Angry Birds gamers with Android smartphones will soon be able to enjoy the insanely popular game without obtrusive in-app adverts after games developers Rovio took to Twitter to confirm an ad-free version of the game was almost ready. Rovio’sTwitter messagecame in response to a number of questions on whether a paid-app was nearing release, stating “give us another month and we’ll be there”: Rovio initially launched the Angry Birds beta for free on the Android Market, topping1 million downloadsin under two weeks....

Microsoft has totally redesigned Paint for Windows 11. Kind of. Microsoft Chief Product Officer Panos Panaytweeteda look at the new Paint. While at first glance the UI looks quite different from the version of Paint in Windows 10, a closer look shows very little has really changed: Here’s another@Windows11 first look. This is the beautifully redesigned Paint app, coming soon to Windows Insiders. Can’t wait to see your creations!#Windows11#WindowsInsiderspic.twitter.com/jiKyfqQFUV — Panos Panay (@panos_panay)August 18, 2021...

Pakistan, which was in the news last yearfor blocking Facebookover a “Draw Mohammad Day” competition, is seeking to ban the social network again due to the second round of the same competition,reportsPakistan Today. Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed, presiding over the Lahore High Court, ordered the Ministry of Information and Technology to block access to Facebook nationwide on the charge of “spreading religious hatred on the Internet”. The court also directed the ministry to police the Internet and block all other websites that were found guilty of the same charge, but it spared search engines like Google (which it istargeting for other reasons)....

In what appears to be the natural reflex of every Arab regime Al Jazeera’sTransparency Unithas been blocked by the Palestinian Telecommunication Group, the country’s main ISP. Reports started coming in since last night, but have only recently beenconfirmedthat its true, the Palestinian Authority has blocked it’s people from knowing the truth about the negotiations that will decide the future of their country. The reason behind the blockage is the first batch of leaks released by the news agency’s Wikileaks-like platform dubbed ‘The Palestine Papers‘ of classified documents that exposes communications and meetings of recent negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian governmental officials....

Palestinian journalist Mohamad Hamamreh was detained a few weeks in September on accusations of allegedly insulting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, after having been tagged in a Facebook image ridiculing the Arab leader. Reported byAPtoday, Al Quds TV correspondent Mamdouh Hamamreh was detained in Bethlehem by the Palestinian Intelligence Service upon his name coming up as a suspect of insulting a ‘Public Figure’ in a Facebook image he was merely tagged in depicting Abbas as a traitor....