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Jeff Bezos engaged to girlfriend Lauren Sanchez: Report
However, there was no additional details on the proposal, the CNN report said citing sources. Bezos, 59, and the 53-year-old Sanchez, a former broadcast journalist, started dating in 2018.
Fake AI image of Pentagon explosion puts Twitter's paid Blue tick in question
Several media outlets and millions of Twitter users took the fake verified Twitter account 'Bloomberg Feed' for a real Bloomberg-affiliated account, as it had a blue check. Twitter suspended that account later but the damage was already done.
WhatsApp lets users edit messages with 15-minute time limit
This feature has started rolling out to users globally and will be available to everyone in the coming weeks. All that the users need to do is long-press on a sent message and choose 'Edit' from the menu for up to 15 minutes after. "For the moments when you make a mistake, or simply change your mind, you can now edit your sent messages," said the instant messaging platform.
Tencent launches palm-based payments in China
According to South China Morning Post, users can pay for rides on the Daxing Airport Express Line in the Capital by holding their hands over a scanner at metro station turnstiles. "Recognition of a unique palm print triggers an automatic payment through the user's WeChat account," the report said.
Twitter bug restoring deleted tweets for hundreds of clueless users
Users are reporting that tweets they mass-deleted are reappearing on their profiles, reports The Verge. James Vincent, a senior Verge reporter, wrote that earlier this month, he deleted all his tweets, just under 5,000 of them, but can now see Twitter has restored a handful of old re-tweets.
Meta fined record $1.3 bn for violating EU data transfer rules
The Irish watchdog said that Meta violated the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which came into force on May 25, 2018. The Wall Street Journal was first to report about the landmark penalty on Meta. The ruling applies only to Facebook and not Instagram and WhatsApp.
India consumer storage market declines 4% as smartphones' memory go up
However, the market shipments increased by 16 per cent (quarter-on-quarter), according to CyberMedia Research (CMR). The primary reason for the YoY decline is attributed to a decrease in the Micro-SD base.
Instagram up after a brief outage, company says 'technical issue'
According to a company spokesperson, a technical issue caused some people to have trouble accessing Instagram globally. "We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we're sorry for any disruption this has caused," said the company,
Google challenger Neeva search engine shuts down
The founders wrote in a blog post that they started Neeva with the mission to take search back to its users. "Having worked on search and search ads for over a decade, we sincerely believed that there was space for a model of search that put user and not advertiser interests first a private, ads-free experience, the added.
Samsung not planning to switch from Google to Bing on its devices: Report
According to The Wall Street Journal, citing sources, Samsung has suspended an internal review that looked into replacing Google with Bing on its web-browsing app, which comes pre-installed on the company's smartphones. In April, there were reports that Samsung was considering switching from Google to Bing as its default search engine on Galaxy phones.
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