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Twitter's edit feature may keep digital traces of earlier tweets
App researcher and reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong said in a tweet that the edit button may have an "immutable" quality. "Looks like Twitter's approach to Edit Tweet is immutable, as in, instead of mutating the Tweet text within the same Tweet (same ID), it re-creates a new Tweet with the amended content, along with the list of the old Tweets prior of that edit," Wong posted late on Saturday.. It is still not clear how a tweet's edit history will appear to users.
Musk demands long form tweets as 280 characters not enough for him
Twitter currently allows people to post in 280 characters. Reacting to a follower's tweet thread, Musk said: "My most immediate takeaway from this novella of a thread is that Twitter is way overdue for long form tweets!" Earlier, Musk demanded an Edit button, and the micro-blogging platform announced that it is working on such feature that will allow users to correct errors in their tweets, albeit with some rules.
DuckDuckGo reportedly removes pirate sites from its search results
The sites include The Pirate Bay, 1337x, and Fmovies. Several YouTube ripping services have disappeared too and even the homepage of the open-source software youtube-mp3 is unavailable, reports TorrentFreak.
China cracks down on live-streaming foreign games
The regulator further said that platforms are not allowed to live broadcast online games that have not been approved by the competent authorities, and must not use live broadcast rooms and other forms. Platforms, including their individual and business accounts, should gain approval before broadcasting overseas games or matches, the order said that came out late on Friday.
Elon Musk may bring wealthy partners to acquire Twitter
According to a report in The New York Post citing sources, "a new plan that includes partners could be announced within days". This could be Musk's 'Plan B' as he mentioned during a Ted Talk show this week on acquiring 100 per cent of Twitter for nearly $43 billion. Musk may join "private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners, which was planning to co-invest with him in 2018 when he was considering taking Tesla private", the report said late on Friday.
New iPad Air to upskill creators, gamers, students in 'hybrid normal'
Everyone of us is now a content creator, thanks to the availability of several online apps/platforms, and the new iPad Air -- which joins the powerful iPad Pro, the popular iPad (9th generation) and iPad mini -- with Apple-designed M1 chip promises to deliver a massive leap in performance for all of us.
Google Assistant Snapshot disappears from phones
According to 9To5Google, Google Assistant Snapshot was a partially hidden, often forgotten addition to the Google app and the Discover feed on the leftmost part of Android home screens that debuted in 2018.
Opera Crypto Browser now available for iOS
The company said that Web3 is gaining further momentum day by day. "The Opera Crypto Browser, for Windows, Mac and Android, is a dedicated web3 browser with a built-in non-custodial crypto wallet," the company said in a blogpost.
Shady apps reach Apple Mac users, won't let them quit unless paid
According to The Verge, scammy apps have made their way through the App Store, without Apple noticing, despite a stringent App Review process in place to keep users safe from bad apps.
Twitterati asks Musk to buy Sri Lanka instead of Twitter for $43bn
Many users on the platform shared their views and asked the tech billionaire to bail out the debt-ridden country.
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