Florida Governor signs a bill that can fine social media networks daily for blocking politicians, the Microsoft Build event in on, and planning for hybrid work is messier than expected. It’s all the tech news that’s got people buzzing right now. Welcome to Hashtag Trending! It’s Wednesday, May 26th and I’m your host Tom Li.…
Published: May 25th, 2021
The U.S. government is leveraging dating apps to promote vaccine adoption, China condemns popular apps for illegal data collection, and Google to discontinue unlimited Photo backup.
It’s all the tech news that’s got people buzzing right now. Hope everyone’s had a good long weekend and welcome to Hashtag Trending! It’s Tuesday, May 25th and I’m your host Tom Li.
Vaccines not only protect you from Covid, but they can also make you more attractive when looking for a partner online. To boost vaccine adoption, the U.S. government is working with dating apps to give jabbed users extra features. According to the Biden administration, vaccinated love-seekers will have free access to features such as Super Likes and be placed higher up on the candidate list. They’ll even get a cool badge on their profile and gain exclusive chat stickers. The administration reached out to Tinder first, but nearly all the major dating apps, including Match, Bumble, and
Lawmakers are asking Zuckerberg to scrap Instagram for kids, social media is tearing us apart, and on the heels of a cyberattack against a U.S. pipeline, experts say that governments need to take cybersecurity more seriously.
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It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, and Zephyr networks. Gaim users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.
Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, and typing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, spell checking, tabbed conversations, and more. Pidgin runs on a number of platform
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It’s an annual tradition: Microsoft hosts an Ignite conference and announces a bunch of updates for Teams. The tech giant didn’t disappoint this year during its virtual conference.
Microsoft Teams Connect
Shared channel (Source: Microsoft)
Microsoft says Connect uses commonly used Teams capabilities, such as chat, meetings, app collaboration and real-time document co-authoring, all while maintaining control over how users access data and information. With Teams Connect shared channels, multiple individuals or organizations can share a single channel that all members can then access from their respective Teams environments.
Microsoft Teams Connect feature is currently available in private preview and will be made generally available later this year.