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Submarine Game Sees Spike In Sales As Search For Missing OceanGate Vessel Intensifies
As the search for a missing OceanGate submarine intensifies, an indie game called Iron Lung which is a short tale of piloting a tiny submarine with rudimentary tech through an ocean of blood on an alien moon has seen a spike in sales.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 22, 2023
1 min read
DuckDuckGo’s Privacy-Focused Browser Is Available For Windows Now
DuckDuckGo’s browser is finally available for Windows users.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 22, 2023
1 min read
Dropbox Announces New AI-Powered Tools, $50 Million AI-Focused Venture Initiative
Cloud storage giant Dropbox has announced two new AI-powered tools -- Dropbox Dash and Dropbox AI -- that will help users get more out of their content and also launched a $50 million AI-focused venture initiative.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 22, 2023
2 min read
Opera Launches Revamped Browser With AI Chatbot
Opera has launched a newly redesigned web browser powered by artificial intelligence (AI) 'Opera One', which is now ready to download.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 22, 2023
1 min read
Meta Quest 2 & Pro Getting Multi-touch Support For Browser, Higher Clock Speeds
Meta has announced that it is rolling out the v55 update on Quest 2 and Quest Pro headsets, which includes multi-touch support for browsers, higher central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) clock speeds, and more.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 22, 2023
2 min read
Twitter Link Previews Broken On iMessage, Slack
Twitter link previews are broken on iMessage and Slack. While it's not clear when the Twitter link previews on iMessage and Slack will come back, for now, they are just bland links, reports 9To5Google.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 22, 2023
1 min read
Uber Lays Off 200 Employees In Recruitment Division To Cut Costs
Uber is laying off 200 employees within its recruitment division as another measure to streamline costs.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 22, 2023
1 min read
Australia Threatens To Fine Musk’s Twitter Over Rising Online Hate
Australia's cyber regulator on Thursday issued a legal notice to Elon Musk-run Twitter, seeking information about what the social media giant is doing to tackle online hate on the platform.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 22, 2023
2 min read
FTC Sues Amazon For Tricking Customers Into Signing Up For Prime
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is suing Amazon for allegedly using dark patterns to trick millions of users into enrolling in its Prime program and trapping them by making it as difficult as possible to cancel the automatically-renewing subscriptions.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 21, 2023
1 min read
Discord Introduces New Tool For Creators To Sell Downloadable Products
Discord has introduced a new tool called -- 'Downloadables', which will give creators a new way to make money from their communities by selling digital products via one-time purchases.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 21, 2023
1 min read
Employees Sue Musk’s Twitter Over Failure To Pay 2022 Bonuses
Twitter has been sued by its employees over its failure to pay bonuses for last year, despite promises that the company will pay at least 50 percent of the target amounts.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 21, 2023
2 min read
Epic Games’ RealityScan App Now Available For Android
Video game developer Epic Games has announced that its RealityScan application is now available for Android.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 21, 2023
1 min read
7 Firms To Recall Over 320,000 Vehicles Over Faulty Parts
Hyundai Motor, Mercedes-Benz Korea, and five other companies will voluntarily recall more than 320,000 vehicles to fix faulty components, the transport ministry said on Wednesday.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 21, 2023
1 min read
Roblox To Allow Creators Offer Experiences For People 17 And Over
Gaming platform Roblox has announced that creators will now be able to offer experiences for those aged 17 and older that feature more mature themes and storylines like in TV shows or stand-up comedy.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 21, 2023
1 min read
Chrome On iOS Users To Soon Get Built-In Lens Support
Google has introduced new features for Chrome on iOS, including built-in Lens support.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 21, 2023
1 min read
Spotify Getting Redesigned ‘Your Library’, ‘Now Playing’ Views On Desktop
Music streaming giant Spotify is improving the desktop experience by adding redesigned 'Your Library' and 'Now Playing' views.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 21, 2023
1 min read
OpenAI May Soon Launch App Store For AI Models: Report
Microsoft-backed OpenAI is reportedly considering launching an exclusive online marketplace for artificial intelligence (AI) software and models.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 21, 2023
1 min read
Instagram To Now Let Users Download Public Reels In US
Meta-owned American photo and video-sharing social networking service Instagram is rolling out the ability to download Reels shared by public accounts to the camera roll, in the US.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 21, 2023
1 min read
Consumer Groups Call On EU Regulators To Probe Generative AI Risks
Consumer groups from 13 European countries on Tuesday called on regulators to launch urgent investigations into the risks of generative AI, such as ChatGPT, and to enforce existing legislation to protect consumers.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 20, 2023
2 min read
Adobe’s $20 Billion Figma Acquisition Under Lens In EU: Report
Software major Adobe's $20 billion acquisition of cloud-based designer platform Figma is reportedly under scrutiny by the antitrust regulators in the European Union, the media reported on Tuesday.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 20, 2023
1 min read





