Facebook Will Pay $550 Million to Settle a Facial Recognition Lawsuit Facebook has agreed to pay a whopping $550 million to settle a lawsuit for unfair practices of facial recognition technology. The social media giant wasaccused of storing facial data for ‘Tag Suggestions’ without permissionthereby violating Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. The settlement was announced when the tech giant reported financial results for the quarter.“We decided to pursue a settlement as it was in the best interest of our community and our shareholders to move past this matter,”said a Facebook spokesman....

Google Announces New Short Video App Tangi Google has announced a new short-form vertical video app called Tangi for creative videos. The app comes from Google’s experimental lab Area 120. With Tangi, Google aims to provide a one-stop destination for quick DIY videos, tutorials, and art. The app looks like a hybrid of Pinterest and TikTok. Unlike TikTok,users can create up to 60-second vertical videos with Tangi. The app’s name is inspired by the words “TeAch aNd GIve”, and “tangible”....

I Used the New Microsoft Edge and I Can Finally Quit Chrome Microsoft recently launched its Chromium-based Edge browser on macOS. That was exciting news, because in a world where it’s hard to compete against the absolute behemoth that Chrome is, and thanks to the fact that most developers code websites to a browser and that browser is often Chrome, it’s difficult to use a browser that’s, well, not Chrome. However, Edge had the potential to be something better or at least just as good, so I tried it out, and I never thought I would say something like this about a browser built by Microsoft, but Chromium-based Edge does a lot of things really well and I think I can finally quit Chrome....

Microsoft’s Xbox Gaming Revenues Fell 11% Last Quarter Microsoft on Wednesday announced its financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2019, revealing higher revenues and operating income as compared to the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year. According to the company, its revenues were up 14 percent, hitting $36.9 billion, while operating income came in 35 percent higher, at $13.9 billion. Net income was up almost 40 percent, coming in at $11....

More Than 500 Million Indians Use Smartphones, 77% Using Internet: Report Over 50 crore (500 million) Indians are now using smartphones, a 15 percent increase from 2018 primarily due to brands like Xiaomi and Realme which continue to bring new users to the ecosystem, a new report said on Thursday. According to market research firm techARC, India had 502.2 million smartphone users as of December 2019 (the country isnow the second-largest smartphone marketglobally after China and ahead of the US), which means over 77 percent of Indians are now accessing wireless broadband through smartphones....

Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar With Google Chromecast Launched in India for Rs 2 Lakh Just a month afterlaunching its Momentum Wireless 3 headphonesin India, German audio company, Sennheiser, has expanded its portfolio in the country with the launch of a new high-end soundbar that was originally unveiled more than a year ago at CES 2019. Called theAmbeo Soundbar, the device is powered by 13 high-end drivers (six woofers, five tweeters and two top-firing full-range speakers) that help it deliver a 5....

WhatsApp Pay Will Expand to More Countries This Year: Zuckerberg Despite a delay in launching WhatsApp Pay in Indiaowing to data compliance issues, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that the peer-to-peer, UPI-based payments feature will be rolled out in several countries in the next six months. Data compliance issues and regulations have kept WhatsApp Pay launch in abeyance for quite some time, despite a successful test run of the payments service with one million users in the country in 2018....