Indian Government May Serve Second Notice To WhatsApp To Curb Fake News While the authorities are finding it extremely hard to control the brutal lynchings in India, the government has been pushing the blame for the same on WhatsApp. It hasalready sent a letterto the Facebook-owned messaging giant, who has moved to take rigorous steps, but the government is still not satisfied with its efforts. At the beginning of this month, the IT Ministry had contacted WhatsApp to air its concern about the spread of false stories and rumors on its platform....

Instagram Spotted Testing Facebook-Like Emoji Replies in Stories Instagram Stories is a wonderful medium for sharing interesting and short-lived bursts of happiness that you witness during the day. It is also a great way of engaging other people, especially if you’re an influencer on social media. Now, to increase engagement and prompt quick conversations, Instagram has introduced a small and handy new element in stories. Now, users will be able toreact to Stories with the help of animated emojiresponses....

Instagram to Get an App-Based 2-Factor Authentication Tool to Fight SIM Hacking Back in March last year, Instagram added the 2-Factor-Authentication feature to help users secure their accounts against potential breach of credentials. But, just like any other SMS-based authenticator, Instagram’s 2FA is prone to sabotage in case you lose your phone or your SIM card gets hacked. As a solution to this, Instagram has revealed toTechCrunchthat it is working on a two-factor authentication system whichrelies on security apps such as Duo and Google Authenticator instead of SMS-based verification codes....

JioPhone To Get WhatsApp, YouTube Support Starting August 15 On stage at Reliance Industries’ 41st Annual General Meeting (AGM), the company showed off how some of the most popular social media apps, WhatsApp, YouTube, or Facebook are going to work on the original JioPhone. However, it hadn’t revealed a release date for them until today. In an official press release, Reliance Jio has today announced thatWhatsApp, as well as YouTube, will be supported on the JioPhone from 15th August....

MediaTek Announces “Helio A” Series Processors MediaTek might have earned a bad rap but its Helio P and X series has some decent performers. Now, the chipmaker is introducing anew range of chipsets called the Helio A Seriesaimed at the mid-range segment and the first SoC in this series is Helio A22. The A Series, short for “Advanced”, is designed to powersmartphones priced between $100-150and will compete with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 400 series....

Mi Notebook Air Review: A MacBook Pro at the Price of a MacBook Air Chinese giant Xiaomi launches a lot of products in its home country, but a huge number of them never make it across to India. The company’s series of laptops is one ofthoseproducts. So when we got the 2017 Mi Notebook Air (¥5999 in China,$1,143on GearBest)in our office, well I was really excited to check it out. Ever since the Mi Gaming Laptop, I’ve been quite taken with Xiaomi’s laptop offerings, and I was sure this laptop wouldn’t let me down either....

Nokia 7 plus Gets Android P Developer Preview 4 (Beta 3) Update As part of the Google I/O 2018 keynote, Google had announced that apart from the Pixel lineup of devices, a handful of other OEM manufactured devices will also be given access to try out the Android P Betas. The Mountain View giant had recently rolled out the Android P Developer Preview 4 or the Public Beta 3 for its Pixel devices, bringing forth features such as a new gesture navigation slider, a dedicated option for Dark Mode, and more....