TAMM, the governmental service provider, also inked its digital mark during the festival. The service provider is currently directing its focus at providing all governmental agencies, alongside residents and visitors of the UAE, with a multitude of centralized services, such as mobile application, a portal, and a physical center for its whole customer base to […]
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Before March 2020, catching ‘fresher’s flu’ was a right of passage for university students. Fast forward 18 months and students around the world stayed indoors to keep illness at bay. However, the pandemic has taught the education sector an important lesson — the value of selecting the right communication tools. According to UNESCO, more than 1.5 […]
Social audio platform, Clubhouse, launched a new Music Mode to enable a more superior experience when playing and indulging in musical delights, easing up the process of playing and listening to music. Whether you’re an artist on the app or simply a listener, the new Music Mode “optimizes Clubhouse to broadcast your music with high […]
Facebook announced Thursday deployment news of WhatsApp’s end-to-end encrypted chat backups for iOS and Android devices. For years, the social networking company provided end-to-end encryption to its messaging platforms. However, with its last encrypted edition, users can obtain a mirrored level of security coding with the devices’ backup. The recently added feature will be slowly […]
Near the Twizzlers and Sour Patch Kids at a New York candy store are fruit-shaped soft jelly candies that earned a spot on the shelves because they went viral on TikTok. A flood of videos last year showed people biting into the fruit gummies’ plastic casing, squirting artificially-colored jelly from their mouths. Store staffers at […]
The Chinese tech crackdown to reign in the industry’s firms has reached a new frontier, U.S. Big Tech. As China ups its regulatory game on tech firms, American sweetheart, Apple, has always managed to avoid being caught in the crossfire by striving to preserve a sharp image with Chinese authorities. With President Xi Jinping launching […]
Coinbase announced on Monday that it’s officially jumping into the world of NFTs. The cryptocurrency exchange platform explained that it plans to sell, trade, and mint NFTs, a move that will expand the cryptocurrency’s marketplace. While there isn’t much information on how Coinbase will join the NFT marketplace, the exchange platform has noted that the […]
The final frontier has rarely seemed closer than this — at least virtually. Researchers at one of Switzerland’s top universities are releasing open-source beta software on Tuesday that allows for virtual visits through the cosmos including up to the International Space Station, past the Moon, Saturn or exoplanets, over galaxies and well beyond. The program […]
Twitter is finally responding to user’s infamous request, adding a “soft block” feature. While the feature was in the testing phase earlier last month, the micro blogging site is finally ready to add the option “Remove this follower” right next to your followers’ names. To get there, you’ll have to head to your profile, click followers, then click on the three-dot menu […]
The massive Facebook outage last week definitely took us all by surprise. However, the tech giant is working on ensuring that won’t happen again, as it’s currently building in-app notifications that will alert users to “temporary issues” like outages or other technical difficulties. The notifications will be visible in users’ home page. The notifications are there to specifically alert users about app bugs and issues, such as Story uploads not working or large-scale outages. Before you frown at […]