In this week's podcast (June 20 - 26, 2022): Half the world’s Internet went down early Tuesday following an outage of Cloudflare’s servers. Also, listen in to the interview of Evan Davidson, Vice President, Asia Pacific Japan, at SentinelOne. Evan speaks on various aspects of cyber-security, and the challenges before it. Plus, don't miss our new, "2-Minute Mic" offer! Please note: our podcast listeners can now leave audio messages for us at this link: https://memo.fm/whatsnewonthenet/

In this week's podcast (June 13 - 19, 2022): It was a year ago that Microsoft had announced it would be retiring Internet Explorer, & beginning this week, it stopped support for the 27-year-old browser. In more news: Singapore has the highest Internet speed in the world, shows survey. Plus, don't miss our new, "2-Minute Mic" offer! Please note: our podcast listeners can now leave audio messages for us at this link: https://memo.fm/whatsnewonthenet/

In this week's podcast (April -11-17, 2022): DuckDuckGo launches first web browser, for now, only on Macs. In more news: Opera launches iOS version of its crypto browser. Plus, don't miss our new, "2-Minute Mic" offer! Please note: our podcast listeners can now leave audio messages for us at this link: https://memo.fm/whatsnewonthenet/

In today's podcast by Whats New On The Net: In a tweet on Monday, Facebook said that starting today, it was testing a feature that prompted users to open & read articles before sharing them on the platform. Also, listen to the 3 more ways you can now share your Spotify podcast. 

In today's podcast: Popular audio chat app Clubhouse has started to roll out “Clubhouse for Android” in beta, first with the US. In other news, Google is rolling out an update for Roku devices that will make YouTube TV accessible from the YouTube app.

In today's podcast by Whats New On The Net: Micro blog Twitter today introduced “Tip Jar“ – a new way for people to send & receive tips. In other news, in the interests of Online security, Google has decided to verify users who have enrolled in two-step verification (2SV) to confirm it’s really them.

In this episode by www.whatsnewonthenet.com: WhatsApp is once again rolling out its “pay” feature in Brazil. This comes after an earlier attempt was blocked by the country’s central bank. Also, in our startups segment, we profile Bright app, the new video chat platform for learning that also provides an alternative form of entertainment.

In today's podcast: Microsoft has open-sourced Counterfit, a tool designed to help developers test the security of AI & machine learning systems. Also, we've profiled MicroAcquire, an intermediary platform that helps link startup buyers with the most compatible startup sellers, and the other way around.

In today's podcast by Whats New On The Net: Popular communication service Discord will integrate with PlayStation beginning early next year. In other news, makers of India's Chingari app have developed another audio chat app called, "fireside".

In today's episode of Whats New On The Net podcast: A new survey by Piper Sandler says 9 out of 10 teens in the US own an iPhone instead of an Android phone. Elsewhere, because of both YouTube & Roku failing to come to an agreement to extend their arrangement, Roku has pulled YouTube TV from its channel store.

In today's podcast: Starting today, global audiences on both iOS & Android will have access to new Instagram features. Also, in Q1 2021, worldwide smartphone shipments reached 347 million units, up 27% year on year, says a new report by canalys.com.

Hello, everyone. In today's tech headlines: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched a new batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit late on Wednesday. Also, Apple’s business is off to a great start with it declaring 660 million subscribers across all its services. Plus, we've started a new segment called, "All About Podcasts". Write in to tell us which is your fav one, and get your name and podcast quoted here. 

In today's podcast: Like Apple did recently, Spotify said it was rolling out a paid subscription platform for podcasters. The program begins rolling out in the US today & will expand internationally in the coming months. In other news: Brazilian security firm Syhunt calls COMB21 password leak as worrisome. Also, don't miss our newly introduced segment "All About Podcasts" where we feature one podcast-you-could use daily.

In This Week's Podcast by Whats New On The Net (Apr. 4 - 10, 2022): As of Feb. 10, 2022, Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk holds a 9.2% passive stake in micro-blogging site Twitter Inc. In more news: European Parliament in favor of 'Right to Repair" of gadgets. Plus, don't miss our new, "2-Minute Mic" offer! Please note: our podcast listeners can now leave audio messages for us at this link: https://memo.fm/whatsnewonthenet/

In today's podcast by Whats New On The Net: Apple launches the iOS 14.5 which adds more features to the iPhone, including the ability to unlock an iPhone with Apple Watch even while the user is wearing a face mask. Also, we've launched a new segment called, "All About Podcasts" where, every day, we surface one podcast that looks at digital life and culture. Don't miss out all the daily action - tech news in about 5 minutes. So, subscribe. It's free.  

In today's podcast by Whats New On The Net. An interesting event took place in Argentina mid-week last. For a brief period of time, Argentina lost its claim on its official Google domain, google.com.ar after someone failed to renew it. In other news, India’s top cybersecurity firm, CERT has issued a “high” severity rating advisory for users of WhatsApp.

In today's podcast: Over the next few months, Facebook will test new ways to get more specific feedback from people about the posts they’re seeing, and use it to make News Feed better. In other news: Instagram will start to test ads in Instagram Reels in India, Brazil, Germany, and Australia. 

In today's podcast by Whats New On The Net: A new design and a data saver plan are some of the new features added to Google Meet. In our startup's section: profile of a startup contentbot.ai that uses OpenAI’s GPT-3 for offering copy & marketing tools. 

In today's podcast by Whats New On The Net: Apple has announced more products and services, including Apple Subscriptions, which is a premium, for-a-fee podcast category. Also, if you get a pink WhatsApp link claiming to be an official update from WhatsApp, do not open it. 

After Facebook, Reddit, too, has announced “Reddit Talk” which has some similarities to audio chat app Clubhouse. Also, Canadian subscribers of Rogers wireless found themselves off the grid for most of the time on Monday.

In today's podcast, subscribers get to know when SpaceX's Starlink Internet is likely to come out beta. Also, WordPress.org would be treating Google's new tracking system FLoC as a security concern. Please do subscribe to this 5 minute daily podcast of technology news. 

In today's podcast: Canada’s Telesat is in the race to launch a low-earth-orbit satellite constellation to provide high-speed global broadband from space. The Electronic Frontier Foundation today announced it had enhanced its HTTPS Everywhere browser extension by incorporating rulesets from DuckDuckGo Smarter Encryption.

This podcast has completed 60 episodes today. In tech news: Messaging platform Telegram is now offering a version of its Android smartphone app that can be directly downloaded from its Website. Headline 2: TrillerNet, owner of the global AI-powered short-video app Triller, will acquire customer engagement platform Amplify.ai, a global leader in Conversational AI and brand amplification.

In today's podcast: DuckDuckGo has come out with an extension for Chrome that can block FLoC tracking. And Cloudflare has partnered with NVIDIA which is great news for app developers. Alert: from next week, only subscribers will get access to this entire podcast. It's free, so please subscribe.  Now!

In This Week's Podcast by Whats New On The Net (March 28 - Apr. 3, 2022): Apple this week announced that Apple Business Essentials was available to all small businesses in the US. In other news: Samsung launches self-repair program. Plus, don't miss our new, "2-Minute Mic" offer! Please note: our podcast listeners can now leave audio messages for us at this link: https://memo.fm/whatsnewonthenet/

The privacy-centric Brave browser has cited three aspects of Google's new FLoC tracking system that were particularly harmful and concerning. Also, don't miss the profile of startup BAZO for B2B sites; it may just be what the doctor ordered for marketing and sales teams. 

Google has said it had started to implement the alternate to cookie tracking called, “Federated Learning of Cohorts” (FLoC). In other news, Microsoft has announced a host of improvements for its Teams Rooms on Android, including an updated calendar.

In today's tech news: Personal data of 500 million LinkedIn users has been scraped & is reportedly for sale on a hacking forum. LinkedIn said it was investigating the issue. Check Point Research has found mobile malware in an app on the Google Play Store. The malicious software, dubbed "FlixOnline," disguises itself as a legitimate Netflix app.  

Facebook’s internal R&D group, NPE Team has released its latest experiment “Hotline” into public beta testing. Many say this Web app is a mix of Instagram Live & Clubhouse. In other news: Indian social media firm ShareChat has raised more than half a billion dollars to grow its popular short-video app Moj, from Tiger Global, Twitter, Snap & more. 

Commenting on the latest episode of user data leak prior to 2019, Facebook has said it was because of nefarious players deploying scraping tools, not hacking its data base. TikTok has introduced “auto captions”, a feature to help people who are hearing challenged.

In today's podcast: Audio chat app Clubhouse has started to roll out “Payments”, a feature wherein all users will be able to send payments. Also, since its launch 5 weeks ago, 72 million animations have been created by Deep Nostalgia, a tool which brings old photographs come alive. 

In today's podcast: Personal data of over 500 million Facebook users has been posted online in a low-level hacking forum. Although 2 years old, the data includes phone numbers, names, email addresses, etc of FB members from 106 countries. In other news, LG Electronics has decided to close its mobile business unit. In our startups section, we've profiled Freeble, a free online resources' directory. 

From midway Thursday, many of Microsoft services kept going down but were restored early Friday. In other news, a new study by RAVE Reviews now tells us who is making the most money on TikTok. Rave Reviews has, in fact, “identified” 62 users who are estimated to have made a six-figure-plus income from the app in 2020. TikTok’s highest earner is dance & choreographer star Michael Le, who is estimated to have made, hold your breath, US $20,378,000 from 92 ads in 2020.

iOS users can now get to choose their Siri. Apple has decided to add 2 new voices to Siri’s English offerings. Also, in other news, the Periscope App that popularized live streaming from smartphones breathes its last. 

In today's episode: Apple today announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 7 through 11. LinkedIn has introduced more features, including “Creator Mode”

In This Week's Podcast (March 21 - 27, 2022): The European Union this week reached an agreement on a major competition reform law. In other news: Lapsus$ Group claims to have stolen Microsoft source codes. Plus, don't miss our new, "2-Minute Mic" offer! Please note: our podcast listeners can now leave audio messages for us at this link: https://memo.fm/whatsnewonthenet/

Looks like OpenAI’s AI-led language algorithm GPT-3 may soon have competition. A new project called ”Eleuther”, which is an open-source one, aims to match GPT-3 in writing coherent articles in English when given a text prompt without any human intervention. Also, Xiaomi has introduced a new addition to its Mi 11 family – Mi 11 Lite 5G & Mi 11 Lite.

In news developments reported in today's episode, Apple strongly recommends users to update their iPhones, iPads, so also Apple Watch, with the latest iOS version: 14.4.2, watchOS 7.3.3, & iPadOS 14.4.2 to close up a vulnerability that poses an “active” security threat. In other news, a vulnerability in the Facebook for WordPress plugin was being used to capture user actions when they visited a Webpage, & was installed on over 500,000 websites.

PUBG has already crossed the 1 billion downloads mark, according to a new report by Sensor Tower. Which means that PUBG Mobile is earning about $5 for every download. Also, in our startups section, read about this Chrome extension that allows you to insert shimejis in any website. 

Slack Connect, a new feature, allows team members to work with people outside of their company in channels & direct messages. In our startups segment, new Android & iOS app Goodpods helps you can directly recommend podcasts to friends and influencers. 

In a significant move, Google, Microsoft & a few other major players have joined forces to improve compatibility across different Web browsers. In other news, Firefox 87 with more privacy focused features is out today.

Android apps, including Gmail were crashing on Monday because of a tech glitch, but Google says it has resolved the issue. Also, a new type of social network, “BitClout” which is more of a crypto-exchange, comes out of private beta. Users here can buy & sell tokens based on people’s reputations. For more on these stories, plus other tech news, listen to this podcast by Whats New On The Net.

As per a new law passed by Turkey in Oct 2020, Twitter has finally appointed a local representative to deal with the local flare-ups. In our startups segment: know about "Hostman”, which is a Cloud hosting platform that promises to help developers deploy applications hosted on repositories such as GitHub, Bitbucket & GitLab at the click of a button.

Spotify has launched a Website called “Loud & Clear” which will show how much Spotify pays artists & how the funds are distributed. TikTok’s rival, YouTube Shorts is finally in the US, but some users are complaining of missing features.

YouTube has rolled out a feature that will stop videos with potential copyright issues to be uploaded. It announced today from its official blog that the process on Studio desktop called "Checks" would automatically screen uploads for potential copyright claims & ad suitability restrictions. This new step will help creators minimize the number of videos uploaded with copyright claims.

The Wikimedia Foundation has decided to launch Wikipedia Enterprise wherein it will charge companies that utilize Wikipedia content a fee. In other news, Google said it will cut its service fee for Play Store, which it charges Android app developers, to 15% for the first one million of revenue. Which means slightly cheaper apps now.

In this week's podcast (March 14-20, 2022): Online safety bill introduced in British Parliament. In other news: Google alerts Chrome users to vulnerabilities. Plus, don't miss our new, "2-Minute Mic" offer! Please note: our podcast listeners can now leave audio messages for us at this link: https://memo.fm/whatsnewonthenet/

Microsoft users around the world were unable to log into Teams and other multiple services on Monday because of a software update glitch. Things returned to normal after the update was rolled back by Microsoft. In other news, wearables did well in the 2020 4th quarter, says IDC, with Apple and Xiaomi leading this market. 

Audio chat network Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison has announced the 1st creators’ program. In our "startups" segment, we've profiled French Web app Capté that uses AI to automatically transcribe the audio in a video & adds subtitles to the footage.

Video creators can now earn money from videos as short as one minute long, with a minimally interruptive ad running at 30 seconds, said Facebook. In other news, Elon Musk's SpaceX launches 60 more satellites for Starlink project.