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Google’s Discover Feed displays news articles and other written content from around the web. For the first time, the Google Search Discover feed on Android now displays likes directly beneath the articles. The like button resembles those found on Twitter and other social media sites. However, Google’s experimentation with the “like” button could have a significant impact on the article’s exposure or the amount of traffic it produces from viewers/readers. It’s feasible that Google will introduce likes as a means for people to determine whether or not an article in…

Google Meet, its video conferencing software, has received two usability improvements. When everyone else has left a call, the app will now immediately remove you from it. Google Meet is also consolidating host management controls. They’ll be merged into the Google Meet web interface’s bottom-right corner. The controls had already been discovered in a number of locations. The new change allows for a more centralised, but lengthier, location of host administration controls. “We believe that by decreasing the need to switch between several menus, this change makes it easier to…

WhatsApp may no longer save images or videos from disappearing messages to your iPhone’s gallery. As a result, if disappearing messages is enabled in a chat thread, WhatsApp will no longer preserve any data from the disappearing messages discussion. For chats with disappearing messages enabled, the Save to Camera Roll option will be removed automatically. So, even if auto-saving is enabled for WhatsApp, it will not store any type of media to our iPhone’s gallery, including photos, videos, or Gifs. This is one of the recent features that WhatsApp has…

Google’s Chrome browser will now include a “Privacy Guide.” The tutorial will begin rolling out to M100 Chrome desktop users in the coming weeks, with the goal of providing a better grasp of the browser’s privacy settings. Google says in a blog post that the guide was created by the Google Safety Engineering Center (GSEC) and that it offers a step-by-step tour of some of Chrome’s existing privacy and security safeguards. This is designed to allow Chrome users to make and maintain their privacy settings all in one place. Users…

Microblogging and social media app Koo is aiming to offer a feature that will allow users to self-verify their profiles, as opposed to rival Twitter, which requires users to go through a lengthy Twitter Verified procedure. A verified profile on social networking sites like Twitter and Instagram, which is usually indicated by a badge or tick next to the profile name, lends legitimacy to the user because it signifies the service has authenticated the person’s identity. Verified profiles are only available to celebrities and other influencers on Twitter, and obtaining…