The largest dating apps in the U.S. announced Friday they are banding together in support of Covid-19 vaccines, in the hopes that it'll be a hot vax summer.
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Ad-supported streaming steals the show at TV upfronts
Comcast's NBCUniversal, Fox, Discovery, Disney, AT&T's WarnerMedia and ViacomCBS put focus on ad-supported offerings during upfronts this week.
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Government Asks Twitter to Remove ‘Manipulated Media’ Tag From Tweets Related to COVID-19 Toolkit
Centre has asked Twitter to remove ‘manipulated media’ tag from tweets related to the veracity of a COVID-19 toolkit including those from BJP leaders. The government said Twitter’s “unilateral” action dilutes its credibility.
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PUBG India Avatar Battlegrounds Mobile Should Be Banned, MLA Says in Letter to PM Modi
PUBG Mobile’s Indian avatar Battlegrounds Mobile India is aimed to deceive the government and citizens and should be banned in the country, Arunachal Pradesh MLA Ninong Ering demanded in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Here’s why Apple TV Siri remote does not have ‘AirTag support’
Apple thinks there’s no need to put a tracker on the Apple TV Siri Remote. Why? As per Apple VP Tim Twerdahl, the new remote is “thick enough” and you won't end up misplacing it.
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Microsoft Office for Android Finally Gets Dark Mode
Microsoft Office Android app is finally getting the ability to switch to a dark theme. The built-in Dark Mode now debuting on Android was introduced a long time ago on the Microsoft Office iOS app for iPhone and iPad. Microsoft's Office app for combines Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into a single application.
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WhatsApp says it is still discussing data collection update in Turkey
The messaging app WhatsApp said on Friday it was still discussing the rollout of an update in Turkey, despite a statement from Turkey's Competition Board saying the update would not be issued.
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Nissan, Suzuki Motor to curtail production in June due to chip shortage
Nissan Motor Co will idle its factory in Kyushu, southern Japan, for three days on June 24, 25 and 28, while making production adjustments during the month at its Tochigi and Oppama plants in Japan, three sources said.
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Zomato, Swiggy Kick Off COVID-19 Vaccination Drive for Their Delivery Partners
Zomato and Swiggy have started a COVID-19 vaccination drive to start vaccinating their delivery workers in India. While Swiggy has begun vaccination in Bengaluru, Zomato started vaccinating its delivery fleet in NCR last week and is expanding to Bengaluru and Mumbai.
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Snap to buy augmented reality company WaveOptics for over $500 million
Snap Inc said Friday it will acquire WaveOptics Ltd, a British augmented reality (AR) technology company, for over $500 million.
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WhatsApp OTP scam: This upcoming feature may reduce the risk of your account getting hacked
The company is reportedly working on a feature that aims to tackle such frauds. According to a report in WABeta, WhatsApp is working on a new feature called Flash Call that will allow users to automatically verify their phone number when they try to log into WhatsApp.
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Marvel Avengers: Black Widow-special Red Room Takeover event goes live
The Black Widow-special Red Room Takeover event in Marvel Avengers is live and will run till May 31. The limited-time event was announced in March and is now available on all platforms including PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Stadia.The Red Room Takeover is the build up to how the previous two weeks in the game have shaped up for players, with them sleuthing the Rooskaya Protocols out. The Rooskaya Protocols is a program that has infiltrated AIM Synthoids.
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Apple App Store profits look 'disproportionate,' US judge tells CEO Cook
Cook testified for more than two hours in Oakland, California, as the closing witness in Apple's defense against Epic's charges that the iPhone maker's App Store controls and commissions have created a monopoly that Apple illegally abuses.
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Fearing exclusion of smartphone-less tribals, Jharkhand seeks to use own app for vaccination
Fearing exclusion of a large chunk of the tribal people in the ongoing vaccination drive against Covid-19 due to non-availability of smartphones among many of them and access to internet in remote areas, the Jharkhand government wants to use its own "more user-friendly" app for registration. It has been made mandatory for people in the 18-45 age group to register themselves at Co-WIN to get the vaccine.
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WhatsApp Says Still Discussing Data Collection Update in Turkey
WhatsApp said on Friday that it was still discussing the rollout of its updated privacy policy in Turkey, despite a statement from Turkey's Competition Board saying the update would not be issued.
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Apple, Epic Trial: App Store Would Be 'Toxic' Mess Without Control, Says CEO Tim Cook
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Friday said that App Store would become a "toxic" mess if the iPhone maker were forced to allow third-party apps without reviewing. He was the last scheduled witness in the case brought by Fortnite maker Epic Games in the US.
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Satya Nadella explains how Microsoft will deal with hybrid work paradox
Admitting that hybrid work paradox is here to stay amid the pandemic, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Friday outlined a detailed approach about how his company is going to tackle the biggest shift to global workplace that requires a new operating model, spanning people, places and processes.
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White House partners with dating apps to encourage vaccination
Want to know if your next new love interest has been vaccinated against COVID-19? Just check your favourite app.
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Tim Cook says 'threat profile' of iPhone justifies App Store rules
The testimony constitutes Cook's most extensive public remarks on the App Store, which anchors Apple's $53.8 billion services business, at a time when the company that once urged the world to 'think different' is criticized as too big and too powerful.
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Without Apple and iPhone, we wouldn’t exist, says Snapchat CEO
The app tracking transparency (ATT) feature on iPhone saw many companies — Facebook being the biggest — criticise Apple for forcibly changing their business model. However, Snapchat and its CEO seem to feel very differently. Apple charges about 30% fees on any in-app transactions on platforms like Snapchat. Evan Speigel, CEO of Snapchat, said that he has no problem with Apple’s rules. According to a report by CNBC, Spiegel said that they don’t have a choice but to pay a 30% fee but “we’re happy to do it in exchange for all of the amazing technology that they provide to us in terms of the software but also in terms of their hardware advancements.”
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WhatsApp denies it will drop privacy update for Turkey users
Turkey's competition watchdog said Friday it was told by WhatsApp that the chat app won't apply a controversial privacy update following an investigation, but the announcement was contradicted by the Facebook-owned app
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