Category: NEWS

Instagram is launching and testing multiple new features starting today that are aimed at making the platform a more positive space. The company says it’s rolling out the ability to delete up to 25 comments at once and also block or restrict multiple accounts at the same...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey emailed employees on Tuesday telling them that they’d be allowed to work from home permanently, even after the coronavirus pandemic lockdown passes. Some jobs that require physical presence, such as maintaining servers, will still require employees to come in. “We’ve been very thoughtful...

Zoom has acquired secure messaging and identity management firm Keybase as its looks to shore up security capabilities on its platform with end-to-end encryption. The acquisition will give Zoom access to Keybase’s encryption technology, used to secure online identities, as well as its team of...

Apple will reopen some stores in the United States next week, with temperature checks and a limited number of customers in the location at one time, the company told CNBC. The vast majority of Apple’s stores outside of China have been closed since March in...

Twitter starts to showing warning to its users that the legacy version will be shut down on June 1st, 2020. If you have installed a browser extension to trick Twitter into thinking you were running Internet Explorer 11, which is unsupported, Twitter would continue to...

The social media giant Facebook will allow most of its employees to continue working from home through the end of 2020, a company spokeswoman told CNBC.  The social media company will allow any employees who can do their work remotely to continue to do so,...

NASA said Tuesday it is working with Tom Cruise to film a movie on the International Space Station, but details on the arrangements are scarce. The news that Cruise was in talks with to shoot an action-adventure film on the space station was first reported...

Nike is donating 30,000 pairs of shoes — specifically designed for healthcare workers — to health systems and hospitals in cities across the United States. The Air Zoom Pulse, which was released in November 2019, is the company’s “first shoe designed for the healthcare athlete, an...

Poynter Institute launched a bot on the Facebook -owned service that will allow people across the globe to debunk over 4,000 hoaxes surrounding the pandemic. It comes as an effort to battle misinformation being spread about the coronavirus. The chatbot relies on information supplied by over 100...

Disney announced that it is selling non-medical, reusable cloth face masks featuring favorite Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars characters in the U.S. To further help those in need, Disney is donating one million cloth face masks for children and families in underserved and vulnerable communities across...

Apple’s latest beta version of iOS 13 comes with a much-needed improvement to lock screen authentication for those who now spend the majority of their time at work or outside wearing a face mask. Now, instead of constantly attempting to identify your face using Face...

According to new data from SensorTower, The viral social media app TikTok has officially crossed 2 billion downloads across iOS and Android. The latest milestone comes just five months after TikTok surpassed 1.5 billion downloads. In Q1 2020, it generated the most downloads for any app ever...

Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor breathed his last on April 30. The actor was admitted to HN Reliance Hospital in Mumbai on Wednesday morning. Rishi Kapoor was battling cancer since 2018, and was in the US for treatment for a year. The actor’s brother, Randhir Kapoor,...

Millions of people around the world are practicing social distancing due to the novel coronavirus, The social media giant Facebook says that it has seen a massive surge in the use of its various apps in recent weeks. In the past month, more than 3...

Samsung Electronics today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2020. Total revenue was KRW 55.33 trillion, a decrease of 7.6% from the previous quarter mainly due to weak seasonality for the Company’s display business and Consumer Electronics Division and partially due...

Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan, known internationally for roles in Slumdog Millionaire and Jurassic World, has died at the age of 53. He was admitted to the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani hospital in Mumbai when he passed away. Khan was known for his nuanced and understated performances,...

More than 1 million cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed in the U.S., marking a grim milestone in the country with the most reported coronavirus infections in the world, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. U.S. deaths from the respiratory virus passed 57,000 on...

WhatsApp video calls can now include up to eight people instead of just four. In order to reach the new upper limit, everyone on the call will need to be running the updated version of the app. To start a group video call, you can either...

The tech giant ‘Apple’ is delaying the production of its new 2020 iPhone models due to a slump in demand, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Production of the new models will be pushed back by approximately one month, as fewer people are...