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Amazon No Longer Offers In-App Kindle Purchases On Android
Amazon has informed its customers that they cannot buy books on Kindle App for Android anymore.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 1, 2022
1 min read
Annoyed Users Cancel Netflix Subscriptions During Password Sharing Test
A Netflix experiment to crack down on password sharing outside of households has left users flummoxed, as the streaming giant increased subscription fees for such users, forcing some of them to cancel their subscriptions.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 1, 2022
2 min read
Chips For Chipmaking Machines Affected, Says TSMC, Intel
Chips for chipmaking machines are one of the things in short supply amid chip shortage constraints, say executives from Intel and Apple chipmaker TSMC.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 31, 2022
1 min read
Epic Games Announces In-Person Fortnite Competition
Epic Games has announced that it will host an in-person Fortnite competition in November in the US, with a prize pool set to be $1 million.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 31, 2022
1 min read
Webb Telescope To Explore Two Rocky, Earths-like Planets
NASA's much-celebrated James Webb Space Telescope is just weeks away from full operation.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 31, 2022
3 min read
Australian Watchdog Sues Mastercard For Anti-Market Practices
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on Monday started legal proceedings in the Federal Court against Mastercard for allegedly stifling competition in the supply of debit card acceptance services.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 30, 2022
2 min read
US Judge Gives Apple 21 Days To Respond To Cydia’s Amended Lawsuit
A US judge has denied Apple's appeal to dismiss an amended antitrust lawsuit filed by the creator of Cydia, an app store for jailbroken iPhones, giving the iPhone maker 21 days to respond to the complaint, the media reported.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 30, 2022
1 min read
Facebook’s Dark Mode Interface Disappears For iOS Users
Meta-owned Facebook's dark mode interface for the iOS platform has reportedly disappeared for several users.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 29, 2022
1 min read
WhatsApp Improving Reactions Feature In New Update
Meta-owned WhatsApp is now planning to improve the function even more with a few tweaks for iOS users.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 29, 2022
1 min read
Starlink Satellite Internet Gets Approval In 3 More Countries
Tech billionaire Elon Musk's Starlink, the satellite Internet division of his rocket company SpaceX, has received the green light in the Philippines, Nigeria, and Mozambique.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 29, 2022
2 min read
Mobile Gaming Set To Surpass $136 Billion In 2022
Mobile gaming now represents 61 percent of the overall gaming market and is set to surpass $136 billion in 2022 a" growing 1.7x faster than the gaming market overall, a new report has shown.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 29, 2022
2 min read
Snapchat Rolls Out New ‘Shared Stories’ Feature
Popular social media platform Snapchat has introduced Shared Stories, a new way for Snapchatters to build a community around the content users love to Snap.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 29, 2022
1 min read
Twitter Starts Rolling Out ‘Circle’ To More Users
Twitter, which started testing Circle earlier this month with a limited group, has started rolling out the feature to more users.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 29, 2022
1 min read
6G Network Will Be Available By 2030: Nokia CEO
While the 5G network is yet to be available worldwide, global smartphone brand Nokia's CEO Pekka Lundmark has claimed that 6G mobile networks will be commercially available by 2030.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 29, 2022
1 min read
Apple, Google Face Scrutiny Over Collecting Abortion Data
A group of US senators has urged the tech giants Apple and Google to prohibit the apps in their app stores from collecting data that could be used to identify women seeking abortions, media reports say.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 29, 2022
1 min read
Instagram Launches New ‘1 Minute Music’ Tracks For Reels In India
Meta-owned photo-sharing Instagram on Thursday announced a new platform -- 1 Minute Music -- tracks for Reels, which is currently available only for Indian users.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 26, 2022
1 min read
Sony Plans To Release Half Of Games On PC, Mobile By 2025
Sony has announced that half of its game releases will be on PC and mobile by 2025.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 26, 2022
1 min read
NASA’s Artemis Mission Will Fly A Japanese Astronaut To Moon: Biden
NASA‘s impending Artemis program will include a Japanese astronaut, US President Joe Biden has said. Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met in Tokyo on Monday where they announced progress on collaboration for human and robotic lunar missions. They confirmed their commitment to include...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 25, 2022
1 min read
eBay Announces Its First Collection Of NFTs
E-commerce platform eBay has launched a series of exclusive non fungible tokens (NFTs) through a strategic partnership with OneOf, a premier green NFT platform for communities across music, sports, and lifestyle.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 24, 2022
1 min read
UK Watchdog Fines Clearview AI $9.5 Million, Tells Firm To Delete Data
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in the UK on Monday fined facial recognition surveillance firm Clearview AI more than 7.5 million pounds ($9.5 million) for using images of people in the UK and elsewhere, that were collected from the web and social media to create...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 24, 2022
2 min read





