Category: tech news
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Oracle To Overtake Microsoft In The Purchase Of TikTok
Earlier this month, Microsoft confirmed its intentions to buy out the US operations of ByteDance, the owner of the infamous app TikTok. A report from The Financial Times has emerged, hinting revealing that Oracle is also going to bid it. The software company has now received verbal approval from the US President Donald Trump during…
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Gmail Now Supports Multi-tasking On iPad
Years ago the multitasking feature was introduced on iPads, but Google’s Gmail didn’t support it until now. The app will now appear on the Dock where all multitasking-supporting apps are listed and can be used alongside Google Photos or Google Calendar. Multitasking on iPad is really useful seeing as it comes with a native drag-and-drop…
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Twitter Has Added Voice Messages To Tweets But Only On iOS For Now
Twitter has added a new feature to its social media application, voice tweets. A new button dedicated to audio recording will now be situated next to the one used to add photos. This is to compliment the short text-based messaging. The new feature is available to just iOS users for now. https://twitter.com/Twitter/status/1273306563994845185 Audio can be…
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Facebook Messenger Rooms Launched
Facebook has unveiled the new Messenger Rooms which allows you host video chats of up to 50 people, and even those who don’t have a Facebook account can still join using a link to the room you created. Facebook Messenger already had video chat functionality but the number of participants was limited. Messenger Rooms has…
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WhatsApp From Facebook Officially Increases Audio And Video Call Participants To 8
There were rumors that Facebook is increasing the maximum limit of people allowed to participate in a group audio or video call on WhatsApp. Now we see that that’s true. Right now the limit is 4 but will double to 8 for everyone really soon as reveaaled by the company today. This functionality has already…
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Self-destructing Messages Coming To WhatsApp Quite Soon
WhatsApp has been adding a lot more functionality to its App. Not too long ago we saw that a dark mode toggle was added to the WhatsApp Application and now a new feature is underway. This new feature enables users to engage in conversations that delete after a set period of time. Self-destructing message settings…
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Facebook Lite Offers A Dark Mode
Most applications have been getting a dark mode for a while now but it seems both Google Maps and Facebook have been excluded from this functionality. It looks like Facebook is working to have this functionality provided for its users as a Dark Mode toggle has appeared in Facebook Lite for Android under the triple…
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How To Know When You Have Been Unfollowed On Instagram
As one of the most popular social media networks in the world, Instagram is very well liked among us human beings. There are a lot of features we wish were added to this network, one of which is the ability to track and know who unfollowed our account. Though the people who unfollow you are…