Apple To Extend Some Free Subscription To Video-Streaming Service Through February
The tech giant Apple said on Thursday that it would extend free Apple TV+ subscriptions, which were set to end within the next three months, through February. The company had bundled a one-year free subscription to its video-streaming service, which debuted in November last year...
Bijay Pokharel,
October 9, 2020
1 min read
Twitter Says You Cannot Tweet That You Hope Trump Dies From COVID
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump tested positive for coronavirus. He is widely reviled by roughly half the country on account of his often negligent and sometimes cruel policies on the pandemic, social justice, and immigration, among others. Some unknowable percentage of those people...
Bijay Pokharel,
October 3, 2020
1 min read
President Donald Trump And First Lady Melania Trump Test Positive For Covid-19
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump tested positive for coronavirus, the President announced early Friday morning, an extraordinary development coming months into a global pandemic and in the final stretch of his reelection campaign. “I just went for a test and we’ll see...
Bijay Pokharel,
October 2, 2020
1 min read
Google To Block U.S. Election Ads After Polls Close
The tech giant Google will block election-related ads on its platforms after polls close in the U.S. election on Nov. 3, the company told advertisers in an email on Friday, as reported by Axios. The policy, which is intended to block all ads related to the election,...
Bijay Pokharel,
September 26, 2020
1 min read
TikTok Has Removed 104M Videos For Violating Community Guidelines
TikTok has removed 104,543,719 videos globally for violating their Community Guidelines or Terms of Service, which is less than 1% of all videos uploaded on TikTok. Of those videos, TikTok found and removed 96.4% of videos before a user reported them, and 90.3% were removed...
Bijay Pokharel,
September 23, 2020
1 min read
Microsoft Buys Fallout Maker Bethesda For $7.5bn
Microsoft is paying $7.5bn (£5.85bn) for Bethesda’s parent ZeniMax Media. Zenimax is the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, which has created developed hits including The Elder Scrolls, Wolfenstein, and Fallout. Xbox has said that the publisher’s franchises would be added to its Game Pass subscription...
Bijay Pokharel,
September 22, 2020
1 min read
Trump to Block U.S. Downloads Of TikTok, WeChat On Sunday
The U.S. Commerce Department plans to issue an order Friday that will bar people in the United States from downloading Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok starting on September 20, three officials told Reuters. The full order was published by the Department of Commerce...
Bijay Pokharel,
September 19, 2020
2 min read
Apple Is Launching First Online Store in India
The tech giant Apple Inc will launch its first online store in India on Sept. 23. The new online store will provide customers with the same premium experience found in Apple store locations around the world, delivered by online team members who are ready to...
Bijay Pokharel,
September 18, 2020
1 min read
The PS5 Will Launch On November 12 For $499.99
Sony has revealed that its long-awaited Playstation 5 will cost $499.99 when it launches alongside the game maker’s $399.99 Digital Edition. The pricing puts Sony squarely up against Microsoft’s next-gen consoles, with the company set to release its entry-level Xbox Series S at $299 and its flagship Xbox...
Bijay Pokharel,
September 17, 2020
1 min read
Bloomberg Donates $100m For Biden In Florida
Billionaire Mike Bloomberg has pledged at least $100m (£78m) to help Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential campaign in Florida, BBC reported. Of the battleground states Florida offers the biggest share of the electoral college votes needed to win.Mr Bloomberg already spent $1bn this year trying to...
Bijay Pokharel,
September 14, 2020
1 min read
Facebook Staff Who Volunteer at the Polls Get Paid Time Off
The social media giant Facebook will give additional paid time off to employees who volunteer as poll workers during the election, company CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Friday. The move is part of a wider push by the Menlo Park, Calif., social-media platform to recruit poll...
Bijay Pokharel,
September 12, 2020
1 min read
Apple Designs Special Face Masks For Employees
Apple Inc. has developed masks that the company is beginning to distribute to corporate and retail employees to limit the spread of Covid-19, Bloomberg reports. The Apple Face Mask is the first created in-house by the Cupertino, California-technology giant for its staff. The other, called ClearMask,...
Bijay Pokharel,
September 10, 2020
1 min read
Chinese Embassy Calls For Twitter Inquiry After Ambassador Account Likes Porn Tweet
China’s embassy in the United Kingdom is calling on Twitter to open an investigation after its ambassador’s official account liked a pornographic clip on the platform earlier this week, BBC reported. Liu Xiaoming’s account also liked posts that criticised the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and...
Bijay Pokharel,
September 10, 2020
1 min read
Read Cloudflare’s Statement Regarding Sunday Morning’s CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage
Cloudflare was suffering an outage Sunday morning that appeared to be affecting multiple websites. CenturyLink/Level(3), a major ISP and Internet bandwidth provider, experienced a significant outage that impacted some of Cloudflare’s customers as well as a significant number of other services and providers across the Internet....
Bijay Pokharel,
August 31, 2020
1 min read
Cloudflare Is Suffering A Sunday Morning Outage
Cloudflare was suffering an outage Sunday morning that appeared to be affecting multiple websites. The outage began early Sunday, and according to Cloudflare’s status page, it was seeing “an increased level of HTTP 5xx class errors,” such as 522 and 503, which indicates an issue...
Bijay Pokharel,
August 30, 2020
1 min read
Apple Removes Fortnite Developer Epic From App Store
Apple has terminated Epic Games’s account from its App Store amid a legal battle over in-app payments on the Fortnite game. MacStories Managing Editor John Voorhees noted the termination on Twitter, as well as the fact that the App Store is currently featuring Fortnite competitor PUBG....
Bijay Pokharel,
August 29, 2020
2 min read
Jeff Bezos Becomes The First Person Ever Worth $200 Billion
The Amazon CEO’s wealth reached an estimated $202 billion. Early Wednesday he crossed a milestone previously unseen in the nearly four decades Forbes has been tracking net worths: With Amazon stock edging up 2% as of Wednesday afternoon, Bezos’ net worth is up by $4.9 billion, making...
Bijay Pokharel,
August 28, 2020
2 min read
Facebook Says Apple Rejected Its Attempt To Tell Users About App Store Fees
The social media giant Facebook told Reuters that Apple Inc rejected its attempt to tell users the iPhone maker would take a 30% cut of sales in a new online events feature, forcing Facebook to remove the message to get the tool to users. Facebook...
Bijay Pokharel,
August 28, 2020
2 min read
Facebook Blocks Access To Group Criticising Thailand’s Monarchy
The social media giant Facebook has blocked access within Thailand to a group with 1 million members that discuss the country’s king, after the Thai government threatened the company with legal action, theguardian reported. The decision, which has been criticised by human rights experts, comes...
Bijay Pokharel,
August 25, 2020
3 min read
TikTok To Challenge Trump’s Executive Order
TikTok said on Saturday it plans to file a lawsuit on Monday against President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting transactions with the popular short video app and its Chinese parent ByteDance, confirming an earlier Reuters report. “Even though we strongly disagree with the administration’s concerns,...
Bijay Pokharel,
August 23, 2020
1 min read
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