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The Tech Weekender: Top news from the world of technology this week

Instagram makes product tagging available to everyone in the US, DuckDuckGo CEO hits back at search result allegations, Amazon may be working on a new AR device, Mastodon gets an Android app, NPCI is looking for 250 engineering graduates and Netflix is losing subscriber in droves

April 23, 2022 / 14:35 IST
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Instagram has rolled out a feature to tag products in feed posts for everyone in the US. Previously, the feature was limited to creator and brand accounts but is now available to everyone with a public account in the US.

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg has denied reports the privacy-focused search engine was purging results for popular “pirate” sites, tweeting that the allegations were "completely made up". Weinberg said the company was not "purging" any search results and "anyone can verify this by searching for an outlet and see it come up in results". He blamed the missing results on the site: operator function and said they were "having issues which we are looking into".

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New listings posted on Amazon Jobs hint that the multinational technology company is working on a device that will be a "new-to-world smart-home product”. Online publication Protocol spotted the job listing which was looking for potential hires for a project related to "XR/AR devices". This would include developing code for "early prototypes through mass production".

Mastodon, which has been pitted as an alternative to microblogging platform Twitter, has now officially released an app for Android. The platform launched on iOS in July last year. Mastodon is an open-source platform for running self-hosted social networking services. It is a decentralised service that has no single entity or server overseeing it. It claims to be community-owned and ad-free. Users set up their private servers and host them based on multiple categories such as gaming, technology and journalism.