In today's podcast by Whats New On The Net: Apple launches the iOS 14.5 which adds more features to the iPhone, including the ability to unlock an iPhone with Apple Watch even while the user is wearing a face mask. Also, we've launched a new segment called, "All About Podcasts" where, every day, we surface one podcast that looks at digital life and culture. Don't miss out all the daily action - tech news in about 5 minutes. So, subscribe. It's free.  

In today's podcast by Whats New On The Net. An interesting event took place in Argentina mid-week last. For a brief period of time, Argentina lost its claim on its official Google domain, google.com.ar after someone failed to renew it. In other news, India’s top cybersecurity firm, CERT has issued a “high” severity rating advisory for users of WhatsApp.

In today's podcast: Over the next few months, Facebook will test new ways to get more specific feedback from people about the posts they’re seeing, and use it to make News Feed better. In other news: Instagram will start to test ads in Instagram Reels in India, Brazil, Germany, and Australia. 

In today's podcast by Whats New On The Net: A new design and a data saver plan are some of the new features added to Google Meet. In our startup's section: profile of a startup contentbot.ai that uses OpenAI’s GPT-3 for offering copy & marketing tools. 

In today's podcast by Whats New On The Net: Apple has announced more products and services, including Apple Subscriptions, which is a premium, for-a-fee podcast category. Also, if you get a pink WhatsApp link claiming to be an official update from WhatsApp, do not open it. 

After Facebook, Reddit, too, has announced “Reddit Talk” which has some similarities to audio chat app Clubhouse. Also, Canadian subscribers of Rogers wireless found themselves off the grid for most of the time on Monday.

In today's podcast, subscribers get to know when SpaceX's Starlink Internet is likely to come out beta. Also, WordPress.org would be treating Google's new tracking system FLoC as a security concern. Please do subscribe to this 5 minute daily podcast of technology news. 

In today's podcast: Canada’s Telesat is in the race to launch a low-earth-orbit satellite constellation to provide high-speed global broadband from space. The Electronic Frontier Foundation today announced it had enhanced its HTTPS Everywhere browser extension by incorporating rulesets from DuckDuckGo Smarter Encryption.

This podcast has completed 60 episodes today. In tech news: Messaging platform Telegram is now offering a version of its Android smartphone app that can be directly downloaded from its Website. Headline 2: TrillerNet, owner of the global AI-powered short-video app Triller, will acquire customer engagement platform Amplify.ai, a global leader in Conversational AI and brand amplification.

In today's podcast: DuckDuckGo has come out with an extension for Chrome that can block FLoC tracking. And Cloudflare has partnered with NVIDIA which is great news for app developers. Alert: from next week, only subscribers will get access to this entire podcast. It's free, so please subscribe.  Now!