News & Reviews: news
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Aug 22, 2023
Elon Musk just loves drama, isn’t he? Recently, he suggested that X get rid of the block function from the app. Now, the X CEO might change the way we see news. If you are a long-time X user, you would know that the app has always been an excellent platform for catching up with the latest updates or news.
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Apr 22, 2022
CNN Plus, a streaming service that was launched on 29 March 2022 will shut down operation in less than a month after its release due to poor reception. In fact, the service had less than 10,000 subscribers during its initial two weeks period.
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May 31, 2021
As you should know, MCO 3.0 will begin tomorrow (1 June) but luckily for Astro users, Astro just announced that some selected channels will be free for the children. News and BollyONE channels will also be free for viewing until 14 June 2021.
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Mar 12, 2021
Today, the Malaysia Government is imposing a new rule to tackle fake news. Starting today onwards under the Emergency Ordinance (No. 2) 2021, any individual or party who publish or broadcast fake news about any related COVID-19 and State of Emergency matters will be fined up to RM100,000.
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Feb 18, 2021
So it finally happened, Australia Facebook users are now blocked from sharing or reading news on Facebook (lol). If you haven't been hearing news about this, the controversy began a few months ago where the Australia government was proposing a law to make tech companies (Facebook and Google) pay for news content.
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Jan 07, 2021
It seems that a report by techradar seems to hint that Windows 10, will most likely be receiving an update very soon which will add a new feature to the taskbar called “News and Interests” very soon. While not much is known in regards to the exact release date, our source did mention that it will most likely be available somewhere around October 2021 with the Windows 10 Build 21286 update.
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Nov 24, 2020
In an effort to reduce the spread of misinformation, Twitter has officially implemented a feature where it will prompt users if they were to press "Like" a disputed tweet. Prior to this, Twitter implemented a similar prompt to the “Quote Tweets” functionality which has decreased the spread of misinformation by up to 29%.
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Aug 13, 2020
If you're the type that likes to share news, you'll be glad that Facebook is stepping up its game in this area. Back in June, the company made it so that you'll be notified if the news you're sharing is too old. Now, you'll also get more info about the link.
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Jun 26, 2020
Have you ever shared news you found interesting, but didn't realise it was months old? Sometimes we didn't check the date and sometimes there isn't one, but the date of the news can often be important. Knowing this, Facebook has made it so that you will now know when you're sharing old news.
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Aug 28, 2019
Huawei has announced today that have introduced several new features on the Huawei Assistant platform such as the ‘News’, ‘Global Search’, ‘Instant Access’ as well as SmartCare. The features mentioned, will be available on Huawei or HONOR device running EMUI 8.1 or higher.
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