Twitter rolls out ‘hide replies’ feature globally in an effort to make platform less toxic

The company said the feature was a new way to ‘shut out noise’.

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· Nov 22, 2019 · 02:43 pm

On day of headlines about spyware targeting Indians, WhatsApp announces fingerprint lock for Android

The announcement was unrelated to the developments still emerging about spyware on WhatsApp being used to target Indians.

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· Oct 31, 2019 · 08:45 pm

Twitter apologises for inadvertently using phone numbers, emails IDs of users for advertising

The company said the matter was rectified on September 17.

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· Oct 09, 2019 · 11:21 am

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s account gets hacked, microblogging site says it is looking into it

Hackers had gained control of the account for about 15 minutes and posted a series of offensive tweets and a bomb scare.

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· Aug 31, 2019 · 08:28 am

Facebook says it is working on glitches as users worldwide report problems on WhatsApp, Instagram

The social media giant apologised for the inconvenience.

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· Jul 03, 2019 · 10:20 pm

iPhone designer Jony Ive set to leave Apple, will start his own venture

Apple Inc announced that it will be one of Ive’s clients at his new firm LoveFrom.

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· Jun 28, 2019 · 12:29 pm

Facebook planning to launch its own cryptocurrency Libra next year

The company has set up a digital wallet service called Calibra, which will allow users to save, send and spend Libras.

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· Jun 18, 2019 · 04:28 pm

Why one man is mentoring startups that make tech devices for differently-abled people

Technology has the power to transform lives, says Prateek Madhav.

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· Jun 12, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Manipur engineer detects WhatsApp bug that breaches privacy, enters Facebook ‘Hall of Fame’

Zonel Sougaijam found that if two people are on a voice call through WhatsApp, one can switch it into a video call without the other’s approval.

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· Jun 11, 2019 · 02:24 pm

Apple temporarily suspends group FaceTime feature after reports about privacy-invading glitch

Callers using iPhones could access another iPhone user’s audio and video even before the person had received the call.

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· Jan 29, 2019 · 07:17 pm

‘Google algorithms have no political sentiment’: CEO Sundar Pichai denies allegations of bias

The Google chief said the company had no plans ‘right now’ to launch a censored version of its search engine in China.

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· Dec 12, 2018 · 12:49 pm

YouTube faces outage, is back online after over an hour

Users reported a ‘500 Internal Server Error’ when they tried to access the website or its videos.

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· Oct 17, 2018 · 09:00 am