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Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger And Instagram Recovered After Brief Outage
Facebook's platforms including WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram were down for thousands of users on Thursday.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 9, 2021
1 min read
Facebook Isn’t Planning To Notify 533 Million Users Affected By Data Leak
The social media giant Facebook did not notify the more than 530 million users whose details were obtained through the misuse of a feature before 2019 and recently made public in a database.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 8, 2021
1 min read
Intel Launches 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable Processors
New 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named “Ice Lake”) are the foundation of Intel’s data center platform, enabling customers to capitalize on some of the most significant business opportunities today by leveraging the power of AI.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 7, 2021
1 min read
Have I Been Pwned Adds Search For Leaked Facebook Phone Number
On April 4th 2021, 533 million Facebook users’ phone number has been leaked on a popular hacker forum for free. The sold data included 533,313,128 Facebook users, with information such as a member’s mobile number, Facebook ID, name, gender, location, relationship status, occupation, date of birth, and...
Bijay Pokharel,
April 7, 2021
1 min read
Signal Is Testing A Payment Feature In The United Kingdom
Single is testing a new feature that enables you to send and receive privacy focused payments as easily as sending or receiving a message.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 7, 2021
1 min read
WhatsApp To Allow Chat History Migration Between iOS And Android
Facebook-owned WhatsApp is reportedly testing the ability to easily migrate chat history between an iPhone and an Android device, as reported by WABetaInfo.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 6, 2021
1 min read
Microsoft Edge Overtakes Mozilla Firefox
As first reported by WindowsLatest, StatCounter shows that Microsoft Edge has grown from a 0.57% market share in March 2020 to 8.03% by March 2021. This is an impressive 1,308% growth in market share in just twelve months.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 6, 2021
1 min read
Yahoo Answers To Shut Down On May 4, 2021
Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021. Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services or your Yahoo account.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 6, 2021
2 min read
LG To Close Mobile Phone Business Worldwide
LG announced that it is closing its mobile business unit. The decision was approved by its board of directors earlier today.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 5, 2021
1 min read
Russian Court Fines Twitter Over Failure To Delete Content
Moscow said last month it had slowed the speed of U.S.-based Twitter inside Russia and on March 16 threatened to ban the social media service outright in a month over content ranging from child pornography to drug abuse.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 3, 2021
1 min read
Mastercard To Invest $100 Million In Airtel Africa’s Mobile Money Unit
Mastercard Inc will invest $100 million in Airtel Africa’s mobile money operations valuing the business at $2.65 billion, the London-listed company said on Thursday
Bijay Pokharel,
April 1, 2021
1 min read
Google Cancels April Fools
The tech giant Google has canceled April Fools for the second time in a Row.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 1, 2021
1 min read
Twitter Now Lets You Add Stickers To Fleets On iOS And Android
The micro blogging site Twitter is adding stickers to its Fleet, the social media company announced on Wednesday. Stickers are available for users on both Android and iOS.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 1, 2021
1 min read
Xiaomi To Invest $10 Billion Into New Electric Vehicle Business
Xiaomi has announced plans to launch an electric vehicle business and invest $10 billion over the next 10 years.
Bijay Pokharel,
March 31, 2021
1 min read
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference Is Back In Its All-Online Format
Tech Giant Apple today announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 7 through 11, in an all-online format.
Bijay Pokharel,
March 31, 2021
3 min read
Netflix To Launch 40 Anime Shows In 2021
The streaming giant Netflix will launch 40 new anime titles in 2021, Bloomberg reported, following the success of its Blood of Zeus series last year.
Bijay Pokharel,
March 28, 2021
1 min read
PUBG Mobile Completes 1 Billion Downloads Globally
PUBG Mobile announced that it has surpassed 1 billion accumulated downloads outside China, making it one of the most successful games worldwide.
Bijay Pokharel,
March 25, 2021
1 min read
You Can Now Buy A Tesla With Bitcoin
Billionaire Elon Musk said on Wednesday the company’s electric vehicles can now be bought using Bitcoin.
Bijay Pokharel,
March 24, 2021
1 min read
IT Contractor Sentenced To Two Years For Deleting Carlsbad Company’s Microsoft User Accounts
According to court documents, Kher was employed by an information technology consulting firm from 2017 through May 2018. In 2017, the consulting firm was hired by the Carlsbad Company to assist with its migration to a Microsoft Office 365 (MS O365) environment. In response, the...
Bijay Pokharel,
March 24, 2021
3 min read
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet Sold For $2.9 Million As An NFT
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sold his first tweet as an NFT for the weirdly specific figure of $2,915,835.47.
Bijay Pokharel,
March 23, 2021
1 min read





