In case you weren’t already spending too much time on Slack while you work from home, the company on Wednesday teased a slate of new features aimed at drawing you in further. Starting next year, by handing over your private link, you’ll be able to get direct messages on Slack from anyone from any company. …
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Video conferencing tool Google Meet won’t impose its 60-minute time limit on the calls of free users with Gmail accounts until March 31, 2021, Google said Wednesday. “As we look ahead to a holiday season with less travel and important milestones like family reunions, PTA meetings and weddings hosted over video, we want to continue helping those who rely on …
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TikTok will implement a new policy cracking down on advertisements for dietary fasting and weight loss supplements, the company said Wednesday. While the new policies don’t altogether ban ads for weight loss products, they limit the scope and restrict certain messaging in the ads. The move comes just weeks after a cybersecurity report found scammers were purchasing ads on TikTok, …
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T-Mobile has added 81 cities and towns to its midband 5G network, the company said Wednesday, promising peak download speeds of up to 1 Gbps and average speeds of around 300 Mbps. The carrier network said each midband 2.5 GHz 5G site can cover tens of thousands of times the area that one mmWave site can cover, and can also …
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Google Meet will soon be arriving on Google Chromecast and Chromecast-enabled smart TVs, the company said Wednesday. The update will be rolling out all over the next couple days. “Earlier this year, we launched Google Meet on Nest Hub Max, and it just felt right to expand Meet to even more screens in your home,” Google said in a community post Tuesday. …
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As a virtual private network reviewer, one of the hardest lessons I’ve learned is that no matter how clean a company’s code, how skilled its development team, how many transparency gestures it offers users — VPNs are still businesses based on asking us to trust what can’t be seen. We typically engage a VPN service to better protect our online …
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On Wednesday, short-video app TikTok announced the rollout of new features aimed at slowing the spread of political misinformation and stymieing potential election interference. TikTok’s new measures include sharing data with the US Department of Homeland Security about potential election misinformation campaigns on TikTok’s platform. The company will also update its policies on misleading content to clarify what content is …
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Never mind its speed, customer service, or price — the single most persuasive claim any virtual private network provider can make to appeal to potential customers is that it keeps no logs of your web activity while you use its service. Every leading service in our directory of recommended VPN services and in the wider market globally claims to be a …
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An email from AT&T arrived in customers’ inboxes this week, suggesting that 3G users would need to upgrade their devices or risk being dropped from its network. But that change, part of AT&T’s long-planned 3G phase-out, is still a year and a half away. The email, originally reported by Android Police, warns users that the company will soon be upgrading …
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Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says in a research note that iPhones will likely get a periscope-style telephoto camera lens in 2022 if lens suppliers Semco and Sunny Optical join the Apple supply chain this year, according to reports from MacRumors and 9-to-5 Mac. This means that a much better camera could be coming to iPhones, with lenses similar to those used …
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