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Underage social media users in Australia might soon need permission from parents before creating an account or logging into existing...

You can now fully secure your WhatsApp messages on all fronts, with the popular messaging platform rolling out end-to-end encryptions for your chat history backups. WhatsApp has long provided end-to-end encryption for chats, but until today, this privacy feature was not available for backups. tech360.tv The feature starts rolling out for iOS and Android today, as announced by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. WhatsApp said that it plans to roll out the feature slowly to make sure

A developer said he was booted off of Facebook and threatened with legal action after he created a tool that allows you to clear out your News Feed. tech360.tv Louis Barclay, a developer from the United Kingdom who wrote about his experience on Slate, said that he created a Chrome extension called Unfollow Everything. The extension gives you the ability to bulk unfollow friends and pages, which would empty your News Feed. Barclay noted that unfollowing isn’t the same as unfri

The popular forum website Reddit suffered another global outage on Thursday, 7 October, with users from Australia, Canada, U.S., and the U.K. all reporting connectivity issues. tech360.tv According to Newsweek, the disruption of the website was confirmed by Down Detector, an online platform that checks the status of websites and services in real-time. There was a spike in reports of Reddit being down at around 10 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday. Reddit Status, a dedicated Twit

Amid an outage that made Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp inaccessible for nearly six hours, messaging app Telegram gained more than 70 million users as people around the world could not use key messaging services during the incident. This is according to Telegram's founder Pavel Durov, who also stated that the daily growth rate of the messaging app shot up during the outage. "The daily growth rate of Telegram exceeded the norm by an order of magnitude, and we welcomed over 7

Update: Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Executive Officer of Facebook has made an apology on Facebook for the nearly 6 hours outages on WhatsApp,...

A former Facebook employee, in an appearance on the newsmagazine show 60 Minutes on Sunday, 3 October, said that the social media company is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, violence, and misinformation. tech360.tv "It’s paying for its profits with our safety," said Frances Haugen, who revealed her identity as the whistleblower who leaked Facebook’s internal research documents to the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal’s investigation last month

Amid criticism on its plan to make an Instagram app for users under the age of 13, Facebook will pause Instagram Kids to talk to parents,...

If you've long been waiting to add Music stickers to your Facebook and Instagram Stories, then you're in luck because you can now use...

Facebook has announced its most ambitious product yet: a digital currency, Libra. Today, Facebook is coming together with 27...

It is no longer news that tech companies are the most valuable in the world. To put it into perspective, the revenue from the top 5 tech...