Thursday, January 14, 2021

New Study Reveals Prevailing Skepticism Among US Adults About Social Media News

A major problem that the world is facing these days has to do with the manner in which we acquire news about current events and the like. A lot of the news that we see on social media has been manipulated in some way, shape or form, and a new study has revealed that most adults in the US are...

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Instagram's Adam Mosseri Claims That Facebook-owned Social Network Is Not Neutral, Only Apolitical

Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, has recently taken to Twitter, in an attempt to defend his platform from accusations of maintaining neutrality with regards to the US Capitol riots. Impartiality is a dangerous word to throw around in the current, tense political environment. Attributed to a...

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by Arooj Ahmed via Digital Information World

Twitter Unveils Its Latest Transparency Report, Harkening Back To The Company's Trials And Tribulations Throughout Early To Mid 2020

The most recent update in Twitter's series of transparency reports was recently published, taking a look back at how the app dealt with everything tossed its way from January to June of 2020. This installment makes up the 17th in Twitter's series of reports that are geared around giving users an...

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Android 12 is likely to enable app hibernation service for space storage optimization

Google seems to be working on a new and extremely useful feature for the upcoming Android 12 version. The Developer Preview of Android 12 is expected to come somewhere around February or March, and amongst some other interesting changes, this new feature is going to be amazing for the space storage...

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by Arooj Ahmed via Digital Information World

Beware Content Creators! Facebook is Prioritizing Original Reporting in News Feed from This Year Onwards

Facebook works day in and out to make its app a place for all kinds of entertainment whether it is providing you with random quizzes or some urgent news or simply providing you the stats of these uncertain times of Covid 19 but it has now decided to honor the news articles that have original...

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by Arooj Ahmed via Digital Information World

Apple’s latest ads revolve around recycling and privacy measures that the tech giant takes

Apple has recently posted three short and less than 15-seconds long ad videos on the Apple UK YouTube channel. These ads are aligned carefully along with the timeline when the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) of 2021. One of these ads focus on the Facial ID data, and Apple claims that users’...

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by Arooj Ahmed via Digital Information World

Telegram Crosses 500 Million Users Mark After WhatsApp Announces New Terms and Conditions

Telegram gained 25 million users joining its platform in the last 72 hours. Impressive, right! But what circumstances led to the sudden rise in the user rate of the app? There are a lot of different messaging applications competing in the tech world and it is known without any doubt that WhatsApp...

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