Month: August 2020

India’s main opposition Congress party called on Sunday for a parliamentary panel to investigate what it said was favourable treatment by Facebook’s India team towards the country’s ruling party. Citing a report published by the Wall Street Journal on Friday, the party said employees of Facebook and WhatsApp overseeing Indian content had refused to bar
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iOS 14, Apple’s upcoming mobile operating system, will include a feature that will give users the choice to grant applications approximate location access instead of exact GPS location. The Precise Location toggle for Location Services will give users more control over which apps have access to their current location data. Many apps can run efficiently
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OnePlus Nord is the latest smartphone by the Chinese smartphone maker and a budget friendly one at that. OnePlus has seemingly gone back to its roots of delivering great performance for an affordable price. This trend of delivering relatively budget friendly smartphones with good performance is also followed by Google and Apple. Google recently announced
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Although Facebook has had a ban on hate speech for a while, it has now expanded its definition of the term. Under Facebook’s new Community Standards, Facebook will remove any posts involving blackface and anti-Semitic stereotypes. Facebook’s War on Hate Speech Facebook’s quarterly Community Standards Enforcement Reports give users insight into what the tech giant
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With the Marvel’s Avengers PC pre-order beta approaching — it starts Friday alongside the Xbox One pre-order beta — developer Crystal Dynamics has announced the game’s minimum and recommended system requirements. Marvel’s Avengers won’t run on anything lower than 64-bit Windows 10 and you will need a minimum of 8GB RAM. Additionally, the Avengers game
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Rovio Entertainment, maker of the 10-year-old Angry Birds mobile game series, on Friday reported a 160 percent jump in second-quarter adjusted operating profit, helped by increased player engagement amid COVID-19 lockdowns. “We reached record high games revenue driven by the strong performance of our key games,” CEO Kati Levoranta said in a statement. Adjusted operating
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WhatsApp is a popular choice for greetings of any kind, and Independence Day 2020 is no exception. Users will throng groups and chats with messages today, wishing each other, sharing patriotic messages, and even stickers and GIFs. Stickers in particular, have become a popular choice of expression, especially during special occasions and festivals.  Therefore, on this
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Apple and Alphabet’s Google on Thursday removed popular video game Fortnite from their app stores for violating the companies’ in-app payment guidelines, prompting developer Epic Games to file federal antitrust lawsuits challenging the two companies’ rules. Apple and Google cited a direct payment feature rolled out on the Fortnite app earlier on Thursday as the
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