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After a series of privacy scandals, Facebook needs to regain users’ trust as it prepares to roll out a single messaging service combining Facebook messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram. (Photo: AP)

Facebook reveals how it ranks items in the news feed

The feature “Why am I seeing this post?”, being rolled out from Monday, offers some insight into the tens of thousands of inputs.

02 Apr 2019 11:49 AM

As the feature is not officially rolled out, there’s a trick to enable Dark Mode.

This is how you can manually turn on Dark Mode in Facebook Messenger

The feature had been a highly-requested one but was tested only in a few countries.

05 Mar 2019 2:47 PM

The new capability will prove useful for those who often have to manually copy data from the physical sheets to digital sheets. (Photo: ANI)

Now, copy data to Microsoft Excel by simply taking a picture

The new image recognition functionality immediately converts the picture into a fully editable table in Excel.

03 Mar 2019 12:27 PM

With this feature, the users will be able to tap the “share” icon on Twitter and choose “hide Tweet” to close down replies. (Photo: ANI)

Twitter to develop feature that lets you hide replies to your tweets

The latest feature will bring a drastic change in how users control their conversations on the platform.

03 Mar 2019 10:20 AM

Currently, if you find something interesting on your Instagram feed, you have the option to save it to your personal collection on the service.

Is Pinterest Instagram’s next target after Snapchat?

A code buried in Instagram for Android hints at the option of creating public ‘Collections.’

24 Feb 2019 1:11 PM

He suggests that a delay of 5-second to 30-second could be introduced. (Photo: ANI)

Twitter CEO explains how editable tweets would work

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey talks about the idea of tweets which can be edited.

05 Feb 2019 12:07 PM

It is not the first time Facebook attempted to lure teens into using its service.(Photo: AP)

Facebook tests new 'LOL' feature to keep teens distracted with old memes

The feature is now part of the main Facebook app and in its early beta version.

20 Jan 2019 11:16 AM

WhatsApp seems to be working on more convenience-oriented features for its Android users.

Replying on WhatsApp to get one-swipe easy on Android, like iPhones

Although the feature has not been integrated yet for the users, WhatsApp is working on its development and it will be available soon.

15 Sep 2018 2:49 PM

This feature is available on Google Search in mobile browsers and in the Google app for Android.

Movie searching made better by Google

Google will release this update for iOS platform soon.

04 Apr 2018 12:02 PM

Twitter finally bringing bookmarks, feature in test phase

The announcement comes two weeks after Twitter announced that after doubling the character count for tweets from 140 to 280.

24 Nov 2017 5:21 PM

Since the Chrome now accounts for a large web-browsing globally, installing ad-blocker within it would mean more control to Google over ad-blocking

Google builds ad-blocking filter for Chrome: report

The feature would filter out "unacceptable" ads defined by the Coalition for the Better Ads

20 Apr 2017 10:49 AM

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