Canada is the latest country to ban TikTok on government-issued mobile devices after the European Commission and the United States enforced similar restrictions earlier this year. The President o...
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We’ve known for a while that WhatsApp wanted to be more like iMessage and Telegram and let users edit their sent messages, but since the first time this feature was spotted, the company has bee...
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Subscription services seem to be the next big thing in the social platform space. After Twitter, which launched its Twitter Blue not a long time ago, Facebook is next to embrace this approach. Me...
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The most recent version of WhatsApp for Android comes with significant improvements, including a change that’s very likely to be received with much enthusiasm by pet owners, new moms, and peopl...
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Google Translate keeps getting better and better, and this week, the parent company announced a major overhaul that further helps the app maintain this direction. The first thing you’ll notice ...
Twitter has just implemented one of the most requested features: support for longer tweets. The company, however, has decided to go for a maximum length that is, well, surprising, as users can no...
WhatsApp Status is slowly gaining more traction, and this week, the parent company announced a series of improvements that should help it in this regard. This is because the new pack of features ...
We’ve known for a while that Netflix wanted to restrict account sharing, and given such experiments are already live in a series of countries, such as Peru, everybody expects the same approach ...
Netflix is making more controversial changes to its service, including fighting against account sharing. The company believes this could help increase the number of subscribers because everybody ...
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A new version of Firefox is now available for download, as Mozilla has just shipped the very first revision to build 109. Firefox 109.0.1 is, therefore, a rather minor release, and this isn’t n...
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2022 was a rather controversial year for Instagram as far as the content served to users was concerned. The company took some rather strange decisions, at one point turning the platform into a Ti...
After Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and others, Spotify announces a major layoff of its own, as the company has decided to let go 6 percent of its workforce. In a post focused on how the company ne...
Mozilla has recently released a new version of Firefox, and given this is a major update, it obviously comes with some pretty big changes as well. Firefox continues to be the only major alternati...
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While the browser space is currently dominated by Google Chrome, with Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox serving as the most popular alternatives, there are several other solid choices out there ...
Mozilla has just released an updated build of Firefox browser, this time focusing exclusively on minor improvements for the main 108 build. The new version of Firefox is 108.0.2, and it comes wit...
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WhatsApp is getting another major update, as the parent company has decided to implement proxy support in the messaging app. Available on both iPhone and Android, the proxy support essentially al...
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Amazon has recently confirmed that it plans to cut no more, no less than 18,000 jobs, with CEO Andy Jassy rolling out an announcement after news on this front previously leaked to the web. Jassy ...
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Telegram has decided to end 2022 in just the perfect way: with a massive app update that includes lots of goodies and plenty of new features. The latest update comes with hidden media, which allo...
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TikTok is facing more and more legal issues in the United States, this time as the House of Representatives issued a memo to staff to request everybody to delete the application from their mobile...
Fitbit will soon make the full switch to Google accounts for new devices and features, and as part of the transition, the company is also making some changes to the way users can log in on Fitbit...
WhatsApp is by far the top mobile messaging platform out there, and with such a large userbase, it makes sense for the parent company to focus not only on big new features but also on smaller ref...
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The Twitter controversy continues, this time with an official post coming from none other than Mastodon, the service that’s currently considered one of the biggest competitors. In a post on the...
Mozilla has recently released the first revision for Firefox 108, with the company sticking with a rather minor update this time. Firefox 108.0.1 comes with just a single fix, as the company has ...
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While the world is all about Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox, Opera continues to be one of the most solid choices in the browser market. And the company’s latest update is ju...
WhatsApp has recently confirmed that support for the Picture in Picture mode on iOS would go live at some point in 2023. The feature is currently in beta, and it allows users to use their phones ...
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WhatsApp has already launched disappearing messages, but the company is now working on something that many people are going to love. It’s a “view once” feature for conversations, which woul...
Meta, the new parent company of WhatsApp, has just announced that the service is being updated with support for avatars. If you’ve been using other messaging apps, such as Telegram, you probabl...
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Firefox is currently the most famous alternative to the invasion of Chromium-powered browsers, especially after Microsoft Edge too embraced the same engine as Google Chrome. In fact, Firefox isn�...
The Twitter verified accounts saga continues, this time with fresh information shared by none other than the new company founder Elon Musk. In a post earlier this week, Musk revealed that Twitter...
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Google has announced a new set of improvements for Workspace, and this time, Gmail is among the products that are getting further polishing. Google doesn’t provide too many specifics on how it ...
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