Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

Instagram’s Threads has reached almost 100 million monthly users, Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced. During the company’s quarterly earnings call late on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said: “We’re three months in now, and I’m very happy with the trajectory.”

Meta registered $34 billion in revenue in its third quarter, up 23 percent from the same quarter last year.

NASA is building a nuclear-powered lander for exploring Titan -- Saturn’s largest moon having a dense atmosphere and low gravity.

LG Display reported sixth consecutive quarterly losses on Wednesday on sluggish demand stemming from a global economic slowdown, but the deficit decreased from the previous year and quarter.

Qualcomm has launched its first generative AI-based mobile platform -- Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which will be adopted for flagship devices by global OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) and smartphone brands.

The micro-blogging startup Pebble (formerly T2), is shutting down and the company said they have run out of time to make Pebble happen, reports TechCrunch.

Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, posted a net loss of $368 million for the quarter ended September 30, which is slightly better than the year-ago period but the company is still growing through slow growth.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx has surpassed its goal of bringing at least 60 grams of rock sample from asteroid Bennu to Earth, the space agency said.

TikTok Tests 15-Minute Video Uploads with Select Users

Instagram is testing a feed that will only allow posts from paid verified users.

Amazon is rolling out passkey support on browsers and mobile shopping apps (iOS users), making it easier and safer for the customers to access their accounts with passwordless sign-in.

Tesla is being investigated by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) for the advertised range of its TVs and personal decisions.

Dating giant Tinder on Monday launched a new feature that lets friends and family play the matchmaker and recommend profiles for a user directly in the app.

Hyundai Motor, South Korea's biggest carmaker, said on Monday it has signed a joint venture deal with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) to build a car assembly plant in the Middle Eastern country.

Japan's antitrust commission has launched a probe into Google for allegedly violating the Antimonopoly Act by demanding preferential treatment from smartphone manufacturers for its search services during their initial setup, a media report said on Monday.

American photo and video-sharing social networking service Instagram is testing a new "sticker creation" feature, which will let users turn their photos into custom stickers to use in Reels or Stories.

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has finally approved the 6 GHz band to a new class of very low-power devices (including AR-VR headsets) that will operate alongside other WiFi-enabled devices.

The Chinese government has reportedly kicked off a probe into Apple manufacturer Foxconn as the regulators investigate the Taiwan-based giant “over tax and land use”.

Google Chrome is introducing a new feature called "IP Protection" that will hide users' IP addresses from websites. This feature is designed to protect users' privacy and prevent them from being tracked online.

Verified users with Blue badges are the ones spreading the vast majority of misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war on X, a new study has claimed.