Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

Elon Musk has put up signs and things from the Twitter building for an auction, just a few weeks after the company rebranded to X.

Instagram is testing a new group mention feature that will allow users to tag more than one person in a story using a single mention.

Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), which is a charitable organization, has reportedly laid off 48 employees.

OpenAI has announced that it is expanding the ‘custom instructions’ feature to all ChatGPT users, including those on the free tier of the service.

In a bid to push more X users to get the verified status and earn money, Elon Musk on Friday lowered the eligibility criteria for ads revenue sharing from 15 million to 5 million, and the minimum payout to $10 from the current $50.

After 47 years, Russia is set to return to the Moon with its Luna 25 lander mission.

Regulators in the US state of California have given the green signal to autonomous car companies Cruise and Waymo to run commercial robotaxi services across San Francisco 24/7.

Crypto asset trading platform Bittrex and its co-founder and former CEO, William Shihara, have agreed to settle charges with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for $24 million over charges that they operated as an unregistered exchange, broker and clearing agency.

X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday announced to soon bring video calling on its platform, as it aims to become an “everything app” like China’s WeChat.

Despite reports that the "metaverse-hype" is slowing down, the metaverse could reach up to $900 billion by 2030, a report said on Thursday.

Mark Zuckerberg announced that new features coming to Threads "this week", including the ability to directly share posts in Instagram direct messages (DMs), a mention button, and more.

Elon Musk's Twitter faced a $350,000 fine earlier this year for refusing to comply with a search warrant concerning former US President Donald Trump's account on the micro-blogging platform.

US President Joe Biden has slapped new bans on investments in advanced technology industries in China in order to protect national security.

Tech giant Google is stepping up its security efforts for Chrome by moving to weekly security updates. This means that Chrome users will now receive security updates every week, instead of every two weeks.

The Walt Disney Company is "actively exploring" ways to crack down on password sharing for its streaming services, CEO Bob Iger said on Wednesday.

Chip maker Nvidia has unveiled a new AI chip built for accelerated computing and to handle the world’s most complex generative AI workloads, spanning large language models, recommender systems, and vector databases.

Qualcomm on Wednesday announced that the Snapdragon X75 5G Modem-RF System is continuing to push the boundaries of 5G performance by setting a new world record on the sub-6 GHz spectrum, achieving a 7.5 Gbps downlink speed.

WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new passkey feature for account verification on the Android beta.

Verizon has announced that its Zoom rival BlueJeans app's Basic and free trial offerings will discontinue from August 31

Daniel Ackerman, editor-in-chief of tech news site Gizmodo, has sued Apple and other parties over the 2023 Apple TV+ film 'Tetris', claiming that the movie unlawfully lifted content from his book about the classic video game.