Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

Meta has introduced support for the Duet Display app, which lets users turn their Meta Portal Plus (Gen 2) and Meta Portal Go into a second display for Mac or PC when they are not on video calls.

The much-awaited first orbital test flight of SpaceX‘s Starship vehicle will not lift off this month as it has not yet received the necessary launch clearance, the media reported. Earlier, the launch was scheduled for July, later it was shifted to August. On August 2,...

After a road test on Tesla’s self-driving technology found that its Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology allegedly failed to detect children on the road, reports now surface that the test was a “smear campaign started by a California billionaire running for Senate” as the driver “never...

Facebook is making money via white supremacist groups, serving ads on searches for dangerous groups like “Ku Klux Klan” despite a ban on such content on the platform. A report by the Tech Transparency Project revealed that more than 80 white supremacist groups have a...

Disney+Hotstar has added 8.3 million subscribers in the company’s third fiscal quarter which ended on July 2. The Walt Disney Company also updated subscriber guidance for Disney+ Hotstar, to up to 80 million subscribers by the end of its fiscal 2024. “We intend to refine...

Meta has announced that it is introducing a new way to create hands-free on Instagram and Facebook with Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4, as well as other Samsung Flip phones. With FlexCam on Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4, users can fold the phone and place it on...

Elon Musk on Wednesday said that he would repurchase Tesla stock if the Twitter deal did not close. While being asked by a user on the microblogging platform if he is done selling Tesla stock, the tech billionaire replied affirmatively. “Yes. In the (hopefully unlikely)...

Spotify has introduced a new design for the home screen of its mobile app that includes feeds for both Music and Podcasts and Shows. The company said the feature is currently rolling out to Android users and will soon be available on iOS. “By creating...

The largest cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has reported a massive loss in both revenue and profit in the June quarter — logging $1.1 billion in a net loss as revenue declined from $2.033 billion to $803 million from a year-ago quarter which is a sharp drop...

Electric vehicle company Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sold 7.92 million shares of the company worth around $6.88 billion, media reports say. Musk’s transactions occurred between August 5 and August 9, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings revealed, following Tesla’s 2022 annual shareholder...

Former Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo has been found guilty by a US court for accessing private information in the accounts of certain Twitter users and providing that information to officials in Saudi Arabia. Abouammo and Ali Alzabarah — two Twitter employees — and a Saudi...

Meta just unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) conversational chatbot asking the public to give their feedback. The initial reports are scary as the chatbot named BlenderBot 3 thinks Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is “creepy and manipulative” and Donald Trump will always be the...

South Korea’s telecommunications regulator said on Tuesday it will launch an official fact-finding investigation into the app stores of Google, Apple, and ONE store next week, saying that the companies may be in violation of the country’s in-app payment laws. The Korea Communications Commission (KCC)...

Intel has introduced new graphics processing units (GPUs) designed primarily for powerful desktop workstations and laptops. The Intel Arc Pro A30M GPU is for mobile form factors and Arc Pro A40 (single slot) and A50 (dual slot) GPUs are for small form factor desktops. The...

Meta-owned secure messaging app WhatsApp added a new privacy feature that let users exit group chats without notifying everyone. Along with this update, Meta is also adding a bunch of privacy features that control who can see when you’re online, and prevent screenshots on view...

Video streaming platform Netflix’s foray into the gaming business is off to a poor start as a new report says that less than 1 percent of its subscribers are playing its games. App analytics company Apptopia estimates an average of 1.7 million people are engaging...

WhatsApp has confirmed that it is now letting users delete messages up to two days after they are sent. On the microblogging platform Twitter, WhatsApp announced the change in the option to delete sent messages. “Rethinking your message? Now you will have a little over...

Snapchat on Tuesday launched a new in-app tool to allow parents to observe who their children are chatting with, without letting guardians see the content of private chats. Children will also be able to see how their parents see them via the Snapchat ‘Family Center’...

Meta is shutting down Quest 1 virtual reality (VR) headset support for ‘Population: One’, its popular battle-royale game set in VR. Quest 1 owners will no longer be able to launch or play the game starting October 31, its developer BigBox VR has announced. Quest...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company is beginning the international expansion of non-fungible tokens (NFT) support on its photo and video-sharing platform Instagram. The expansion follows the social network’s initial NFT test launch in May. With this expansion, users and businesses in more...