Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

Meta has introduced a new feature that will let users block Instagram from collecting their data across the apps and websites they visit.

The Israeli government is in discussions with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to roll out Starlink internet services for communities near the conflict zone.

Google Chrome on iOS and Android devices will now detect URL typos and suggest corrections, Google announced in a blog post on Tuesday.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk-owned X is set to start charging new users in two countries $1 per year for access to key features, including the ability to tweet and retweet.

Google Drive will no longer require third-party cookies to be enabled to download files from January 2, 2024.

Tesla has been ordered by the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in the US to recall 54,676 Model X vehicles, the media reported on Tuesday.

Google has asked the US Congress not to ban teenagers from social media, urging lawmakers to drop problematic protections like age-verification technology.

WhatsApp has announced that it is enabling passwordless logins with passkeys for Android users.

LinkedIn said it will cut about 668 jobs across the company's engineering, product, talent and finance teams.

TikTok has said that the platform removed over 500,000 videos and closed 8,000 livestreams to date since the attack on Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas for violating the company's guidelines.

WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new feature called "search message by date", designed to make it easier for users to quickly search for messages shared on a specific date within their conversations.

Intel launched the new Intel Core 14th Generation desktop processor family globally, led by its Core i9-14900K processor.

Tesla has released official application programming interface (API) documentation to support third-party apps.

An Australian regulator has fined X $386,000 for failing to cooperate with a probe into anti-child abuse practices.

Minecraft, the sandbox video game developed by Mojang Studios, has sold over 300 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling video game of all time.

The US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has alleged in a complaint that Elon Musk-run X violated labor laws when it fired an employee who criticized the company’s return-to-work policy.

Meta has started testing a new feature in its social virtual reality (VR) app Horizon Worlds, which will allow users to "mute" people with foul language.

WhatsApp is rolling out a new option on Android and iOS to make it harder for hackers to infer users' location by protecting their IP address in calls.

European Commissioner Thierry Breton has sent a letter to Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, reminding him about the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) to keep illegal content and disinformation from being shared on YouTube related to the Israel-Hamas war.

X has adopted a new member vetting feature, which is currently used across many Facebook Groups to vet members before joining.