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• Twitter will now let you add pictures, GIFs, and videos to RTs

  Starting today, Twitter will now let you add pictures, videos, or GIFs to your retweets with comments. This update is rolling out to its iOS, Android, and mobile web app worldwide.   In a strange way of showing off the feature, the company responded today to one user's ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• VisaDB tells you all about your next destination — weather, paperwork, and plugs to bring

  The site lets you look up travel visas for 200 countries, as well as residency and immigration visas in 130 countries worldwide. ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Facebook contract workers look at your private posts to help train its AI

  A new report from Reuters has revealed how contract workers for Facebook and Instagram are looking at your private posts ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• How this annoying, tiny glitch broke every Firefox extension

  Mozilla fixes a security certificate issue with Firefox browser that effectively preventing users from re-enabling or re-installing ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Mozilla is gearing up to tackle shady add-ons on Firefox

  Mozilla has announced that it will no longer accept Firefox extensions that contain obfuscated code as part of their updated ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• PSA: You can now auto-delete your location and web history on Google

  Google has announced it is rolling out new auto-delete controls for Location History and Web & App Activity that allows users ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Here's what Facebook announced at its F8 developer keynote

  Facebook announces a redesign of its social network alongside updates to Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp at F8 deve conference. ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Amazon says AT&T, Accenture, and Nestle are all using its blockchain tools

  Amazon is ramping up its blockchain services – and it's already convinced giants like AT&T, Accenture and Nestle to use ...

  • Mix

• Facebook clamps down on personality quizzes to plug data leaks

  Facebook has updated its devloper platform policies to subject apps with minimal utility, such as personality quizzes, to ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Amazon is reportedly building a high-fidelity music streaming service to rival Tidal

  Amazon is set to launch a new music streaming service later this year that will serve up tracks at higher quality than what ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• TikTok is no longer banned in India — but the app is still unavailable

  A week-long ban of popular social video creation app TikTok in India has been reversed, according to a report by Reuters, ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Facebook sets aside billions to pay its way through privacy issues

  Facebook said it has set aside $3 billion in connection with an ongoing FTC investigation into its privacy abuses set off ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan