Covid Lockdown Linked To Increased Suicidal Thoughts
The lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic had a significant effect on levels of suicidal ideation, says a new study. The study indicated suicidal ideation, which involves someone thinking about or wishing for their own death, significantly increased in the 2020 post-lockdown patients compared with the...
Apple To Ship 1.5 Million Units Of Its AR/VR Headset, May Cost $2k
Apple is planning to ship approximately 1.5 million units of its upcoming augmented reality and virtual reality headset (AR/VR) headset in 2023, which is expected to cost more than $2,000. In a research note, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reiterated that the tech giant plans to announce...
Meta AI Chatbot Says Zuckerberg ‘Too Creepy’ And Trump Will Always Be US President
Meta just unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) conversational chatbot asking the public to give their feedback. The initial reports are scary as the chatbot named BlenderBot 3 thinks Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is “creepy and manipulative” and Donald Trump will always be the...
South Korea To Probe Google, Apple Over In-App Billing Irregularities
South Korea’s telecommunications regulator said on Tuesday it will launch an official fact-finding investigation into the app stores of Google, Apple, and ONE store next week, saying that the companies may be in violation of the country’s in-app payment laws. The Korea Communications Commission (KCC)...
Apple Brings Back Battery Percentage Icon In Latest iOS Beta
Apple has brought back the battery percentage icon, which displays the actual numerical amount of charge, on the status bar in its latest iOS 16 beta. According to TechCrunch, the battery indicator returned in iOS 16 beta 5, but it still needs to be enabled...
Chinese Hackers Attack Govt Ministries, Military Plants Globally
China-based hackers attacked military-industrial plants, research institutes, government agencies, and ministries in several countries and were able to even hijack the IT infrastructure of some, taking control of systems used to manage security solutions, a new report has revealed. Researchers at cyber-security firm Kaspersky detected...
Intel Introduces GPUs For Powerful Workstations And Laptops
Intel has introduced new graphics processing units (GPUs) designed primarily for powerful desktop workstations and laptops. The Intel Arc Pro A30M GPU is for mobile form factors and Arc Pro A40 (single slot) and A50 (dual slot) GPUs are for small form factor desktops. The...
You Can Now Exit WhatsApp Group Chats Without Notifying Everyone
Meta-owned secure messaging app WhatsApp added a new privacy feature that let users exit group chats without notifying everyone. Along with this update, Meta is also adding a bunch of privacy features that control who can see when you’re online, and prevent screenshots on view...
New York Man Sentenced To Prison For Role In Identity Theft Conspiracy
A Springfield Gardens man was sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring to commit aggravated identity theft and aiding in the preparation of false tax returns for his transportation business. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Afolabi Ajelero worked at Kaybamz,...
Over 99% Of Netflix Users Have Not Tried Its Games: Report
Video streaming platform Netflix’s foray into the gaming business is off to a poor start as a new report says that less than 1 percent of its subscribers are playing its games. App analytics company Apptopia estimates an average of 1.7 million people are engaging...
Whatsapp Now Gives Over 2 Days To Delete Messages After Sending
WhatsApp has confirmed that it is now letting users delete messages up to two days after they are sent. On the microblogging platform Twitter, WhatsApp announced the change in the option to delete sent messages. “Rethinking your message? Now you will have a little over...
Snapchat Lets Parents See Who Their Kids Are Chatting With
Snapchat on Tuesday launched a new in-app tool to allow parents to observe who their children are chatting with, without letting guardians see the content of private chats. Children will also be able to see how their parents see them via the Snapchat ‘Family Center’...
Enterprise Software Vendor Twilio Hacked In Phishing Attack
US-based enterprise software vendor company Twilio on Monday said it has been hacked as someone gained “unauthorized access” to information related to its customer accounts. Twilio has more than 150,000 customers, including Facebook and ride-hailing major Uber. “On August 4, 2022, Twilio became aware of...
Meta Shuts Down Its Biggest VR Game For Quest 1 Owners
Meta is shutting down Quest 1 virtual reality (VR) headset support for ‘Population: One’, its popular battle-royale game set in VR. Quest 1 owners will no longer be able to launch or play the game starting October 31, its developer BigBox VR has announced. Quest...
Twitter Confirms July Data Breach That Affects 5.4 Million Accounts
The microblogging site Twitter has confirmed a recent data breach was caused by a now-patched zero-day vulnerability used to link email addresses and phone numbers to users’ accounts, allowing a threat actor to compile a list of 5.4 million user account profiles. While Twitter is forthcoming...
Meta Rolling Out NFT Support On Instagram To 100 Countries
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company is beginning the international expansion of non-fungible tokens (NFT) support on its photo and video-sharing platform Instagram. The expansion follows the social network’s initial NFT test launch in May. With this expansion, users and businesses in more...
YouTube May Soon Let Users Zoom In On Videos
YouTube is testing a new feature in its mobile app with its premium subscribers that allows them to zoom in on any video.
Twitter Expands ‘Location Spotlight’ Tool To All Businesses Globally
Twitter has made a new feature available for all businesses globally to display their location address, hours of operation, and additional contact details on their profiles on the platform. Earlier, the ‘Location Spotlight’ feature was available to users in the US, the UK, Canada, and...
Uber Adds Train, Coach Booking To Its App In UK
Uber is testing adding train and coach travel to its app in the UK via a fully integrated tie-up with Berlin-based multimodal travel platform, Omio. Omio said it has built up its consumer-facing apps for booking intercity and international travel, across a wide variety of...
Microsoft Teams App Now Optimised For Mac With Apple Silicon
Microsoft announced that it has created a native version of its Microsoft Teams app optimized for the Mac lineup with Apple silicon. The company said it is rolling out a production-grade universal binary version of Teams, which means it will run natively on the entire...
