Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

Meta has announced more new features in Messenger for end-to-end encrypted chats, including chat themes, custom emojis, reactions, group profile photos, and more.

Google will reportedly bring a new feature to its instant messaging application, Google Messages, which will allow users to create their own user profiles.

Microsoft has introduced a new feature to Teams -- Loop Component, which will allow real-time editing in chat.

WhatsApp has made a native beta application for macOS which is now available for download.

Microsoft announced a multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI, the developer behind AI-driven ChatGPT which has become a rage.

Spotify on Monday announced to slash of 6 percent of its workforce, or about 600 staffers, globally.

Some ChatGPT users on Monday posted on social media that they have been granted access to a "ChatGPT Professional" version which costs $42 a month.

The microblogging site Twitter has expanded its crowd-sourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, to four more countries, including the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.

NASA and SpaceX have set February 26 as the launch date for the Crew-6 mission, which will send four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) for a six-month stay.

Elon Musk has announced that a higher-priced subscription to the microblogging platform with no ads will be available in the coming weeks.

Google's Account switcher is getting a Material You redesign on the web.

TikTok, known in China as Douyin, is a video-sharing social networking service owned by the Chinese company ByteDance has confirmed to Forbes that some of its US employees have the ability to boost videos in order to “introduce celebrities and emerging creators to the TikTok community.”

Google has removed Smart Reply suggestions that appeared at the bottom of messages from the Voice app on Android and iOS.

Apple and Samsung Display have reportedly started working together on OLED panel development for the upcoming iPad Pro and MacBook Pro devices, which are expected to be released next year or later.

YouTube Music will be launching a "Listening Room" programme on Discord in which the company's product team will collaborate with a group of users to get regular feedback on specific features.

Meta has announced that it is rolling out a new Accounts Center that will allow users to manage their preferences across all their Meta accounts, like Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, from a centralized hub.

The new rules state that you can’t use Twitter’s API or content to “create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications.”

The streaming giant Netflix has plans to enforce password-sharing rules “more broadly” toward the end of the first quarter of 2023, the company announced in its earnings report today.

Amazon on Thursday announced that it will shut down its charity donation programme, "AmazonSmile", as it failed to create the impact the company hoped for.

Spotify and seven other European companies are calling on the European Commission to take "swift and decisive action" against Apple over 'anti-competitive' and 'unfair' practices that have hampered their businesses.