Now, for the unaware, Apple charges developers a 30 percent commission to publish and sell apps and services on its digital marketplace. This was the primary reason that led Epic to file a lawsuit against Apple last year after the Cupertino giant removed Epic’s Fortnite game from the App Store. Since then, the companies have been going back and forth, criticizing each other for various misdeeds. So, in a recent tweet, Elon criticized Apple’s App Store fees, stating that it is a “de facto global tax on the Internet”....

Samsung Galaxy M13: Specs and Features The Samsung Galaxy M13 comes with a basic design that includes vertically placed rear cameras and a waterdrop notch. Although, the color variants are attractive and you will get to choose from three, namely, Deep Green, Orange Copper, and Light Blue. The phone sports a 6.6-inch Full HD+ Infinity-V screen, which is most likely based on an LCD panel. There’s no word on whether or not the device will support a 90Hz refresh rate like its predecessor....

Accounts Center will offer three types of account-linking options. As can be seen in the screenshots, the first one is ‘Story Post and Sharing‘, which will enable users to cross-post their Stories and updates across each app. Next is ‘Facebook Pay Info‘, which will enable users to authorize payments via their linked Facebook Pay details. Finally, there’s the ‘Logging in Across Accounts‘ option that would allow users to log into all Facebook-owned services without having to re-enter their log-in details for every app separately....

Facebook Shuts Down Face Recognition System Facebook will shut down its facial recognition program in the coming weeks. The social media platform will no longer automatically identify users who have opted in to recognize them in photos and videos. Furthermore, the company states it will delete the facial recognition template used to identify users. “This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology’s history....

Meta to Launch Horizon Worlds on the Web At the moment, you will need one of Meta’s Quest VR headsets to access the Horizon Worlds platform. With the launch of the web version, however, that changes. In a separate interview with The Verge, Meta also confirmed that Horizon Worlds is launching on phones later this year. The development comes in response to a tweet highlighting Meta’s 47.5% cut – 30% from Meta Quest Store + 17....

In a recent investor meeting, Zuckerberg confirmed that the company is working with Ray-Ban to develop a pair of smart AR glasses under its Project Aria. He told the investors that the smart wearable will have the “iconic form factor” of Ray-Ban glasses and will pack some “neat” features. “I’m excited to get these into people’s hands and to continue to make progress on the journey towards full augmented reality glasses in the future,” said Zuckerberg during the meeting....

Apple led the global tablet shipments with 29.2% market share for iPads during the quarter ended September 30, growing 17.4% YoY to ship 13.9 million units. While the 2019 models accounted for the lion’s share of volumes, the latest iPad (2020) also reportedly managed to record a “notable volume of shipment” despite its late launch during the quarter. Chart Courtesy: IDC Despite a slew of sanctions from the US government, Huawei managed to come in at number four with 4....

Passwordless Sign-Ins Will Soon Be Available Google has now announced that it will soon bring passwordless sign-ins created by FIDO Alliance to Android and Chrome users. This is expected to start happening by the end of this year. Apple and Microsoft will also join Google in bringing this standard to their respective platforms. The aim is to simplify the process of logging into a device, a website, or an app without the need for a password....

You Will Soon be Able to Mute Chrome Tabs with Ease As per a Reddit user Leopova, the Google Chrome feature is currently available for users as a new Chrome flag to try in its Canary version. The new feature was also spotted by Chrome Story and here’s a look at the “click-to-mute” feature in action: If you are using Google Chrome Canary, you can open the chrome://flags page and enable the “Tab Audio Muting UI Control” flag....

According to Google, the update improves the image and text wrapping related to images when you’re importing PDF files. This way, you might be able to seamlessly edit the contents in the text associated with the image. In addition, the update preserves various characteristics of the original file including underline, strikethrough, background color, and fonts. The main advantage of retaining the formatting is that you no longer have to manually make the changes to bring the imported file closer to the source PDF file....

The announcement of the project came via an official blog post from the team working on it. Although it is still in its experimental stages, the team thinks that this project has the potential to revolutionize the agricultural industry in the near future. The team which is working on the project started off with it when they saw that there hasn’t been much development in digitizing agriculture. So, over the last few years, the team has been working to develop relevant tools for, what they call, computational agriculture....

Amidst all of this hullabaloo, WhatsApp has also answered one of the most important questions related to their policy update. Users only have until May 15th to accept the changes. What will happen to your WhatsApp account if you choose not to accept the privacy policy update? What happens after the deadline? If you do not accept the privacy update, then your WhatsApp account will not be deleted – at least not right away....

The statement came from the Ministry in a written reply to the Lok Sabha, during the first day of the Winter Session of Parliament. The authorities wrote that the government of India does not collect data on Bitcoin transactions in the country, and hence, it does not and will not recognize Bitcoin as a legal tender in India. Now, for those unaware, following PM Modi’s statement, suggesting democratic nations work together to prevent cryptocurrency from falling into the wrong hands, the government came up with the Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2021....

Up until now, the service only allowed users to search for hashtags, usernames and locations, but the new addition will now enable users to find posts about particular subjects, like ‘baking recipes’, ‘backyard gardens’, etc. Before today, users searching for the above keywords or phrases would only yield results for posts that tagged those same words or usernames that had variations of those words. Now, however, users will be able to see results for posts that are actually about the searched topics, even if the specific hashtags are missing....

With the Live Rooms feature, an Instagram Live session can include a total of four participants – one host and three guests. Before this change, the total number of users in Live sessions were two — one host and a single guest. As a result, the host had to terminate the session with the current guest in order to bring new guests to the discussion. Use Instagram Live Rooms Getting started with Instagram Live Rooms is quite straightforward....

As spotted by app developer Alessandro Paluzzi, Instagram may add at least 11 optional app icons. The icons include Classic, Classic 2, Candy, Seafoam, Pride, Lux, Dark, Light, and Designer. These new icons are coming to the Instagram app on Android phones running Oreo and newer. “It’s our 10th Birthday! To celebrate, we’re opening up our icon vault and letting you choose your favorite. We wouldn’t be anything without you!...

New Instagram Subscriptions Features Instagram’s Adam Mosseri has announced that creators will now get the option to have exclusive group chats with their subscribers. The chat can include up to 30 people and will be live for only 24 hours. This will allow creators to decide on how to interact with their subscribers. Another feature is subscriber posts and Reels, which will be exclusive content posted for the subscribers. This will be a way to attract more new people, which will help creators to establish a good subscriber base....

For one, iOS 14 was notoriously resetting people’s default app settings back to Safari and the Apple Mail app. That issue has been fixed with iOS 14.0.1. Moreover, there are fixes for other issues that were reported with iOS 14. Here’s what Apple’s changelog says: This update includes bug fixes for your iPhone. Fixes an issue that could cause default browser and mail settings to reset after restarting your iPhone Addresses an issue that could prevent camera previews from displaying on iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus Fixes an issue that could prevent your iPhone from connecting to Wi-Fi networks Resolves an issue that could prevent sending email with some mail providers...

According to @000leaker, the iPad mini 6 will feature an 8.5-inch Liquid Retina display and will be powered by the A14 Bionic processor. The device is also said to come with 4GB of RAM and two batteries, but will have a USB Type-C port unlike the iPad mini 5, which comes with a Lightning connector. The device is also said to retain the speakers of the current-generation iPad mini and sport the same cameras as the ones found on the iPad Air 4....

The data further suggests that the iPhone SE (2020) was the second best-selling smartphone during the same period, even though it trailed its bigger and pricier stablemate by a distance. While the former reportedly shipped around 16 million units during Q3, 2020, the latter only managed to move around 10 million, as can be seen from the graph below. As many as five Samsung smartphones making their way into the top-10 as the company made a forceful comeback following a couple of slow quarters....