Kat Volpe laid out an exercise mat and tried to sync her iPhone with her big screen TV for a fitness class webcast on Instagram last week during New York`s coronavirus lockdown. But the popular app is incompatible with Google`s Chromecast TV-plugin device which is remote controlled with a smartphone […]
We live in the age of digital fraud. In the last three financial years, the RBI reports that India has been the target of thousands of digital fraud schemes. Unfortunately, the number of such frauds changed only incrementally during this period. The reality is that consumers are still learning to […]
Instagram has been adding a lot of interesting features lately, such as the one where it introduces fun video filters in the Insta Stories for its Boomerang option. And now, the popular photo-sharing app has added a new way to organize the list of who you are following and interacting […]
Twitter said on Monday that it had discovered attempts by possible state actors to access the phone numbers associated with user accounts, after a security researcher unearthed a flaw in the company’s “contacts upload” feature. In a statement published on its privacy blog, Twitter said it had identified a “high […]
New Delhi: Social media platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok may have to scramble for developing account identity-verification option to check “fake news, malicious content, misinformation, racial slurs, gender abuse that may have an impact on the individual and society as a whole”. This may form part of […]
Data, privacy and Facebook never really bodes well together in a single sentence for the users. The social media company is notorious for being callous with users’ data as it has been proved multiple times in the last 24 months. However, a new report now suggests that privacy remains elusive on Facebook and it […]
BENGALURU: Social media giant Facebook has revamped a programme that checks for fake news on its platform, with users now being alerted to such posts as soon as they view it. Facebook started a pilot factchecking program in Karnataka last year through a partnership with fact-checking portal Boom, followed by one […]
Facebook has decided to pay more bounty for bugs or flaws discovered by hackers on its platform with a view to making its apps and services more secure for users. As per a blog post by Facebook, it stated that now it would allow participants in the bug bounty program […]
