Twitter Has Shuts Down Its Desktop Legacy Theme
The micro blogging site Twitter has officially shut down its desktop legacy theme and all users will soon be forced to use its new theme regardless of the browser being used. After July 16th, 2020, Twitter began displaying a warning stating that the legacy version of Twitter...
Bijay Pokharel,
June 2, 2020
1 min read
What Is Google Nest ?
Google Nest is a brand of Google LLC used to market smart home products including smart speakers, smart displays, streaming devices, thermostats, smoke detectors, routers and security systems including smart doorbells, cameras and smart locks.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 2, 2020
1 min read
Samsung Launches Rotating Mobile-Friendly TV ‘The Sero’
Samsung Electronics UK Ltd. has announced the world’s first mobile-friendly TV, The Sero. Defined as the TV that champions content viewing in as many ways possible by rotating between horizontal and vertical orientations, Tapping into a generation of social media users, Samsung’s revolutionary brand-new Lifestyle...
Bijay Pokharel,
June 1, 2020
2 min read
Facebook Will Start Verifying The Identity of People Behind High-Reach Profiles
The tech giant company Facebook announced that people behind individual profiles with “high reach” will now required to verify their identity. The blog post read, “We want to ensure the content you see on Facebook is authentic and comes from real people, not bots or...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 29, 2020
1 min read
You Can Now Schedule Tweets From Web Browser
The micro-blogging site Twitter says that you can now schedule tweets right from the main web app. When composing a tweet, you should see a little calendar icon on the bottom row of icons at the bottom of the compose window. Click that and you...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 29, 2020
1 min read
Arizona Sues Google Over Allegations It Illegally Tracked Android Smartphone Users’ Locations
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich sued Google on Wednesday, alleging the tech giant violated its users’ privacy by collecting information about their whereabouts even if they had turned off such digital tracking, according to a report from The Washington Post. The suit argues Google kept location tracking...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 28, 2020
2 min read
YouTube Kids Is Now Available For Apple TV
YouTube Kids, Google’s video streaming service aimed at children, can now be viewed on Apple TV streaming boxes, the company announced. The YouTube Kids app is available to download now in the App Store in the UK, US, and dozens of other countries. It can...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 27, 2020
1 min read
Google Removed Millions Of Negative TikTok Reviews
Google has removed millions of negative TikTok reviews from its Play Store after the app’s rating fell from 4.5 to 1.2 stars overnight. TikTok was flooded with a one-star review after an Indian creator posted a spoof video of an acid attack. The perpetrator, Faizal...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 27, 2020
1 min read
Netflix Stops Charging Inactive Users
The streaming giant Netflix says it will now start to cancel accounts that have watched nothing in more than a year but have still been paying subscription fees. Netflix said there are hundreds of thousands of accounts that are inactive and the streaming giant is...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 24, 2020
2 min read
Hacker Shares 40 Million Wishbone User Records For Free
A hacker has put up for sale today the details of 40 million users registered on Wishbone, a popular mobile app that lets users compare two items in a simple voting poll. BleepingComputer has been able to independently confirm that the data is legitimate as it...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 22, 2020
1 min read
SD 8.0 Specification To Allow 4GB/s Transfer Speed
The SD Association announced today the SD 8.0 Specification for SD Express memory cards receives even faster transfer speeds by using the popular PCI Express® (PCIe®) 4.0 specification delivering a maximum of nearly 4 gigabytes per second (GB/s) data transfer rate. These full sized cards continue...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 20, 2020
3 min read
Samsung Announces 50-Megapixel Camera Sensor With AutoFocus
Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today introduced Samsung ISOCELL GN1, a new 50-megapixel (Mp) image sensor with large 1.2μm-sized pixels. The ISOCELL GN1 is Samsung’s first image sensor to offer both Dual Pixel and Tetracell technologies. Thanks to the relatively larger...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 19, 2020
3 min read
Apple Details Its Plan To Safely Reopen More Than 25 US Locations Next Week
Apple’s head of retail Deidre O’Brien has posted a letter on the company’s website detailing how it plans to safely restart operations at its retail stores. Apple shut all of its stores outside Greater China in March as COVID-19 spread worldwide; all the Greater China...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 18, 2020
3 min read
Zoom Hit With Sunday Morning Outage
Users of video conferencing platform Zoom are reporting issues internet hosting and becoming a member of conferences and the corporate is investigating, in response to the its status page. “Our team is investigating the root cause of issues joining Zoom Meetings. These issues appear to...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 17, 2020
1 min read
Google Chrome Will Soon Allow Users To Group Their Tabs Together
The tech giant company Google is rolling out a new tool to organize tabs in its Chrome browser and group them together, it announced Wednesday. We’ve all been there: 27 browser tabs open and struggling to find the one we need. Google wants to help. Users can...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 17, 2020
2 min read
Google Chrome Will Soon Block Battery-Draining Ads Automatically
They tech giant company google announced on a blog post that it will automatically block annoying resource-heavy ads on Google Chrome that drain your battery life. “We have recently discovered that a fraction of a percent of ads consume a disproportionate share of device resources,...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 15, 2020
1 min read
How To Get ‘GTA V’ For Free | Offer Until May 21, 2020
The Epic Game Store is letting you claim the Premium Edition of GTA V, which includes “the complete GTA V story, Grand Theft Auto Online and all existing gameplay upgrades and content,” according to the studio, as well as the Criminal Enterprise Starter Pack, which gives you additional content and $1,000,000...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 15, 2020
1 min read
Carry Minati’s ‘YouTube vs TikTok’ Video Removed For Violating Youtube’s Terms Of Service
YouTuber Carry Minati’s ‘Youtube vs Tiktok’ video was remove from YouTube for violating its ‘terms of service’. According to YouTube’s Harassment and Cyberbullying Policy, “Content that threatens individuals is not allowed on YouTube. We also do not allow content that targets an individual with prolonged...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 15, 2020
1 min read
7 Amazon Employee Dies From COVID-19
An Amazon warehouse worker in Indianapolis, Indiana, has died of COVID-19, the company confirmed. According to theverge, “The death brings the known total of COVID-19 deaths at Amazon warehouses to seven, but Amazon’s process for notifying workers makes the true number difficult to determine. Several...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 15, 2020
1 min read
Donald Trump Extends Huawei Ban Through May 2021
President Donald Trump has extended his executive order banning US companies from working with or buying telecommunications equipment from companies deemed a national security risk until May 2021, via Reuters. While the ban doesn’t explicitly call out specific companies, it’s been used to virtually shut down US operations with...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 14, 2020
2 min read
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