Micro-blogging site Twitter has decided to eliminate the option of letting users add their precise location details like latitude and longitude as part of their tweets. “Most people don’t tag their precise location in tweets, so we’re removing this ability to simplify your tweeting experience,” Twitter Support posted on Wednesday. However, the company said users
Month: June 2019
Facebook friend requests are delicate. Inappropriate attempts to expand your network could get you blocked from adding more Facebook friends. Maybe it already happened to you and you can’t friend someone on Facebook. On Facebook, innocent mistakes can lead to drastic consequences. But with our tips on how to manage Facebook friend requests, you can
The US Federal Trade Commission on Thursday objected to a move by mobile chip supplier Qualcomm to introduce internal Apple documents in its fight to stop the enforcement of a May antitrust ruling. On Tuesday, Qualcomm submitted them to US District Judge Lucy Koh in opposition to a sweeping ruling that would alter its business model as it pursues
LG has not specified the make of the SoC powering its upcoming phone LG has confirmed that the company will launch a new W-series phone in India on June 26. As per teasers posted on the official LG India website, the upcoming LG W-series phone will pack triple rear cameras that will bring a ton
Security vulnerabilities in LTE can allow hackers to “easily” spoof presidential alerts sent to mobile phones in the event of a national emergency. Using off-the-shelf equipment and open-source software, a working exploit made it possible to send a simulated alert to every phone in a 50,000-seat football stadium with little effort, with the potential of
Dell PCs are at risk of remote attack due to newly discovered bug A new vulnerability has been discovered in Dell computers that have left millions of systems at risk of a privilege-escalation attack. Dell has released a security advisory warning for all of its consumers to update their laptops and PCs to patch the
Huawei said on Friday it has shipped 100 million smartphones this year as of May 30. Huawei consumer business group’s smartphone product line president He Gang revealed the numbers at a launch event in Wuhan, China for its new Nova 5 phone. The phone is powered by Huawei’s new 7-nanometre chipset HiSilicon Kirin 810. Telecommunications
PUBG Corp recently announced that PUBG Lite – a watered-down version of the core PUBG game created for low-end PCs – will soon be available in India too. Well, the wait is now over. PUBG Corp has started accepting pre-registrations for PUBG Lite beta in a host of new countries across Asia, Europe, Middle East,
Mozilla has patched a couple of zero-day vulnerabilities on Firefox through two separate security updates. While the first zero-day flaw was described as a “remote code execution” vulnerability that enabled remote attackers to run a malicious code within the native process of the Firefox browser, the second one was known as a “sandbox escape” that
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Google says it’s not making any more tablets “For Google’s first-party hardware efforts, we’ll be focusing on Chrome OS laptops and
The new chairman of Foxconn said on Friday the Apple supplier had no plan to increase production capacity outside China at the moment. Liu Young-Way, who was elected chairman after company founder Terry Gou stood aside to run for president of Taiwan, told Reuters he was not aware of client requests for Foxconn to shift
Microsoft is reportedly focused on developing a single console for release next year, unlike the previous reports that had claimed the existence of two consoles – one affordable low-end option and the other high-end premium version. The Xbox lovers had got an indication about the same when Microsoft’s Phil Spencer talked about just one console
Subscribers had to choose only those channels that they wished to watch after new rules came into place DTH subscribers in India are said to be saving between 10 to 15 percent of their money on subscription costs in metro cities, thanks to the new TRAI framework. Figures provided by the Ministry of Information and
Among the many spacecraft and satellites ascending to space on Monday’s Falcon Heavy launch, the Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 may be the most interesting. If all goes well, a week from launch it will be moving through space — slowly, but surely — on nothing more than the force exerted on it by sunlight. LightSail
Samsung which gained 51 percent market share (by value) and 50 percent market share (by volume) in the first quarter of 2019 in the Indian tablet market is set to launch three new tablets early next week, a top company executive said on Friday. In 2018, Samsung had 50 percent market share (by value) and
You surely know the whole deal about carts and horses by now. When Samsung’s first 5G handset, the Galaxy S10 5G, arrives on Sprint tomorrow, users will be able to get those blazing fast mobile speeds in all of four markets: Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Kansas City. Those all launched last week, after the arrival
The wearable market is expected to reach global shipments of 222.9 million units in 2019 with earwear and watches accounting for more than 70 percent of all wearable shipments by 2023, a report by the International Data Corporation (IDC) suggests. In its new Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker report, the IDC has said that watches
The creators of mobile gaming phenomenon Pokemon Go unleashed a new game on Thursday that features Harry Potter and other characters from the wizarding world made famous in best-selling books and blockbuster movies. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite was co-developed by Pokemon Go developer Niantic and AT&T’s Warner Bros, which owns the rights to develop entertainment
Xiaomi says that its CC team consists of “Chic and Cool” members from the 90s Xiaomi on Friday announced its new “CC” series for smartphones in China that will target the youth. To build new smartphones for young customers, Xiaomi is working with Meitu engineers, the team that was originally known for the MeituPic photo-editing
The concept of an IRL heads-up display has been a part of science fiction since basically the beginning. Big players have tried their hand at it with less than stellar results — most notably Google with Glass, and more recently Intel’s Vaunt. But North may have cracked the nut on smart glasses with Focals. They
Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou said on Friday he will hand over the running of the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer to a new operations committee as he prepares to contest Taiwan’s presidential elections next year. The 68-year-old Foxconn founder was speaking at the company’s annual general meeting in Taipei, where a few hundred shareholders and
Photo Credit: Twitter/ Current Social networking giant Facebook has been accused of using a logo for its new cryptocurrency play, similar to the logo of an online banking company called ‘Current’. Earlier this week, Facebook announced its own global digital coin called ‘Libra’, to be managed by a governing body called the Libra Association. Calibra
Instagram is an increasingly popular social media platform focused on photos. You can find family and friends, and let them know what you’re up to, where you’ve been, and what you’re interested in. But it’s difficult juggling which topics your followers will engage with. So you’ve decided to separate your hobbies by creating multiple Instagram
Consumers have been spending more money on apps in the first few months of 2019 There’s no doubt App Stores are the bread and butter of app developers around the world. While Google’s Android holds a large chunk of the global smartphone market, Apple’s iOS has always offered developers more revenue compared to Android. During
Huawei Nova 5 series is official. The Chinese telecommunications giant on Friday unveiled the new smartphone lineup at a press event in China. It includes three smartphones – Huawei Nova 5, Nova 5 Pro, and Nova 5i. In addition to the new smartphone lineup, the company revealed the new HiSilicon Kirin 810 SoC, which is
Just shy of three years ago, Pokémon GO took over the world. Players filled the sidewalks, and crowds of trainers flooded parks and landmarks. Anywhere you looked, people were throwing Pokéballs and chasing Snorlax. As the game grew, so did the company behind it. Niantic had started its life as an experimental “lab” within Google
India has become an important market from the data storage solutions perspective as the country is not only the world’s second largest smartphone market after China but it is also an economy that is shifting majorly towards digitisation. The government authorities are also pushing tech companies to keep their users’ data locally. All this makes
Are you using a processor that supports a 64-bit operating system? If so, are you using a 64-bit operating system? More to the point, how do you tell if Windows is 32-bit or 64-bit? 64-bit Windows versions and 64-bit processors are becoming the norm. You might even notice the option to download a 64 or
Photo Credit: Peter Tarka Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has fired an employee after the company realised that it has been using artwork from an artist named Peter Tarka without his permission. Some of the artwork used by Xiaomi was actually commissioned by the company’s competitor LG, the artist had claimed. The reports about Xiaomi illegally
Realme C2 will be going on sale once again in India today. The smartphone will be sold via Realme.com and Flipkart at 12pm (noon) IST. This Realme smartphone has already been put on sale multiple times and like all previous sales, the company will likely have limited number of units to sell today. Realme C2
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