Facebook-owned WhatsApp today announced that it had selected 20 research teams worldwide – including experts from India and those of Indian origin — who will work towards how misinformation spreads and what additional steps the mobile messaging platform could take to curb fake news. Shakuntala Banaji from London School of Economics … Read More
The world’s most popular freeware instant messaging app, WhatsApp, confirmed its prior announcement that, as of Monday, any users who have not backed up their stored data and chats on Google Drive would lose their chat histories. WhatsApp, which is owned by tech giant Facebook, had reached an agreement with … Read More
Since its inception, Reliance Jio has been offering its content services such as JioTV, JioCinema, JioMusic and so on free to all its subscribers, but very soon, we might see Jio charging for the content services. At the moment, Jio is bundling content services with its prepaid, postpaid plans itself. … Read More
It has been a busy year for WhatsApp, in both good and bad ways. The Facebook-owned instant messaging application has been in the news for all the wrong reasons like the fake news menace. To combat that, WhatsApp has reduced the number of people you can forward a message to … Read More
With rumours claiming that Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) will hit the Sony PlayStation 4 (PS4) in December, Microsoft is set to add the popular mobile game to the company’s Xbox Game Pass subscription on November 12, the media reported. The addition means Xbox One users who subscribe to Xbox Game … Read More
Google is rolling out the ability to initiate manual backups to Google Drive — that does not need the usually recommended Wi-Fi — on Android devices including the older ones, a media report said. Previously, for backups, a smartphone had to be connected to a Wi-Fi network and the device … Read More
Google has rebranded and redesigned its memory-decluttering app for smartphones “Files Go” that also assists users to find files faster and share them with others even without an Internet connection. “We’re rebranding the app to ‘Files by Google’ and redesigned the user experience to make sure that the content of … Read More
Google is giving away cash rewards to the first time Duo users in India. Back in September, the search giant rolled out data rewards for the Duo users in the Philippines. Now, the same programme is offered to the duo users here in India. A support page of Google notes … Read More
It is often very difficult to switch from Android to iOS and back to Android. To make it easy, OnePlus via its forum now explains the easiest methods to switch from an iPhone to a OnePlus phone. Yes, directly or indirectly wants users to ditch their iPhones and buy a … Read More
Microsoft is testing a “to-do” feature on Word that would enable users to come back to a document, view a list of their remaining to-dos, navigate to the right spot and fill-in additional information including images and charts to complete the document without confusion. “The new capabilities to Word would … Read More
Facebook is planning to roll out a new update to Messenger that will allow users to delete sent messages from chat threads within 10 minutes of sending. A Twitter user spotted the feature listed as “coming soon” in the release notes for version 191.0 of Messenger’s iOS client, The Verge … Read More
Amazon, after a long wait, launched its audiobooks subscription service called the Audible in India for a starting price of Rs 199 for one month. For the first time Audible users, Amazon is offering a 30-day free trial to all users in the country. Amazon has been talking about launching … Read More
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