Google I/O 2021 Will Be Held Virtually in May
April 9, 2021
Google I/O event is back after a one-year hiatus. The company last held the I/O conference in 2019. Last year, Google canceled the annual event due to COVID-19. While the pandemic lives on, Google has…
TikTok Adds Automatic Captions in Latest Update
April 7, 2021
Up until now, TikTok users who wanted to add captions had to undergo the painful manual process. But it was a struggle worth undergoing since captions help videos get more accessibility on the platform. Today,…
Yahoo Answers Is Shutting Down for Good on May 4
April 7, 2021
Yahoo’s Q&A website, Yahoo Answers, is going away for good. In a recent update, the platform said it decided to shut down the Q&A platform with a detailed timeline of its plans to execute the…
Privacy Focused Messaging App Signal Tests New Payment Feature
April 7, 2021
Signal, the privacy-focused app whose active usage numbers skyrocketed following the WhatsApp backlash, is testing a new payment feature on its platform. The new feature is called Signal Payments. Signal Payments rivals WhatsApp’s payment feature,…
YouTube Kids Expands to More Countries
April 6, 2021
YouTube Kids is an alternative to YouTube targeted at kids. The kid-friendly version has been available in Kenya for a long time, but the platform is yet to reach every territory with YouTube’s presence worldwide….
WhatsApp Might Let iOS Users Easily Move Chats to Android
April 6, 2021
WhatsApp is working on a feature that’ll make it easier to transfer chats from iOS to Android. The only way for WhatsApp users to migrate chats between Android and iOS has been to rely on…
Microsoft Finally Shuts down Cortana on iPhone and Android
April 2, 2021
Microsoft’s AI-powered digital assistant is no longer available on mobile, following last year’s announcement. The move earmarks the company’s transition to pitch Cortana as your go-to productivity digital assistant. “As we announced in July, we…
Twitter Fleets Improved with Sticker Support
April 1, 2021
Twitter Fleets, the Stories-like feature launched by the platform in November, is adding sticker support. Using stickers in Fleets should feel quite familiar if you’ve regularly interacted with Stories on Instagram and even Snapchat. To…
YouTube Considers Hiding Video Dislike Count in New Experiment
March 31, 2021
YouTube is taking a unique approach to helping protect the well-being of creators on the platform. A new test announced by the platform will publicly hide the number of dislikes on a video, but a…