Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

Meta-owned American photo and video sharing social networking service Instagram is struggling to woo creators as its short video making Reels engagement falls against a formidable competition that is coming from its Chinese rival TikTok. An internal Meta document accessed by The Wall Street Journal...

Twitter shareholders were set to vote on Tuesday whether to approve or reject Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover bid and according to reports, most company shareholders still want the deal to go through. Twitter’s board of directors have earlier requested shareholders to approve the Musk...

WhatsApp is likely working on a feature that will add a new camera shortcut for iPhone users on their app. According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp has submitted a new update through the TestFlight beta Programme, bringing the version up to 22.19.0.75. The version marked within WhatsApp...

Elon Musk on Monday was spammed by hacked verified accounts along with non-verified accounts sharing links to crypto scams, as he shared an update about Tesla’s latest version of full self-driving (FSD) Beta. Several of these accounts were bots but some were also hacked verified...

NASA has announced that it is considering two dates, September 23 or September 27, to attempt the launching of Artemis I into space. Artemis I is NASA’s uncrewed flight test which will provide a foundation for human exploration in deep space and demonstrate NASA’s commitment...

Google-owned YouTube is introducing new products that will allow learners to explore subjects they are passionate about and creators to provide structured learning content. The platform is announcing updates to make educational content more accessible and interactive for learners while helping learning creators thrive on...

A small supersonic asteroid, traveling at ten times the speed of a bullet, will pass by the Earth on Tuesday, media reports said. The asteroid has been given the designation 2022 QC7 and it is not too big, with a width ranging from just 16...

Instagram has taken down the official account for adult entertainment website PornHub amid pressure from civil rights groups. The company, however, did not reveal the reason behind the move. Before the Instagram account was removed, Pornhub had 13.1 million followers and more than 6,200 posts,...

Instagram has been fined 405 million euros ($402 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation. The fine, the second-highest under the GDPR after a 746 million euros penalty against Amazon, is the third for a Meta-owned company...

Google has advised its users to immediately install a security update in its Chrome browser to safeguard themselves against a serious bug being actively exploited by hackers. The tech giant said it is aware of reports that an exploit for ‘CVE-2022-3075’ exists in the wild,...

Cloudflare announced that it has blocked US-based Internet forum Kiwi Farms over “imminent threats to human life”. The platform said that visitors to any of the Kiwi Farms sites that use any of Cloudflare’s services will see a block page and a link to this...

As NASA scrubbed the Artemis 1 uncrewed mission to the Moon once again, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Sunday came up with a suggestion for the ailing mission that will finally land astronauts on the lunar surface after decades. NASA engineers could not...

Parler is returning to Google’s app store more than 1-1/2 years after the company removed it following the U.S. Capitol riots in January 2021. The app was launched in 2018 and styled itself as a free-speech space for those seeking an alternative to platforms such...

Zoom on Friday announced a new offering that will allow users to protect certain data stored at rest within the Zoom Cloud infrastructure using their own encryption keys. The platform said its newest advanced security offering — Customer Managed Key (CMK) — is designed to...

For the first time, astronomers have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of a planet outside our solar system. The exoplanet called ‘HIP 65426 b’ is a gas giant, meaning it has no rocky surface and could not be habitable....

The microblogging site Twitter announced it has finally rolled out a small test for its much-awaited Edit Tweet feature, which will be available for Twitter Blue subscribers in the coming weeks. Edit Tweet is currently being tested by the Twitter team internally, amid the ongoing...

Facebook has announced to shut down a new hyperlocal feature called Neighborhoods that was to provide a dedicated space to help people connect with neighbors, participate in the local community and discover new places nearby. Facebook said it will end its test of Neighborhoods on...

LG Electronics on Wednesday introduced the world’s first TV with a bendable 42-inch OLED screen and the display can go from completely flat to spectacularly curved, letting users choose from 20 levels of curvature for more immersive gaming experiences. Additionally, the screen of LG OLED...

Due to an unfortunate typo, cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com mistakenly issued a customer A$10.5 million ($7.2 million) rather than the expected A$100 ($68), media reports say. Seven months later, when the exchange finally discovered the error, but till then some of the money had already gone,...

Meta is winding up its standalone Facebook Gaming app on both Android and iOS from October 28. The app will also be not available on Google Play Store or Apple App Store. Meta did not elaborate on why it is shuttering the standalone gaming app....