Apple Gives in to TRAI Demand; Will Allow DND App to Report Spam Calls, Texts Applehas finally relented in its battle against the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), and decided to fall in line with the agency’s demand to allow its controversial DND app access to user-info on iPhones. The company is believed to haveinformed the regulatorabout the new feature that will be rolled out withiOS 12, and will allow users to report spam calls and texts through third-party apps....

Apple Music’s ‘Friends Mix’ Will Show You Tracks Your Friends Are Listening To Apple Music has received a new feature called ‘Friends Mix’ which allows you to track artists and songs your friends have been listening to in the past week. Friends Mix is located within the ‘For You’ tab and will show you 25 songs your friends have been enjoying recently. According to a report from TechCrunch, Friends Mix has begun appearing for some users who are running iOS 12 beta, however, it is not widely available for all Apple Music subscribers....

Baidu Ready to Beat Google in China, says CEO As Google is trying to make a comeback in China with censored apps, its biggest rival in the country, Baidu, said it was prepared to take on the US tech giant and defeat it, the media reported. According to a report in The Verge on Tuesday, Baidu CEO Robin Li wrote on his verified WeChat account that if “Google decides to return to China, we are very confident we can just PK and win again....

Blocking Apps to Curb Fake News Will Affect Banking, Travel Businesses: COAI The government should look for “more effective” steps to curb fake news and maintain public order, instead of blocking mobile applications which is very difficult and may hamper routine actions of innocent people, the COAI said on Tuesday. Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) Director General Rajan S. Mathews’ comments came after reports that the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had asked telecom companies for ways to block social media platforms like Whatsapp, Facebook, Telegram and Instagram in case of threat to national security and public order....

EU Mulling Strict Norms to Standardize Smartphone Chargers to Reduce e-Waste The European Union is now planning to crack the whip after tech companies have failed to introduce common mobile phone chargers to cut down on electronic waste, the media reported. Back in 2009, major smartphone makers including Samsung, Apple, Huawei, and Nokia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in which they agreed to standardize smartphone chargers over the course of the next few years, and also agreed to implement it for all smartphones launched after 2011....

Facebook’s TBH Acquisition Gave It A Psychological Trick to Attract Teens Back in October 2017, Facebook acquired a social media app called ‘TBH‘ which was gaining popularity among teens in the United States. The app amassed around 5 million downloads and allowed teenagers, be it high school or college students, to compliment each other using anonymous polls. Facebook eventually shut down the app after spending $30 million for the acquisition, however, the social media giant learned some psychological tricks from tbh’s team to attract teenage users....

Firefox’s Advance Extension Offers Recommendations Based on Your Browsing History Mozilla has announced a new feature for the Firefox web browser which employs machine learning to suggest new websites and pages based on users’ browsing history and web surfing habits, and that too, in real time. The new feature is calledAdvance, and it is an extension which has been introduced as part of Mozilla’s Test Pilot program. Once the Advance extension is enabled, it will track users’ internet browsing patterns such as websites they visit, what kind of content they consume on a regular basis, etc....