WhatsApp Lost Millions of Users, Company to Change Privacy Terms
Weeks after rolling out the latest, controversial changes to its privacy terms, Facebook-owned messaging app company WhatsApp had lost millions of users. As noted from The New York Times, analytics firm App Annie reveals that the app has free-fallen from the top ten most downloaded apps to the 23rd by the middle of this month. Due to the nature of social apps and how the primary functionality involves communicating with others, their growth can often move quite quickly, based on current events, Amir Ghodrati, the director of market insights for App Annie, told The New York Times.
Federal Court Denies Parler s Request to Force Amazon to Host Its Service
In the recent update of the ongoing saga between controversial social media app Parler and the Big Techs like Amazon, Judge Barbara Rothstein from the Western Washington US District Court denied the social network s bid into forcing Amazon to host the site back on its Web Service.
Parler accused Amazon of being motivated by political animus when deciding to cut its Web Service from the network earlier this month. As TechCrunch reported, the judge believes that the suit is nothing but a faint and factually inaccurate speculation. The evidence it has submitted in support of the claim is both dwindlingly slight, and disputed by AWS, the statement reads.
White House Website Now Has Gone Dark After Rolling Out New Update
The White House website at WhiteHouse.gov now joins the laundry-list of official websites with a dark mode to help ease its viewers to read. This update is a part of the new update rollout, following Donald Trump s last day at the office and Joe Biden-Kamala Harris new administration.
When you open the website, two small toggle buttons will appear on your left. One is for high contrast, allowing you to read easily at night without contracting too much to your screen, and the other is to activate larger fonts on the website.
18 January 2021, 9:17 pm EST By
The VLC Media Player initially had problems in accomodating with Apple s latest unified processor, the M1 Macs, but has now released a full support version update to work seamlessly and best with the interface. The media player is ready to work fully with Apple s M1 Silicon chips, and its latest macOS 11 release with the Big Sur, with some of its latest features.
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One of the world s most reliable and used media players that can work on any file format, VLC Media Player, has released a full working version for the latest macOS 11 Big Sur and its intended Silicon chip, the M1. Initially, VLC has been running on a beta-like version of the media player for Apple s latest operating system and chip creation.
Washington [US], January 19 (ANI): After social media platform Parler was all but wiped off from the internet last week, it resurfaced back on Sunday (local time) with the site showing a statement from the company's CEO John Matze.