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Users demand intrusion-free private messaging: Facebook

The company said that while it expects to make more progress on default end-to-end encryption for Messenger and Instagram Direct this year, it’s a long-term project As the use of private messaging with apps like Messenger surges in the pandemic, people are demanding the experience free from unwanted intrusions, more protection from scams and hacking and privacy controls, according to Facebook. The company said that while it expects to make more progress on default end-to-end encryption for Messenger and Instagram Direct this year, it’s a long-term project and it won’t be fully end-to-end encrypted until sometime in 2022 at the earliest. The users want to know how their data is being used and what data is accessible by Facebook or others when messaging. “We should consider ways to give people more privacy settings and features within our messaging apps. This also requires thoughtful product design and user education to make the features easy to find and easy to use,” the company said in...

Apple with New MacBooks

Apple ’s M1 chip has now made it beyond the MacBook and Mac Mini devices, expanding to the new iMac and iPad Pro. However, a new report suggests that the successor to the M1 processor has already entered mass production. As per a new report by Nikkei Asia, the new M1 successor, which is tentatively referred to as the M2 processor, started mass production this month and could soon be seen on the next-gen MacBook laptops.  The report further adds that the M2 chipset could be seen as early as July this year in the new MacBooks that are scheduled to be available in the second half of this year. The Apple M2 chipset, like the M1, is a system-on-a-chip (SoC) and will feature processing units, GPU and AI (artificial intelligence) accelerators all in the same chip. The report also adds that the M2 chip will also later make it to other Apple devices beyond the Apple MacBook.   Apple M-series chipsets to replace Intel chips for the brand First introducing the M1 chip...

AMD stock jumps as Q1 results crush expectations, forecast goes much higher

  AMD stock jumps as Q1 results crush expectations, forecast goes much higher Advanced Micro Devices  this afternoon reported  Q1 revenue and profit that easily surpassed analysts' expectations,and raised its forecast for this year well above its prior outlook. The company cited health in its Ryzen PC chips, its EPYC server chips, and its Radeon GPU chips, against a backdrop of a continued strong PC market.  The report sent AMD shares  higher by 4% in late trading .  CEO Lisa Su remarked that "Our business continued to accelerate in the first quarter driven by the best product portfolio in our history, strong execution and robust market demand." Added Su, "We had outstanding year-over-year revenue growth across all of our businesses and data center revenue more than doubled." "Our increased full-year guidance highlights the strong growth we expect across our business based on increasing adoption of our high-performance computing products and expan...