Kim Diaz 
This Friday, Chingari, a desi alternative to TikTok crossed 10 million downloads on Google Playstore. It has now become one of the top two free downloaded apps on Playstore, and it has retained its position for over a week now. Chingari is a desi video-sharing app that is quite similar to Chinese TikTok. Chingari was … Read more
On Friday, Telegram, a popular messaging app was banned by a Brazil’s Supreme Court judge nationwide, for not cooperating with the authorities. The ban on Telegram is believed to affect the re-election of President Jair Bolsonaro, who happens to have more than 1 million followers on the platform. The re-election event is scheduled for October. … Read more
UPI Lite is all set to launch in India to allow small-value transactions in offline mode. It will be launched as an on-device wallet feature for UPI users. The National Payments Corporation of India informed all member banks about the upcoming UPI Lite app, which will be the corporation’s response to mobile wallets like MobiKwik … Read more
This Wednesday, Snapchat announced its plans of expanding its augmented reality (AR) based feature Landmarkers. The company said that the feature will now be available to all users as Custom Landmarkers via Lens Studio. Custom Landmarkers will let creators create AR filters to anchor to their favourite local places so that Snapchatters can create richer … Read more
Several users tweeted about facing battery drain issues on their iPhones, after updating to the new iOS 15 updates. If you have recently installed iOS 15.4 on your iPhone, you are likely to experience battery drain issues on your device. The iOS 15.4 update by Apple comes with a series of new features, including the … Read more
WhatsApp is currently working on a new yearly Terms of Service reminder feature. The Meta-operated messaging app is reported to work on an entry in the app’s settings menu. This was discovered by WABetaInfo on the latest beta version of the app. However, WhatsApp itself hasn’t revealed anything related to their plans yet. Meanwhile, the … Read more
Rajeev Chandrasekhar, minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology spoke about building an ecosystem for the creation of an alternative operating system for smartphones and computers. He passed this information while being in Parliament. When it comes to smartphones, it is either iOS or Android. There are no other operating systems in the market. … Read more
Since the beginning of the Russia Ukraine war, more than three million people have fled from Ukraine. The Russian forces invaded Ukraine on 24th February. On Thursday, PayPal Holdings decided to expand its services to help Ukrainian citizens and refugees. This is done to help Ukrainians receive payments from overseas. A senior Ukrainian official said … Read more
All this while, Netflix subscribers have been sharing their accounts outside the household for no extra cost. But this may change soon as Netflix is testing new features. According to reports, Netflix is testing some new features including the one that will allow subscribers to share their accounts outside the household for an extra cost. … Read more