Zoom Gains New “Stop Incoming Video” Feature on iOS, Android, and Windows Ever since the work-from-home culture emerged, Zoom became one of the apps that garnered massive popularity amongst users. The US-based companyaddedvariousnew featuresto its platform to make it more robust and a completevideo conferencing tool. Now, Zoom has gained another nifty feature to disable incoming video feeds of other participants in a meeting during a call. Other than this, the company has added a bunch of small changes to the platform with a new update....

Apple Blacklists Fortnite on Its Ecosystem Indefinitely; Epic CEO Furious If you are not living under a rock, chances are that you already know about the intense legal battle between industry giants Apple and Epic Games. The companies have been goingbackandforthsinceEpic sued the Cupertino giantfor removing Fortnite from the App Store last year. Apple has now stated that it will not bring Fortnite back to the App Store anytime soon....

Future iPhones Might Be Able to Track the User’s Depression and Anxiety Since Apple introduced the Apple Watch in the market, the company has been putting a lot of effort into developinghealth-tracking features. While the Apple Watch modelshave been live saversforvarious individualsover the years, a new report suggests that Apple is working to add new health tracking features to future iPhone models, including anxiety and depression tracking. According to a recentreportin the Wall Street Journal (paywalled), Apple has partnered with two organizations to develop mental health monitoring features for its upcoming iPhones....

Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter Faced the Most Outages in the Past Year Websites and services on the web often face outages, either due to in-house issues,cyber-attacks, orissues with cloud service providers. So, to find out which websites, apps, or services faced the most outages over the past 12 months, an analysis firm named ToolTester recently conducted a study. As part of the study, the firm analyzed the top 30 websites that experienced the most outages last year....

Scientists Develop Tiny Battery-Less Electronic Fliers to Collect Environmental Data A team of researchers and materials scientists from Northwestern University hasdevelopedmicroelectronic fliers that can collect environmental data. The size of the tiny fliers range from 40mm 9being the largest) to 0.4mm (being the smallest), and can collect various kinds of environmental data as they eventually fall to the ground. The researchers took inspiration from the falling seeds of various plants and how they glide through the air....

Subway Surfers, Three Other Games Track iOS Users Even with App Tracking Turned Off: Report Last year, when Apple announced its App Tracking Transparency framework for third-party apps, several companiesopposed the featuresaying it will cause a significant impact to advertisers. Many social apps likeInstagram and Facebookevenforced usersto enable tracking on iOS following the release. Now, a recent report suggests that some games are continuing to track users on iOS and iPadOS even when they opt for the “Ask app not to track” option....

Amazon’s Limited-Edition Echo Studio Features Pop Singer Billie Eilish’s Face While Amazon prepares to launch new Echo speakers at itsupcoming hardware event, the company has partnered with the uber-popular pop star Billie Eilish toannouncea limited-edition Echo Studio in the meantime. This Echo Studio speaker is a part of the promotional campaign of Eilish’s latest studio album “Happier Than Ever” and has the pop star’s face imprinted on its body. So as you can imagine, the latest limited-edition Echo Studio is a great catch for those die-hard Billie Eilish fans....