Twitter allow users to ‘Hide Replies’ offering control over conversations

• The option to hide replies is rolling out globally on iOS, Android, Twitter Lite, and Twitter.com
• Twitter also said it was working on new controls and more clarity around the rules of conversation spaces

Syska Mosguard LED bulb promises to keep mosquitoes away from your room

• Syska Mosguard comes with 2-in-1 modes
• Syska Mosguard LED bulb is designed for indoor use

2019 BMW 7 Series: Muscular facelift, but technology inside remains impressive

• While it’s meant to be a backseat car, there’s no shortage of tech on the front either
• All touchscreens inside this car, and there are plenty, are almost as responsive as a smartphone’s touchscreen

Why e-governance apps for citizens need improvement

• Social media is replete  with complaints about  inconsistent performance, inept customer support
• UMANG is just one of the apps launched under the government’s Digital India initiative that aims at making government services accessible to citizens on their fingertips

WhatsApp worry and fallibility of a messaging app

• WhatsApp versions on Android and iOS that came after version 2.19.274 and 2.19.100, respectively, have been affected
• Unlike last time, no users were affected by this new vulnerability, according to WhatsApp

Twitter rolls out 'hide replies' feature to its users worldwide

• Users will still be able to see and engage with hidden replies by pressing an icon that will appear on the tweets
• Twitter will also check with users who use the feature whether they want to block the replier

Inside Apple’s iPhone software shakeup after buggy iOS 13 debut

The new approach calls for Apple's development teams to ensure that test versions, known as 'daily builds,' of future software updates disable unfinished or buggy features by default

Tech Mahindra, Business Finland ink MoU for R&D in 5G, 6G technology

• Tech Mahindra will develop, pilot and implement state-of-the-art digital products and services to foster growth, productivity and innovations in the area of 5G and 6G
• As part of the partnership, Tech Mahindra will set up an innovation lab in Finland to foster growth and innovation

Trump wants Apple's Cook to help in building 5G in US

• Trump met with Cook at a Texas Plant
• Trump met with Cook and asked 'to see if he could get Apple involved in building 5G in the U.S.,' Trump wrote in a tweet

Galaxy S11 may come with 120Hz display and support 8K video recording

• As per a recent report, Galaxy S11 would arrive in the third week of February 2020
• Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 865 chip, which will power the US variants of the S11, is also expected to have enough horsepower to offer 8K video recording

Apple launches smart battery case with a surprise feature for iPhone 11 series

• All versions are priced at $129 in US
• A quick press of the button takes a photo and a longer press captures QuickTake video

This is why you should use computers over smartphones for online shopping

• This study differentiates between screen size and information reduction, which are often mixed up
• Participants viewed eight informational features about each room option on the PC display and only three on a mobile display

Forget Pegasus, a new threat reveals your Android phone camera can spy on you

• ecurity researchers at cyber security firm Checkmarx, they have found vulnerabilities impact the camera apps of smartphone vendors like Google Pixel and some Samsung devices in the Android ecosystem
• Both Google and Samsung have issued a security patch for the vulnerabilities

Xiaomi to launch 10 5G smartphones carrying different price tags in 2020: Report

• Xiaomi is considering to quickly make 5G devices just as common as 4G phones
• The company has already launched a 5G AIoT strategy so as to increase the development and adoption of the use of its services

Apple donates iPhone 11s to nonprofit org that teaches photography to students

• The students are encouraged to tell their personal stories about growing up in Chicago that faces gun violence
• After each program, prints of the students' photos are sold through nonprofit organisation 100cameras

Fossil launches Google WearOS-powered Gen 5 smartwatch in India for ₹22,995

• Fossil Gen 5 comes with a Heart Rate monitor, accelerometer, gyroscope, altimeter and ambient light sensor
• The smartwatch features a 1.3-inch circular AMOLED display housed inside a 44mm dial

Samsung to restart manufacturing TVs in India

• Samsung imports its portfolio of TVs from Vietnam under the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries
• Samsung recently entered into an agreement with Dixon Technologies for production in India

Google, Facebook at center of rising political-ad tensions

• Trump campaign officials pressured Facebook to maintain its permissive political advertising rules
• Google announced an overhaul of how campaigns may target their messages across the world’s largest search engine

Microsoft 365 services restored after global outage

• After a global outage hit many Microsoft 365 users for several hours, access and functionality of the services were restored, the company said
• Microsoft blamed a 'networking build' for Microsoft 365 services outage