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Did you know The new Dublin centre will be a regional hub for Google experts, which will be helpful to confront the online harmful content Giant tech companies like Google, Facebook , Twitter have always a threat of harmful content. Just like in the recent month Facebook had the allegations of spreading harmful content that has the harassment material. Criminals especially use these kinds of a platform for online criminal activities. If you are curious about why people use mostly such platform, the answer to this question is simple, these platforms have more traffic. Every single person living in a house use such a platform for their work, simply these platforms have become part of their routine work. Google has billions of users every month. Most people use these platforms for spreading false news. Especially, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Google had allegations of spreading false news about the coronavirus vaccine. Not only this, Google had faced some criticism about the dispersion

Did you know A Recent Telegram Update Allows Users To Export And Import Chats From WhatsApp Telegram is introducing a new feature , allowing its growing userbase on iOS products to import chats from their WhatsApp accounts (and from other social media messaging apps as well). To say that WhatsApp has had a horrible past month or so would be highly understanding the issues plaguing our previously favorite social media communication app. Ever since the announcement of a change to the Terms of Service policy that allowed the app to share user information with Facebook, people have been quick to make their displeasure heard. With a general air of mistrust surrounding Facebook, considering how the social network has been subjected to an FTC lawsuit as well as criticism regarding its unintentional role in the US Capitol riot, users expressed paranoia regarding any amount of personal information being willingly handed over. And thus, a massive exodus was overseen where WhatsApp's userbas

Did you know Facebook’s Gearing Up To Butt Heads With Apple Over iOS 14 Feature Via A Lawsuit According to an article by The Information , Facebook is preparing to launch a lawsuit against Apple regarding the iOS 14 Tracking and Transparency features. The tense situation between Facebook and Apple has come to a head, as both companies refuse to cave to the other’s demands. Full disclosure before delving into the rest of the article: this author, for reasons which will be made clear down the line, actively believes Facebook to be in the wrong regarding this spat, and is appalled by the company’s actions. Having established this personal bias, accompanied with a promise to attempt practicing impartiality, let us begin. Facebook’s issues with Apple began when the iPhone wizards unveiled their latest operating software, entitled iOS 14. Amongst a myriad of functional tweaks and upgrades, a new feature caught everyone’s attention. The App Tracking/Transparency tool, to be specific. In one s

You know Google Play Is Now Allowing Gambling Games and Apps in Fifteen More Countries Google, is now allowing real money gambling games on its app, as first spotted by 9to5Google . For the longest time the gambling games were only restricted to four countries that are Brazil, France, Ireland and United Kingdom. According to a recent report, Google announced its new policy of Real-Money Gambling, Games, and Contests policy and said that it has added fifteen more countries to the list making it a total of nineteen now. The countries include Australia, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Romania, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. The policy is expected to go live on March 1st, 2021 and since that day developers will be able to issue online casino games, lotteries, sports betting, and daily fantasy sports games in the above-mentioned nineteen countries. Each country will have its own set of rules, limitations and policies on which

Did you know Google Docs introduced a new feature that will notify when someone is offline and will also mention the date and time of their availability Google is always on the go into updating and introducing new features for their users. Google Docs, by Google is a free web based word processor in which one can create and edit documents and share them with anyone across platforms from any device having an internet connection. Google Workspace launched in 2006 as Google Apps and rebranded as G-Suite in 2016, has a bunch of tools for productivity and collaboration. It consists of software developed by Google for its users. G-Suite is used by people who have hours long of work and need quick and accessible tools right in front to save time. What’s also included with Google Workplace or G-Suite is Google docs, email, chat, meet, calendar, drive and many more tools helpful for work purposes. With most of the people now working from home, G-suite served as something very useful to many peo

Did you know The Information About Electric Vehicle Charging Stops Has Just Become Better On Google Maps For Android Automotive Currently, the Android Automotive stands compatible with two cars and while both of them, by chance, are electric, the company has planned to improve the navigation of EV charging stations in the built-in Google Maps app before they roll it out to introduce the dashboard experience in more vehicles very soon. Keeping an eye on the charging stations is about to be an integral part of every traveling plan considering the limited range of current electric cars and how the availability of stations can help a consumer decide if they really want to take such a trip or not. Hence, for the similar matter, you will now be able to look out for available chargers on the Maps app in which Google will note the speed and network. On the other hand, if you are planning to go on a trip that may require two or more recharge stops, then Google will first point out the stations

Did you know Twitter recently announced about its new newsletter startup acquisition and has already begun working on it Twitter is a platform where people express themselves freely. They share their content with the world and start meaningful conversations. Twitter earlier this week announced about the acquisition of its new startup that is called Revue. Revue will serve as a platform and opportunity for writers or anyone for that matter to create and get paid for their newsletters, and that too for free! Revue is there to make it easy for anyone who would like to start and publish their own newsletters. It will give the audience something new to see on twitter and to read about the many different opinions on anything going on in the world This new unison between Twitter and Revue would highly boost Twitter’s platform and will for sure engage more followers as usual. This could and probably will give the company countless advantages in the newsletters market that is already on a much

Did you know Mark Zuckerberg Answers Tough Questions Related to Facebook's Privacy Scandals in An Internal Meeting In the first week of January, WhatsApp users received a pop notification on the app notifying them about a new policy. The policy said that the WhatsApp data of the users will now be shared with the Parent company that is Facebook. This created a havoc among the users, and they started feeling a breach in privacy and many switched to other competitive messaging apps like Signal. Signal jumped from 20 million to 40 million users in a month. To answer this and other questions that have been recently arising related to Facebook’s other privacy scandals, Mark Zuckerberg came forward in a company-wise weekly Question and Answer sessions that is quite internal but whose audio was obtained by Big Technology. In the meeting, one employee raised a question that the Facebook’s brand has become toxic for its users and what efforts will the company take to improve the brand. The q

Did you know DuckDuckGo Enables Its Initiative of Global Privacy Control On All Its Mobile Apps DuckDuckGo in collaboration with other organizations joined a privacy focused initiative called Global Privacy Control (GPC). If you are not aware what this is, worry not. Well, DuckDuckGo is a search engine just like Google and Edge comparatively not so popular, but do you know it does not sell your data to others and maintain user privacy as it does not even store data in the first place. Well, it became the founding member of GPC to ensure that the users get their rights of internet tracking and maintaining their data privacy. After a great response on this initiative, they are taking a step further. It was recently announced by DuckDuckGo that their mobile applications for both Android and iOS will have a GPC enabled by default as well as for the Browser Extensions of Google, Edge, Firefox, etc. The purpose of GPC is to stop websites in sharing your information and data to others withou

Did you know United States Outpaced by South Korea, UAE, Japan, and others in 5G Speeds With the world ready to fully embrace the phenomenon that is 5G, it turns out that the US has quite the work still left to do. As of now, the 5G download speeds in the US aren’t on par with the speeds in other countries. Moreover, with the official rollout of the iPhone 12, it gets easier to showcase how the US is lacking when it comes to the 5G speeds. As per the information available on Ookla SpeedTest , iPhone 12’s 5G data measured across 15 cities around the world tells us that New York City managed to secure the 14th spot in download speeds with 97.33Mbps. While it edged out Singapore’s download speed of 93.62Mbps, NYC’s download speed was way less than Seoul’s (#1) 472.28Mbps, Dubai’s 338.53Mbps, and Riyadh’s 319.25Mbps. Sydney and Helsinki ended up taking the 4th and 5th spots respectively. While its download speed wasn’t up to the mark, New York City managed to make it to the top 10 in uploa

You know Whatsapp brings more security on logging into any account on desktop by enabling biometric authentication Biometric authentication is used as a form of identification and to gain permission over the person’s account that matches with the fingerprints or any other biometric means installed by that person. It can be fingerprints, face id, voice etc. Biometric authentication is becoming much popular day by day. Many phones use face ID or fingerprints to unlock phones. This is also used by banks for security and on ATM machines for withdrawing money. Whatsapp, the American messaging app owned by Facebook having more than 2 billion users has been in news for quite some time. At the beginning of this year Whatsapp received much heat from people all around but it soon recovered from that. It has now another feature available for its users. The many benefits Whatsapp brought to us by allowing the app to be logged in to desktop by QR code authentication, now brings more security to it.

Did you know New Twitter Report Looks Into The Tweets Data From Successful Brands To Present A List of Customer Care Trends Sprinklr, the Software as a Service (SaaS) customer experience management platform has recently published a report in collaboration with Twitter, highlighting the best customer care trends and habits that brands must pertain to for an optimal outcome in 2021. The report, published by Twitter with insights and analysis by Sprinklr, took into account an approximate half a billion tweets across 1,226 different handles on the social media platform in order to gauge what practices best resonated with a brand’s core audience. Titled “ From AM to DM: Twitter customer care in a 24/7 world ”, the report is available to download from Twitter’s partners webpage. Let’s see what these companies have to say about brand handling across the new year. Attending a customer’s wants and needs is a must, as any number of managers could swear by. However, Sprinklr goes as far as to qu

Did you know Apple Breaks Previous Records and Makes 111.4 Billion Dollars in its Quarterly Revenue Even though Apple was a month late in issuing its new iPhone range than its normal time due to the delay in manufacturing because of the ongoing Pandemic, people still had huge hopes from the new iPhone 12 line up and many suspected it would bring big changes in the company’s finances and they were not disappointed. While Wall Street estimated the earned revenue to be 103 billion dollars on average but things turned out different. The new iPhone 12 line up was introduced in October and since then in its first quarter which spanned from October to December Apple has managed to earn a revenue of 111.4 billion dollars which marked 20 percent more growth year over year and the highest for the company to ever record. The earnings per revenue is 1.68 dollars while Wall Street estimated it being only 1.41 dollars. In all fairness though, all the products introduced by Apple have doubled over

You know Facebook permanently stop recommending political groups to its users? Zuckerberg says this is a crucial act taken by the company to hold the temperature down According to the latest reports on Wednesday, the CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg is reported to have said that the company will completely and permanently stop suggesting political and civic groups to its users. The firm publicly announced that this policy will be implemented all over the world. Additionally, the CEO also mentioned that preferably users might come across the political content on their news feed rarely. The reason stated for this was to avoid any kind of controversy and encourage peace over the platform. Facebook decided to pause these recommendations in October for U.S users, due to the 2020 elections. However, it couldn’t help, and the firm faced enough criticism and hatred from the liberal lawmakers for promoting misleading and violent messages over the platform, so this compelled the company to decid

Did you know Apple Crosses 1 Billion Active iPhones with Install Bases Reaching New Mile Stones for the First Time Ever Billions is just literally becoming Apple’s second name. While the company has always done great in terms of its sales and working of devices, but the cards this year for Apple are turning out to be in more positive favors, with its activity rates reaching for the skies. From its first quarterly in October till December iPhone sales crossed over 100 billion dollars in revenue, that is the highest it has ever made in history and now Tim Cook the CEO in one of his interviews revealed that the status of active iPhones in the world has crossed 100 billion after the launch of the newly introduced iPhone 12 line. iPhone 12 is surely coming out to be lucky for Apple. The CEO released that the company had 900 million active iPhones in 2019 and since then had an average of 1.5 billion average active installed bases, but this year proved to be different and the Apple iPhone dev

Did you know The Coming Year Looks Hard for Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg Thinks it is Because of Apple While 2020 proved to be good year for Facebook in terms of growth, 2021 looks uncertain for a whole lot of reasons. The last quarter of the previous year was great in terms of revenue as well as user strength growth for Facebook. It gained a lot of new users during the pandemic because practically everyone was under lockdown and many switched towards social media as a means of entertainment. The first reason for the expected uncertainty is Apple’s new privacy policy. Apple has ordered all apps on App Store to come clean with what data they will be taking from the user and a pop up will appear to the user notifying them about their data and asking for consent that whether or not they want the app to make use of their data. Considering majority of the brands and developers use this data for linking user preferred advertisements with the user and a large sum of Facebook’s revenue comes f

Did you know Google to Make Its Own Tool and Stop Using Apple Tools For User Tracking for Advertisements Google has other plans once Apple starts implementing the user consent on their IDFA. Apple has been providing its app with a unique identifier called IDFA which helps brands and developers in linking the same users across multiple apps making it easier for the brands and developers to know which ad should be liked with which user as the user preference is known, but now Apple is changing its ways. Apple decided to come clear with its users as the company thinks that user privacy is very important and it should be on the users to decide whether and which information they want to let the apps have. Therefore, Apple has decided to finally add a pop up which will appear when you open the app first time after this rule goes live, and will show a message indicating which data is being used by the app and will ask for consent from the user that whether or not they want this data to be sha

Did you know Instagram is introducing a business dashboard for professional accounts to centralize all their business tools in one place Instagram has recently announced that soon, the feature of a professional business dashboard will be available for accounts that use Instagram for business purposes, and for influencers who use their accounts for professional reasons. A dashboard is supposed to be one place, or it is considered as an information management tool that tracks different metrics of business growth or its decline, some other crucial data points that help the business owners assess the situation of their business and what changes need to be made to make it more profitable. A business dashboard basically contains all the necessary and relevant insights that can help business owners in a lot of ways. Instagram is a photo and video-sharing app, but in recent years, it has become really popular amongst people who use it for the promotion of their brands, businesses, services, or

You know Dark Theme Comes to Google’s My Activity Setting Page Dark themes have become really popular in the world of tech because of the fact that this is the sort of thing that could potentially end up allowing people to avoid some of the negative effects that can come with staring at their screens for extended periods of time which can lead to a lower than usual sleep quality. While a lot of apps have been rolling these kinds of themes out for people to use, we haven’t really seen it outside of social media and the like. Google’s websites haven’t really offered any kind of dark mode, or rather this was the case until dark mode somewhat randomly popped up on the My Activity page , as per 9to5Google , that you can use to find your search history as well as other aspects of your online activity data that Google ends up storing for a wide variety of reasons. This page is also meant to give you more control over this data, essentially allowing you to pick and choose what you would let Go

Did you know CEO Susan Wojcicki Shares Fascinating Insights, Highlighting YouTube’s 2020 Lessons, And Mapping The Search Engine's 2021 Direction YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki recently wrote an open letter, published to the YouTube blog, establishing what the company had gleaned from 2020 , and what it hoped to work towards in 2021. The letter starts out, as almost any blog post from a major company in 2021 will, addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on the world, particularly pertaining to YouTube’s userbase. Harkening back to other tragedies such as the BLM movement, and the Australian & Californian wildfires, Wojcicki remains optimistic that YouTube was a uniting factor for people to come under and temporarily forget the world’s problems with. Utilizing the virtual social media space, stars such as Miley Cyrus and The Roots came together for the Save our Stages initiative, raising $1.8 million to help fund independent ventures. YouTube even saw a 25% increase in watch

Did you know Immunity Passport Apps Revealed to Have Multiple Security Risks and Ethical Violations It seems like the coronavirus pandemic has been raging for many years, but the truth of the situation is that it has barely even been a year since the virus first started becoming prominent all around the world. While the period of time during which this virus has prevented us from living our normal day to day lives is starting to seem like it will never end, the vaccine is just around the corner and this has led to a rather unique phenomenon in terms of the tech industry and the like. Now that people are starting to get vaccinated, immunity passport apps have started to come up. These apps claim that they can provide users with the ability to use their newfound immunity to the coronavirus to travel wherever it is that they might need to go. This makes them a rather tantalizing prospect for people that feel trapped in their current situation, but with all of that having been said and now

Did you know Twitter Acquires a Newsletter Company Called Revue and Plans to Expand it Twitter on Tuesday announced that it has teamed up with a newsletter platform for writers and publishers called Revue. Revue is a software which allows writers and publishers free and paid newsletter. The free version lets writers send newsletter up to fifty people while on the paid version the limit of email is up to forty thousand people. Twitter has big plans for the collaboration and bring about some changes in the software. It will be in full control of the team and plans on further expansion once everything is legally sorted out. Twitter says that it will introduce new features which will make the software way easier to use for the users. Apart from this Twitter will allow people to sign up for newsletter from people they already follow on Twitter and will add new settings which will allow users to host meetings with their subscribers on Twitter. On this Twitter also said that writers can exp

Did you know Nick Clegg: Facebook should be treated as something different, not as a publisher The Vice President for Global Affairs and Communications at Facebook since 2018, Nick Clegg, recently made comments on Facebook on the Telegraph which is the national British newspaper in London. Nick Clegg has said that Facebook should be treated as something different and not as a publisher. It has come to notice that Facebook rolled out a new tab that will showcase news content according to the preferences of the 51 million UK users of Facebook. Each user has also been given the feature to personalize the news as they please and pick only those areas of news in which they are interested in. This includes Facebook hiring paid publishers for their content and it will also be paying journalists to pick out stories and articles of interest that will be expected to appear on the news tab every day to keep the users entertained. The news section will deliver a variety of news from different cate

Did you know How Does Facebook’s AI Determine A User’s News Feed? While Artificial intelligence (AI) is definitely entering a revolutionary period for the technology, with companies extensively focusing on incorporating it into their products and day-to-day activities, the technology itself has been around for a while now. In lieu of that, let’s take a look at a major implementation of AI that still holds current day importance. Particularly, let’s discuss Facebook’s News Feed and how algorithms deliver relevant information to users. Facebook’s News Feed feature has been a hallmark of both the platform itself, as well as a cornerstone of social media in general. The idea of truly creating a social forum online by featuring content and updates from your friends and close ones was, if not original, incredibly well executed by the platform and to this day continues to be a staple of most social media apps. As Facebook progressed into the billion dollar empire it currently is, the company

Did you know Good News for Android user, you can now translate any language offline through Google Lens app Google has made it very simple and easy for everybody to understand any language by making its translation through the Google Lens app. You can also scan a word or a phrase or take a picture, then you can select a language of which you want to translate However, you need an internet connection to translate anything on Google Lens app. But the Google has been working since last year to solve this problem by making its translation offline through a visual search option. You will be able to take the picture of any phrase or scan any word or phrase, then perform an offline translation. As per 9to5G , Google is rolling out an offline translation option on Android. You can simply select the language you mostly use, then download such language. Then open the Translate filter and make a pairing below the Google Lens. Google will check first the storage of your device and then the storag

Did you know Google is planning to release a simplified version of Android called Microdroid Google is on an effort to improve security and virtualization on Android hardware. For these purposes, Google is set to release Microdroid, published in the development directory by an engineer at Google , Jiyong Park. Microdroid will basically be a newer lighter version of Android system image. Generic system image or GSI is a system with arrangements adjusted for Android devices along with the AOSP (Android Open Source Project) code. Google aims for Microdroid to run systems in a virtual machine. In short, Google’s main goal is to develop something that is like android but with better virtualization and security for individual android apps. Microdroid will also be able to communicate with the underlying hosts of Android for better working. The virtualization module in the Linux kernel which is the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is being worked upon by Google for it to be brought into Andr

Did you know Twitter Grants Free Access of Full Tweet Archive to The Academic Researchers Twitter is the main hub for emerging trends and for people to tweet their thoughts and feelings about a certain topic or news or simply something very random, and that is why it is the best place for people wanting to study user behaviors and trends related to some online discussion. Previously, Twitter did not have a strong relationship with research and developing communities. Their developing platform made it very hard for researchers to access the data they were looking for and they had to rely on their own resources. This made both researchers and developers stand at a very un-ideal relationship with the company because of its continuous and sometimes adversarial product development over the years. This notable relation began specially in 2012 when Twitter decided to cut the key developer access to maintain stricter control, but now Twitter has decided to change its ways. Despite all this Twi

Did you know IT Experts to Lose Jobs to AI by 2030? Here's What TrendMicro's Survey Reveals! It goes without saying that technology is slowly taking over the world. On one hand, the advancements in tech have made numerous everyday tasks easy for us. On the other, machines have replaced humans in a variety of roles. With the future looking more and more tech-reliant with every passing day, people belonging to different industries have expressed concern over losing their jobs to machines and AI. Among these people are IT leaders. As per a recent study conducted by Trend Micro, about 4 in every 10 (41% to be precise) IT leaders think that AI will take over their jobs within the next 10 years. Around 500 Information Technology directors and managers, Chief information officers, and Chief technology officers offered their takes as part of the said research. It’s concerning that people holding such critical roles feel that their careers are in danger. Moreover, only about 1 in 10 res