Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

The microblogging site Twitter said on Friday it had changed its policy and lifted a freeze it placed on the account of the New York Post after the newspaper published articles about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son. The New York Post can now send tweets...

Google is sticking to its plan to have all of its products include recycled materials by 2022, this year designing its new Pixel and Nest products to incorporate the re-use of otherwise wasted resources. It is only part of the devices that are comprised of...

Google Pay is a digital wallet platform and online payment system developed by Google to power in-app and tap-to-pay purchases on mobile devices, enabling users to make payments with Android phones, tablets, or watches. In addition to this, the service also supports passes such as coupons, boarding passes, student ID cards, event tickets, movie...

Web browsing history is the list of web pages a user has visited recently, as well as associated data such as page title and time of visit, which is recorded by web browser software as standard for a certain period of time.

The tech giant Google has removed 3 Android apps i.e. Princess Salon​, Number Coloring, and ​Cats & Cosplay from the Google Play app store after IDAC brought the violations to its attention. Researchers at the International Digital Accountability Council (IDAC), a nonprofit watchdog based out of Boston, found that a...

Metadata is data about data. For example, if this article is the data, its metadata will include information about its word count, what language it is written in, when the article was first published, and whether it is linked to an image.

TikTok, a short-form, video-sharing app is announcing that it will give you at least a vague idea of why your video is gone, by naming the specific policy it fell afoul of. That’s pretty similar to how other companies do it. “Explaining our enforcement actions while...

Netflix is planning a two-day “event” that will allow non-subscribers in India to stream the company’s library without a subscription plan. The move follows news that Netflix has ended free trial periods, choosing instead to focus on other marketing promotions to try and amass new...

Microsoft says that customers can now disable JScript (JScript.dll) execution in Internet Explorer 11 after installing the Windows October 2020 monthly security updates. JScript is a legacy Microsoft implementation of the ECMAScript language specification in the form of an Active Scripting engine. To manually edit the...

Instagram, an American photo and video sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, turns 10 years today. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and originally launched on iOS in October 2010. The Android version was released in April 2012, followed by a...

The tech giant Google has announced an update to its Phone app, dubbed “Hold for Me”, that will allow Google Assistant to wait on hold and alert users when a human is on the line. “When you call a toll-free number and a business puts...

The tech giant Google is rolling out its impressive noise cancellation in Google Meet to Android and iOS. This feature is not available to everyone. You have to be a G Suite Enterprise or G Suite Enterprise for Education customer to take advantage of the...

U.S. judge early Sunday blocked the Trump administration from requiring Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google to remove Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat for downloads by late Sunday, Reuters reported. U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in San Francisco said in an order that WeChat users who...