This Website About Soothing Bird Sounds Might be Perfect for Quarantine As the Novel Coronavirus is forcing the world to stay locked up at homes, people are trying to turn their boring indoor quarantine sessions by discovering new things online. In a Reddit post, I found a user looking for any interesting website to spend time on during the lockdown. Another user commented on the post and suggested a website on which I started spending my time!...

TikTok Moderators Demoted Content from Users They Deemed “Ugly” or “Poor” TikTok, since its launch in 2016, hasbecome the most popular video creation/sharing appin the world. However, with the popularity of the app,many controversies are surrounding the Chinese app. A recent one states that TikTok moderators blocked content from users who they thought to be “ugly, disabled or poor”. According to a recent report published by Intercept, TikTok supposedly encouraged its human moderators to block content from users who they deemed to be inappropriate for their platform....

“I Have to Hunt the Pokemon”: Man in Italy, When Stopped by the Police on the Streets As the death toll in Italy continues to rise due to the Novel Coronavirus, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has announced a country-wide lockdown. There are more than 35,000 cases in the country and the death toll has crossed the 2500 mark. Italy is the most affected country in Europe and is struggling to keep its medical situation at bay....

[Update: 30 Million]Call of Duty: Warzone Gets 6 Million Players Within 24 Hours of Launch Activision’s latest free-to-play battle-royale Call of Duty: Warzone was launched on the 10th of March for PlayStation 4, Xbox One X, and PC. According to a recent tweet posted on Call of Duty’s official Twitter handle, thegame gained over 6 million players within the first 24 hours of launch. What a day! 24 hours in and over 6 million of you have dropped into#Warzone....

Android Developer Ports Ubuntu Touch to the Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 If you’ve been following the development scene ofGeneric System Image (GSI) portsandProject Treble, you probably might be familiar with a developer named Erfan Abdi. The developer has now managed to portUbuntu Touchto the Xiaomi Redmi Note 7. As reported by XDA-Developers, Erfan started working on the project based on the existing port of Ubuntu Touch for the F(x)tec Pro1 (a slider phone from a London-based startup) by Halium (a project to unify the HAL of GNU/Linux on Android) developer NotKit and anUbuntu Touch port for the Xiaomi Redmi 4Xby Danct12....

BSNL Offers Free “Work@Home” Broadband Plan for Landline Customers As a step to support work from home in light ofcoronaviruspandemic, BSNL is now offering its broadband services for free in the form of a new plan it calls Work@Home. Before you get too excited, let me tell you that it is not as promising as it sounds. Like almost everything BSNL implements, there’s a catch on this Work@Home plan too and in this case, it is a significant one....

Change.org Petition Urges Samsung to Stop Selling “Inferior Exynos Phones” A petition on change.org is urging Samsung to stop using its in-house Exynos processors in flagship Galaxy smartphones outside the US. Started by one Daniel H, the petition cites various media reports, including one by Beebom thatclearly shows how Exynos chips are slowerand less efficient than their Qualcomm counterparts. The petition has managed to rack-up more than 2,800 signatures within just a day, showing how a large number of potential customers are clearly put off by the company’s strategy....