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WhatsApp bans 29 lakh accounts in India as country launches grievance panel
New Delhi : Meta-owned WhatsApp banned more than 29 lakh accounts in India in the month of January, a figure that is drastically lower than 36.77 lakh accounts it blocked in the country in December last year, in compliance with the new IT…
Twitter faces global outage again
San Francisco : Micro-blogging platform Twitter on Wednesday faced a major outage globally, with users reporting that the site's timeline is not loading on either the web or mobile apps.
According to the outage monitor website Down…
Google Chrome’s latest update extends MacBook battery life
San Francisco : Tech giant Google has announced various updates to its Chrome web browser that will increase the battery life on MacBooks, extending the usage users can get from a single charge.
With improved systems like memory…
Twitter announces ‘Violent Speech’ policy
San Francisco : Micro-blogging platform Twitter on Wednesday announced that it has updated its rules on "violent content and similar language", and has now "officially launched" its "Violent Speech" policy.
The new policy prohibits…
Google’s client-side encryption now available for Gmail
San Francisco : Google has announced that "client-side encryption" mode is now generally available for Gmail globally to customers with Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Standard, and Education Plus.
"Client-side encryption for Gmail…
WhatsApp rolling ‘Call Link’ feature on Windows beta
San Francisco : Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out a new "Call Link" feature, which will allow users to create a link to join a call, on Windows beta.
The new feature is available to beta testers within the…
Twitter employees to soon receive stock awards : Elon Musk
San Francisco : After another round of layoffs over the weekend, Twitter CEO Elon Musk informed the remaining employees that they will receive acevery significant" performance-based stock awards on March 24.
"This past week, we completed…
Users can now increase font size to 300% on Chrome for Android
San Francisco : Google on Monday introduced new features for Android and WearOS devices, including the ability to increase the size of content by up to 300 per cent on Chrome for Android.
According to the company, the new updates will…
Google achieves quantum error correction milestone : Sundar Pichai
New Delhi : Google has achieved an experimental milestone of scaling a logical qubit, demonstrating for the first time that it's possible to reduce errors by increasing the number of qubits, its CEO Sundar Pichai has said.
In quantum…
Twitter lays off product manager who led Blue subscription project
San Francisco : Following another round of layoffs, Twitter product manager Esther Crawford is no longer employed by the company. Crawford led various projects at Twitter, including the company's Blue with verification subscription and its…