The UK-based Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has revealed that nearly half of the child abuse content in the social media space is being shared openly on micro-blogging platform Twitter. According to a report in The Telegraph that accessed the IWF data, 49 per cent of the images, videos and URL links it found on social
Month: November 2019
For a seamless way to message your family and friends, you need the free chat apps available across multiple platforms. Ideally, on both mobile and desktop. So, what free cross-platform chat apps should you download? And what are the best instant messaging apps available today? Keep reading to find out. 1. WhatsApp [embedded content] Despite
Apple’s A13 Bionic SoC powering the iPhone 11 series has widened the performance gap between the new iPhone models and the latest Snapdragon 855-powered Android flagships. After proving its mettle in benchmark tests, the Apple A13 Bionic SoC inside the iPhone 11 Pro Max has emerged as the winner in a synthetic app speed test
Realme X2 Pro will debut in India on November 20, and if the teasers are any indication, the company might also unveil fitness accessories. Ahead of the phone’s official launch, Realme has announced that the tickets for the event will go on sale starting today at 12pm (noon). And for those planning to attend the
Are those red notification dots on your Facebook home screen driving you crazy? Sick of Facebook Marketplace wasting your screen space? Now you can control what appears in the Facebook app’s navigation bar thanks to a new option called Shortcuts Bar Settings. Over the weekend TechCrunch spotted the option to remove certain tabs like Marketplace,
Redmi Note 8 will go on sale in India today as part of its weekly flash sales. It is the budget quad camera smartphone from Xiaomi, and was launched alongside its better endowed sibling – the Redmi Note 8 Pro – in India last month. Powered by the Snapdragon 665 SoC coupled with up to
An expensive experiment in global distribution has been abandoned by Adidas, which has announced that will close its robotic “Speedfactories” in Atlanta and Ansbach, Germany, within 6 months. The company sugar-coated the news with a promise to repurpose the technology used at its existing human-powered factories in Asia. The factories were established in 2016 (Ansbach)
Laptops may account for the bulk of computer sales, but it’s hard to argue against the advantages of a big screen, especially when you have to juggle multiple apps at the same time. A big, high-resolution display opens up possibilities that even the biggest laptops cannot aim to match. And they don’t come much bigger
Fujifilm on Monday launched its X-A7 mirrorless digital camera with a 24.24-megapixel APS-C sensor in India. Meant for beginners, the Fujifilm X-A7 has been priced at Rs. 59,999 by the Japanese photography and imaging major, and it will come with a Fujinon XC 15-45mm lens kit. The camera will also be available in five colour
Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, will pass between Earth and the star on November 11. The stellar show only happens about 13 times in a century and will happen the next time in 2032. It’s a rare transit when the planet is visible while it moves against the Sun’s surface, and shouldn’t be
Twitter found itself isolated this week as other major social media platforms moved to block users from spreading the name of a CIA officer that conservatives contend filed the extraordinary whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump that triggered House impeachment hearings. Facebook said it would block references to the supposed whistleblower’s name under its policy
Apple Pay has attracted regulatory scrutiny as a result of several expressions of concern about the US tech giant’s mobile payment service, Europe’s antitrust chief said on Thursday. Margrethe Vestager’s comments come after an EU questionnaire, seen by Reuters late last month, showed EU regulators had asked online merchants whether they had been told to
Samsung Galaxy S11 family is rumoured to come in three distinct screen size options and include five different variants. The new range will come as the successor to the Samsung Galaxy S10 lineup that was launched earlier this year in four variants, namely the Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10+, Galaxy S10e, and Galaxy S10 5G. This
Samsung Galaxy A30s and Samsung Galaxy A50s phones have received a price cut in India. The prices of the two Samsung phones have been reduced by up to Rs. 3,000, and both the 4GB and 6GB RAM options of the Samsung Galaxy A50s have got revised prices. The new prices are reflecting online, and are
WiFi 6 is the newest Wi-Fi standard, and it promises faster speeds, enhanced security, and a whole host of other benefits. Rollout has been slow, both in terms of devices that support the new standard, as well as routers that’ll form the backbone of your faster network. The Netgear Nighthawk AX8 AX6000 is among a
Chinese retail titan Alibaba plans to list in Hong Kong in the final week of November, two people with direct knowledge said, aiming to raise up to $15 billion (£11.7 billion) in a deal that signals a vote of confidence in the Asian financial hub. The public offering by the e-commerce specialist, whose primary listing
Samsung is reportedly working on a new Galaxy A-series phone with 5G support for the Chinese market. This phone is tipped to have the model number SM-A7160, and may be called Galaxy A71 5G. A fresh report suggests that this phone will be positioned in the mid-tier segment, and will be powered by the Exynos
Leica has just launched a new successor to the SL mirrorless camera it had launched way back in 2015. Called the Leica SL2, it feature improved ergonomics with an IP54 certification for moisture resistance, it can shoot up to 5K video and can shoot a burst of images at 20fps, using the electronic shutter. The
Facebook apologized on Friday after black employees anonymously shared feelings of workplace bias in an online post. The post shared at Medium by a “FB Blind” profile laid out perceived slights by managers, white colleagues, and the human resources department. “No one at Facebook, or anywhere, should have to put up with this behavior,” corporate
Reddit has so many people talking about so many things across so many subreddits. How can you get the best recommendations easily? Well, there are a few sites and apps that collect the best of Reddit. You can always sort any subreddit by top posts for the day, week, month, year, or all-time. But that’s
Apple has confirmed that it has greenlit second seasons of three of its TV+ original series: the Jason Momoa-starrer post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama See, the Battlestar Galactica creator Ronald D. Moore’s Joel Kinnaman-starrer alt-history sci-fi drama For All Mankind, and the Hailee Steinfeld-starrer historical coming-of-age comedy Dickinson. That means all of its launch adult-oriented dramas —
Mi Note 10, Mi Note 10 Pro, Mi CC9 Pro, and Mi CC9 Pro Premium Edition debuted with much fanfare in a week that was rather quiet on the product launch front. Additionally, WhatsApp began rolling out the revamped group privacy settings globally to help users combat group invite spam. Further, Vodafone introduced an interesting
Telecom operator Reliance Jio has revised its Rs. 149 prepaid plan to include non-Jio calling minutes. The Rs. 149 prepaid plan’s validity has reduced to 24 days from 28 days earlier, in order to make way for Jio to non-Jio FUP of 300 minutes. Other benefits of the prepaid plan still remain the same. Jio
Xerox Holdings is considering making a cash-and-stock offer for personal computer maker HP at a premium to its market value of about $27 billion (roughly Rs. 1,91,000 crores), the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Xerox’s board discussed the possibility on Tuesday, the newspaper said, citing people familiar with the matter. There is no guarantee
Apple’s subscription-based gaming service Arcade has now reached 100 total games on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV with the addition of six more games. The six new games added on Friday include Sociable Soccer, sequel to the beloved Sensible Soccer which was popular during the early 1990s, the Engadget reported. The other new games
State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has launched a new Rs. 997 prepaid plan in India. The plan has been launched in one telecom circle and offers 3GB daily data, unlimited voice calling benefits, and a validity of 180 days. The plan also included SMS benefits. This long-term validity plan will compete with Airtel’s Rs.
Security researchers have found several popular Android phones can be tricked into snooping on their owners by exploiting a weakness that gives accessories access to the phone’s underlying baseband software. Attackers can use that access to trick vulnerable phones into giving up their unique identifiers, such as their IMEI and IMSI numbers, downgrade a target’s
Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 augmented reality headset, which was introduced at Mobile World Congress back in February, is now available to purchase. The HoloLens 2 is shipping in the US, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom. The next-generation AR headset is built off a Qualcomm system-on-a-chip and is targeted at enterprise, not
China has imposed a curfew to limit the time spent by children playing games online, in the latest part of a government crackdown on youth gaming addiction. The regulations will mean those under 18 cannot play games online between 10pm and 8am, and for only ninety minutes at a time during the daytime. In addition,
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has announced a new date for the implementation of the revised mobile number portability (MNP) rules. These rules were announced in December last year, alongside other revisions in the Mobile Number Portability (Seventh Amendment) Regulations, 2018 (9 of 2018). While the revisions to ease portability from one operator to
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