Motorola Moto G51 5G Tipped to Launch in India in December

Moto G51 5G is expected to launch in India in December this year. The Moto G series handset from the Lenovo-owned brand is expected to come as India's first smartphone powered by Snapdragon 480+. The... https://ift.tt/3r6PxqW

Samsung Picks Texas for Its New $17-Billion Chip Plant

Samsung said it had picked Taylor, Texas as the location for a new $17-billion (roughly Rs. 1,26,480 crore) plant to make advanced chips for functions such as mobile, 5G, high-performance computing,... https://ift.tt/3nKBvJl

WhatsApp Web, Desktop Users Get New Custom Sticker Maker Feature: How to Use

WhatsApp is rolling out a new sticker maker option for WhatsApp Web and WhatsApp for Desktop users. This will allow users to make their own custom stickers. Users can upload an image, edit it, add... https://ift.tt/3p2Rr9o

How Belgian police infiltrated messaging service Sky ECC in February and March, gaining access to a billion messages and facilitating arrests and drug seizures (James Marson/Wall Street Journal)

James Marson / Wall Street Journal:
How Belgian police infiltrated messaging service Sky ECC in February and March, gaining access to a billion messages and facilitating arrests and drug seizures  —  Criminals thought encrypted Sky ECC cellphones were impregnable, but cops tapped a billion messages, yielding arrests and drug seizures

Twitter updates its iOS app to avoid timelines refreshing and causing tweets to disappear, after rolling out the update on web last week (Jon Porter/The Verge)

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Twitter updates its iOS app to avoid timelines refreshing and causing tweets to disappear, after rolling out the update on web last week  —  ‘It should stay put!’  —  Twitter has updated its iOS app to prevent those annoying situations where tweets disappear as you're trying to read them, the company has announced.

Denmark-based podcasting and audio tech startup Podimo raises a $78M Series B led by 83North and Highland Europe (Mimi Billing/Sifted)

Mimi Billing / Sifted:
Denmark-based podcasting and audio tech startup Podimo raises a $78M Series B led by 83North and Highland Europe  —  Companies in this sector have traditionally had difficulties in monetising audio content.  Sweden's Acast introduced advertising as a way to pay the podcast's creators for their content.