature will be released to beta testers,...

South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo were not named on iPhone maps in the US, Britain, and 20 other countries, a professor said here on Thursday, amid diplomatic tensions with Tokyo over Japan’s renewed claims to the East Sea outcroppings. Dokdo has long been a...

The micro-blogging site Twitter is now facing privacy probes in the European Union (EU) after the whistleblower complaint from its former head of security, Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, created a storm worldwide. Zatko’s complaints had references to European regulators, alleging that Twitter misled or intended to...

The social media giant Facebook is experiencing a bug in their algorithm where users around the globe are seeing Facebook posts of random people that are tagging Rihanna, Ronaldo, or others. According to downdetector, nearly 3000 users(at this time of writing) are experiencing the issue...

YouTube is set to launch its short-form video app Shorts on its smart TV app YouTube TV. The company has told its partners about the support for YouTube shorts to YouTube’s app for Android TV and Google TV, reports Protocol has learned. YouTube Shorts has...

Snap has reached a $35 million settlement with the state of Illinois in the US in a class-action lawsuit over illegal user data collection. The lawsuit alleged that Snapchat’s filters and lenses violated the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The company stored “biometric data...

Meta has reached a $37.5 million settlement of a lawsuit accusing the parent of Facebook of violating users’ privacy by tracking their movements through their smartphones without permission. A preliminary settlement of the proposed class action was filed on Monday in San Francisco federal court,...

Tech giant Google has expanded Google Wallet‘s availability to six new regions. The company has updated the Google Wallet support page to reflect the inclusion of the following new countries: Azerbaijan Iceland Moldova Qatar Serbia South Africa You can use the Google Wallet app to...

James Webb Space Telescope has revealed unprecedented views of Jupiter. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) took pictures of the Solar System’s biggest planet in July. The images show auroras, giant storms, moons, and rings surrounding Jupiter in detail that astronomers have described as “incredible”....

Netflix has ramped up its dream to make it big in Cloud gaming, as the company hunts for professionals to take on Cloud gaming services like Sony PlayStation Now, Google Stadia, Apple Arcade, and Amazon Luna. According to Protocol, the streaming service is looking for...

WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out the ability to watch Status directly from WhatsApp’s chat list for iOS users. According to WABetaInfo, the beta version 22.18.0.70 is bringing the ability to view Status updates within the chat list. It has been released to certain beta testers,...

Instagram has clarified that it is not blocking creators from sharing their Reels videos on other short-form video platforms like TikTok. According to earlier reports, when trying to download an edited clip to an iPhone in Instagram Reels, the audio from the clip just disappeared....

Twitter has warned employees that they are set to get only half of their annual bonuses, as the economic meltdown gets deeper. Twitter’s chief financial officer Ned Segal told employees that global market conditions would affect the annual bonuses they receive, with the “bonus pool...

The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has issued cease-and-desist letters to five crypto companies, including leading cryptocurrency exchange FTX, over “false and misleading statements”. Apart from FTX, Cryptonews.com, Cryptosec.info, SmartAsset.com, and FDICCrypto.com also received cease and desist letters on Friday, with the agency giving...

YouTube has removed a video that showed a parent experimenting with Tesla’s full self-driving (FSD) capabilities against his own kids walking across or standing on the road. The video showed Tesla owner and investor, Tad Park, testing FSD features with his kids. During the video,...

Mark Zuckerberg has posted new screenshots on Facebook and Instagram, showing off a more life-like version of himself. Earlier this week, Zuckerberg posted a screenshot of his digital avatar standing in front of the Eiffel Tower, as the company expanded its Horizon World’s metaverse experience...

TikTok may be monitoring all keyboard inputs and taps via its in-app browser on iOS, an independent cyber-security researcher has warned. Felix Krause, Founder of Fastlane which was acquired by Google, said that when the user opens any link on the TikTok iOS app, it’s...

The microblogging site Twitter is working on a new feature to put a label or tag on the phone numbers of verified user profiles, apart from the blue tick or badge the company places with the verified accounts. App researcher Jane Manchun Wong discovered this...