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WhatsApp Frequently Forwarded Message Label

WhatsApp Rolling Out ‘Frequently Forwarded’ Message Label in India

WhatsApp has started rolling out the ‘Frequently Forwarded’ message’s label on both Android as well as iOS apps to let users know if the message they have received has been forwarded over five times. Long forwarded messages will also be truncated, and users will have to tap to read the full message. This new label is available for all the users who are on the latest version of WhatsApp.

Google and Apple have stopped snooping on users conversations

Gartner : Worldwide phone shipments to go down 2.5% by the end of 2019

Sex Tech Companies Rebel Against Facebook Policies

Facebook has approached Netflix for launching its own TV streaming service

Facebook is launching its own TV streaming service this fall and has reportedly approached Netflix, Disney, Hulu, HBO and other media companies for a new TV chat device for making video calls from TVs.

Twitter #Tweetups: Global Conversations with Shared Studios

Twitter, in Partnership With Shared Studios, Launches #Tweetups to Strengthen Global Conversations

To highlight the strength of conversations, micro-blogging app Twitter on Tuesday launched a #TweetUp in partnership with Shared Studios an organization that connects people through videos.

Impact of E-mail attacks to IT professionals

E-mail attacks giving sleepless night to IT professionals

Email attacks like phishing and ransomware are having a major impact on businesses globally, with over three-quarters of organizations saying their employees aren’t good at spotting suspicious emails, a new report has stressed.

Tech collaboration between Waymo and DeepMind

Waymo, DeepMind collaborate to improve self-driving cars

Alphabet’s autonomous driving and robotaxi company Waymo does a lot of training in order to refine and improve the artificial intelligence that powers its self-driving software. Recently, it teamed up with fellow Alphabet company and AI specialist DeepMind to develop new training methods that would help make its training better and more efficient.

ISRO Performs Third Orbit Raising Activity For Chandrayaan-2 Successfully

Chandrayaan-2: Third Orbit-Raising Activity Completed Successfully India’s second Moon mission Chandrayaan-2 lifts off onboard GSLV Mk III-M1 launch vehicle from Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The third orbit raising activity for Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft has been performed successfully at 3.12 p.m. on Monday, the Indian space agency said. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said the orbit of the Chandrayaan-2 was raised to 276 x 71,792 km by firing the onboard motors for 989 seconds. All spacecraft parameters are normal, it said.

Websites using Facebook’s ‘Like’ button liable for data: EU court

Europe’s top court on Monday said websites using Facebook “Like” button are liable for data as “Like” button plugins can transmit data back to Facebook even if they don’t click on those buttons. The operator of a website that features a Facebook ‘Like’ button can be a controller jointly with Facebook in respect of the collection and transmission to Facebook of the personal data of visitors to its website,” said the Court of Justice of European Union (ECJ) in its ruling.