Technology

Netflix has announced that it will begin alerting inactive subscribers and, unless these individuals indicate that they’d like to continue paying for the service, automatically canceling their subscriptions. Today’s leading premium video-streaming platform revealed the surprising move in an update issued this weekend. Via emails and in-app notices, Netflix is asking “everyone who has …

The US has announced new export controls aimed at limiting Chinese technology giant Huawei’s access to semiconductor technology. The new rule bars semiconductor-makers that use US technology and software in chip design from shipping to Huawei without US government permission. It is the latest US action to target Huawei, which …

Four years after launching the original, Apple announced its new iPhone SE in April. I imagine that smaller-phone fans collectively jumped for joy upon hearing the news. The iPhone SE, which looks like an iPhone 8 but features the iPhone 11‘s powerful A13 chipset, uses a 4.7-inch display. Apple claims that it’s a “small” phone. And it is the smallest (and …

Facebook has pledged to invest $100 million in the news industry at a time when the ongoing coronavirus pandemic means that accurate reporting is more important than ever. $25 million will be provided in grant funding for local news through the Facebook Journalism Project, while the remaining $75 million will …

The spread of coronavirus around the globe has brought the mobile industry sputtering to a near halt, just as it began revving up for a potentially blockbuster season. From my stance as a CNET phone reviewer, the need to scale back is crushing but necessary given COVID-19’s serious nature and …

A social media booting service called Social Captain, that helps users grow their Instagram follower counts, has leaked thousands of Instagram usernames and passwords for potential hackers. According to a TechCrunch report, Social Captain stored passwords of linked Instagram accounts in unencrypted plaintext.A website vulnerability allowed anyone access to any …

WhatsApp’s closest rival Telegram has recently rolled out a massive number of features to further enhance the app and its privacy. The social messaging app is known for its unique chat features such as end-to-end encryption of user’s messages, scheduling messages, disappearing chats etc. Adding to the list, Telegram’s latest update version 5.13, for …

Facebook-owned WhatsApp has announced that it is dropping support for older versions of iOS starting in the coming months. According to a new support document, WhatsApp will drop support for iOS 8 and older on February 1, 2020. Up until now, users running WhatsApp on a device with iOS 8 or …

Huawei pushed the world of smartphone photography forward with the introduction of night mode on the P20 Pro last year and has steadily improved its low-light and zoom photography chops with subsequent flagship releases. The company is set to take another step forward with the next device in the series, the P40 …

WhatsApp is most likely your go-to messaging app to communicate with friends and family and that’s exactly how the company intends to keep it. The popular messaging platform has now stated that it will take legal action against businesses engaged in or assisting others in abusing automated or bulk messaging …