On Wednesday, Virginia launched the first contact tracing app for the novel coronavirus in the United States. The app, COVIDWISE, is the first fully deployed implementation of Apple and Google’s system in the US and was beta tested by the…
Rival app Triller has sued TikTok Inc. and its parent ByteDance Ltd. in Texas federal court. Triller has accused TikTok of infringing its patent for stitching together multiple music videos with a single audio track. TikTok was served notice of…
Some iPhone users are being warned that the Instagram app has been accessing their cameras without their permission even when they weren’t taking photos or recording video. The alert comes from a new camera indicator, added in iOS 14 beta…
Microsoft is now allowing third-party app developers to integrate into the Microsoft Teams meeting experience for the first time. These new features which are developer-focused will allow apps to integrate into Teams meetings during video calls, and even before and…
A new website called WindowSwap can help let you cycle through picturesque views from all over the world. WindowSwap, a quarantine project by Sonali Ranjit and Vaishnav Balasubramaniam, lets you use your browser to watch a video of a window…
Qualcomm Ventures has announced that it will invest USD 97 million in Reliance Jio Platforms in India to get a .15 percent fairness stake on a diluted basis in the leading Indian telecom operator. Qualcomm has now become the highest-profile…
Instagram has started the rollout of its pinned comment feature, which it began testing in May. The feature will allow all users to pin three comments on a post to the top of a thread. The feature has been designed…
Amazon has announced that its customers can now access Prime Video on Windows 10 devices as the company has launched a dedicated app of Amazon Prime for Windows 10 machines. Amazon Prime Video, an internet video on-demand service, allows a…
Google has announced a group calling feature for its Nest Hub Max smart display via the company’s already existing video calling services Google Duo and Google Meet. Currently available in the US, Nest users can make a group video call…
Mixer, the video game live streaming platform of Microsoft will be shutting down. The company has signed a deal with Facebook to migrate current live streamers to Facebook Gaming. Microsoft will transition the Mixer community over the next few weeks….
