Facebook Messenger on iOS Redesigned to Be Clutter-Free, 2x Faster Facebook has rebuilt theMessenger appfor iOS from the ground up, as part of its ‘Project LightSpeed’ revamp, which the company says will make for a“faster, smaller, and simpler”app that will“load twice as fast and be one-fourth its original size.”The new version of the app has just started rolling out on the App Store in the US and will be available globally over the next few weeks....

Google Patches Critical MediaTek Rootkit Affecting Millions of Android Devices The March 2020 Android Security Update brings a patch that is expected to fix a critical security vulnerability in many MediaTek-powered devices. Called MediaTek-SU (CVE-2020-0069), the vulnerability reportedly affects the Command Queue driver on devices with a large number of MediaTek processors, and was being distributed on XDA as a way for advanced users to gain root access on Fire Tablets to install apps and games from the Google Play Store....

How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Using 4K YouTube to MP3 Today millions and millions of people are spending more time on YouTube than on any other video streaming platform. While there are many reasons to love YouTube, my favorite thing about this platform is content diversity. Since 99% of content on YouTube is created by individual creators and small studios, we get access to unique content that otherwise would not have been possible....

List of Major Tech Events Affected by Coronavirus (Regularly Updated) The ongoing Coronavirus epidemic has forced the cancelation of a lot of events in the tech industry. These are the major tech events that got canceled, postponed, or got shifted online as a digital event: Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2020 The chain of tech event cancelations started off with MWC 2020. GSMA, the organizers for MWC held an emergency meeting at the last minute and took the decision tocall off MWC 2020that was scheduled to be held from February 24-27 in Barcelona....

March ‘Pixel Feature Drop’ Brings New Emojis, Dark Mode Scheduling, and More Google has started rolling out its second ‘Pixel Feature Drop’ that brings a whole set of new features, along with improvements, March security patches, and bug fixes for Pixel devices. Notably, the update brings much-awaited features likeDark Mode SchedulingandCards & Passesaccess via a press of the power button, among other things. New Motion Sense Gestures Until now, Pixel 4 users were able to change music tracks using Motion Sense Gestures....

Moto Razr Foldable India Launch on March 16; Right Pricing Key for Survival? Motorola launched its first foldable smartphone,the Motorola Razr, earlier last year. It’s a nostalgia-filled modern take on the company’s popular Moto Razr V3 clamshell from over 15 years ago. Well, nostalgia aside, if you are someone who has been looking forward to buying the Razr foldable, then you may be in luck as it is launching in India on March 16....

Narendra Modi May Quit Social Media Starting Next Week Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that he’s contemplating giving up on social media from March 8. In a tweet last night, PM Modi said he will likely give up his accounts on four global social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. Reports, however, suggest that the PM might not go cold turkey on social media entirely. Instead, he might join some indigenous platform in what some free speech advocates are now fearing may be a precursor to banning, or at least imposing stronger regulations, on foreign social media platforms in the country....