Netflix has announced spatial audio to all devices in order to improve the audio experience across its catalogue of original titles. The feature should provide more immersive sound, especially for customers who use headphones to watch a TV show or movie. Continue reading “Netflix gets Spatial audio offering an immersive surround sound experience”
With the help of Twitter users, a new CoTweets feature is now being tested. Two accounts can co-author a tweet using the CoTweets option, and both accounts can be tagged in a single tweet. After testing the concept earlier this year, Twitter announced in a post that the new feature is already live for select users in the US, Canada, and Korea for a small period of time. Continue reading “Twitter is testing “CoTweets” feature allowing two users co-author a tweet”
A Reuters article says that on Tuesday, Twitter sued the Indian government for abusing its power and asked an Indian court to reverse some government orders to remove information from the social media site. Continue reading “Twitter sues Indian government’s order to take down content: Report”
Hagens Berman, a plaintiffs’ rights law firm, successfully haggled a $90 million settlement on behalf of a group of Android app developers who claimed that Google had broken antitrust laws and harmed them with its anticompetitive Play Store policy initiatives. The class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of these developers. Continue reading “Google settles Play Store lawsuit, will pay $90 million to app developers”
WhatsApp rolled out emoji reactions, shared files up to 2GB in size, and increased the group chat size limit to 512 participants to all users worldwide in both stable and beta builds months ago. Furthermore, WABeta reported a few months ago that a new version of message reactions was being developed on the WhatsApp beta for the Android and iOS versions of the app. Continue reading “WhatsApp is upgrading message reactions, working on video call avatars and blur media tool”
Facebook Groups are a great platform for people with like-minded interests to come together and form communities. A number of updates have been introduced to Facebook Groups that improves the organisation of joined groups and adds new ways to discuss topics.
Continue reading “Facebook Groups update bring a sidebar and Channels”
Meta is testing new options for Instagram users to verify their age, beginning with those in the United States. Teens will be asked to record a selfie video or ask mutual friends to verify their age under the new options. The firm has partnered with Yoti, an online age verification company, to verify the age of teens under the age of 18 when they attempt to change their date of birth on Instagram from under the age of 18 to 18 or over. Continue reading “Instagram is testing two new age verification methods for teens”
In recent times, Google has been very keen on optimizing the Android interface for tablets due to the extensive growth of the tablet market. Continuing its work, YouTube Music is getting a few changes in the ‘album view’ section of the app. Few weeks back, the firm updated the UI of playlist section, making it better for tablet users. Continue reading “YouTube Music is getting revamped UI for tablets”
Twitter, a microblogging platform, has announced a new feature that will enable users to create long-form content in the form of ‘Notes.’ This is part of the Twitter Write composer tool. Continue reading “Twitter Notes lets you share longform content”
In celebration of World Music Day, Instagram has announced a new campaign ‘#1MinMusic pop-ups’, in which many pop-ups will be set up in various cities across India. The campaign aims to showcase how music videos songs can be reimagined with Instagram Reels, with a select set artists creating and releasing Reels at each pop-up.
Continue reading “Instagram opens ‘1 Minute Music’ pop-ups across Indian cities”
Telegram has reached 700 million users active user worldwide, and the company has introduced ‘Telegram Premium’, as promised. The subscription service will offer exclusive additional features to users such as doubled limits, improved chat management, faster downloads and more.
WhatsApp has introduced a new update for their iOS and Android app that adds the ability to mute participants and message specific people in a voice call. Along with this, the update also adds an indicator when a person joins a call.
Continue reading “WhatsApp adds mute button for group voice call participants”
Update – June 16, 2022: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Instagram is will begin testing a new version of full-screen feed and changes to the navigation bar that will bring shortcuts for creating a post and accessing messages. Continue reading “Instagram is testing TikTok-like full-screen Home feed, updated navigation bar”
Adobe Photoshop is a well-known image editing and creation tool that offers powerful features. The company has revealed plans to offer a freemium version of Photoshop that will work on the web, and has begun testing a free version for users in Canada.
Continue reading “Adobe to introduce freemium version of Photoshop on the web”
Back in March, Meta announced that it would be bringing Parental Supervision Tools to its family, which includes Facebook, Instagram, and Quest headsets, under the ‘Family Center.’ Today, the company began rolling out new supervision tools on Instagram and for Quest headsets globally. Continue reading “Meta adds Parental Supervision Tools to Instagram and Quest headsets”
