Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

The TikTok Now app is a standalone app that shares the same main TikTok Now functions as the TikTok app. It can be used alone or together with the TikTok app. Your TikTok account is linked with the TikTok Now app so that you can...

Samsung Electronics and Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) today announced that Comcast is working with Samsung to deliver 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) solutions that can be used to enhance 5G connectivity for Xfinity Mobile and Comcast Business Mobile customers in Comcast service areas. Samsung will supply...

The US space agency has once again readied its Artemis I moon mission and met all objectives, including the key hydrogen leak threat which has resulted in two failed attempts.

TikTok on Wednesday announced to ban political fundraising on its platform, just six weeks before the November midterm elections in the US. TikTok said that it has long prohibited political advertising, including both paid ads on the platform and creators being paid directly to make...

Automaker Hyundai and its subsidiary Kia have been sued in the US for a defect in their cars that was exposed in a trending TikTok challenge which resulted in vehicle thefts soaring across the country. A class-action lawsuit was filed in federal court in Orange...

The microblogging site Twitter has disclosed a bug that allowed accounts to stay logged in from multiple devices after a voluntary password reset, putting users’ data at potential hacking risk. The company said that it has fixed the bug that didn’t close all active logged-in...

Facebook has confirmed that it is now bringing new Pages features to help creators connect with their followers. The platform said that creators can spotlight each other with a Creator Endorsement by inviting their followers to follow another creator that they admire. “We are introducing...

Cloud major Oracle has announced the availability of Java 19, the latest version of its programming language and development platform. The company said that Java 19 delivers thousands of performance, stability, and security improvements, including enhancements to the platform that will help developers improve productivity...

A Tesla Megapack battery caught fire in California state in the US, triggering a shelter-in-place advisory from the local authorities. The fire started at the local utility company PG&E’s Elkhorn Battery Storage facility in Monterey County, California, in the morning hours on Tuesday as reported...

TikTok is now becoming a key news source for its users and in the US, 33 percent of its users now regularly get their news on the short-video app, up from 22 percent in 2020. This TikTok rise in the daily news source business comes...

Nintendo has announced that it will no longer be possible to link a Facebook or Twitter account to a Nintendo Account from October 25. The platform said that users will no longer be able to create a new Nintendo Account using a Facebook or Twitter...

YouTube buttons like ‘not interested’, ‘dislike’, ‘stop recommending channel’, and ‘remove from watch history’ are ineffective at preventing similar content from being recommended and its user controls do not work for many people, researchers from Mozilla have discovered. The team from the developer of the...

NASA’s InSight lander has detected impact sounds from four space rocks that crashed on Mars in 2020 and 2021. It marks the first time seismic and acoustic waves from an impact have been detected on Mars. A new paper published in Nature Geoscience details the...

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is set to be grilled in court in the ongoing legal battle between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and the Parag Agrawal-led micro-blogging platform. According to media reports citing court filings, Dorsey was set to be questioned by the attorneys from...

The microblogging site Twitter has rolled out a feature to help blind and visually-impaired people read images embedded with the tweets via its new image description reminder. The new image description reminder will encourage more people on Twitter to add helpful descriptions to the images...

Elon Musk on Monday announced that Starlink, the satellite Internet division of his rocket company, is now active on all the continents, including Antarctica. On the microblogging site Twitter, Musk wrote, “Starlink is now active on all continents, including Antarctica”. He also said “another batch...

Fortnite‘s season four of chapter three will bring in a lot of new content to the video game, including chrome-powered abilities and Gwen from ‘Into the Spider-Verse’. According to Engadget, a new substance called Chrome is taking over the island, and users can use it...

Footage of Grand Theft Auto VI, Rockstar’s next entry in its open-world franchise, appears to have leaked online. PC Gamer reports that a user on the GTA Forums has posted a 3GB file full of 90 videos of GTA VI footage. The leaked videos are...

Telegram has announced that it is rolling out a new update that gives users more ways to use new emojis to express how they are feeling — with infinite reactions and emoji statuses. The company said that premium users can pick reactions from an infinite...

Samsung may be planning to introduce the satellite connectivity feature to its upcoming Galaxy devices. However, it is unclear if this emergency feature will be available on the Galaxy S23 smartphones, citing tipster, GizmoChina reported on Saturday. With the help of this feature, users can...