Uber is expanding its grocery delivery services to more than 400 cities across the country, the ride-sharing company said Monday. Areas in San Francisco, New York City and Washington D.C. can now order on-demand or scheduled grocery deliveries from Uber. The announcement comes as Uber partners with 1,200 Albertsons-owned stores, like Safeway, Jewel-Osco, ACME, Tom …
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WhatsApp is adding a new feature with the aim of making it easier for people to join group calls with family and friends. Joinable calls allow you to hop on a call that’s already started, or leave and rejoin the call as long as it’s still going. The chat app is also adding an information screen to your calls so you …
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TikTok fired back at an executive order that would essentially ban its app, saying the Trump administration had denied the social media company due process. TikTok said it would challenge the order, which President Donald Trump issued Thursday evening. “We are shocked by the recent Executive Order, which was issued without any due process,” the social media company said in a blog post. …
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The Facebook Gaming app for iOS launched without games on Friday because of Apple’s App Store approval process. The social media giant’s app is used to watch streamers play video games, similar to what happens on Twitch, but features mini games that Apple’s policies reportedly wouldn’t allow. “Unfortunately, we had to remove gameplay functionality entirely in order to get Apple’s …
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Most Gen Z and millennial TikTok users in the US are upset about the potential TikTok ban, according to a survey of 10,000 users taken this week and published Friday. And 83% of those surveyed are not concerned enough about the Chinese government potentially having access to their data to consider deleting the social media video app. A majority of …
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A bug in Instagram’s algorithms reportedly pushed content favoring President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign over that of presumptive Democratic rival Joe Biden. A search for Biden showed a variety of pro-Trump content, while searches for Trump didn’t provide hashtags promoting alternative viewpoints, Buzzfeed reported Wednesday. Hashtag searches for #JoeBiden produced over 390,000 posts tagged with the former vice president’s name …
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Twitter found a security vulnerability in its Android app on Wednesday. The social media giant said that the problems related to an Android security issue in OS 8 and 9. Around 96% of all Twitter for Android users already have installed security protections, Twitter said. But the other 4% are vulnerable to attackers through outside apps accessing private data on …
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The Apple Store app celebrated its 10th anniversary on Thursday with a balloon surprise. When you search “10 years” in the Apple Store app, a pair of balloons float up and bounce around your screen. The Easter egg is similar to the balloon effect in messages, but the 10 year anniversary balloons let you tap on each to pop it or …
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A promotional video of the Samsung Galaxy Note 20 reportedly leaked on Tuesday. The video, which looks to be from AT&T, purportedly features both the Note 20 and its larger sibling, the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, a day before their expected unveiling at Samsung Unpacked 2020. The video shows that the phones will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+ …
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WhatsApp has released a new feature to make fact-checking a message a little easier. The Facebook-owned app added on Monday a magnifying-glass button to the chat that allows you to search the web for answers on questionable forwarded information. By tapping the magnifying glass button, the forwarded message is uploaded to your browser, where you can see if the information …
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