Encrypted-messaging app Telegram added several new features this week, including group video calls. “Voice chats in any group can now seamlessly turn into group video calls — just tap the camera icon to switch your video on,” the company said in a blog post Friday. You can tap a video to have it go full …

A forthcoming subscription service from Twitter will be called Twitter Blue and cost $3 a month, tipster Jane Manchun Wong tweeted on Saturday. In early May, the social site spoke of “an upcoming subscription offering we’re currently exploring,” in a blog post about Twitter’s acquisition of ad blocker Scroll. Wong also said the service could have a tiered pricing model, …

Having problems with Twitter? You’re not alone. After a Friday night tweet in which it acknowledged that “tweets may not be loading for some of you,” Twitter Support followed up on Saturday, saying that it’s “fixing an issue with our servers to get things back to normal soon.” We know that parts of Twitter still aren’t working for some of you. …

Sounds like Harmony universal remote controls will be fading out. Logitech said Friday it’ll no longer make the gadgets — meant to simplify your wrangling of a multi-component home theater system — though they’ll still be available for a while from various retailers. Don’t panic if you’re a Harmony fan, however; Logitech says the company won’t leave you empty-handed. “We …

It looks like Apple’s iMac Pro is going to that big computer showroom in the sky. The $4,999 standard model is still available on Apple’s site, but only while current supplies last — once they’re gone, the iMac Pro will no longer be available, Apple told us Saturday. Released in 2017, the iMac Pro was touted by Apple at the time …

A judge has approved what he called one of the largest-ever settlements of a privacy lawsuit, giving a thumbs-up Friday to Facebook paying $650 million to users who alleged the company created and stored scans of their faces without permission. The class-action suit, filed in Illinois in 2015, involved Facebook’s use of facial recognition technology in its photo-tagging feature. With …

Samsung is reportedly gearing up to launch its Galaxy S21 phones in January, and now it looks like we’ve got leaked specs for the Galaxy S21 smartphones. Max Weinbach over at Android Police published the specs Saturday, saying they’d been confirmed through multiple sources. (Asked about the report, Samsung said it doesn’t comment on rumors and speculation.) DisplayBoth the Galaxy …

Qualcomm has reportedly been granted a license by the US government to sell 4G mobile chips to Huawei, despite a ban on American companies selling technology and parts to the China-based telecommunications company. “We received a license for a number of products, which includes some 4G products,” a Qualcomm spokeswoman told Reuters, according to a Saturday report by the news …

TikTok and parent company ByteDance filed a new lawsuit late Friday to try to block the Trump administration’s ban of US downloads of the popular TikTok short-video app. The suit, filed in federal court in Washington, DC, says the administration overstepped its bounds and violated free speech when it decided earlier Friday to go ahead with the download ban, which …

Been having trouble preordering Sony’s PlayStation 5 console? Well, you may soon have better luck. PS5 preorders sold out rapidly, after a number of retailers unexpectedly began offering them on Wednesday. But Sony says it’ll release more of the consoles for preorder. In a Saturday tweet, Sony said it would release the PS5s “over the next few days” and that …