Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

Elon Musk has reportedly planned to file a counter-lawsuit against micro-blogging site Twitter to scrap a $44 billion acquisition deal. Musk’s lawyers are angling to push a Delaware Court of Chancery judge to grant them more time and power to gather information about bots on...

The Indonesian authorities are set to block social media applications and online sites including Google, Facebook, and WhatsApp in several days if they fail to register with the country’s Ministry of Communications and Informatics. The digital giants are given time until Wednesday to complete the...

Video streaming giant Netflix has announced that it is testing a new way to undertake password sharing in Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic. The platform launched an “add extra member” feature in Chile, Costa Rica, and Peru in March 2022 and...

Instagram has announced that it will allow shoppers in the US to be able to pay for products directly in messages.

NASA has delayed its Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission aimed to study the lunar surface’s ice and other potential resources by 2024. VIPER will be delivered to the lunar surface on American aerospace company Astrobotic of Pittsburgh’s lander via NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload...

Amazon on Tuesday said it has filed legal action against the administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups that attempt to orchestrate fake reviews on the platform in exchange for money or free products. The e-commerce giant said that it will use information discovered in...

Uber has settled with the US Department of Justice over allegations that it discriminated against disabled passengers.

Snapchat on Monday announced to bring features like chatting and video calling to the desktop through a new web app for the first time. Snapchat for Web is a new way for “our community to stay connected through our camera when they’re at their computers,”...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) used huge volumes of people’s cell phone location information quietly extracted from smartphone apps to track their movements on a scale not previously known, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) claimed on Monday. The ACLU published thousands of pages...

Last May, Google introduced the relatively minor “Click to reveal PIN” feature, which hides all two-factor authentication codes from view, allowing users to reveal only the codes they want to use. It seemed like a fairly innocuous inclusion, considering that 2FA codes change every 30...

China will launch, in October, its first solar probe, which aims to study the relationships between the solar magnetic field, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), the media reported. Solar flares are intense light bursts, while coronal mass ejections involve the release of huge...

After releasing stunning colored images of thousands of galaxies in our universe, NASA has now unveiled outstanding images of Jupiter and spectra of several asteroids taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.

Elon Musk has reportedly texted microblogging platform Twitter's CEO Parag Agarwal Ned Segal before pulling out of the $44 billion acquisition deal.

Amazon saw sales worth at least $12 billion (according to third-party estimates) during its Prime Day event in the US and 15 more countries on July 12-13. It was the first Amazon Prime Day event under the new CEO Andy Jassy who took over from...

Amazon has agreed to address competition concerns over its use of non-public marketplace seller data in Europe along with a possible bias in granting sellers access to its ‘Buy Box’ and ‘Prime’ programme, the European Commission said on Thursday. The Commission is now seeking feedback...

Social media giant Facebook has confirmed that it is testing a way for users to have up to five separate profiles tied to a single account. The platform said the test allows users to dedicate different profiles to specific groups they want to connect with,...

Meta has announced that it is bringing new tools, including subscriber chats, exclusive posts, and more for creators to connect with subscribers to the photo-sharing platform Instagram. The company said it began testing subscriptions earlier this year as a way for creators to establish a...

Twitter has begun testing a potential new feature "custom-built timelines," beginning first with one focused on The Bachelorette.

Google-owned streaming platform YouTube has announced that YouTube TV is celebrating 5 million subscribers and testers in five years.