Twitter will now let its employees work from home indefinitely, which was first reported by BuzzFeed News. CEO Jack Dorsey reportedly informed employees of the new policy in an email sent on Tuesday. “If our employees are in a role and situation that enables them to In a letter to employees announcing the policy, Twitter […]
Instagram is launching and testing multiple new features starting today that are aimed at making the platform a more positive space. The company says it’s rolling out the ability to delete up to 25 comments at once and also block or restrict multiple accounts at the same time. Instagram says it’s been testing these features […]
To help clarify what’s true and offer more context, Twitter will start applying labels and warning messages to coronavirus-related tweets containing “disputed or misleading information.” This is an expansion of a March policy update that targeted “fake and ineffective treatments” and other coronavirus hoaxes. Twitter brought in new measures to tackle deepfakes and manipulated content, […]
Microsoft is launching a dedicated new app, Family Safety, designed for managing kids’ screen time and app usage. The app is available now in preview form on both Android and iOS, Microsoft announced in a blog post on Monday. To access it, you have to fill out a form here and specify how many family […]
A flaw in many PCs with an Intel Thunderbolt port allows attackers with brief physical access to read and copy all the device’s data, a security researcher found. Thunderbolt offers extremely fast transfer speeds by giving devices direct access to your PC’s memory, which also creates a number of vulnerabilities. Researchers previously thought those weaknesses […]
Max Weinbach’s latest reporting as featured in EverythingApplePro’s video indicates that the iPhone 12 will feature a high refresh-rate 120Hz ProMotion display. Or at least, only on the iPhone 12 Pro phones: that’s the high-end 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch models. The 2020 iPhone revamp, particularly the “pro” models. These higher-end 6.1- and 6.7-inch handsets would reportedly […]
The mass reply-all is a scourge of every office – but it could soon be a thing of the past. Microsoft’s email software will now warn you if you’re in danger of making this digital faux pas and block the offending email from reaching its thousands of intended recipients. The new block feature will mostly […]
Numerous countries have COVID-19 symptom and tracking apps, but the World Health Organization wants to fill in those gaps for the countries that are too stretched to develop their own software. The World Health Organization Bernardo Mariano told Reuters in an interview that the outfit planned to release a symptoms assessment app worldwide later in […]
A couple months ago, some Surface Laptop 3 customers reported they were seeing hairline fractures in their screens that seemingly appeared out of nowhere. Microsoft is responding publicly as to what’s happening and what the company is planning to do for those affected. Microsoft started looking into the issue a few months ago, and now […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a nasty effect on the world’s economy so far, with many non-essential businesses temporarily closing up shop to keep their employees safe. Apple will reopen some stores the states include Idaho, South Carolina, Alabama, and Alaska, according to CNBC next week. The company closed all stores outside Greater China in […]
Google and Facebook join Amazon and Microsoft in allowing their employees to work from home for the foreseeable (where feasible). Last week Amazon announced its plans to let HQ staff work from home until “at least October 2nd,” while Microsoft said two days ago that staff had the option of working remotely until the end […]
Samsung announced on Tuesday that it has plans to expand Samsung Pay’s services to include both a debit card and a cash management account backing it. Samsung will launch the card, which will be backed by a cash management account, in partnership with personal finance company SoFi, Ahn said. Samsung is also developing a “mobile-first […]
Microsoft is hard at work getting Office for iPad up to speed with Apple’s latest iPadOS release, with plans to add cursor support for trackpad and mouse in the apps. Apple introduced the cursor to its iPad and iPad Pro line-up in iPadOS 13.4, alongside the new Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro that for the […]
Samsung is planning on improving upon this in its next premium flagship generation, Galaxy S21, as claimed by certain rumors. As reported by SamMobile, a leaker on Korean tech forum clien.net claims that Samsung is testing the camera specs for the 2021 iteration of its S-series handsets, which will either be called the S21 or […]
Nintendo Switch sales more than doubled in March compared to 2019’s numbers, according to research from NPD. Nintendo published its official earnings revealing that the Switch has now outsold the combined lifetime sales of the Nintendo 64 and the GameCube. Nintendo 64 sold 32.93 million units in the six or so years it was on […]