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Slack Rolling Out ‘Mark as Read’ Option in Notifications for Its Android App
Slack — the cloud-based team communication platform — is rolling out a new feature which makes checking notifications easier. Users will now find a new “Mark as Read” option when receiving a notification from Slack. As the name suggests, this feature will mark the message as read from the notification window itself, eliminating the need to ...
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What Is Signal, The Messaging App Trump Aides Used To Share Yemen War Plan
Top Trump administration officials used messaging app Signal to share war plans and mistakenly included a journalist in the encrypted chat, spurring calls by Democratic lawmakers for a congressional investigation into the security breach.
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Google Addresses Slowdown Issues in Messages; ‘Significantly’ Improves Media Receiving Performance
Google has addressed several issues within its Messages app which caused it to suffer “slowdowns and failures”. The Mountain View-based technology giant says its team has been actively working to fix the problems and has rolled out several recent updates aimed at improving the media receiving performance “significantly”.
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WhatsApp for Android Could Soon Let Users Turn Off Camera Before Video Calls
WhatsApp is developing a new functionality which may provide users with more choice when it comes to picking up video calls, according to a new report. The instant message platform is said to be testing a new option which offers the choice of turning off the device’s camera before picking up the video call. The in-development WhatsApp feature was...
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WhatsApp Web Tipped to Be Developing ‘Chat With Us’ Option for Quick Support
WhatsApp Web, the desktop client of the instant messaging app, is developing a new feature which lets users contact the support team quickly, as per the claims by a feature tracker. The new option dubbed ‘Chat with us’ is said to be available in the Help section of the desktop app and is scheduled for release in a future version of the app.
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Telegram Tackles Child Abuse Images After Founder's Arrest
Messaging app Telegram will deploy new tools to prevent the spread of images of child sexual abuse after teaming up with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the UK-based charity said Wednesday.
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Google Chat Rolls Out Cross-Platform Messaging With Microsoft Teams, Slack: How It Works
Google Chat will now allow sending messages to Microsoft Teams and Slack with its new interoperability support. The cross-platform messaging feature was first announced by the tech giant at the Google Cloud Next 2023 event, but so far the feature was available only in beta to a limited number of users. With the new update, now all the paid subscrib...
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Microsoft Said to Have Offered to Charge for Its Office Product to Address EU Antitrust Concerns
Microsoft has offered to charge different prices for its Office product with and without its Teams app to stave off a possible EU antitrust investigation and fine, two people familiar with the matter said. Microsoft has been seeking to address the EU competition enforcer's concerns since last year after Salesforce-owned workspace messaging app Slac...
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Facebook Parent Meta to Lay Off 10,000 Employees Just Four Months After First Round of Job Cuts
Facebook-parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it would cut 10,000 jobs, just four months after it let go 11,000 employees, the first Big Tech company to announce a second round of mass layoffs. "We expect to reduce our team size by around 10,000 people and to close around 5,000 additional open roles that we haven’t yet hired," Chief Executive Of...
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Microsoft Rolls Out GPT 3.5-Powered Teams Premium, Service Starts at $7 a Month
Microsoft has launched a ChatGPT-powered premium Teams messaging service to simplify meetings using the AI chatbot. The premium service will cost $7 per month in June before increasing to $10 in July, Microsoft said. OpenAI-owned ChatGPT will generate automatic meeting notes, recommend tasks and help create meeting templates for Teams users.
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WhatsApp Said to Be Testing Ability to Report Suspicious Status Update on Desktop Beta App
WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new feature for the desktop app that will let users report a status update to the company for moderation reasons. WhatsApp currently provides the ability to report suspicious messages or spam messages to the company in order to stop the spread of spam and malicious content on the platform.
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Microsoft Teams Update Adds Ability to View 49 Videos at Once, Schedule Messages: All Details
Microsoft Teams has received a host of new features through its November 2022 update rolled out by Microsoft. The enterprise-centric communications and video conferencing platform has introduced one-click instant polls, schedule send, unread toggle on the activity center, and the ability to view 49 videos at once in a meeting, amongst other feature...
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Twitter's France Head Serves Resignation Amid Mass Layoffs, Tweets Exit Message
Twitter's head of French operations, Damien Viel, said he was quitting the social media platform, whose new owner Elon Musk recently fired top executives and enforced steep job cuts at the company. "It's over," Viel tweeted on Sunday, thanking his team in France, which he led for the last seven years.
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Elon Musk Urged by UN to Ensure Human Rights Are Central to Management of Twitter
Elon Musk was urged by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk on Saturday, to "ensure human rights are central to the management of Twitter". The message from Türk was issued after reports that Musk had fired the entire team working on human rights on the microblogging platform. In his letter, Türk urged Twitter to stand up for the r...
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Microsoft 365 Services Outage Has Been Mitigated, Company Says
icrosoft said it has resolved an issue with its Microsoft 365 services and features, including workplace messaging app Teams and Azure, after many users were unable to access them.
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Slack Rolling Out ‘Mark as Read’ Option in Notifications for Its Android App
Slack — the cloud-based team communication platform — is rolling out a new feature which makes checking notifications easier. Users will now find a new “Mark as Read” option when receiving a notification from Slack. As the name suggests, this feature will mark the message as read from the notification window itself, eliminating the need to ...
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What Is Signal, The Messaging App Trump Aides Used To Share Yemen War Plan
Top Trump administration officials used messaging app Signal to share war plans and mistakenly included a journalist in the encrypted chat, spurring calls by Democratic lawmakers for a congressional investigation into the security breach.
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Google Addresses Slowdown Issues in Messages; ‘Significantly’ Improves Media Receiving Performance
Google has addressed several issues within its Messages app which caused it to suffer “slowdowns and failures”. The Mountain View-based technology giant says its team has been actively working to fix the problems and has rolled out several recent updates aimed at improving the media receiving performance “significantly”.
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WhatsApp for Android Could Soon Let Users Turn Off Camera Before Video Calls
WhatsApp is developing a new functionality which may provide users with more choice when it comes to picking up video calls, according to a new report. The instant message platform is said to be testing a new option which offers the choice of turning off the device’s camera before picking up the video call. The in-development WhatsApp feature was...
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WhatsApp Web Tipped to Be Developing ‘Chat With Us’ Option for Quick Support
WhatsApp Web, the desktop client of the instant messaging app, is developing a new feature which lets users contact the support team quickly, as per the claims by a feature tracker. The new option dubbed ‘Chat with us’ is said to be available in the Help section of the desktop app and is scheduled for release in a future version of the app.
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Telegram Tackles Child Abuse Images After Founder's Arrest
Messaging app Telegram will deploy new tools to prevent the spread of images of child sexual abuse after teaming up with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the UK-based charity said Wednesday.
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Google Chat Rolls Out Cross-Platform Messaging With Microsoft Teams, Slack: How It Works
Google Chat will now allow sending messages to Microsoft Teams and Slack with its new interoperability support. The cross-platform messaging feature was first announced by the tech giant at the Google Cloud Next 2023 event, but so far the feature was available only in beta to a limited number of users. With the new update, now all the paid subscrib...
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Microsoft Said to Have Offered to Charge for Its Office Product to Address EU Antitrust Concerns
Microsoft has offered to charge different prices for its Office product with and without its Teams app to stave off a possible EU antitrust investigation and fine, two people familiar with the matter said. Microsoft has been seeking to address the EU competition enforcer's concerns since last year after Salesforce-owned workspace messaging app Slac...
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Facebook Parent Meta to Lay Off 10,000 Employees Just Four Months After First Round of Job Cuts
Facebook-parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it would cut 10,000 jobs, just four months after it let go 11,000 employees, the first Big Tech company to announce a second round of mass layoffs. "We expect to reduce our team size by around 10,000 people and to close around 5,000 additional open roles that we haven’t yet hired," Chief Executive Of...
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Microsoft Rolls Out GPT 3.5-Powered Teams Premium, Service Starts at $7 a Month
Microsoft has launched a ChatGPT-powered premium Teams messaging service to simplify meetings using the AI chatbot. The premium service will cost $7 per month in June before increasing to $10 in July, Microsoft said. OpenAI-owned ChatGPT will generate automatic meeting notes, recommend tasks and help create meeting templates for Teams users.
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WhatsApp Said to Be Testing Ability to Report Suspicious Status Update on Desktop Beta App
WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new feature for the desktop app that will let users report a status update to the company for moderation reasons. WhatsApp currently provides the ability to report suspicious messages or spam messages to the company in order to stop the spread of spam and malicious content on the platform.
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Microsoft Teams Update Adds Ability to View 49 Videos at Once, Schedule Messages: All Details
Microsoft Teams has received a host of new features through its November 2022 update rolled out by Microsoft. The enterprise-centric communications and video conferencing platform has introduced one-click instant polls, schedule send, unread toggle on the activity center, and the ability to view 49 videos at once in a meeting, amongst other feature...
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Twitter's France Head Serves Resignation Amid Mass Layoffs, Tweets Exit Message
Twitter's head of French operations, Damien Viel, said he was quitting the social media platform, whose new owner Elon Musk recently fired top executives and enforced steep job cuts at the company. "It's over," Viel tweeted on Sunday, thanking his team in France, which he led for the last seven years.
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Elon Musk Urged by UN to Ensure Human Rights Are Central to Management of Twitter
Elon Musk was urged by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk on Saturday, to "ensure human rights are central to the management of Twitter". The message from Türk was issued after reports that Musk had fired the entire team working on human rights on the microblogging platform. In his letter, Türk urged Twitter to stand up for the r...
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Microsoft 365 Services Outage Has Been Mitigated, Company Says
icrosoft said it has resolved an issue with its Microsoft 365 services and features, including workplace messaging app Teams and Azure, after many users were unable to access them.
