Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

YouTube is testing a new feature in its mobile app with its premium subscribers that allows them to zoom in on any video.

Twitter has made a new feature available for all businesses globally to display their location address, hours of operation, and additional contact details on their profiles on the platform. Earlier, the ‘Location Spotlight’ feature was available to users in the US, the UK, Canada, and...

Uber is testing adding train and coach travel to its app in the UK via a fully integrated tie-up with Berlin-based multimodal travel platform, Omio. Omio said it has built up its consumer-facing apps for booking intercity and international travel, across a wide variety of...

Microsoft announced that it has created a native version of its Microsoft Teams app optimized for the Mac lineup with Apple silicon. The company said it is rolling out a production-grade universal binary version of Teams, which means it will run natively on the entire...

Facebook has announced to shut down its live shopping feature from October 1 and focus on the short-form video platform Reels on its main app and Instagram. The users will still be able to use Facebook Live to broadcast live events, but they won’t be...

The microblogging site Twitter has now dragged tech investors and entrepreneur friends connected to Elon Musk in the $44 billion takeover deal that has been terminated by the Tesla CEO and a legal trial is set to begin on October 17. According to The Washington...

The powerful next-generation James Webb Space Telescope has captured colourful images of the Cartwheel Galaxy, located about 500 million light-years away. Using its powerful infrared cameras, Webb produced a detailed image of the Cartwheel and two smaller companion galaxies against a backdrop of many other...

In a bid to improve its experience for Android users, chat platform Discord has announced that it will overhaul its Android app so that new features and upgrades come simultaneously on iOS and desktop. The company mentioned switching to React Native for the Android app...

Uber Technologies on Tuesday said that gross bookings reached an all-time high of $29.1 billion in the second quarter (Q2) this year, up 33 percent (year-over-year), with reporting a net loss of $2.6 billion. The net loss included a $1.7 billion net headwind (pre-tax) relating...

Meta has been sued for violating patient privacy with a data tracking tool in the US. Two proposed class-action lawsuits alleged that Meta and major US hospitals used a Meta Pixel tracking tool that sends health information to Facebook, reports The Verge. In June, an...

Twitter will soon let users know if an embedded tweet has been edited, or whether there is a new version of the tweet. App researcher Jane Manchun Wong discovered that Twitter is working on a new feature that may be part of its broad upcoming...

A US court has allowed a lawsuit against Visa to go ahead that alleged that the financial services company helped monetize sexual videos involving children on Pornhub, owned by porn site operator MindGeek. Judge Cormac Carney in California issued the ruling, rejecting Visa’s attempts to...

Twitter is testing a new feature that will let users see how many times someone tweets per month. Reverse engineers spotted this in development about a month ago, but as of this morning, some Twitter users have shared that they have gained access to this...

The powerful next-generation James Webb Space Telescope may have likely spotted its first supernova, according to astronomers. According to Mike Engesser of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), the object is extremely bright compared to the rest of the galaxy. And Webb observed the galaxy,...

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Monday said that the micro-blogging platform Twitter may actually disseminate accurate and relevant news in these depressing times. He earlier termed the media as a “click-seeking machine dressed up as a truth-seeking machine”. Musk, who is now in...

Google has refuted a claim that it will shut down its cloud gaming platform Stadia, stating that it is still “working on bringing more great games to the platform”. The company stated after a rumor began circulating earlier this week that suggested it would sunset...

Twitter has confirmed that it is testing a new feature that will allow users to post images, videos and GIFs in one multimedia tweet. The company confirmed the test and said it is available to some users for a limited time, adding that accounts can...

TikTok parent company ByteDance is now eyeing the music streaming market by launching ‘TikTok Music’ and threatening the global players like Spotify, Apple Must, and the rest. The company has filed a trademark application with the US Patent and Trademark Office for “TikTok Music”. The...

Amazon has announced that its “Drive” cloud storage service is shutting down at the end of 2023. The service launched in March 2011 as a “secure cloud storage service for Amazon customers to back up their files”. Customers were given 5GB of free storage with...

The Indonesian government has blocked access to eight major online platforms, including Yahoo, PayPal, and Dota, as they have failed to register for licensing, an official said. Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan, Director General of Informatics Application at the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, said on...