Facebook restricts all Australian news from its platform

After Australian government passed a law that social media platforms like Facebook and Google would pay for their news feed to appear in Australia, social media giant Facebook has halted all Australian news. Australian media organisations will be refrained from posting content to the platform from February 18. All users will be blocked locally and …

TikTok in hot water for breaching consumer laws across the UK

BRUSSELS: On Tuesday, the Chinese-owned short video sharing app TikTok was hit by many lawsuits from EU consumer organizations for allegedly breaching the consumer laws of the bloc and for failing to shield children from secret ads and inappropriate content. TikTok, particularly among teenagers, has been rapidly growing in popularity around the world. Following a …

Mastercard to allow merchants cryptocurrency payments

Mastercard (MA) plans to provide merchants with the possibility of accepting cryptocurrency payments later this year. The feature would see Mastercard customers’ digital currency purchases resolved in crypto at participating retailers, a first for the financial giant, according to a source familiar with the matter. The firm has not yet revealed the, or when, digital …

Microsoft emphasizes the need to encourage girl learners to embrace STEM subjects

Karachi: “It’s evident by the significant investments into skills development and educational programmes that Microsoft believes in upskilling our youth to have the right skills to succeed in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. But even as we strive to include as many young learners in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) subjects as possible, our girl …

PTCL Group successfully conducts 5G trial in a limited environment

Karachi: Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) Group, one of the country’s largest telecom groups and the backbone of connectivity in Pakistan, has successfully tested 5G technology at a special ceremony held at PTCL Headquarters, which was graced by Syed Amin UlHaque, Federal Minister for Information Technology & Telecommunication as the Chief Guest. The 5G trial …

Google Tests the Dark Mode SERP for Desktop

Apparently, Google is ramping up the SERP page and testing for the dark mode of Google Search, before releasing a larger feature rollout. One of the favourite new additions of late 2019 and early 2020 was the dark mode, with the dark theme coming from the previous year of the most popular applications and services. …

Here is the sneak peek of Android 12 redesign

If the company sticks with its past release timeline then we are soon going to see Google’s Android 12 launching this year amid this fall. But before digging into that let’s just see a few betas, the first of which, again going on what happened for past versions, should appear within a few weeks. While …

Telegram beats WhatsApp, becomes the most downloaded app

WhatsApp’s new privacy policy was unveiled recently, after which users started deleting WhatsApp and using its alternative apps. Recently, the latest report has been released by the mobile app rating company Sensor Tower, according to which the mobile chat application Telegram has become the most downloaded app in the world in January last year. According …

Elon Musk to set an exemplary tunnel under Miami city

Elon Musk told Miami’s mayor Friday that The Boring Company could dig a two-mile tunnel under the city for as little as $30 million and asked them to complete the work within six months, which is originally done in four-years. In a video posted on Twitter, Mayor Francis Suarez shared this information about his “wonderful …

Companies to address the selfie camera notch dilemma

Apparently, many firms are attempting to address the selfie camera notch dilemma in different ways. Oppo has a concept that they could introduce as early as this year that allows a single pop-up camera module to use mirrors to take both front and backward images from a single unit. A light path deflecting mirror will …

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