Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

Bluesky saw a surge in new user sign-ups after Elon Musk announced he would soon charge all X users a small monthly fee.

Google has mocked Apple in a new video by comparing the iPhone to an "iPager" because it does not use the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging protocol and still uses the decades-old SMS/MMS protocol for messaging with Android users.

WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out a new feature designed to keep channel creators informed about the status of their channels on Android, especially when they are closed in specific countries.

Threads has added a feature that will let users switch between multiple accounts without logging out on its mobile app.

Meta has started to roll out a "multiple personal profiles" feature that will allow users to create up to four additional profiles on Facebook.

Roblox has reduced a significant portion of its talent acquisition team by laying off around 30 employees, indicating a shift in the company’s focus from expansion to the bottom line.

GitHub has announced that passkeys are now generally available for all users.

Pizza Hut Australia has warned 193,000 customers that their personal data may have been compromised in a recent data breach.

TikTok, the popular video-sharing app, is testing a new feature that would allow users to search for information on Google directly from within the app, according to screenshots shared by app researcher Radu Oncescu on Twitter.

X has announced that it will be shutting down its Circles feature on October 31, 2023.

YouTube on Thursday announced a new feature for its short-video-making platform Shorts that will allow users to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) tools to create videos.

NASA has issued a proposal to the US industry to plan and develop a US Deorbit Vehicle (USDV) to help in safely deorbiting the International Space Station (ISS).

Elon Musk on Thursday said that the long-form posts on the microblogging platform are receiving three billion views daily and growing.

OpenAI has launched an upgraded version of its text-to-image tool -- DALL·E 3--, that uses AI chatbot ChatGPT.

A family in the US has sued Google after a man belonging to the family died after driving his car off a collapsed bridge following directions from Google Maps.

Github on Thursday said the public beta of its Copilot Chat is now available for all individual users globally for free.

Cisco is laying off 350 employees in the Silicon Valley in the US next month in its latest job cut round.

Signal has announced that it has added quantum-resistant encryption to its end-to-end encryption (E2EE) messaging protocol. This means that Signal's users can now be confident that their communications are protected even from the most advanced quantum computers.

Intel has announced the general availability of its 'Developer Cloud', which gives developers an easy path to test and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing applications and solutions across its latest CPUs, GPUs, and AI accelerators.

WhatsApp is apparently testing a version of its iOS app that is also optimized for Apple iPad.