Articles tagged "Online services"

Apple unveiled its TV+ service with exclusive shows, movies and series in March and left it at 'Coming this Fall' with no price tag. Now, according to sources within Apple, TV+ is scheduled for a November debut, costing $9.99 per month. Apple is...

Google is adding a neat new feature to Assistant - the ability to assign reminders to someone else, like a family member or one of your housemates. The obvious upside here is that this theoretically enables more (and/or better) collaboration between...

Snap Inc. has launched its third generation of the Spectacles. This time around, the main draw is not one but two cameras that can capture in 3D. The Spectacles 3 have two HD cameras on either side, which can capture both photos and videos in 3D....

Facebook rolled out Dark Mode for its Messenger app back in March this year, and now it's about to expand that to its main app for Android. The social giant already started working on Dark Mode for Watch, but reverse engineering expert Jane Wong...

Apple has updated the Apple Music app for Android with two new features. The app now includes dark mode, which uses a pitch black background for all the screens, a stark contrast from the otherwise all-white UI of the app. The dark mode can be...

Telegram has released a new update on iOS and Android (v5.10), which, as usual, brings with it a whole host of new and innovative features. One of the new features is the ability to send messages silently. If you want to message someone...

The Google app has received a new update that lets you interact with more messaging apps with voice commands. With your permission for the Google App to access notifications, Google will now read your messages to you from third-party messaging apps...

Verizon has unveiled a new pricing structure for its plans, effective this Monday August 5. The plans are perhaps even more confusing than before. Verizon advertises it as “mix and match” but with a total of 5 unlimited plans, including a “Just...

You know what has so far been missing from WhatsApp and Instagram? Facebook. The social network may have owned the two services for many years now, but how would ordinary people know that? Also, doesn't it seem to you that Instagram and WhatsApp...

Earlier this month, Google went under fire after a Belgian news outlet reported of thousands of personal recordings that were recorded by Google Assistant via a Google Home device or smartphone. The recordings were provided by a Google employee...

Google Pay is a convenient way to pay in stores by just using your phone. However, not all banks across the globe have signed a partnership with Google so it's always nice to see the list expanding month after month. This time around, Google Pay...

Following a lengthy negotiation process that took months, today Facebook has agreed to pay a $5 billion fine to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for user data privacy violations. The FTC's inquiry started after the Cambridge Analytica scandal...

After a few months of testing it out, Netflix is finally ready to launch its exclusive mobile-only plan in India. Since India has the highest number of users watching on mobile devices and downloading content, it only makes sense for the streaming...

In the most recent days, Facebook has sent notices to parents of kids who use the Facebook Messenger Kids app. The notice outlined a “technical error” that allowed kids to join group chats with other approved contacts and their approved...

Facebook-owned Instagram has received a lot of flak in the past for disabling accounts without any prior notice. Now, the company has changed its policies and has committed to warning users before disabling their accounts. Instagram users will...

In Canada, Instagram has been testing a change to its platform that hides the number of likes on posts so only the owner can see them. Now Instagram has expanded the trial to several new countries including Ireland, Italy, Japan, Brazil,...

The long-rumored mobile payment platform has finally arrived in the US. Initially available only on the LG G8 ThinQ, LG Pay will let users pay at NFC payment terminals and like Samsung Pay, LG also supports the magstripe terminals (LG calls it WMC...

Earlier this month, an APK teardown done by 9to5Google detailed an upcoming update that would enable a new interface for Pixel devices while wirelessly charging on a Pixel Stand which debuted with the Pixel 3 and 3 XL last year. The latest news on...

Less than two years after it unveiled its Slack competitor dubbed Microsoft Teams, the app has overtaken Slack according to data from Microsoft. An estimated 13 million users are on Microsoft Teams daily while 19 million use it on a weekly basis...

Instagram has started rolling out new features on the platform to combat the harrassment and bullying, especially among teenage users. The first feature uses AI to automatically recognize if someone is posting unfriendly or harassing comments....