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Robinhood is rolling out crypto wallets to 1,000 users, allowing them to send and receive cryptocurrencies through their brokerage accounts, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. Out of nearly 1.6 million people on a waitlist for the crypto wallet, the top 1,000…

Meta-owned Facebook on Thursday announced that it is launching Pledge Planets on Messenger Kids — an activity to help kids learn how to use the internet safely and practice making healthy decisions online.

Google is reportedly launching a limited beta of its app to bring Android games to Windows PCs.

American photo and video sharing social networking service Instagram has started testing subscriptions, a new feature allowing creators to offer paid followers access to exclusive content.

Samsung Electronics, announced its new premium mobile processor, the Exynos 2200. The Exynos 2200 is a freshly designed mobile processor with a powerful AMD RDNA 2 architecture-based Samsung Xclipse graphics processing unit (GPU).

Microsoft has revealed that its Xbox Game Pass has gained 25 million subscribers amid the coronavirus pandemic.

In a first, serious criminal charges have been filed against a Tesla Model S owner in the US for a deadly crash in 2019 that involved the vehicle’s advanced driver assist system called ‘Autopilot’.

Billionaire Elon Musk said that there are now 1,469 Starlink satellites active, with 272 “moving to operational orbits currently.

Apple will let dating app developers offer alternate payment options in the Netherlands, in compliance with a ruling by the Dutch regulator. The tech giant, however, has decided to appeal against the ruling in a higher court.

The global consumer spending in TikTok has only continued to grow. Users spent approximately $2.3 billion last year on the mobile app, which includes the iOS version of its Chinese localization Douyin.

The Nigerian government has lifted the ban on Twitter, imposed in June last year, saying the micro-blogging platform has agreed to set “a legal entity” in the West African nation during the first quarter of this year.

Snapchat has added some new features along with bitmoji reactions to facilitate fun interaction.

South Korean video game developer Krafton on Tuesday announced that it’s battle royale game PUBG: Battlegrounds is now free-to-play (F2P) on PC and consoles.

Spotify has shut down its podcast studio and laid off some members of the team, the media reported.

WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out a new global voice note player on iOS beta that will let users listen to a voice message while on a different chat.

The microblogging and social networking platform Tumblr has rolled out a new feature “Sensitive Content toggle” for iOS users.

Graphics chip giant Nvidia has acquired Bright Computing, a leader in software for managing high-performance computing systems used by more than 700 organizations worldwide, for an undisclosed sum.

In total, worldwide app downloads reached 36.1 billion in Q4 2021, a 2.7 percent year-over-year increase.

An international research team of scientists has demonstrated the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to predict which viruses could infect humans, like the Covid virus and which animals host them, and where they could emerge.

Elon Musk-owned electric vehicle company Tesla is using its “Tesla Engage” platform to ask its fanbase to support a new push to convince the New York governor and legislature to allow direct sales of its electric vehicles in the state.