Twitter already offers a few ways to control the conversation surrounding a user’s tweet, like for example, the ability to hide replies to a tweet. Now Twitter has begun testing a new setting where the user will be able to control who can reply to their tweet.
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Using their over-the-air network in Dallas, Texas, Nokia has claimed the record of the fastest 5G connection in the world during a test, reaching speeds of 4.7 Gbps. The test was powered by their AirScale Radio Access end-to-end 5G solution and used a technique called carrier aggregation and Dual Connectivity over 5G and LTE networks.
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While Facebook Marketplace was a great place to sell and buy items sold by individuals, users could never shop for products from big brands or local stores. Today, with the launch of “Shops”, Facebook is creating a platform for any business, from a small business to a global international brand, to sell products directly with users.
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Last year in December, Google enabled a feature called Direct sharing, which allowed users to share a single photo or video to another Google Photos user via a private conversation from within the app itself. Google is now adding the ability to directly share private albums in a similar manner to another user.
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Google Chrome has rolled out an update that is focused on better, clearer privacy and security controls in the browser settings. These include easy controls over cookies, Site settings, shortcut to clear browsing data, option to block/allow third-party cookies in incognito mode, two major security upgrades and more.
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Microsoft introduced the Surface Hub 2 back in 2018 and then later announced an updated Surface Hub 2S was coming in 2019, as an all-in-one digital whiteboard device for business environments. Now, they finally launched the Surface Hub 2S in India, along with its complementary Steelcase Roam mobile stand.
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Instagram has introduced a new feature for its apps that will help users discover inspirational content, recommendations and tips from creators public figures, organizations and publishers. It will include posts and videos curated by the creator along with helpful tips and advice.
Similar to how Apple’s (Product) Red devices directly support programs to treat HIV/ AIDS, Apple has introduced new Pride Edition band and face collection for the Apple Watch, in support of LGBTQ organizations around the world. The Pride Edition Watch faces will come along with the watchOS 6.2.5 update that brings other improvements, bugs fixes, etc.
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Google Chat has been a useful tool among the G Suite applications when the need arises to chat with contacts inside a domain. Now, Google has announced that they will be removing the domain constraints and let user’s chat with people outside of their G Suite domains.
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Rumors of Apple developing a new AR product called Glasses have been leaking for a few years now. The latest rumours suggest that the Apple Glasses will be announced sometime during 2021, with the device going on sale in early 2021. The product will have a sleek, lightweight design and will have a custom UI developed by Apple called “Starboard”.
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Seeing Chinese knock-offs of many popular products is very common these days. However, seeing an exact copy of an AAA-video game title like Ubisoft’s popular game “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege” is rare and that is exactly what developers at Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd.’s Ejoy.com have created, called “Area F2”. For obvious reasons, Ubisoft has filed a lawsuit claiming copyright infringement to try to remove the game from app stores.
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It seems like the Epic Games store is trying to compete with Steam by offering similar mega sales where games are offered with cheap prices or sometimes even free. The latest Epic Games Store “Epic Mega Sales” is raising quite a bit of attention as it offers the massively popular “Grand Theft Auto 5” for absolutely free.
While Google has added a dark mode to most of its apps, including the Play Store, Calendar, Drive, etc. The Chrome browser has many dark mode elements built-in, however when using Google Search in the browser, users are presented with a blindingly white background. This may change soon as Chrome may start to display Search results with dark mode.
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Advertisements are annoying to most of us when surfing the web. What is even more annoying is when loading the advertisement, our devices will sometime slowdown due to how resource-intensive the advertisement is. To solve this, the developers at Chrome have decided that they will soon block all resource-heavy advertisements from showing on the browser.
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Facebook is finally rolling out its Zoom competitor, Messenger Rooms, to countries beyond US, Canada and Mexico. The video conferencing service will let Facebook users host video calls with up to 50 people for an unlimited amount of time and features many controls and options for the host itself.
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