According to reports, Google will soon make its Google Meet video conferencing software accessible to non G Suite members for free, as long as they have a Gmail account. Starting May, Gmail users will be able to host and join meetings with up to 100 participants through Google Meet through their website or iOS and Android apps. Meetings for free accounts will be limited to 60 minutes per session, but the rule won't be enforced till September 30. However, availability will be expanding gradually, and potential users can find out if they can use it by visiting landing.google.com/googlemeet.

According to reports, Google will soon make its Google Meet video conferencing software accessible to non G Suite members for free, as long as they have a Gmail account. Starting May, Gmail users will be able to host and join meetings with up to 100 participants through Google Meet through their website or iOS and Android apps. Meetings for free accounts will be limited to 60 minutes per session, but the rule won't be enforced till September 30. However, availability will be expanding gradually, and potential users can find out if they can use it by visiting landing.google.com/googlemeet.

A day after threatening to "shut down" social media after his war with Twitter, US President Donald Trump signed an order Thursday seeking to strip social media giants legal immunity for content on their platforms. If enforced, the action would upend decades of precedent and treat internet platforms as "publishers" potentially liable for user-generated content. The move has been slammed by his critics as a legally dubious act of political revenge. Trump said he acted because big tech firms "have had unchecked power to censor, restrict, or alter any form of communication between private citizens or large public audiences."

US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order targeting social media firms, the White House has confirmed. The move comes after he threatened to shut down social media platforms he accused of stifling conservative voices. The latest dispute emerged after Twitter added fact-check links to his tweets for the first time. The details of the executive order have not been made public and it is unclear what regulatory steps the president can take without new laws passed by Congress.

Online ticketing platform BookMyShow has either laid-off or furloughed 270 employees across its offices in India and globally, which make up over 18 per cent of its workforce. The company founder and CEO Ashish Hemrajani said in a letter to employees that those taking &lsquo;leave without pay&rsquo; will be offered medical insurance, gratuity and other benefits while the others that were handed pink-slips will receive a severance pay &ldquo;equivalent to a minimum of 2 months of salary&rdquo;. The remaining team members have reportedly taken salary cuts ranging from 10 per cent to 50 per cent, given up their bonuses and all salary raises.

Apple is finally allowing Indian customers to request configure-to-order or build-to-order iMac desktops, MacBook laptops, and Mac Mini PCs. This means you can now customise the hardware configuration and get pre-loaded software as per your specific need. The service&nbsp;isn&rsquo;t available online yet and people need to visit Apple&rsquo;s authorised retail stores to place an order for customised computers, which the company says, will be delivered in four to five weeks.

Google has reportedly taken down over 8 million negative TikTok reviews on its Play Store, bumping the&nbsp;popular short video app back up to 4.4 stars. The search giant justified the move to tech news website TechCrunch as a &ldquo;corrective action to curb spam abuse.&rdquo; TikTok saw a flood of public backlash in India last week following a dispute between YouTubers and TikTokers and a controversial spoof video of an acid attack that tanked its rating on Play Store to as low as 1.2 stars.

So let&rsquo;s review&mdash;what&rsquo;s the point of the M21, when you consider the extremely similar M30s, and even the new M31, which is more or less the same as this phone, except for the camera hardware? I think it&rsquo;s just Samsung flexing&mdash;showing off how much more muscle they&rsquo;ve got in the market compared to their competition.
The Galaxy M21 carries on the legacy of the M series, with much better camera quality and Android 10 being brought to the table, at a starting price of ₹13,199. The 6GB RAM 128GB model will cost you a bit more at ₹15,499, but it&rsquo;s still a solid deal for a phone that offers a beautiful screen, a great big swinging battery life, and strong camera performance&mdash;the perfect recipe for a good daily driver.

There&rsquo;s a USB Type-C port, a single bottom firing speaker and a 3.5mm headphone jack, so no surprises there.
The main upgrade however, over the M30s is with Android 10, and Samsung&rsquo;s One UI 2.0. It&rsquo;s easily one of my favourite skins out there, alongside Oxygen OS on the OnePlus series. It&rsquo;s got clean gesture navigation, an easily-accessible dark mode that looks great with the OLED screen, and the added promise that it&rsquo;ll last one year longer than the M30s when it comes to software updates. That 4GB RAM I mentioned keeps the experience surprisingly smooth, although you may get better results from the 6GB RAM model, including better multitasking and gaming.

The Exynos 9611 wasn&rsquo;t smashing records in 2019, and it certainly isn&rsquo;t doing much better in 2020, but to be fair, it holds its own while gaming on even the 4GB RAM model as long as you don&rsquo;t play on high graphic settings. There&rsquo;s also Samsung&rsquo;s gaming mode which is awesome, it lets you block incoming notifications and calls, and even access a few functions like the dialer in a minimised screen, pretty nifty!
Speaking of nifty, the rear camera setup is a 48MP wide sensor, an 8MP ultra-wide sensor and a 5MP depth sensor. I didn&rsquo;t hate pictures on the M30s, but Samsung&rsquo;s definitely done a much better job of image processing on the M21. I said the same about the M31&mdash;I feel like when it comes to budget phones, the M series is really pushing the envelope and delivering results I would expect from phones that cost more than twice as much as these.
If you&rsquo;re looking for detail, the 48MP photo mode has plenty. If you&rsquo;re looking for bokeh, the depth sensor&rsquo;s got you covered. And if you&rsquo;re looking for vast ultra-wide shots, that finally don&rsquo;t look like they&rsquo;ve been taken with a completely different phone, the M21 will deliver. Colours are great, details are rich and depth in close up shots is surprisingly good, without the need for a macro sensor. There&rsquo;s even a Super Steady Mode for videos that&rsquo;s great if you&rsquo;re an amateur filmmaker on a tight budget.
Low light photography is the one place this phone is lacking, despite the dedicated Night mode. Pictures in semi-darkness have quite a bit of grain, despite strong image processing. I know that doesn&rsquo;t sound great, but for me personally, that isn&rsquo;t a deal-breaker, especially when I consider the price and how infrequently I take shots in the dark. Still, it&rsquo;s always nice to have that ability in the arsenal, and that&rsquo;s the one spot on an otherwise polished product.
The front camera is a 20MP sensor, and it&rsquo;s portrait selfies are how you&rsquo;d expect them to be&mdash;well processed but a bit iffy on the edge detection, a perennial problem with single sensors on the front that some brands are now remedying with dual hole-punches.

The M21 is housed in a plastic body, and in this glossy black variant, it attracts a lot of scratches, so if you wanna take care of it, you&rsquo;d best buy a case for it. There&rsquo;s a physical fingerprint sensor on the back, which is just as quick as always, but with more smartphone makers opting for a side-mounted scanner, it would&rsquo;ve been nice to see one here too.
Like I said, the display is gorgeous, great colours and good resolution. It&rsquo;s perfect for binge-watching Netflix and let&rsquo;s be real&mdash;that&rsquo;s all anyone is doing these days with the lockdown.

There&rsquo;s a new WhatsApp scam going around in which an account posing as an official contact point for WhatsApp technical team is asking users to share their verification keys. WABetaInfo, the blog that tracks development in the app, highlighted the new scam in a tweet, adding that the popular messaging app &ldquo;never asks your data or verification codes&rdquo;. It is also worth noting that the hacker is using the WhatsApp logo in the account&rsquo;s profile picture to fool people.

Popular social media platform Instagram is adding new ways for people to make money from their videos. The Facebook-owned company, which already allows paid promotions via popular accounts, will now let some of them sell "badges" to their fans while broadcasting live videos. They will be sold at three price points--$0.99 (~₹75), $1.99 (~₹150) and $4.99 (~₹378)--and will distinguish users in the comments. The app will also introduce ads to IGTV videos and those users who choose to run them can take 55 per cent of the revenue.

A report by Facebook India and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) said that around half of Indian consumers will increase their spending on online shopping platforms amid the pandemic. This also includes traditionally offline categories such as fresh food and personal care items. The report added that India has seen a 1.3-1.7x increase in the number of online shoppers for essentials, higher than most countries including China, Brazil and Indonesia.

Apple has bought Inductiv, a Canadian startup that uses AI to correct data and improve machine learning systems. The acquisition has reportedly been made to improve Siri, Apple's virtual voice assistant. Previous reports of Apple hiring John Giannandrea, Google's former AI leader, also fuelled speculation that the tech giant is focused on improving Siri in the rivalry against Amazon's Alexa and the Google Assistant.

According to a new report from Cowen investment bank, the iPhone 12 series launch will be delayed by at least two months due to supply chain issues amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Apple&rsquo;s latest phone will be arriving in November instead of the usual mid-September time-frame. The Cupertino-based tech giant is expected to launch four models under its new iPhone 12 series, all of which are rumoured to come with 5G support and OLED panels with smaller notches.

OnePlus has announced that its sales plan for the new OnePlus 8 series has been altered, after production for the handsets was halted temporarily last week. Instead of the new devices going on sale from May 29, there will now be a special limited sale through online and offline channels for only the OnePlus 8 at 12PM on the same date, with limited stocks available. Reports speculate the postponement is due to the halting of production at the Oppo manufacturing plant in Greater Noida after 6 workers there tested positive for Covid-19. The new OnePlus devices were reportedly being assembled at the same location, causing disrupted production.

Online intelligence firm Cyble has claimed a cyber criminal has offered to sell the sale records of 4.75 crore Indians from online directory Truecaller for ₹75,000. Cyble said its researchers had found a seller for the records, and stated the data was from 2019 and included phone numbers, city, mobile network information, Facebook IDs and more. Truecaller however, has denied any such breach of its database, claiming instead that the seller was using Truecaller's name for its data to appear legitimate.

Google Pay has announced that its 'Nearby Store&rsquo; feature is now available in 35 cities across the country. The company said that additional information such as business hours, essential items stock, social distancing norms will also be made available. Further, users will also be able to book their cooking gas cylinders from HP Gas, Bharat Petroleum or Indane, and pay digitally via the app.

After Twitter's slap in the wrist to US president Donald Trump with fact-check flags on his tweets, its boss is taking Trump head on. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a series of tweets reinforced his stance on pointing out "incorrect and disputed information about elections globally". Dorsey's tough stance comes a day after Trump threatened to shut social media over Twitter fact-checking him. Dorsey also appealed to "leave Twitter employees&nbsp;out" of the feud as he stated that their accountability lay with him.

Acer has expanded its gaming lineup in India with the launch of Acer Aspire 7. It features 9th gen Intel Core i7 processors or AMD Ryzen 3000 along with Nvidia graphics. It comes with up to 32GB of DDR4 RAM and a maximum of 1TB SSD storage. The laptop has a 15.6-inch FHD display, weighs 2.15kg and comes with a backlit keyboard. There&rsquo;s a HDMI, USB 3.2 ports as well as Wi-Fi 6 connectivity in the laptop that is claimed to provide a battery life of 8.5 hours on a single charge. The affordable gaming laptop will be available exclusively on Flipkart for ₹54,990 in black colour.

Research firm Gartner reported that the tech industry can expect to see global shipments of all mobile phones decline by 14.6 per cent in 2020, and also worldwide smartphone shipments will shrink by 13.7 per cent this year due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. PC shipments are likely to be affected as well, with an expected 12.3 per cent decline in 2020.

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