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Snap shutting down its camera app for desktop
San Francisco : Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has announced that it will shut down its camera application for Mac and PCs on January 25. Snap Camera allows users to apply filters to their faces while they are on video conference…
Google developing free anti-terrorism moderation tool for smaller websites
San Francisco : Google is reportedly developing a free moderation tool that smaller websites can use to identify and remove terrorist material. According to the Financial Times, the software is being developed in collaboration with Google's…
YouTube testing new video progress bar on Android
San Francisco : Video-sharing platform YouTube is reportedly testing a more subtle video progress bar that isn't always red on Android.Several Android devices, including Incognito, are seeing the new white progress bar, reports 9To5Google.…
Google’s Waze app adds new feature that warns about dangerous roads
San Francisco : Google-owned Waze app has added a new feature that notifies users of dangerous nearby roads based on traffic data while trying not to overwhelm them with alerts. When using this new beta version of Waze, nearby high-risk…
New Twitter will aim to optimise unregretted user minutes : Elon Musk
New Delhi : Elon Musk on Friday said that the new Twitter under him will aim to optimise every minute that a user spends on the micro-blogging platform, and does not regret it. Currently busy making Twitter faster, Musk has brought back the…
This new tool lets users trim their Twitter follow list
San Francisco : Twitter users who feel their timeline is too cluttered can now de-clutter it using a new tool called "Prune your follows", as it lets users quickly unfollow accounts they find that are no longer worth following.
According…
Significant backend server changes behind Twitter outage : Elon Musk
New Delhi : As Twitter went down for several users globally including in India, Elon Musk on Thursday said the outage was because of backend changes to make the micro-blogging platform faster. Twitter was down for millions of users in the…
Google working on option to block insecure HTTP downloads in Chrome
San Francisco : Tech giant Google is reportedly working on a new security option to block insecure hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) downloads in Chrome. Hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS), an extension of HTTP, has become very…
Twitter web faces major outage across US
San Francisco : Micro-blogging platform Twitter on Thursday faced a major outage across the US on the web version. The platform showed error messages to several users, "Something went wrong, but don't fret -- it's not your fault. Let's try…
WhatsApp working on feature to let users select chats on Desktop beta
San Francisco : Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new feature that will provide users the ability to select multiple chats on Desktop beta. When the feature will be released, there will be a new 'Select…