Here are the top trending news from the world of technology
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LinkedIn all set to launch its own podcast network
Social professional network LinkedIn is all set to launch a podcast network on its platform. The Microsoft owned platform will initially run its podcast network as a pilot project before its full-fledge launch. According to reports, LinkedIn’s CEO and co-founder Reid Hoffman will also be co-hosting a podcast show that will debut in the spring (Read more)
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Barely two days after launch, Trump social media app has started censoring content & banning users
Donald Trump’s highly anticipated social media app ‘Truth Social’ made a rocky debut on Apple’s App store on Sunday. But the bigger news that is set to overshadow the Truth Social’s rocky debut is the fact that the app has already started censoring content and banning users. According to Mashable, Truth Social app banned a web developer Matt Ortega’s account only because his account’s username poked fun at Truth Social’s CEO (Read more)
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Apple will give Siri a gender neutral voice in IOS 15.4
Apple is probably weeks away from rolling out the IOS 15.4 update that will bring several features to IOS. One of the interesting features that will greet IOS 15.4 is the fact that Siri will get a more gender neutral voice. This gender neutral voice has reportedly been rendered by a member of the LGBT community. Originally, Apple’s voice assistant Siri had a default female voice (Read more)
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Metaverse can expose kids to sexually explicit materials
Metaverse can prove to be a dangerous world to kids as it can expose them to sexually explicit material, a BBC investigation has found. A BBC researcher posing a 13 year old girl logged into a Metaverse app. After logging into the app, the researcher was given to several virtual reality rooms where digital avtars were indulging in sexually oriented behavior (Read more)
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Snapchat adds real time location sharing feature (just like Whatsapp)
Snapchat has rolled out real time location sharing feature on its platform. Thanks to this new feature, Snapchat has made it easy for its users to track their friends and loved ones. Snapchat users can activate the live location sharing feature for limited time – 15 minutes to 1 hour – with any of their friend (Read more)